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We round up the important design news from the last seven days, including the launch of AIGA's new print magazine bit.ly/2ypEESK
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Think you know what happened in design in 2017? Take Design Week's quiz of the year: bit.ly/2B7UG5d
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Women are studying design – so where are all the female creative directors? bit.ly/2oXoWft
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As part of our series on the future of design, TH_NK design director Dan Bradshaw looks at what will happen in digital design over the next year: bit.ly/2lJ8EVx
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Designers and creatives named in the New Year’s Honours list for 2018 include MagneticNorth founder and CEO Lou Cardwell OBE: bit.ly/2lFfjzH
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From the archive: How an explorer who travelled with Darwin turned letterforms into animals: bit.ly/2xFO9PS
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The new logo for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games is inspired by Chinese calligraphy: bit.ly/2BQDc0y
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Designer Ben Tallon says that whether you’re an introvert or an extrovert there’s a way to put yourself out there: bit.ly/2cZUXKB
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A new report by financial consultancy Brand Finance highlights how plain packaging regulations could cost food and drink brands over £200bn: bit.ly/2AqQe0I
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Multi-sensory popcorn and a furniture-focused NHS: Designers’ dream brand collaborations: bit.ly/2qA5YgY
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New York-based studio Order has created a new visual identity for Kickstarter, which looks to move away from the “childish feel” of its previous identity: bit.ly/2AkGtVh
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The University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries is opening a new exhibition that looks at some of the earliest examples of English graphic design during the Medieval era: bit.ly/2B0Jirn
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From the archive: “People are amazed by what designers could once do with their hands”: bit.ly/2o9QOtO
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Coventry has been chosen as the UK’s City of Culture for 2021, beating four other shortlisted cities including Swansea, Stoke-on-Trent, Paisley and Sunderland: bit.ly/2B2vPT5
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From toothbrushes to leaf blowers, which home product is in desperate need of a redesign? bit.ly/2gVnDXr
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Scientists at Cardiff University have launched a three-year research project to explore how the design of everyday products such as bikes and cars can be immediately adapted if they are found to have design flaws: bit.ly/2AY3kpV
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Images of the new US Embassy in London have been revealed, ahead of its opening in January 2018: bit.ly/2BNBlar
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From the archive: Richard Mark Rawlins: “I want to redesign Trinidad and Tobago’s road sign system” bit.ly/2qGIB46
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