Eight highlights from Dundee Design Festival 2024
Aeroplane seat covers designed for neurodivergent passengers and a knitted landscape filled with giant mushrooms were among the designs showcased at this year's Dundee Design Festival, Scotland's largest design event.
The festival, which took place from 23 to 29 September, celebrated the 10th anniversary of Dundee's UNESCO City of Design status with installations and designs from over 180 local and international designers.
For its fifth edition, Dundee Design Festival overhauled a former factory space at the Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc to showcase more than 70 objects, ranging from lighting and furniture to textiles and industrial design.
Read: Dundee Design Festival sets out to become world's most sustainable
The festival set out with an ambitious sustainability strategy and used less than 15 per cent of new materials to construct the event space, exceeding its target goal of a maximum of 30 per cent.
This was achieved by reusing exhibition materials from the V&A Dundee and using mistint paint stock donated from paint companies Craig & Rose and Crown Decorators.
Here, we have gathered eight highlights from the festival:
The Wild Wooly Beastie of the Law by Donna Wilson
Donna Wilson, who hails from Aberdeenshire and is currently based in London, created a "wooly wonderland" filled with knitted trees, giant mushrooms, flowers and an odd-looking creature with hair that appeared to be sucked into air d...
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