Bethany Koby-Hirschmann
Visiting Designer, MFA in Graphic Design
Profile
Bethany is the co-founder and Chief Vision officer of Fam Studio, a research and design practice that develops play-led technologies, learning content, and planet-friendly experiences. We use the power of design and futures thinking to help create a world where every family can thrive in uncertain times, whoever and wherever they are.
She is the former CEO and co-founder of award-winning STEAM experience business Tech Will Save Us; she is on the board of trustees at the Institute of Imagination (iOi), a bio-leadership fellow and a fellow for the Learning Science Exchange program – part of the Jacobs Foundation and New America.
Koby was named as one of the Sunday Times Maserati 100 and a nominee for Best High Growth Woman Founder in the UKBAA awards. Koby has been awarded Innovator of the Year at Technology Playmaker Awards and was the Seven Hills’ Change Maker of the Year. She has been named one of the Designers that Matter by Wired Magazine, one of the Top 50 Creative Leaders by Creative Review, Barclay’s Entrepreneur of the Year, one of the 50 most influential women in tech by Computer Weekly and the Leader of the Year from the IET (The Institute of Engineering and Technology).