July was bonkers. After years of dearly wanting to win both, I won my professional body BIID's Continuing Professional Development award swiftly followed by PETA's Compassionate Designer 23 award. I admire the dedication and endless ways the People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) work...

Me with my BIID CPD award '23 on the terrace at the RIBA HQ in London yesterday ✨🎉   I'm a big advocate for education. My retired parents worked in education. This profession is a pretty scary one without one. Interior design is unregulated, anyone can be an interior designer. It's a...

For the last year I've been studying the Living Building Challenge curriculum - which is a whole host of courses on Regenerative Design... Living Building Challenge - Full, Imperative and Petal certification - for new, existing buildings, interior and landscapes Living...

When I first heard about B Corp I was instantly interested after working for an ethical business for so long. Much of it echoed with what The Body Shop International did - monitored by themselves. I could see from inside the business that it wasn't always the most convenient set of...

Interior Design Declares - one year in! The end of March '22 marked the end of our first year as a community working together to improve our industry's shocking impact on the climate breakdown and biodiversity loss. "The UK construction industry contributes 25 million tonnes of waste to landfill...

Five takeaways from Interior Design Declares X Decorex panel discussion... We are all at different stages and we can learn together, share information and have a bigger impact together. If you are a designer or supplier to the interior design industry, please sign our pledge at...

It’s my company's birthday, Materialise Interiors is 17!   I'm hugely grafeful to have been in business for so long and to all who have supported my business.  THANK YOU! I review my company giving each year on my company birthday and at the financial year end (Earth Day 22nd...

I've just been to the super inspiring Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.  I last went in 2014 and it's just as brilliant.  The mission of this yearly gathering of minds is to shape a better future, with urgency. There is so much clever innovation was on...

It would have been #AnitaRoddick s 80th birthday today.I’ve been re-reading her company biography ‘Business As Unusual’. Wow, what a remarkable path she trod for other businesses to follow. As part of Natura The Body Shop are part of the world’s largest B Corp UK....

Five takeaways from The Interior Design Business podcast  'Sustainability: Your Questions Answered'    It was great to be invited on to The Interior Design Business podcast again. A little different to last time which was mid Lockdown and via Zoom.... this was a live...

Old designer at New Designers! Staggeringly good AGAIN.I went with Sadie MillerMaggs - one of my two brilliant mentees - who is in her closing weeks of her Masters in Interior Design ... who will be quickly snapped up I'm sure - she's excellent at designing, 3D models, with the same passion for...

What an enlightening time at FOOTPRINT+ the inaurgural Built Environment event held in Brighton, UK. Here's my FIVE TAKEAWAYS:1.  Take a look at what's happening in Leeds During the Lockdowns the city council collaborated with business and existing planning applications to 'green up' the city...

It's been VEGANUARY - have you given it a try?  It's what finally nudged me to be fully vegan 4 years ago - but it's not an 'all or nothing' thing!   Maybe it's encouraged you to swap out the occasional meal or ingredient for a vegan alternative?  My...

It’s my company's birthday.  My little business is 16!   The perfect time to have a fresh look at my company giving and I’ve decided to make some changes and it's also a time to reflect and show gratitude. My job at The Body Shop HQ had come to an amicable end and thanks...

The Sustainable Specification Guide which I co-wrote with my fellow committee members from the British Institute of Interior Design was launched at the brilliant Planted design show at Kings Cross, London.I was so fortunate to have an excellent grounding in sustainable design during my time at The...

Each year a date is calculated per country and combined to give us a combined Earth Overshoot Day.  This year is was 29th July.  It means it's the point where our use resources and services exceeds what the Earth can provide - so the tipping point where we start to use the resources in...

I have a huge interest in MATERIALS.    So much in fact it influenced how I named my company. I studied Furniture & Product Design in the late 80s / early 90s - that was A LOT about materials (and processes). One of my degree projects was a piece of furniture made from a board...

In a nutshell - it's because there's milk in some potato crisps!  Animal products are in so much of what we buy and consume - even if we think we are managing to avoid them.  Food and drinks mostly have labels, as do products.  But would you check the label for a...