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Year in Review 2025: AI - Magic or menace?

Year in Review 2025: AI - Magic or menace?

Year in Review 2025: EDIB - How do we design for all?

Year in Review 2025: EDIB - How to design for all?

Year in Review 2025: Carbon - How do we tackle it?

Year in Review 2025: Carbon - How do we tackle it?

Code & Craft: Inside the new frontier of computational craft.

Code&Craft: Craft's new frontier?

Milliken presents Major Frequency 2.0 - a floor plank collection reenergised with a new design, new colours and new yarn.

Milliken presents reenergised Major Frequency 2.0.

Forecasting 2026 with Sylan: The colours defining luxury washroom design.

Forecasting 2026 with Sylan: Key colours.

GIA Design Awards 2025: Winners announced.

GIA Design Awards 2025: Winners announced.

UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard - Is it achievable?

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UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard - Is it achievable?

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Material Source Studio community raises almost £10k for local charities.

Material Source Studio community charity total.

'Open Monuments' at the Design Museum: A living landscape of interaction, performance and material encounter.

Open Monuments at the Design Museum.

Benholm supports Claremont in bringing warmth, texture and vitality to HEINEKEN UK Edinburgh & London.

Benholm x Claremont x HEINEKEN UK.

Workplace: What is it 6-years after Covid?

Workplace: What is it 6-years after Covid?

Ahrend’s Circular Hub breathes new lease of life into furniture.

Ahrend’s Circular Hub gives furniture new life.

Crown Paints features in award-winning Hedsor House refurbishment.

Crown Paints features at Hedsor House refurb.

Pantone announces its Colour of the Year 2026: Cloud Dancer. A creative blank canvas.

Pantone announces its COTY 2026: Cloud Dancer.

Nathan Cornish, group director, Urban Splash & chair, LandAid’s North West Regional Board.

Nathan Cornish, Urban Splash & LandAid.

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EDIB: Too complex or just considerate design?

Manchester

EDIB: Too complex or just considerate design?

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Panel discussion: What stands between us and a balanced work life?

Manchester

Panel discussion: What stands between us and a balanced work life?

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CDUK considers whole life of materials with Vita Nova creative take-back and repurposing solution.

CDUK Vita Nova: Creative take back & repurposing.

In conversation with photographer Craig Burrows - author of What The Bees See.

Interview: Craig Burrows on Vitality.

Material Moods: Vitality.

Consort Architectural Hardware supports BIM and CAD for 70+ ironmongery products.

Consort Architectural Hardware: BIM & CAD.

Spotlight on Stockport: Transformative new cultural and creative hub Stockroom by SpaceInvader.

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Spotlight on Stockport: Transformative new cultural and creative hub Stockroom by SpaceInvader.

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Sheila Bird's new HQ for Stockport based contractor TMT playfully celebrates The Art of Construction.

Sheila Bird: The Art of Construction.

ILIV unveils Veneto and Monterey collections - drapery and upholstery fabrics for commercial interiors.

ILIV unveils Veneto and Monterey collections.

AI: Who or what is in control of its future? Phil Tetlow, visiting professor, author & IT architect shares his views.

AI: Who or what is in control of its future?

SPREAD positions colour as a catalyst for joy and vitality at We Design Beirut 2025.

SPREAD presents Much Peace, Love and Joy.

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Cigarette filters, shells, and hair extensions will all be transformed for Green Grads London.

Green Grads London: Transformation for the future.

Russwood on five things you may not know about timber cladding.

Russwood: Timber cladding.

Future Materials Library™ launches at Material Source Studio.

Future Materials Library™ launches.

Future Materials Library™: How do we define sustainability?

Future Materials Library: Defining sustainability.

Surfacing by Heather Gibson: Ceramic stoneware rooted in materiality and memory.

Surfacing by Heather Gibson, County Hall Pottery.

Graduate spotlight: Milly Vine, bio-based textile design.

Graduate spotlight: Milly Vine, bio-based design.

Bespoke door designs and high-end office partitions by Radii for Goodwin Procter.

Radii bespoke solutions for Goodwin Procter.

Rockwell Group unveils Casa Cork at Milan Design Week 2025.

Casa Cork at Milan Design Week 2025.

Russwood asks: As a sector, are we stacked up to use mass timber on our projects?

Russwood explores transformation with timber.

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