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1 October 1998

  • ...as Real Studios spins off from Event

    1 October 1998

    A spin-off group called Real Studios has been formed by three former employees of Event Communications. The group offers exhibition design and project management.

  • 12 Stars builds

    1 October 1998

    Twelve Stars has created the logo for the merged Spanish construction group Obrascòn Huarte. - The logo is based around the mosaic face of a construction worker from the Roman Empire.

  • Architecture

    1 October 1998

    Fuel for Thought runs in conjunction with the Architecture Foundation's competition, A Car-free London. The exhibition, which aims to raise awareness of technical innovations and alternatives to the car, runs until 1 November.Venue: The Architecture Foundation, 30 Bury Street, London, SW1.Contact: Corrina Dean or Emily Lewis at The Architecture Foundation. Tel: 0171-839 9389.

  • Bagel chain identity by Pocknell

    1 October 1998

    Pocknell Studio has created the name, graphics and interiors for a fast food concept, billed as the first properly branded take-away bagel offer. The first of the Oi! Bagel chain is due to open in London's Marylebone station in the second week of December.

  • Blackburn tries out balance act on young

    1 October 1998

    Blackburn's Design Consultants has created new graphics and bottle design for non-alcoholic health drink Aqualibra, to make it more appealing to a younger market.

  • Books

    1 October 1998

    The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body and Design by Galen Cranz is published by Norton Book News on 7 October. Cranz traces the history of the chair through its use in different cultures and eras, evaluates its design and explores the impact it has had on our bodies. The book retails at 19.95.

  • Brief

    1 October 1998

    Jane Lewis talks to the clients and finds out what they want from a consultancy: understanding, compatibility and passion

  • Brief

    1 October 1998

    The Freeplay radio by Trevor Baylis and TKO has been a hit with most customers (see above), as well as with the remote populations it was intended for. It is difficult to imagine the latest version - a special silver-coloured Christmas edition - being air-dropped into the desert. An airdrop into Chelsea is more likely.

  • Brief

    1 October 1998

    Blast's second annual report for the British Tourist Authority combines the contemporary with the traditional. It depicts Britain 'as a place to experience rather than to just come and see,' says Blast partner Giff. The postcard is used as the vehicle for relaying people's experiences, with genuine messages written on the back of each.

  • Brief

    1 October 1998

    The new title sequence for the BBC1 television series Question Time reflects the lively nature of the programme's political debate with 'action-packed, punchy and exciting images', according to a BBC Resources spokeswoman. Created by in-house designers Ian Wormleighton and Rosalind Dallas, the sequence moves at a faster pace than previous titles. The graphics went live last Thursday.

  • Briefs

    1 October 1998

    Australian designer Marc Newson will be giving a talk as part of the Glasgow 1999 Public Lecture Series. The talk will be at 6pm on 28 October.

  • Briefs

    1 October 1998

    The Design Works has created a corporate identity implementation manual for motorcycle group Yamaha. The client has returned to its original identity, consisting of an image of tuning forks, modified by The Design Works.

  • Briefs

    1 October 1998

    AMX Studios had to get to grips with protestant repression, sex, death and the Royal Family to create the title sequence for the historical film Elizabeth, which opens this week. Portraits and religious icons are used during the minute-long piece to set the mood for the opening scene, which depicts the death of Mary Tudor. The whole project was completed on Apple Macinosh G3 computers.

  • Briscoe breakaway launches...

    1 October 1998

    Former staff from Edward Briscoe Design have launched a breakaway consultancy which they plan to build into a multi-disciplinary communications group.

  • Case study: The Partners and b2.

    1 October 1998

    Calm images, a soft blue colour, not exactly references to make you think of financial services. But that was the whole point of The Partners' approach to creating the identity for Barclays' new financial product, b2, providing customers with access to stock market investments.

  • Case study: The Workroom and RefAid

    1 October 1998

    The charity sector has become far more sophisticated about its marketing during the Nineties. As competition between charities has grown, they have recognised the need for a more professional and powerful approach to identity design. One of the things which attracted Fiona Alldridge, executive director of RefAid, to London consultancy The Workroom, was its experience in the charity sector combined with corporate work.

  • Culture head Chris Smith turns down Baylis radio

    1 October 1998

    Getting your parents' unwanted presents out every time they come to stay is deceitful, but good for relations. - The Department for Culture, Media and Sport unfortunately forgot to do the same for Trevor Baylis' Freeplay clockwork radio, given to Culture

  • Deepend goes to Hong Kong

    1 October 1998

    Deepend has designed the graphics, website and CD-ROM for High-Definition, an exhibition produced by the British Council showcasing cutting edge design for digital technologies.Shelton Fleming created the three-dimensional design and project managed the five-day show which opens in Hong Kong next Thursday, and is funded by the Department for Trade and Industry. The exhibition goes to Brazil next spring.

