Design inspiration: the best projects from January
The start of a new year brought us an identity for a Covid-adapted restaurant, calligraphic coffee branding and a new series of lockdown posters.
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Tré Seals wants to diversify design through typography
Seals set up foundry Vocal Type – which takes inspiration from past protest movements – in the hope of celebrating creatives of colour.
Offices redesigned as lab to process 10,000 Covid tests a day
KB Architects led the project to transform the office facility into a working lab within three months.
As millennial investment apps boom designers are meeting the demand
While challenger investment platforms are reaching a new generation, there are plenty of design obstacles in the developing sector.
PriestmanGoode’s New Car envisions the future of autonomous ride-hailing
The design studio’s future-facing vehicle concept has Covid precautions and details inspired by the city of London.
How Ladybird’s classic nature books were updated for a new generation
Illustrator Natasha Durley discusses modernising the classic nature series, incorporating new features of the UK’s landscape and a “layered” technique.
See-saw for kids at the USA-Mexico border wall wins best design of 2020
The Design Museum has named the installation which allowed children from neighbouring countries to play with one another the Beazley Design of the Year.
Pentagram’s Yuri Suzuki and Sascha Lobe partner on MIDI’s harmonious rebrand
The industry-standard musical interface’s first-ever rebrand is inspired by musical forms such as the Stuttgart pitch.
Taxi Studio’s “optimistic” identity for equal opportunities design initiative Up
West of England Design Forum’s latest venture aims to address the imbalance between female graphic design students and those in leadership roles.
CES 2021: smart masks, smarter homes and flying vehicles
Tech giants from around the world gathered for this year’s virtual festival, but what are the main takeaways?
Design in 2021 – what will furniture design look like?
As part of our series of design in 2021, Ruth Wassermann, design director at Made.com looks at what will happen in furntiure design in the next 12 months.
Junior design jobs dry up while digital roles soar in “extremely tough” 2020
In a challenging year for the design industry, junior opportunities shrunk while some senior designers suffered pay cuts.
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Picks of the month: the best (at home) design events in February
It will be another month spent at home but you can still take in everything from utopian community building to overcoming creative barriers and more.
Design Week Awards 2021 opens for entries
This year winning work will be given a bigger platform than ever before, we are assembling our biggest ever judging panel and categories have been tweaked for maximum relevance.
Lumiere producers launch competition to find new installations for 2021 show
The light art festival is committing more than £50,000 to fund six new designs ahead of its November 2021 event in Durham, UK.
New Design Council CEO Minnie Moll: “You can’t retrofit design thinking”
We speak to the incoming CEO about why design needs to be at the forefront of “build back better” operations, and how her previous business background will help in her
