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newdesigners.com New Designers is an unmissable opportunity to discover the freshest design talent.

Spanning across every corner of design, ND is your chance to discover the design starts of the future and explore a high calibre of creative projects with spotlights on award winning designs. Every year over 3,000 of the most promising graduate talents from Britain’s leading design courses exhibit. The show features everything from illustration to animation, furniture to fashion, and gaming to gla

ss. It provokes fresh thinking and kick-starts careers, providing a pipeline of young talent into the UK’s fastest growing creative industry. Nowhere else is it possible to see such innovation and creativity across all disciplines, with brand new content year over year. For more information visit www.newdesigners.com

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05/09/2026

Clay as conversation 👥

That's how ceramic sculptor Nic Stace describes her practice: a dialogue between material and mind, shaped by identity, emotion and the way time changes us.

Each sculpture is individually hand built in her North Wales studio, with abstract, interchangeable heads that shift the reading of the piece from one moment to the next. Surfaces are built up in layers of oxide and underglaze after firing, creating texture that feels lived in, marked by process and touch.

Discover Nic's work at ND Selects, Shoreditch Design Week, 15 - 17 September.

Get your free pass via the link - https://bit.ly/4wo7XkM 🔗

02/09/2026

Not sure where to start with London Design Festival this year? We’ve got you 🤝

From ND Selects at Shoreditch Design Week to Material Matters and Craft x Tech at the V&A, we've rounded up our top picks across the month.

Explore the full guide via the link - https://bit.ly/46lMyhL 🔗

Image credits:

1. Nadimé’s Garden by Linda Dounia Rebeiz
2. Courtesy of Chloe Studio
3. Soul, by Mykola Kabluka, produced by Expolight. Visualisation: Expolight
4. Kataginu , Arimatsu Narumi Shibori x Bethan Laura Wood, Photo Credit: Masayuki Hayashi
5. Courtesy of Material Matters
6. Printing plate, Circa 1968 - 1970 | Peter Chang, Photography: Alex Robson for Lyon & Turnbull
7. Courtesy of Design-Nation
8. Courtesy of Lansei China Studio
9. Courtesy of House of Icon
10. Courtesy of Design Burger

28/08/2026

Light, reimagined as structure💡

Studio Soldout, founded by Istanbul designer Ibrahim Fatih Satılmış, works across metal, glass and stone to create calm, tactile objects with considered spatial presence.

At ND Selects, catch the UK debut of two new pieces. Crackdown, an award winning lighting family where a crackle-glass globe moves along satin steel, shifting light and reflection as it travels. And Haititi, a three-height floor lamp family in layered metal and ribbed borosilicate glass, its rust patina and smoked glass tempering a warm glow.

Discover their work at ND Selects, running as part of Shoreditch Design Week this September.

Register for free tickets via the link - https://bit.ly/4wo7XkM 🔗

Pictured:

1. Haititi lamp
2 & 3. Crackdown Lamp

26/08/2026

Riolab Ceramics is a London-based studio founded by Chilean industrial designer Paulina Moreno Rios, blending digital technology with traditional craft to create sculptural, functional ceramic pieces in coloured porcelain.

Their Terrazzo Jewellery Boxes bring that ethos to life. Inspired by smooth pebbles and handcrafted in London, each box has a hand made terrazzo pattern that makes it one of a kind. Glazed inside, unglazed outside, letting the porcelain's texture speak for itself ⚪

Catch them at ND Selects, part of Shoreditch Design Week at Kachette, Shoreditch, 15 - 17 September.

Register for free tickets via the link - https://bit.ly/4wo7XkM 🔗

24/08/2026

Sustainable, refined and built to last.

We sat down with Dan Davies, winner of the 2025 Habitat Future Design Award, ahead of his ND Selects debut at Shoreditch Design Week this September. What began as his final year project, Hem, has since grown into a full collection, shaped by circular thinking and material led design.

Come and see it in person from 15 - 17 September!

Register for your free tickets today via the link - https://bit.ly/4wo7XkM 🔗

18/08/2026

Phil Berczuk Design sits at the intersection of the natural and the constructed, turning organic forms and raw materials into sculptural furniture shaped by the geometry of the built world.

