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Ed Warner

his school friend James Taylor after Taylor was paralyzed in a diving accident in 2005: “Every morning I wake up and I’m reminded of my condition because of the products around me.” Convinced that there had to be something better than the soulless white plastic equipment that crowded Taylor’s South London home to ostensibly give him a measure of independence, the two eventually combined their sales and marketing (Warner) and finance (Taylor) expertise to create the accessible design firm Motionspot in 2012. Since then, the company has become a leader in Britain in the design of accessible products and inclusive spaces. But along the way, one

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