17-21 October 2022 – Design Week

Baxter & Bailey creates new visual toolkit for NSPCC Helpline

Abbey Bamford — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 12:54:47 +0000

Baxter & Bailey has collaborated with children’s charity the NSPCC on a redesign of the NSPCC Helpline’s visual identity that features bespoke illustrations and a “graphic lifeline” to raise awareness for the service and “reassure people that they are making the right call”. The NSPCC Helpline is where adults can report concerns about a child’s safety or wellbeing, not to be confused with…

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In Theatre exhibition designed to explore AI surgery

Abbey Bamford — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 10:14:25 +0000

The Liminal Space has designed the exhibition In Theatre, which urges people to consider how technology and AI can be used in a surgical setting. Working with The Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS), the studio set out to create a space that would showcase futuristic innovations from researchers in engineering and clinical sciences at University College…

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Ben Tallon: “Designers must embrace idiosyncrasies to reach their potential”

Ben Tallon — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:36:10 +0000

People can spend an entire life without much of an understanding about why they are the way they are. ‘Be yourself’ is something of a paradox, isn’t it? Simultaneously delightfully simple and head-splittingly complex advice. Even those of us who stride confidently ahead, dripping with an envy-inducing identity cannot always explain how they do it. That’s fine. I have a print on my kitchen wall…

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Behind the cover design of the 2022 Booker Prize winner

Abbey Bamford — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 16:23:04 +0000

Art director Peter Dyer created the cover for this year’s Booker Prize winner, drawing inspiration from “Sri Lankan devil masks” known as Raksha masks. Shehan Karunatilaka is the second Sri Lankan author to win the prize with his book The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. Set during the height of the Sri Lankan civil war, the book follows the afterlife of photographer, gambler and closeted gay man…

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Studio Texture overhauls identity and renames children’s charity ICAN

Abbey Bamford — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 16:05:32 +0000

Studio Texture has rebranded and renamed charity ICAN – now Speech and Language UK- with an identity which uses characters and speech bubbles. The charity’s goal is to reach more of the 1.7 million children who have difficulties with talking and understanding words. According to Studio Texture creative director Stuart Youngs, finding a new name for the charity was a challenge because “nothing…

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Seventh Generation redesigned to stand out in a “landscape of increased greenwashing”

Sophie Tolhurst — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 16:05:15 +0000

Design Bridge has redesigned Unilever’s sustainable and eco-friendly home and personal care brand Seventh Generation to better communicate its mission and 30+ years of experience in an increasingly crowded sustainable product market. Seventh Generation “has been rooted in this incredibly sustainable world and purpose right from its inception, which when it came to market […] was genuinely new”…

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“I felt responsibility to be the voice of my people”: Iranian diaspora designers pledge support

Sophie Tolhurst — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 15:36:00 +0000

On 16 September a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa (Jina) Amini, died in hospital after being detained by Iran’s ‘morality police’ for wearing her hijab too loosely three days earlier. In the wake of her death, widely believed to have been caused by being beaten heavily in custody, a protest movement has grown across Iran and around the world, led by women. Almost a month later…

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Typographic interventions shape “dreamlike” publication for artist Sondra Perry

Sophie Tolhurst — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 15:36:00 +0000

Fieldwork Facility has designed a new “dreamlike” publication featuring experimental typography to accompany American artist Sondra Perry’s audio-visual work Lineage for a Phantom Zone. Created for the inaugural Muse Rolls-Royce Dream Commission, Perry’s artwork imagines a dream the artist wishes she could have had. Combining personal and online archival footage, Perry explores both her personal…

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