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Monsters and Marmite - an interview with Pete Fowler

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 1:30 pm | By Emily Gosling

Today sees the launch of three Valentine e-cards for Marmite, created by ‘monsterist’ (and illustrator, painter, musician, iPad doodler and producer) Pete Fowler. We caught up with him to chat monsters, psychedelia, iPads and, of course, Marmite.

John Pawson, Bangkok

Things We Like

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 1:49 pm

Our weekly round-up of things we like on the Design Week news desk.

Thirty One, designed by Love with Peter Saville

Love and Peter Saville work on new charity album

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:56 am | By Tom Banks

Manchester based consultancy Love has collaborated with Peter Saville on the artwork for a new charity album, Thirty One, which features music created in Manchester.

Un-painting (Camel on boat), Marc Bowditch

Works on Paper at EB&Flow

Thu, 9 Feb 2012 1:07 pm

Paper is at the centre of a group show opening today at east London’s EB&Flow Gallery, looking at the material’s use as medium, surface and as a tool in preparatory studies.

Shift

Max Hattler’s apocalyptic shift Video

Thu, 9 Feb 2012 2:47 pm | By Angus Montgomery

For his first London solo show, moving image artist Max Hattler is transforming the basement of the Tenderpixel gallery into what the gallery says is his ‘cinematic interpretation of an apocalyptic shift’.

Page from Semantic Divertissements by Themerson & Themerson, Gaberboccus Press, 1962

ICA presents talks inspired by The Themersons

Thu, 9 Feb 2012 3:52 pm | By Tom Banks

The Institute of Contemporary Art will present a day of talks to support its new exhibition The Themersons & Gaberbocchus Press

Will Aslett

Stop thinking, start doing: guest blog from MRM Meteorite's Will Aslett

Wed, 8 Feb 2012 1:04 pm | By Will Aslett, Meteorite digital creative

MRM Meteorite digital creative Will Aslett on the importance of creatives getting their hands dirty.

Memo pad

Muji’s product fitness

Wed, 8 Feb 2012 3:06 pm | By Angus Montgomery

Japanese brand Muji is to hold an exhibition at the Design Museum next month, which it says will highlight its ‘less is more’ approach to packaging and design.

Aalto vase

Design Week visits World Design Capital Helsinki 2012

Wed, 8 Feb 2012 5:25 pm | By Tom Banks

As Design Week approaches Finland for The World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 Open Doors Weekend, the first thing we notice is a frozen sea, flanking the peninsula.

Mat Hunter chief design officer Design Council

Designing our future - a guest blog by Mat Hunter

Tue, 7 Feb 2012 4:50 pm | By Tom Banks

A guest blog by Design Council chief design officer Mat Hunter on how the design community might respond to the UK’s aging population

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Live Portrait

How the Web changed the world

Tue, 7 Feb 2012 2:51 pm | By Angus Montgomery

Last summer, the National Media Museum in Bradford began a search for artworks for its new Life Online Galleries, which are being designed by Start JG.

United Visual Artists' High Arctic installation

Designs of the Year 2012 at the Design Museum preview

Tue, 7 Feb 2012 4:37 pm | By Emily Gosling

‘The Design Museum used to be a bit up its arse, shying away from popular culture. This is very much popular culture’, says designer Andy Altman, of his Comedy Carpet, created with artist Gordon Young.

René Lalique Hair ornament with a cypripedium orchid design, c.1902

Art Nouveau designs at the Sainsbury Centre

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 1:55 pm | By Emily Gosling

The weekend saw the opening of The First Moderns: Art Nouveau, Nature to Abstraction exhibition at The Sainsbury centre in Norwich.

Caleb vinyl toy by James Jarvis

British Library Spring Fair

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 3:41 pm | By Angus Montgomery

The British Library is set to host its inaugural Spring Fair, a huge festival of creativity, with a cast of characters including Jamie Hewlett, Neville Brody and Mr Scruff.

prints

Unplanned Magic to celebrate Material Gallery's new home

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 4:02 pm | By Emily Gosling

This week east London’s Material Gallery will celebrate its interiors overhaul and its move next door, with an exhibition of prints by Marcus Walters.

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