Design Against Crime – Press Coverage

2011

BBC News 4 July 2011 Who, What, Why: How do you graffiti-proof public art?
BBC News 28 June 2011 Cash-machine fraud: foiling the tricksters
PC World Good Gear Guide 17 June 2011 As fraud abounds, design students craft safer ATMs
CIO 16 June 2011 As fraud abounds, design students craft safer ATMs
Network World 16 June 2011 As fraud abounds, design students craft safer ATMs
Mad 16 June 2011 Central St Martins project series seeks to tackle cash machine crime
Design Week 15 June 2011 Student designs aim to tackle cashpoint crime
ATM Marketplace 15 June 2011 London school exhibits designs to deter ATM crime
FS Tech 15 June 2011 ATM crime exhibition shows the way
Finextra 14 June 2011 Designers unite to fight ATM fraud
LINK 14 June 2011 LINK sponsors a new exhibition at Central Saint Martins College
More Inspiration 11 January 2010 Stop Thief Chair

2010

2009

WIRED 12 November 2009 Stop Thief Chair Keeps Valuables Where Nature Intended
PechaKucha 9 November 2009 Design Against Crime (Video 6:40)
Imagine…Art in Troubled Times: The Home Front BBC 1. 28 July 2009. (Video. 1:38)
Battle of Ideas Shaping Social Policy: Designers and Crime
Design21 Social Design Network Lorraine Gamman Answers Your Questions
HALO Issue 7 2009 Street art or social menace? The debate right now is what actually constitutes graffiti
BBC Scotland July 2009 Designed World
Design Week Hot 50 5 February 2009

2008

Evening Standard 17th December 2008 London bike park ‘one of the safest in world’
Inside Housing 17th October 2008 Security Forces
BBC4 Material World (mp3) 2 October 2008
BBC Radio London Breakfast Show 29 Sept 2008 Prof. Paul Ekblom describes Grippa clips in item on bag theft
Rzeczpospolita (Poland) 17 Sept 2008 Miejskie meble wandaloodporne
ABC Radio National (mp3) (Australia) 17 Sept 2008 By Design (10-minute interview by Prof. Paul Ekblom)
Designer (Israel) 2008
MADE July 2008 Designing out chances for crime has proved its value many times over
BlueprintJuly 2008 Designers Bikeoff rethink traditional bike storage
Design Week 12 June 2008 Means to an end
BD Online 20 June 2008 Can architects be trusted to design bus shelters?
The Enfield Gazette 05 June 2008 The woman with designs on life as a petty thief
New Statesman June 2008 We have designs on thieves
Î–Î©Î—et2 May 2008 Champix
treehugger May 2008 7 Ways Cities Can Make Your Bike More Secure
Core 77 Design Blog May 2008 Designing out crime: abuser-centred design
The Evening Standard 20 May 2008 Thieves can’t stand new bicycle parking spaces
Yahoo News India 19 May 2008 Bike thefts just got tougher courtesy the M-shaped cycle stand
Insure and Smile/Gadget Talk 19 May 2008 Designing the solution to crime
Robert Elms (mp3) May 2008 If Looks Could Kill Interview
BBC Radio London Breakfast Show (mp3) 15 May 2008 caMden Bike Stands
BBC Radio 4 Today Show (mp3) 15 May 2008 Mobile Phone Theft
Design Week May 2008 Call for Action on Phone Theft
Design Council (video) May 2008 Designing Out Crime: Hot Products
Design Council May 2008 Designing Out Crime: Hot Products
Guardian May 15 2008 A fifth of London teenagers have been a victim of gadget theft
BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat (mp3) 15 May 2008 Drive to ‘design out’ gadget crime
BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat 15 May 2008 Drive to ‘design out’ gadget crime
ePolitix.xom 15 May 2008 Camden puts the brakes on bicycle theft
Design Studies/Dundee 15 May 2008 Call for action on phone theft
Planetizen 14 May 2008 New Bike Racks Thwart Theft
Press Release May 2008 Design Against Crime Launch caMden Anti Theft Bike Stands
BBC News May 2008 Designing the Solution to Crime

2007

Design Week January 2007 Design Council backing anti-mobile theft range
Design Week February 2007 Parking docks Camden Council
London Paper February 2007 Thieves told: On your bike
The Guardian Guide to Cycling March 2007 Style riders
The Observer March 2007 Ethical living
Cycling Weekly March 2007 New bike parking in bid to stop thieves
City Cycling April 2007 Reinventing the bike stand
London Cyclist April/May 2007 Stand and deliver

