Last night’s Grok Design salon went very well indeed. If you missed it, we explored the industrial methodology and philosophy that places design at the heart of a company’s structure. We also covered the utopian/totalitarian impulse of Steve Jobs and Apple, the moral quandaries facing modern designers, and the importance of courtship and flirtation for designers and manufacturers. Our audience even created some design solutions of our own, fashioning vibrating GPS bracelets and boomerang phones out of pound-shop Playdoh. We’ll be publishing a follow-up podcast in a few months looking back on the event, and drawing out some new areas of discussion. Remember, you can listen to all of the episodes in our podcast series at Soundcloud and iTunes.

If you want to learn more about our guests last night, Deyan Sudjic’s plans for the relocation of the Design Museum are here, and you can pick up his wonderful book The Language of Things here, which was referenced during the primer presentation. Find out about James Moed’s work at IDEO here, and Samuel Wilkinson’s studio is here, featuring all of his work – you can buy his Plumen bulbs here. Finally, Dominic Wilcox, who helped with our Speed Creating workshop, has info on all his work here.

Below is a Storify featuring all the best tweets from the night – thanks to everyone who got involved. We’ll hopefully see you at next month’s Future Human, Destructive Innovation.

Photography by Lea Simpson