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Phoebe Kirkland, Mobile Phone, BA (Hons) Product and Industrial Design, Central Saint Martins, UAL
New Design Value Framework measures the environmental, social and economic impact of design
Design Council has launched The Design Value Framework: a tool that designers and commissioners of design can use to measure and evaluate their work. Developed with UAL Social Design Institute and BOP Consulting, it’s the first time a single framework covers all design sectors, and goes beyond economics to include the social, environmental and democratic impact of design.
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Installation shot of Revisiting the Work of Black Artists in Scotland through New Collecting in GoMA, Glasgow with collection works by Alberta Whittle, Maud Sulter and Barby Asante (2021). Courtesy Glasgow Museums
20/20: Open call for artists’ expressions of interest
The Decolonising Arts Institute has launched the first of 2 open calls for artists across the UK to take part in the 20/20 project. The programme will bring together 20 emerging or mid-career ethnically diverse artists who may identify as black, brown, or as people of colour, with 20 public art collections – leading to 20 new permanent acquisitions in museums and galleries across the UK.
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Artist Sonia Boyce standing in room 5 at the British Pavilion, 2022, Image Credit – Cristiano Corte © British Council
Sonia Boyce OBE RA wins Golden Lion Award
Sonia Boyce OBE RA, Professor at UAL and inaugural Chair in Black Art and Design, has won the prestigious Golden Lion award for Best National Participation at La Biennale di Venezia 2022 for her exhibition ‘Feeling Her Way’ at the British Pavilion.
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Joy Gregory at the launch of In Plain Sight at RAMM with her work The Sweetest Thing
Spotlight: Joy Gregory's The Sweetest Thing
Joy Gregory's first textile work The Sweetest Thing is a defining work in Exeter's Royal Albert Memorial Museum's major 2022 exhibition In Plain Sight. The work and exhibition explore Devon’s links to the transatlantic slave trade.
What's on
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Creative Shift Masterclasses 2022
Creative Shift are running a series of inspiring and practical industry led Masterclasses designed to support you during lockdown and beyond! Whether you’re concerned about how to make money, find new jobs, network online, promote yourself and your work
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Bethany Williams: Alternative Systems
The Design Museum celebrates the work of Bethany Williams and her studio’s new way of working for the fashion industry in this free display.
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In transit, our memory fragments
A group exhibition of new works by artists JMCAnderson, Brooke Palmieri, Paula Turmina and Catriona Whiteford.
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Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear at the V&A
At a moment of unprecedented creativity in men's fashion and reflection on gender, this exhibition explores how designers, tailors and artists, and their clients and sitters, have constructed and performed masculinity, and unpicked it at the seams.
