Design Week
04 February 2010
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A sober message
04 February 2010
With binge drinking back in the headlines last month, it’s a good time to consider the impact of design on consumer behaviour. Is it part of the problem, or could it provide the solution? asks Sarah Woods
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Andrew Tanner has designed a ceramics collection
04 February 2010
Andrew Tanner has designed a ceramics collection for Poole Pottery influenced by fish and chips. The collection launches at the Spring Fair at Birmingham’s NEC on 7 February.
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Barber Osgerby creates 'living space' for Sony at Milan fair
04 February 2010
Barber Osgerby is working with Sony to articulate the electronics company’s design approach through an ‘experimental living space’ at this year’s Milan furniture fair.
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Bostock & Pollitt has designed an illustration book for paper maker Arjowiggins Graphic
04 February 2010
Bostock & Pollitt has designed an illustration book for paper maker Arjowiggins Graphic, called What One Tree Means to Me, to showcase the work of illustrators and promote sustainable paper use among designers. The book is being sent out to 1100 designers and printers this month.
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Bunch London brands host venues for Red Bull Music Academy
04 February 2010
Bunch London is branding a series of venues across London for the Red Bull Music Academy, which will see the consultancy team up with illustrators including James Joyce, Andrew Kasay and Sam Green.
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Co-design cannot work without a bit of co-production, too
04 February 2010
Your recent poll on the merits of co-design (News, DW 14 January) reveals a split decision on whether it’s a good thing or not.
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Community service
04 February 2010
Whether it’s to promote themselves or simply ogle graphic porn, blogging is part of most designers’ lives. Adrian Shaughnessy celebrates the phenomenon
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Crossing over with real style
04 February 2010
Taking skills learnt as product designers and using them to develop goods for the real world has proved quite an education for the founders of Bang Bang
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DBA reveals shortlist for 'active ageing' challenge
04 February 2010
An adaptive surface, an online footnoting tool, a graphical ‘brackets’ campaign and a social networking project named after food stuffing are competing for the latest Design Business Association Inclusive Design Challenge award, which this year celebrates its tenth anniversary.
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Design could wield greater influence with a united voice
04 February 2010
It is interesting that the Royal Institute of British Architects is urging its members to get involved in local politics in the run up to the General Election. By engaging with parliamentary candidates at a time of unprecedented change on the ballot sheet, it says, architects could influence a new generation of politicians.
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Duttons revamps mailshots for Green power group Ecotricity
04 February 2010
Duttons has redesigned the customer communications for Green electricity supplier Ecotricity.
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Everyday experience
04 February 2010
‘Art, love, and everyday life’ - that’s the spirit of Kilimanjaro magazine, according to its founder Olu Michael Odukoya. Kilimanjaro, a broadsheet-format magazine that defies the convention of what an art magazine should be, is Odukoya’s personal labour of love and has earned him the admiration of his publishing peers. Now, he is bringing that spirit to three dimensions - with Kilimanjaro Magazine Edits, at London’s 20 Hoxton Square Projects, Odukoya is staging an exhibition with work ...
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Fit Creative has rebranded CW Inventory Services as Mint Inventories
04 February 2010
Fit Creative has rebranded CW Inventory Services as Mint Inventories. The consultancy created the new name and the strapline ‘refreshing the business of property’. Fit Creative also designed launch invitations attached to helium balloons, and goodie bags with packets of branded mints.
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Hike Design has delivered a sponsorship brochure for Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication
04 February 2010
Hike Design has delivered a sponsorship brochure for Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication taking its cue from Foreign Office Architects’ design for the institution’s new building and Johnson Banks’ branding work.
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Inspired - Louisa Pacifico
04 February 2010
We all need an injection of inspiration from time to time, and my daily fix is www.ffffound.com.
