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Baz Halpin and Alex Reardon of Silent House Group discuss balancing reality and fantasy when designing everything from concert tours to Vegas residencies.
Design Week Awards entry extended until 5 April
Find out about how to enter and what to expect from the 2023 Winners’ Showcase.
Health Equals’ identity looks to change how we think about health
Rbl designed a 3D logomark for Health Equals that evokes the idea of looking at health from “every angle and perspective”.
SXSW 2023 – AI gets rational as hype dies down
Else Partner Dave Dunlop visits South by Southwest to find which AI projects are rising above the noise, where climate and tech are converging and what this means for designers.
The We ♥ NYC logo is “not replacing Glaser’s version”
We spoke to Graham Clifford about the purpose and design of his new logo and asked designers about the challenges of city branding.
Patch seeks to put empty high streets to good use
The design-led spaces will cater for working-near-home as well as community and cultural events, while looking to boost local infrastructure and economies.
Start-up Formify designs personalised 3D printed gaming mice
The mice are designed using fully automated machine learning parametric design software which gathers information from a photograph of the users hand to determine size and shape.
eBay creates accessibility tool for designers and engineers
Include is an open-source Figma plugin designed to help implement accessibility through easy-to-follow tasks.
Fraser Muggeridge designs Letraset-inspired titles for Rye Lane film
Rye Lane’s typography – a modified version of a Joseph Churchwood typeface – is influenced by the “rubbed down lettering of the Letraset era”.
The designs using citizen power to clean up the oceans
For the 2023 Grand Challenge, multidisciplinary RCA student teams worked with coastal communities and the RNLI on designs to clean the oceans and support coastal economies.
Government and Arts Council England allocate £58.8 million to cultural venues
While some previously neglected cultural hotspots will see an increase in funding, other long-standing arts institutions have suffered as a result of the Government’s new direction.
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