Tina Malcolm

I've been thinking about design lately, and I realised something rather obvious. I've probably been doing it for most of my life. It actually started back in my secondary school days, which feels like a lifetime ago now. This was before the internet, before social media, before Canva and before you could sit on your phone and watch a ten-minute tutorial showing you how to do practically anything. Back then, I was taking photographs and drawing landscapes and forests. I was always looking at...

There are moments in life when the world seems to stop. Watching the news over the past few weeks has been one of those moments for me. Across France, Spain, Canada, the UK and other parts of the world, wildfires have torn through forests, farmland and communities. Families have been forced to leave their homes with only minutes to spare. Firefighters have worked around the clock, farmers have put themselves between the flames and their land, and countless volunteers and charities have...

Or maybe the world has just become strange enough that we all sound slightly unhinged now. Last night I was halfway up the stairs to put my son to bed, while passionately ranting to my husband about billionaires, world economics, American and UK politics and why ordinary people keep voting for systems that clearly do not care about them. Completely standard behaviour in our household lol. At one point I stopped mid-sentencelooked at my husband and said: “I think I’m becoming… a normal person...