Works. Magazine leaves stunning review for WDS London
"With the incredible turnout, WDS offers the chance to be on top of of the industry. Everyone is talking, learning and connecting."
Read the whole review written by Works. magazine here.
Silhouette Awards Spotlight 2023 Rising Talents of the Lighting Industry
The international Silhouette Awards has announced the winners of its 2023 programme in a virtual celebration which took place on 1st March. The whole international lighting community was invited to join this momentous occasion, with many taking part in celebrating the winning Mentees and their Mentors. The recording of the celebration can be viewed here.
For the second year running, the far-reaching popularity of the awards was demonstrated by the vast number of entries received from candidates located in 26 countries across the globe.
The renowned judging panel have independently reviewed the entries and all aligned with a final selection showcasing the very best of the industry's rising talent.
The 2023 winners and mentor partnerships are as follows:
- Winning Mentee: Ines Bartl - Mentor: Amardeep M. Dugar
- Winning Mentee: Jessica Keates – Mentor: Arianna Ghezzi
- Winning Mentee: Anastasia Angeli – Mentor: Barbara Horton
- Winning Mentee: Jessica Smith – Mentor: Beata Denton
- Winning Mentee: Danai Lytra – Mentor: Claudia Paz
- Winning Mentee: Consuelo Emiliana Miranda Barroso – Mentor: Diana Galic
- Winning Mentee Annabelle Hill – Mentor: Fay Greenhalgh
- Winning Mentee: Dane Amilawangi – Mentor: Florence Lam
- Winning Mentee: Swillow Lee – Mentor: Gary Thornton
- Winning Mentee: Walesca Zanonato – Mentor: Kristina Allison
- Winning Mentee: Chérine Talge – Mentor: Maida Hot
- Winning Mentee: Cristina Antonieta Martinez Bergonje – Mentor: Martin Klaasen
- Winning Mentee: Gemma Alcalá Jurado – Mentor: Michael Callanchini
- Winning Mentee: Swapnali Bhadale – Mentor: Nikita Agrawal
- Winning Mentee: Alperen Ekici – Mentor: Olga Tuzova
- Winning Mentee: Valeria Coghi Martinez – Mentor: Paul Traynor
- Winning Mentee: Massimiliano Moro – Mentor: Siddharth Mathur
- Winning Mentee: Olga Rybkina – Mentor: Volker von Kardorff
- Winning Mentee Wenyi Kong – Mentor: Waleed Fakousa
- Winning Mentee: Farahbee Rahman – Mentor: Yah Li Toh
These 20 successful candidates will now be individually supported by one of the programmes 20 mentors for the next six months and beyond as the young professional's progress in their careers. With the support of the Silhouette Awards' impressive array of sponsors and supporters, the winners have been rewarded with the opportunity to enhance their skillset, pursue their career ambitions and add real value to the creativity of the industry, raising the bar for talent around the world.
Eve Gaut, Silhouette Awards Co-Founder, Parrot PR & Marketing commented, "We are thrilled that, following the overwhelming success of the launch of the Silhouette Awards, we are returning for a second year of nurturing young talent. A huge congratulations to the winners on this much-deserved achievement. We are immensely grateful for the Supporters, Sponsors and Mentors who have supported the awards. We also want to say a huge thank you to the international lighting community for coming together to celebrate the winners with us at the virtual event. The winning mentees will receive much-deserved recognition and publicity for their achievements, and we are honoured to have created this ongoing supportive platform."
Katia Kolovea, Silhouette Awards Co-Founder, Archifos, added, "We are so excited to see what's in store for our Mentees during this second year of the awards programme. Reflecting on the great success of the partnerships between our Mentors and Mentees from last year, the expectations are high! Congratulations to our 2023 winners, this is an incredibly exciting day. We want to say a huge thank you to our Supporters, Sponsors, and Mentors, who have helped us to achieve for a second time this wonderful ambition to showcase the talent of the future. The Silhouette Awards are much more than an award, and we are proud to have created a programme which allows Mentors to nurture young talents, Sponsors to connect and support further those individuals, and for everyone involved to build deep and long-term business relationships and friendships. This is just the beginning!"
The Silhouette Awards has received widespread support from its supporters A1 Lighting, APDI, arc magazine, designing lighting, Designers Mind, International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD), inside.lighting, Institution of Lighting Professionals (ILP), Lighecture Magazine, Lighting Design Magazine, LIT Lighting Design Awards, Lytei, Skills Army, Society of Light and Lighting (SLL), STIRworld, Virtual Lighting Design Community (VLDC), Workspace Design Show, Wavelength, and Women in Lighting.
