Introducing the Second Edition of IN THE FOLD: Design Insider’s Quarterly Magazine for Subscribers

Subscribe to the Design Insider weekly newsletter to access IN THE FOLD, our quarterly magazine, a curated, subscriber-exclusive edit of the stories shaping commercial interiors. The second edition of IN THE FOLD is now available, bringing together a considered selection of Design Insider content from Q2, alongside a new subscriber-exclusive feature published for the first time.

Designers and suppliers alike, IN THE FOLD is designed to inform your work, strengthen your knowledge and provide inspiration for the projects, products and conversations ahead.

We are surrounded by an extraordinary amount of content every day. Insight, inspiration, expertise, innovation. There is more available to us than ever before to enrich the way we live and work, and yet so much of it passes by in a moment. This felt especially true during Q2, a quarter shaped by national and international events, including Milan Design Week and Clerkenwell Design Week. With travel, launches, talks, meetings and project deadlines all competing for attention, even the most valuable articles can quickly slip out of view.

IN THE FOLD has been created to change that.

Published quarterly, IN THE FOLD brings together a considered selection of Design Insider’s most valuable content, giving it space to breathe and a reason to be revisited. It is an opportunity to pause, read more deeply, and reconnect with the ideas shaping our commercial community.

Each edition is a curated edit of standout projects, product launches, expert perspectives, event highlights and industry conversations, carefully selected to reflect the breadth of the commercial interiors sector.

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Who IN THE FOLD is for?

IN THE FOLD is designed for those who shape, specify, supply and influence commercial interiors.

It is an information tool for designers and suppliers alike, created to inform your work, strengthen your knowledge and provide inspiration for the projects, products and conversations ahead.

For designers, it offers insight beyond the immediate brief, bringing together ideas, spaces, materials, products and perspectives that can support creative thinking and specification.

For suppliers, it provides a clearer view of how the sector is evolving, from design priorities and project narratives to emerging client expectations, market conversations and the ways products are being positioned within real commercial environments.

For industry leaders, it offers a curated route back into the conversations driving change across sectors and geographies.

It is equally relevant to a UK-based specifier, a US hospitality operator, or an international manufacturer. The content reflects the global nature of the industry, while remaining grounded in real projects, real people and real experience.

A curated return to what matters

At its core, IN THE FOLD is about giving strong content a second life.

Each article has already earned its place within Design Insider, but here it is reintroduced with fresh context and intention. Read together, these pieces form a broader narrative, connecting ideas across workplace, hospitality, healthcare, residential, materials, sustainability, events and industry news.

The second edition includes new product launches from Commercial Interiors UK accredited suppliers, workplace and hospitality projects from leading design studios, reflections from industry experts, highlights from Clerkenwell Design Week, and news celebrating emerging talent and member achievement.

Together, these articles offer a useful snapshot of the quarter: what launched, what was discussed, what challenged the industry, and what deserves to be brought back into focus.

A subscriber-exclusive conversation: Philippa Wagner

Alongside this curated content, each edition of IN THE FOLD includes something entirely new: a feature created exclusively for subscribers.

In this second edition, that feature is a conversation with Philippa Wagner, founder of PeoplePlacesSpaces, published here for the first time.

Philippa Wagner, Founder, PeoplePlacesSpaces

Philippa brings a perspective shaped by futures thinking, cultural strategy and hospitality insight. Her work begins with people, asking who a space is for, what they need, what they value, and how those expectations are changing.

At the centre of the conversation is a clear challenge: designing from assumption is a risk. Philippa explores why hospitality brands, developers, operators, designers and suppliers need to understand the future guest before ideas become reality.

The article also signposts readers to two of Philippa’s most recent and exciting pieces of research: FutureGuest, which introduces the “both/and guest”, and Celebrating Failures, a research series created with The Lobby that examines what the industry can learn by speaking more honestly about what goes wrong.

She speaks about the “now, new and next” guest, why traditional guest categories no longer tell the full story, how hospitality spaces can better respond to changing behaviours, and why research should sit at the start of the brief.

For designers and suppliers, Philippa’s perspective is a timely reminder that relevance depends on asking better questions earlier.

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Design Insider

Design Insider is an online magazine and media outlet. We amplify the expertise of global commercial interior designers and suppliers by publishing the latest products, projects and people from across the whole commercial sector, while also instigating the sector’s most important conversations. Design Insider is published and owned by Commercial Interiors UK.

IN THE FOLD builds on this foundation, offering a more considered way to engage with that content and bringing key Design Insider articles back into view for subscribers each quarter.