Artists Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell didn’t just want to comment on the exploitative nature of austerity Britain, they wanted to do something about it. As Bank Job, the pair have written off a phenomenal £1m in predatory payday debt through a community project soon to culminate with a documentary and one hell of an explosion.

From bin men chuckling at David Shrigley sculptures to mums taking selfies with the work and their kids, SKIP Gallery challenges preconceptions about where art can be shown and who it is shown to. Ahead of their upcoming exhibition series at Selfridges, Like it of Lump it, we spoke to curator duo Baker & Borowski about making the art world more accessible for artists and audiences alike, bringing gender politics to a shopping mecca and how to set up your own gallery if you’re strapped for cash.

Stockholm Design Week is not necessarily known for its radical thinking or social focus, but here’s proof that if you look hard enough there’s a whole bunch of designers making their creativity count. If you’re in the Swedish capital this week (or watching from the sidelines) and want a break from the latest launches, here are some exhibitions with something to say.

Architect David Adjaye might be best known for monumental buildings like the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC or the Sugar Hill Housing project in Harlem, but much of his early work is here in London. To celebrate the opening of David Adjaye: Making Memory at the Design Museum today, we go on a whistle-stop tour of his London projects that you can see for yourself, and hear from the people that inhabit them.

Zetteler has grown rapidly in the past few years, from one woman and a good idea to a team in the double digits. Helping make sense of this energy spurt is our brand new Head of Strategy Rupert, who is already instilling long-term thinking and reaffirmed purpose in our team and our clients. From clear thinking to cycling, Braun to Bananagrams, we find out what makes the man tick.

We caught up with self-taught photographer Rick Pushinsky, the creative mind behind our festive ‘Poweful Mantras’, to find out about learning from YouTube, whether technology is making the industry more accessible and how to get a labour of love off the ground – even when you’ve got no cash.

‘I’m delighted I didn’t train in product design because everything I do now would have been beaten out of me.’ We talk to new client Jennifer Newman about her unorthodox journey from artist to furniture designer, switching careers later in life and the strength in doing things your way.

To mark International Migrants Day 2018, we’ve picked ten of the most exciting organisations, publications and events that are using art and tech to change the lives of refugees and platform their voices.

Since July, Monotype has had a new face in its London studio – creative type director Tom Foley. With seven years at foundry Dalton Maag under his belt, Tom now leads Monotype’s Studio team in London at a crucial time for type, as VR and AV technology push it to its limits.

Artist Susie Freeman makes phenomenal textile pieces that incorporate everyday objects – from ibuprofen tablets to condoms to cigarette butts – into complex weaves. For the past 20 years she has worked with Dr Liz Lee, to collide scientific research with fine art, asking their audience to question society’s dependence on pharmaceuticals.

After five years of masterminding campaigns for the biggest names in the visual arts, Emma pivoted into design and landed ready for action at a desk in Zetteler HQ. How? Why? Time we found out…

Opening this month in Mauritius, SALT of Palmar is a one of a kind hotel in terms of both philosophy and design. Having found inspiration (and her spiritual home) in the colour-loving island, Camille Walala shares the low-down on her biggest design project to date…

Designer Robin Grasby transforms scraps of discarded marble into durable, waterproof and damn gorgeous terrazzo which can be used to make worktops, tiles and even furniture. We follow the process from Robin’s treasure hunt for the choicest slithers around the capital’s marble yards through to casting in his Leyton studio.

Far more than a compendium of contemporary makers, Katie Treggiden’s new book Weaving explores the practice through the lens of topics like gender, migration and the environment, and how weaving holds up a mirror (albeit it a fibrous one) to wider social and economic issues.

This year’s window is one of the most complex and ambitious in Conran history. Betsy and her team have transformed the space into a cavern of moving light, collaborating with an award-winning West End lighting designer to create a rhythmic, visually enchanting spectacle of light and shade at play. We asked Betsy to share her process and shine some light on how The Conran Shop’s displays come about…

Running between 12-18 November across venues in Manchester, the International Arts and Homelessness Summit & Festival is a packed seven days of inspiring events that show how the arts can empower homeless people and help tackle adjacent issues like mental health and isolation.

The Middle East’s first graphic design biennial opened in Sharjah last week, bringing together practitioners that test the discipline’s limits, scope and purpose in the rapidly changing world of the 21st century. For a jam-packed 21 days, the festival’s Department of Mapping Margins is a space where talks, events and interactions reflect on the state of graphic design’s power to address cross-cultural questions, overlapping working methods, conditions and models.

We talk to the creative lead behind Intoart and John Smedley’s jaw-dropping collaboration – fashion legend Holly Fulton.

The UAE's visionary, ground-breaking and entirely fictitious government department – the Ministry of Graphic Design – opened its doors today in Sharjah, marking the beginning of an extraordinary and multifaceted three-week examination of contemporary graphic design and what it means for the world today.

Dubai Design Week is just around the corner, so for all those with eyes on the Gulf this month, we’re championing some inspiring creative projects from the UAE that can be enjoyed wherever you are in the world.

‘We have much to gain from conversations with one another across our differences’ – we chat to Nina Paim and Corinne Gisel of Swiss studio common-interest, who are investigating the importance of in-between spaces, non-fixed identities and how to use ambiguity to bridge divisive politics, as part of their installations at Fikra Graphic Design Biennial this month.