Against a troubling backdrop of rising costs and factory closures, London Craft Week (LCW) comes to the capital from Monday. For Louisa Pacifico, it's an opportunity for the industry to come together and tackle the threats facing craft makers across ...
Minding our manners is something most of us do automatically - even when speaking to AI, it seems. But saying "please" and "thank you" to AI is costing us, and our planet, as revealed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Altman recently responded to a question ...
The Guardian has unveiled a new global homepage and a redesigned app which combine mobile-first UX with print-inspired art direction. The changes rolled out today after a year-long design, development, and testing process, and Guardian Media Group's ...
What would the late Rodney Fitch have made of IKEA's debut on London's Oxford Street? One of the stores the retail designer extraordinaire was best known for was surely Top Shop at Oxford Circus. Opening in 1994 in the Grade II listed building, it ...
For many designers, the job market feels quite broken right now. Applicants seem to be up, openings seem to be down, and the hiring process is fraught with controversy, from unpaid - and sometimes extensive - design tests in interviews, to being ...
In his farewell letter, previous editor Tom Banks referenced the "perennial issues" which Design Week has covered time and again down the years. One stuck in his mind above all others - free pitching. Blair Enns, the author of the Win Without ...
Two London-based designers have launched their own pet care brand with an identity that embraces dogs' animal instincts. Angelina Pischikova, a senior designer at Uncommon Creative Studio, and Karina Zhukovskaya, co-founder of Love Buro, describe mud ...
Cash may not be king anymore, but cashflow certainly is. Bills only get paid if the money keeps coming in. And tough times are made even tougher by clients who are bad payers. Generally, these fall into three categories: Late payers, who pay outside ...
Home, to me, has always smelled faintly of glue. One of my most vivid early memories is of my forearms sticking to the kitchen table as I battled to twirl my spaghetti Bolognese - six-year-old me adhering to the family home in the form of a ...
Design Week is partnering with Design Declares for Design & Climate: Less is More (Manchester, 23 May 2025). Expect incisive talks, hands-on sessions and a 100-strong crowd of designers committed to shrinking design's footprint. We'll be on the ...
Ravi Amaratunga Hitchcock is founder of Soursop, an Amsterdam-based agency which works with clients like Nike, Gucci, The Ordinary and UNICEF on design, campaigns and content. He is also a trustee of D&AD. Design What would your monograph be called?
