The designer's identity solved: It's Pixies!
In BBC blog comments I find this:
Let me repeat it for you, because you seem to be determined to misunderstand. NO-ONE is a priori excluding the presence of some sort of Primary Intelligent Cosmic Creator (PICC, pronounced “pixie”). There is no need to either include or exclude such a beastie; the only way of addressing that question is NOT by cod philosophy, but by scientific evidence.
I love the British way with words.
Hat tip to Heliopolitan, who coined the phrase.