• Design in Action programme supports the Scottish Economy

    The University of Dundee’s Design in Action programme is helping to help grow the Scottish economy.

  • Profile: Deirdre Dyson

    ‘Take a letter, Deirdre’ could have been the soundtrack to Deirdre Dyson’s life if she hadn’t had the doggedness and perseverance to pursue her love of art and switch track from being a secretary to getting herself into art school.

  • Going public: Projects

    Six projects from the public sector – from artwork in a hospital to a new primary school – reveal an abundance of innovation at work.

  • Public sector: Better treatment

    Goodbye institutional corridors, hello vibrant civic centre. BDP’s Benedict Zucchi, architect of the Alder Hey in the Park children’s hospital, talks hospital design trends.

  • Public sector focus: Q&A

    School designers give their views on the realities of having to work with today’s pared-back budgets.

  • Music halls: Let’s get physical

    Live-music venues are making a comeback, but this time with greater emphasis on the physical presence of the space – inside and out – and more emphasis on enhancing the audience experience. We listen in!

  • Gold fingers

    Gareth Gardner gets up close to the work of Noel Donnellan at the recent northmodern show in Copenhagen.

  • Kinnersley Kent Design adds warmth to Bandol restaurant, Chelsea

    Kinnersley Kent Design uses natural materials and copper to complement the menu at French Mediterranean restaurant Bandol in Chelsea.

  • Clerkenwell Design Week preview

    Emily Martin takes a look at what London’s creative hub has in store for this year’s super-sized Clerkenwell Design Week

  • Universal Design Studio delivers J&M Davison store, London

    Small but beautifully formed, a boutique retail flagship has been created in one of London’s premier shopping streets by Universal Design Studio.