John Miller wins new Tate job
The Tate is to open a research centre next spring at Tate Britain in London. It has appointed architect John Miller & Partners to design the interiors, but will use
Introduction
Jim Davies says that designers are the new ad agencies when it comes to creative poster design.
Digest
British manufacturers must embrace sustainable product and service design if they are not to lose the economic initiative and the moral high-ground to their European counterparts, according to new research
Try to see the big, convention-challenging picture
I write with regard to your VoxPop about what product designers can show Web designers (DW 19 April). Combining functionality and form gives designers an understanding of how users navigate
La Broche
Nominated by: Fernando Gutiérrez, Pentagram Design
Digest
Graphic designer James Goggin has redesigned the visual arts quarterly Zoo to coincide with the magazine’s second birthday. Goggin says he has given Zoo a ‘more contemporary feel’.
Call for entries
The Design Business Association is calling for entries to the International Design Effectiveness Awards (Ideas) which measure and reward commercially successful design projects. Deadline for submissions is 25 May. Winners
There’s more to British design than branding
This week we’ve seen an attempt by the media to revisit the issue of branding Britain, presumably for want of something better to debate. Once more we heard Radio 4’s
Good Technology launches Selfridges website for Japan
Good Technology has created a website to support Selfridges’ Japanese in-store promotion, Tokyo Life. The microsite, at www. Selfridges.com launches next week and will run throughout May. ‘The website will
Seminars
Design Opportunities in Germany, Switzerland and Austria; World of Art
Thames & Hudson relaunch World of Art series
Publisher Thames & Hudson is relaunching its World of Art book series, featuring redesigned covers and a revamped World of Art logo, to celebrate its 45th anniversary on 1 May
Conference
The Pan-European Brand Design Association invites all design professionals to its 10th anniversary event organised with the Japan Package Design Association in Tokyo from 29 May until 2 June. A
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Design Week closes, having championed design excellence for the past 38 years.
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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.
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As part of our series on design in 2024, Studio Arc director Lyndsey Bowditch offers her view on what exhibition design might look like next year.
