News and trends

Hands-on in a high-tech world As we hurtle into a vast range of future worlds, each with their own number (5G, Web 3.0, Industry 4.0 etc) the past seems to retreat further behind at an increasing pace. Cloud based, remote …

We regularly test a wide range of drywipe marker pens to make sure we recommend the right pen for our whiteboard surfaces. What makes a drywipe marker dry erasable? The ink in drywipe or dry erase markers is typically made …

With the right care and attention your ThinkingWall® or custom whiteboard will provide many years of trouble free service. The most common issues we hear about are ghosting (when a light shadow of the writing is left behind after wiping …

Clerkenwell Design Week is in its 10th year and offers a great opportunity for us to view new products, look out for emerging trends and generally get inspired by the creative atmosphere. The festival brochure describes Clerkenwell as home to …

What is “agile”? The word “agile” has come a long way in the past two decades. For many of us, it crept into our consciousness as the title of a collection of practices packaged as a response to the perceived …

So, I’ve been back to the Royal College of Physicians (RCP)! I say back, because this was the venue for the sister event run by our friends at Workplace Trends last October on design trends in the corporate workplace (my …

We recently wrote about our new ThinkingWall® mobile whiteboard wall with storage. We’re delighted that these have proven to be so popular that we are now officially adding them to the ThinkingWall® range. The new product is called the ThinkingWall® …

The Outdoor Classroom Movement organise global Outdoor Classroom Days twice a year, in spring and autumn. An outdoors classroom doesn’t have to just mean counting minibeasts (although it’s always fun!). Below we’ve collected some of our favourite outdoor lesson ideas …

Scrum versus Kanban (or is it Agile versus Lean versus Design Thinking?). Or is it why DevOps is impossible if you’re not Agile? Or….?  Big questions all of them, no doubt – but this one, Part 1, is just about …