06 November – 10 November 2023 – Design Week

New platform launches to help web designers navigate accessibility guidelines

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 14:29:58 +0000

Designer Alaïs de Saint Louvent, supported by Edinburgh-based design consultancy Studio Lutalica and web design studio Lattimore + Friends, has developed a free website in a bid to demystify the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and help designers make websites more accessible. Understanding Accessibility was created to be a simple step-by-step guide for web designers that they can use…

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Ben Tallon: “Will selling my creativity ever feel natural?”

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 10:44:42 +0000

You can rely on a childhood friend to go straight for the throat. About one minute after I’ve sent him my Kickstarter pitch, he comes back paraphrasing my lengthy message about why creativity matters (and the Leeds United striker’s disastrous outing). “Bamford was s**t…buy my book.” What kills me is, I can’t really contest his summary. Thankfully, our friendship is built on jest…

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Koto overhauls music streaming service Deezer’s identity with pulsating logo

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 16:11:05 +0000

Koto has designed a new identity for music streaming service Deezer with a “pulsating heart motif”, redesigned logo and bespoke typography. The audio platform was founded in 2007, has a presence in 180 countries and ten million paid subscribers. Koto has previously worked with the likes of Amazon Music, AMP, Netflix, Sonos and Spotify. Despite having “a strong brand equity”…

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Science Museum seeks lead designer for major gallery and exhibition project

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 14:24:01 +0000

The Science Museum Group is seeking an architect and exhibition design team to work on its new landmark Horizons Gallery for a contract valued at £274,000. Horizons Gallery (working title) will explore “how today’s scientific discoveries are shaping our future” and cover how science impacts ourselves, our planet and our universe, according to the brief. The project will be supported by the Peter…

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Soapbox refreshes brand and website for The National Centre for Social Research

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 17:17:47 +0000

London-based design firm Soapbox has refreshed not-for-profit The National Centre for Social Research’s (NatCen) identity and website, with a logo made up of data bars and lead typeface linked to “the history of public communications”. NatCen is a registered charity and the largest independent not-for-profit social research organisation in the UK. Its role is to collect…

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G&A completes 18-year-long exhibition project for America’s National WWII Museum

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 14:07:53 +0000

Experience design firm G&A has designed the exhibits in the National WWII Museum’s new Liberation Pavilion, which look to “make connections between the events that happened in the Second World War and the world we live in today”. The two-floor exhibit space explores the end of the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the post-war years, and was designed to bring lessons learned from that time to…

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Es Devlin on “30 years of engaging in audience, performance and ritual”

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 17:10:29 +0000

“I think a map of one’s own practice, for an applied artist, is very helpful”, says set designer and artist Es Devlin. Particularly when that practice involves working with theatre, where stories are washed away “like writing in the sand each day” Devlin says, quoting the character of actor John Gielgud in the play The Motive and the Cue, which she recently worked on. Although there is some…

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“A discovery issue”: how creative careers app ERIC is increasing access to the industry

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 15:15:55 +0000

Childhood friends Mae Yip and Samantha Hornsby both wanted to get into creative careers but failed for different reasons. Yip’s parents “didn’t see the creative industries as a serious job option” and so she was discouraged from pursuing a career in the sector, while Hornsby was rejected from four art universities and “didn’t know any other pathway”, according to Hornsby. Years later…

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