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.

If there’s one thing we all love at Zetteler it’s books. Knowing that Disegno has a similar obsession, it felt right to join forces and host a book club together. With the very first edition taking place at the end of the month, Disegno’s editor-in-chief explains why reading, and then discussing that reading, can only be a good thing.

This month our team’s selections include podcasts championing small-scale farmers and humorous shows exploring the possibilities of the afterlife, to name just a couple of the cultural and political recommendations flying around Zetteler HQ.

Founder of Roundtable journal, Scrabble enthusiast and new Zetteler Communications Coordinator Wase Aguele talks Cape Town, indie publishing, and the importance of being open to others’ perspectives’…

Named after a Donald Trump quote that revealed just how little to the leader of the free world understands the climate emergency we’re currently facing, It’s Freezing in LA! is a new environmental magazine that traces the gap between radical science and radical politics. We chat to editor Martha Dillon about the team’s new way of approaching science journalism, and the role provocative, moving stories have in fighting climate change.

Made from broken sanitary ware and glaze waste, Alusid’s first commercial tile range Sequel is a staggering 98% recycled. Ahead of its launch at Clerkenwell Design Week, we catch up with the sustainable ceramics pioneers to talk about their ingenious process and why interior design shouldn’t cost the earth.

Hitting the capital between 8 and 12 May, London Craft Week brings together 240 artists, designers, brands and galleries from 15 countries to celebrate all things making. From hands-on workshops in ancient indigo dying techniques or cutting-edge digital embroidery to talks about how craft is helping rebuild lives after war, we’ve pored over the programme, digested the whole she-bang and brought you an edited list of the events you really can’t miss.

Witty, thoughtful and not afraid to speak his mind, our new PR coordinator Chris is real smart cookie. Now the dust has settled on his first few weeks in the job, we caught up with this PR/artist/editor/writer/critic/brainiac about providing an alternative take on the art world through his publication Emotional Art Magazine and the big cultural shifts that make him optimistic for the future.

As well as masterminding heartwarming, world-changing creative activations like the Help Refugees pop-up shop Choose Love, London-based collective Glimpse trains teams to feel confident in their own creativity. Their day-long Glimpse Studio workshops sounded so bloody good that we couldn’t bear not trying one out for ourselves. So last month, the entire Zetteler squad took a trip to the wilds of Kent for an away day unlike any other. Here’s what we learned.

From Brexit woes to imminent species distinction, it’s easy to let the current climate get you down. Luckily designer and printmaker Anthony Burrill is on hand to remind us that there are some very, very good things in this life in the form of new collaborative print with letterpress legend Alan Kitching and an exhibition at Zetteler HQ, De Beauvoir Block.