After the announcement that D&AD and The Guardian were to join forces to create a new ‘festival of creativity’ for London, it seemed like a good opportunity to revisit the thorny topic of creative conferences. What do people want from them? What works? What doesn’t?
Dropbox design researcher Jennifer Brook is on a mission to understand how the best teams work – and to prove that if you want to make meaningful, inclusive work, your team’s culture has to embrace those things too
In-house teams often struggle to convey the true value of what they contribute. In-house expert Emma Sexton suggests three ways to help an organisation see that the value of design goes way beyond ‘making it look pretty’
Last week we invited our Twitter followers to send in any questions they may have about a career in design. Here are some of the questions that came in, and Oldham’s advice.
We want to understand which skills design studios and teams most value and the importance of collaboration in the creative process
Launching next week, Mayn Creative will represent students and fresh graduates from Falmouth University, helping them break into the creative industry
At Ideas on Revolt, the third annual Graphic Design Educators’ Network conference, there were calls for students to become more involved in resistance and rebellion. But perhaps their teachers should be leading by example, suggests Hannah Ellis
In the latest episode of Google Design Advocate Mustafa Kurtuldu’s YouTube and podcast series aimed at improving understanding between designers and developers, he talks to Yasmine Evjen, a Design Advocate on the Google Design Relations Team, about learning design skills and debate whether technical expertise helps or hinders the creative process.
Our September 2016 issue explores new skills, techniques and approaches to keep creative juices flowing