Dyson creates engineering challenges for kids in lockdown
As school gates remain closed, designers and engineers at Dyson have devised 44 STEM challenges to keep children occupied at home.
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Homeschooling Resources Every Designer Should Know About
Children’s tech education expert Lucy Gill talks us through the best apps taking a user- and learning-centred approach while brightening up home schooling.
The NHS is using data to fight coronavirus
The UK’s health service has enlisted the help of some of the world’s tech giants to build a centralised data platform to provide NHS staff and practitioners with vital information
Coronavirus: how a Bluetooth tracking app could slow spread of virus
Singapore’s TraceTogether app has been praised for slowing the spread of COVID-19 and the app has been made openly available, but will the UK follow suit?
Design Week Awards extended until 3 April
Find out how to get your entries in and read about our improved winners’ showcase for 2020 across print and digital.
Mercedes F1 and UCL develop breathing aids for coronavirus patients
The device was “reverse-engineered” with the help of clinicians at UCLH and aims to reduce the need for ventilators and demand on intesive care units.
Pentagram’s Yuri Suzuki has designed a machine that lets you cut your own vinyl
The Easy Record Maker comes with blank discs for people to record their own musical creations, and has in-built speakers to play it back.
Freelancers finally given government coronavirus support – but it comes with a catch
The Treasury has announced its plan to give the self-employed parity with employees — but you’ll have to wait until June to get it. Full analysis and breakdown here.
Researchers develop smartphone-powered coronavirus test
The at-home test would provide users with a clear indication about whether they had the disease, thereby hopefully reducing the strain on the NHS.
Dyson designs a ventilator for the coronavirus pandemic
CoVent is the company’s response to the government’s call for manufacturers to help with the nationwide ventilator shortage.
The “impossible” story behind Polaroid’s rebrand
The brand is dropping its only recently adopted Polaroid Originals moniker, and placing a bigger emphasis on its rainbow spectrum iconography.
Jersey Post reveals “contemporary” Beethoven stamp collection
Hat-trick design has created a colourful range of stamps for the 250th anniverary of the classical composer’s birth, as well as a record sleeve.
The NHS is looking for innovators to aid its response to coronavirus
Led by its digital innovation arm, NHSX, the NHS has launched a competition to find and fund technology-led solutions which can “support the elderly, vulnerable and self-isolating during COVID-19”.
Design Week Awards extended until 27 March
As Coronavirus disrupted working patterns so much last week we’re giving you a few more days to get your entries together.
Designers come together to shine light on Earth Hour
Designers including Camille Walala and Pentagram’s Matt Willey have joined forces to produce pieces that aim to raise money and awareness for the climate crisis.
The “loss-making” Conran Shop has been sold to new owners
The group of interior design stores, founded by Sir Terence Conran, has found new buyers in the Marandi family.
Tokyo 2020: Olympic torch designed to showcase “hope”
The Olympic flame has started its relay, though the future of this year’s Games looks uncertain because of the coronavirus outbreak.
The government’s latest business safeguards still leave freelancers in the cold
The updated coronavirus business protection plan benefits many UK design businesses but again fails to give self-employed and freelance workers parity with employees.
A typeface has been designed for the Welsh language
Three fonts have been created by design studio Smörgåsbord, in collaboration with the Colophon Foundry, which aim to promote the use of the Welsh language.
The Ashmolean Museum’s new identity can flex across 500,000 years of history
Oxford’s museum for history and art has been given a visual update, based around a logo that works across digital and printed material.
New Crafts Council gallery space aims to be the “home of craft”
The Crafts Council Gallery will showcase the UK’s contemporary craft scene – the value of which, the organisation says, has “never been higher”.
How would you redesign a hand santiser pump?
Experience design studio Bompas & Parr aims to develop “an aesthetic and functional approach to hand sanitising” by inviting creatives to redesign sanitiser pumps for its competition Fountain of Hygiene.
A ride-sharing vehicle designed to fix the “Uber Pool problem”
The conceptual design from Seymourpowell looks to combine automotive trends as well as fix ride-hailing app’s business metrics.
£330bn coronavirus business loan plan: what designers need to know
SMEs can expect more help than previously stated under new “unprecedented” business loan plan, as PM Boris Johnson encourages Brits to tap into their inner “Blitz Spirit” to get through
