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1 April 2004

  • 100% Design Crafts Council bursary deadline set

    1 April 2004

    A deadline of 7 May has been set for entries to the 100% Design Crafts Council bursary. Five designers will receive financial assistance to exhibit at the September show. Call 020 8910 7724.

  • 35 Styles Science Learning Centres

    1 April 2004

  • A bad designer always blames his Apple Mac

    1 April 2004

  • A glimpse beneath the surface of surfaces

    1 April 2004

    On a scale of one to ten, how big a materials geek are you? Do you obsess about new finishes, and go out of your way (down perilous cliff faces, into hostile buildings) to collect them? Or are you happy to work with tried-and-tested favourites? Or none of the above?

  • Agenda identity for Guest Invest

    1 April 2004

  • AOP Awards put diverse categories in the frame

    1 April 2004

  • April is the chilliest month of the year

    1 April 2004

    Traditionally, April is for fools, as all those who have clambered the Institute of Contemporary Art back stairs will know.

  • Austin installs invitations by Mytton Williams

    1 April 2004

    Bath group Mytton Williams has designed invitations for artist Lucy Austin's installations Cumulus and Mare's Tales, on show in Gloucester next month.

  • BBC America switches on to BBC Broadcast identity

    1 April 2004

  • Beck's Futures always well received

    1 April 2004

    Beck's Futures is always well received by the DW team, as are most nights with free branded beer. But we got slightly sniffy reports on the art front this year. Tonico Lemos Auad's carpet fluff sculptures are the most dazzling dirt we've seen for ages, but the Australians among us have been 'sculpting' our bananas since junior school - only then Mum called it 'wasting good food'. Drawing graffiti on bananas was one of the few enjoyable lunch moments at school, comprising, as most did, ...

  • Book

    1 April 2004

    World Graphic Design by Geoffrey Caban is a survey of contemporary graphics from Africa, the Far East, Latin America and The Middle East. Published by Merrell this month, the book is priced £29.95.

  • Campana launches The Blow Up range

    1 April 2004

  • CDT performs encore with revamped marque for LCO

    1 April 2004

  • City scope

    1 April 2004

    On the eve of the UK's first major retrospective of avant-garde architectural free-thinkers Archigram, Pamela Buxton assesses the group's lasting influence on the architects and designers of today

  • Creative Action Design rebrands Drake Ellington

    1 April 2004

    Creative Action Design has rebranded independent financial advisory company Drake Ellington as Think. The work is scheduled to launch this month.

  • Danke schön to MetaDesign Berlin

    1 April 2004

    A huge danke schön to MetaDesign Berlin for sending a grateful DW hack one of its MoMA posters - which are gracing every spare outdoor space in Berlin to advertise the current exhibition of famous artworks from New York's Museum of Modern Art.

  • Dave speaks for TalkTalk

    1 April 2004

    Carphone Warehouse's home phone company TalkTalk relaunches this week with an identity by London design group Dave.The company is known for offering free calls between customers. Dave creative director Robbie Laughton says the work aims to reflect the 'community' nature of this offer.The work comes as Carphone Warehouse moves to promote its association with TalkTalk more heavily, in the hope of breaching BT's customer base.

  • Dazed expression

    1 April 2004

    After winning the illustration prize in the Re:Creation awards, Richard Clayton finds out what the future holds for Georgina Potier

  • Elmwood creates Tessera brand positioning

    1 April 2004

    Elmwood has created a brand positioning, name and identity for commercial carpet tile supplier Tessera. Elmwood head of brand innovation Greg Taylor says the word was originally Latin, translating as a four-sided object used to make decorative surfaces.

  • Exhibitions

    1 April 2004

  • Fair

    1 April 2004

    It's that time of year again and the Milan international furniture fair, Salone Internazionale del Mobile, is taking place from 14-19 April.Venue: Foro Buonapart 65, 20121 Milan, Italy.Info: 0039 02 725941 or www. isaloni.it

  • FireAngel hails an identity by Taxi

    1 April 2004

  • George appoints Checkland Kindleysides

    1 April 2004

    Checkland Kindleysides has been appointed by clothing brand George at Asda to create its first standalone website, after a three-way creative pitch. The site, www.george.com, is due to go live in May.

  • Gold rush in the wild east

    1 April 2004

    Following news of British consultancies setting up outposts in Hong Kong and China, Anne Konopelski discovers what riches lie beyond the Far Eastern frontier

  • Iberdrola launches retail concept

    1 April 2004

    Spanish utility company Iberdrola launches its new-look retail concept, created by Twelve Stars, this week. The concept will roll out to over 100 stores across Spain.

