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V&A obtains 80,000 items from David Bowie Archive, revealing his creative process

23 February 2023

Extinção? is a new book that pieces together a thoughtful, “intricate puzzle” of Brazilian creatives

31 October 2022

Đức Lương’s archive commemorates the golden era of Vietnamese postage stamps

27 October 2022

New York through its storefronts: Joel Holland draws the city’s independent businesses

18 October 2022

The Sims meets the digital apocalypse in Mureş Nicoleta's 3D collages

17 October 2022

Standards Manual is back with its tenth title, exploring pre-internet communication

13 October 2022

Odding turns mundane receipts into quirky miniature artworks from around the world

29 September 2022

Timi Akindele-Ajani documents a group of Black Londoners who built their own homes in the 1990s

Tuck into the rich history of European menu design with Taschen’s new book

Five fascinating archives for learning about design history

Uncovering the mystery of Anthony Burrill’s new online archive of design ephemera

Noun Project is a 5 million strong library of icons and photos building “a global visual language”

“Design can be a powerful tool for the creation of radical content”: Genderfail builds typefaces from hand-drawn protest posters

“It still has a lot to do”: The history of Uruguayan design and its slow and steady influence on the world

Explore queer design history through Days of Rage, a new online exhibition documenting LGBTQIA+ activist posters

No card, no entry: documenting the world’s biggest collection of membership cards from the infamous acid house era

Abhishek Khedekar’s photographs toe the line between fiction and reality

Wieden + Kennedy’s new film The Myth confronts the damaging and divisive stereotype of the “model minority”

Archiving beehives through the ages, Hives opens the lid on our ancient relationship with the species

Designing for social justice: What does it mean to create radical posters for the 21st Century?