Time for the big smoke to dig up the tram lines
Trams. Don’t you love ’em? After Sheffield, Leeds, Edinburgh, Liverpool and, er, Croydon, Nottingham has become the latest UK city to embrace the clean, reliable transport form – adding a
Vox Pop
Vittorio Radice has claimed in press reports this week that he intends to dump Marks & Spencer’s famous green logo, bags and signage. Do you believe, as he implies, that
Clients need to stop cutting corners with packaging
According to the popular press, people find a lot of consumer packaging cumbersome, difficult and even dangerous to open. Why don’t we see more examples of good packaging clamouring for
Marks woman
Lynne Truss won’t tolerate the misuse of punctuation and dashes those who do. But should graphic designers be blamed? Adrian Shaughnessy investigates
Winning designs picked for Westonbirt Festival
Ten garden designs have been chosen from more than 200 entries for this year’s Westonbirt Festival of the Garden, to be held at the National Arboretum in Gloucestershire. The Westonbirt
The hard sell goes soft
Everyone thinks direct mail is a second rate way to advertise, but if companies put some real effort in maybe people would pay attention, argues Jim Davies
The eye of the brainstorm
Hugh Pearman doubts he will win the design competition he just entered, but it’s not about the winning, it’s the time, thought and effort required to take part
Vox Pop
Last week’s Bellwether report from the IPA paints an increasingly optimistic picture for the year ahead, with half of client companies surveyed increasing their real advertising budgets this year. What
Filling the gap
These are lean times for freelance designers, but as consultancies take on more business, they are tentatively calling on experienced casual staff to tackle the extra workload, as Christopher Kanal
Olympic ignition
Sara Manuelli visits Turin, which is revving up for the 2006 Winter Olympics with Atrium, created by car design guru Giorgietto Giugiaro
Whitehall cutting red tape
The DTI’s plans to improve Government design procurement is welcome news, but Richard Clayton asks whether it’s just a case of lip service by the public sector
Sweepstake
Hannah Booth brushes up on a duo who create all sorts of quirky products, while simultaneously reversing the fortunes of Berlin’s Institute for the Blind
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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.
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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.
