Barbican launches design accelerator programme
Alt.Barbican will give designers and creatives access to industry experts, and enable them to pursue projects on topics such as wearable technology and artificial intelligence.
Designers’ favourite food designs: from marmite to chocolate bars
Last week, Nestlé lost an appeal to trademark the four-fingered shape of its classic chocolate bar KitKat. This got us thinking – what are some of the most distinctive, food-related
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RCA appoints Apple design chief Jony Ive as new chancellor
Ive will take over from James Dyson at London’s Royal College of Art in July, and aims to better connect art, design and technology at the university.
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How to design packaging that works in-store and on-screen
Equator managing director Gary Flynn draws on his specialism in integrated packaging and discusses the challenges of creating packaging that works as well online as it does in store.
Freelance State of Mind: cutting creative youth services will only result in more crime
Ben Tallon, freelance illustrator, designer and Design Week columnist, speaks about how knife crime could be reduced if only more funding was given to youth services fostering creativity and sporting
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Haptic Architects teach the benefits of the Scandinavian “work life balance”
Studio director Lucy Painter, who specialises in recruitment within the design sector, speaks to Haptic Architects about how to integrate Scandinavian working practises into a creative business in the UK.
Dundee University best place to study design, says The Guardian
The Scottish university has beat Goldsmiths, Loughborough and Leeds College of Art to the top spot for design and crafts in 2018, according to the newspaper’s league tables.
New Design Museum exhibition explores the appeal of “Designed in California”
California: Designing Freedom charts the journey of Californian design all the way from 1960s counterculture right up to Silicon Valley today, featuring exhibits such as the graphics for the 1984
Tokyo 2020 asks the public to design its mascot
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games organisers have launched a public competition calling for Japanese nationals and residents to submit mascot designs – which will later be voted on
5 things to see at Clerkenwell Design Week 2017
From a panel discussion hosted by Design Week about the effect of Brexit on the design industry, to a display of screen-printed furniture created by Anthony Burrill and Michael Marriott,
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