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Hotlist 2025: the 25 most popular design studios, as voted for by their peers

Creative Boom

Edit Based in Manchester, Edit was founded in 2017 by Karen Hughes and Khadija Kapacee. Edit recently gained attention for their rebranding work for Salford's Lowry Theatre and the National Portrait Gallery , projects that underscored their commitment to driving community engagement through design.

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Fish, chips & 65,000 felt pieces: Lucy Sparrow's back on Bourdon Street

Creative Boom

All photography by Alun Callender She's turned corner shops and chemists into full felt dreamscapes – now the Sew Your Soul artist returns to London with her latest immersive exhibition, transforming a Mayfair gallery into a nostalgic, hand-stitched chippy. one stitch at a time.

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TRUNK(HOTEL) CAT STREET: Crafting Connection in Shibuya

Design Milk

Opened in 2017 with just 15 guest rooms, the hotel redefines what it means to travel consciously, blurring the lines between luxury, sustainability, and local connection.

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Jack Sachs takes us through his new intro sequence for The Wonderfully Weird World Of Gumball

Its Nice That

He was also one of our Ones to Watch, back in 2017!) Since those fateful days, Jack has brought his joyous characters to projects for Apple, Nike Kids, Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared and P!nk, nk, and created wacky statues in Chengdu, China. (He

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With His New Milan Show, Benjamin Hubert Sets Out to Solve the World’s Problems

Azure Magazine

Two years later, in 2017, we paid a visit to the industrial design and branding agency’s Hackney headquarters. Last year, they renovated the whole thing, and its got a raw but clean gallery feeling to it. This is a gallery show, but its much less of a limited design pieces that are being sold set up.

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4 Big Reasons to Love Canadian Design in 2025

Azure Magazine

Double Entendre held its first iteration at Project 107 Gallery during the 2024 fair, and Ensemble debuted at The Plumb during this past January’s edition. Also a successful women-owned company, the popular shoe brand was founded by two sisters, Myriam and Romy Belzile-Maguire, in 2017.

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Fairness isn’t a metric: what creatives in tech should learn from the WGA strikes

UX Collective

Hook posted direct visual comparisons showing that her 2017 poster designs were lifted almost pixel for pixel: decals, stylized text, even her logo — hastily blurred — appeared in promotional Marathon assets³. Its surface reflects everything around it: gallery walls, skylights, spectators. It felt like a breaking point.