Pentagram has designed a screen-free audio platform which puts kids in control
The Yoto Player — a connected speaker with a light-up smiley face — can play stories, music, radio and podcasts for children.
Packaging
The biggest packaging design stories, from food and drink packaging to new trends in environmental sustainability and the latest debates around unbranded cigarette packets.
Design Week Awards 2020 opens for entries
Entries are open for the Design Week Awards. We’re building on the success of last year’s new look awards by overhauling our digital categories and bringing you another accessible
Design in 2020 – what will packaging design look like?
As part of our series of design in 2020, Claudia Morris, creative director at B&B studio, looks at what will happen in packaging design in the next 12 months.
Our favourite festive design projects of the year
From a Santa lifestyle brand, to a brain-teasingly festive mobile app, these are our favourite projects this Christmas season.
Vocation Brewery refreshes brand for year of special edition beers
The project was led by Leeds-based branding consultancy Robot Food, who came up with the brewery’s original identity back in 2015.
Mooncup packaging redesign: “It’s time the product shouted proudly from the shelf”
Established in 2002, the Mooncup was the first menstrual cup on the market – a brand overhaul from Bluemarlin looks to strengthen its position as an “ethical pioneer”.
“Trust, transparency, and no cannabis leaves” – designing for the UK’s CBD market
Market value is set to reach almost £1 billion in the next five years, but experts say careful design is needed to ensure products don’t suffer from preconceived negative associations
“Side hustles” can help stop the “homogenisation of design” – Daljit Singh
The designer took to the stage at Design Manchester’s DM19 conference to warn against the “sans serification” of digital design and to champion the side hustle.
Plastic alternative from fish waste wins International Dyson Award
University of Sussex student Lucy Hughes had previously won the national UK prize, and has now been awarded £30,000 to develop the invention.
Sarah Hyndman: “Typography can be a tool for positive change”
With the upcoming release of her two new books, Design Week speaks to the graphic designer about our annotated world, crossing over into science and why she wants everyone to
Design inspiration: the best projects from October
From a law firm rebrand based on “murmurations” to an inventive use of drowned bicycles, these are some of our favourite projects from the last month.
Designers on representation in branding and packaging: “Inclusivity is not a quick fix”
Always has removed the Venus symbol from its sanitary products in a bid to be more inclusive to transgender customers. While this has been welcomed by the trans community and
Young’s Brewery given rebrand with “attitude”
The new look, developed by Cornwall-based designers Kingdom & Sparrow, aims to get the “newer generation of beer drinkers” engaged with the heritage beer brand.
Design inspiration: the best projects from September
From a women’s charity rebrand to a banana-based visual identity for a food market, these are some of our favourite projects from the last month.
Free sustainable packaging design tool launched
PackScore, developed by the British Plastics Federation, aims to help product designers create easily recyclable packaging.
Remembering Glenn Tutssel: “I am in the business of the big idea beautifully crafted”
We look back at the life and work of the designer Glenn Tutssel, who has died aged 68, following a 50-year career in the design industry, marked by iconic packaging
Braun’s 1959 LE speaker given a 21st century update
After a 28-year hiatus from consumer audio, Dieter Rams’ iconic LE Braun speaker has been given a refresh that stays sympathetic to the brand’s “glory years”.
Rethinking branding and packaging for the growing vegan market
Hippy clichés are out as designers push category defining identities which celebrate taste and flavour.
Plastic made from marine waste wins UK James Dyson Award 2019
MarinaTex, an organic and biodegradable alternative to traditional plastic, was developed by University of Sussex student Lucy Hughes.
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.
John Spencer: “Let’s get over our obsession with branding"
Offthetopofmyhead’s founder and creative director says there’s no such thing as brand design and much of what the design industry says about brand is incomprehensible, pretentious and just plain daft.
How the food industry is serving up sustainability
From vegan vending machines to zero plastic takeaways, the food industry is finding inventive solutions to its plastic problem.
Remembering Karen Welman: studio founder, designer and entrepreneur
We look back at the life and work of Pearlfisher’s co-founder, who has died aged 59 and leaves behind her a 30-year creative legacy, including an ample client list, sustainability
How fashion is styling sustainability through product design
From seaweed shoes to synthetic spider silk, the fashion industry is finding inventive solutions to its sustainability crisis.