Gallerists, collectors, fair directors and designers on collectible design’s role in the wider industry; and why the pieces’ often-eyewatering price tags are justified.
From Twitter’s rebrand to X, to the collaborative process of designing the UK’s first gallery of South Asian culture, here are our top long reads of 2023.
The design talents around the revered director duo are being celebrated alongside the creatives they influenced, such as iconoclastic director Derek Jarman.
An exhibition celebrating influential female fashion designers and an event on digital design from an Asian perspective feature in Design Week’s December highlights.
Design leaders and tax experts react to a Statement which promises to “cut taxes and reward work” to achieve growth – but may not be investing in the right tools.
Kieron Lewis designed the New Brownies’ Book, by Karida L Brown and Charly Palmer, mixing century-old content with new writing and art to inspire a new generation of Black families.
Inspiration, education and deserving of recognition: a new exhibition highlights the role of technicians within a thriving creative community.
Area 17 designed a new identity and site for OpenAI featuring “humanist ” design references and touches of “magic” as it moved from research-focused non-profit to a mainstream talking point.
Design educators Lisa E. Mercer and Terresa Moses explain in their new book, Racism Untaught, how design can offer tools for anti-racism accessible to anyone.
The designer and artist discusses how mapping an ephemeral practice for her monograph An Atlas of Es Devlin gave her better understanding of her own persistent “lines of enquiry.”
Our design recommendations this month include an interactive introduction to set design, in-person events from Glasgow to Brighton and design festivals in Ireland and Dubai.
Ian Surra, director of Cannondale industrial design talks through a day in the R&D office in Freiberg, Germany.
As the design industry propelled itself forward, we were always there to champion, inform, analyse and guide the way.
Have you been paying attention for the last four decades? Only one way to find out.
Design Week closes, having championed design excellence for the past 38 years.
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.