Comic timing
If Farmer Palmer, The Fat Slags and ‘Hello, good evening and bollocks!’ mean nothing to you, the fact that Viz turns 30 this year will leave you cold. But for
Better out than nothing at all
Outsourcing might be the design industry’s most hushed-up activity, but it’s essential to keep consultancy cogs turning, says Erika Clegg
Basic tools
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House style
Investment in in-house design is growing rapidly, with dedicated teams working anywhere, from European centres in fashionable parts of London to converted barns in Yorkshire.
Taking shape
Twentieth-century textile designers struggled to attain recognition, due to the influence of the dominant Modernist movements. A new book profiling prolific designer Jacqueline Groag addresses the imbalance. Anna Richardson reports
Profile – Konstantin Grcic
Furniture designer Konstantin Grcic keeps pushing his limits with challenging projects – despite a fundamental yearning for simplicity. Pamela Buxton speaks to him as he curates a show for the
Voxpop
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A Smile in the Mind could be an annual annual…
The guys at Thoughtful asked if we had considered producing an update of Smile in the Mind (Letters, DW 8 October). Well, the answer is… Yes. Annually. The discussion always
Security is always an issue with structural packaging
On the weekend as we were returning from Arizona we had collected a box of glass items that we were to take on the plane as hand luggage so that
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