Guessing the Brief #marketoon marketoonist.com/2024/05/guessi… via Tom Fishburne We've all been there, haven't we?

Exciting news, we're now hiring an Editor and Reporter for Design Week! If you're passionate about design and storytelling we want to hear from you. Apply on our website interconnectit.com

Did we mention we're recruiting for a reporter? interconnectit.com/news/2024/06/0…

We need a few experienced packaging designers to come forward to talk about details in packaging design that make life easier for people. Please DM to be included.

Further to this last tweet, we've now opened DMs! #shouldntworkasunday

Dark Patterns are generally considered to be manipulative design methods that can trick or deceive people into unintended actions or steps. We've all experienced them. This site has been cataloguing them since 2022 and is worth a browse. hallofshame.design/news-2022/

One simple question for our audience today. How do you personally define "design"?

Wisdom Kaye has styled himself as fonts, and the looks are epic. I'm just wondering which I could pull off... DC tiktok.com/@wisdm8/video/…

Took a car for a test drive. I may have accidentally left a little advert for the next owner to find in the Sketch app.

Always great to see people appreciating our older content! Glad it worked out for Creative Briefs (Est 2015) and as a treat for sharing I've tidied up the post layout so it looks nicer.

We have questions: It looks lovely. BUT... how do people with mobility issues actually get on? From behind? It looks narrow. Isn't that problematic on uneven pavements? We'd love to know the brief.

During our pause, we're re-publishing the occasional article from deep in our archives. This March 1990 column by our founder, Jeremy Myerson, discusses how car design can look backwards and still bring something fresh to the market. It's particularly prescient in highlighting

On first scan this book looks very interesting. Straight Forward, by Patrick Ely and Alan Stevenson is about wayfinding and strategy around it. We look forward to giving it a full review in due course. You can buy it here: placepress.com/shop/straight-…

We attended the wonderful Podge Events Stodge Podge yesterday. Brilliant to re-connect with designers from around the country and to learn more about what people liked (and didn't like) about Design Week so that we can improve in the future.

Diving back into our archives to our March 1990 print edition. Jane Lewis explored how design firms creatively promoted their services with unique mail-outs — think knotted handkerchiefs and boxed chocolates. designweek.co.uk/from-the-archi…

Remembering Sir Kenneth Grange – 1929-2024. It is with great sadness that we heard about the passing of the hugely influential British designer, Sir Kenneth Grange. designweek.co.uk/remembering-si…

Guess who's back? 👀 on the new site coming next month. We have a tonne of ideas, but what do you miss? What do you want to see more of? Which areas of the design world are under-explored right now?