Stanton Williams creates new gallery for the British Museum’s Waddesdon Bequest
The new gallery has been designed to resemble a Schatzkammer (treasure room) and features exhibition graphics by Cartlidge Levene.
Designers’ degree show tales
With graduate show season now in full swing, we ask designers what they created for their final show when they were at university.
How to build bridges between the design industry and education
Emily Penny, co-founder of Colourful Design Strategy and visiting lecturer at The Cass, looks at how the design industry and creative education can build links with each other.
Interactive animal models to be scattered around Bristol
LAX – the Laboratory for Architectural Experiments – has won Watershed’s Playable City Award 2015, and will be scattering kangaroo, dolphin, rabbit and beetle installations that respond to movement around Bristol.
Parliamentary investigation into design’s effect on behaviour
The Design Commission investigation will look at how design of the built environment can affect people’s behaviour.
The Plant looks to classic Italian food packaging for Jamie’s Italian range
The consultancy says it has looked to Italian Modernism and classic packaging for the new range.
Avakai – a wooden doll for the digital age
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HSBC brand to disappear from the high street
There is speculation that HSBC could revive the Midland Bank name or bring its online brand First Direct on to the high street.
Typographer Hermann Zapf dies aged 96
Zapf created typefaces including Optima, Palatino, Zapf Dingbats and Zapfino.
Why Waterstones, Odeon and 10 Downing Street are dropping letters
NHS Blood and Transport has revealed the “Missing Type” campaign, which has seen brands countrywide drop the letters A,O and B from their logos – indicating blood types – to encourage
M Worldwide creates new Whipsnade Zoo visitor centre
The consultancy says the new visitor centre will act as a “pivotal hub” at the attraction.
Manchester Airport aims to become “Northern Gateway”
The airport is planning a £1 billion, ten-year design overhaul.
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