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Design and Democracy exhibition - Family Weekend

Design and Democracy exhibition - Free Family Weekend to mark St Andrew's Day

Free events include building your own rocket and radio-controlled car

16 Nov 2011

Design affects the lives of all of us. Whether it’s an intuitive new phone, a car that tells us we’ve left the lights on, or the Kindle doing something nobody expected and actually improving on the design of a book, who of us have not had our lives…

Independent shopping guide: where to buy your homewares

Independent shopping guide: Homewares

Some of the best physical and online retailers of sleek home furnishings

24 Mar 2011

There comes a time in everyone’s life when a beer-stained two-seater, originally peach, now covered with a previously-cheerful ethnic throw, ceases to be a bold anti-materialistic statement and becomes an embarrassment. Ditto those beige tiles with the…

Talking Shop: Brian Proudfoot, director of GOODD

Independent shopping guide: Brian Proudfoot, director of GOODD

Hard-to-find designer homewares and artist exhibition space

24 Mar 2011

The kind of design we like and are passionate about wasn’t available in Glasgow. The shop was initially thought of as the ideal vehicle to engage local people with the story of design and hopefully illuminate the wider design process. We offer a…

The independent design and craft shops springing up across the UK

The independent design and craft shops springing up across the UK

Edinburgh shop Technicolour interviews Glasgow shop Welcome Home for tips

15 Dec 2010

Ever dreamt of opening your own shop? Or maybe turning your online mini-empire into a real-life bricks and mortar boutique? Jo Richardson is one of three ECA graduate designers who has just opened Technicolour in Edinburgh’s Tollcross. She asks Mhari…

Simon Garfield's Just My Type explores typography

Simon Garfield's Just My Type explores typography

‘A fairly jaunty, easy read on subject that might be daunting’

27 Oct 2010

To date, Simon Garfield’s books have covered topics as diverse as the World Wrestling Federation, the history of Radio 1, World War Two diaries, and the colour mauve. Continuing this trajectory of unrelated subjects, the journalist and non-fiction…

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Popular events

Queen's Diamond Jubilee Competition
Date	Location
Contemporary sculpture designs by young people from East Devon. View full details
19 May–30 Jun From May 19, Tue–Sat 10am–5pm, ends Jun 30	Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton

Wendy Ramshaw: Rooms Of Dreams
Date	Location
Key design pieces spanning 50 years of the artist's career. View full details
8 May–24 Jun From Mar 28, Mon–Sun 10am–6pm, last adm 5.30pm, ends Jun 24	Terrace Rooms, South Wing at Somerset House, London WC2R
27 Oct–24 Dec From Oct 27, Mon–Sat 10am–5pm, Sun 10am–4.30pm, ends Dec 24	The Harley Gallery, Worksop

Heriot-Watt School of Textiles and Design: Graduate Fashion Show
Date	Location
A catwalk showcase of work by Heriot-Watt students, directed by fashion designer Mark Eley of the duo Eley Kishimoto. View full details and ticket info
7 Jun 4pm 7 Jun 8pm	Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh

Adult Production Summer School: Set and Costume Design
Date	Location
Course in set and costume design, and the chance to build up a portfolio, for anyone interested in developing their skills. Ages 16+. View full details
9 Jul–20 Jul To be confirmed	Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow

Antony Gormley: Godot Tree
Date	Location
The British artist designs a stage element which will form part of the 2013 production of Waiting For Godot at the Happy Days Festival. View full details
2 Jul–27 Aug From Jul 2, Mon–Sun 10am–7pm, ends Aug 27	The Grand Yard, Gardens at National Trust: Castle Coole, Enniskillen

Popular places

The Black Box Boutique

98 West Bow, Grassmarket, Edinburgh, EH1 2HH

Black Box is an independent design boutique based in the heart of the buzzing Grassmarket, Edinburgh, showcasing Britain’s most exceptionally curious jewellery, textiles, ceramics, illustration and more! The boutique is also home to an in-house…

116 Causewayside, Edinburgh, EH9 1PU

Brilliant, dedicated, er, design shop for the most fabulously stylish households around. Design Shop UK is run by knowledgeable and trend-aware staff, and stocks thoroughly contemporary and progressive pieces by the likes of Phillippe Starck, Missoni…

CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD

A beautiful, well-curated collection of books, furniture and jewellery (mostly from local, emerging designers), in new, more central premises at the CCA.

60 Osborne Street, Glasgow, G1 5QH

Independent shop and exhibition space featuring carefully selected lighting, furniture and home accessories, often by local designers, plus the option of a commissioning service.