Boxing clever at the DTI’s innovation unit
With his impressively solid background in design education, Alan Brickwood’s secondment to the Department of Trade and Industry is good news for designers. Beverley Cohen reports
I use a Mac, therefore I lack skill and talent
Janice Kirkpatrick (Private View, 16 February) and Denis Flin (Letters, DW 1 March) both view the use of computers in design as a backward step and appear to be suggesting
Design Council talks shop to explore ideas
The UK has an international reputation for turning out world-beating designers from its education system. Why else would our politicians be so keen to claim design skills as a valuable
Spin doctors
How do you design for a medium in which viewers select their own typeface and colours? Confirmed anoraknaphobic Fay Sweet spoke to three Web weavers about mastering design on the
Shipping in current views on politics
Mr Sayer’s comments on the article Has design found an ally in Labour? (Letters, DW 23 February) show a complete misunderstanding of the issues, and are both contradictory and ill-informed.
Henrion archived on CD-ROM
The final version of the CD-ROM immortalising the work of graphics giant FHK Henrion has now been completed and is being used to woo commercial publishers to back the Icograda
Scots free-pitch row deepens
Renfrewshire District Council in Scotland is following Fife Council in holding an open free-pitch for a new identity. Renfrewshire is offering a prize of 1000 to the winner, but will
Longman gets rid of old image
Recently merged educational publisher Addison Wesley Longman is introducing its new corporate identity and a revised Longman brand identity. Design is by Bamber Forsyth. The Pearson-owned publishers Addison Wesley and
Glasgow reveals plans for September festival
Glasgow this week unveiled its plans for September’s International Festival of Design. The festival is the city’s warm-up event towards it being the City of Architecture and Design in 1999.
Lack of CTI does not mean lack of initiative
The decision to set up a Computers in Teaching Initiative (CTI) centre for art and design (News, DW 26 January), is a welcome move. However, your article implied that Ravensbourne
Believe type, not hype
Why have we neglected type in a furore of technological ‘progress’, where skilled typesetters have been traded in for Mac operators? Janice Kirkpatrick laments this self-destructive behaviour, and predicts designers
Escape the pigeon-hole by reading the market
Whatever you think of his architecture, you’ve got to admire Mario Bellini’s nerve (see Profile, page 14). To shift disciplines so spectacularly in mid career is something few designers would
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From the archives: Picture Post
As we head back into our archives, here’s a gem from March 1990. Jane Lewis looks at the creative ways design firms promoted their services through mail-outs.
From the archives: Driving back to the future
During our pause, we’re re-publishing the occasional article from deep in our archives. This March 1990 column by our founder, Jeremy Myerson, looks at car design trends.
Design Week is resting, and we’ll be back soon
In December 2023, it was announced that Design Week was closing its doors. However – good news! We’re reopening by the end of summer 2024!
Design across five decades: from the editors who brought you Design Week
As the design industry propelled itself forward, we were always there to champion, inform, analyse and guide the way.
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Have you been paying attention for the last four decades? Only one way to find out.
Design Week: 1986-2023
Design Week closes, having championed design excellence for the past 38 years.
What will retail and experience design look like in 2024?
As part of our series on design in 2024, WeWantMore creative director Ruud Belmans offers his view on what retail and experience design might look like next year.
What will exhibition design look like in 2024?
As part of our series on design in 2024, Studio Arc director Lyndsey Bowditch offers her view on what exhibition design might look like next year.
Why 2024 will be the “year of creative emergence” when it comes to AI
As part of our series on design in 2024, Mia Blume – founder of Design Dept. and Designing with AI – tells us that next year will be a “paradigm
Using VR to break outdated taboos around women’s health
Taking the form of a ‘vagina-like’ tent, INTER/her by Camille Baker uses cutting edge tech to open up conversations around issues like ovarian and cervical cancer, endometriosis, and menopause.
