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07 January 2010

  • 300 Million retunes Paris orchestra logo

    07 January 2010

    300 Million has been appointed to develop the brand identity for the Orchestre de Paris, following a combined creative and credentials pitch against three French companies.

  • Anthem Worldwide

    07 January 2010

    Anthem Worldwide has redesigned the packaging of Kleenex Ultra Soft tissues for Kimberly-Clark. Anthem has traded the Kleenex logo with the words ‘Feel me’ in the brand’s distinctive typeface. A rippled silk design has replaced the original photograph of a mother and child. The new boxes will be on the shelves from the end of the week. 

  • Beyond Creative Thinking

    07 January 2010

    Beyond Creative Thinking is creating a brand to support the marketing of a family of services linked to the Wilson Drinks Report.  

  • Buy two tickets to Designer Breakfasts events for £40 each - and save £10

    Fri, 29 Jan 2010

    The Designers Society has been formed by a selection of design students at the University of Plymouth to get people together, whatever the creative background and to help creative minded people become the best they can be. Our main focus is a series of guest lectures from leading professionals and ex-graduates showcasing their work and discussing their experiences in design. We are offering Design Week subscribers 50% discounted entry into our lectures..

  • Conceptual designer Stephan Bischof

    07 January 2010

    Conceptual designer Stephan Bischof has designed the ‘wheelie bin urinal’, in a bid to tackle public urination. Trialled on the streets of Lewisham, south London, to encourage public feedback, the design has been pitched to the Design Against Crime Research Centre. The urinal conduit channels urine into a tray at the bottom of the bin where it is mixed with garden waste to make bio-fertiliser.   

  • Consultancy Different has secured a three-year design and marketing contract

    07 January 2010

    Consultancy Different has secured a three-year design and marketing contract with the University of Sunderland, having completed a four-year contract with the client. 

  • Cube 3

    07 January 2010

    Cube 3 is creating an integrated communications campaign to build awareness of Lancashire Probation Trust.  

  • D&AD chairman Anthony Simonds-Gooding

    07 January 2010

    D&AD chairman Anthony Simonds-Gooding has been made a CBE in the New Year’s Honours List (4 January)

  • Focus DIY & Gardening

    07 January 2010

    Focus DIY & Gardening is rolling out branding and packaging, designed by Yin & Yang, for its World of Colour range of products, which includes paint, wallpaper, soft furnishings, blinds and curtains. The paint packaging uses transparent tubs that allow the product’s colours to show through. A flower motif is printed on each label, which Yin & Yang hopes will increase the brand’s aspirational appeal. 

  • Good news for design as Queen honours industry stars

    Fri, 8 Jan 2010

    The year started on a high note for design with news that creative industries rainmaker Anthony Simonds-Gooding and Motivation founder David Constantine have both been recognised in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List (see www.designweek.co.uk, 4 January).

  • Google

    07 January 2010

    Google has unveiled its new phone, the Nexus One, which is expected to rival Apple’s iPhone (5 January)

  • Graphic pioneers

    07 January 2010

    Designers are notorious magpies, constantly collecting inspiration from obscure type samples or graphics of yesteryear. Paul Stiff, Paul Dobraszczyk and Mike Esbester of the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading have done a lot of foraging lately, for their research project ‘Designing information for everyday life, 1815-1914’. Much of the most inventive designing of everyday printed material was thrown away, but the trio has dug up printed ...

  • Inspired - Glenn Harrison

    07 January 2010

    Like most creatives, I’m sure, I find inspiration an unpredictable bedfellow. It comes in many forms - art, music, literature, film, design - yet it can still prove elusive. Typically, given a tough brief and a short deadline it is nowhere to be found. Two hours after the deadline it appears everywhere you look. Such is the nature of inspiration.

  • Just the shape

    07 January 2010

    Commissioning a custom font can be an effective way of boosting your brand - and it’s often good value for money, too. Anna Richardson takes the measure of bespoke typefaces for clients ranging from Virgin Galactic to a new literary website

  • La Boca’s design for Muse’s LP

    07 January 2010

    La Boca’s design for Muse’s LP The Resistance has been named best album cover in the Best Art Vinyl 2009 awards (5 January)  

  • Link up or sink?

    07 January 2010

    Proposed cuts in funding are forcing regional design networks to consider new strategies and sources of revenue. Angus Montgomery reports

  • Local group Gendall revamps website for Dott Cornwall

    07 January 2010

    Falmouth-based consultancy Gendall is designing a new website for Designs of the Time Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, which the consultancy hopes will ‘engage designers and the community’.

  • Nesta report sets out the principles of co-production

    07 January 2010

    Visitors to some housing estates in Cardiff may be surprised to see residents weeding and planting the communal gardens and going on day trips together, but projects such as these are the results of a new scheme being run by Taff Housing Association. In return for their efforts, residents earn credits which they can spend on arts and leisure activities. This is an example of co-production, and according to a new paper by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, it ...