  • Identity creates London to Brighton Veteran Car Run identity

    1 April 2004

    Identity has created a new identity for charity event the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run. The group will create marketing material for the event for the next five years.

  • Last chance to see

    1 April 2004

    From a finely embroidered silk bomb to a wildly colourful voodoo doll, Boys Who Sew until 4 April explores the way seven male artists confound the traditions of textile art.Venue: Crafts Council, 44a Pentonville Road, London N1.

  • LDP2 a sole mate of My Shoes fundraiser

    1 April 2004

  • Love creates for Sport Relief

    1 April 2004

    Manchester group Love has created visual guidelines, a new colour palette and a bespoke font for charity event Sport Relief, which takes place on 10 July. The font takes its inspiration from a running track.

  • Martin Dawe Design acquires Nine Yards

    1 April 2004

    Martin Dawe Design has wholly acquired Nine Yards, which will become its strategic arm from this week.

  • Museum of the Year contenders

    1 April 2004

    The shortlist for the £100 000 Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year features the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Museum of Antiquities in Newcastle, Pembrokeshire Museums Service and Norton Priory Museum.

  • New faces

    1 April 2004

    As a once-familiar face disappears for good from the magazine racks, Jeremy Leslie asks what's next for titles with ambitions to stand out from the crowd

  • New signage lights up BT Tower

    1 April 2004

  • Pure and simple

    1 April 2004

    Nick Smurthwaite salutes Jocelyn Herbert, who had a selfless approach to set design, paring her work down so the drama took centre stage.

  • RTKL tackles urban site in Liverpool

    1 April 2004

    Liverpool's reformation takes another step forward this week, as the Liverpool Regeneration Partnership submits plans for an RTKL-designed concept for a 1ha mixed-use site behind the city's Central Station.

  • Saville makeover for Manchester

    1 April 2004

    Manchester City Council has appointed Peter Saville as its creative director, the first time a British city has created a senior creative position with a long-term remit.

  • Scottish designers exhibit in Milan

    1 April 2004

  • South Bedfordshire roars with Rhodes

    1 April 2004

  • Sportzon appoints for interior revamp

    1 April 2004

  • Springetts revamps Frijj packaging

    1 April 2004

    Springetts has revamped packaging for Diary Crest's milkshake brand Frijj. The work is designed to give the brand a 'more grown-up' look and help reposition it to an older 16- to 24-year-old male audience, says Springetts managing director Andy Black.

  • Talk

    1 April 2004

    On Saturday 10 April at 6pm, Hou Bo will be taking questions from audience members regarding her life, photography and career with Xu Xiaobing as one of Chairman Mao's official photographers. Tickets are £5 and £3.50 for concessions and members.Venue: The Photographers Gallery, 5 Great Newport Street, London WC2.

  • The Brixton Bar and Grill launches

    1 April 2004

  • The Chase London designs for The Value of Public Space

    1 April 2004

    The Chase London has designed a brochure for the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, called The Value of Public Space, that launched last week, with photography by Maria Moore.

  • Three cheers for stating the obvious - at long last

    1 April 2004

    I certainly agree with everything John Mathers said about the Design Council's latest study into the relationship between the effective use of design and corporate financial performance (Letters, DW 19 March).

  • Time for a sustained effort to understand the brand

    1 April 2004

    The UN's ten-year framework for sustainable consumption now calls for more action on the demand side, as the historical focus on the supply side has achieved limited success. For example, Greener public procurement can start to build markets, as the passing of the Green Purchasing Law in 2001 has done in Japan.

  • Uniqlo launches student designed T-shirts

    1 April 2004

  • Upwardly mobile

    1 April 2004

    Frank Nuovo, creative director of luxury mobile phone company Vertu, tells Trish Lorenz that style and uncompromising quality count - not bling-bling

  • V&A catwalk for Westwood

    1 April 2004

    The Victoria & Albert Museum's Vivienne Westwood exhibition opens today, created by curator Claire Wilcox with architect Azman Owens and Holmes Wood.

  • Vox Pop

    1 April 2004

    The Royal Albert Hall in London is re-opening this week with a £70m refurbishment. Given the plethora of revitalised public buildings in the UK, what can it do to realise its aim of competing with global venues such as the Sydney Opera House?

  • What a Week argument

    1 April 2004

    Adrian Shaughnessy counters his good friend's proclamation: that a notional graphic design event would be way too esoteric for a mainstream audience

  • World of arts sees Artis Blast in

    1 April 2004

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