Molly Long – Design Week

Design events to catch in March

Molly Long — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 16:45:14 +0000

The word “radical” can actually be traced back to the word “root”, according to the organisers of this year’s Harewood House craft biennial. To honour these origins, Radical Acts: Why Craft Matters will showcase the work of 16 practitioners as it examines how craft can be a bridge between our past and our future. Each exhibitor will tackle an urgent issue of modern life, and attempt a solution…

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Should interior designers be paying attention to the metaverse?

Molly Long — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 11:54:38 +0000

The relationship we have with our homes is a special one. We curate rooms and pieces to ensure that, when we are in them, they are spaces of comfort. It’s a process that is also driven by utility. We put soft furnishings in living rooms and bedrooms, and easy-clean surfaces in kitchens and bathrooms. “Interior” spaces in the metaverse have neither pressure weighing down on them.

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This interactive data visualisation goes inside NYC’s “Surveillance Machine”

Molly Long — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 13:48:43 +0000

Netherlands-based studio Superposition has designed an interactive data visualisation for Amnesty International, which lays bare the level of facial recognition technology (FRT) present in New York City. Amnesty International believes FRT “violates the right to privacy” and is actively campaigning against the technology with its Ban The Scan campaign. The organisation says that its research into…

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Royal Mail honours legendary stamp designer David Gentleman in new collection

Molly Long — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 13:42:44 +0000

Royal Mail has unveiled a set of stamps honouring David Gentleman, the designer which it says “changed British stamp design” in the second half of the 20th century. The collection features six stamps, each sporting a different design from Gentleman’s 103-stamp back catalogue. This is the first time Royal Mail has dedicated an entire issue to a designer of its own commemorative stamp…

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NYC Pride’s new identity fuses “a heritage of activism and celebration”

Molly Long — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 14:15:29 +0000

Lippincott has designed the new identity for NYC Pride, in a bid to “drive equity and awareness” around the work done by the organisation. NYC Pride is the flagship event organised annually by Heritage of Pride – a non-profit born from the events of the Stonewall Uprising of 1969. For decades, the event and its organisers have delivered support to the city’s LGBTQ+ citizens – but over the…

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How Es Devlin designed this year’s Super Bowl half-time show

Molly Long — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 14:32:56 +0000

The so-called “Avengers of Hip Hop” assembled last weekend to perform at this year’s Super Bowl half-time show. Dr Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, 50 Cent and Kendrick Lamar all took to the stage, performing to a crowd of 70,000 at California’s SoFi Stadium and an estimated 100 million worldwide. The music legends performed on a stage developed by British set designer Es Devlin.

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Gendall unveils “buildable” identity for retail company Sook

Molly Long — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 17:06:11 +0000

Cornwall-based design studio Gendall has revealed a “flexible” identity for Sook, which aims to convey the “vast number of possibilities” the retail company has to offer. Named after a Persian marketplace, Sook bills itself as a “revolutionary retail business model” which allows users to rent out empty high street spaces by the hour. Sook retail units are fitted out with large digital screens…

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Everything we know about the new Museum of London so far

Molly Long — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 13:05:23 +0000

The Museum of London has announced it will close at the end of 2022, as preparations begin to move it from its current location on London Wall to a new site in West Smithfield. Work has been ongoing on the move since its announcement in 2015. Along the way, several high-value tenders have been advertised for different elements of the project, from its naming and branding…

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Justified carves a space “between TikTok and Depop” for Gen Z shopping app

Molly Long — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 13:44:40 +0000

Justified Studio has developed the branding, experience and technology for new second-hand shopping platform Finds. The brainchild of Jemma Stacey, Finds is an app platform which allows users to sell, buy and browse clothing via short video uploads. Described as something between TikTok and Depop, Finds’ use of video “utilises an under-appreciated space within online commerce”…

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China’s high-speed Winter Olympics train is designed to rival airplanes

Molly Long — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 13:07:36 +0000

Tangerine has designed the official Winter Olympics train for this year’s event held in Beijing, China. The Winter Olympics train is a necessary, yet lesser seen, element of this year’s action. Designed by the London-based studio, the high-speed train has been specifically developed to help ferry sportspeople, media personnel and fans from Beijing to the ski centre in Zhangjiakou.

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