Dreams Come True When You Say Them Out Loud.

As part of our talk earlier this year at the Offf design festival in Barcelona, we wanted to give someone else the opportunity to speak at next years festival - to try and pass on a chance to others that had been given to us.

So we created a little website and offered people the chance to Get Offf by popping us a note about why they wanted to speak at the festival in ’24 - with the idea that dreams can come true when you say them out loud.

We got some great responses, and decided the fairest way would be to pick someone at random and that’s just what we did - which resulted in someone being able to attend and speak at the festival next year. And we can’t wait to head over to Barcelona to support their talk.

The whole thing got us thinking about opportunities, and how important it is to try your best to pass them on to others if you are in a position to, once you have been fortunate enough to experience some yourself.

It’s something we have always tried to do as a studio ever since we started, undertaking student mentoring and organising our Gab design event series to help folk meet and get inspired. But is there more we can do? Probably. So this little initiative has got us thinking a bit about what that might be, and hopefully we’ll have some thoughts soon.