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

Architect Pereen d’Avoine shares the inside story of five artefacts from the architect’s studio – including a collection of rocks, a piece of cork and a decade-old magazine cut-out…

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 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.

We speak with Alex Tieghi-Walker about his new project Tiwa Select, and why small-batch craft is so important.

David Michon talks about film history, online communities and influencers.

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…

Dirty Furniture calling… Five live weekly calls between design’s great minds.

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.

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.

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.

Let’s Be Brief is a learning platform that champions the work of creatives doing things differently. Often focusing on socially impactful work or entrepreneurs from BAME backgrounds, it equips creatives with the tools to take their ideas to the next level, democratising the design industry and helping people to start their own studios on their own terms. We caught up with its energetic founders Stephanie McLaren-Neckles and Ansel Neckles…

Walk into Selfridges between 18 and 31 March and you’ll be greeted by a Hieronymus Bosch-inspired take on a medieval mummers play, all happening in and around a skip. Yep, you heard that right... Ahead of this surreal romp, we talk to the brains (and beauty) behind brand new SKIP Gallery commission Ship of Fools: the one, the only, performance artist Paul Kindersley.

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.

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.

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…

We sit down with The Conran Shop’s creative director Stephen Briars to find out more about how he’s making the 45-year-old institution relevant to millennial shopping habits, and what young makers should do if they want some prime real estate on the store’s esteemed shelves.

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.

The Dutch designer on the line between art and design, material innovation and making a cabinet out of foam.

The Northumbria graduate chats to us about using his heritage for inspiration and the chair that won him the Belmond Award at New Designers 2018.

Zetteler’s Kevin Arulrajah chats to director and producer Aaron Christian about representation in fashion, getting started in filmmaking and his upcoming project The Internship, a film that explores race, class and privilege in the publishing industry.