Design Week
1 May 2008
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... so it only makes sense for creatives to take up the reins
1 May 2008
Roger Hughes claims strong leaders are a must-have in a design consultancy (Business Insight, DW 10 April). I couldn't agree more. In fact, this assertion surely applies to the broader creative and cultural sector too. It's great to hear people in the industry talking about the need to develop strong leaders. Some advertising agencies have questioned the need for an executive creative director, because they don't accept the need for a strong leader who can contribute to the vision ...
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BBC sanguine on claim that TV news rebrand causes fits
1 May 2008
The relaunch of the BBC News branding last week, designed by Lambie-Nairn, was bound to attract some negative comment, as these things always do, but few predicted it would end up with the national press running ill-founded stories about its potential for provoking epilepsy.The designs - which include red-and-white 'animated world' screen graphics, studio sets for national and local newsdesks and offices, and a new graphic identity - went live on Monday with little fanfare. The ...
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Bologna gets airport revamp from Portland
1 May 2008
Portland Design is overseeing a major redesign of the retail space at Italy's Bologna Marconi Airport, in a bid to maximise revenue from the terminal's land-side commercial activity.The airport is aiming to expand, increasing capacity from four million to ten million passengers. The results of the new retail strategy are expected to be unveiled some time in 2010.Portland's brief is to review the layout and mix of the existing retail offer, together with passenger communications ...
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Consultation is all well and good, but we are the experts
1 May 2008
Wonderful piece on co-design (Comment, DW 17 April). We've just lost an account because a client ran our creative past a public focus group, which rejected our concepts. I put it down to the client's lack of vision and a lack of confidence. How can you make an informed decision based on what someone likes? What the public often sees is the result of much R&D and trend prediction, but it is our role, as designers, to show clients we are the experts in our field. Matt
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D30
1 May 2008
Materials innovation group and design consultancy D30 has developed a shock-absorbing ballet pointe shoe, in conjunction with dance specialist Capulet. According to D30, the Capulet Juliet is lined with material containing 'intelligent' molecules that flow freely, making it soft and flexible, allowing the shoe to conform to the foot.
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Daily Sport and Sunday Sport newspapers
1 May 2008
A new look has been created for the Daily Sport and Sunday Sport newspapers by design consultant Julian Bovis, who was previously executive design editor at The Daily Telegraph.
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Design champion Peta Levi will be very sorely missed
1 May 2008
It is with great sadness that we pay tribute to Peta Levi, the ceaseless fighter for design who lost her own battle against illness last week . The founder of London's annual graduate show New Designers, Design Nation, the Eureka! initiative and much more, she was unstinting in her support ...
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Design consultancy Lethal
1 May 2008
Design consultancy Lethal has created the identity for London Connected, a London Development Agencyfunded project aimed at helping the capital’s music businesses to maximise commercial opportunities.
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Designers back Grange 'call to arms'
1 May 2008
Kenneth Grange's call for designers to stand up for better-quality work has prompted a groundswell of support.Last week, the Pentagram founder and former partner called for British designers to make a stand and fight for the issues they care about.Speaking at the Meeting of Minds event at the British Museum in London, Grange said, 'Instead of us seeing the same work regurgitated time and again, designers should be trying to move design on.'Interior designer David ...
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Elmwood
1 May 2008
Elmwood has been appointed by the Office for National Statistics to create a new brand for the 2011 census.
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Framework for future success
1 May 2008
The late Sir John Harvey-Jones wrote, 'There are three kinds of company: those that make things happen, those that follow what happens and those that wonder what happened.'
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Fringe activity
1 May 2008
Gloom? What gloom? Whatever the mood in the UK, the sun was shining in Milan last month as international furniture buffs gathered for the annual fair. There was a resigned acceptance of the re-election of Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi among the locals, but nothing to suggest an economic decline in the wares on display in the fairground and beyond, or in the spirit of the city.Attendance at the main show at the massive Rho Pero venue on the edge of town was up significantly ...
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Good leaders inspire, the best are inclusive...
1 May 2008
I agree with many of the comments from Roger Hughes (Business Insight, DW 10 April) and Lynda Relph-Knight (Comment, DW 10 April) about the importance of great leadership in design.
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Industrial transformations
1 May 2008
Ovid wrote all 15 books of his epic poem Metamorphoses two millennia ago as an investigation into everything in heaven and earth. His supposition, that God and man, animal and mineral, plants and the elements are fashioned from the same stuff, debunked classical order, and has since been a fertile source for artists tackling the big themes of love, change and transgression. Transformed again by the Ballet National de Marseille and the Brazilian designers Humberto and Fernando Campana, ...
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Inspired, Layton Reid - Ravensbourne College of Design and Communications
1 May 2008
Originally, I thought I'd choose something from the all-encompassing Internet and talk about how inclusive it is. Then I remembered what made me believe that there was a place for me in this business - great ideas which push beyond the limits and question the status quo.Why? Because design isn't only about things, but also about politics, economics, society and life. I was going to pick Martin Luther King. Then I thought Muhammad Ali, both society and mindset designers.Then ...
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Italian group EEMS
1 May 2008
Italian group EEMS is launching a solar energy brand, Solsonica, created by Twelve Stars (7 April)
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Jim Moffatt
1 May 2008
R/GA has appointed Jim Moffatt previously AKQA’s director of integration, as managing director of its London office. He will report to R/GA chairman and global chief creative officer Bob Greenberg.
