National Railway Museum’s Wonderlab gallery pays homage to railway workshops
The new gallery references the space’s past life as an engineering and locomotive workshop while seeking to inspire potential young designers and engineers.
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Meet the graduates: Royal College of Art’s Vedika Lall
As part of our 2023 graduate season coverage, we’re speaking with a selection of graduates from around the UK about their final projects and future plans.
Morrama designs waterproof, biodegradable refill packaging for Wild shower gel
The refills are made with 70% bamboo starch and 30% plant starch from agricultural waste and are designed to be housed in reusable aluminium outer bottles.
New Design Museum exhibition will tell the story of email
Email is Dead travels from the 1970s and the first networked email system to 2070, looking at how new technologies might influence communications.
SuperIdea designs “code-breaking” identity for Spanish nursery El Petit Príncep
Drawing on the nursery’s literary name and non-traditional learning models, the studio devised a new logotype based off an “experimental font”.
A walk through Nissen Richards’ exhibition design of China’s Hidden Century
Three-metre banners and subtle lighting changes take visitors on a century-long journey led by defining characters in each of the exhibition’s six sections.
Imperial War Museums seek 3D designer for two-year contract
The chosen designers will be working across multiple exhibitions during the contract, agreeing work programmes and budgets on a project-by-project basis.
Meet the graduates: Ravensbourne University London’s Nils Bjorkman
As part of our 2023 graduate season coverage, we’re speaking with a selection of graduates from around the UK about their final projects and future plans.
Moves and changes: design industry news
All the latest moves and changes across the design industry
Royal Botanical Gardens Kew seeks design partner for Science Engagement Centre
The new exhibition space must cater to Kew’s 20,000 visitors per day and encourage them to become more actively invovled in its sustainability and biodiversity efforts.
Borde Hill country gardens’ identity inspired by organic forms
Here introduces botanical design language across the identity, from a leafy wordmark to its floral monogram.
Design and Technology Association’s vision paper calls for curriculum overhaul
The paper seeks to contextualise the decline of the subject, identify shortfalls across different stages of education and suggest solutions to implement at government level.
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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.
