A career in one word?

When the DBA asked Lynda Relph-Knight to sum up her career in design in one word, she chose 'Accidental'...

Biography

Lynda Relph-Knight has been editor of Design Week since 1989.

Before taking up that role on the world's only weekly design magazine, she was a freelance journalist specialising in the built environment and design. In that guise, she was a consultant to both Design Week and Building magazine and edited Designing, the Design Council's termly magazine for secondary schools.

Other regular freelance outlets included Design magazine, Designers Journal, Interior Design, Building Design and New Scientist.

Previous full-time jobs include editor of The Architect (a now-defunct monthly) and features editor on architectural weekly Building Design.

In 2001 Lynda received an honorary MA from the Surrey Institute of Art & Design and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She became an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Art in June 2007.