Thorsten van Elten slams Culturelabel brief
Nascent online cultural products retailer Culturelabel has come in for criticism from design champion Thorsten van Elten, following the launch of a competition to find new designs to sell on
Nascent online cultural products retailer Culturelabel has come in for criticism from design champion Thorsten van Elten, following the launch of a competition to find new designs to sell on
Ann Summers is looking in-house to help it weather the high street retail sales slump in the lead-up to Christmas.The lingerie and sex aids chain will roll out its next
The UK’s major retailers could be set to radically change the way they measure the environmental impact of packaging, following discussions on Monday.In a move that could paradoxically see waste
Newcastle-based design group Sumo has been appointed to breathe fresh life into one of the UK’s most significant archeological sites, Creswell Crags, as it prepares to open an £8m museum
Few photographic chronicles have endured like Joseph Szabo’s record of Jones Beach in the US. Part catwalk, part rite of passage, Szabo has watched the Long Island shoreline, and its
Shifting the direction of your business from design to branding is harder than it sounds, says Simon Black The shift from design to branding sounds easy, but it is not.
Brazil’s most populous city São Paulo celebrates the work of its graffiti artists, and none more so than Tinho. Sarah Frater takes a closer look at his vivid, colourful work
Each time Design Week learns of a free pitch, it goes out of its way to highlight the breach of industry guidelines. This is very encouraging. But where are these
Last week you asked ‘What product would you revive and how would you like to rejuvenate it?’ (Voxpop, DW 17 July). I’d suggest New York. Its visual street landscape is
Peter Schreyer, chief design officer for Kia Cars, says he wants to make his cars ‘design-led’ rather than about ‘value’. Are these two concepts mutually exclusive when designing products? There
I feel compelled to write after reading Adrian Shaughnessy’s piece ‘Talking a good game’ (Private View, DW 3 July). I am a woman and have worked as a graphic designer
I choose to nominate two objects. They both impress me, yet are connected. One is Barbara Hepworth’s Oval Sculpture No 2, the other is the Aston Martin DB7.In 1943, Barbara