  • Design House brands BT Click

    1 October 1998

    BT continues to broaden its new media product range with the launch of BT Click, an Internet access product with an identity by Design House. The product went live yesterday.

  • Dome contents need more real content

    1 October 1998

    If officialdom responds at all to the rather quaintly described "polemical pamphlet" In Defence of the Dome, it will doubtless dismiss its authors - James Woudhuysen, Penny Lewis and Vicky Richardson - as "whingers" (see Review, page 36). For, though the trio wholeheartedly support the concept of the Millennium Dome at Greenwich, they rail against its content.

  • Dome defence

    1 October 1998

    A trio of writers and designers has teamed up to defend the Millennium Dome against its critics. The group has written a book, entitled In Defence of The Dome, proposing alternatives to the Dome's current contents.See Comment, page 11 and Review, page 36

  • DW Awards deadline

    1 October 1998

    The entry deadline for the Design Week Awards is 16 October. Contact Fiona Hitchcock at Centaur Events on 0171-970 4772 for an entry form. Winners will be announced in March.

  • E&P gives ITV identity a heart

    1 October 1998

    English & Pockett's new identity for ITV was unveiled yesterday. The rebranding is intended to help ITV better compete against the onslaught of new channels.

  • E&P gives ITV identity a heart

    1 October 1998

    Anti Copying in Design, the group which protects designers' intellectual property rights, has customised packaging tape as its latest weapon against unscrupulous copiers.The tape, for use when submitting designs, carries the ACID logo and a warning that breaking the seal to open the package binds the recipient to the conditions of a licensing agreement protecting designers' rights.

  • Exhibition design must be seen as progressive art

    1 October 1998

    Letters to the Editor should be sent to Design Week, 50 Poland Street, London W1V 4AX. Fax: 0171-970 4165. e-mail Design-week@centaur.co.uk

  • Exhibition designers call for central body

    1 October 1998

    Leading exhibition designers say the absence of a central representative body, together with a lack of Government commitment and understanding of the discipline, means the sector is falling well short of its potential.

  • EXHIBITIONS

    1 October 1998

    Recent work by Ron Arad can still be seen until 12 October. Some of the pieces on display were exhibited at this year's Milan Furniture Fair in Italy. This tall floor vase was produced for Gallery Mourmans and photographed by Wilhelm Moser.

  • Flying start to Italian holiday for Billy Sian

    1 October 1998

    It's no secret that the design industry takes the Network Shield football competition very seriously. Even so, Hollander Communications' decision to fly goalkeeper Billy Sian back from holiday in Italy for last week's opening round, could be seen as extreme. Not least because the flight cost 647.

  • Food fighting for style

    1 October 1998

    The popularity of quality fast food has taken the country by storm with groups such as Pret A Manger flourishing. But will customers tire of the branded outlet?

  • Haven celebrates with Enterprise IG rebrand

    1 October 1998

    The Royal College of Art has appointed Hilary French, formerly senior lecturer at Kingston University School of Architecture, as deputy course director for industrial design and furniture.

  • Haven celebrates with Enterprise IG rebrand

    1 October 1998

    Rank Holidays has relaunched subsidiary Haven Holiday Parks, the UK's biggest holiday park operator, with positioning and identity by Enterprise IG.

  • Hilary French joins Arad in new RCA post

    1 October 1998

    Heavy-handed sensationalism and victim stereotypes are avoided in Edit's design of the Amnesty International UK 1998 annual review. Launched last week to coincide with the organisation's human rights audit, it is Amnesty's first annual review in four years. The London group themed the report 'A year can make a world of difference', and focused on case studies of people helped by Amnesty.

  • Identity parade

    1 October 1998

    Many corporate identities have sat unchanged since the early Nineties. Helen Jones sees mergers, business confidence and globalisation now setting the wheels in motion for change.

  • Kinnersley Kent store

    1 October 1998

    Kinnersley Kent has created a flagship new-build store for Northern Irish department stores group Menary. The store opened yesterday in Bangor.The opening sees the introduction of clothes from US designer Liz Claiborne to Northern Ireland for the first time, and the launch of Destination, Menary's own-label fashion range.

  • Klaus Wuttke air lifts skin-care range

    1 October 1998

    Klaus Wuttke & Partners has created packaging and identity for OXYgen, a four-strong skincare range from SmithKline Beecham Consumer Healthcare.

