Picks of the month: the best (at home) design events in February
It will be another month spent at home but you can still take in everything from utopian community building to overcoming creative barriers and more.
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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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Design Week Awards 2021 opens for entries
This year winning work will be given a bigger platform than ever before, we are assembling our biggest ever judging panel and categories have been tweaked for maximum relevance.
Lumiere producers launch competition to find new installations for 2021 show
The light art festival is committing more than £50,000 to fund six new designs ahead of its November 2021 event in Durham, UK.
How designers are “animating the sky” with drones
A series of recent high-profile events have featured futuristic drones shows – but as these designers tell us, a good production needs more than just tech to tell a story.
Fortnum & Mason unveils window collaboration with out of work theatre set designers
With theatre doors shut, the department store has handed over creative control of their famous window displays to six designers.
Design in 2021 – what will exhibition design look like?
As part of our series of design in 2021, Pippa Nissen, director at Nissen Richards Studio looks at what will happen in exhibition design in the next 12 months.
The five biggest exhibition design stories of 2020
In a year where many cultural institutions were closed, exhibition designers had to adapt and often bring the museum experience into our own homes.
Mermaids and unicorns feature in blockbuster new Natural History Museum exhibition
Based on the content of the Fantastic Beasts films, the exhibition explores mythical creatures alongside real-life ones in the name of conservation.
Dieter Rams’ work celebrated in new Japanese exhibition
Less But Better has been curated and designed by London-based Systems Studio and aims to introduce the German designer’s work to “new audiences”.
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.
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”.