6 future-forward design master’s programmes worth knowing
While bachelor’s degrees are usually to cover the basics, design master’s programmes are where the fun can truly start. In […]
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Design Practice
Design practice explores the methods, decisions and professional realities behind contemporary design. This section gathers articles on creative processes, business models, design education, entrepreneurship, studio management and the skills that shape a design career. At DesignWanted, design practice is covered as an essential part of the profession, extending beyond the final outcome to examine how designers work, collaborate, build businesses and navigate a rapidly changing industry. The selection highlights experiences, strategies and perspectives from established professionals as well as emerging voices.
A building that never ends: the role of affordances in architectural longevity
Why do some buildings survive for five hundred years while others are torn down within a few decades of being […]
The Or Foundation: driving systemic change through textile waste
The rapid spread of the fast fashion model – which prioritises volume over value alongside a progressive decline in garment […]
Folding chairs: a history of contemporary living
Few objects seem to capture today’s design discourse better than folding chairs. Alongside bending, modular systems and the disappearance of […]
What a children’s toy can teach us about considered design
James Murphy‘s brief for his final-year project at Nottingham Trent University was short and specific: design a piece of furniture […]
What if design could make science irresistible to kids?
Inside a growing number of Italian primary school classrooms, science is something children build, shake and observe with their own […]
Designing the Design Toolkit: the hidden design behind successful workshops
Right after celebrating the Fourth of July with family and friends in the United States, the quiet days that follow […]
Carl Hansen & Søn’s Begonya and the discipline behind Danish design
During 3daysofdesign 2026 in Copenhagen, Carl Hansen & Søn unveiled Begonya, a new sculptural pendant lamp designed by Øivind Slaatto, […]
Marc Morro and the clarity of construction
Marc Morro is one of those designers who immediately challenge your assumptions. Looking at his objects, you might imagine a […]
Moving walls and street basket: the new face of sport by 2050+
For festivals such as Concéntrico – the international architecture and design festival held every year in Logroño – the selection […]
Can a pepper be a mould? Inside Marco Campardo’s process-based design practice
Many designers will start their work on paper, creating an object’s final form through sketching, and then finding out how […]
John Tree and the discipline of reduction
There are designers whose personality explodes through their objects. And there are designers whose personality fuses with them. John Tree […]
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