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if only...
22 April 2013We could recreate an Urban Garden within the existing Covent Garden
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Washed up
22 April 2013As Aidan Walker fills up the bowl with soapy water and starts washing up the breakfast, lunch and dinner things now the family’s dishwasher has died, he ponders on the meaning of behavioural design, and how we have been led to believe – erroneously, he now knows – that we can’t live without ‘labour-saving’ devices
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Moving on
18 April 2013Office lighting really has to change – to avoid waste, to reduce energy use, to adapt to evolving working practices and, most of all, to put people at the top of the agenda. Three leading lighting designers concerned with the workspace environment give their views on precisely how and where office lighting must move on to meet the needs of the future
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UK Government website wins 2013 Designs of the Year award
17 April 2013GOV.UK, the new UK Government website has been named Design of the Year by the Design Museum in London, beating 98 contenders including Thomas Heatherwick’s Olympic cauldron, Renzo Piano’s Shard and a folding wheel by Vitamins.
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What design can do: Discuss
17 April 2013This annual international conference, hosted in Amsterdam and taking place on 16 and 17 May, celebrates the power of design and the ways it can solve global issues. The conference is specifically aimed at design professionals, company leaders and government officials.
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ET Quelle influence
16 April 2013France is taking art to the regions, with a series of 23 new, purpose-designed galleries housing sizable collections organised in a national strategy, says Stephen Hitchins. But will they go the way of the UK’s flurry of out-of-London art buildings, and become just additional public galleries by another name?
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Penhaligon’s Regent Street
15 April 2013The latest store for this esteemed perfumiers exudes a bespoke quirky elegance, thanks to inspired interiors by rising star Christopher Jenner, named Breakthrough Talent of the Year in the 2012 FX Awards
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My favourite …design city
12 April 2013In the first of a new series in which design favourites are highlighted, Jamie Mitchell is in Miami
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Top 5
11 April 2013Pick of the best new products
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Death: A design response
10 April 2013Nothing is certain except death and taxes, said Benjamin Franklin. While global corporations have been getting creative with the latter, let’s celebrate the global design community’s achievements in finding new and interesting ways to engage with the former, says Veronica Simpson
