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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…

Design masterclass: Slow food kitchens

"A gastronomer who is not an environmentalist is just stupid; whereas an environmentalist who is not a gastronomer is sad.…

Design masterclass: how are designers made?

“It took me a few seconds to draw it. But it took me 34 years to learn how to draw…

Design masterclass: why the design brief should inspire

How will you explain to your client that you understand what they have been imagining for their new project? How…