The latest edition of Creative Review features a long article about design at GDS. It's a good article. Well written, facts checked, proper journalism.
We approached it slightly differently to normal design industry press stuff. Patrick and I spoke about GDS back in January, but I suggested it would be better to wait until the end of the year. For one I wanted to talk about the work we had done, rather than speculate about stuff coming up. But also it didn't feel right to just do an interview with me or construct something from a press release.
So Mark Sinclair, who wrote the article, came in to visit us every week for around 6 weeks. Sometimes he called ahead, sometimes he just showed up in reception. He spoke to various members of the team, he sat in on design crits, he hung out in the office, he was present when the whole organisation all got together with 50 days to go before release, we saw how we worked and what we're like as a team.
I think it's a much better article because of that. Mark said he never done this before and in fact he was surprised about how open GDS was in general. With blogging, with data and with code.
But you should buy Creative Review to find out more.
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