The Silhouette Awards was established to find the industry's rising stars who have the vision and ambition to steer and lead the lighting industry in years to come. Much more than an award, the Silhouette Awards provide mentorship support to designers, celebrate the future talent of the lighting industry, and create a supportive platform for inspiration and growth.
To find out more about the Silhouette Awards and how you can get involved as an entrant, mentor or sponsor for the 2023-2024 awards programme, contact [email protected].
The next edition of the Silhouette Awards will open for entries in September 2023.
The Silhouette Awards is a collaboration between Archifos and Parrot PR and Marketing.
BDC Magazine feature WDS ahead of next week's show
"The show brings together striking features, a thought-provoking programme of talks featuring a whole host of speakers, from developers to architects and their blue-chip clients, along with accomplished exhibitors showcasing the latest workplace interiors innovations. All of this incredible content aligns perfectly with the show’s theme, Destination Workplace: Places Where People Want To Be."
With WDS 2023 just a few days away, Building Design & Construction Magazine have featured an article on their website detailing what to expect. Click here to read it in full.
Workplace Insight: What to Expect at WDS 2023
"The popular first-night Workspace Design Show party, sponsored by FUTURE Designs, also returns on the 27 February. A stunning bar designed by M Moser Associates provides a focal point on the show floor. The REVIVAL bar will be the place to inspire, network, restore and recharge show visitors throughout the day. The concept for this bar is inspired by the practice’s mission to reduce waste and repurpose discarded materials.
The goal is to give these items a new lease of life, sparking curiosity and conversation. The space aims to take you from a state of flux to stasis."
Our friends at Workplace Insight shared another article detailing what's to come at Workspace Design Show 2023. Click here to read in full.
WDS 2023 preview by Home Designer & Architect
"On arrival, attendees will be met by the spectacular Destination Workplace Rebirth entrance, designed by the worldwide integrated architecture, design, planning, and consulting firm Gensler, along with design partners, AW Spaces, Acrylisize and Kvadrat.
Becky Spenceley, Design Director at Gensler, who is leading the project, showcases her passion for storytelling here explaining, “We are inspired by how we can care for our planet, and how we as designers can affect that through pioneering and sustainable design. It’s about fresh perspectives to enable new ways of working and create unique and tailored destinations.”
Home Designer & Architect recently shared a full preview of what to expect at Workspace Design Show 2023 on their website. Click here to read the full article.
Refurb & Developer Update explore what's to come at this year's WDS
"The four talks programmes that attendees can choose from are the Workspace Design Talks, bringing you insights on workplace strategy and design; FIS Conference, offering the latest from the finishes and interiors sector; The Occupiers Forum: The View from HQ, providing the perspectives from the all important Occupiers; and Sustainability Works, addressing the latest challenges in sustainability and ESG in our workplaces.
Over 100 speakers will be debating these issues from companies such as tp bennett, American Express, Heatherwick Studio, Grimshaw, PLP Architecture, Jacobs, Unilever, PwC, Nokia, Legal & General, DWP and CBRE."
The team at Refurb & Developer Update recently shared our full 2023 press release, detailing what's to come at this year's WDS event. Click here to read in full.
Top Workplace Trends Showcasing at Workspace Design Show 2023
"Next week the Workspace Design Show returns for the highly anticipated showcase of upcoming workplace trends for 2023.
Over 3,000 designers, architects and specifiers will attend the show, held at London’s Business Design Centre to find the next cutting-edge workspace solutions and innovations. Attendees can discover a breadth of new products including acoustics, furniture, flooring and fabrics exhibited by manufacturers from across the globe." to explore the experience of tomorrow’s workspaces."
Material Source's Hannah Marke-Crooke recently shared an in-depth article looking at what to expect from Workspace Design Show 2023. Click here to read the article in full.
What to expect at next week’s Workspace Design Show 2023!
With only a few days until The Workspace Design Show returns to London’s Business Design Centre, on 27-28 February 2023, here is a taste of what to expect. The show brings together striking features, a thought-provoking programme of talks featuring a whole host of speakers, from developers to architects and their blue-chip clients, along with accomplished exhibitors showcasing the latest workplace interiors innovations. All of this incredible content aligns perfectly with the show’s theme, Destination Workplace: Places Where People Want To Be.
