RETAIL WEEK INTERIORS - Creative Director quits Into role to launch company

Into creative director Russell Lipscombe has left after 10 years at the lighting consultancy.

Lipscombe has formed a consultancy called Lighttecnica and will focus on fee-based lighting design for the retail and leisure sectors. He will be retained to work with Into as an external consultant in the short term.

Into director Darren Orrow said: 'It's going to be more of an organic design process for us. So, for instance, we're working with Aquascutum at the moment and Lipscombe will probably be working with us on this.

'We are concentrating a bit more on leisure, because retail has slowed a bit over the past year and we didn't want all of our eggs in one basket.'

Lipscombe will not have a direct replacement.