At this critical point in Earth’s history, Dan Dicker, ashortwalk’s MD decided it was time for his soft-spoken brand to speak up. It was time for a manifesto.

COLOUR VIA: explores 8 designer responses to the complex questions posed by waste and toxicity. With Colour of Saying and Surface Matter.

Alex Accleton has designed a sculptural staircase of quiet impact that connects St Ives’ rural and modernist traditions.

The first reusable coffee cup that isn’t part of the problem. The challenge of telling a big and important story in very few words.

‘That’ is an enemy of the Good Writer. A sneaky fellow, ‘that’ sneaks into our sentences as an oh so flexible friend: an article, pronoun, conjunction, adverb and adjective, most of the time ‘that’ is a shapeshifting waste of space.

As we spoke I was struck by two recurring themes that I labelled horticulture and humanism. Linking these two themes was the idea that was to become the central message, or "golden thread" of Lifetime's story: that humans, like plants, will thrive if they are given the right conditions.

When Habitat invited Becca Allen to design a product for their "30 under 30" collection the brief, to create product inspired by sustainability, suited her down to the ground.

In 2015 Block decided to take a new approach to brand activation. Having created a strong visual language, Block wanted to develop a tone of voice that would communicate their brand precisely.

By reimagining the three core black+blum collections as stories, I was able to define the distinct characteristics both of the product range and its target audience.