Design Week
1 March 2007
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1991 Intercity rail map
1 March 2007
A sculpture of the 1991 Intercity rail map, designed to look like a tree, has been shortlisted for the £25 000 Jerwood Sculpture Prize 2007. Designed by Jonathan Parsons, the Terminator sculpture is one of eight works competing for the top prize. Other works include a sculpture you can walk into which uses moving light, and a skeleton of a house. For full details, see www.jerwoodsculpture.org.
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Chivas single malt receives Nude revamp
1 March 2007
Chivas Brothers, the whisky division of Pernod Ricard, is poised to relaunch Longmorn Single Malt Whisky, with branding and packaging design by Nude Brand Creation.Positioned as Chivas's 'super-premium' flagship malt brand, Longmorn will be rolled out globally across travel retail, select hospitality and specialist off-trade outlets, from 1 March.Chivas global malt category brand director Neil Macdonald appointed Nude Brand Creation to the project in September 2004, having ...
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Curing the hospital
1 March 2007
Finding your way around hospitals can be notoriously tricky. Pamela Buxton weighs up the merits of some mooted solutions - such as colour-coding and personalised navigation systems - and argues that the wayfinding strategy must be central to the design of
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Design should take centre stage in the transport debate
1 March 2007
We spend a lot of time in design proving the value of our creative output to the client. It's the stuff of design effectiveness awards.This is to the good. But there are other areas where design has less tangible, but arguably more far-reaching, benefits for client and consumer alike, the design of public services being one of the most important.Transport is such an area, and it is heartening to know that organisations such as Transport for London and train operator ...
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Disability Rights Commission
1 March 2007
The Disability Rights Commission has launched a series of booklets and documents, designed by Manchester-based creative consultancy Corporation Pop. The consultancy was tasked with creating an instant visual impact to help the DRC leave a lasting legacy after its conclusion in October 2007.
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Exradia
1 March 2007
London design company HGV is to create the identity and branding for Exradia, a new technology that provides protection from the potentially harmful radiation from mobile phones, laptops and other wireless electronic devices.
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Festival folio
1 March 2007
Despite some criticisms about the exterior treatment, the refurbishment of the Royal Festival Hall is sparking renewed interest in the 1950s - a decade that many designers are now turning to for inspiration
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Finishing school
1 March 2007
A show dedicated to the great Finnish Modernist Alvar Aalto, 'through the eyes of Shigeru Ban', might suggest the use of designers and architects as flavours, like so much cinnamon added to a Starbucks cappuccino. However, the exhibition works. Apart from supplying an exquisite design for the exhibition (which includes a suspended ceiling wave made from his trademark paper rolls), Ban has engaged with Aalto with great empathy and intelligence. While there are clear stylistic affinities ...
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Fool's wisdom
1 March 2007
Much respected as a 'photographer's photographer', Duane Michals mocks the art photography establishment in his new book. Is he just a joker in his twilight years, or does he have some serious points to make?
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Inspired
1 March 2007
If I think back to my distant youth the strongest influence that inspired me to do design at all would be album covers. I'm talking 12-inch vinyl, of course. Yes, I'm one of those.Being a young, naive Cornish lad I had no idea it was called 'graphic design', and neither did anyone else around me. I did know that I liked what I saw. I used to pour over every nuance of the cover while listening to the record. More often than not the design would inform the music, adding a visual ...
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Interbrand tops design group brands
1 March 2007
Interbrand has been rated the most recognised and trusted of the UK's design group brands, according to the latest Superbrands rankings.The consultancy is placed 235th, ahead of Omnicom stablemate Wolff Olins at 275th, and higher than rivals FutureBrand and Landor Associates at 447th and 450th respectively. Design Week features at 469th, just below its parent Centaur Media at 459th.Business Superbrands is compiled from two sets of 'intuitive' scores - one by a council of ...
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Just a matter of time
1 March 2007
With more Asians studying design, here and abroad, creative services will no longer be immune from the threat of outsourcing
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Lakeland
1 March 2007
Kitchenware brand Lakeland is set to launch a refreshed identity on 1 March, with design by Lumsden Design Partnership. The rebrand includes a reworked website by digital group Snow Valley and catalogue by CHS Creative.
