Design Week
01 April 2010
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...And Richard would bring passion to anybody's party
01 April 2010
Who in the design world would I most like to see enter politics? Richard Seymour (pictured). Professional politics really needs individuals with passion, vision, humanity and real achievement.
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A dash for freedom
01 April 2010
A spate of recent departures from digital consultancies signals a growing dissatisfaction with life under the corporate umbrella of advertising agencies. Tom Banks investigates what this means for the future of a still thriving sector
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A fair exchange
01 April 2010
The very idea of social innovation undermines conventional marketing practice, forcing designers to face up to the challenges of user-generated content and ill-defined briefs. Gina Lovett explores the approaches of three programmes hoping to exploit the power of branding without selling out
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A painterly touch
01 April 2010
We should have moved beyond the can-design-be-art debate - for without the creative impulse there is no design. So why is it rearing its head again? asks Adrian Shaughnessy
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Badrock Design has created the latest identity for Open City
01 April 2010
Badrock Design has created the latest identity for architecture organisation Open House, now renamed Open City to show the organisation’s new focus on research into the built environment.
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Bags of talent
Wed, 31 Mar 2010
Although street artist Ben Eine is more used to daubing unwanted paint on London’s shop fronts, this week he has been commissioned to create an installation in the window of trendy designer Anya Hindmarch’s Sloane Street store.Ben Eine
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Best of the Web
01 April 2010
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British designers shine in 2010 Red Dot product awards
01 April 2010
When the winners of the Red Dot award for product design were announced last week, an overwhelming number of UK designers were among those celebrating.
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Burrows is to design Mazda's e-brochure
01 April 2010
Brentwood consultancy Burrows is to design Mazda’s e-brochure, after a four-way pitch. It already designs the car maker’s print brochures. The e-brochure will be rolled out across Europe this year.
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Christian Ritson launches nursery furniture range branded by The Individual Agency
01 April 2010
Product design group Fit for Purpose managing director Christian Ritson has launched a nursery products brand called Knuma, which The Individual Agency claims to have worked on the branding for.
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Concern over delays and lack of detail in CSD application to set up designer certification scheme
01 April 2010
The Privy Council says it still hasn’t received an application from the Chartered Society of Designers to professionally certify designers, three months after the CSD indicated to Design Week that it had been filed (News, DW 28 January).
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Curious has developed a new visual identity, branding, website and marketing materials for Trolex
01 April 2010
Branding consultancy Curious has developed a new visual identity, branding, website and marketing materials for Trolex, which designs and manufactures sensing systems for mining.
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Design Wright has created an ovenware collection for Meyer Group
01 April 2010
Design Wright has created a stackable, adaptable ovenware collection for Meyer Group, with the help of chef Raymond Blanc. The Anolon stoneware range features a nest of oven dishes.
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Design’s own stylista
Wed, 31 Mar 2010
The Tube journey home is never that enthralling after a long day at the office, so I always like a good read to pass the time. When I picked up the latest copy of Stylist (the freebie sister of Shortlist magazine) it was a lovely surprise to see Cheryl Giovannoni, European President of Landor featured in its Work life section.
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Dew Gibbons designs limited-edition packs for Aussie haircare
01 April 2010
Dew Gibbons has designed summer-themed limited-edition packaging for the Aussie haircare brand.
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Every design discipline should help in Haiti
01 April 2010
Helen Hamlyn Centre director Jeremy Myerson raises the important point that disaster areas need brilliant product and architectural design (Letters, DW 25 March).
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Inspired: Glenn Tutssel The Brand Union
01 April 2010
Designers love to cook and I remember seeing a chef prepare cauliflower, courgettes, runner beans, small pickling onions, garlic, tumeric, coriander and ginger to make piccalilli. The ingredients would be boiled, left to cool and put into storage jars. Months later the piccalilli would be transferred to posh ’serving’ containers.
