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Time out to look ahead
With ten years of festivals in the bag we’re taking a year out to plan the next chapter. However, Some…
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Sustainable Fashion: Call for entries
Fashion For Body Diversity: the sustainable challenge 2022 CALL FOR ENTRIES A fashion creation marathon for students from Spain and…
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Fashion: the 2021 “Sustainable Challenge”
Ten proposals to make the fashion industry more sustainable have been developed as part of the third annual Sustainable Challenge,…
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PastPresentFuture: Season 2
The second series of PastPresentFuture interviews with creatives from around the world launched with musician Johnny Marr, typographic artist Dani…
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Design & the City – interview with Sir Richard Leese
Combined authorities, now widespread in England, were invented in Manchester but inspired by the French system of communes, Sir Richard…
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Doing Zero at DM21
Doing Zero, a partnership project between Design Manchester and Nairobi Design Week, will be a highlight at this year’s Design…
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Trophy design wanted for Culture Awards
Manchester City Council is inviting designers to submit expressions of interest to create “an eye-catching and environmentally friendly” trophy for…
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Manchester and Nairobi combine to fight global warming
Doing Zero selected as creative commission for COP26 Global Climate Change Conference One of a growing number of community design…
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CHANGE IS NOW
It’s approaching a year since the hustle and bustle of the amazing collaborative event hit the New Adelphi Building at…
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DM20 – Go Global, Stay Local
Design Manchester returns on 12-16 November with DM20: Go Global, Stay Local This year Design Manchester’s annual celebration of creativity…
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Tom Bloxham: “We are not delivering units”
by Kasper de Graaf The railway arches at Mayfield, a stone’s throw from Piccadilly Station, is what all of Manchester…
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And the winner is…
From the launch event at Manchester Art Gallery on 6th November to the poignant pop-up exhibition We Are Bury at…
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Win a signed Swifty print and six DM20 Conference tickets!
This year we are running a survey throughout the festival to help us better understand our audiences and support our…
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DM19 Festival schedule is LIVE!
SMART THINKING, THINKING SMART. Now in our seventh year we’ve assembled a cast of hundreds to roll out 35+ events…
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DM19 Conference is live!
SMART THINKING, THINKING SMART The Bridgewater Hall – Friday 22nd November Paula Scher, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Daljit Singh, Neil Hubbard (Heatherwick…
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Essential Education
Education is rooted firmly in the foundations of our organisation and in the last week we have started two exciting…
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Eindhoven on the map
How a city’s commitment to design has shaped its image on the international stage By Kasper de Graaf On Wednesday…
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Manchester launches a Design Manifesto for the city
Manchester engages design community to support its 10-year strategy. Design, like tech, is crucial to all sectors and services, says…
