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Jmitchell
Artists and designers create limited edition Oyster card holders
10 of the UK’s most creative artists and designers have created graphics for Oyster card holders inspired by ‘the year of the bus’
London Design Festival – what to see and do at this year’s LDF
Now in its 12th year, the London Design Festival grows ever larger and more diverse. Here are a few of our September (and beyond) highlights picked from the 300-plus events and installations across the capital, including Blueprint at designjunction and DesignCurial in the Clerkenwell Design Quarter
Win two great new design books, The Story of Design and Shooting Space
We have copies of Shooting Space: Architecture in Contemporary Photography by Elias Redstone, and The Story of Design by Charlotte and Peter Fiell to give away…
Designers propose flags for a new Scotland
We asked you to look at the idea of designing a flag for a new independent Scotland should the vote go that way — you’ll probably know the result by now, since the Scots were heading to the polls a couple of days after we went to press. Perhaps not surprisingly, we got a response from predominantly Scottish designers. Here’s the pick of the results, with a serious approach on this page and a more light-hearted take overleaf. Unfortunately, there’s no show to accompany this as our venue got cold feet finding this a little too political…
Win a £100 voucher for Surface View wall murals
As a special one-off giveaway, we’ve partnered with Surface View to give you a chance to win a £100 voucher for one of their wall murals
Win a limited edition print by illustrator Malika Favre
Win this amazing 70 x 50cm print of Favre’s Route 78, which has also been used as one of 10 new designs for Oyster card wallets
London Design Festival – what to see and do at this year’s LDF
Now in its 12th year, the London Design Festival grows ever larger and more diverse. Here are a few of our September (and beyond) highlights picked from the 300-plus events and installations across the capital, including Blueprint at designjunction and DesignCurial in the Clerkenwell Design Quarter
Adam Nathaniel Furman on his new Flute Lamps
The London-based designer and Designer in Residence at London’s Design Museum last year, talks to Cate St. Hill about his latest series of porcelain lamps. Developed with 3D modelling technology in Southwark, then manufactured in Hackney, and
assembled in Soho, they are a proper little London-wide design project.
Zaha Hadid to design new Maths Gallery for London Science Museum
Architect Zaha Hadid, who studied mathematics at university, is to design a new mathematics gallery for London’s Science Museum
Jane Withers on the new architecture for urban swimming
In our post-industrial cities, it’s time we reclaim water sources for fun and social activity, argues self confessed aquaholic Jane Withers, who has curated a new exhibition on urban swimming