We finally announced our first Small Talks event on October 16. We'll be hosting three amazing speakers, Jessi Baker, Ben Barker and Peter Bi'lak who will talk about making with makers, creating interactive installations for cities and alternative publishing practices. (Tickets sold out very quickly, but if you check back closer to the date, we may have some returned tickets that you can claim. )

EpicFEL kicks off next weekend on October 4. It's our annual day long conference about all aspects of front-end design and development, brought to you by Front-end London.

NUX3 is a UX and design conference at the Royal Northern College of Music on November 10. A strong line-up and a good excuse to explore Manchester.

Brixtoncornercopia is hosting free food start up seminars for women on November 5, 12, 19 and 26 about becoming self-employed, marketing and branding for your restaurant, supper club or food van.

It's called 'Ship' not 'Shit' - We've debated this a lot this week. There's a problem with the design/startup community's focus on talking about fast build, and forgetting how this impacts efficiency and quality.

What a park's design does to your brain - There's evidence that certain characteristics of urban parks and gardens can induce brain activity that is associated with contemplative or meditative states.

The Internal Agency Model - A succinct argument for using multidisciplinary teams at every stage of a product's lifecycle.

The Hamburger Icon - A nice write up about data-driven design around the eponymous hamburger icon.

Google Ventures have a pretty neat worksheet that helps you write the right user research participant screener. They've also put out a number of great tips on how to write a great job descriptions for designers in demand.

I dare you. Ask me one more time ‘Where are the women in tech?' - Merely asking “where are all the women in tech?” doesn’t absolve you from the burden. There are plenty of girls and women poised to take on STEM careers. We just have to get out of the way.

The 2014 colour trends in design are out. We're not telling you which colours we're mixing for 2015.

And it's official, this time next year the London underground will run all night at weekends!

Big Moccasin is a documentary which tenderly portrays the lives of four residents of an Appalachian Valley in an effort to uncover sidelined American stories. It's brimming with tales of the civil war, the depression and the undying affection of the residents who live there toward the very land itself. Catch it on October 4 at the Raindance Film Festival in London.

We're organising a screening of The Human Scale in the studio. It's a documentary featuring Danish architect Jan Gehl's study of modern cities and his proposal to build them in a way which takes human needs for inclusion and intimacy into account.

Fifth Column is an immersive gaming experience brought to you by CoLab Theatre. You and your team will utilise phone apps to scour the streets of London on the ultimate cloak and dagger mission. Discover secret packages, decipher coded messages, track enemy spies and uncover the city's covert treasures.

We're seeing the swoon-inducing Sean Nicholas Savage at the Total Refreshment Centre on October 4. If you don't know this dude, check him out immediately.

Gekiga is an exhibition at the Cartoon Museum about alternative manga from Japan. Gekiga was the spark which transformed manga from being the preserve of the young into a vast industry. This exhibition shows how a small group of young artists created a new style of powerful and dramatic narratives.

Musician and artist Dean Blunt (ex Hype Williams) is opening his exhibition of paintings at Space Studios on October 2.

The NFL is coming to London this weekend! If you didn't manage to get tickets you can come down to Regent Street on September 27 where there will be a big NFL celebration for all American football fans.

Heather has bought the scrumptious, new Plenty More cookbook by Ottolenghi. Ken is making pressed belly of pork this weekend (zomg!). And Alex reminded us that London's new Michelin stars have just been announced.