Christmas window displays 2020: 60s psychedelia, festive cherry pickers and more
With the festive season heading our way, Design Week looks at some of the UK and Ireland’s flagship store window displays.
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Exploring exhibitions and their design, from specialist shows at the Design Museum through to blockbusters at the V&A and Science Museum.
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Picks of the month: the best design events of December
From books and talks to the virtual version of a blockbuster exhibition, there’s plenty to see and do in the lead-up to Christmas.
Wearable air purifier and diabetes earring lead social impact showcase
The projects have been revealed as part of the line-up for the 2020 Global Grad Show, which showcases student and academic responses to social issues.
Sunderland Future Living Expo identity is a “window into the future”
Studio Blackburn has led the branding for the event, which will concentrate on the future of sustainable home building.
Secret 7” reveals sleeve designs from Jean Jullien, Morag Myerscough and Anish Kapoor
2020 marks the seventh and final year of the secretive record sleeve design auction, which is raising money for Help Refugees.
Picks of the month: the best design events of November
With news of a second national lockdown, it’s a month of virtual events from design festivals to “paint with fonts” classes.
Design inspiration: the best projects from October
Some of this month’s most inspiring projects offer escapism, while others are a reaction to the everchanging political landscape we find ourselves in.
First look: new British Library exhibition explores fight for women’s rights
Designed by Plaid and Lombaert Studio, Unfinished Business takes visitors on a journey of activism from the feminist thinkers of the 1700s, to the campaigners of today.
Opera studio brings the Arctic to the British Museum with climate change exhibition
Featuring mammoth tusks and refitted snowmobiles, Arctic: Culture and Climate is designed to evoke the polar landscape in an “abstract” way.
Beazley Designs of the Year showcases coronavirus responses and social tensions
The annual awards exhibition aims to highlight the diverse design reponses to world events, from self-sanitising door handles to Stormzy’s police vest.
Margaret Calvert designs new typeface for Network Rail wayfinding system
An update of one of her best-known typefaces, Rail Alphabet 2 is a collaboration between Calvert, Henrik Kubel and design consultancy Spaceagency.
Top tips from designers on finding work during uncertain times
While the design industry has suffered during the pandemic, there are some bright spots for those looking for work – particularly among freelance and digital sectors.
V&A conjures “warped” universe of Alice in Wonderland in virtual reality
Ahead of the Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser exhibition, gaming studio Preloaded reveals how it brought Lewis Carroll’s world to life in virtual reality.
Picks of the month: the best design events to catch in October
Designers have a pop-up garden, a deep dive into British logos, the Beazley Designs of the Year exhibition and more to see them into the autumn months.
First look: designing the IWM’s exhibition on the lives of refugees
The show, designed by Nissen Richards Studio aims to tell “the wider story of displacement alongside individuals’ narratives”.
Es Devlin is crowdsourcing a “choral soundscape” for the Expo 2020 Dubai
The crowdsourced contributions will form an immersive sound installation at the UK Pavilion at next year’s exposition in the UAE.
Things to see and do at London Design Festival 2020
As the festival returns to the capital in both online and offline forms, Design Weeks picks the best of the line-up from talks to year-long installations.
Everything you need to know about London Design Festival 2020
This year’s event will be going ahead with some significant changes in the face of the pandemic — here’s all the information you’ll need.
London Design Festival 2020 reveals big names for talks programme
Es Devlin, Paula Scher and Neri Oxman are among the line up for this year’s Global Design Forum, with panels, discussions and workshops taking place online.
Picks of the month: the best design events to catch in September
From exhibitions to books, there’s plenty going on this month for designers, their kids (and even their dogs) to catch.
V&A Dundee seeks to “decolonise” its galleries
The museum is re-examining how it portrays aspects of Scotland’s history which were underpinned by “the exploitation of enslaved and colonised people”.
James Dyson plans to open exhibition space in grounds of Cotswolds home
The industrial designer – and avid art collector – has partnered with architects at Wilkinson Eyre to create the gallery space, which is slated for completion in 2021.
Architecture for Dogs: Designing for a world “built on a canine scale”
Kengo Kuma and Toyo Ito are among the 16 designers and architects to have produced work for an exhibition that explores the “relationship between dogs and their people”.
Designers are helping the fashion industry spark a digital fashion revolution
The pandemic has forced fashion off catwalks and out of stores – this is how designers are helping move something famously tactile into the virtual world.