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We blog from Sizzle’s studio – mainly about art, science, remote working, business, culture, parenting, tech and gaming. Sometimes superheroes too. Stick around for tips, tricks, hacks and perspectives.

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The Positive Power and Healing Abilities of Grand Designs

If you’ve ever been into A&E with a minor injury, you’ll have no doubt experienced the unsurmountable emotional unrest of having to linger around with literally nothing to do besides avoiding eye contact with everyone else there, twiddling your thumbs, or occasionally plucking up the courage to re-ask the person behind desk that dreaded question: […]

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Designs we love

What does great design mean to you? For us, great design means everything.  Great design can make us smile. It can motivate and inspire us to do better in the world. It can encourage us to step outside of our comfort zones and into a whole new realm of possibilities.  In fact, really great design […]

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The top 5 design trends of 2021

2021 is already looking to be a pretty exciting year, what with the incredible efforts of the scientific community in rolling out the COVID vaccines. Beyond this, at Design Monster what we’re most excited about is what’s next on the design horizon. To this effect, we’ve been busy having a look to see what’s creating […]

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Our New Year’s (design) resolutions

It’s 2021, and Design Monster is off to a good start – last year, we launched our website, secured our copyright, and even got ourselves an adorable mascot (seriously, have you seen Sizzle the dragon?). Now, like the two-headed Roman god, Janus, we’re reflecting on where we’ve come from – while setting our sights on […]

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Beauty and the technological beasts

What are they feeding grads these days!? Some exceptional entries into this year’s Global Grad Show – an event that brings together 100 new graduate projects; a few that are taking on world problems in health and the environment. 270 universities submitted a total of 1,600 projects! But you don’t have time for that, so […]

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The art of lockdown

The galleries are shut but there is still art available to enjoy. We were bursting for a Bank Holiday culture fix, so we headed on down to one of London’s finest – The Courtauld Gallery for a virtual snoop around. Wow! From Vincent Van Gogh to Edouard Manet, you can zoom right in to see […]