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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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Renata Souza has created a prototype colourful insulin pen and illustrated tattoo kit, which aims to teach children with type one diabetes how to inject themselves and reduce the stigma attached to the disease: bit.ly/2BRjeCq
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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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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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The record sleeve designers you need to know about, according to Bad People Good Things' John Foster: bit.ly/2t62vsq
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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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A game that trains you to act like a fake news tycoon might sound like something from a dystopian novel or an episode of Black Mirror, but it is in fact the latest research project from the University of Cambridge: bit.ly/2ELvh2O
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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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Street Debater is a project by Netherlands-based design graduate Tomo Kihara, which aims to spark conversation between homeless people and passers-by: bit.ly/2EKUryP
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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
69% of illustrators do not earn enough to live comfortably off one job, survey finds: bit.ly/2DidRdu
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Brit Awards production designer Misty Buckley on creating sets for the likes of Coldplay and One Direction, mastering the skill of multi-tasking and why Glastonbury is like “the best art course ever”: bit.ly/2Etpwqh
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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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From the archive - From Michelangelo to Dadaism: designers’ favourite creative eras: bit.ly/2v5Ae1F
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