Netflix and Shaun the Sheep sequel named for Manchester Animation Festival
The UK’s largest animation festival returns for a fifth year with Shaun the Sheep screenings, workshops from Oscar-winning directors and family activities.
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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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V&A Dundee explores the link between robots and human beings
The exhibition, Hello, Robot. Design Between Human and Machine, examines our relationship with robots and how design is a “mediator” between us.
How to become an: experience designer
As part of our series looking at jobs in design studios, we speak to Chloé Morris, founder at Edible Stories, about constantly looking for inspiration, bringing brand stories to life,
Five talents to look out for at The London Illustration Fair 2019
The fair returns to London for its sixth year in November, here Design Week talks to curator and co-founder Alastair Eland about the ones to watch at this year’s event.
Picks of the month: the best design events to catch in October
This month, it’s time to rethink robots at V&A Dundee, read about the best way to design schools and a men’s magazine launches.
First look at London Design Fair 2019
Much of the work at this year’s event is underpinned by sustainability, with designs from the likes of Mexico, the UAE and Scandinavia all being featured for their eco-friendly credentials.
Paula Scher and Extinction Rebellion named for Design Manchester 2019
The week-long festival will also host speakers including interaction design expert Daljit Singh and representatives from Heatherwick Studio.
Understanding Martino Gamper's “ironic” disco at Coal Drops Yard
His installation for London Design Festival draws on a number of inspirations, from clubbing in the 1990s to fake Crimean villages.
Yuri Suzuki’s Sound in Mind captures sound design’s big moment
The Design Museum is hosting its first exhibition dedicated to sound design, as the under-explored sector comes into its own.
First look at the V&A’s London Design Festival installations
This year’s set pieces explore the future of sustainable materials, the possibilities of AI and how climate anxiety can be channelled into something more positive.
Science Museum’s blockbuster exhibition plots the progress of science in London
Its new permanent exhibition, Science City 1550—1880, tracks London’s development as a centre for scientific learning and situates visitors in the city’s history.
London Design Festival 2019 – installation guide
Void, Dan Tobin Smith + The Experience Machine, Collins Music Hall At Collins Music Hall in Islington, creative studio The Experience Machine has worked with installation photographer Dan Tobin Smith
Designers and artists unite behind auction to fight arms trade
The Art the Arms Fair auction event will sell off work from the likes of Shepard Fairey and Ralph Steadman as part of its protest against the biennial DSEI arms
Design Museum’s Designs of the Year 2019 offers “rebuke of stereotypical design”
Genderless AI voices, hands free breast pumps and self-driving shuttle buses feature in the shortlist and accompanying exhibition this year
London Design Festival 2019 – exhibition guide
Brands, retailers, designers and makers are thinking about sustainability more than ever at this year’s LDF exhibitions. Here are our picks of ones you don’t want to miss.
London Design Festival 2019 – trade show guide
What to expect from the main trade shows at LDF, which are underpinned by new themes, exhibitions and talks from the likes of designers Marcel Wanders and David Rockwell.
How Cuba’s Cold War graphic design found humour in propaganda
Designed in Cuba: Cold War Graphics is the first time the country’s propaganda designs have been shown publicly in the UK.
Picks of the month: the best design events to catch in September
This month, V&A Dundee turns one, a ping pong charity auction returns and a product design handbook is given a 2019 update.
How biomimicry is driving innovation in design
Biomimicry — design inspired by nature — is well-established but a new set of projects demonstrates its evolution, as well as its limitations.
Exhibition takes aim at travel industry’s 5.7 million tonne waste problem
Get Onboard: Reduce. Reuse. Rethink looks to change how passengers think and act while flying.
London Design Festival unveils “disco façade” installation for King’s Cross
The latest announcements also include a “multi-sensory” exhibition inspired by the sea at Oxo Tower Wharf.
Picks of the month: the best design events to catch in August
This month, Chichester’s creative scene is celebrated, Hungarian artist Dora Maurer is given her first UK retrospective and a new book reveals the hidden meanings in some of the world’s
Ordnance Survey’s virtual gallery lets users explore Mars
The British mapping service has created an online “arts space” with maps depicting everything from the moon landing to football stadiums.
Science Museum exhibition reveals hidden history of GCHQ
Top Secret: from ciphers to cyber security unveils over 100 objects from the security service’s history, some never seen by the public before.