Dear Office, your services are terminated

Six weeks ago, 16 days into the lockdown, we speculated on the deep design of a post-corona world. The analysis had layers, from ‘layer 1’, the physical spaces that we inhabit, to the psychological ‘layer 3’: the arguable, hard-to-spot, broad, themes, sentiments and anxieties. These themes govern societies, and it appears, governance itself. The Prime Minister’s… Continue reading Dear Office, your services are terminated

The Business of Consulting

In the last decade, the more far-seeing set of mature, large businesses has been making hopeful approaches towards design. Their ardour comes from seeing design as a source of competitive advantage, and has been reported on widely. This column, too: we labelled Apple, Airbnb, Google and their increasing tribe as ‘digital darlings’. In their wake,… Continue reading The Business of Consulting