DESIGN COUNCIL: leading women discussing equality, diversity and inclusion

Design Council is an independent charity and the government’s advisor on design. Its mission is to make life better by design

THE TASK

To mark 100 years of Women’s Suffrage, Design Council created a series that would see 12 leading women in design being interviewed on their experience in the industry. They asked Fable Bureau to provide support in both delivering the series as well as packaging up the content in an engaging way.

OUR SOLUTION

We created a series that would explore the leading woman’s opinions on equality, diversity and inclusion through the lens of a place or an object that was meaningful to them. We used both written and film formats, interviewing and copywriting as well as filming and editing the content.

CLIENT:
Design Council

SERVICES:
Film, Campaigns, Editorial, Insight & Strategy.

Interviews

Jane Priestman OBE – the design director who transformed the experience of air and rail travel

Jane Priestman OBE is a legendary figure in the design world. For over 40 years she has specialised in strategic design, design management and the co-ordination of major national and international projects, with transport as her niche.

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Elsie Owusu – Founding Chair of the Society of Black Architects

Elsie is a specialist conservation architect, interior and urban designer, and founder of her own architects practice.

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Cany Ash: urban storyteller and architectural entrepreneur

Whilst walking through her home and studio, Cany explains that her childhood house was filled with thoughtful architecture – and it’s difficult not to notice the impact that this has had on her and her approach to architecture as a user-focussed activity.

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Sarah Jones-Morris: A landscape architect on a mission to cure our cities through design

After years of experience in landscape architecture and urban design, ranging from rural to urban context, feasibility studies to implementation of master plans focusing in particular on public health, Sarah Jones-Morris set up her own Bristol-based consultancy last year.

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Jane Ni Dhulchaointigh: The female designer fixing our lives

Jane Ni Dhulchaointigh is the Irish mastermind behind Sugru – ‘the most exciting product since Sellotape’. Over a cup of tea in her company’s HQ in Hackney, east London, she shares her thoughts on reimagining education systems, diversity in design, dishwashers and funky clothes.

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Sadie Morgan – The youngest president of the Architectural Association

Sadie Morgan is a founding director at award winning architecture practice dRMM.

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Morag Myerscough – The bright and bold Royal Designer for Industry

Morag’s work straddles a space that includes designers, artists and architects. Her work is characterised by colourful boldness with a strong graphic design signature, often using big type or lettering and geometric elements.

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Alison Brooks: The only UK architect to have won all three of the UK's most prestigious awards for architecture

Alison Brooks is a woman on a mission. Flying to and from Boston to lecture at Harvard, creating an experiential installation for this year’s Venice architecture Biennale, being named as one of London’s most influential people in 2018 by the Evening Standard – there is a non-stop energy in the air.

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Michal Cohen & Cindy Walters – The female duo running a leading UK architecture practice

When they met on the first day of their first year of architecture school in Durban, South Africa, Cindy Walters thought Michal Cohen was someone’s little sister who had come along for the day. They went on to complete all six years together, travelling to the UK to do their year abroad together, and going on to set up their practice in London in 1994.

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