Voxpop
Sir John Sorrell recently asked architects to name features of the built environment that delight them. What would your answer have been, and why?
Pop-up art
Paddy Barstow is not one for the constraints of traditional art galleries – he wants to discover and nurture emerging talent from the art world and break down barriers between
Dodge those Russian mines
As the boom fizzled out in Russia, where did that leave the country’s nascent design industry? Alexei Goncharenko offers his top survival tips
Design is hope
We must safeguard our creativity and take our craft seriously, because it can be a genuine agent of change. Rodney Fitch makes a plea for greater awareness of the potential
Open brief
It’s a transitional time for font design, with the need to make lettering work across a range of media shaping the discipline and opening up new possibilities. Anna Richardson hears
Profile – Woodrow Phoenix
Graphic artist Woodrow Phoenix packs a very Postmodern punch in his work, with message-driven illustrations offering up an incongruous mix of the cute and the sinister. Dominic Lutyens catches up
Rams retrospective proves the value of in-house design
All praise to your item on in-house design (Comment, DW 22 October). Indeed, in-house design is often viewed as the poor relation, but you can now see the results of
Banks should bank on affordable luxury to instil confidence
Two weeks ago you posed the question, ‘What can the new and devolved banking brands do to instil confidence in their customers?’ (Voxpop, DW 12 November). High street banks need
COI is not to blame for public-sector problems
Recent news items and letters about design procurement in the public sector have raised some important issues regarding free-pitches, aborted tenders and Central Office of Information rosters (News, DW 24
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