"Crisis can breed opportunity": should Tokyo 2020 rebrand?
As COVID-19 changes the events landscape, with delays to events as big as the Olympics, designers discuss how brands like Tokyo 2020 can adapt – and possibly even thrive.
Coronavirus: Apple sources 20m medical masks and designs face shield
The tech company is working with its supply chain to provide medical supplies where they are most needed around the world.
NASA brings back worm logo to mark American space revival
It is the first time that the sleek typographic logo, designed in the 1970s, has been used in almost thirty years.
V&A Illustration Awards shortlist features fairytales and refugee camps
The shortlist for this year’s awards – which celebrates the past year in illustration across books and journalism – has just been released.
Coronavirus: how a Bluetooth tracking app could slow spread of virus
Singapore’s TraceTogether app has been praised for slowing the spread of COVID-19 and the app has been made openly available, but will the UK follow suit?
How do you rebrand somewhere after disaster strikes?
Places have to rebrand for a number of reasons – from pandemics to poisonings – and there’s plenty to learn, from Salisbury to the Carribean.
“Everything speaks to you”: designers on staying creative at home
As the coronavirus pandemic lockdown forces many to work outside of the studio setting they’ve grown used to, Design Week asks designers how they’re staying creative at home.
Light relief: fun design projects from March
March has been full of disruption, so we’ve rounded up some of its most attention-diverting projects, from a Day-Glo crazy golf course to a sushi-inspired lamp.
Mercedes F1 and UCL develop breathing aids for coronavirus patients
The device was “reverse-engineered” with the help of clinicians at UCLH and aims to reduce the need for ventilators and demand on intesive care units.
Pentagram’s Yuri Suzuki has designed a machine that lets you cut your own vinyl
The Easy Record Maker comes with blank discs for people to record their own musical creations, and has in-built speakers to play it back.
Coronavirus: a guide to the online resources supporting designers
Our guide to the creative-centered services have been set up in light of coronavirus – offering design inspiration, skill development and careers advice.
Coronavirus: could this hospital “pod” ease the medical crisis?
The first prototype of CURA is being built in Milan – an epicentre for Italy’s COVID-19 outbreak – and should be ready within weeks.
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Winners of Antalis Interior Design Award announced
The successful projects from this year’s awards come from creatives from around the world, working across categories including home, office, retail and hospitality.
Freelancer campaign targets “inadequate” coronavirus government support
Advocacy groups and businesses, including the Creative Industries Federation, have written an open letter to the UK government.
The world's first plastic-free deodorant refill is made of bamboo pulp
Designed by Morrama studio, Wild is a compostable refill deodorant that takes aim at the cosmetic industry’s waste problem.
Car designer Frank Stephenson on baby seats and biomimicry
The man behind the updated Mini, Fiat 500 and BMW X5 turns his eye to a completely different design project: the baby seat.
