TRUE LEADERSHIP

Postandparcel.info

Warm, fiercely determined, and proudly brandishing a t-shirt depicting the now infamous Russian Warship stamp; Igor Smelyansky, CEO and Director General of Ukraine Post Office, speaks about delivering pensions in a warzone and finding new ways to communicate without the internet...

FABRICATING THE FUTURE

Imperial College London's internal magazine

Dr Manel Torres is goggled up and spraying intently with an aerosol, stopping occasionally to check the temperature of a row of beakers full of polymers.

From his ease in the laboratory, you'd never suspect that his title relates to a fashion degree..

NOT AN EXTRA ANYMORE

Reading Evening Post

“How can you follow up The Office?" Ricky Gervais muses. “By getting more awards? By selling to more countries?"

"You just have to do what you are excited about. And I'm really pleased with how Extras has turned out.”

ERA OF CHANGE

letsrecycle.com

 

“When I started in Organics, I had an inkling that food waste was going to become a high profile issue for the UK but I had no idea the public attention would be quite so far reaching.”

SEW MUCH FUN

A Year of Sew Much Fun

 

Easily recognisable by the pink and purple streaks in her hair, Rox Davies, the owner of Sew Much Fun, is typically found in her colourful shop surrounded by pots of buttons, reels of ribbons, squares of felt and bolts of bright contemporary prints.

GAME CHANGER

Mail & Express Review

Who could have known in 1999 when former English teacher Jack Ma dreamed up Alibaba in his small apartment in Hangzhou, Eastern China, that this seemingly simple concept for an e-commerce website was going to change the way that China did business forever.

BODY BENEFITS

Hotcourses Magazine

Greeted by a room of torturous looking equipment, my eyes strayed cynically between the straps suspended by springs and chains, to the sinister rack or ‘bed’ in the corner...

GOING UNDERGROUND

postandparcel.info

Inspired by hyperloop and armed with engineering expertise and a vision of cities with cleaner skies; Magway uses linear motors to propel parcels in sealed pipes along underground and overground tracks and reduces the need for heavy delivery vehicles on the road.

PUBS, PARTIES & PUNCH-UPS

Cordy House magazine

The site of Britain's first disco, host to The Who, and too many bloody bust-ups to count; the notorious Two Puddings pub threw one big party til its doors closed in 2000...

GREEN EDUCATION

The Independent

With images of melting ice caps, stranded polar bears and depleting energy supplies bombarding us every day, it is clear that tackling climate change will be no small feat.

LOOK BETTER NAKED

The London Paper

As someone who has difficulty unscrewing a jar of olives, entering a studio packed with dumbells was more than a little daunting...

CAKE CULTURE

The Sweet Life 

“I grew up on a diet of cake for breakfast and cake for afternoon tea - it may not sound healthy by today's standards, but it was the Algerian way...

JUNE GOES GREEN

Green Career Guide 

Famous for holding her own with all manner of celebrities and politicians, TV presenter June Sarpong is rarely lost for words. However, listening to a lecture by Al Gore, former Vice President of the US, changed everything ...

MAKING THE LEAP

No Limits - Arthritis Care's teen magazine

Moving from the security of the child rheumatology clinic to the unknown world of adult services is a major leap...

ROCKET MAN

Imperial College London's internal magazine

"As an African American, before my first mission I wanted to study the continent of Africa before I left so I could identify it from above. Seeing it from space with no political divisions was very emotional for me...