Blaze an urban trail

Scott Burnham is turning Manchester’s centre for urban culture, Urbis, from a passive space into an attraction that people interact with, says Trish Lorenz

Report says design boosts growth

Companies that actively use design dramatically outperform those that do not, claims a Design Council report out tomorrow. The study, which tracked UK quoted companies for a decade, reveals that

Illegible equals ineligible

While Adrian Shaughnessy feels much empathy with design graduates, he thinks they have to go the extra mile to convince employers to ‘take a punt’ on them

Sound out from the crowd

Musical artists are turning to design to create an identity that sticks out in the anonymity of the Web. Remi Abbas charts the impact of MP3s on music design

Pop idol

Roy Lichtenstein’s bubble gum art is the ultimate critique of lowbrow culture, because if you chew it over for too long it loses its flavour, says Mike Exon

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