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From the archive: Samuel Mensah: “Black designers are never placed at the forefront”: bit.ly/2bsoai3
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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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Freelance designer Ben Tallon looks at how design-led Japanese retailers can be an inspiration to freelancers: bit.ly/2h2JNYQ
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From Moving Brands to Wieden+Kennedy, here's the latest design industry moves and changes: bit.ly/2H0BQQH
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Running until 29th April, the Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft’s latest show displays Elizabeth Friedlander’s work for the likes of Penguin and the Bauer Type Foundry bit.ly/2AVDHSp
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How do we solve this? Young people want creative jobs but schools don’t support them, survey shows: bit.ly/2DyK8xK
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Ikea and Tom Dixon have teamed up to design a new, modular bed-cum-sofa, which can be customised with different features such as lamps and tables: bit.ly/2E5nOQ0
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Great idea! A plastic water bottle top product that allows bottled water to be used more efficiently for general washing is being used by the Metropolitan Police in London to help deal with the effects of acid attacks: bit.ly/2Dysbj1
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Queens of Industry runs until September 2019 at Leeds Industrial Museum, and tells the stories of working women who acted as industrial ambassadors for Britain throughout the 20th century: bit.ly/2B8eHYj
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The government has named the designers that will be developing four major new stations across the UK as part of the HS2: bit.ly/2E3nIIw
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Tokien, Ivan Chermayeff and John McConnell all feature in our list of designer's favourite book covers. What's your favourite? bit.ly/2B98onv
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Pentagram’s Angus Hyland has rebranded Mills & Boon to “reach new romance readers”: bit.ly/2DPxFoX
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@ltmuseum is to open two engineering-themed galleries. The new permanent displays are part of a year-long, Department for Transport led initiative to get more young people to study engineering: bit.ly/2DOpJFn
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Hacienda, Ministry of Sound, Gatecrasher, Fabric…what's your favourite dance club and have you ever stopped to look at the graphics? This new book explores the relationship between club culture and design: bit.ly/2rXoQaY
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69% of illustrators do not earn enough to live comfortably off one job, survey finds: bit.ly/2DidRdu
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A new, £5,000 student design competition has launched with the aim of raising awareness about the day-to-day challenges faced by people with spinal cord injuries: bit.ly/2jxwPYS
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From the archive: Introducing the AI logo maker hoping to become the “world’s most experienced designer”: bit.ly/2gLGZRJ
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