Picks of the month: the best design events to catch in June
Learn about London’s street signs, visit an exhibition about brilliant craftswomen and find out whether you’ve won a coveted Design Week award.
Interiors
New collections from interior designers and consultancies, as well as store design concepts for retailers including restaurants and fashion brands.
Science Museum’s Illuminate space designed as adaptive “jigsaw”
The new events space by Mary Duggan Architects can be adapted with translucent curtains that sweep across the room to mark out different areas.
V&A food exhibition challenges our ideas of consumption
Food: Bigger than the Plate is the museum’s latest blockbuster show, which hopes to explore the future of food production, looking at how we can be more sustainable without compromising
Viva La Vulva and Microsoft’s Adaptive Controller top D&AD Awards 2019
The annual, global awards scheme, which famously rewards its winners with black, yellow, graphite and wood pencils, has announced its 720 winners for this year.
Design Week Awards 2019 – the shortlist in full
We’re excited to announce the full shortlist for our awards, which will take place on 20 June at the Science Museum’s new Illuminate space. You can buy tickets
Are you being paid enough in your current role and are you happy?
Design Week research reveals equal pay discrepancies between men and women in the same role, a gender pay gap of more than 20% and that three quarters of the designers
Design inspiration: the best studio work from April
Lego bricks designed to help blind children learn, a smartphone concept that gets people away from their screen and a fun campaign encouraging nurses to wash their hands are some
Designing the interiors of Tottenham Hotspur's new stadium
F3 Architects has balanced the interiors, facilities, retail and hospitality areas across the new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to engage different types of fans and user groups.
How to become a: product developer
As part of our series looking at jobs in design studios, we speak to Nikki Stuart, production manager at Here Design, about creating everything from pop-up restaurants to tote bags,
UnderPinned: a freelancers’ hub for everything from emails to invoices
A new organisation tool for creative freelancers has launched, which looks to bring all aspects of workflow under one roof to help them concentrate on “progressing their career”.
Design inspiration: the best studio work from March
Reimagined Baby on Board badges, a musical Google Doodle people can compose themselves, and a virtual reality kit for kids are some of our favourite projects this month.
Sheffield Children’s Hospital fills new wing with Quentin Blake artwork
The Northern NHS trust has worked with Artfelt, Burgess Studio and the famed Roald Dahl illustrator on a series of new and old pieces, which have been used to brighten
Holi festival 2019: how designers use colour in ingenious ways
This week the Hindu festival of colours takes place, which sees communities across the world throw powder over each other to mark the start of Spring and celebrate love, joy
Design Week Awards 2019 entry deadline extended
If you haven’t entered yet, there’s still time and you can find everything you need to know right here.
Can effective brands really make people happier?
New research by Havas Media shows that over three quarters of people think brands should contribute to quality of life and wellbeing — we speak to creatives
5 design things to look out for in March 2019
Talks on women in the arts, an exhibition on Quentin Blake’s Matilda illustrations, and a new book on how to work creatively “without being an asshole” are just a few
Design inspiration: the best studio work from February
A gift set for the Tate, an interactive sandpit at the Southbank Centre and a print campaign lambasting uncomfortable underwear are some of our favourite projects this month.
The Christie hospital uses animal graphics to distract young cancer patients
The proton beam therapy centre at the Manchester-based NHS trust is the first of its kind in the UK — design studio Music and illustrator Jane Bowyer have worked together
A hospital relaxation room to make cancer treatment “less daunting”
Guy’s Hospital recently invested in a £50 million project to improve cancer care at the London NHS trust – we speak to BAT Studio about designing The Living Room, a
The impact of Bauhaus: designers tell us how it has influenced them
As we celebrate 100 years of Bauhaus, we ask designers how the school, its teachings and approaches have influenced their design style or career.
Design Museum show explores monuments through David Adjaye’s work
Exhibits of featured projects, which include the National Cathedral of Ghana and the UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre, delve into the context and narratives around the buildings.
Major new Christian Dior exhibition set to open at the V&A Museum
The late fashion designer’s story, influences and legacy feature in the new show, which has been split into 11 sections including a part looking at Dior’s links to Britain.
January blues: designers reflect on their most painful past projects
The first month of the year is anecdotally known nationwide as the most depressing one, with its bad weather, short days and notoriously unforgiving pay cheques. In light of this,
House of Hearst: how the magazine publisher's “collaborative” office space was designed
Gensler has designed the space in central London with the aim of encouraging “integration” between teams and highlighting the brand’s heritage.