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London Design Festival: 10 Must-See Events

The annual London Design Festival has become one of the most expansive and impressive celebrations of design in the world, with hundreds of things to do and see. The festival kicked off in earnest over the weekend, and it's certainly hit the ground...

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Sony announce the Playstation 4 Pro and November 2016 release date

When news of the upgraded Xbox One (the rather grandly-named Project Scorpio) dropped at E3 this year, there was one question on the lips of every Sony fan; where the bobbins is the Playstation Neo? The Neo was the codename given to the potential...

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Lovefone turn abandoned London phone boxes into mobile repair shops

The UK's classic red phone boxes are being repurposed for a more contemporary need: mobile handset repairs. The British company Lovefone, which has repurposed thousands of phone boxes over the last few years, is opening the world's tiniest repair...

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Trailblazers: Creating viral architecture with OPA

When OPA released plans for their Casa Brutale project in July 2015, few could predict the overnight obsession that followed, with news outlets including Yahoo, CNET and CNBC all rushing to feature it in their headlines. In creating such a viral...

Posted by: Kate Lewin
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Airbnb launches “Samara” design and innovation studio

Initiated by Co-founder Joe Gebbia, the wildly successful online vacation home marketplace Airbnb is launching an innovation and design studio called “Samara,” which will see a multi-disciplinary design studio set up within the...

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Trailblazers: Catching up with character expert, Studio Murugiah

Studio Murugiah is an award-winning multidisciplinary creative studio based in London, specialising in illustration, art direction, typography and design. Having produced work for Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm, Little White Lies, Scribbler and LEON, as...

Posted by: Kate Lewin
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Post-Brexit Update: A Silver Lining

Consider this a devil's advocate piece, as I genuinely believe that the Brexit has been, for the most part, a tremendous blow to the UK's creative industries and the country in general, with spending forecasts set to fall this year and next in the...

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Agency of the Week: Crispin Porter + Bogusky

Copenhagen creates the Breathalyzela Over the last decade or so, the monumentally annoying Vuvuzela has become an icon of football fandom. Now for the UEFA Euros, Carlsberg is bringing back the hated horn for a good cause. To help fans celebrate...

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#TechTuesday: From subtle sex toys to philosophical search engines

Wisp is the wearable sex toy alternative Wan Tseng, a graduate of the Royal College of Art graduate, has designed a series of erotic devices that provide a subtle, sensation-focused alternative to traditional, more 'full-on' sex toys. The Wisp...

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Ikea Museum set to open in Sweden

Ikea is a lot of things to a lot of people. To some of us, it's essentially hell on earth; a gigantic shrine to consumerism with added meatballs, which pushes products you'd need a masters in engineering to assemble with any genuine level of...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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NBBJ build one of the largest offices in North America for Samsung

Whilst Samsung will probably never overtake Apple in terms of global recognition at this point, one area they can at least take them on, is in sheer scale. Enter US architectural firm NBBJ, who have designed and built, for Samsung, one of the largest...

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#TechTuesday: Perfecting the IoT, 3D Printed Motorbikes & VR Porn at E3

Carlo Ratti's very personal IOT office The internet of things is one of those terms that gets bandied around a lot, but few people actually understand. Italian architect Carlo Ratti, is the exception to that rule. Ratti has designed a system for an...

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Rebrand Roundup: From the Ministry of Sound to the Peace Corps

Spin - Ministry of Sound Spin has created a surprisingly sparse new identity for the Ministry of Sound nightclub brand, which aims to highlight the spiky, irreverent qualities of the brand, while respecting its heritage and embracing its future....

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The Hyperloop propulsion test is a resounding success

Tesla entrepreneur and all around tech mogul Elon Musk is kicking up quite a fuss about his Hyperloop high-speed transportation system, and with good reason. If the system lives up to its potential, it could revolutionise public transportation, to...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Bar Works transform London's unused phone boxes into micro offices

Co-working seems to be something of a hot topic in London at the moment, and considering the ever-escalating cost of living in the city, that's hardly surprising. Just last week I reported on the Collective Old Oak complex, and now, a New York-based...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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#TechTuesday: From playful electronics to drone football

Purposefully ridiculous, playful electronics from Slovenia Technology doesn't always have to be completely serious, sometimes it can be fun too! Enter the Slovenian designer Dan Adlešič, who recently updated his collection of toy-like...