  • Light & Coley delivers king size graphics

    1 October 1998

    Light & Coley has evolved the packaging for Gallaher's Club King Size and Club Lights brands, to give the design a more contemporary feel.

  • LNC subsumes Dewe Rogerson design arm

    1 October 1998

    Dewe Rogerson Group's 11-strong corporate design arm will be incorporated into Lloyd Northover Citigate, following the organisation's acquisition by LNC's parent company Incepta last week.

  • Lorenzo Apicella and team join Pentagram

    1 October 1998

    Pentagram is re-introducing architecture to its offer, with the acquisition of nine-strong architecture, interior and exhibition design group Apicella Associates.

  • Major leisure operator moves into café society

    1 October 1998

    THe vogue for branded café outlets continues with a new 200-strong Italian-style chain planned for early next year. - Leisure group Queensborough Holdings is behind the venture, named Fresco.

  • 'No change' at B&Q

    1 October 1998

    A spokeswoman for B&Q says the proposed merger between the group and French DIY outlet Castorama, will not lead to either company changing its identity 'for at least the next few years'. The merged company will be the biggest DIY retailer in Europe with 430 stores.

  • Packing a virtual punch

    1 October 1998

    Deepend Design was faced with the unenviable task of designing for designers, with this new website for client Packaging Solutions Advice Group.

  • Ruth Waddington gets touched up

    1 October 1998

    Williams Murray Banks played host recently to a group of cameramen from Blue Peter, filming the team at work to show young viewers the life of a designer.

  • S&M recoups creative logic

    1 October 1998

    Smith & Milton co-founder Jay Smith has returned to the 20-strong consultancy after a five-year family sabbatical. - Smith started the group with husband Howard Milton in 1980.

  • Sales

    1 October 1998

    Century Design will be holding a selling exhibition of Eames goods. Items include furniture and accessories, toys, coat racks, films, books and screens. The show runs throughout October.Venue: Century Design, 68 Marylebone High Street, London W1.Contact: Andrew Weaving, Century Design. Tel: 0171-487 5100.

  • Sea wins graphics bookshop job

    1 October 1998

    Arts bookseller Zwemmer is opening a new bookshop, billed as the world's only bookshop dedicated exclusively to graphics, typography, product and industrial design, and commercial spaces.

  • Silent but civil raised eyebrows for BTA logo

    1 October 1998

    Touring The Department for Culture, Media and Sport last week - part of London's Open House programme - high-lighted a point which branding specialists have been making for years: that an employee can only truly 'live' a brand that he or she fully believes in. Asked if he approved of the Real Time Studio-designed British Tourist Authority logo, our tour guide replied: 'As a civil servant, I have no opinion.'

  • Stop whinging and get talking to your clients

    1 October 1998

    Isn't it about time that this industry stopped talking to itself? Yes, we need to encourage imagination. Yes, it would be lovely to always be paid handsomely for pitches. And yes, of course, design can be woven into the strategic fabric of big business. But why do we spend so much time convincing ourselves when we should be convincing our clients?

  • Tesco shortlists for pack roster

    1 October 1998

    Supermarket chain Tesco has shortlisted 20 design groups for its first own-label packaging roster. The shortlist is part of a move to change the way the company chooses and uses design.

  • The Dome's day book

    1 October 1998

    Three writers, enraged by the barrage of Dome disparagement, have responded with a tome that offers alternatives.

  • Thomas Cook appoints two

    1 October 1998

    Thomas Cook is to sign up Enterprise IG to carry out its rebranding, following a pitch against Interbrand Newell and Sorrell, and Coley Porter Bell.Meanwhile BDG McColl is to design seasonal marketing campaigns for Thomas Cook Retail.

  • V&A sticks with title

    1 October 1998

    May I clarify the position about the Victoria and Albert's name? The editorial which I wrote for the V&A Magazine reflected in a lighthearted manner on our name, offering a bottle of champagne to anyone with a good alternative.It concluded that, like the Louvre or the Met, we should stick with our title. Unfortunately, a journalist misread my piece and produced a sensationalist story. I am sorry if anyone was misled.Alan BorgVictoria and Albert MuseumLondon SW7

  • Waking up to Net profit

    1 October 1998

    The Internet's uses are said to be far and wide, and to be bereft of a Web address could harm your reputation. Tim Rich looks at the benefits of keeping up with new media.

  • 'Yes' vote for Johnson Banks

    1 October 1998

    The European Movement has appointed Johnson Banks to develop the strategy, campaign device and graphics for the campaign for a "Yes" vote in the referendum on the single European currency.Johnson Banks beat Wolff Olins and Pentagram in a credentials pitch. The longer, original pitch list included Smith & Milton, The Partners and Atelier Works.

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