Design Week
08 October 2009
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All Tomorrow's Posters
08 October 2009
When All Tomorrow’s Parties came along ten years ago, its founder, Barry Hogan, had a vision of setting the festival apart from the likes of Glastonbury and Reading by staying intimate, non-corporate and fan-friendly. Each festival was curated by significant bands or artists, making for an ever-unusual mix of events and musical genres. Even though ATP has become increasingly successful, the principles remain, including Hogan’s particular attention to promotional artwork. ‘Many events ...
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Appealing to the locals
08 October 2009
‘Debranding’ your well-known offer is all the rage at the moment - or at least customising it to suit a particular location. Jack Jones reports
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Beef creates an identity and website for Gap Medics
08 October 2009
Beef has created an identity and website for Gap Medics, a new initiative from charity Work The World aimed at 16- to 18-year-olds interested in studying medicine abroad. The consultancy has designed a brand it says looks ‘youth-oriented but not trendy’ with a ‘textural and slightly urban’ font. Split photography is used across communications to announce each destination and the profession. Branding for each country uses a separate colourset.
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Design is proving resilient, but don't relax just yet
08 October 2009
The good news is that reputable design consultancies appear not to be dropping their prices to clients despite the economic downturn (see News).
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Ferrari announces collaboration with Chinese artist Lu Hao
08 October 2009
Ferrari has announced a collaboration with Chinese artist Lu Hao to produce a one-off paintwork design for the Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano China, which takes inspiration from the Ge Kiln porcelain from the Song Dynasty. The cracked glaze pattern has been produced to give the effect of texture. A gala auction event to sell the car will take place on 3 November hosted by Ferrari in Beijing, and the proceeds will be given to local charities.
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Fit new brand positioning for South East Enterprise
08 October 2009
Fit Creative is repositioning and rebranding publicly funded business support centre South East Enterprise.The service, which supports businesses in the Greenwich and Lewisham boroughs of London, is looking to raise its profile to customers, funders and users.Jeremy Hedger, business development director for Greenwich, says, ‘We’ve been stuck with the same old brand for a while, and we’re looking to raise our profile.’Fit, which is based in south-east London, ...
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Geezer pleasers
08 October 2009
The ‘bloke’ sector is growing with the increase in the number of men living alone and shopping for themselves. David Benady looks at how food brands are hoping to cater to them with a slew of new macho ranges
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Give them a reason to stay
08 October 2009
As the economy slowly picks up, clients should be guided to make the most of more limited budgets to influence consumer behaviour, says Paul King
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Inspired - Nick Stickland
08 October 2009
Inspiration comes from within. We all need external stimuli, of course. I learned that at the feet of Richard Rogers and Eva Jiricna. But the creative inspiration of design - of the built environment, of an exquisite interior, of a vacuum cleaner - comes from within. Here, then, is one from the heart.Kodak’s picture-slide wheel, the Carousel, is more than four decades old. It has nothing to do with our relatively young creative design and ad agency Odd. We didn’t design ...
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Light work
08 October 2009
Three different European projects illustrate how innovative use of lighting can transform outdoor environments. Anna Bates looks at a temporary rooftop restaurant in Paris, a riverside in Gothenburg and a port in Bardolino
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Make a stand on free-pitching, but don't expect it to end
08 October 2009
Shan Preddy’s piece on free-pitching (Business Insight, DW 24 September) was, I feel, not the whole story. Way back in the early 1990s I worked for an award-winning consultancy that was at the forefront of the ‘don’t pitch for free debate’. ‘We don’t, and look how successful we are,’ it said. Except it did sometimes pitch for free, or for a nominal fee to salve its guilt - but always secretly. Creative presentations rarely win pitches, but when done well can ...
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New COI roster framework set to address concerns
08 October 2009
The Central Office of Information has often been accused of over-complicating public procurement, but it is confident its three new design rosters will be welcomed by designers and clients alike.COI roster veteran Start Creative is one consultancy enthusiastic about the new rosters, including branding and brand identity, which launches on 22 October, to be followed by content and publishing, and design and related services (DW 23 September).‘We hope that this ...
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News in Pictures
08 October 2009
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News in Pictures
08 October 2009
Kingston University’s MA Design show opens today, exhibiting work including Wannayos Boonperm’s transformed office products and Sara Lanca’s Lake Chad table, which highlights global fresh water mismanagement.
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News in Pictures
08 October 2009
An exhibition of the top entries in the 2009 Shot Up North Awards runs at Matt and Phreds in Manchester until 31 December. Pictured here is Dirty Mouth by Martin Brent.
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Parker Williams designes packaging for Waitrose
08 October 2009
Parker Williams has designed packaging for Waitrose’s new range of Italian pasta sauces. The six products will be available in stores this month. Parker Williams creative director Jo Saker says, ‘Our brief was to create a strong sense of Italian style and skill, but without the over-used Tuscan imagery. We wanted a design that is rooted in authenticity, but expressed in a clean, contemporary way.’
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Profile - Paula Dib
08 October 2009
Paula Dib discovered that the best way to get involved in sustainable design was to start her own community projects at home in Brazil. Gina Lovett talks to the former British Council award-winner about her vision
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Robinson brands new aerospace body
08 October 2009
Robinson & Associates has created the identity for the Aerospace Communities Alliance, a start-up organisation which puts the interests of aerospace industry groups - including Rolls-Royce and Airbus - to Government.Appointed in July through an intermediary, Essential Marketing Solutions, the consultancy was asked to create an identity that describes the organisation without using an acronym, according to consultancy director James Robinson.He says, ‘For ...
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Save the Children ad drive launches
08 October 2009
Johnson Banks has created branding and an advertising campaign for charity Save the Children’s Every One campaign.The international campaign will focus on the issue of child mortality.Johnson Banks has been working with Save the Children for a number of years, having been appointed to review its brand positioning in 2006.Working with copywriter Howard Fletcher and photographer Harriet Logan, the consultancy has devised a campaign which will run across ...
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So long, Ray, you'll be a very hard act to follow
08 October 2009
Although it may seem like a mere footnote to the design industry, I know the news of the retirement of Ray Gregory - the long standing head of the BA Design course at Norwich University College of the Arts (formerly the Norwich School of Art and Design) - will affect many people within it. His retirement is a real loss to the future of the industry. Ray was at Norwich for more than 20 years and taught some of the design industry’s biggest players, including Phil Carter and ...
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The Starck reality?
08 October 2009
Anyone keen to know what a career in design is really like should steer clear of its portrayal on TV - especially if there’s a Frenchman involved, says Hugh Pearman
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Voxpop
08 October 2009
Conran Octopus and the Design Museum have launched a new book called Design in Britain. What design do you think best sums up Britain?
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Witty design doesn't have to end with A Smile in the Mind
08 October 2009
All of us here at Thoughtful agree with Luke Manning’s choice of inspiration - Beryl McAlhone’s and David Stuart’s A Smile in the Mind is a constant source of inspiration for us, too (Inspired, DW 24 September). We’ve been thinking it would be a great time for ‘A Second Smile in the Mind’, which would include a new generation of designers and consultancies that play with graphic wit in their work - names like Purpose, Johnson Banks and Daniel Eatock, to name a few.
