2 February 2012 | spiked

All this carbon-cutting is a waste of energy

Neither Boris Johnson nor Ken Livingstone is willing to deliver the uninterrupted, cheap energy London needs

29 January 2012 | Design Principles and Practices journal

The craze for design thinking

The historical and social reasons why hip designers talk of little else. Plus: elements of an alternative 127kB

| Design Management Journal

The Next Trend in Design

Given the alacrity with which design managers uphold and then forget about future trends, it's worth asking: Where do such trends really come from? How can we forecast the next one, and be sure that it won't simply be a transient fad? 106kB

24 December 2011 | Blueprint, 1987

The apostle of Cool

Interview with Dieter Rams, the crusading German designer of Braun products and much besides

| Management Today, January 1989

Winter of the wastemakers

High-tech consumer durables have a reputation for falling apart. But planned obsolescence does not account for the problems of repair

7 December 2011 | spiked

The forgotten history of Pearl Harbor

Japan’s attack on the US 70 years ago was not a surprise, but rather the culmination of imperial rivalry

11 October 2011 | The Independent

The end is nigh: is survival all we can hope for?

In their policies for energy and for the economy, British politicians hold up continued existence as the maximum goal we should strive for

10 October 2011 | spiked

Is Britain drowning in too much packaging?

The wrapping that our food, mod-cons and medications come in is not 'evil' - it is a product of civilisation

28 April 2011 | Akzo book on colour, forthcoming

Cities and colour

How colour will likely change the urban landscape in future 135kB

30 March 2011 | spiked

Budgeting for a dismal no-growth future

For all their talk of innovation, the Lib-Cons are more concerned with pinching pennies than investing

13 March 2011 | How To Run A Successful Design Business (Gower, 2011).

Management issues for design businesses

To win through with clients, designers need to master future trends, communicate their ideas with the maximum clarity, do good research, and also closely follow developments in innovation and marketing 102kB

| How To Run A Successful Design Business (Gower, 2011)

The future of design

In new products and services, an orientation to realism and to engineering in its broadest sense will ensure that design's answers are substantive, not superficial 111kB

24 November 2010 | Design Week, 16 August 1991

Old Master

Even in his late seventies, the late American graphics giant Paul Rand did working days at the most energetic pace. For creatives everywhere, he remains an example

7 October 2010 | spiked

A very conservative approach to innovation

The Lib-Con coalition is more concerned with controlling behaviour than forging a brave, hi-tech future

21 September 2010 | White Paper for Brother UK

The UK if everything was nearly half as much bigger

A UK that's 41 per cent more innovative will not be simple to construct, but will be a radically different kind of place