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Colin Macgadie - 10 things I’ve learned about design
18 March 2014Colin Macgadie is creative director at BDG Architecture + Design, which he joined in 2012. He studied interior design at the University for the Creative Arts and has to date enjoyed a 12-year career in workplace design and strategy, he tells Pamela Buxton
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Echte Rotterdammers, Rotterdam, by Thomas Ruppert
18 March 2014With crowd-sourced content, an off-site, ‘pop-up’ location and theatrical designer, Rotterdam Museum’s Echte Rotterdammers show ticks all the boxes for community engagement
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Nathan Yong - interview
18 March 2014Only 36 years old, Nathan Yong is heading up his second successful design business after going off to do an MA in between ventures. Twice a Red Dot Award winner and probably best known for his humanitarian mass-production coffin, for use in major disasters, he talks to Emily Martin about his passion for design
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Public space design in Dubai and Rotterdam - a tale of two cities
18 March 2014A city without proper public space is a city without a soul, says Veronica Simpson. But there’s more to it than fountains and piazzas
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Lighting’s next design classics
11 March 2014While preparing a talk for the Surfaces Design Show, which for the first time featured lighting, Iain Ruxton of Speirs + Major considered design classics
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MIPIM, the property market exhibition in Cannes celebrates 25 years
7 March 2014Sun and sea beckons, in the shape of MIPIM at Cannes
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Norman Foster adds to Maggie’s Centres’ roster of design
7 March 2014Planning permission is being sought for a new Maggie’s Centre, designed by Foster + Partners in Manchester.
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Media Café, National Media Museum by SHH
7 March 2014Subtle references to cinema and TV in SHH’s design avoid cliché in the museum’s transformed cafe, aimed at appealing to a wide audience
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How the EU is protecting design ideas
7 March 2014While it seems to be a way of British life to deride the EU and the negative impact it has had on our lives, we cannot overlook the force for good one of its agencies has been in protecting design ideas and work. Stephen Hitchins reports
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British Council in South Africa initiative
7 March 2014A special edition of the British Council’s Maker Libraries has gone on display at GUILD 2014 in South Africa, marking the launch of Cape Town as 2014 World Design Capital.