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Airbnb adaptable offices are designed to underline the company's ethos

Airbnb is a relatively new company, having only been founded in 2008, but it's already changed the way many of us vacation, with the owner-focused apartment rental site having become larger in recent years than many established hotel brands, and with...

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Seaweed packaging wins Lexus Design Grand Prix Award 2016

An eco-friendly prototype packaging product made from seaweed has been named as the Grand Prix winner of this year's Lexus Design Award for emerging designers. The “Agar Plasticity” project was created by a team of three Japanese...

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The Tate Modern is planning a £260 million refurbishment

Few would accuse the Tate Modern as an institution that looks backwards, but the iconic London landmark and beloved mandatory field trip destination of art students across the country, is looking to engage with its forward-thinking ethos on an even...

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Rebrand Roundup: From Chester Storyhouse to Belgium's deSingel

True North - Chester Storyhouse True North has named and branded the Storyhouse, a new £37 million arts development in Chester, which is being designed by Bennetts Associates. The Storyhouse will be the biggest cultural space outside of London,...

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Tokyo Students design an architectural 3D Printing Pen

As someone who actually owns a 3D printing pen, but struggled to even create a decent stick figure after hours of turmoil, this recent development certainly impressed me, but also left me feeling more than a little bit lacklustre. A group of...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Gwyneth Paltrow works with Gensler on members only Sunset Strip club

Oscar-winning actress and former 'Mrs Coldplay' Gwyneth Paltrow, is working with architecture firm Gensler to develop a branch of the private Arts Club on Hollywood's Sunset Strip. Paltrow and Arts Club chairman Gary Landesberg purchased the...

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Design Thinkers Academy launches in UK

The Design Thinkers Academy is launching in the UK to offer design thinking training for leadership teams at large organisations. The academy was founded in Amsterdam in 2011, and has spent the last 5 years working with hundreds of organisations,...

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Design Spotlight: The London Postal Museum

On the surface at least, there's nothing particularly exciting about the mail, and yet without it, many facets of our society simply couldn't function. Granted the internet has cut down significantly on a number of everyday necessities, but sometimes...

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The V&A unveils a season of exhibitions built by robots

Whilst the idea of sentient machines is gradually becoming more real and terrifying by the day, for now at least, they are effectively our slaves. To celebrate this fact, whilst also perhaps sharing a little of the creative credit with them, the V&A...

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Rebrand Roundup: From Maccy D's to Gumtree's

Boxer - McDonald's Boxer has designed a new packaging range for McDonald’s in order to help the fast food giant better reflect its vision as a more modern and progressive company. Beginning in the US, the new look will also roll out to the UK...

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The Week in Design

Price Philip Designers Prize set to return in 2016 The Prince Philip Designers Prize, which was run by the Design Council from 1959 to 2011, is set to return next year. The annual prize will now be run by the Chartered Society of Designers, which...

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Mark Foster Gage brings gothic glamour back to the New York skyline

Gothic architecture might be all the rage in the fictional world (just look at Gotham city in the DC Comics universe), but in reality, there's something of a stigma attached to it. It's the antithesis of the clean, plain, cold exteriors favoured by...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Redesigning the London Tube Map

French architect and designer Jug Cerovic has unveiled a new design proposal for the London Tube map as part of his INAT project, which aims to standardise metro maps around the world. His Tube map proposals uses bright shades to highlight...

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Paris Dispatch: Narrating space at Germain restaurant

Germain is a Parisian restaurant like no other. It finds its home in the quaint Rue de Buci, surrounded by all the plushness of Boulevard St Germain. But whilst the location might be quintessentially Parisian, the restaurant’s interiors are...

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Paris Dispatch: Creativepool ♥ Palais de Tokyo

Fun, it seems, is something we adults are a little short on. These days, the word is something we’ve learned to measure out or schedule in. It’s time to let lose; and we know just the place… Palais de Tokyo is easily the coolest...

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HS2 Crewe and Leeds hub designs begin to emerge

As the Government brings forward the deadline for its £55.7 billion high speed rail network HS2 by six years, design visualisations have emerged for stations in Crewe and Leeds. Based on an advisory paper by David Higgins, the chairman of HS2,...

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Rebrand Roundup: From Opera to Gourmet Goat!

Blast - The Wellcome Trust The Wellcome Trust has turned to Blast to communicate “The Crunch,” a new public engagement initiative that promotes good food, health and environmental education in young people. Blast has worked on naming The...

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