Showing the Conchiolin Series: named after black saddle oyster shells, whose surfaces darken and shift when buried in iron and sulphur rich sediment, transformed by the very conditions that shaped them. The series translates that process of growth and transformation into cold formed, micro laminated fumed oak, with curved components resting in counterbalance and layered edges echoing the shell's own structure 🐚

Discover his work at ND Selects, running as part of Shoreditch Design Week at Kachette, Shoreditch, from 15 - 17 September.

Register for free tickets via the link - https://bit.ly/4wo7XkM 🔗

13/08/2026

Light doesn't usually feel like a material you can shape, until you see Rosie May Ceramics work with it.

Drawing on biophilic design, Rosie translates the rhythms of the natural world into slipcast porcelain, refining wall thickness and surface until each piece diffuses a soft, ambient glow. Part sculptural object, part functional light 💡

Catch her work as part of ND Selects at Shoreditch Design Week, our new showcase of exceptional emerging talent at Kachette, Shoreditch, from 15 - 17 September.

Register for free tickets now via the link - https://bit.ly/4wo7XkM 🔗

Pictured:

1. Pure Apricity, 27 x 27 x 109 cm
2. Pebble, 15 x 15.5 x 19 cm
3 & 4. Ember, 20 x 20 x 65 cm

27/07/2026

If your design work has delivered real, measurable impact, now's the time to enter the DBA Design Effectiveness Awards. The deadline is 1 December.

Winners use their case studies to open doors, strengthen their client relationships, prove the value of what investment in design can deliver.

A DBA Design Effectiveness Award turns impact into a compelling business story – one you can use long after judging ends.

See who’s on the Judging Panel and download an Entry Pack: https://bit.ly/4wdZbWS 🔗

“I look forward to fascinating conversations as we explore the entrant's stories of the impact and success forged from every type of design activity.” Chair of the Judging Panel, Clive Grinyer

The awards are open to UK and international entries, DBA members and non-members.

DBA members get one free entry.

Contact the Design Business Association if you have any questions.

22/07/2026

Nature's blueprint reimagined in paper 🪷

We caught up with Vanessa Fletcher, Head of Next Gen Development at G . F Smith, to talk all things paper, creativity and this year's GF Smith Award.

Huge congratulations to their winner Megan West from Wi******er School of Art, whose project drew inspiration from Victoria Boliviana at Kew Gardens, the largest waterlily in the world. The judges praised her outstanding use of paper and print, with colour, texture, binding and printing all playing a starring role 📖

GF Smith papers, from Colorplan to Extracted, are made to be transformed. Bold, boundary pushing and full of creative potential, whether you're working in business cards, packaging, fashion, or graphic design, paper is a tool that can completely reshape your ideas.

Students, don't forget to use your student beans 20% discount online or by phone to get your hands on GF Smith papers.

Check out their papers via the link - https://bit.ly/45fIrTw 🔗

15/07/2026

Final Call to Apply: ND Selects at Shoreditch Design Week ⏱️

Following the exceptional talent and creativity showcased at New Designers this July, we want to give even more emerging designers the opportunity to be part of this exciting new showcase. So, we're extending the application deadline for ND Selects at Shoreditch Design Week to 31 July 2026!

ND Selects at Shoreditch Design Week is a curated showcase celebrating the next generation of design talent, offering an exciting opportunity to exhibit as part of London Design Festival 2026.

Open to emerging designers and early-stage design businesses within their first 1 - 5 years, ND Selects welcomes applications from recent graduates, independent designers and emerging brands with products ready to showcase.

This is your moment to present your work, connect with buyers, press and industry professionals, and join a platform championing emerging design talent.

📅 15 - 17 September 2026
📍 Kachette, 347 Old Street, Shoreditch, London, EC1V 9LP
📝 Applications close: 31 July 2026
✨ No application fee

Find out more and apply via the link - https://bit.ly/41AApCV 🔗

Pictured:

1. Phil Berczuk Design
2. Riolab Ceramics
3. Dan Davies
4. Nic Stace Ceramics
5. e.L.s designs

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