October news: HØLTE calls for carbon transparency; Nelly ben Hayoun launches Tour de Moon creative bursaries; AHEC releases new Words on Wood podcast series; and Zetteler gets creative with the GLA

AHEC and Wallpaper* present 20 emerging designers from 16 countries, each offering a personal response to the experience of isolation.

September news: After a year in limbo, the creative industries are back with a bang, as Note lands in Milan, LDF gets its first Designposts, Vaarnii reinvents Finnish furniture, and Design District launches at last.

July news: TIME names Design District among World's Greatest Places; Camille Walala plays with perspective in Plymouth, No Isolation pinpoints the problem with touchscreens, and Design Can asks ‘what’s changed?’

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

March news: Industrial Facility teams up with TAKT, twentytwentyone relaunches a Jasper Morrison icon; and Takram on the creative opportunity of crisis.

Bureau is coming, Norwegian Presence presents and a new Note collaboration revealed…

A digital programme of talks, panel discussions and film, featuring leading designers, manufacturers and thinkers.

We have a tonne of exciting projects in early 2021 to tell you about.

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…

When is a homepage like a neuroscience experiment? A. When it’s an interactive 3D visualisation of sensory response, of course…

The creative strategist building London a new creative quarter chooses five books that have helped shape her thinking, including a definitive guide to the design world, the architecture of Lina Bo Bardi and a manual for rebuilding humanity.

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…

Who is building the Design District?

Launched as a digital exhibition, Norwegian Presence 2020 highlights a trio of trends defining contemporary design culture in Norway: material experimentation, circular thinking, and ‘fixable’ design. Might this be a roadmap to the future of making?

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.

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.

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.