Ab Rogers

Ab Rogers is a head of Ab Rogers Design and is one of the most talented, hard-working and lovely men you’ll ever meet. His range of work is staggering – everything from the magical and beautiful Rainbow House to the the iconic Level 3 and 5 concourses at Tate Modern to the re-invented Little Chef in Popham with Heston Blumenthal. Whatever he touches turns to gold, and orange, and blue, and shocking pink and...

Unity worked with Ab to create the Living Lab for Pizza Express, a magical cornucopia of ideas and innovations for the legendary restaurant brand that has the industry buzzing and the punters queuing up to get some.

If you were a shape what would that be?
A circle, I'd keep going round and round, with never an end in site

What computer key are you?
Never the one a mean to hit.

If you had a festival what would it be called and what would happen?
I would call it Sensational Experiential and every one would have sensual 'sensational experiential' experiences with lots of sounds, smells, colour and texture coming from all directions.

What would be in your rider?
A leather-man, a sketchbook, a soft pencil, a fine line pen, orange string, and a telephone.

If you could have an extra body part what would you have?
I'd have an extra hand

Favourite year to be reincarnated?
2100

First single you ever bought?
Give them enough rope the clash

Do the Royal Family really attract tourists?
Well if they do I'm not interested

If you were a paper/tv channel/magazine/radio station what would you be?
I would be black and white and red all over

Hoxton or Soho?
Whatever, its location that counts

What wouldn’t you do for a million pounds?
Contradict my ethics

What do you sing in the shower?
Love me tender by Elvis

If someone wrote a biography about you, what do you think the title should be?
Obsession and Relationships

What was your first pet called?
Lulu, she was a Brindle Great Dane who I shared my single bed with until I was thirteen.

Do you have any secret tattoos/piercings?
I have three piercings in my left ear, so not very secret, but they haven't seen an earing in 20 years.

What would your ideal superpower be and why? Would it be used for good or evil?
I would want to be able to draw with the elegance of Matisse and I would use it for good. I believe in good but you have to be bad some times to be good.