Design Week
08 April 2010
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A crucial hub
08 April 2010
The ideal business software system should hit that elusive spot between ’powerful and complex’ and ’nice and simple’ - and also help in developing new business. Anna Richardson speaks to a range of design groups about selecting the right software packages for their needs
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A picture of how design can improve care
08 April 2010
Did Think Public design project lead Ella Britton really not understand the Kingston University Design Research Centre report on the design of care homes for people with dementia (News, DW 25 March)? She states that the study ’indicated a lack of engagement with the users’.
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Astral tweaks
08 April 2010
With the Government’s recent announcement of major investment in the UK’s space exploration effort, Angus Montgomery looks at how design is helping one private project - Virgin Galactic’s VSS Enterprise - to get off the ground
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Bell Design creates campaign against genital mutilation
08 April 2010
Bell Design has created a print campaign to raise awareness of female genital mutilation in the UK.
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Best of the Web
08 April 2010
www.guardian.co.uk/help/insideguardian/2010/mar/30/new-guardian-front-page
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Birthday book
08 April 2010
Manchester-based consultancy Love has created a tenth anniversary book for Scandinavian textile design group Korpi & Gordon, which is best known for its work for Ikea. The book, which launches on 12 April, was created by Love designer Emma Morton and head of copy Dave Bevan, who travelled to Stockholm to gather inspiration from traditional Scandinavian design.
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'Bourne again
08 April 2010
After almost half a century, Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication is finally contracting its name to just a single word, backed by a fresh identity, a move to a different location and a new building. Lynda Relph-Knight looks at how these three developments informed the creation of an academic brand
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Chilli UK designs 'vibrant' launch branding for Clarion Events' London Gift Fair
08 April 2010
Chilli UK has created a brand identity for the first London Gift Fair, which will launch in September.
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Consultancy Red & Green has created a campaign for NHS West Kent Primary Care Trust
08 April 2010
Consultancy Red & Green has created a campaign for NHS West Kent Primary Care Trust. The poster and leaflet campaign, titled Your Care Matters, aims to highlight the needs of carers.
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D8 is working with the University of the West of Scotland to advance the institution's brand online
08 April 2010
Glasgow- and Birmingham-based consultancy D8 is working with the University of the West of Scotland to advance the institution’s brand online.
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Drink launch
08 April 2010
Wonderland WPA has created branding for new drink Carnaby Brown, a 5.5 per cent ABV sparkling fruit wine. The consultancy began working with Carnaby Brown brand owner Aisling Young a year ago, and has agreed to a long-term commercial partnership with her. Carnaby Brown launches on to the market today.
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Drinkall Dean and Tim Hatley design Diaghilev V&A show
08 April 2010
Drinkall Dean and production designer Tim Hatley are designing the upcoming exhibition Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes, 1909-1929, for London’s Victoria & Albert Museum.
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Food and drink branding consultancy Simmer has created new packaging for the London Tea Company
08 April 2010
Food and drink branding consultancy Simmer has created new packaging for the London Tea Company. It was briefed to create designs for a new range of teas targeted at the tourist market.
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Form has designed the 2010 annual research report for Goldsmiths, University of London
08 April 2010
Form has designed the 2010 annual research report for Goldsmiths, University of London. The report has a ’performances’ theme and explores research innovations in its core subjects.
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Good for who?
08 April 2010
A new course in the US attempts to establish a fresh model for community design, but with no political philosophy behind it otherthan ’social entrepreneurship’, does it stand a chance of avoidingaccusations of moral bankruptcy? John Stones reports
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Graphic infusion
08 April 2010
If you’re still sitting on the fence in the can-design-be-art debate, you might want to jump off and visit the Embankment Galleries of London’s Somerset House later this month.
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Helen Atkinson has joined Anthem Worldwide
08 April 2010
Helen Atkinson has joined Anthem Worldwide as client services director in the UK. Atkinson has formerly worked as a design management consultant, and as head of design for Sainsbury’s.
