Livework are proud winners of the 2014 Design Week 'team of the year' award. This award is a hugely significant prize not just for a single piece of work but for a whole team's work over a year.

We would like to thank all our clients for the opportunity to do the work in the first place and the hard work they put in to making the projects a success. Specific thanks to the clients whose cases we used in our entry; Spice, J P Morgan, UNIDIR, Gjensidige and Thai Government (and the Thailand Creative Design Council)

Also huge respect to our competitors for this prize who made a hard fought race; The BBC User Experience & Design Team, Bow & Arrow, Cambridge Design Partnership and HMKM.

What the judges said

Over the past year, the Livework studio has worked on a variety of challenges across the world – from high-speed trains in Thailand to a digitised currency in South Wales. The Livework team worked with the Thai Design Council to create a service vision for Thailand’s proposed high-speed train network. It has also worked to create a digital platform for South Wales ‘time-based’ currency Spice. Other projects include working with bank JP Morgan to improve communications and global command centres, and helping Norwegian bank Gjensidige improve its insurance services.

Challenges across the world

• Thailand high-speed train
  Livework, in collaboration with the Thailand design centre (TCDC), developed a service vision for the future high-speed train in Thailand.

• Spice: timebank
  A time credit note for Spice. Part of a new brand and online exchange developed for this exciting social enterprise.
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• Gjensidige: Insurance in Norway
  Launch of a new insurance and banking off for young people in Norway saw a 30% uplift in adoption of these products.
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• UN: Security & peacekeeping
  A project location from our work with the UN making their programmes more responsive to local contexts
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