D&AD reveals New Blood Award 2018 winners
D&AD’s annual student and graduate awards sees 194 recipients of its coveted pencil prizes this year, with a campaign for the housing crisis taking the top spot.
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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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How the Horniman’s new gallery reveals the human stories behind 3,000 objects
The South London museum has opened the World Gallery, a new space filled with thousands of trinkets from across the world, some of which are thousands of years old, from
5 design things to look out for in July 2018
Read about the state of the design industry, check out graduate work at D&AD New Blood Festival and head to Newcastle for the Great Exhibition of the North.
Improve your skills with a Design Week training course
If you want business management training or want to learn new design skills we’ve got you covered with dozens of course options and flexible learning formats.
V&A Dundee: latest commissions and exhibit details revealed
Key players in the V&A Dundee’s delivery speak of the museum’s international remit as well as its responsibility in showcasing the history and future of Scottish design.
Design Week Awards 2018 – the winners in full
A full rundown revealing all the winners from last night across every design category, plus our Best of Show, Rising Star and Hall of Fame inductees.
I ♥ New York, Stockholm and Chattanooga: how to brand a city
City Identities is a new exhibition at this year’s London Festival of Architecture that explores branding created for cities across the world. Curated by Place Press, the publishing house delves
Last chance to attend the Design Week Awards 2018
You can still buy tickets to our coveted annual event, which takes place on 26 June and celebrates the best in design across digital, graphics, interiors and
A look at the World Illustration Awards 2018 winners
This year saw the most popular awards yet, and winning entries include a set of cushions embroidered with penises, some hectic children’s magazine illustrations and build-your-own packaging for a range
AKQA, Map and Universal Design Studio join forces to “collaborate”
AKQA has acquired Barber & Osgerby-owned Universal Design Studio and Map, in a move that will see all three teams work on projects collectively, bringing together architecture, product design and
Exhibition explores the power of indie print mags, from Dazed to Blueprint
Print! Tearing It Up at Somerset House delves into 300 magazines from the 1900s to the present day. Co-curator Paul Gorman speaks to us about protest and activism in non-mainstream
Great Exhibition of the North: what designers should see
A three-month celebration of Northern culture, art and design is set to hit Newcastle and Gateshead this month – we round-up the events that you will want to get down
5 design things to look out for in June 2018
This month you can see the work of 3,000 budding creatives at New Designers, visit the first ever Birmingham Design Festival and read about some of the most influential women
Designers clean up polluted air with wet wipes and trainers at Somerset House
Toxic emissions, caused by traffic and factories, are linked to 40,000 deaths a year in the UK. Makerversity, a co-working and making space for creatives, set about challenging designers to
Design Week’s new training courses are tailored for designers
Our courses are suitable for anyone who works in a design business or who works solo. We’ve got everything from design to technology, leadership, sales and marketing
Summer camp looks to attract a diverse range of kids to design and engineering
FixCamp is a three-week programme in Brixton, South London, that will teach young people about everything from 3D-printing to how to work in a team, and hopes to involve locals
The Alphabet Museum: an exhibition exploring “humankind’s greatest invention”
A show at the Lettering Arts Centre in Suffolk will delve into the art of alphabets, tracing the history of communication design from ancient symbols to the sophisticated systems we
First look at London Design Festival 2018, from installations to branding by Pentagram
This year’s week-long celebration of design will see installations by Kellenberger-White, Studio Frith and Waugh Thistleton Architects, plus a refined, “playful” visual identity by Pentagram’s Domenic Lippa.
Things to catch at this year’s Clerkenwell Design Week
Print your own tote bag, delve into film graphics and learn about the future of plastics at this year’s East London design festival, taking place 22-24 May.
Design Week Awards 2018 – the shortlist in full
We’re thrilled to announce the shortlisted projects which will be vying for a coveted Design Week Award on 26 June at the Tower of London. Find out how to
Private Eye to Gal-dem: Somerset House explores “progressive” print magazines
Print! Tearing It Up is a new exhibition opening in June that will delve into the art of the independent magazine, looking at print publications from the last 100 years.
Corita Kent: the nun graphic designer who created “radical” protest art
A new exhibition at the Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft celebrates the life and work of American nun-turned-artist Corita Kent, who challenged the Catholic church with bold graphics and
Secret 7” sale returns with Morag Myerscough, Yinka Ilori and Jean Jullien
The annual exhibition sees anonymous designers, artists and illustrators create record sleeve artworks that are then sold for £50 each for a chosen charity, which will be Mind this year.
Tom Hingston exhibition showcases Nick Cave, Grace Jones and Chemical Brothers album art
Graphic designer Tom Hingston has partnered with Paul Smith on a new retrospective show of record sleeve art, along with a new clothing collaboration.