Design Week May 2007 Bikeoff cycling show now on
Design Week July 2007 Designers ally with Home Office in crime fight
Design Week August 2007 Support for anti-crime alliance grows
BBC News 24 August 2007 Designs for taking on criminals
BBC News 10 August 2007 Bid to cut crime with new design
Steer Davies Gleave December 2007 TfL’s 2007 Sustainable Transport Awards winners

2006

Design Week January 2006 Misha Black award
Fast Company October 2006 The catalyst

2005

Delo May 2005 Torbica, v katero dolgi prsti ne morejo seci, nam vrne veselje do zivljenja
Museums New York Autumn 2005 Fear Factor
Array Autumn 2005 Risky Business
The Oprah Magazine September 2005 Safe Bets
Step September 2005
Metropolis Magazine20 September 2005 MOMA’s Safety Check
La Vanguardia18 October 2005 Disenos para la era del miedo
Step October 2005 Playing It Safe
The Globe and Mail October 2005 How to stay safe and eat fondue – in an earthquake
Welt Am Sonntag 26 October 2005 Lachen als Gegner der Angst
Modernism Magazine November 2005 Safe: Design Takes On Risk
New York Times November 2005 The Haute Design Approach To Foiling Urban Thieves
New York Times Web November 2005 The Haute Design Approach To Foiling Urban Thieves
Time Out 10 – 16 November 2005 Safe keeping : MoMA finds beauty – and humour – in objects designed to protect us
Il Giornale del Archuitettura December 2005 La sicurezza prima di tutto
Il Giornale del Design December 2005 Progetti reali per situazioni estreme

2003

Belfast Telegraph 6 January 2003 ‘Stealth belt’ keeps money under wraps
Burton Mail January 2003 Anti-crime clothes range launched
Express and Star Kidderminster 20 January 2003 Lingerie line to combat thieves
Western Mail Cardiff January 2003 Fashion aims to catch up with street thieves
Briefing Spring 2003
Blueline March 2003 Public hanging at Victoria
The Observer April 2003 Future Shock: The Coming Ideas In Crime Prevention Clothes
Hackney Gazette May 2003 Bags of fun: Crime fighting is a scream with these
Icon Magazine May 2003 Dipping, slashing, lifting and grabbing
Ufficio Stile May – June 2003 Central Saint Martin: accessori anti-scippo
Ergonomics in Design Winter 2003 Designing Against Dysfunction – Product Design

2002

The London Institute Review February 2002 Design on Crime
Design Week July 2002 Karrysafe news
Evening Gazette Middlesborough July 2002 Safer by design
Medway Today July 2002 Fashion that can fight back
Rugby Evening Telegraph July 2002 Anti-mugger bags and belts launched
Shropshire Star July 2002 Handbags and belt join the crime fight
The Guardian July 2002 Designer security: War on street crime gets fashionable
Evening Standard August 2002 Don’t be a fashion victim
Hackney Gazette August 2002 Do not get it knicked : Designers have crime in the bag with their ideas
Mobile August 2002 Fonehouse launches new security products
Sunday Post18 August 2002 There’s a shock in store for bag-snatchers
Etapes September 2002 De haut vol (Karrysafe)
Le Nouvel Observateur4 September 2002 Un style haute securite
Blueline November 2002 Designing out street crime

2001

Home 2001 Design Against Crime
Design Focus April 2001 Crime fighters
Diseno Interior April 2001 Combatir el crimen con audacia
Fuorisalone April 2001 Design contro il criminie
Leisure and Hospitality April 2001 Anti-crime show goes to Barcelona
Briefing May 2001 Crime In Milan
Neo2 July / August 2001 Diseno Anti-robo > Policias y Disenadores
Telegraph Review October 2001 Shed your preconceptions : What happens when architects reinvent the bike shed?
The Times December 2001 Cambridge academics top table for research
I Magazine Winter 2001 Anti-crime design on show

2000

Design Council March 2000 Cracking Crime Through Design
Design Council May 2000 Light-fingered
Space May 2000 Stealing beauty
Briefing July 2000 Design Against Crime
FX November 2000 Stealing beauty
Evening Standard December 2000 The bags that are designed not to be snatched
The Independent May 2000 Theft: today’s built-in obsolescence