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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Read about digital and technology-focused projects from consultancies and digital studios, including user experience (UX), website and app design.
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.
As millennial investment apps boom designers are meeting the demand
While challenger investment platforms are reaching a new generation, there are plenty of design obstacles in the developing sector.
PriestmanGoode’s New Car envisions the future of autonomous ride-hailing
The design studio’s future-facing vehicle concept has Covid precautions and details inspired by the city of London.
In-house teams: how Facebook designers work “cross-family” to unite its offering
As part of our series looking at in-house design teams, we talk to Facebook director of product design Austin Chang about cross-family design, moving beyond apps and taking on 1,000
See-saw for kids at the USA-Mexico border wall wins best design of 2020
The Design Museum has named the installation which allowed children from neighbouring countries to play with one another the Beazley Design of the Year.
Nalla designs online resource to help creatives on Blue Monday and beyond
With designers’ mental health taking a hit during the pandemic, the studio has developed MindFull to help its peers “feel a little less blue”.
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.
Design in 2021 – what will retail design look like?
As part of our series looking at design in 2021, Landor & Fitch executive creative director Alasdair Lennox looks at what will happen in retail design in the next 12
CES 2021: smart masks, smarter homes and flying vehicles
Tech giants from around the world gathered for this year’s virtual festival, but what are the main takeaways?
Five projects that reflect design in an age of crisis
The projects were part of a worldwide open call by London Design Biennale organisers, and cover everything from music, to sex education and disaster relief.
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 interactive design look like?
As part of our series looking at design in 2021, Hege Aaby and Matt Rice of Sennep look at what will happen in interactive design in the next 12 months.
Design Week’s guide to creative kids’ resources for lockdown 3.0
Another lockdown poses both old and new challenges to family life, but designers have rallied to develop creativity-led resources to ease pressure on parents and carers – here are our
Design Week’s favourite festive projects of 2020
While there wasn’t much opportunity for in-studio celebrations this year, designers made use of digital to spread festive cheer.
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.
Creatives from Glastonbury’s Shangri-La design new virtual worlds for upcoming gigs
Six months on from the first Lost Horizon festival, the team are working to put on a series of new concerts as it seeks to plug the gap in live
Foursquare rebrands to show it’s not just “the check-in app”
Following an “identity crisis”, the location app has repositioned itself with a focus on the B2B sector with a minimalist aesthetic.
This web app aims to show how “different is normal” when it comes to vulvas
The platform has been designed by Thompson Brand Partners and covers several different topics relating to vulva health and body confidence.
This online experience wants to help people talk about death
Designed by London studio The Liminal Space, Life Support aims to help relatives discuss death and dying with their loved ones.
“More science than art”: exploring UX design practice
Kickstarter product designer Sydney Anh Mai wants subjective critique to be replaced by research, test and iteration principles.
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.
Design inspiration: the best projects from November
Another month spent in lockdown had some designers yearning for nightclubs and events gone by, while others are revisiting old projects or pushing new boundaries.