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Tickled pink
Design Indaba alum Morag Myerscough has transformed a courtyard at Sheffield Children's Hospital into a kaleidoscope of colour.
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Power up
Lift 109, the latest revamped feature of Battersea Power Station, opened to the public earlier in November.
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The language of precarity
Raw Nerves, running until 14 January 2023, is the latest exhibition at Hannah Barry Gallery in London.
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Hands-on
“The Seeing Hands” by Katie Schwab is a large-scale interactive exhibition that invites tactile engagement by kids.
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Read all about it
The Royal Institute of British Architects has named the New Library at Magdalene College as the 26th Stirling Prize winner.
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Come home again
British designer Es Devlin created a cathedral-like structure illustrated with pencil drawings of London’s 243 endangered flora and fauna species.
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Ringing the changes
The International Olympic Committee revealed a new brand identity for the Olympics, the first since the games began in 1896
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London Calling
The 20th edition of the London Design Festival took place across 12 design districts in the city.
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On the dot
Postgraduate students at the Royal College of Art created Dotplot – a handheld device that helps monitor at-home breast checks.
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Veni, vidi, vici
Design Indaba alumnus Morag Myerscough built a striking fort to celebrate 1900 years of Hadrian’s Wall
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Contemporary commute
Layer Design’s latest creation is a commuter bike designed to make personal transport a more effortless and convenient task
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Bioplastic fantastic
Designer Luke Pearson closes the production loop with the collaborative product bFRIENDS
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Metaverse Multiples
Keiken’s interactive gaming installation uses tech to explore different states of being
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Unmissable monographs
We celebrate two titles by designers in the service of joy and collective wellbeing
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Make it snappy
Exploring how the built environment might respond to the harsh conditions of climate change.
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Former Design Indaba Speaker, Es Devlin presented her Conference of the Trees at COP26
The iconic stage designer planted a space for climate change conversations
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We interview climate-conscious Riccardo Cenedella on upcycling carpet waste
The sustainable young designer shows new possibilities for waste materials
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#DI takes London Design Festival 2021
This year’s festival features former #DI Speakers and an array of sustainable projects
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Denouncing plastic, hair as art, African spirituality & the Bouroullec Brothers’s latest…
Design for people, by people.
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Spoon Archaeology examines plastic cutlery, hopefully, as a relic of the past
Kai Linke and Peter Eckart put 20 years of plastic cutlery on museum display.
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The high-speed Hyperloop by Zaha Hadid Architects will revolutionise land-based travel
Hyperloop and Zaha Hadid Architects on track to transport us into the future.
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South African Firm Counterspace’s Much-Anticipated Serpentine Pavilion Finally Opens to the Public
Postponed to 2021, Counterspace’s 2020 Serpentine Pavilion celebrates places of meeting.
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Get design’s latest: Louvre’s 1st female leader, PoAD opens, & Heatherwick floats Little Island…
Innovation, engagement, and leadership are our watchwords this week.
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#DI Global Graduate Ini Archibong Launches Travelling Pavilion at London Design Biennale, Directed by #DI Speaker Es Devlin
Pavilion of the African Diaspora is a travelling installation in three phases.
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