Holy Design Union is a collection of ideas, experiments, speculations and designs on the subject of unionising workforces. The power of a union lies within the real action and physical stuctures and communities they are both able to produce and protect. Holy Design Union searches for a such a community amongst designers.

The union specifically looks at the polarity in modern society today between education and professionalism, in which design as a craft, practice and theory is reduced to a paid service in a society in which markets dictate our relevance. Within this shift there remains a space for authentic and truly sustaining forms of activity.

All content found on Holy Design Union is free to use, disseminate and appropriate for non-profit purposes.

Holy Design Union website: holydesignunion.co.uk

Emilia Ford

Website: https://emiliabermejoford.co.uk/

A wearable sandwich board designed to engage people in conversation about their relationship with their neighbours. The conversation is initiated by asking a simple question: who are your neighbours? Often knowing their names is not necessarily the first form of introduction. Neighbours engage through waving, saying hello or just nodding at each other in the street without getting to know each other more personally. They are often taken for granted.

Rebecca Jones

Website: rebeccajones.uk

This animation is a warning and reminder for everyone during the pandemic; it also represents the feeling of being stuck at home. It is one of two animations that I created around the topic of home.

Thao Pham

Website: https://thaopham-design.com/

The Divine Comedy is beautiful Italian literature which originally by the Italian poet, Dante Alighieri. Most of the modern translation of the classic lose the essence of the original. Wholly in Suspense interpret the last canto of Paradiso, the third chapter of the book into a more contemporary and digestible poetry piece.

Leonardo Tanuwijaya

Website: https://www.dodouber.space/

SWITCH-OFF is a project of stopping gadget addiction. Game card is proofed can increase people socialisation in real life. As nowadays human is become easier to access everything in their life. Social, work, family, hobbies and study are all come into one as long as you got a gadget. Without their realisation, they are now become addicted and spending over time doing nothing in their gadget, and not socialising in the real world as well.

Yoga Oktavian

The design of this necklace came from looking at the way roots and veins grow/ work. It’s about feeling closer to nature when you wear it, from those design similarities. as well as making you feel more empowered.

Lucy Cubitt

Website: lucypeta.com