20-26 January 2020 – Design Week

The virtual reality platform changing how we experience art

Fri, 24 Jan 2020 14:03:57 +0000

Ai Weiwei debuted his latest artwork this week, but the Chinese native did not choose a gallery or international festival for its premiere. Instead, he went straight to people’s phones. Omni is a virtual reality (VR) artwork — and the artist’s first venture in this field. The immersive documentary follows a herd of elephants in Myanmar before moving to a migrant camp in Bangladesh and exploring…

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5 talks to see at Design Indaba

Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:57:43 +0000

Although Design Indaba will be in a reflective mood next month its speaker line-up suggests a future-focused theme, particularly with speakers working around projects that touch on technology, science and design. Kinya Tagawa Tagawa is something of a polymath, technically an industrial designer, but the kind who is equally comfortable working on projects that might combine product design and…

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Pentagram has designed a screen-free audio platform which puts kids in control

Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:28:46 +0000

Pentagram has developed the industrial design and branding for the Yoto Player, an interactive screen-free audio player for children. The project is a collaboration between Yoto’s co-founder and CEO Ben Drury, the company’s CCO Tom Ballhatchet and Pentagram’s London office. The Yoto Player uses physical cards, in a similar way to a cassette player, but is also a connected speaker.

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NHS Lanarkshire developing Scotland’s first digital hospital

Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:00:37 +0000

NHS Lanarkshire has revealed that University Hospital Monklands, currently located in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, will become Scotland’s first digital hospital. The plans are part of the wider Monklands Replacement Project (MRP), which will see the hospital relocated to one of three potential new sites. According to NHS Lanarkshire, Monklands is “an ageing hospital and most of the mechanical and…

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PriestmanGoode creates branding and interiors for co-living colossus

Wed, 22 Jan 2020 15:16:26 +0000

PriestmanGoode has designed the identity — including logo and brand strategy — and interiors for an India-based co-living community, Olive. Olive’s communities will open in Bangalore, Chennai and Pune in 2020; these three locations will provide 20,000 beds in total. It is aimed at the millennial market — people born between 1981—1996 — who make up 34% of India’s population…

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“A tribute to pure expression”: a Polish design guide

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:44:14 +0000

“Being a designer in Poland today is a great opportunity,” graphic designer Filip Tofil tells Design Week. “You can easily choose from different aesthetics and ideas in design. Poland is some kind of a border of cultures.” Poland is a literal border in Europe, of course; between Western Europe and the East Slavic states as well as Scandinavian countries. Those regions’ aesthetics tend to overlap…

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Unionising game and tech workers: should the UK follow the US’ lead?

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:41:03 +0000

They’re professions that by default require some of the most high-tech equipment and in-depth coding knowledge there is, but workers in the gaming and tech industries (“digital employees”) of the US are calling time on antiquated working practices. The drive for digital employees to unionise has been ongoing for some time in the US. It has periodically been bolstered by newsworthy scandals…

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Daniel Weil: “Designers are the ones who show change”

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 16:57:38 +0000

Daniel Weil has had many “mythical moments” over his career — though he also calls them the “happy accidents of life”. The designer grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina and came to London in 1978 where he studied industrial design at the Royal College of Art (RCA), receiving his MA in 1981. He went onto design a collection for Memphis in Milan, and became the Professor of Industrial Design at the…

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New handbook explores how creative industry can embrace neurodiversity

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 16:55:29 +0000

Manchester-based creative consultancy Music has designed a handbook that illustrates how employers in the creative industry can better support neurodiverse workers. The project, titled Creative Differences, was commissioned by Universal Music UK. The handbook explains that while neurodiversity is largely valued in creative spaces, very few workplaces actually have environments and practices in…

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