Design Week
04 June 2009
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...but go easy on adjectives to keep readers hooked
04 June 2009
David Bernstein, as ever, makes sense in his latest Private View (DW 21 May).
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A tricky brief - Project You
04 June 2009
The recession is an opportunity to reinvent your consultancy, and the best way to do it is to treat the challenge as a brief, with you as the client, says Ralph Ardill
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Airside
04 June 2009
Airside is creating two animated information films for Moblin - a computer operating system - which it has been appointed to make on the strength of information films for Fiat Eco Drive and Nokia Vine. The first film will be aimed at developers, and the second at manufacturers of notebooks and the wider public.
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Architect Barr Gazetas
04 June 2009
Architect Barr Gazetas has designed a new interior to be rolled out across Regus’ international business centres, following its appointment after a threeway pitch. Flagship sites, including Burton Street, London, are being redesigned as ‘destination business hubs’. The new interiors will feature reglazed windows with LED lights around window bays, and extensive use of walnut panelling.
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Design House and GP Studio to share office space
04 June 2009
Richmond-based branding specialist Design House is moving to central London to share office space with multidisciplinary branding and design consultancy GP Studio.
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Do what many of the greats did - set up in recession
04 June 2009
Regarding your article ‘Dawton and Fitch advise graduates against going into business on their own’ (News, DW 14 May), before design graduates decide not to launch, they should be aware of the genesis of some of the most successful launches in adland.
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Graphic power
04 June 2009
On the eve of this year’s Bass festival, which celebrates the influence of Africa on the UK arts and culture scene, Design Week looks at the work of one of the artists featured, Nigerian graphic designer Ghariokwu Lemi
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In search of old marques
Thu, 4 Jun 2009
Reviving dormant trademarks can make good financial sense - as long as there aren’t any controversial connotations. Tom Banks investigates
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Inspired, Viv Wilcock - The Team
04 June 2009
Picture the scene: you’re on your 15th car bodyfiller package redesign, then, in a moment of inspiration, you go and put a lion on one, a leaping lion. Brilliant. That will change the face of bodyfiller packaging forever, thinks you, and it does. The next day you’re moved off bodyfiller to work on a bed linen catalogue.
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Leadership is key to fitter design businesses
04 June 2009
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Match fit
04 June 2009
Sports equipment manufacturers are constantly striving to push the performance envelope, just like the athletes who use their products. Anna Richardson looks at the processes involved, from intensive testing to analysis of user feedback
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Missing the point
04 June 2009
Measuring effectiveness is all well and good, but an over-dependence on statistics risks missing that vital ingredient - creativity - says Adrian Shaughnessy
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News in pictures
04 June 2009
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News in pictures
04 June 2009
Geoff Manaugh, creator of the Bldgblog Book, has collected his insights in a new publication, designed by US group MacFadden & Thorpe and illustrated by Brendan Callahan of Semigood Design and Joe Alterio. The Bldgblog Book is published in July by Chronicle Books, priced £16.99.
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News in pictures
04 June 2009
Devilfish has created a pop promo for UK Sony/Columbia artist Julian Perretta. The video features augmented reality technology, which allows computer graphics to be blended with live footage in real time.
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Nonconform
04 June 2009
Liverpool-based consultancy Nonconform has designed a brochure for the 2009/2010 season for chamber orchestra Manchester Camerata, which uses images by Nonconform’sSophie Backhouse - a graffiti artist also known as Luna. The images are based on words which express the season’s themes.
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Profile: Anthony Burrill
04 June 2009
With high-profile ad clients and a string of exhibitions under his belt, the minimalist approach of Anthony Burrill has many fans. Anna Richardson talks to this very ‘happy conceptualist’, as he searches out new challenges
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Sámi Museum
04 June 2009
James Irvine, Konstantin Grcic and Naoto Fukasawa (whose knife is pictured) are among 22 designers from around the world who have created versions of the Sámi knife for an exhibition in the Sámi Museum in Inari, Finland. The exhibition runs until 20 September.
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The good old Copy Test should identify talent...
04 June 2009
David Bernstein’s view on the plight of today’s advertising copywriters (Private View, DW 21 May) was spot on, and raises interesting questions about the kind of writers the communications industry is recruiting. This is something the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising is seeking to address by reintroducing the advertising agency Copy Test.
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The great and the good
04 June 2009
The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in London is a welcome herald of the sunny season, with the academy throwing open its doors to a diverse mix of painting, sculpture and multimedia, from the traditional to the cutting edge, for art lovers and Joe Public to pore over and buy. The print room is particularly popular with the public and, curated this year by Eileen Cooper RA, it is hung in an exuberant way. ‘It’s always quite a busy room,’ says Cooper. ‘We don’t do a museum hang ...
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Voxpop
04 June 2009
Landor’s Cheryl Giovannoni has highlighted caution, flexibility and integrity as some of the personality traits that are necessary for business leaders in the recession. What traits do you think are essential, and why?
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Whole world or guilt-free? They're the new Green
04 June 2009
Any alternatives to the term ‘sustainability’ will be picked over and dismissed by many - it’s an issue that attracts widespread nit-picking (Voxpop, DW 28 May).