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Kin Design unveils hanging sculpture for MA showcase
04 February 2010
Kin Design will unveil a hanging sculpture consisting of three touchscreens and 100 digital picture frames to showcase the portfolios of MA students at the London College of Fashion’s exhibition show.
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Membership rewards
04 February 2010
The CSD wants design to follow other professions and gain chartered status. Emily Pacey looks at how this might work
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Muf has been appointed to curate the British Pavilion
04 February 2010
Muf has been appointed to curate the British Pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale.
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News in Pictures
04 February 2010
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News in Pictures
04 February 2010
Brunner Studio and Ditte Maigaard have designed the Little Fellow chair, made from rope, launching at the Stockholm Furniture Fair on 9 February.
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News in Pictures
04 February 2010
Kent Lyons has designed The Internet Case Study Book. It will be published by Taschen in March, priced £24.99.
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Origin Creative has designed an integrated campaign for United Utilities
04 February 2010
Origin Creative has designed an integrated campaign for United Utilities to encourage consumers to report leaks through the Leakline service.
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Peers de Trensé and recruitment expert Madelaine Cooper have set up design business advisory group
04 February 2010
Peers de Trensé, a former director of Conran Design Group, and recruitment expert Madelaine Cooper have set up design business advisory group Tapestry Consulting.
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Profile - David Gaskarth
04 February 2010
Intriguingly, graphic designer and illustrator David Gaskarth does not really practise what he preaches. His mantra is visual clarity, his idols such practitioners of Swiss Modernist typography as Josef Müller-Brockmann. Müller-Brockmann’s socialist ideals also greatly appeal to Gaskarth, who did a BA in illustration at Bristol University, followed by an MA on ‘graphic propaganda’ at Birmingham University. In 2005, he co-founded the collective Cyrk - the name Gaskarth, who grew up in ...
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Regional design support is all about collaboration
04 February 2010
I write in connection with the article by Peter Spence of the South Coast Design Forum (Letters, DW 7 January).
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Seymour Powell has created new packaging for tampon brand Lil-lets
04 February 2010
Seymour Powell has created new packaging for tampon brand Lil-lets.
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Stiff Rowlands has worked with Web developer Phil Thompson
04 February 2010
Stiff Rowlands has worked with Web developer Phil Thompson, illustrator Stanley Chow and copywriter Andy White to create the new website for mobile marketing company Mediaburst.
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Strategic planning? Creativity? Top of the list is integration
04 February 2010
Strategic planning does not corral creativity, as suggested by the recent article by Brian Mansfield (Business Insight, DW 21 January).
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Students who use the software Solid Works are being invited to enter a drawing competition
04 February 2010
Students who use the software Solid Works are being invited to enter a drawing competition for a paid placement at Innovate Product Design. Visit www.cadcompetition.com for more information.
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The Forest Studio has designed branding
04 February 2010
The Forest Studio has designed branding and a website for Careers in Sport & Leisure.
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The simple truth: adding authenticity just isn't that easy
04 February 2010
You recently posed the question ‘How can you make a brand more authentic?’ (Voxpop, DW 10 December 2009).
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The Wellcome Trust in London unveils its new window display today
04 February 2010
The Wellcome Trust in London unveils its new window display today. Called What If…, it features work by students, graduates and staff from the Royal College of Art’s Design Interactions department, including a piece (pictured) by Bernhard Hopfengärtner. The collection addresses questions such as, ‘What if our emotions were read by machines?’. It was curated by design duo Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby. The display will be refreshed with new designs throughout the year.
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True North has appointed Fiona Lopez and Karen Hughes as project director and senior designer
04 February 2010
True North has appointed Fiona Lopez and Karen Hughes as project director and senior designer respectively.
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Voxpop
04 February 2010
What is the best thing designers can do to help the relief effort and rebuilding programme in Haiti?
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World of shopping
04 February 2010
Designers from different corners of the globe see similar challenges in retail design. Anna Richardson speaks to some of them about the creativity and innovation required to create what the consumer wants
