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Design studio @ttpdesign has created graphic hoardings to go up in London to educate the public about a new medical research centre, as well as encourage young people’s interest in science bit.ly/2zFHgxK
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“TV news designers have to work with the most difficult clients – journalists!” Jon Daniel spoke to multidisciplinary designer and former ITV News design director Kojo Boateng bit.ly/2zCt1tg
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When Phaidon released a book looking at 20 years’ worth of graphic ephemera from North Korea – we spoke to the author Nicholas Bonner about his fascination with the design aesthetic of the notoriously unstable and little-understood country bit.ly/2kiaMVB
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From the archive: @Apple and @Google ranked world’s most valuable brands for fifth year running bit.ly/2k6ng2K
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How @pearlfisherlive designed a new brand identity for House of St Barnabas, a charity that helps homeless people in London get into work bit.ly/2wmZSPZ
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The campaign encourages people to live healthier lifestyles, with posters urging people to drink and smoke less and take control of their weight. bit.ly/2JLV527
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'Can Marketing Save Lives?' is split into five sections: Fighting Fit, War to Welfare, Age of Aspiration, Age of Fear and Age of Participation. It also looks at what could happen in the future for health campaigns. bit.ly/2JLV527
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The exhibition explores the role of marketing in communicating messages to the public, such as the launch of the NHS and information about vaccinations, sexual health, AIDS, food rationing, smoking and drinking alcohol bit.ly/2JLV527
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'Can Marketing Save Lives?', an exhibition at the Museum of Brands, shows how attitudes have shifted alongside the campaigns designed to change and moderate people’s behaviour bit.ly/2JLV527
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The Echt Alt exhibition – otherwise known as Original Old – took place at this year’s Designers’ Open in Leipzig, Germany, and showcased how designers are finding unique ways to upcycle waste, turning it into furniture, jewellery, clothing, bags and more bit.ly/2QmkPVd
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Take a look at these 6 assumptions designers make about client relationships. If you recognise any of them, you may wish to ask yourself the following questions: What if this were not true? What difference would that make? bit.ly/2zy6cp0
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From the archive: Greenwich design district, set to open in 2020, will offer “affordable” workspaces for 1,800 creatives . It aims to counter the fact that the capital has lost “one third of its creative workspaces” in the last 10 years bit.ly/2ftlK5D
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We speak to Kimberlie Birks, author of Phaidon’s new book Design for Children, about what makes a great toy, how designers have been inspired by their own children, and why products need to spark kids' imagination bit.ly/2OtlySO
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“The vinyl record was missing from standard emoji sets – yet they have a minidisc?” If you could add a new character to the emoji set, what would it be? bit.ly/2JKCV0V
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.@TfL and @adidasoriginals have teamed up on three new trainer designs for the 15th anniversary of the Oyster card. Each pair of £80 shoes come with a limited-edition Oyster card topped up with £80 and a bespoke leather card holder branded with both logos bit.ly/2yHfyB4
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Typographic Specimens: A Natural History of Letterforms documents the illustrations of an imagined 19th century explorer and typography enthusiast bit.ly/2zgeinW
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From the archive: Consultancy &SMITH refined the brand strategy for @YOSushi and created a new look for the restaurant chain, which was rolled out globally to evoke “the true taste of modern Tokyo” bit.ly/2RmaR6o
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From the archive: We find out why Dundee is being touted as the UK’s new design and cultural hotspot: bit.ly/2sHtFUz
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From the archive: Multi-disciplinary consultancy Map has worked on a conceptual project for Honda, which reimagines “one of the longest routes of human migration” but with specialist autonomous cars bit.ly/2zjxSiW
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