Design Week
1 February 2007
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£100 000 research fellowships for design in business
1 February 2007
The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 has awarded £100 000 for research into design in business – its first ever research fellowship dedicated to design.
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A good state of independence
1 February 2007
Independents are spared the pressure of delivering shareholder profit and can get on with the business of finding creative solutions, says Bill Wallsgrove
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Adjaye and Thomas Manss devise NPG fashion show
1 February 2007
The National Portrait Gallery is to kick off a high-profile exhibition on fashion photography later this month, designed by architect David Adjaye and Thomas Manss & Company.
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Bowles and Linares
1 February 2007
Bowles and Linares, a hand-manufacturer of furniture, lighting and interiors products, has launched a new website at www.bowlesandlinares.co.uk, designed by Allies.
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Brandopus boss poaches JKR directors
1 February 2007
Jones Knowles Ritchie’s former managing director Nir Wegrzyn has poached JKR’s design director Paul Taylor and two account directors to launch Brandopus.
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CDG unveils branding for Molton Brown
1 February 2007
Luxury cosmetics company Molton Brown is launching its new brand positioning by Conran Design Group, creating a united design for all of the product's communications.The work focuses around a series of images which feature different travel destinations, such as relaxing or urban, to promote Molton Brown's global expansion.Images include lakes and urban visuals such as tower blocks next to a lake and the words 'intensify your imagination'.Molton Brown has never been ...
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Celebrity sell
1 February 2007
The use of famous faces shot by well-known photographers in the store environment has changed the fashion retail experience beyond recognition
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Circle
1 February 2007
Circle has been appointed by BP to design the internal branding and marketing materials for the energy giant's 2007 Helios Awards programme. The consultancy won the project in a three-way creative pitch and will promote the scheme to BP employees.
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Design will be ‘key’ to a sustainable Olympics
1 February 2007
The use of design will be ‘absolutely key’ to the sustainability efforts of the 2012 Olympic Games.
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Embrace on-line advertising
1 February 2007
Hands up those who agree that companies should strive to be more eco-friendly. Hands up those who love the power of imagery. Hands up those who receive endless reams of printed promotional matter from image libraries. Designers, artworkers and even mere project managers, such as myself, are up in arms. We know and like the big image libraries, like Jupiter and Getty. And we regularly buy from them. But why do they feel the need to post out so many leaflets, ...
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Existing infrastructure must be used creatively
1 February 2007
With regard to First Great Western's overhaul of its train design, one of the major factors in preventing more trains operating along a particular line is dwell time. This is the time a train is stationary at a station while passengers get on and off the train. A well-designed train allows passengers to get on and off quickly and safely. The dropping in of standard trains by operators on to the network from other parts of the world designed for different-distance use and passenger ...
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Garrett creates on-line forum to celebrate the best in digital design
1 February 2007
An on-line forum aiming to bring the digital design industry together by discussing innovative work has been developed by Applied Information Group and New Media Knowledge.Dynamo London, designed by Malcolm Garrett (pictured) and funded by the London Development Agency, acts as a forum for users to upload other interactive designers' work, which can then be rated and discussed by visitors. Garrett hopes the site will take ...
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Hot 50
1 February 2007
Put together from nominations by readers and others in the industry, the listing honours people and organisations that have made a contribution to design over the past 12 months beyond what you might expect of them
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Inclusive Design Challenge deserves wider recognition
1 February 2007
We all go on about the positive attributes of design in tackling social ills as well as enhancing clients' commercial performance. But how many of us go out of our way to demonstrate the former, under constant pressure to prove the latter?Over the years, consultancies entering the Inclusive Design Challenge have been among those helping to set the agenda in social design (see News in Depth, page 7).Formerly known as the Product Design Challenge, the challenge set by ...
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Inspired
1 February 2007
When John and I set up the Sorrell Foundation, our aim was to find ways to inspire creativity in children. We ended up being inspired by them.On our Joinedupdesignforschools project, children of all abilities and backgrounds took on the role as clients, working with some of the UK's top designers to generate design solutions to problems in their schools.The children took almost everyone by surprise, turning out to be, as designers and teachers acknowledged, first class ...
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Keeping ahead of trends in hair styling and design
1 February 2007
Is there a new hairstyle in London for male designer types of a certain age, plus Hugh Pearman?
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Korgi Hollow
1 February 2007
Christian Slade, a former Disney animator and now freelance illustrator, has produced an illustrated woodland fantasy about a young girl Ivy, her dog Sprout and their adventures in Korgi Hollow for US comic book company Top Shelf. The Korgi graphic novel will be released by the company in April and will also feature in Owly and Korgi, a one-off title combining Andy Runton's Owly character with Slade's Korgi.
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Moveable feast
1 February 2007
Over the past 20 or so years, the name of Alan Kitching has become virtually synonymous with creative letterpress in the UK. Through the Royal College of Art's perennially popular Typography Workshop he - together with his right-hand man Ian Gabb - has opened the eyes of successive generations of students to the imaginative possibilities of what might otherwise have become an obsolete medium.Letterpress, of course, is one of the most elemental forms of printing, using a reversed ...
