We headed to the Business Design Centre in London to see what this year’s crop of design rising stars had been creating.

“We are huge fans of cooperative gaming, but our customers have expressed requests for a competitive mode of gameplay, and so Battles was brought to life,” said Sensible Object CEO Alex Fleetwood.

We caught up with CLC’s director of business development, Stephanie Marlis Kupperman, to talk about how the firm goes about choosing which movies to bring into the toys and games space, and why she feels Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Dawn could be the firm’s next board game success story.

As the firm returns to Kickstarter with its first expansion pack, we caught up with Sensible Object CEO Alex Fleetwood to discuss the origins of Beasts of Balance and how both the toy industry and the tech sector have responded to the game.

We caught up with Wow! Stuff CEO Richard North to talk about innovation, inventors and the state of creativity in the toy space.

Adam Morris, design lead at Made by Many, looks at how awesome guitar riffs can inspire great brand experiences for products.

Back in 2010, married design duo Sara Farber and Bryan Wilson founded Galactic Sneeze, an independent games company specialising in ‘contagious concepts’.

Six years after running a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund the world’s longest marble run, Berlin-based designer Walter Hill has returned to the platform with a line of build-your-own kits.

We caught up with Deej Johnson, creative consultant and the author of The Little Book of Bananagrams, to find out his top tips on how toy and game designers can keep their creative juices flowing.

The Challenge sees a raft of toy and game designers tasked with coming up with new play concepts for The Gruffalo brand.