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Design and crafts

June 2024

  • School pupils work on prototypes as they perform 3D printing tasks.

    D&T could be gone from national curriculum in four years, business leaders warn

    Design and Technology is dying out, as report finds that 20% of schools in England and Wales don’t teach the subject

April 2024

  • Education Secretary Gillian Keegan outside 10 Downing Street

    Creative arts courses at English universities face funding cut

    Education secretary Gillian Keegan will also squeeze funding for programmes to widen access to higher education

September 2023

  • Textile Print Studio CSM Elaine Perks

    University Guide 2024
    University of the Arts London: a creative champion rising up the rankings

    University of the Arts London brings together some of the most reputable art schools, and it’s soaring up the league table.

April 2023

  • Steuart Padwick working on a model for Child of Hope, a figure that appeared on several of his sculptures.

    Steuart Padwick obituary

    Sculptor and furniture designer whose bespoke pieces and bestselling ranges were marked by a punning lightheartedness

January 2022

  • The misfits... just a few of Rowan Moore’s treasures, collected from all over the world.

    Making a new start in 2022
    Weird and wonderful: how to buy objects that bring joy to your home

    You might think an architecture critic would surround himself with designer ornaments, instead Rowan Moore collects unique objects that defy the rules of good taste

February 2021

  • Naomi Waldman

    Other lives
    Naomi Waldman obituary

    Other Lives: Ceramicist whose elegant mid-20th century vase designs were reproduced by Habitat in the 2000s

December 2020

  • David Carter (left) in the offices of his company, David Carter Associates, around 1970

    David Carter obituary

    Industrial designer whose projects ranged from the definitive Stanley knife to Le Shuttle, carrying vehicles under the Channel

October 2020

  • stuart durant for other lives

    Other lives
    Stuart Durant obituary

    Other lives: Lecturer and author of books on design and architectural history

September 2020

  • A degree in design and crafts can help you make the leap from budding maker to creative professional.

    University Guide 2023
    University subject profile: design and crafts

    Learn how to study everyday objects, taking into account technology and commerce as well as current art thinking

June 2020

  • Saffron Rutter’s ‘stained-glass coat’, modelled by her boyfriend.

    Class of 2020: a Weekend magazine graduate special
    ‘The coat was made with latex offcuts’: the student designers making do in lockdown

    Strange times bring surprising solutions: five next-generation creatives, as chosen by the Guardian fashion team

February 2020

  • ▲ An apprentice steeplejack gets to work in Kings Lynn, Norfolk photograph: GettyA young apprentice stop near the top of a city centre chimney during a steeplejack course in Kings Lynn, Norfolk. Using an elaborate system of harnesses and pulleys, the young lad is learning the skills to work safely and efficiently at dangerous heights and the town stretches below. Sponsored training is offered through the Steeplejack Industry Training Group Association and CITB-ConstructionSkills for young people aged 16. Applicants for this scheme will have to pass aptitude tests, literary a (Photo by In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images)

    Career paths: how these apprentices from the 1990s reached the top

    Now with successful careers or running their own businesses, former apprentices explain how the schemes helped them

January 2020

  • Ceramist Master Desktop<br>▲ The craft economy generates nearly £3.4bn a year in the UK photograph: stocksy view from above on the ceramist's desktop. The frame contains the master&rsquo;s hands working on the product, and around the cups are ready-made cups

    Meet the makers: how craft-based degrees are fusing tradition with innovation

    As the UK’s creative sector booms, demand for the skills of qualified craftspeople is surging

December 2019

  • John Penfold cabinet making

    Other lives
    John Penfold obituary

    Other lives: Design and woodwork teacher who became a lecturer at Brunel University

November 2019

  • Richard Snell

    Other lives
    Richard Snell obituary

    Ergonomic furniture designer whose creations are found across the world, from concert halls to care homes

October 2019

  • Hasan and Nasreen Askari

    Fabric of a nation: couple bring the lost art of Pakistan to the world

    Fifty years of documenting Sindh’s visual history has culminated in a new project for Nasreen and Hasan Askari

June 2019

  • Universities are dedicating more resources to helping artists develop entrepreneurial and business skills.

    University Guide 2020
    University subject profile: design and crafts

    The study of designing everyday objects, taking into account technology and commerce as well as appearance and current art thinking

March 2019

  • The Four Gospels - Binding 1987-88 by Philip Smith

    Other lives
    Philip Smith obituary

    Other lives: Leading British bookbinder who invented new terms in his craft
  • Students writing notes

    The Guardian view on humanities degrees: art for society’s sake

    Editorial: To reduce tuition fees while providing top-up grants only for sciences would distort higher education. We need history, poetry and French as well as Stem subjects
  • Ramp Work Experience<br>Work Experience on the Ramp Taken: 24th March 2017 Picture by: Stuart Bailey

    A rise in apprenticeship wages is tempting those put off by tuition fees

    Studying for free appeals to many who hope to progress their careers and, as universities raise the cost of tuition, getting paid to train sounds better than ever

June 2018

  • Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Textile design: rose and teardrop, 1915-1928

    Charles Rennie Mackintosh: 'He was doing art deco before it existed'

    From sci-fi libraries to steampunk tearooms, his dazzling creations made Glasgow a design paradise – and even crop up in Blade Runner, Doctor Who and Madonna videos. We join in the 150th anniversary celebrations
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