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What does the Brexit deal mean for designers?

Design Week

In the years following the 2016 referendum, Design Week has reported on what leaving the EU could mean for the design industry. The EU design right protects the individual character of a design with specific references to colour, shape, ornamentation, lines, contours, texture and materials. Free movement has ended.

Design 101
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Has Barbie become an icon of diversity?

Design Wanted

Behind Barbie’s various iterations is a team of top fashion designers, makeup artists, and the most elite couturiers. In 2016, Mattel introduced a line of diverse Barbie dolls which took two years to perfect because of new moulds, new skin colours and new hair textures. Life in Plastic – Making Barbie for a new world.

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Remembering Vaughan Oliver: “I never like to take the easy road. I like to provoke, to be perverse”

Design Week

Watercolour-brushed barely-human forms, topless flamenco dancers and abstract monkeys, depicted in his signature gothic, surrealist and texture-heavy styles, graced the covers of work from the Pixies, Cocteau Twins, the Breeders and many others. ” This risk-taking earned him reverence among much of 4AD’s artist roster.

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A play between art, craft and design with Atelier Kaja Dahl

Design Wanted

She founded Atelier Kaja Dahl in 2016, to capture the meeting between craft and design. “ ‘Tapputi and the Sea’, a tale of natural sea sponge, heat, skin, texture, fragrance and rituals – Images Courtesy of Kaja Dahl. She focuses on sensory and fragrance projects to create poetic and intuitive experiences.

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Potocco, the new art direction by Chiara Andreatti and the Outdoor novelties

Design Wanted

Potocco entrusts the new artistic direction to Chiara Andreatti who rethinks the corporate identity by combining the legacy of the Made in Italy tradition with a new poetic and contemporary look. From 2016 to 2018 she was art director of Texturae, Karpeta and BottegaNove. Ichendorf, Mingardo.

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“An entity unto itself”: A New York design guide

Design Week

“On the West Coast, which is more entertainment based, there’s effect and depth and texture. He’s specifically talking about the graphic design scene in the densely populated US city, which around 8m people call home. Here’s more sleek, black and white. It’s clean, flat design.”

Design 99
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Beyond the hybrid creations of the Sakhi sisters

Design Wanted

Founded in 2016, T SAKHI is a multidisciplinary design and architecture studio that focuses on projects that range from small-scale architecture, public and urban installations, to collectible objects, scenography and film. Tessa and Tara Sakhi, founded multidisciplinary design studio T SAKHI in 2016 – Images Courtesy of T Sakhi.