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  • London Transport Museum: The truth about Harry Beck

    London Transport Museum: The truth about Harry Beck

    Start date: 14 September 2024End date: 10 November 2024More info For many of us, the London Underground is purely functional. But to Harry Beck, this web of geography became an obsession – a fascination with the creation of the perfect Tube map.   How did Beck create the iconic diagrammatic diagram of today, and at what…

  • London Design Festival: Material Matters 2024

    London Design Festival: Material Matters 2024

    Start date: 18 September 2024End date: 21 September 2024More info Design fair Material Matters returns to Oxo Tower Wharf during LDF for its 2024 edition, spotlighting over 50 designers, brands, makers and manufacturers. The fair is located across five floors, displaying a range of material innovations, alongside site-specific installations, with a focus on the circular economy. A programme…

  • ISA: Women leading the industry

    ISA: Women leading the industry

    Date: 18 September 2024More info Join us for an exclusive Women Leading the Industry (WLI) Exchange virtual networking event. This gathering offers you a unique opportunity to: Engage in open discussions with fellow industry professionals. Explore common obstacles faced by women in leadership roles. Participate in small group sessions focused on specific challenges of your…

  • The ‘RIBA Climate Guide’ with Mina Hasman

    Date: 19 September 2024More info The built environment has a vital role to play in responding to climate and biodiversity emergencies. There is a pressing need for all the industry professionals to acquire the requisite knowledge and skills to design and deliver built environments that respond to increasing demands of our world, while ensuring holistic,…

  • Highways UK 2024

    Start date: 16 October 2024End date: 17 October 2024More info Highways UK sees more than 375+ exhibitors showcasing new ways of thinking and novel partnerships to generate solutions. This year, the exhibition continues to grow with an expected 10,000+ attendees over two days. Across the exhibition there is something for every stage of the highways…

  • Chemical colour: Evidence for ‘coal-tar’ pigments in British printing ink, 1860–1914

    Chemical colour: Evidence for ‘coal-tar’ pigments in British printing ink, 1860–1914

    Date: 6 November 2024More info This talk by Ian Dooley explores the introduction and continued use of synthetic organic pigments for printing ink during the late nineteenth century. Synthetic pigments introduced brilliant never-before-seen colours for printing that could not be produced by naturally derived pigments. They are derived from synthetic dyes which began commercial production…

  • Modulex Group: Seven steps to deliver your implementation on brand, on budget and on time

    Modulex Group: Seven steps to deliver your implementation on brand, on budget and on time

    Date: 20 September 2024More info Depending on the size and scope of your project, brand rollout projects require months, if not years, of planning. In this session, discover the essential steps to ensure your brand implementation projects align with the brand identity, meet budget constraints, and adhere to tight deadlines. You’ll learn practical strategies, from Eric Sørensen…

  • The State of the Art and Craft Letterpress Summit

    The State of the Art and Craft Letterpress Summit

    Date: 6 October 2024More info Ladies of Letterpress is known for mixing it up at conferences: from big to-dos in hotel ballrooms to sweating it out in Iowa pole barns to Zooming in from all over the world. This free, one-day, online event is an opportunity to discuss, as a community, where letterpress is, how…

  • MSc Urban Design and City Planning exhibition and 10-year anniversary

    MSc Urban Design and City Planning exhibition and 10-year anniversary

    Date: 26 September 2024More info Join us as we celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the MSc Urban Design and City Planning programme. The event includes the annual exhibition showcasing students’ work and a panel on the challenges that urban design needs to address in the next decade. To celebrate it, in addition to the exhibition,…

  • St Bride Foundation Design Conclave 2024: Outside the Lines

    St Bride Foundation Design Conclave 2024: Outside the Lines

    Date: 28 September 2024More info Do you follow your own path? Are you yearning to break the mould?Do you like to colour outside the lines? We thought so. Pack your pencils and join us. In a building housing the machines and artefacts of the history of print and design we come together once again to…