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A time for imagination
| January 2020
Last year’s conference could have been a one-off reunion. It was a challenging project, but the event itself was probably our best yet, and the response overwhelming. It’s your positivity that brings us together for the fifth time.
Our climate impact policy
| January 2020
Do I need another coat? Must I make this journey? What if I choose not to eat red meat? The first question an organiser should ask is not “can we make our conference more environmentally compatible?”, but rather, “should this conference happen at all?”.
Q1: book recommendations
| January 2020
We asked our speakers, volunteers and organisers a few questions to help you get to know them. Firstly, we asked them to each recommend two books: one relating to our industry or their work, and another about something else.
Q2: advice for an uncertain industry future
| January 2020
We asked our speakers, volunteers and organisers: can you offer one piece of advice to help others anticipate or navigate an uncertain industry future?
Q3: what common fallacy should we wake up to?
| January 2020
We asked our speakers, volunteers and organisers: what common fallacy — design, tech, or anything else — do you think more of us should wake up to?
Q4: What gives you hope?
| January 2020
We asked our speakers, volunteers and organisers: what gives you hope?
Q5: tell us a fact about yourself
| January 2020
We asked our speakers, volunteers and organisers: would you tell us a little-known fact about yourself?
A certain sense of inevitability
| January 2019
The first New Adventures took place in 2011, sparking a trilogy of events that helped push digital design forward with bold ideas and honest opinion. The whole thing was a blast.
Look Around You
| January 2019
If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s that while designers have an amazing ability to change the world, it may not always be for the better.
Challenging assumptions
| January 2019
I’d like to think that our industry has moved on from the image of the lone designer – the artist sat in their studio working on a masterpiece design that they unveil with a flourish to the world, finished and without input from others: ‘Here is my pixel-perfect design. I have solved everything single-handedly.’