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Juices revamp
01 April 2010
Cheltenham-based consultancy Silver Worldwide has created a new identity for apple juice producer Bensons.
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Kent Lyons has designed an augmented reality mobile phone app for Get London Reading
01 April 2010
Kent Lyons has designed an augmented reality mobile phone app for Get London Reading, which allows its users to view on any London street the titles of stories and novels set there or nearby.
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Level pegging
01 April 2010
Together Design has completed the art direction for the latest issue of contemporary photography magazine Next Level.
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Love has created the branding and website for homelessness charity Acting on Impulse
01 April 2010
Manchester consultancy Love has created the branding and website for homelessness charity Acting on Impulse, which aims to get acting roles for homeless people in Manchester.
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Method in hunt for top-level staff to bolster London arm
01 April 2010
US-based digital design group Method is seeking a managing director, creative director and two user-experience designers for its London office, which is expanding and relocating.
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Milestone has created new on-pack graphics for hairbrush brand Denman
01 April 2010
Buckinghamshire consultancy Milestone has created new on-pack graphics for hairbrush brand Denman, as well as refreshing the logo and website, and designing a microsite for the brand.
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News in Pictures
01 April 2010
Sawdust has designed music packaging, a poster and imagery for merchandising for independent recording artist Angel-A. Sawdust worked with illustrator Sam Green on the project.
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News in Pictures
01 April 2010
Cicada Books is publishing a book about nature for children and adults called Know Your Rodent, featuring illustrations and design by French illustrator Thibaud Herem. The book will become available at the end of April.
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News in Pictures
01 April 2010
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Profile: Kibisi
01 April 2010
Danish industrial design trio Kibisi aims to create products that are cool enough to be both commercial and ’culturally significant’. Two of the co-founders talk to Anna Richardson about the group’s idea-driven approach
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Robot Food kicks off anti-free pitch drive
01 April 2010
Driven by a request for an unpaid creative pitch to a petfood company, consultancy Robot Food is launching its No Free Pitching campaign.
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Sketch it big
01 April 2010
The work of the commercial artist or illustrator is destined to only ever be seen in its final, complete and signed-off state. ’It exists within a context divorced from us artists,’ says illustrator Holly Wales. ’The work is no longer viewed on its own visual merits, but in relation to a product or story. I wanted to look more at the process before final artwork becomes attached to any external context.’
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Standout UK has designed Lindt's first digital promotion in the UK
01 April 2010
Leicester consultancy Standout UK has designed chocolate-maker Lindt’s first digital promotion in the UK, which includes a microsite and an e-mail campaign.
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The best non-executive? An understanding ex-client
01 April 2010
Who would I choose from outside the industry as a non-executive director (Voxpop, DW 11 February)?
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The Conservatives would do well to recruit our Andy...
01 April 2010
Given the speculation that James Dyson is being lined up for a role in a future Conservative Government, you asked the question, ’Who in the design world would you most like to see enter politics?’ (Voxpop, DW 25 March).
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The design community is a better home for digital groups than ad agencies
01 April 2010
The situation at Digit goes wider than the departure of directors Andy Chambers and Daljit Singh, shocking though that may have been. It questions the appropriateness of advertising as a home for digital design (see News Analysis, A dash for freedom).
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The logo is dead, long live the brand world
01 April 2010
Logos with no relevant context risk alienating consumers and staff alike. Simon Manchipp thinks it’s far better to create a brand world
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The right fibre
01 April 2010
To make an impact in a world dominated by online media, paper has to trade on its special properties. Anna Richardson considers the latest trends in terms of tactility, colour and texture, as well as the increasing popularity of bespoke stock for global brands
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Try the distance learning route to design thinking
01 April 2010
I wholeheartedly support James Dyson’s comments on the need to support university design students, and David Worthington’s view that ’We need more thinkers’ (News Analysis, DW 18 March).
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Voxpop
01 April 2010