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If you lack gravitas on (the) board, try a Rear-Admiral
08 April 2010
Who would I choose from outside the design industry as a non-executive director (Voxpop, DW 11 February)? It depends what I would want one for: to drive efficiencies, grow, sell, develop myself, develop my board and so on. Do I even need a non-executive to help find the non- executive? It’s an important decision because they will have great influence. Perhaps Rear-Admiral Roy Clare RN Rtd. Why? Because he’s an incisive thinker who I like a lot.
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Inspired - Peter Christian Kingston University
08 April 2010
A few early experiences and personalities helped shape my design direction.
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Integrated consultancy Seal is working on marketing, digital and creative projects for parcel delivery network Hermes
08 April 2010
Integrated consultancy Seal is working on marketing, digital and creative projects for parcel delivery network Hermes. The consultancy was appointed following a six-way pitch.
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Need 'bang for your buck'? Don't ask the young bucks
08 April 2010
I fully agree with the article by George Foster (pictured) headlined ’Are old hands better than young Turks?’ (Insight, DW 18 March).
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News in Pictures
08 April 2010
Cornwall-based landscape architect Mor has designed and built a public artwork for the cliff tops at Durham. The work, called Your Turn, Little Tern, celebrates the return to the area of the rare Little Tern seabird colony.
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News in Pictures
08 April 2010
Lighting designer Bruce Munro is revealing the look of his second installation at Salisbury Cathedral. His 67 Water Towers are made from recycled bottles and wood, and will appear in the cathedral’s cloisters.
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News in Pictures
08 April 2010
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Not the foggiest
08 April 2010
Design, anyone? We all practise it, but what exactly is it? Hugh Pearman is none the wiser after thumbing his way through the statistics in the Design Council’s latest report
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Organza project launched to explore creativity in Europe
08 April 2010
Institutions across Europe will be asking what they can learn from each other’s creative industries with the launch of new research project Organza.
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Platform railway arch restaurant opens with Sampson Associates interiors and Substrakt website
08 April 2010
Platform, a new restaurant and bar in London Bridge, is poised to unveil interiors by Sampson Associates and a website by Birmingham-based consultancy Substrakt.
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Profile: John Smth
08 April 2010
Italian designer Matteo Oliverio pursued his passion for play at college in Rome, and now develops toys under studio name John Smth. Anna Richardson talks to him about his sunny disposition, his refusal to grow up and a new collaboration
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Pure fantasy
08 April 2010
Oscars, Baftas, a knighthood, the distinction Royal Designer for Industry - film set designer Sir Ken Adam has been amply rewarded for his achievements
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Sane & Able has designed a new website for Wild Kat
08 April 2010
Sane & Able has designed a new website for Wild Kat, a public relations consultancy specialising in classical music, having previously created branding for a Wild Kat client, conductor Ivor Bolton.
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Smith & Milton has designed The Wealth Report 2010 for property consultant Knight Frank and Citi Private Bank
08 April 2010
Smith & Milton has designed The Wealth Report 2010 for property consultant Knight Frank and Citi Private Bank. It won the work following a five-way pitch at the end of last year.
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The Yard Creative designs fast-food outlets
08 April 2010
The Yard Creative is working on retail designs for two fast-food brands, with outlets set to open at Westfield Merry Hill in the West Midlands.
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Times are tough - all the more reason for designers to stand up and be counted
08 April 2010
I admire the forthrightness of Franco Bonadio. Never one to mince his words, the Identica chief executive is not afraid to say that at any time his consultancy is only six weeks away from bankruptcy, a reality faced by many design bosses that’s rarely aired in public.
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Voxpop
08 April 2010
The @ symbol is now in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Which typographic symbol do you think is worthy of recognition, and why?
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Who wouldn't prefer a big juicy retainer?
08 April 2010
Advertising traditionally calls the shots over design. But in the current climate, Franco Bonadio says it’s not quite that simple
