Picks of the month: the best design events in May
Our choice of things to do in the coming month include an insight into Camille Walala’s creative process and an exhibition about the history of sneakers. May 4, 2021 4:59 pm
Online talks: Right Aligned, from Coventry Design Festival
While Coventry Design Festival is not returning until May 2022, the team has devised a series of online talks in an attempt to inspire creative minds during lockdown. Right Aligned has so far had sit-downs with studios including Koto and Two times Elliott, while the upcoming programme promises more candid insights into the world of design. Throughout May, it will be in conversation with Studio Bellow founder Gareth Rutter as well as Orca studio which specialises in branding challenger start-ups. Later in the month, there will be talks with Middle Boop’s Gordon Reid and design studio Sea.
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For International Womxn’s Day, This Way Up launches a film manifesto to highlight the widening gender pay gap
The film features 38 prominent figures from the design and creative industry, raising awareness of the impact of gender inequality in the workplace – that which has increased as a result of the pandemic.
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Today marks International Womxn’s Day. A time to celebrate and give prominence to equal rights, now has never been a better time to raise awareness of the increasing gender pay gap that’s been widening as an offshoot of the pandemic. In response, Rebecca Rowntree from