16 October – 20 October 2023 – Design Week

Studio Arc designs Postal Museum’s Dressed to Deliver exhibition

Abbey Bamford — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 12:21:37 +0000

Edinburgh-based design consultancy Studio Arc has developed the 3D and 2D design for the Postal Museum’s new exhibition Dressed to Deliver, which demonstrates the evolution of Britain’s postal uniform. Initial concepts for the exhibition were “family focused” and realised through a “very participative and engaging” temporary exhibition, says Studio Arc director Lyndsey Bowditch.

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Should we take the skateboard seriously as a design object?

Sophie Tolhurst — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 16:16:13 +0000

“There’s a Charles Eames quote saying ‘take your pleasures seriously’,” says Jonathan Olivares, industrial designer, writer, curator and long-time skateboarder. But the skateboard, a pleasure for Olivares and many others, hasn’t always been taken seriously: as a sport it has been villainised, yet will next year make its second appearance as an Olympic sport, and only in recent years has it been…

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Fairphone signals “cultural transition” in designing out e-waste

Abbey Bamford — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 15:49:29 +0000

“If you can’t open it, you don’t own it,” says Fairphone founder and board member Bas van Abel, as he recalls the unfortunate encounter with a broken Nintendo DS that kickstarted his career in repairable technology. As a professional designer, van Abel thought he would easily be able to get into his son’s Nintendo to find out what the problem was but found that the product has been designed in…

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How London Underground and Transport facilitated the city’s “largest public art gallery”

Abbey Bamford — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 14:59:35 +0000

London Transport Museum will open a new gallery dedicated to poster art and design on 20 October 2023, with its first exhibition focussing on how London Underground and London Transport commissioned posters from 1908 onwards. The museum has one of the world’s largest collections of twentieth century graphic art and design, with around 1,000 original poster artworks and over 30,000…

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What does it take to design a Nando’s restaurant?

Abbey Bamford — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 13:54:26 +0000

In the 24 years that design studio Harrison has worked with Nando’s, it has designed over 340 of its restaurants, more than any other studio on its roster, according to Harrison interior designer Annita Liasi. She says the restaurant designs have “evolved so much over the years”, from being dominated by timber materials and “very earthy colours” to “more colourful and vibrant designs”.

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Athletics devises grid-system-based visual identity for IBM TechXchange

Abbey Bamford — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 11:32:05 +0000

New York-based design studio Athletics has collaborated with IBM’s brand and experience team Blue Studio on the IBM TechXchange Conference identity, which is built on a grid system comprising four core components. IBM TechXchange is a client advocacy program for a technical audience that addresses learning and community. Athletics has previously collaborated with Blue Studio on the design of IBM…

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