wearedesignstudio

Our intern Eden talks to Amelia about design's effect on society's perpetual distraction, and discuss whether the design community has an obligation to solve it.

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Audio credits:

“Arctic Draba” and "Building the Sled” by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0

“How better tech could prevent us from Distraction” by TED is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0

"This Panda is Dancing” by Max Stossel & Sander van Dijk is linked to humanetech.com, formerly Time Well Spent.

Aldous Huxley Interview available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TQZ-2iMUR0

Matthew Crawford Talk by emarketer available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wJp9e5HZiw

We held an event for International Women's day called NotNotSmiling, here's our round up of what went down...

For London Design Festival 2017 we hosted an event with Hyper Island called NOW NOW: Exploring the changing face of consumption. Having had time to recollect on the event and what we learnt, we thought we'd share. Enjoy.

We worked with Artfinder, the global online art marketplace, to create a brand to amplify its ambitions. Here we chatted to Jonas Almgren CEO of Artfinder and Jen Bayne product designer about the process of working together and their new brand. https://www.wearedesignstudio.com/works/artfinder/

Rich Lyons started at DesignStudio seven and a half years ago, and as of August 2016, he’ll start working as a designer at Apple in San Francisco. This is a little interview about hair products, Krusty the clown, and the things that make someone a person you want to work with every day.

On the day the Premier League rebrand launched, we decided to make a podcast. Stuart Watson (DesignStudio ECD) chats with designers Charlie Hocking and Fred North about winning a pitch, early twitter reactions and David Attenborough.