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Thomas Heatherwick has transformed the entrance to Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital in London, as part of a £2m project to improve the area. Heatherwick’s first commission for the NHS,
Festival perspective
The scale and scope of the London Design Festival means you need to steer a well-planned route through the mammoth event that covers every discipline as well as multiple sites
Kid appeal
Obvious colours and predictable shapes have long dominated design for children, says Pamela Buxton, but recent research, the subject of a London Design Festival conference, finds that there’s no sound
P&G outsources innovation to find new product ideas
Procter & Gamble is throwing open its doors to UK design consultancies in its biggest ever search for new product ideas.
Brandhouse client services head poached by Albion
Brandhouse client services director Liz Wilson is to leave the consultancy to join advertising agency Albion in the same role. The consultancy has no plans to recruit a replacement. After
Photon pays £6.4m for Corporate Edge
Corporate Edge’s acquisition by Photon Group UK, part of Australian specialist marketing services group Photon Group, marks the first purchase of a branding consultancy by the UK arm of the
Land Design captures couture allure for V&A show
The Victoria & Albert Museum’s autumn exhibition, The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-1957 opens this week, created by Land Design Studio.
Print into art
If printmaking seems to be always about work, work, work, then why not call a halt for a moment and consider its myriad possibilities as a thread of artistic practice?
Aiming for an emerald planet
Martin Nixon always assumed that his design business was environmentally right on, but an audit revealed that his carbon footprint was much bigger than he thought
Circular logos are just the thing in The Netherlands too
I recently noticed an article on page 3 of Design Week (DW 16 August) about De-construct rebuilding the Crafts Council website. I couldn’t help but notice that the new Crafts
There’s no excuse for being rude to your candidates
I’d like to sound a note of caution to all graduates – after the interview, get used to being left in the dark, for there seems to be a lack
I wasn’t aspiring to be Hemingway in six words
Much as I enjoyed Quentin Newark’s critique of the 26 posters project (DW 6 September), he is missing the point. We weren’t ‘encouraged to take a site as [our] starting
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