“Time is money”: Designing a daily visual reminder of the gender pay gap
Aiming to “empower conversations”, the Lost Time Project has created a calendar that calls attention to the gender pay gap and the days that women “work for free”.
Holly Kielty: "Brands need to stop ignoring women over 50"
Design Bridge director of storytelling Holly Kielty says that women over 50 have become a “forgotten audience” who they can no longer afford to ignore.
Designers on International Women’s Day: “We need to address imbalance all year round”
To mark International Women’s Day we asked women in the industry what their greatest challenges are in the workplace today.
Our favourite International Women’s Day 2020 projects
From a Toxic Masculinity recycling plant, to moody wombs, these are our favourite creative products inspired by International Women’s Day on 8 March.
The women working to make design education more diverse
Design education, much like the wider industry, is lacking in diversity – here, Design Week speaks with some of the women who are working to change this through collective action.
The talented female designers you should be following
On International Women’s Day, we take a look at the work of 10 up-and-coming designers across graphics and illustration, exhibitions, products, digital design and more.
The most important issues for female designers in 2018 and how to address them
On International Women’s Day, we ask designers and industry figureheads what the biggest issues are for women in design and how we can begin to solve them.
Design that fights sexism: from gender-neutral clothing to protest placards
Last week, we wrote about a series of long-lost Suffragette posters used to fight for women’s right to vote and work in the early 20th century. Now, we ask designers about
The most influential female designers of the last century
On the centenary of women’s suffrage in the UK, we look at the female designers who have made an impact on everything from graphics to textiles over the past 100
The long-lost suffrage protest posters used to fight for women’s rights
This year marks 100 years since women aged over 30 were given the vote – Cambridge University Library is celebrating the occasion with a new exhibition showcasing previously-unseen political protest
Royal Mail stamps designed to mark centenary of women's right to vote
Supple Studio has designed eight stamps telling the story of the women’s suffrage movement and celebrating 100 years of the female vote.
Women are studying design – so where are all the female creative directors?
In her first column, Kerning the Gap founder Nat Maher looks at how female designers face career progression challenges and lack of exposure – an inequality that was revealed to
Camille Walala: “Playfulness is as important for adults as it is for kids”
French graphic artist Camille Walala is known for brightening up public spaces with her patterns. We visit her latest installation at London’s Now Gallery; an interactive, disorientating maze that encourages visitors to
Annie Atkins and the “secret world” of film graphics
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Louise Fili on a life in food and design
New York designer Louise Fili has made a career of finding elegant design solutions often influenced by European Modernism and a love affair with food, but when it comes to
21 top tips from letterer Jessica Hische
Learn whether to kern or not to kern, how to be professional, the best way to tell a client what’s wrong with their logo and when to use the threat
Margaret Calvert: “I would have worked for nothing”
Last week, British road and motorway signage icon Margaret Calvert spoke at a D&AD lecture – we’ve put together some key pieces of insight to take away from the talk
"Clients know what they'll get – I am going to make an impact": Morag Myerscough
Since setting up Studio Myerscough in 1993, Morag Myerscough has brightened up hospital wards, schools and countless public spaces with her artwork. We speak to the designer about the need
Hella Jongerius: “There’s too much shit design"
Candid, frank and outspoken, industrial designer Jongerius thinks designers need to create products that are more valuable and less ephemeral. She also thinks that designers need to take control and