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Loewy creates card design toolkit for Visa partners
1 March 2007
Visa is to help its partner banks improve the design of their credit cards with the launch of a design toolkit created by Loewy.The transactional payments giant commissioned branding consultancy Bite to undertake the work in spring last year, prior to Bite's acquisition by Loewy (DW 2 November 2006). The consultancy has developed a set of 'off-the-shelf' card designs banks can adopt immediately, but the toolkit focuses on helping the banks to generate ideas for bespoke designs, ...
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O Street maps out identity for Edinburgh Film Festival
1 March 2007
The Edinburgh International Film Festival has appointed Glasgow-based consultancy O Street to create a fresh visual identity for each of its next three festivals.The consultancy triumphed in a final three-way pitch last week, and is tasked with designing an identity, to be rolled out at the 2007 festival in August, which will 'excite and appeal to a broader audience'.According to the brief, the consultancy must also highlight the overall EIFF experience, including discussions, ...
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Omneport
1 March 2007
Kent-based consultancy Cohesion Design Services has created a brand identity for an on-line travel security product called Omneport. The identity will appear on brochures, stationery and other marketing collateral as well as a website www.omneport.com, also designed by CDS.
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Pinko picks HMKM to develop store look
1 March 2007
Italian fashion house Pinko is set to increase the number of its stores in the UK, and has appointed consultancy HMKM to develop a new retail design concept.HMKM has unveiled a refurbishment of Pinko's only standalone London store, in Brompton Road, Knightsbridge as the first stage in the retailer's expansion plans. The refurbishment was carried out in readiness for the start of a campaign featuring singer Mariah Carey, which was launched at the shop last week. Carey has been named ...
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Profile
1 March 2007
Fitch's global creative chief Tim Greenhalgh conforms to none of the usual designer stereotypes. As Trish Lorenz discovers, he is gregarious and unpretentious - and he loves public speaking and the art of selling
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Shedding light on the future
1 March 2007
Public and commercial awareness of lighting design is growing, but the sector can also take a lead on energy consumption
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Taking a risk to share rewards
1 March 2007
Royalty or equity deals are good ways to benefit from a client's success, but first you must do your homework and get advice from professionals
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The Course sculpture
1 March 2007
A permanent, new media 'archisculpture' designed by Michael Pinsky enables passers-by to pedal on stationary bikes at high speed through a semi-virtual race. Launched by Sustrans, the British engineering charity for sustainable transportation, The Course sculpture features along the cycle network in Luton. It is part of the charity's Art & the Travelling Landscape programme to create public artworks along the National Cycle Network.
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The Isos Collection...
1 March 2007
The Isos Collection launches a series of new products for 2007, including new lighting designs from Tomoko Azumi and Conscious Forms. Azumi's piece, Millefeuille (pictured), uses crumpled pieces of paper to transform cold fluorescent light into a diffused warm glow. The collection also features furniture designs from Mark Gabbertas; Greta - a new sideboard from &Made - with gloss lacquered legs cutting through a chestnut finish; and a range of digitally cut felt rugs from Massimo Fenati.
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There's a lot to learn from the speed and emotions of fashion
1 March 2007
With regard to your Voxpop on London Fashion Week: 'With more and more fashion labels launching products, should other design disciplines pay more than a fleeting attention to the fashion industry?' Fashion is one of the most emotional design disciplines, not only in its production, but also its consumption. The speed of change is its currency. Many of us in the other design professions can learn a lot from these expressive fashionistas. Simon Waterfall, Creative ...
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V&A picks Cartlidge Levene for ceramics centenary task
1 March 2007
The Ceramics Galleries at the Victoria & Albert Museum are being refurbished to celebrate their centenary in 2009, with identity, graphics and wayfinding by Cartlidge Levene.
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Vitra
1 March 2007
Ross Lovegrove has designed a bathroom range for Turkish brand Vitra, which will be launched at the ISH trade fair in Frankfurt between 6 and 10 March. This second collection is in response to a brief from the client asking for a 'vital and clean solution that elevates the mid-segment product range', according to Lovegrove.
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Voxpop
1 March 2007
'Graphics has hit a watershed, not knowing which way to go from here. With all stylistic trends plundered, is there anywhere to go but backwards?' So asked Mike Dempsey while judging this year's Design Week Awards. Is he right, and where can the sector go creatively?
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www.100ideas.com
1 March 2007
The Southbank 100 Ideas initiative, which is a series of talks at the Southbank Centre on issues affecting London, has launched a website, designed by The Design Conspiracy. The site, www.100ideas.com, aims to build a community around the project, and visitors will be able to post pictures and videos, as well as leave comments and debate the 100 Ideas.
