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London Design Festival to feature endless staircase
This year’s London Design Festival will feature an endless staircase installation inspired by M.C Escher, which will sit outside St Paul’s Cathedral.
20.20's immersive Thomson designs let you see, hear and smell your holiday
20.20 has developed new retail designs for holiday company Thomson, with features including a video wall and evocative sounds and smells.
Harriman Steel creates Kinoko Custom Cycles designs
Harriman Steel has created the look for top-end bike brand Kinoko Custom Cycles.
Illustrative designs for Cocoa Hernando chocolate brand
The new brand has been developed by designer Paul Tomlinson.
Latest Opportunities
Glasgow University seeks graphics consultancies
The University of Glasgow has issued a tender for graphic design framework, which will feature at least five consultancies.
Kingston to appoint design framework
The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is dishing out branding and digital lots worth between £300,000 and £1,000,000.
Exhibition designer sought for Scottish National Museum of Flight
The museum is seeking an exhibition design consultancy to work on the refurbishment of its Hangars 2 and 3.
ANALYSIS
Does Windows Blue spell a U-turn for Windows 8?
We look at five classic cases of retracting new brands alongside the Microsoft case.
How to design banknotes
With both a new £5 note and a new $100 bill being released, we look at how to reconcile design features with security.
EDITOR'S CHOICE
A new look for the Whitney – a ‘responsive W’
Dutch consultancy Experimental Jetset has created a new identity for the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
The Mall of America branding is a star
Duffy & Partners has created a new identity for one of the world’s biggest shopping centres.
Design Week Creative Survey 2012
What is creativity?
Creative leads at the three chart-topping Creative Survey consultancies tell us what creativity means to them.
The client’s guide to commissioning creativity
Ten top tips from the British Heart Foundation’s Louise Kyme.
VOXPOP
What is your favourite example of digital and physical integration in retail design?
Retail designers tell us their favourite examples of brands bringing the digital and the physical together.
What's the point of art school?
Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design has been running a series of events under the banner ‘What’s the Point of Art School.’ What do you think is the point of art school?
What do you do in your spare time?
With a new exhibition showing personal projects from creatives, we find out what designers get up to in their spare time.
WHAT'S ON
London Wall W1W
A new exhibition at Carroll/Fletcher features propaganda-style posters of Tweets sent from around the gallery.
Global graffiti festival Upfest returns to Bristol
More than 250 artists expected to paint live in Bristol.
The Art and Design Saturday Club Summer Show
Work by students at the Sorrell Foundation’s National Art & Design Saturday Club is going on show.
EDITOR'S VIEW
INDUSTRY VOICE
Inspired - Jean-Baptiste Danet
Dragon Rouge global chief executive Jean-Baptiste Danet is inspired by his (rather unusual) desk.
We are family
The DBA’s John Scarrott looks at the pros and cons of working with family-run businesses.
Discuss. Design. Develop.
In digital design, genuine collaboration between designers, developers and their clients is good for all three parties, says Brand Perfect editor Neil Ayres.
