What will retail and experience design look like in 2024?
As part of our series on design in 2024, WeWantMore creative director Ruud Belmans offers his view on what retail and experience design might look like next year.
Retail
New store concepts, shop designs and in-store technological innovations for everything from restaurant chains to homeware retailers.
Interior Inspirations: Design Week’s favourite interior projects this month
This month’s selection includes spaces that pay homage to industrial heritage, and an opticians that uses mycelium to display its glasses.
Pantone reveals “youthful” but “timeless” 2024 colour of the year
In packaging and multimedia design, the colour of the year could be used to bring “a vintage vibe” to a project, according to Pantone.
Christmas window displays 2023: festive theatre and classic winter tales
Whether futuristic fashion modelled by Bauble-head mannequins or festive food with a mind of its own, this year’s Christmas windows displays will not disappoint.
Interior inspiration: Design Week’s favourite hospitality and retail spaces
A food hall in Toronto and Italian restaurants in London and New York are among our favourite interior projects of the month.
What does it take to design a Nando’s restaurant?
A new restaurant in Limerick, Ireland, is an example of how Harrison works to reconcile the tension between local inspiration and the roots of the South African brand.
How difficult commercial spaces can be utilised for “dynamic” nurseries
Delve director and co-founder Alex Raher discusses the untapped potential of transforming empty commercial spaces into early years educational settings.
Moves and changes: design industry news
All the latest moves and changes across the design industry
Ikea’s research and design lab Space10 closes after a decade
As Space10 closes its doors, it leaves behind a newly launched website featuring archive works as well as sharing its tools, internal guidelines and collaborator contacts.
“What do you value?”: Glastonbury’s 2023 Shangri-La concept
From using her own home-on-wheels to a tensegrity installation designed from prison, Shangri-La creative director Kaye Dunnings explains this year’s design.
How can designers address dangers faced by the LGBTQ+ community?
With a recent rise in anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and rhetoric, we asked designers how they can work with brands to address the increased dangers the LGBTQ+ community face today.
EE opens retail experience store designed to help customers navigate new technology
The EE Studio was designed with modularity in mind so that it can act as “responsive” retail space that adapts along with consumer trends.
Design Week Awards 2023 – the shortlist in full
We’re excited to announce the full Awards shortlist below. Keep an eye out for our Winners Showcase, which will be revealed later this month on the site.
Frog designs electricity-free drinks cooler for Budweiser
Budweiser and BETC Paris partnered with consultancy Frog to create a sustainable drinks cooler aimed at developing countries.
Minute Maid’s new “full of life” global identity
JKR worked on the 77-year-old juice brand’s first global identity, which features hand-drawn illustrations and “juicy drop terminals” in its primary typeface.
“A beacon of design on the high street”: Heal’s renovates its flagship
A new renovation of Heal’s Tottenham Court Road store sees it expand its street frontage and prioritise services within its flagship offering.
Milan Design Week 2023: pasta-shaped benches and experimental basketry
We explored Milan Design Week’s exhibition halls, public baths and even an old abattoir to see the innovations designers are presenting for 2023.
Nomad creates “animalistic” identity for Pets at Home
With a bespoke wordmark and supporting custom typefaces, Pets at Home hopes to unite its previously disparate sub brands.
Design Week Awards 2023 entry extended until 19 April
With one last chance to enter this year’s awards, find all the information you need to complete your entries here.
Goldmine Gummies looks to bring fun back to the cannabis market
Robot Food’s illustration-led identity for Goldmine Gummies moves on from cannabis cliches to focus on the idea of “good old-fashioned fun” for adults.
Design Week Awards entry extended until 5 April
Find out about how to enter and what to expect from the 2023 Winners’ Showcase.
Design Week Awards 2023 judges revealed
Collins vice president Astrid Stavro, ANNA chief design officer Daljit Singh, Dell Technologies Principal product designer Ruben Cespedes and Special Projects co-founder Clara Gaggero Westaway are among those named so
“Where have the women gone?”: exploring industry equality
If the design industry is to avoid “marching towards obsolescence” it must create and embrace real change, according to design leaders.
“Sometimes we think too far ahead”: Elliott Hsu, principal designer of Microsoft devices
Elliott Hsu discusses how launching new technology depends on public understanding, what makes a good brand partnership and how AI moves beyond Sci-fi.