Boris picks creative industries director

London Mayor Boris Johnson has appointed a new director of policy, arts, culture and the creative industries.

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Aged seven, I saw my first Lamborghini Countach. I had wriggled my way through the crowd at the Earls Court motor show and caught a glimpse of the impossible geometry and...

Canalside travesties

How I love a good chandlery. Almost as much as I love a good stationer's shop. In a chandlery you get all the boat stuff/ cleats and fenders and ropes and chains and anchors,...

St Bride Library announces annual design conference line-up

St Bride, the printing and graphic arts library, has announced the line-up of speakers for its seventh annual design conference.

Shrink wrapped

Arguably the most important car on display at the influential 2008 Geneva Motor Show was not a big sports car from a manufacturer like Lamborghini, but the diminutive Toyota...

Nokia boosts design bases to target emerging markets

Nokia is in discussions to open another design base, possibly in the Far East, in a bid to tap into the growth potential of the mobile communications market in emerging...

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The UK credit crunch isn't worrying Sam Hecht, co-founder of design studio Industrial Facility. Not only is its biggest client, Muji, based in Japan but the studio, with its...

Richard LearoydTwenty Two Photographs

This beautiful book documents the photographs from Richard Learoyd's recent Inside A Camera show.

Looking West From CentrepointBy Jonathan Farr

The rise and rise of the new mad men

While Don Draper and the other burly ad men of Mad Men take us back to the so-called halcyon days of New York advertising (and of smoking) on our small