Global Shutdowns and Shifting Baselines — This past May has been balmy and hot in London — an unusual, but welcome break from our typical slow-to-start summers. Like so many other people throughout the world, I was living a life under lockdown. I had spent so much time indoors that it was beginning to wear away…

Co-authored by Heather Martin, Group Design Director at Fjord London. Each year, innovations by people around the world battle it out for a coveted Cannes Lions award and, as those projects undergo the scrutiny of the jury, a diverse program of talks, workshops and demonstrations are going on elsewhere. …

Somewhere in South London on a bright and almost absolutely clear spring day the evening begins to slowly encroach. As the sun dips beneath the horizon and the once intense blue sky fades darker and darker towards black, something is missing; something is not quite right. What’s not there is…