30 January – 3 February 2023 – Design Week

Can online courses provide more diverse channels into design?

Abbey Bamford — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 16:12:54 +0000

Ravensbourne University London has launched a free education platform for young creatives from underrepresented backgrounds, in a move to “fix the pipeline into the design industry”. The new platform, Kickstart!, seeks to plug skills gaps in the creative industries and help young people to launch their careers outside of mainstream education channels. Ravensbourne developed the platform in…

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Junior designers are being overlooked, so what can be done about it?

Abbey Bamford — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 11:35:23 +0000

Recruitment data has revealed that design consultancies were hesitant to hire junior talent in 2022, instead opting for more experienced workers who are seen to require less guidance and training. With this in mind we asked designers how they feel about it, why else it might be happening and how design studios can benefit from having more junior designers on the team We feel it is essential…

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Eurovision reveals 2023 identity and stage design

Abbey Bamford — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 16:17:02 +0000

The BBC broadcast identity and stage design for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 has been revealed, inspired by the natural synchronisation of human heartbeats to music and its ability to build bridges between nations. Superunion and Ukrainian studio Starlight Creative are responsible for the visual identity, while New York-based specialist production design firm Yellow Studio led the stage…

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Kiki Cocktails’ identity eschews “stuffy cocktail hour” connotations

Abbey Bamford — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 15:04:28 +0000

Oat has rebranded Kiki Cocktails with a new identity, which borrows from the visual language of magazine front pages and mastheads. Each cocktail now features an illustrated character, which overlaps a new logotype, coming together in a way which is reminiscent of a magazine cover and masthead. Kiki wanted to represent inclusivity and shared moments through the brand, moving away from the…

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Sir Jony Ive designs plant-based Red Nose for Comic Relief

Abbey Bamford — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 17:25:05 +0000

Apple’s former chief design officer Sir Jony Ive has redesigned Comic Relief’s famous Red Nose, seeking to make it more sustainable than its predecessor. The new Red Nose is made entirely from plant-based materials and is designed to fit a variety of nose shapes. It starts out as a small, flat crescent, folding out into a honeycomb paper sphere. The Red Nose also arrives in a case…

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Design Week Awards 2023 opens for entries

Tom Banks — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 16:32:17 +0000

Every year the Design Week Awards evolves to reflect the changing nature of designers’ work, adapting so that we can focus on what’s important to you and your clients. In recent years more designers across the board have been encouraging clients to embrace a sustainable approach to projects so that it becomes standard in many briefs. While we welcome projects that put people and the planet first…

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Supple’s Meeting Place identity features ‘M’ that looks like home

Abbey Bamford — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 13:21:39 +0000

Supple Studio has designed the visual identity of communications agency Meeting Place with an animated logo which comes together to reference the M of Meeting while revealing a house, in reference to the built environment. Meeting Place works across the built environment sector, making its target audience a mix of land promoters, asset managers and planning and development professionals.

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In 2023 are designers social animals or not and does it matter?

Ben Tallon — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:47:24 +0000

Until the age of 37, when twin-parenthood and the COVID-19 pandemic changed my life twice in close succession, I was a social creature. Some weeks I spent four or five nights as a face on the scene at creative industry get-togethers in whichever city I lived. After all, no matter to what extent, we all need social relationships to maintain good health. Ever since walking through the door of…

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Remembering Carin Goldberg: 1953-2023

Sophie Tolhurst — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:15:05 +0000

“Carin had more ideas in an afternoon than I had in a year. She was incredibly prolific, doing 5 or 10 versions of everything she designed”, says architect and former Pentagram partner James Biber of his wife, Carin Goldberg, an influential graphic designer and educator who died on 19 January 2023 at the age of 69. “Truthfully, she needed all those ideas, and I could survive on just a few.

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Picks of the month: design events to look out for this February

Abbey Bamford — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:19:37 +0000

As well as exhibitions and debates, Surface Design Show will host a number of design-related talks across two stages. Japanese artist and graphic designer June Mineyama-Smithson aka MAMIMU will host a talk on spreading optimism with colour and shapes. She’ll question whether they have the ability to promote mental wellness and outline how to strike a balance between capturing energy in a design…

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