30 May – 2 June 2023 – Design Week

Italian tech start-up Levante designs origami-inspired solar panel

Abbey Bamford — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 10:47:00 +0000

Milan-based tech start-up Levante is launching a Kickstarter campaign for its foldable origami-inspired solar panels, designed to be lighter, more powerful and more compact than any other portable panel on the market. Company designers and founders Sara Plaga and Kim-Joar Myklebust are both business and life partners who spend a lot of time in the outdoors, sailing or travelling the world in…

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Who Gives a Crap flushes “soft cuddly design tropes”

Abbey Bamford — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 13:40:18 +0000

Design studio Lyon&Lyon has refreshed eco toilet paper brand Who Gives a Crap’s packaging to prepare it for its retail debut. Who Gives a Crap has only been available to buy as a direct-to-consumer online product but now it has launched across 240 Waitrose stores in the UK. Who Gives a Crap approached Lyon&Lyon last year after the company’s in-house creative team recommended the studio.

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How do you navigate difficult conversations with clients?

Abbey Bamford — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 11:34:54 +0000

As a digital agency owner recently niching into the MedTech and GreenTech spaces, deciding when to say no or walk away from a client is crucial. There are four key factors I consider: We assess if the client’s needs align with our strengths. If it’s not a good fit, it’s better for both parties to explore other options. We follow ethical standards and avoid clients whose projects conflict with…

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London Design Biennale 2023 questions role of pavilions

Sophie Tolhurst — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 16:16:28 +0000

The fourth edition of the London Design Biennale (LDB) has opened, bringing together design projects and research from across the world to London’s Somerset House. This is the first time that the Biennale has been curated by an institution, with the Het Nieuwe Instituut (HNI), and its general and artistic director Aric Chen. As Chen explains, the curation of the biennale has taken on some of the…

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Team GB unveils new identity ahead of Paris 2024 Olympics

Abbey Bamford — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 15:39:22 +0000

Thisaway has devised a new brand strategy and identity for Team GB, centred around a brand idea that “goes beyond sport” to make it more relevant between Olympic games events. The studio won the project via a tender at the end of 2021 and has spent over a year working on it. Thisaway founder and creative director Graeme Cook says Team GB’s previous guidelines focused mainly on “the use of the…

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Pavilion made of mushrooms to debut at Glastonbury Festival

Abbey Bamford — Wed, 31 May 2023 16:14:27 +0000

Temple Design director Simon Carroll has designed Glastonbury’s first Hayes Pavilion for artistic research and development using mycelium in a bid to encourage its use in the creative sector and beyond. The project has been led by Silver Hayes’ Team Love and Carroll, in association with Big Team CIC, Team Love’s inner-city youth outreach and engagement company, Glastonbury Festival…

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Takt launches repairable, mono-material sofa by Anderssen & Voll

Abbey Bamford — Wed, 31 May 2023 12:52:10 +0000

Danish furniture company Takt has launched a sofa made with mono-materials and designed by Anderssen & Voll to be fully repairable. The sofa is Takt’s first and follows the principles of the company’s new Perpetual Sustainable Design code, led by its belief that “furniture should be loved, cared for and handed down”, which is why “all of its furniture is designed for repair”, Espen Voll explains.

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Campari looks to Milanese architecture for its new brand identity

Abbey Bamford — Tue, 30 May 2023 16:10:29 +0000

Milan-based branding studio Robilant has designed the new brand identity and packaging for Campari, paying homage to Milanese architecture with a grooved canneté bottle and “a late Deco decorative theme”. The project is result of a long collaboration between Robilant and Campari. In recent years the studio has rebranded some of the company’s other products, such as Campari Soda in 2020.

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Analogue modelling and AR headsets: inside Aston Martin’s design studio

Abbey Bamford — Tue, 30 May 2023 15:38:39 +0000

A space last visited by the press for its opening day in 2007, Aston Martin’s design studio is “usually reserved for Royal Family and James Bond”, says its executive vice president and chief creative officer Marek Reichman. When the Warwickshire studio opened, it was the first time the design team had its own building and space in the company’s 110-year history, becoming fully operative from…

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