The Public Toilet
To mark World Toilet Day (19 November) Greyworld founder Andrew Shoben has installed a 5m-high interactive squatting sculpture outside London’s City Hall.
Virgin Atlantic unveils Newark clubhouse with ‘downtown flair’
Virgin Atlantic has unveiled its latest Clubhouse in Newark Liberty Airport, New Jersey, US, where it has tried to capture the ‘downtown flair’ of lower Manhattan.
Bringing manufacturing back
One of the key points in Radio 4’s interesting debate this morning about the future of design education is that the disconnect between design and manufacture in the UK is
Not prioritising design education is ‘disastrous’, says Frayling
Former Royal College of Art rector Sir Christopher Frayling says a failure to prioritise design education is ‘disastrous’ for the economy.
Modern Panic
The last time DW visited art-space Apiary Studios, it ended up spending no small amount of time laying in a coffin, before watching an enormous ice skull doused in paraffin
News in brief round-up
A round-up of this week’s news in brief.
Purpose’s ‘ribbon’ branding for The Skills Show
Purpose has created the branding and graphics for careers and skills event The Skills Show.
GP Studio designs The Whisky Shop flagship
GP Studio has designed the flagship branch of The Whisky Shop, due to open in London’s Piccadilly next week.
ITV moves towards centre-stage
Broadcaster ITV’s major rebrand brings together some interesting trends that have been running through branding projects recently.
Illustrating Folk
Can mystifying late jazz musician Sun Ra sell clothes? How about death – can that help shirts and the like fly off the rails?
Designing the Obama campaign
After designing ‘non-official’ art and graphics to support Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, Josh Higgins joined the re-election campaign permanently in September 2011 to become design director.Higgins left his position
Together Design brands The Snowman and The Snowdog
Together Design has created the brand guidelines for new film The Snowman and The Snowdog, the sequel to Christmas classic The Snowman.
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Design Week closes, having championed design excellence for the past 38 years.
What will retail and experience design look like in 2024?
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.
What will exhibition design look like in 2024?
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.
