Every Thursday here at Zetteler HQ we get together around our big table to share things that have changed our perspective in the past week. We talk about exhibitions, marches, events, books, TV programmes, podcasts, trees…you name it!

A selection of highlights from our weekly bulletin meeting. This month the team’s selections include beautifully unbearable arthouse films, and books calling for a more considered approach to joy, to name just a few of the cultural and political recommendations flying around our studio.

In the next instalment of a regular essay series for us at Zetteler, clinical psychologist Dr Jessica Munafo discusses how we can reframe living with values as an active, everyday pursuit that can help us feel more fulfilled and more ourselves. Through a series of thought-provoking exercises, she explains how you can close the gap between what your life looks like and what you want it to look like, to live more authentically and wholeheartedly.

A selection of highlights from our weekly bulletin meeting. This month the team’s selections include beautifully unbearable arthouse films, and books calling for a more considered approach to joy, to name just a few of the cultural and political recommendations flying around our studio.

Violence in A&E costs the NHS £69m a year in staff absences alone, with a shocking 59,000 physical assaults on its workers. But what if design could solve the problem? We take a look at PearsonLloyd’s A Better A&E project, a radical overhaul of NHS signage, which has reduced aggressive patient behaviour by 50% through smart and collaborative thinking – and is the subject of a new Design Council film.

A selection of highlights from our weekly bulletin meeting. This month the team’s selections include comedic essays illustrating family life and not-for-profit cafes working to better their communities, to name just a few of the cultural and political recommendations flying around our studio.

There are few more coveted accolades in the UK design world than the four London Design Medals awarded each year at the London Design Festival. Given in recognition of outstanding contribution made by individuals working in the field of design. London Design Festival commissioned Zetteler to create a series of short films to offer an insight into the diverse working lives and creative approaches of each of the winners: Tom Dixon OBE, Dame Vivienne Westwood, Daniel Charny and Ross Atkin.

When we visit our clients in their studios, we’re often intrigued by the things with which they surround themselves. Often such objects can say as much about someone as the work they inspire.

Ceramic artist Matthew Raw’s new solo show in Plymouth is an exploration of migration, the evolution of cities and social change told through the lens of the city’s now-closed zoo. With the help of both students from the Plymouth College of Art and much younger makers, Matthew has created an installation of tiles that tells this nuanced and unique story, while providing the opportunity for kids to develop the hand and creative skills now so sorely lacking in the classroom.

UAE-based Irthi Contemporary Crafts Council both celebrates the rich maker heritage of the MENA region while at the same time providing local women with a way of generating income through their immense skill. At London Design Festival, Irthi launches its debut product line in collaboration with a wide range of international designers, exhibiting for the first time its contemporary, innovative twists on age-old techniques.

A leading researcher working at the intersection between design and sustainability, Brompton Design District curator Jane Withers has spent the past decade at the forefront of topics like water scarcity, circular design and plastic pollution. Ahead of this year’s London Design Festival programme, centred around the theme Nature/Nurture, we caught up with Jane to talk about her eponymous studio, what ancient bathing cultures can teach us about the climate crisis and why no-one has heard of a water footprint.

If you’ve been looking at Coal Drops Yard thinking, ‘Which genius is behind all these excellent events?’ then Vickie Hayward is someone you need to know. The founder of COMPANY, PLACE, Vickie is a string-puller extraordinaire who specialises in designing cultural programmes that put local communities at the heart of new developments, rather than pushing them away. Given her work is largely behind the scenes (and criminally unsung), we wanted to find out more about her approach and ethics.

With Stockholm cancelling its fashion week in favour of a more sustainable approach and Extinction Rebellion calling on London to do the same, attitudes towards the constant churn of the fashion industry are rapidly shifting. Meet BERTHOLD, a label radically rethinking fashion’s relentless speed. From September the London-based brand is switching its model from a decade of biannual offerings to a permanent Core collection, that’s both non-gendered and art world-inspired. Read on to find out more about our newest client.

A selection of highlights from team Zetteler's weekly bulletin meeting. This month our team’s selections include graphic novels exploring life during Iran’s Islamic Revolution and chilling documentaries on Cambridge Analytica, to name just a few of the cultural and political recommendations flying around our studio.

A writer for gal-dem and Between Borders and a creative copy whizz, we’re delighted to add wordsmith and literature-lover Siham Ali on the Zetteler team. Here she is telling us about her writing debut (aged 10!), the clients she’s hyped about and where to wild swim in London.

This LDF, Brompton Design District will explore the theme Nature/Nurture, investigating how design can respond to the threat of rapidly disappearing habitats and large-scale species extinction. Ahead of September, we chatted with ecology expert Dr Rob Francis of King’s College London about the huge wealth of wildlife living in our cities, and what designers can do to protect and encourage it.

From slick brand films to a robot that steals data, Not Flat 3 is a freshly graduated design collective with a broad and tantalising portfolio. Formed by four friends to help elevate their individual skills and ideas beyond what they could offer alone, the collective specialises in thoughtful and thought-proving work that challenges the status quo. We caught up with them to find out more about their approach.

Last month the Zetteler team conducted a company-wide experiment to see just how challenging it is to exist without single-use plastic. Turns out, pretty hard! From the heartbreak of saying goodbye to crisps to a desperate holiday struggle to find glass-bottled sun cream before we turned into crisps ourselves, here’s what we found impossible, what was unexpectedly easy and the life-hacks we learnt along the way.

This summer, National Trust property Fenton House tasked Gitta Gschwendtner and a team of five other designers with creating a chair that responds to the 17th-century merchant house. While the final designs remain underwraps until their launch in September during London Design Festival, we took the opportunity to ask each designer what is so irresistible about the challenge of designing a chair.

This month our team’s selections include culturally rich plays to charities doing outstanding work for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, to name just a few of the cultural and political recommendations flying around Zetteler HQ.

When we visit our clients in their studios, we’re often intrigued by the objects they surround themselves with These objects can say as much about someone as the work they inspire.