Socially-driven, story-rich highlights for the festival.

Thinking about our ‘ten years or ten days’ colleagues.

TOG and Waugh Thistelton launch The Black & White Building at last, Citizens Design Bureau eyes up awards, and Zetteler salutes the genius of ProxyAddress.

The media brand’s annual round-up celebrates the joys of city life and the progressive thinking changing the face of urban living.

April news: Superflux looks beyond the Anthropocene; Pearson Lloyd rethinks the stairlift; Design District welcomes its first tenants; and Kiltered demonstrates the new way to ‘do’ diversity.

The world’s at a tipping point. Takram has some ideas about what comes next.

A new project from Glimpse aims to give the people a say.

Flatpack 2021 campaign gives community groups DIY toolkit for taking over local councils.

The maverick design/business crossover festival of ideas launched during LDF 2020 is now available on demand. Six days of brain-boosting ideas and revolutionary thinking – here’s where to start…

The campaign for equity and inclusivity in the creative sector has just turned 12 months old. There’s a lot to celebrate, but there’s even more still to do…

The Emirati craft of Talli weaving has been conducted by the region’s craftswomen for centuries. As the pandemic forces these women out of their workshops, Irthi offers a model for supporting and sustaining craft enterprises under lockdown.

For many of us, lockdown life has made the Zoom meeting the premier means of communication in our personal and professional lives, but what issues does this new paradigm raise? We explore the new world order…

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.

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.

Push the shelves in a certain London newsagents this Fairtrade Fortnight and a revolving door will whisk you into a secret hot chocolate salon serving up the stories of empowerment for female farmers in West Africa alongside mugs of delicious cocoa. This tantalising treat is the work of Glimpse, a collective of creative people using their immense talent to dream up exciting, heart-melting and buzz-worthy projects for charities and progressive causes – and the latest addition to the Zetteler client family.

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

Brunnel University London graduate Joshua King scooped up the Joseph Stannah Award at New Designers 2018 for Ally, a wearable device and accompanying app that supports sexual assault survivors. It’s a technologically clever and deeply thoughtful project, but if you think you’ll find the subject matter distressing, be kind to yourself and read some of our other super posts instead.

No matter how much you love your work or your creative practice, there are going to be times when all the joy is sapped from what you do and it’s so stressful that it’s impossible to see the good bits just around the corner. Sadly, dealing with ‘crisis mode’ is now a common part of adult life. This World Mental Health Day we wanted to make a little space to think about how to prepare for those bad times – and luckily psychologist Jessica Munafo was on hand to help.

We talk to Madeleine Klimowicz from End Youth Homelessness about the incredible work the charity is doing to help young people get back on their feet.

Centuries-old British knitwear brand John Smedley is a pretty big deal in the fashion industry, so naturally we were chomping at the bit to get the inside scoop on its collaboration with our client Intoart. Here Ella Ritchie, the founder behind the London design studio that works inclusively with people with learning disabilities, tells us all.

The inside scoop on the collaboration between inclusive south London collective Intoart and luxury knitwear brand John Smedley.