My former colleague Marcus Willcocks, who has died aged 47 of leukaemia, worked at Design Against Crime, a London-based project that aims to create safer public spaces.
Marcus joined DAC, of which I am the founder and director, in 2000 as a designer leading projects and raising funding. He worked across the UK and internationally, trying to find ways in which good design can help to reduce crime in areas such as bike theft and ATM tampering. Among other things, he co-designed a chair to which handbags can be “locked”, and a separate “Grippa Clip”, to deter bag theft in places such as pubs and cafes.
