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Metropolis’s 8 Highlights from London Design Festival 2019

From public space installations to carnival costume displays, this year’s events ran the usual, unconstrained gamut.

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London Design Museum’s “California” Shines Bright, Makes Few Waves

The new exhibition California: Designing Freedom explores the global ubiquity of Californian design and ideas in everyday life—but rarely dives deep.

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Amazin Apartments: How The Internet of Things Will Alter Our Homes

A speculative installation from U.K. design firm Future Facility uses the idea of consumption via smart systems to make home life easier for the elderly.

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How Yves Behar Is Putting Design & Technology in the Service of Aging

Two projects in the “New Old” exhibit at London’s Design Museum—a robotics-enhanced suit and a desktop companion—demonstrate a sea change in attitudes towards aging and technology.

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New Exhibition Asks: What Is Design’s Role in Anxious Times?

The London Design Museum launches its refresh with a compelling exhibition that untangles the complexities of our age.

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Q&A: Deyan Sudjic on Anxiety, Technology, and the Human Touch

The design luminary finds reasons for optimism in the year ahead.

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Gehry’s Fondation Louis Vuitton and Google’s Self-Driving Car Among the 2015 Designs of the Year Nominees

London's Design Museum has announced the 76 hopefuls in the running for its eighth annual design awards.