Design in Progress

  • The C Word

    The C Word

    (Not that one. Or that one)

  • I'm baby, sell me insurance

    I'm baby, sell me insurance

    On the infantilisation of branding

  • New psychedelia

    New psychedelia

    Tracking a trend in search of a deeper connection

  • Blanding and flattening

    Blanding and flattening

    With the whole world of visual culture now at our fingertips, why does everything feel so hollow?

  • Pushing positivity in a desperate world

    Pushing positivity in a desperate world

    A few things I’ve learned.

  • Going off-feed

    Going off-feed

    How can campaigners make an impact among a barrage of information?

  • Being a designer for good.

    Being a designer for good.

    A personal struggle to maintain idealism in the grip of corporate neoliberal culture. In my first year as an undergraduate student at the seaside art college of Falmouth University it was instilled in me that designers have an obligation to use their skills for good. We learned about the Bauhaus and modernist utopianism, we worked…

  • Branding for nonprofits

    Branding for nonprofits

    Telling your story as a campaigning organisation Just as you can form a first impression of a new friend in a split second, it only takes a glance for someone to form a story about your organisation. Today’s visually saturated world only gives you a limited window of exposure for your audience to understand who…