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We've already had smart fridges, smart toasters and entire smart kitchens, so it was only a matter of time before someone decided to create a smart bin. Enter the London-based design studio PearsonLloyd, who are no strangers to intelligent waste,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For the first time this May 13-15, The UK’s leading design exhibition Designjunction and Dwell on Design, America’s largest design event, will partner during NYCxDESIGN this weekend (May 13 - 15) in a highly anticipated collaborative show...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Design Reality's Thermal Firefighters Mask This firefighters mask by the Design Reality consultancy has been redesigned and engineered with the aim of enabling wearers to avoid danger and save victims more quickly. The Scott Sight TIM (Thermal In...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A design technique used on blockbuster films like Minority Report, The Terminal and Man of Steel is being applied to the development of future cities in the face of huge refugee migrations. Production designer Alex McDowell, who heads up 5D Global...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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
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...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A team from MIT has won an ambitious competition to design a levitating travel capsule for the Hyperloop; billionaire Tesla Motors entrepreneur Elon Musk's futuristic, high-speed transport network. MIT's design was announced as the winner of the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
When the news dropped yesterday morning that the man born David Robert Jones (he changed his stage name to avoid being mistaken for Davy Jones from The Monkees) had passed away at the age of 69, I was actually half way through my 7th or 8th run...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
January: Charlie Hebdo cover unites millions against religious fascism For this one, there really are no words that would suffice. It does, however, underline the power that powerful and intelligent creative work still has to bring us together, even...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Studio Egret West unveiled a revolutionary new design vision for the London Underground stations of the future this week, in a design manifesto developed by the London studio that includes more eye-catching tube station entrances, subdued lighting...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Footwear brand New Balance has followed in the footsteps of Adidas (apologies for the pun, but it was just too easy) in developing 3D-printed footwear. The American brand partnered with Massachusetts design studio Nervous System to develop prototype...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Generally speaking, campaigns based around toilets will often utilise pretty broad humour to get the point across, because we all know, toilets (or at least what happens on them) is usually quite funny (come on, admit it). But a sobering new campaign...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
OMA, the design firm founded by Rem Koolhaas, is to build its first major public building in the UK after winning an international competition to design The Factory in Manchester. The £110 million project will create a major new theatre and arts...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The recent history of London is a fascinating one indeed, especially when you factor in how the progress of transportation has transformed the city into a bustling, seemingly endless metropolis. The designs that underlined these changes appeared to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
We live in the age of design. We've seen Accenture buy design firm Fjord, making the international consulting firm the latest member of the club of multifaceted companies that are integrating studios. Accenture isn't doing its design savvy moves...
Posted by: Harry Elonen
The ground-floor of the Old Vinyl Factory in Hayes, West London, which was at the forefront of UK technological development for much of the 20th century, has been reimagined as an incubator space for start-up product design businesses. The site was...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Design Manchester is back, and this time it’s all about the Know How. With a manifesto built on celebrating creativity, Design Manchester aims to promote collaboration and inclusivity across the worlds of art, design, illustration, film,...
Posted by: Michelle Collier
Transported by Design is a celebration of a rich design heritage, dating back over 150 years. Running from July 2015 to early 2017, this programme of events, exhibitions and competitions will raise awareness of the pioneering design used every day by...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Every year, the London Design Festival descends upon the capital and brings the design community to life. For the last 9 years, the festival has also brought with it the London Design Medal, an accolade that has become remarkably important when...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
We all know the agency Mother. Great client list, lots of awards, reputation for ace campaigns; but nobody really associates them with scarves. Until now, that is. Introducing Heidi Pridham and Nick Hallbery. Nick's a leading creative at Mother and...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Tattoos used to be a taboo, something you tried to hide form prospective employers and your mum. They used to be something only the most hardened of criminals had – in the Russian prison system they were even their own coded language. At the very...
Posted by: Jade French
Burger King is giving itself a visual upgrade with a new interior design that features self-service kiosks and more subtle brand detailing. These new-look interiors are being launched at Burger King’s flagship restaurant in Paris, which the is...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In my youth (I'm approaching 30 so feel I've just about earned the right to use that phrase) I would typically spend almost every weekend during the summer at a music festival. Sometimes knee-deep in mud and excrement whilst gleefully nodding along...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Between the 8th and the 9th of August, visitors to the British Museum will be invited to step a virtual foot inside a 4,000-year-old Bronze Age roundhouse with the launch of the London museum’s first ever virtual reality weekend. By teaming up...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In 1915, an American lawyer Harold Hirsch organised a design competition. Eight packaging companies were invited to build “a bottle which a person could recognise even if they felt it in the dark, and so shaped that, even if broken, a person...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Award-winning design consultant Emma Sexton hosts the first ever UK design event for non-designers at Thomson Reuters, Canary Wharf on 22nd September 2015. Unleash The Power is the first design event of it’s kind, on a mission to challenge...
Posted by: Hands Down™
By Emma Sexton, Founder and Creative Director at Make Your Words Work™ How many times as a designer have you heard the phrase can you ‘make it look pretty?’. When this is the request you know that you will be used at the end of the...
Posted by: Hands Down™
It's a constant 24 month cycle we've all become sadly accustomed with. The semi-ritualistic shedding of one smartphone for another as our contracts expire and we look to the newest handsets on the market for our next technological fix. The Dutch...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Clerkenwell Design Week unfortunately draws to a close this evening, but there's just enough time left for those interested in design and architecture to explore the marathon of design goodness on streets of EC1 before it's swept up in time for...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The London Design Festival recently unveiled it's installation plans for the 2015 festival, which will run between the 19th and the 27th of September this year. David Adjaye, Alex Chinneck and Mischer Traxler are among the esteemed designers set...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The London Design Museum has appointed Leo Burnett as its official design partner for the museum’s final year in its current location at 28 Shad Thames in central London near Tower Bridge, where it has existed since 1989 as the world's leading...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Loughborough University announced this week that it will be temporarily halting the rollout of its new visual identity as a result of a petition set up to revoke the revised logo, which was supposedly developed with the aim of bringing the branding...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
If sitting was an olympic sport, I'd probably be up there on the podium every four years without fail. As such, finding the perfect couch (or sofa or settee depending on your preference) has always been something of a bucket list goal for me....
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Do you have a design for the VIP press bag at Tent London 2015? Each year over 1,200 International & UK lifestyle press visit, and this year we want to give them something special and unique. This year Tent London & Icon Printing are teaming up...
Posted by: London Design Fair
Samsung and Leo Burnett recently achieved quite a monumental feat when they allowed an Australian father to witness his child being born from over 4,000 kilometres away using the Samsung Gear VR headset. A world-first live streaming event, Jason...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Hewlett Packard is launching a new desktop computer in the UK that aims to help designers move seamlessly between physical and digital platforms by implementing both a vertical touchscreen and a horizontal touchpad. The machine is an interesting...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial