An idea that could mean no more piles of half-used, dried out paint cans in your basement or garage. The basic design of a can of paint hasn’t changed much since its invention in 1868. But the simple ...

Materials are the stuff of design. From the very beginning of human history, materials have been taken from the natural world and shaped, modified, and adapted for everything from primitive tools to ...

Stuart Semple: Two of my favourite materials to use are paint and charcoal, which I absolutely love. Unlike a pencil, which only does one thing, you can make really thick lines, you can make really ...

Paul Martin explores the tradition of narrow boat painting with Jane Marshall on the Shropshire Union Canal. She explains the themes and colours of narrow boat art and how to build up simple images ...