People
Vive the entrepreneurial spirit!
What does it mean to be entrepreneurial? Well, it begins with spotting an opportunity and having clarity about what you’re proposing, whether it’s a new value, service, product or method for… Read More >
ONE: Matt Hayes
We continue to enjoy learning more about UK based designers in our ONE series, today we meet Matt Hayes, Design Studio & Product Manager at Muraspec Wallcoverings. In his role as… Read More >
Work internationally. Travel light
Many years back, before setting up Istoria Group, I finished a particularly exhausting work run and needed to get away. I joined a yacht crew and sailed round the world,… Read More >
ONE: Pippa Nissen
We continue to enjoy learning more about UK based designers in our ONE series, today we meet Pippa Nissen, Director at Nissen Richards Studio. Pippa Nissen is a Director of… Read More >
ONE: Gavin King
Continuing with our new series, we invited Gavin King to take part in ONE, where you can glimpse the passions, interests and unexpected choices of the individuals behind the UK’s… Read More >
The Power of the People
In an earlier column on sustainability, I focused on process and waste, but sustainability is about so much more than material life-cycles. Successful sustainable businesses also need to perform financially,… Read More >
ONE: Gurvinder Khurana
Continuing with our new series, we invited Gurvinder Khurana to take part in ONE, where you can glimpse the passions, interests and unexpected choices of the individuals behind the UK’s… Read More >
One: Rosanna Campbell
Continuing with our new series, we invited Rosanna Campbell to take part in ONE, where you can glimpse the passions, interests and unexpected choices of the individuals behind the UK’s design… Read More >
Jim Biddulph & 2LG in conversation
Were you to ask Russell Whitehead and Jordan Cluroe where they might be in 15 years time back in the mid-00’s you would likely have been met with an answer… Read More >
The Case for Creative Collaboration
Everyone in business likes to think they’re good at collaborating – taking as easily as giving and letting the best idea win out. But the truth is that collaboration can… Read More >
Jim Biddulph & Laura Slater in conversation
Whilst we may have lost a large proportion of the manufacturing that made the UK one of the world’s textile super powers during the 18th and 19th centuries, textile design… Read More >
ONE: Chris Gwyther
Continuing with our new series, we invited Chris Gwyther to take part in ONE, where you can glimpse the passions, interests and unexpected choices of the individuals behind the UK’s… Read More >
Sustainability? We can all do more
I started in the exhibitions industry in the mid-90s, which was then something of a horror show in terms of sustainability. The over-riding culture was one of ‘build and burn’,… Read More >