Behind the branding and unboxing of the new BBC game Nightfall
MERó has created the visual identity and promotional material for a new BBC app which seeks to provide children with a space to “vocalise” their fears.
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News, views and analysis on the latest product and industrial design stories, covering transport, tech products and homewares.
Good Services: creating a common knowledge for service designers
A new book from Lou Downe, the UK government’s former director of design, seeks to establish a universal language for the often-overlooked discipline of service design.
Pentagram gives AI company “playful and human” identity
Covariant is an American AI company that allows robots to “see, reason and act on the world around them” and is aimed at industrial applications.
Wix reveals Editor X platform to answer “complex design needs”
The website-building company has revealed a new designer-focused system, which features a range of lay out possibilities and customisation.
“A land of opportunity when it comes to design”: an Indian design guide
Propelled by a mix of high-tech research, indigenous knowledge and political and global awareness, the design industry in India is thriving.
The AI system that helps designers “fail faster”
Design studio Rare has developed a piece of “augmented creativity” software that builds “intelligent” briefs for clients.
Can designers bring tech and the natural world closer together?
Two seemingly different themes are setting the agenda for 2020 but things get really interesting for designers when these worlds collide.
Design inspiration: the best projects from January
Pentagram’s rebrand of an internet password system, an adult-targeted CBD drink and a smart watch are some of our favourite projects from the past month.
Designing for disaster: how UNICEF created a tent to deal with the changing climate
An average of 4,650 tents are produced for the UN agency each year, facing every weather condition known to man – here, Design Week explores the innovation process undertaken to
“We view female sexuality as sacred”: designing better sex tech
After a scandal at CES, Lora diCarlo — a female-focused sexual health and wellbeing company — recentered the conversation about women and sex tech.
Benjamin Hubert reveals “near-future” autonomous ride sharing concept
The concept vehicle is tailored to user-controlled privacy and also encourages community action for the environment.
Ikea launches build-your-own party electronics
Designed in collaboration with Stockholm-based studio Teenage Engineering, the collection aims to “democratise light and sound at home” with affordable modular pieces.
5 talks to see at Design Indaba
Cape Town-based design conference and festival Design Indaba returns next month promising a special edition to celebrate 25 years.
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.
Daniel Weil: “Designers are the ones who show change”
The Pentagram partner and product designer talks about and his first children’s book, the power of chess and how he designs in the present.
Siri, Alexa and unconscious bias: the case for designing fairer AI assistants
Voice-assistants are becoming a part of our everyday lives, but they don’t understand everyone’s voices equally. We explore how the industry is addressing that inequality.
Ushering in the lo-TEK age: designers can learn from indigenous practice
In her new book, designer and academic Julia Watson explores how designers can look to the sustainable practices of indigenous peoples and apply them at scale in cities.
£9.4 million offered by Department for Transport competition to support railway innovation
Launched in connection with Innovate UK, the First of a Kind 2020 competition is searching for “this century’s Brunel” who can develop technology to make rail travel faster, cleaner and
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
CES 2020: companies scramble to integrate big ideas
Toyota builds a city, Sony reveals a new Play Station logo and cat robots replace waiters at this year’s tech conference.
Design in 2020 – what will product design look like?
As part of our series of design in 2020, Jo Barnard, founder and creative director at Morrama, looks at what will happen in product 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.
Designing a starry-eyed calendar for 2020
To mark the start of a new decade, Supple studio and Totalcontent have teamed up to create a calendar which plays on the double-meaning of ‘2020’.
Take Design Week's quiz of the year 2019
Think you know what happened in design this year? Test yourself with our quiz.