1st June 2023 / Alan Moore

The musician Bernard Sumner of Joy Division wrote of his experience growing up in a failed industrial economy and landscape, “You were always looking for beauty because it was such an ugly place

The musician Bernard Sumner of Joy Division wrote of his experience growing up in a failed industrial economy and landscape, “You were always looking for beauty because it was such an ugly place, whether again on a subconscious level. I mean, I don’t think I saw a tree till I was about nine. I was […]

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6th October 2022 / Alan Moore

Designing a Beautiful Business at The Lost Gardens of Heligan

Designing a Beautiful Business at Heligan The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall – 25 November 2022 In partnership with the Lost Gardens of Heligan you are invited to attend our one day programme on 25 November 2022. This programme is designed for an intimate small group, to ensure a highly immersive and interactive exploration into the […]

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29th January 2022 / Alan Moore

A short film about why beauty is key to everything

Do Design. Why Beauty is Key to Everything from Alan Moore on Vimeo. We are creative beings. We love to make things. This book will inspire you to create better things for better reasons. Things that people will love – for a long time to come. Some say beauty is a luxury. But what if […]

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16th October 2019 / Alan Moore

Do Build: Why Beautiful Businesses are the Future. Workshop

Do Build: Why Beautiful Businesses are the Future. Workshop  Drawing on a lifetime’s experience and practice as a designer, artist and business innovator, Alan Moore will show you how to design and build businesses that are more relevant and needed in the world we all live in today. That build legacy, that go beyond sustainability, […]

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14th October 2019 / Alan Moore

This Beautiful Life. How to design and make one. Workshop

This Beautiful Life. How to design and make one Sat, 8 February 2020 | 09:30 – 16:30 GMT Kettle’s Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge. CB3 OAQ Description What would it mean to live a more beautiful life? How might our work be more beautiful? How might we do things differently? Could beauty help us draw upon […]

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13th September 2019 / Alan Moore

Neuroscience and compassion an interview with James Doty

Brain surgeon James Doty is on the cutting edge of our knowledge of the brain and the heart: how they talk to each other; what compassion means in the body and in action; and how we can reshape our lives and perhaps our species through the scientific and human understanding we are now gaining. James […]

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14th July 2019 / Alan Moore

The business case for beauty

Article written for Management Today. Your company could be a work of art – and more enduringly profitable as a result, argues designer and author Alan Moore. Is the world a work of art? Nobel Prize winning scientist Frank Wilczek asked that remarkable question because he saw beauty in the fundamental laws of nature, which […]

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2nd October 2018 / Alan Moore

Millennials. They want the cool thing, and, the right thing.

I asked Dame Fiona Reynolds, a Master at Cambridge University, UK and author of ‘The Fight for Beauty’ – ‘what gives you hope?’ Her answer; “The reason I feel optimistic is because I think young people are amazing and they get this stuff. This is a generation that has got no ticket to the future, […]

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2nd June 2018 / Alan Moore

How does knowledge feel?

We all know a lot. How does knowledge feel? And how do you feel that you know? How do you feel what you know? How do your feelings feel? Your felt feeling! Consult your feeling of being disconnected and being connected, Being indifferent or committed. Does feeling connected make you more empathetic? Does empathy make […]

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11th May 2018 / Alan Moore

Beautiful Business conversations with craftswoman Alice Blogg

Alice is a designer, a maker of all things in wood. Alice shares her views on what a life of craft gives her — A joyful life of enduring satisfaction. Explaining the importance of having respect for the living material she uses – wood, Alice touches on the need for meaning connected to living an […]

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