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Harriman Steel creates Kinoko Custom Cycles designs
Harriman Steel has created the look for top-end bike brand Kinoko Custom Cycles.
A live neon identity for Way to Blue
Williams Murray Hamm’s identity for communications agency Way to Blue is based on a neon artwork in the agency’s reception.
El Bulli chef Ferran Adrià seeks French Bulldog to front rebrand
The chef famed for may hold global casting sessions to find a canine icon.
Latest Opportunities
Kingston to appoint design framework
The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is dishing out branding and digital lots worth between £300,000 and £1,000,000.
Exhibition designer sought for Scottish National Museum of Flight
The museum is seeking an exhibition design consultancy to work on the refurbishment of its Hangars 2 and 3.
Interiors group sought for £32m Buxton Crescent luxury hotel
The development will feature a 79-room hotel, spa and visitors’ centre.
ANALYSIS
Does Windows Blue spell a U-turn for Windows 8?
We look at five classic cases of retracting new brands alongside the Microsoft case.
How to design banknotes
With both a new £5 note and a new $100 bill being released, we look at how to reconcile design features with security.
EDITOR'S CHOICE
The Designers Republic goes down under
A retrospective exhibition is opening in Melbourne - plus a film is being made about TDR.
How limitations catalyse creativity
Illustrator and artist Phil Hansen certainly knows a thing or two about creative ways to overcome adversity.
Kenneth Grange is knighted
The Intercity 125 and TX1 London Taxi designer is recognised in the New Year Honours List.
Design Week Creative Survey 2012
What is creativity?
Creative leads at the three chart-topping Creative Survey consultancies tell us what creativity means to them.
The client’s guide to commissioning creativity
Ten top tips from the British Heart Foundation’s Louise Kyme.
WE LIKE
Homemade record sleeves - 1958-1992
A new book showcases some dubious ‘homemade’ vinyl art direction.
VOXPOP
What is your favourite example of digital and physical integration in retail design?
Retail designers tell us their favourite examples of brands bringing the digital and the physical together.
What's the point of art school?
Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design has been running a series of events under the banner ‘What’s the Point of Art School.’ What do you think is the point of art school?
What do you do in your spare time?
With a new exhibition showing personal projects from creatives, we find out what designers get up to in their spare time.
WHAT'S ON
London Wall W1W
A new exhibition at Carroll/Fletcher features propaganda-style posters of Tweets sent from around the gallery.
Global graffiti festival Upfest returns to Bristol
More than 250 artists expected to paint live in Bristol.
The Art and Design Saturday Club Summer Show
Work by students at the Sorrell Foundation’s National Art & Design Saturday Club is going on show.
EDITOR'S VIEW
INDUSTRY VOICE
Inspired - Jean-Baptiste Danet
Dragon Rouge global chief executive Jean-Baptiste Danet is inspired by his (rather unusual) desk.
We are family
The DBA’s John Scarrott looks at the pros and cons of working with family-run businesses.
Discuss. Design. Develop.
In digital design, genuine collaboration between designers, developers and their clients is good for all three parties, says Brand Perfect editor Neil Ayres.