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New rules
1 February 2007
By Liz FarrellySixteen years ago, Paul Jones of the Elms Lesters Painting Rooms, a scenery-painting studio and art gallery, was looking for someone to add a 'piece' to a theatre backdrop. That's how he found his first graffiti 'writer'. Since then Jones has signed and shown a whole raft of underground artists from the UK, the US and Europe, and is adamant that graffiti is the most significant art movement of the 21st century. With a recent blockbuster show at the Gateshead Baltic ...
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Newenglish
1 February 2007
Newenglish has rebranded Clarkson, Wayman, Ball, an independent financial advice firm in Leicestershire. As well as stationery, Newenglish is working on signage and interior treatments for CWB's new offices.
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News in Pictures
1 February 2007
The Color of Jazz: Album Cover Photographs by Pete Turner, is a celebration of 50 years of his work. It is published by Rizzoli International Publications, priced £27.50. The cover shows Canned Funk by Joe Farrell.
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Pearson Matthews to undertake Alliance Boots strategic review
1 February 2007
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Profile
1 February 2007
Bags are the fashion must-haves, with high-priced versions flying out of stores. Mulberry has tapped this trend, with its range of luxury leathergoods that owe as much to practicality as to branding, says Hannah Booth
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Selfridges installs Eno's sound and vision
1 February 2007
With typical aplomb, the musician, sound and light artist Brian Eno unveiled his visual music installation at Selfridges' Ultralounge in London on Saturday.
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Somerset College wants to know what you're doing
1 February 2007
Did you study design at the Somerset College of Arts and Technology? If so, we would like to know where you are now. The college is celebrating 150 years of art and design in Taunton during 2007 and we would like this information as part of these celebrations. Many students from our degree courses in Graphics, Advertising, Packaging, Product Design, Fashion and Textiles have gone on to become key figures in design. If you are one of them, we would like to hear from you. Please ...
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The Chartered Society of Designers
1 February 2007
The Chartered Society of Designers has appointed Professor Clive Richards as president elect. He will take over the presidency from John Sermon later this year. Richards is a member of the Research Assessment Exercise panel, which will assess the design research of universities and colleges in 2008.
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The Dart structure
1 February 2007
The Dart structure, a stool with a gas-operated piston designed by Luca Nichetto, is one of the novelties to be presented by Italian furniture company Kristalia at this year's Milan furniture fair, Salone del Mobile.
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The more the merrier?
1 February 2007
100% Design founder Ian Rudge sounds confident. And for good reason. After months of industry speculation, he has finally stepped out with his business partner Jimmy MacDonald to unveil their long-anticipated start-up, Tent London.Under this brand, they will also launch a repackaged show to replace 100% East this September. The revamped event will take place in the same east London venue as its predecessor - the Old Truman Brewery - during London Design Festival. 100% East is ...
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The Scottish Executive
1 February 2007
The Scottish Executive is polling the public to find out whether there is support for a publicly funded design festival. The survey is linked to the Six Cities scheme, a programme of events in 2007 celebrating design in Scotland.
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The Theatres Trust
1 February 2007
The Theatres Trust has appointed 300million in a four-way pitch to assess its current brand and communications. The three-year contract will start with a review of the current visual identity, extending to cover the website, exhibition branding and print materials.
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Theatre of design
1 February 2007
Futuristic houses, cocooning sofas and retro reissues of 1960s classics - there is much to appreciate at Cologne's furniture fair, although John Stones is rather put off by the heavy emphasis on marketing. Meanwhile Natasha Edwards sees what the furniture
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Today's classics
1 February 2007
There's no shortage of good design, but where are the truly great works? Adrian Shaughnessy names two projects that might make it into the canon.
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Touch of Nikita
1 February 2007
Scandinavian hair-salon company Nikita is launching a major redesign of its flagship range of salon-only haircare products. The creative work is by UK group 42consulting. Renamed Touch of Nikita, the range will be distributed throughout the company's salons in Norway, Sweden and the UK.
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Vibrandt lures Pearcy to new CEO role
1 February 2007
Former Pauffley managing director Nigel Pearcy is being brought in by Windsor consultancy Vibrandt and its sister group Impackt to the newly created role of chief executive, overseeing the two businesses.The appointment follows the departure of Vibrandt joint managing director Simon Gore, who left after six years at the end of December to set up a new consultancy called Viability.Pearcy is hoping to promote to clients the 'potency' of working across both the Vibrandt and ...
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Voxpop
1 February 2007
As First Great Western launches a £63m train design overhaul, a cabal of angry passengers pitched a 'fare strike' to protest at overcrowding and delays. How far can interior and product design go to alleviate the growing problems of overcrowding on the trains?
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Whole Foods unwraps UK line-up
1 February 2007
US organic food giant Whole Foods Market has revealed the first glimpse of its much anticipated retail launch into the UK, with the completion of its brand positioning by design consultancy Boxer.