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Kings Place opens with branding by Spring House
1 May 2008
The ambitious Kings Place development in London's King's Cross opens this week, with signage by London consultancy Together Design and Trickett Associates, and branding created by Spring House Design.It will be home to tenants including The Guardian and the London Sinfonietta orchestra. It also contains two concert halls and two art galleries - the Kings Place gallery and the Pangolin London sculpture gallery - plus several restaurants and bars.Spring House partner Stephen ...
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Marcel Wanders
1 May 2008
Dutch designer Marcel Wanders has collaborated for the first time with wallpaper company Graham & Brown to create a collection of eight wallpaper designs.
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Meta builds on Milan debut with plans for new line-up
1 May 2008
Start-up product and furniture brand Meta is signing up new collaborators for 2009, following its launch at Milan last month.Meta, the 'contemporary' offshoot of Mallett Antiques, has already contracted an entirely new line-up of designers for next year to create 'three to four designs', according to Mallett managing director Giles Hutchinson-Smith.'Creating 11 pieces of work this year was very ambitious. We're now going to focus on doing three to four designs per year ...
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News in pictures
1 May 2008
Will Alsop has unveiled the first images of the new 4000m2 Carnegie Pavilion at Headingley in Leeds, which is awaiting planning permission. If approved, it will replace the Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s existing facilities, and the upgraded venue will
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News in Pictures
1 May 2008
Channel Four is to launch its new music TV channel, 4music, this month, with branding and screen identities by Envy.
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Office for Metropolitan Architecture
1 May 2008
Office for Metropolitan Architecture and Rem Koolhaas are designing the Prada Foundation's new contemporary arts centre in Milan, Italy. The plans reveal a vast, 17 500m2 industrial site (pictured above, top), to be transformed into a cinema, auditorium, museum and exhibition spaces. The complex will house large-scale installations, as well as Prada's archives. Construction work is due to be completed in 2011.
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Pennine Lancashire
1 May 2008
The identity for Pennine Lancashire - a brand aimed at promoting the natural beauty and tourism potential of the region - has been created by Creative Concern, in conjunction with graphic design luminary Peter Saville. The project was commissioned by the Government's regeneration scheme, Elevate.
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Profile
1 May 2008
South African architect Luyanda Mpahlwa has devised an ingenious low-cost home to tackle the housing crisis in Cape Town’s townships. Sean O’Toole meets a professional who is taking issue with the urban planning scene
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Radley Yeldar design opens up whole new world for Pearson
1 May 2008
Media group Pearson has launched a virtual world designed by Radley Yeldar.Taking its inspiration from networking environments such as Second Life, Active Worlds and Kaneva, Pearsonville (pictured) aims to tell on-line users about Pearson products, which include the Financial Times Group, Pearson Education and the Penguin Group.Radley Yeldar has designed an interactive 3D environment based on a virtual town, which contains ten commercial, residential, educational and leisure ...
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Royal Cornwall Muse um in Truro
1 May 2008
Nine second-year BA spatial design students from Universi ty College Falmouth have produced ideas for redesigning the Royal Cornwall Muse um in Truro. The Cornish public will vote on its favourite design.
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Sainsbury’s own-brandhomeware
1 May 2008
Sainsbury’s own-brandhomeware range Different byDesign was designed in-house,and the image accompanyingthe story is a toaster from theSainsbury’s By range, whichwas designed by Conran &Partners (DW 24 April).
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Stop press...
1 May 2008
Hold the front page! The red tops are undergoing redesigns to help them survive the digital era, but will these changes mean a loss of impact? Will they alienate readers? And will they make any difference to circulation and share values? asks David Benady
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Surrogate statements
1 May 2008
It can be rather too easy to tell a designer by their dress, whether they opt for black or more frivolous attire. David Bernstein on the perils of fashion
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The medium is the message
1 May 2008
The idea of political engagement is in sharp focus this week as the UK goes to the polls, Paris celebrates the 40th anniversary of the 1968 uprisings and we all mark the value of the worker with May Day.These neatly dovetail at the Southbank Centre this week with an exhibition at the Hayward Projects Space called Paris 68, the first major display in the UK of posters produced by art students and striking workers in Paris during May and June of 1968.The 46 posters that make ...
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Think before you print
1 May 2008
Designers could be Greener when it comes to specifying paper, says Dominic Murphy. More recycling and sustainable thinking – as well as using sustainable sources – are the best options for creatives who really want to save the planet
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Two stripes and you're out, or is it three, four, five?
1 May 2008
So, the Adidas trademark ruling triggers warnings over 'lookalike' stripes, does it (News, DW 17 April)? Well, that's just bloody ridiculous. I could have understood the European Court of Justice's ruling if it related to three stripes, but only just. Two stripes, on the other hand, is surely setting a thoughtless precedent. Hell, maybe Nike will be next. They have a stripe that's kinked and comes to a point at each end. I love Adidas shoes. I wear them ...
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Voxpop
1 May 2008
The Food Standards Agency is failing to consult designers on a European Commission proposal about food labelling, despite canvassing retailers, manufacturers and the advertising industry. Why is it important for designers to be involved in the food-labelling debate?What a fantastic opportunity ...
