Mather & Co works on new National Football Museum
Interiors and exhibition design specialist Mather & co is working on the interiors of the National Football Museum, which is set to open next year after moving to Manchester’s Urbis
Happy birthday Sir Terence
Sir Terence Conran is 80 this year. On 4 October to be precise. The occasion is being marked by a huge exhibition at the Design Museum – to which Conran
Can creativity change the world?
Some of you may be aware that today is Peace Day, and marking the occasion last night was D&AD’s Shapr’ner event on ‘how creativity makes people give a shit’. D&AD
Best of the Web
Our weekly round-up of interesting things we’ve seen on the internet. https://www.nightmarehigh.com/ The move to secondary school from the big-fish-little-pond feeling of year six can be a terrifying time.
Labour accuses Government of ‘damaging the foundations’ of UK’s creative industries
The Labour Party has launched a national Creative Industries Network of businesses, trade bodies and other organisations and attacked the Coalition Government for its ‘damaging’ education and arts policies.
Voxpop – What can be done about the high unemployment rate for graduate designers?
A new report shows that more than a third of art and design graduates have failed to find full-time employment, three years after leaving their courses. What do you think
Squid’s in
Irish international art exhibition Dublin Contemporary will celebrate its inauguration by pooling the work of global artists and showing ‘the resourcefulness that can be squeezed out of tough times,’ say
Met Studio creates ‘emotive’ War Horse exhibition
Met studio has designed the War Horse: Fact & Fiction exhibition, which opens next month at the National Army Museum in Chelsea, London.
More than a third of art and design graduates are out of work, report shows
More than a third of art and design graduates are still without a full-time job more than three years after graduation, according to a new report.
Q&A – Sir John Sorrell talks to Design Week ahead of the London Design Festival
This year’s London Design Festival is just over a fortnight away, and the 2011 event will be bigger than ever before. More than 300 events will take place, including what
Visual aids
MTV: Redefine will exhibit and auction work by an international crop of creatives to mark 30 years of AIDS awareness. The aim is to raise funds for the Staying Alive
V&A to open new Photographs Gallery as Futureplan rolls on
A new, permanent Photographs Gallery is set to open at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum in October, designed in-house, but with consultancy from English Heritage, chronicling the history of photography
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Introducing Design Week’s new editorial team
We’re excited to announce the new Design Week editorial team ahead of the platform’s relaunch this autumn. Rob Alderson joins as Editor, with Clare Dowdy as Senior Writer.
Remembering Sir Kenneth Grange – 1929-2024
It is with great sadness that we heard about the passing of the hugely influential British designer, Sir Kenneth Grange.
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.
Design Week quiz: a look back through the ages
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.
