Friends &amp; Co is a strategic PR and marketing agency headquartered in London with an office in Toronto that promotes global brands with design at their core. We fuse creative concepts, collaborations and product development with many years of media relations experience to ensure our clients’ stories are told and heard.

Friends & Co

Friends &amp; Co is a strategic PR and marketing agency headquartered in London with an office in Toronto that promotes global brands with design at...

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Friends &amp; Co is a strategic PR and marketing agency headquartered in London with an office in Toronto that promotes global brands with design at their core. We fuse creative concepts, collaborations and product development with many years of media relations experience to ensure our clients’ stories are told and heard. 

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Location: Business Design Centre, London, N1 0QH 

New Designers announces keynote speakers and graduate highlights for its 40th edition (Week 1: 2 – 5 July 2025 | Week 2: 9 – 12 July 2025)

Top image: Dame Zandra Rhodes (Photo: Simon Emmett)

A Gentle Push Toward Better Sleep 

WEWANTMORE BUILDS THE WORLD OF GENTLEE

Antwerp/London May 2025 — Wellness start-up Gentlee® and creative studio WeWantMore have unveiled a new brand identity that brings softness, trust and emotional connection to the world of children’s sleep. Not just a name and a logo—but an entire bedtime universe built to scale with the brand as it grows.

A Boutique Hotel in the Sky: 

WeWantMore Rebrands Brussels Airlines

Antwerp / London, March 2025 — Brussels Airlines and design studio WeWantMore have unveiled a renewed brand identity that finally brings the warm, personal character of Belgium’s national airline to life across every stage of the travel experience. Not a logo change, not a classic rebrand—yet a profound transformation of the brand’s expression.

With artist Alex Chinneck’s surreal building sculpture

Clerkenwell Design Week 2025 opens 

Top image: A Week At The Knees by Alex Chinneck in Charterhouse Square (Photo: Charles Emerson)

Championing the strength, versatility and beauty of British stone bricks

Arch Revival Pavilion unveiled at Clerkenwell Design Week 

An ambitious pavilion, Brick from a Stone: Arch Revival, has been unveiled on Clerkenwell Green by Albion Stone and Hutton Stone for this year’s Clerkenwell Design Week (20 to 22 May). The two British stone suppliers commissioned architecture practice Hawkins\Brown and engineering consultancy Webb Yates to design an installation that would demonstrate the strength, versatility and beauty of stone bricks.

Date: Tuesday 20 May 2025 | Start Time: 07:45

Clerkenwell Design Week 2025 Photocall Notice

New Designers Celebrates 40 Years of Nurturing UK Creative Talent (Week 1: 2 – 5 July 2025 | Week 2: 9 – 12 July 2025)

Above image (from left): New Designers’ alumni – Ikuko Iwamoto, Benjamin Hubert, Jo Barnard, Hannah Martin, Elliot Brook, Margo Selby, Darren Appiagyei and Peter Ting (Credit: Mark Cocksedge)

ONE OF THE UK'S BEST LOVED DESIGNERS LAUNCHES HIS EPONYMOUS DESIGN STUDIO

STUDIO SHAYNE BRADY

LONDON – Designer Shayne Brady is proud to announce the launch of his eponymous design studio, Studio Shayne Brady. Shayne has long been regarded as one of London’s foremost hospitality designers and under his previous practice BradyWilliams, which he co-founded in 2013 with Emily Williams, he shaped some of the city’s most sought-after venues including The Park, Fischer’s, The Maine and The Aubrey at the Mandarin Oriental.

It’s not long now before the design and architecture community descend on London’s EC1 neighbourhood for Clerkenwell Design Week (20 – 22 May 2025). The festival has unveiled additional thought-provoking installations, along with a wide-ranging programme of talks and workshops. Here are the final highlights to look out for as the countdown to the 14th edition of CDW begins.

Clerkenwell Design Week adds stone vending machines, a biscuit bar, magnetic art and more talks to 2025 lineup

It’s not long now before the design and architecture community descend on London’s EC1 neighbourhood for Clerkenwell Design Week (20 – 22 May...

Renowned Patrons of Contemporary Craft, Marc and Diane Grainer, to Auction Iconic British Ceramics & Craft Collection at Maak, London Craft Week 2025

A LIFE IN CRAFT: THE GRAINER COLLECTION

London, UK - May 2025: Maak, the leading auction house specialising in Contemporary Ceramics and Craft, is delighted to announce the sale of the extraordinary collection of British studio ceramics and craft from the private collectors, Marc and Diane Grainer.