Why So Blue?
February 15, 2022 4:06 pm Leave your thoughtsThe Design Insider Wellbeing campaign launched in January, encouraging members to share how they address wellbeing in their own business... Read More >
Author Archives for Rita Bancroft
About Rita Bancroft
A regular features writer on Design Insider, Rita has a passion for interiors. Having worked at a senior level for international brands for over 30 years, today she runs Bancmarketing, her own independent marketing consultancy business she set up in 2011.
Designers Muse – Rose Campbell
November 3, 2021 11:21 am Leave your thoughtsAt Design Insider we get enormous pleasure from finding out about the designers behind the new products which we are... Read More >
Branded Residences – Luxury Living
June 11, 2021 8:30 am Leave your thoughtsThe last ten years has seen the number of branded residences increase by 170%, adding more than 52,000 units across... Read More >
Trends Report – Care Homes
April 28, 2021 9:53 am Leave your thoughtsData published by the ONS predicates that the over 65’s population will rise to 18.2m by 2050, which is 25%... Read More >
UK Made
January 27, 2021 8:18 am Leave your thoughtsFew of us appreciate how important manufacturing is to the UK economy. In September 2020 Make UK published a report... Read More >
Restaurant & Bar Trends
November 24, 2020 10:03 am Leave your thoughts2020 has been a particularly tough year for the Restaurant and Bar sector. After a better than expected summer due... Read More >
In conversation with Carolyn Mitchell
August 21, 2020 12:16 pm Leave your thoughtsThere are few in the in the contract furnishing industry that don’t know Carolyn Mitchell. Early in her career she... Read More >
Support for the Design Economy
July 23, 2020 7:20 pm Leave your thoughtsA recent industry study commissioned by the Creative Industries Federation (CIF) predicts the creative industry faces a potential loss of... Read More >
Follow-up: THE FUTURE OF BOUTIQUE HOTELS
July 21, 2020 4:21 pm Leave your thoughtsWith the hospitality sector able to reopen, we thought now was a good time to catch up with a few... Read More >
Hospitality Brand Leverage in a Covid World
June 15, 2020 2:28 pm Leave your thoughtsAs the world begins to realise that the impact of Covid-19 will be felt for many years to come, Design... Read More >
The Future of Boutique Hotels
April 20, 2020 8:00 am 1 CommentThe idea of using “boutique” to describe a hotel category originated in the USA almost 40 years ago. Since then,... Read More >
Hospitality Megatrends 2020
October 23, 2019 10:54 am Leave your thoughtsOver the last the 30 years The Gettys Group has built a reputation for their forward thinking and innovative approach... Read More >
An International Decade for Water Action
August 6, 2019 9:00 am Leave your thoughtsThe Water Action Decade was launched by the United Nations on World Water Day, 22 March 2018; with an objective... Read More >
Restaurant and Bar Interior Trends
June 21, 2019 9:00 am Leave your thoughtsThe UK restaurant and bar sector has gone through something of a transformation over the last decade. This has been... Read More >
BBC Television Centre – An Enduring Cultural Icon
April 25, 2019 1:38 pm Leave your thoughtsFirst opened in June 1960, BBC Television Centre is a British cultural icon and a landmark piece of modern architecture.... Read More >