Kasper de Graaf
Kasper de Graaf’s Posts
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Better by design – World Design Weeks
Better by design is a study published in February 2024 which was commissioned by World Design Weeks as the first…
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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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Go Global Stay Local book
Go Global Stay Local Document 20 – The DM20 Open_Collab Workshop Edited by Malcolm Garrett, Jo Greenhalgh and Patrick Thomas…
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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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Scale-up Sessions and Resources
Scale-up Sessions is a series of programmes and events for startups, microbusinesses and SMEs produced by Design Manchester in partnership…
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XR to creatives: “Stop toxic!”
We’ve been mesmerized by the COVID-19 pandemic for months. New problems have become apparent, but the old ones have not…
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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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Manifesto: Do Tank #1
Manchester’s design community assembled for a “Do Tank” session at LEAF on 21st May to discuss the vision and future plans…
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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…
