Mike Dye is an international designer, photographer, film maker and artist.

After university and a spell as a travel photographer, Mike took a riverside studio on the Thames. Immersing himself in this highly creative scene of musicians, artists and writers set the direction of his career. After collaborating with number of designers and architects, he set up New Concordia Films and created a series of short films and photographic projects.

Not long after Mike had become the director of two design companies, Kirton Design and Theraflex, developing a range of technical furniture for both. He expanded into a 360 design practice with MDA Design in 1990. His longstanding relationship with Hille enhanced his international name by producing a range of public seating, including Merido and Arabesque. These collaborations earned him a number of prestigious accolades, including a nomination for the Prince Philip Designer’s Prize. 

He has taught and conducted research at leading universities while also continuously experimenting with new materials, which led to developmental pieces being designed, made and exhibited across Europe. In the 1990s Mike caught the eye of the Asian design market and was subsequently commissioned to work on projects in the Philippines, Hong Kong and Taipei.

Throughout this expansive career photography has been the thread tying his creative projects together. From the influential Survey of the Avant-Garde Britain (exhibited at Gallery House London) to more recent projects like Teatro De Ciertos Habitantes in Mexico, photography remains a core element of his expansive career. 

With Studios in London and Kent, Mike now operates an international design consultancy, working for leading global companies. and institutions . He continues to publish, sell and exhibit his photographic work, while applying his diverse design experience to a number of think tank collaborations. 

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Mike Dye by British author Julia Blackburn.

“I first met Mike Dye in an abandoned warehouse by Tower Bridge in London. Our delight in the beauty of those derelict buildings laid the foundation for a shared visual sense and for a friendship.

Our paths diverged, but I was always aware of his ongoing photographic work. And now I have been looking at three recent collections: Mexico, Havana and Old Centrepoint. 

Mike knows how to turn his gentle gaze at people and at the houses and streets, the markets and cafes in which they are at home, but what for me is  most fascinating is the way he concentrates on the unexpected details of their surroundings: a crack in a wall, criss-crossing lines of shadow, the rhythm of floor tiles, bright flowers arranged in an old tin can.

There is a wonderful music in his vision of us humans and how we live in the world in which we find ourselves.”

A foreword to Aspects of Kent by Liz Rideal. 

Artist and professor at the Slade University College London.

“To arrive at such elegantly simple and utterly refined works of art, one needs the confidence of a background of artistic trial and error. Mike Dye is
a complex artist whose work has been to investigate, probe and create solutions to a variety of art problems that he has set himself over the years.”