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.
Design Museum at 30: its most important moments from history
As the London-based cultural institution turns 30 this year, we look back at its story, from its beginnings as a small space in the basement of the V&A museum, its
Could this respirator prevent deaths in future fire outbreaks?
Rimal Bhatt’s “streamlined” respirator, which uses radio frequency to track when people have evacuated a building, was designed after the Grenfell fire.
Creating Glastonbury’s Shangri-La out of landfill junk
We speak to Kaye Dunnings, creative director at the festival’s most crusading area, Shangri-La, about designing huge art installations from recycled electronics, protest art workshops and creating a “safe space”
Picks of the month: the best design events to catch in July
This month, you can suss out the brightest up-and-coming creative talent at D&AD New Blood Festival, learn about how the industry is dealing with gender equality and delve into the
Cat Drew appointed chief design officer at Design Council
Drew, who is director of policy and place at FutureGov, previously worked as a civil servant for 12 years, helping Government departments streamline policy-making through design and digital.
How design businesses can help mums return to work
Alice Darbyshire, a mother and former HR professional at studios such as Landor, BrandOpus and Start, shares her advice for design leaders on how they can support those who have
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
NHS lets people take their own blood at home with new kit
Monitor My Health is a new paid-for venture from the NHS that allows patients to take blood at their convenience, send it to a lab for testing, then keep track
Could an app help to prevent sexual and physical assault?
Bthere is a new tool that combines location-tracking, group-messaging and rewards to encourage young people to stick together on a night out and stay safe.
Should people get paid to speak at design festivals?
This week, non-profit D&AD was hit by controversy when it emerged that it had paid some of its speakers a fee and expenses for its upcoming festival in London, but
Could designing products that last longer put people at risk?
The new “right to repair” legislation states that household electrical items should be made easier for the public to mend themselves, so that they do not need to regularly replace
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
Change UK: why are political logos always boring and predictable?
Andrew Lawrence, executive creative director at Elmwood, discusses why newly formed, break-away political party Change UK: The Independent Group is struggling to make an impact with its current brand identity.
Aldi “arrogant” for alleged copying of backpack, says BabaBing
The children’s brand, which designs and manufactures all its own products, is seeking legal action against the supermarket for selling a baby changing bag which BabaBing claims is a “blatant
Memory Lane: the AI tool that asks older people their life stories
Accenture has created artificial intelligence software that asks lonely, older people to recall memories from their lives, which are then transformed into a written and audio biography they can pass
What can designers do to help tackle the climate change crisis?
We talk to graphic, product and industrial experts about the responsibilities the industry has in helping to save the planet, from designing persuasive visual campaigns through to better public transport
Designers with learning disabilities create prints for charity
Online art shop RoomFifty has worked with studio Intoart, commissioning four disabled creatives to design prints that are being sold for £20 each.
How Extinction Rebellion designed “angry but peaceful” protest graphics
Protests against climate change and ecological destruction are currently taking place across the world – we speak to graphic designer, Clive Russell, about how the eco group has used creativity
"You can't avoid an image": why illustration is a powerful activism tool
Political illustrator Edel Rodriguez, street artist Joe Caslin and House of Illustration curator Olivia Ahmad spoke at Offset Dublin 2019 about why imagery can be more arresting than words, how