I’m Lydia Millar, a designer passionate about creating human-centred experiences. Brought up in a house surrounded by medics, I have always strived to find the same logic, function and compassion for human welfare in my creative endeavours. Combined with a playful approach to ideation, my work challenges traditional service, identity and UX design through solving community problems via often unexpected strategies.

Make Your Menopause is a campaign and workshop aiming to re-sculpt conversations. Inspired by holistic health approaches, this social initiative provides a creative outlet for our menopausal audience to express their stories whilst banishing stigma. Collaboration Morwenna Morgan

Diverse Studio is an initiative which advocates for gender and cultural diversity within the Graphic Design Industry. Defined by nine pledges which promises to diversify any London-based studio, its accompanying media and poster campaign aims to attract studios who could be doing more to adopt an inclusive ethos.

The dissertation ‘Dissent in the home’; how have ideas of a socio-political revolution been realised in Italian domestic design between 1966-80?’ is an examination and celebration of the Radical design movement. Inspired by the dissemination of Communist print in the period, the designed publication is cheaply produced, easily transportable and politically active. It hopes to epitomise the provocative intent of the Italian designers Ettore Sottsass, Gaetano Pesce and Gruppo Strum through its three editions.

Sow is a health service for Barking & Dagenham, a borough with the highest childhood obesity rate and a lower life expectancy than the London average. Harnessing the huge health benefits of the great outdoors, Sow includes an app or alternative non-tech user journey, through which users can access outdoor community activities. It provides preventative and curative interventions for the long-term health of the entire community. (Please find out more on the Sow page).