The deadline to submit ideas is October 11th and the competition final will take place in-person at BLE on November 19th.

“We are delighted to be teaming up with The Point.1888 to take the UK’s one and only Official Charts into new areas,” said Official Charts Company Chief Executive Martin Talbot.

Deej Johnson, co-author of The Snakes & Ladders of Creative Thinking, on why creativity needs limits

We caught up with David to learn more about what set him on the path to design, how he found his way into toys – and what fuels his creativity.

“We didn’t have an element that did Tan’s gorgeous hair justice, so we had to make an entirely new wig element – in shimmering silver of course!” said Matthew Ashton, Vice President of Design at the LEGO Group.

Casdon’s Head of Research and Development, Alex Reynolds, discusses packaging, product and play.

Matt founded the company with his brother-in-law, Laurence Emmett, and the firm’s debut games includes colour-mixing card game Egg Slam and trivia title So Wrong It’s Right.

“Children love to put stuff in a bowl and say they are making a magic potion – this led us to thinking how that magical process could result in a real-life pet that they create and the idea for Magic Mixies was born,” said Moose Toys’ James Austin-Smith.

Over the next 12 months, Champion will produce six different Catan beers, each reflecting a different terrain within the game.

Ka-Blab designers Andrew and Jack Lawson discuss game development.