A new report from the Creative Industries Federation examines the role that international talent plays in the UK’s creative sector and offers recommendations on how government can enable EU and non-EU creatives to continue to produce great work in the UK, post-Brexit
The pussyhat, an earpiece that translates languages in real time and clothing by Kanye West are featured in the Design Museum’s tenth Designs of the Year exhibition
Fans of textile design should not miss the ‘Lucienne Day: Living Design’ exhibition, currently on show at the Manchester School of Art as part of Design Manchester.
Fans of Charles and Ray Eames can explore the pair’s pioneering films and furniture designs in a trio of exhibitions at the Vitra Campus in Germany
Collector, curator, writer and designer Jim Walrod was a hugely influential figure on the New York creative scene
Created by a team led by a modelmaker, a graphic designer and a commercials producer, working with a firm of leading motorsport engineers, the bike went into full production last month, with an electric version promised for 2018
A new book by GraphicDesign& celebrates some brilliant design projects for healthcare and asks the question ‘Can graphic design save your life?’
CR enjoys a sweary chat with Nils Leonard about Uncommon, the new start-up studio he’s launched with former Grey London colleagues Natalie Graeme and Lucy Jameson, and why he thinks the ad network culture it was born out of is unsustainable in its current form.
Its home features a ‘collage’ of buildings from some of the world’s great architects and hosts hundreds of thousands of visitors a year, while its Chairman Emeritus talks of a mission to use design to change the world for the better: at Swiss furniture company Vitra, ‘brand purpose’ is not just glib marketing speak. Patrick Burgoyne visits the Vitra Campus in Weil Am Rhein and talks to Chief Design Officer Eckart Maise about its creative process and the company’s longstanding marriage of culture and commerce
Impossible Project, the company that revived production of Polaroid film in 2008, is today rebranding as Polaroid Originals, and launching a new analogue instant camera, the Polaroid OneStep 2. We talk to creative director Danny Pemberton about returning to the name and how he turned to the classic Polaroid archive to created the identity for the new brand.
Yinka Ilori has teamed up with social enterprise Restoration Station to transform secondhand furniture with people recovering from addiction
London Design Festival kicks off next week with over 400 events taking place in nine districts across the capital. We’ve rounded up 10 great things to see and do – from an exhibition of rare graphic works by Otl Aicher to a showcase of Indian design and a talk from Harry Potter designers MinaLima… Enjoy […]
