Sam Stubbings believed the design world was false and elitist, until he stumbled across an exhibition that changed his mind forever. Graeme Aymer meets the brains behind 4Wall, one of the UK's most exciting design collectives.
Running a thriving design studio requires more than a creative mind and the ability to make tea. Nick Spence meets the names behind leading studios that successfully combine artistic flair with solid business skills.
Inspired by the famously arresting Norwegian outdoors, Grandpeople's design and illustration interprets natural processes into graphical forms. Always engaging, occasionally psychedelic, for them, design is more than skin deep, as Mark Penfold found out...
"i'm suddenly surprised by the thought that it might actually be possible to make a living from type design. Wouldn't that be something?" Finnish font designer Emil Bertell describes the experience of starting out.
In a Spanish design scene where you must compete and struggle to make a name for yourself, Sergio del Puerto has garnered the attention of clients across the world. Adrian Sandiford talks to the man behind Madrid's best up-and-coming creative studio.
The city of Hobart in the Australian state of Tasmania seems an unlikely place for a fertile creative design scene, but it's the spiritual home to designer and typographer Rob Cordiner and the Hellavate collective. So why have they moved to London?
The tiny city of Skellefteå, in the extreme north of Sweden is an unlikely place to find one of the world's foremost web design agencies, and yet it is the spiritual home for the award-winning North Kingdom. Joe Russ goes on an Arctic expedition to investigate.
An international agency with a design pedigree, TAXI prides itself on producing arresting solutions for all its clients, be they telecoms giants or underdogs in the cosmetics game. Mark Penfold discovers the secrets behind the agency's success.
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