The four talks programmes that attendees can choose from are the Workspace Design Talks, bringing you insights on workplace strategy and design; FIS Conference, offering the latest from the finishes and interiors sector; The Occupiers Forum: The View from HQ, providing the perspectives from the all important Occupiers; and Sustainability Works, addressing the latest challenges in sustainability and ESG in our workplaces. Over 100 speakers will be debating these issues from companies such as tp bennett, American Express, Heatherwick Studio, Grimshaw, PLP Architecture, Jacobs, Unilever, PwC, Nokia, Legal & General, DWP and CBRE.
Visitors can listen to the leading architects, designers and occupiers talking about the latest trends, challenges and innovations within this year's 'Design Talks Lounge’. This has been curated by international furniture specialists, The Furniture Practice, in collaboration with multidisciplinary studio, Acrylicize. The Lounge will host the Workspace Design Talks across the two-day event, where leading voices at, Perkins+Will, Foster & Partners, WeWork and more will debate the current themes shaping today's work environments. The space will incorporate furniture by several iconic brands including Andreu World, Arper, Fredericia, Moroso and Vitra; while the stage will feature an immersive installation, designed by Acrylicize, celebrating material innovation in furniture and interior design with materials by Foresso, Kvadrat, Kvadrat Really and Autex. Flooring for the space will be provided by Tarkett.
‘Change by Design’ is a lounge space concept for the Workspace Design Show, carefully curated by BDP. It is a discussion piece surrounding the current climate crisis, and questions the impact of workplace design on the natural environment. It represents a problem-solving approach that showcases the use of recycled, reused and biomaterials in design projects helping to shape a low-carbon future.
On arrival, attendees will be met by the spectacular Destination Workplace Rebirth entrance, designed by the worldwide integrated architecture, design, planning, and consulting firm Gensler, along with design partners, AW Spaces, Acrylisize and Kvadrat.
Becky Spenceley, Design Director at Gensler, who is leading the project, showcases her passion for storytelling here explaining, “We are inspired by how we can care for our planet, and how we as designers can affect that through pioneering and sustainable design. It’s about fresh perspectives to enable new ways of working and create unique and tailored destinations.”
The popular first-night Workspace Design Show party, sponsored by FUTURE Designs, also returns on the 27 February. A stunning bar designed by M Moser Associates provides a focal point on the show floor. The REVIVAL bar will be the place to inspire, network, restore and recharge show visitors throughout the day. The concept for this bar is inspired by the practice’s mission to reduce waste and repurpose discarded materials. The goal is to give these items a new lease of life, sparking curiosity and conversation. The space aims to take you from a state of flux to stasis.
Other features include The Mood Board Contest, and interactive opportunity for attendees to express their creative talents with Kvadrat products. Also, don’t miss the Bio Materials exhibition, designed by bio manufacturing company BIOHM. This will combine ideologies of the circular economy and human-centred design with future-tech, representing an exciting opportunity for visitors to discover advanced materials that will be crucial to the future of design. Altogether, the Workspace Design Show brings together the UK’s workplace interior community to explore the experience of tomorrow’s workspaces.
Preview in Workplace Insight
"A few of you may already know this story. It was some 15 months ago and three old friends met up for the first time in quite a while (well, we had been through lockdowns etc). Having caught up with each other’s news, the subject turned to industry journals, what the three friends felt the market was missing and the possibility of collaborating in the not too distant future.
That conversation occurred at the inaugural Workspace Design Show – which the three amigos were all hugely impressed by. The result of that conversation (and a few more chats and meets, of course) is Works. So, here we are, all those months later, pulling together a preview of the 2023 edition of WDS, which – we’re delighted to say – we’re very much a part of. And we don’t just partner with any one, you know."
Our long-standing partners at Workplace Insight recently shared an in-depth preview of what's to come at Workspace Design Show 2023. You can read the original article in full by clicking here.
"Technogym powers Warner Bros. Studios' state-of-the-art fitness space Zone 10"
"LIFTD Design’s and Technogym’s expertise was pivotal to create Zone 10, a top-notch fitness & wellness centre for Warner Bros. Studios employees in Leavesden in Hertfordshire.
LIFTD Design founder James Potter is no stranger to creating high-end gym spaces for famous names. But when he was approached by Warner Bros. Studios to create an on-site gym for employees and visiting crews, James knew the project was on another level. James explains how he partnered with Technogym to bring the vision to life."
Read the full article about this project by Workspace Design Show 2023 exhibitors, Technogym: Click here.