March 2017 – teer on design

Croft Lodge Studio by Kate Darby and David Connor has been announced as the winner of AJ Small Projects 2017

30/03/201724/07/2017 by Simon

Loving this award-winning preservation and conversion of a listed 300-year-old ruined cottage in Leominster, Herefordshire – complete with dead ivy and old birds’ nests! The jury described the 115m² scheme as ‘beautifully executed’, ‘unpretentious’, and praised the design for not ‘romanticising the ruin’. Kate Darby, founder of Kate Darby Architects said: ‘What is special about the project is the extreme length we went to preserve everything. Initially there was the prejudice to clear it up, but we realised the value of the project was in that extreme approach.’ …

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Proactive Working endorsement from Robin Smith, Director at 4c Design

Designers: are you Working Proactively?

Behaviours, Opinions

22/03/201721/12/2023 by Simon

For years, the typical mindset and prevalent behavioural characteristic of many designers towards agency-client relationships has been ‘reactive’ and not ‘proactive’. Why, and to what extent has this changed? With the right guidance, working proactively can transform work-life experiences for the better, and put designers more in the driving seat. The trouble with conventional new business exploration New research published by Design Week (20 March 2017) reveals that 70% of clients still expect designers to free pitch. The What Clients Think 2017 report, which is based on interviews with 455 clients of design consultancies, shows that while nearly 90% of...