Maplin have made one small step for the high street not a giant leap for personalised home manufacturing, argues Andrew Walker
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Wednesday 03 July 2013
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Tuesday 02 July 2013
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Monday 01 July 2013
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iStyle: Bright young things
Friday 28 June 2013
This week’s New Designers exhibition offers visitors the chance to buy a future design classic. Trish Lorenz tracks down the names to watch
Cecil horse dies after Royal Ascot win
Sunday 23 June 2013
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3D printing for dummies: How do 3D printers work?
Friday 21 June 2013
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Friday 31 May 2013
Although most of the anger directed at the new Xbox One has focused on Microsoft’s policies regarding second-hand games, the actual look of the new console has also been met with confusion.
V&A museum appoints first ever 'game designer in residence' to add virtual dimension to its collection
Thursday 30 May 2013
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iStyle: Make tracks underground
Friday 24 May 2013
From old train seats to Tube station posters, the next stop could be your house, says Trish Lorenz
The design 'Oscars': Gov.uk website beats the Olympic Cauldron and the Shard to top award
Tuesday 16 April 2013
The decision even surprised one of the new site's designers
To unsettle and inform: Central Saint Martins' exhibition shows everyday objects in a new light
Wednesday 10 April 2013
Objects on display at Central Saint Martins College's exhibition include a shredder powered by hamsters.
Born in the USA
Thursday 04 April 2013
American fashion labels dominate the high street, but now it's time to welcome the country's homewares into our homes, says Trish Lorenz
The gruesome cigarette packaging that could become a design classic
Monday 25 February 2013
The Design Museum in London includes controversial cigarette packaging in list of possible 'Designs of the Year 2013'
Last night's viewing - The Sound and the Fury: a Century of Music, BBC4; Death in Paradise, BBC1
Wednesday 20 February 2013
In the second of his series The Sound and the Fury: a Century of Music, Ian MacMillan addressed what he described as "one of the most ruthlessly experimental periods in the whole history of music." The adverb was intriguing. From whom was pity being withheld exactly? The audience, which explicitly became an irritating inconvenience to some composers? Or the composers themselves, who emerged from the horrors of totalitarianism to find themselves wrapped in a kind of elective cultural tyranny?
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