Seymourpowell’s design and CMF researcher Chloe Amos-Edkins and design researcher Sarah Johnson appeared in January’s edition of Interior Design Today. Their report below reveals some key trends in storage which has them thinking inside and outside the box.

With the overwhelming amount of ‘stuff’ people now possess, consumers are suffering from a sense of overloading of stuff, information and…

Analysing the Characteristics of a Business Model

The Impact of Designed Products on Sustainability

Dr Kevin McFarthing recently commented in his Innovation Fixer blog about the debate between innovating with or without consumers’ ideas in mind.…

Organizations big and small have begun to explore the practice of collaborative innovation as a way to increase engagement and to foment a culture of innovation. Let’s say you work for such an organization. What’s the quid pro quo when you find yourself part of the crowd from which wisdom is sought?

In this…

At the fourteenth Design and Technology Excellence Awards, held on Friday 8th March at the IET London, Dick Powell, co-founder and design director at Seymourpowell, made a passionate and compelling case for why design and technology education is so important and why the current draft Design and Technology programme of study poses such a huge threat...…

Seymourpowell’s Design and CMF researcher Chloe Amos-Edkins appeared in the 2012 November/December edition of Interior Design Today. In her report, Chloe discusses four key trends inspiring lighting…

n a recent post of the RSA‘s Great Recovery Blog, Seymourpowell’s head of Sustainability, Chris Sherwin, discusses our winning entry to the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) funded ‘New Design for the…

‘Designing for the differences,’ the ninth video in the ‘Design Insights’ series, features Richard Seymour, co-founder and design director of Seymourpowell, discussing the importance of gender differences for design.

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In February, Seymourpowell design researcher Sarah Johnson was lucky enough to visit Mumbai and Delhi for a research trip. Click here to see a few places she visited and would highly recommend to others…

Mariel Brown, head of trends at Seymourpowell, cuts through the digital noise and reflects on the highlights of Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013, exploring the cultural trends and social context that surround the latest technology releases...…

The front and back ends of innovation test us in different ways. At the front end we wrestle with, “What problem is worth solving?” At the back end we wrestle with, “How do deliver something that offers greater relative advantage than the next best alternative?”

This article explores links between the Skunk…

Seymourpowell’s reading list represents some our favourite magazines, journals, and books. These carefully selected titles are to us both interesting and inspiring and we hope you’ll enjoy them as much as we do..

Outside Innovation…

Rio de Janeiro

On a recent trip to Rio, Seymourpowell design researcher Theo Bridge (a certified carnivore) found surprising delight in Rio’s fledgling vegetarian scene. Here’s what he saw…

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