  • News in Pictures

    07 January 2010

    Wayne Hemingway has created designs in Lego to be auctioned in February to raise money for the National Autistic Society

  • News in Pictures

    07 January 2010

    Graphic designer Aldo Drudi, who works for motorcycle racer Valentino Rossi, has designed graphics for a range of products for Packard Bell, including the Netbook

  • News in pictures

    07 January 2010

  • Profile - Hvass & Hannibal

    07 January 2010

    The reputation of the Danish design duo Hvass & Hannibal is built on an eclectic portfolio of illustration and 3D work.Anna Richardson talks to the founders about their relationship ahead of a new London show

  • Regional design support needs to find new models

    07 January 2010

    Last month, the Design Council brought together representatives of regional design groups and national bodies to ‘shape the future’ of design support organisations. Three key themes emerged. There was agreement that all the bodies should work together, and the first task was to set out exactly what ‘collaboration’ means. This is needs to be done quickly to maintain the momentum of the meeting.

  • Rufus Leonard has created the launch campaign

    07 January 2010

    Rufus Leonard has created the launch campaign for the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office’s Admiralty e-Navigator.  

  • Sagittarius Marketing is running a series of consumer campaigns

    07 January 2010

    Sagittarius Marketing is running a series of consumer campaigns which aim to improve road safety in Kent.  

  • Seek out those humble kicks

    07 January 2010

    The brands that will prosper in this climate are stress-busters with a light touch that help us reconnect with the community, says Jonathan Sands

  • Skratch Design

    07 January 2010

    Glasgow-based consultancies Skratch Design and Graphical House have merged, and both will now use the name Graphical House.  

  • Social marketing consultancy Ice

    07 January 2010

    Social marketing consultancy Ice has created the You Can campaign for NHS East Lancashire.  

  • Solutions aren't enough

    07 January 2010

    As we enter a new decade, Adrian Shaughnessy thinks clients should give designers more creative freedom - for without it we’d never have had the iPod

  • Something for everyone in new COI frameworks

    Fri, 8 Jan 2010

    In response to Jonathon Jeffrey’s recent letter (DW 3 December 2009), we admit that capacity and resources do form part of the strict selection criteria for the Central Office of Information’s brand and brand identity framework, and for every invitation to tender we’ve issued in the past five years.

  • Sometimes a trawl is the real thing - try calling their bluff

    07 January 2010

    Blue Marlin boss Andrew Eyles raises an interesting issue with his frustration that too many international clients are simply interested in trawling for free ideas from UK design consultancies (News Analysis, DW 10 December 2009).

  • Stocks Taylor Benson has designed the packaging for the ‘Classic’ Collection

    07 January 2010

    Leicestershire-based consultancy Stocks Taylor Benson has designed the packaging for the ‘Classic’ Collection from kitchenware company Kitchen Craft. The consultancy says the designs reflect Kitchen Craft’s heritage - which goes back to 1850 - and adds that it has introduced a number for each product in the range to encourage collectability.DOCE: 

  • The Government says food packaging should be labelled

    07 January 2010

    The Government says food packaging should be labelled to show products’ carbon footprint, country of origin and animal welfare standards (6 January) 

  • The Web Well wheels in online work for Guardian of the Standard

    07 January 2010

    The Web Well is working on two digital projects for fashion brand-owner Guardian of the Standard.

  • True North has been appointed to the 2010 Cheshire’s Gardens of Distinction campaign

    07 January 2010

    True North has been appointed to the 2010 Cheshire’s Gardens of Distinction campaign by Visit Chester & Cheshire.  

  • Two groups working on £1.3m Leighton House restoration

    07 January 2010

    Achitect Purcell Miller Tritton and Surrey-based Angel Interiors are working on the £1.3m refurbishment of Leighton House in west London.

  • Underwired

    07 January 2010

    Digital consultancy Underwired has created a new website for conference, training and research company Euro Finance. 

  • Very in Coppafeel digital breast cancer charity work

    07 January 2010

    Very has created a website for breast cancer awareness charity Coppafeel.The charity was set up by Kristin Hallenga, who was diagnosed with breast cancer last year at the age of 23. It aims to promote breast examination in younger women to detect breast cancer.Very has been working on the site, which launches next week, for around three months, according to director Alex Smith. He says the consultancy was appointed to the project directly.Very was ...

  • Voxpop

    07 January 2010

    What should be the design industry’s New Year’s resolution?

  • Whitestone International

    07 January 2010

    Whitestone International has created the identity for the Professional Squash Association’s Squash TV website.  

  • Why did the product designer cross the road?

    07 January 2010

    Just recently I’ve noticed a new type of pedestrian crossing around London.

  • Why love london?

    07 January 2010

    With its iconic landmarks, transport design heritage and the Olympics, London is crying out for great branding - let’s hope the Mayor doesn’t bungle this chance to position the city as a major global presence, says Peter Knapp

  • Young Creative Network develops branding for Futurising event

    07 January 2010

    The Young Creative Network is developing an identity and website for Futurising, an event which aims to find employment for creative graduates and engage employers and educators.