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Event review: FHA HoReCa 2024

Five halls of the worlds hospitality and professional kitchen equipment and systems held over four days in October at the…

Design Masterclass: The logistics of food miles

By the time the meal gets on to the plate, the ingredients will frequently have travelled thousands of kilometers. I’m…

Design Masterclass: AI and creativity

The more time passes, the more AI capabilities seem to expand into our human domain. Up to now there has…

Design Masterclass: Small is beautiful, but use a consultant

“Good kitchens are not about size; they are about ergonomics and light” – Nigel Slater, food writer, journalist and broadcaster…

Design Masterclass: Automatic for the people?

When we discuss automation and robotics, we’re talking about their relevance for the manufacturing industries, aren’t we? Not necessarily. It…

Design masterclass: the changing face of restaurant businesses

“Patience is what is needed to see through any process of production” – Sunday Adelaja, journalist, author Over the last…

Design masterclass: Adding colour to your kitchen

“Humans need colour to live, it’s just as necessary an element as fire and water” – Fernand Leger, French painter…

Design masterclass: Tim Smallwood on the power of good design

“It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better” – Sir Jonathan Ive, former chief design officer,  Apple…

Design masterclass: diagramming before designing

“Architecture is built diagrams” (Paul Laffoley: artist, philosopher & architect) Confronting a blank page with a mind full of ideas…

Design masterclass: designing a foodservice future

“Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems”: Tim Brown, CEO and president of IDEO. Should…