Traditional retail has faced a barrage of challenges from the expansion of e-commerce to COVID-19. Now, in 2022, retail is preparing for the onslaught of a recession. Business consultants, like Deloitte, have been monitoring the decline and report an ongoing downturn since 2008. So, what’s next for the high-street?

Visual note-taking enabled Buttercrumble to capture London's Mayfair Youth Forum, engagingly and creatively. 2-3 Degrees kindly invited us to document the event earlier this month.

The forum is formed by a group of young leaders aged 14-18 working to enhance #YouthVoice in the Mayfair, London.

It was a joy to return to basics last Sunday and enjoy the love and effort which goes into writing an old-fashioned letter. We had the perfect workshop venue (Anthropologie, Leeds) and loveliest guests to collaborate with too!

By working with the creative lifestyle brand, Anthropologie, we created a supportive environment where participants penned letters that combined words, collage and illustration before securing in an equally beautiful envelope. Their happy mail was then ready to pop in the post!

Browns teamed up with York's Lord Mayor & Civic Party to host an exclusive evening of shopping, pampering and socialising in aid of Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, Keep Your Pet and the Refugee Action York Charity.

We were thrilled to be invited to spend an evening browsing the latest SS18 fashion collections, see beauty demonstrations and, of course, illustrate lovely customers. We attended the event to gift guests with their own bespoke portraits and enhance their experience of the evening.