A reminder that our 2012 monograph, Ken Garland: Structure and Substance, is still available to download for free as a PDF. Earlier this month, Ken was presented with the London Design Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Medal earlier — and we wanted to celebrate his award. Congratulations to Ken! You can download the book from our WeTransfer page (9.6mb).Long sold-out, the book covers everything from Ken’s student exercises at the Central School of Arts and early work on Design magazine, to the many client projects completed with Ken Garland & Associates from 1962 onwards (such as Galt Toys and CND), and his self-published books of photography.Adrian Shaughnessy’s extensive biographical text situates Ken’s work within the development of graphic design in mid 20th-century Britain, while Spin’s sympathetic book...

Sara De Bondt founded her design studio in 2004. Currently based in Ghent, Belgium, she has previously worked in London, Liverpool and Antwerp. In our extensive Studio Culture Now interview with her, Sara discusses everything from starting out at studio Foundation 33 and the influence of its founders Daniel Eatock and Sam Holhaug, to working with James Goggin (Practice), and eventually establishing her own studio and publishing company, Occasional Papers. In this extract from the interview, Sara talks about her initial vision for the studio and how she got started, how she approaches the administrative side to her business and her working process — plus how she balances creativity and profitability.Studio Culture Now is available to pre-order now from the...