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SixE chair by PearsonLloyd and Howe wins Red Dot Design Award
Stacking chair adds Red Dot to existing design awards, including Green Product Award
Terry Farrell helps launch London Gatwick bid for new runway
Architect and planner Sir Terry Farrell unveils plans for a second runway, which the airport says would help economic development - and make it London's best-connected airport
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban wins Pritzker Architecture Prize
56-year-old Japanese architect renowned for his disaster relief buildings is recipient of coveted architecture award
Do designers really need millions of colours, asks Erik Spiekermann
We’ve come a long way from Henry Ford and his any colour ‘so long as it’s black’ line. Pantone’s system, now half a century old, offers more than 10,000 colours and is bigging up an ‘enigmatic purple’ for 2014 (18-3224), while digital screen colours now run into the millions. Maybe it’s all gone too far, say Erik Spiekermann. Erik Spiekermann set up MetaDesign and FontShop, and is a teacher, author, designer and partner at Edenspiekermann
Public art reaches out beyond the gallery
Public art is a hot topic right now, inspiring new directives, new public debates and greater breadth and imagination deployed in its commissioning and execution than ever before
Hashima revisited: photographing Japan's ghost island
Photographer Andrew Meredith was one of the first people allowed on to the tiny Japanese island of Hashima. It took him three years of negotiations with the authorities to gain access to this unusual place — once a densely populated mining community that was abandoned practically overnight in 1974 and left to rot. He documented his visit in photographs and records for us his feelings of being on the island
Colin Macgadie - 10 things I’ve learned about design
Colin 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
Nathan Yong - interview
Only 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
Public space design in Dubai and Rotterdam - a tale of two cities
A city without proper public space is a city without a soul, says Veronica Simpson. But there’s more to it than fountains and piazzas
