Design Week
10 April 2008
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A display of attitude
10 April 2008
These pictures, on show at London's Ancient & Modern gallery alongside the Vorticist-inspired Vortographs of Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882-1904), comprise a portrait of a lost 1970s and early 1980s London underground scene.
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A picture can tell a story, but decent words help
10 April 2008
I feel I have to write in response to the letter you published two weeks ago ('Image library jobs can be tedious, but they're great assets', DW 27 March), However, I can't really comment on Christopher Sims' letter without sounding like a grumpy old man. I think I know what he is trying to say, and he obviously says it with passion, but not in a language I fully understand. I'm trying to work out if publishing his letter without previously editing it for grammar, sense ...
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Another dimension
10 April 2008
For independent designers collaborating with manufacturers, the design process can vary dramatically. Liz Farrelly talks to three leading designers about their approach to model-making
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Beijing in bloom
10 April 2008
CHINA HAS BEEN CULTIVATING ITS OWN CROP OF DESIGN TALENT WHICH IS NO LONGER LOOKING TO THE WEST FOR INSPIRATION BUT TO THE COUNTRY’S OWN CULTURAL ROOTS. ZIJIA WONG REPORTS ON THE CURIOUS MIX OF DESIGN STYLES IN BEIJING
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Bentley Holland and Partners
10 April 2008
Bentley Holland and Partners has designed the branding for The Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition. The designs will roll out this month and include London Underground posters, magazine advertising, publicity posters and fliers. The 2008 Summer Science Exhibition will take place from 30 June to 3 July at The Royal Society, London SW1.
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Cities forum from British Council
10 April 2008
The British Council this week holds its first design and architecture programme since public consultation over its restructuring began in February.The consultation on whether to disband its specialist design and visual arts departments arose out of pressure from the arts community (DW 6 February).Cityscapers: By The Throat 2008, held this week in Edinburgh, brings together 30 designers, architects, planners and artists from South East Asia to work on a 'creative city' brief ...
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Contender Entertainment Group
10 April 2008
Contender Entertainment Group launched a website, www.recmovie.co. uk, for new horror film [Rec] last week, with design by Franki&Jonny. Among the features of the site is the 'Rec-mode' which offers views of a zombie-ridden building.
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Crunch time in logo battle between NYC and Apple
10 April 2008
Apple's latest trademark wrangle with New York City has been branded 'a shame' by the consultancy that designed the identity under dispute.Director of New York consultancy Turf, Mark Tripetti, says, 'It is a shame that something so benevolent is causing a dispute, and that there is conflict over something that is impacting such positive consumer change.'Tripetti stands by the identity that has been in use across the city since July last year to promote recycling and Green ...
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DairyCo looks outside London for fresh, less expensive identity
10 April 2008
A new dairy company has commissioned a South West design consultancy to create its brand guidelines because it says London designers are too expensive.DairyCo, which replaces the Milk Development Council, launched on 1 April.DairyCo head of communications Philippa Stagg says, 'I had to consider money very carefully and in this case a London design consultancy was not the best value.'Swindon-based MHD Partnership's designs will be rolling out across DairyCo's website, ...
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Dirty little secret
10 April 2008
Clients may pull the purse strings, but they should still let designers use their personal intuition, as that is how they find job satisfaction, says Adrian Shaughnessy
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English Heritage and Designmap to evolve Darwin exhibit for bicentenary
10 April 2008
English Heritage's offering for the bicentenary of Darwin's birth next year is to be developed around its Down House exhibition, with the help of Designmap.A number of organisations, including Cambridge University, the Natural History Museum and the Darwin200 initiative, as well as the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, are marking the occasion with their own events.As well as commemorating Darwin's bicentenary and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On The ...
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Futurebrand Milan
10 April 2008
Futurebrand Milan has appointed Gianni Tozzi, former creative director of The Brand Union, as its new chief creative director.
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Ian Fleming and the art of book design
10 April 2008
Those who blinked and missed the Royal Mail's set of stamps featuring James Bond covers back in January should rush to a new exhibition opening next week. Bond Bound: Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design is just one part of the author's centenary celebrations taking place this year, but for designers, it promises to be the best. Covering all of Ian Fleming's books and a range of archive material, the focus of the show will be firmly on the James Bond novels, beginning with Fleming's ...
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Inspired - John Boult, Product First
10 April 2008
What inspires me are the ideas and people that challenge the accepted boundaries of design.Most of my working week is spent with Product First, which today is more about using design thinking to create innovative cultural change than about the physical design of products, but I am also a visiting lecturer on Brunel's Design Strategy Masters course.This is the understated gem in UK design education, a course that has, for more than 12 years, been doing what D-school in the ...
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Lightwave Design
10 April 2008
Lightwave Design has revamped the identity of charity Teens Unite Fighting Cancer in an effort to widen its reach and redefine its brand image.
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Look book
10 April 2008
A new compilation of graphic design is both a handsome compendium and a model of how to curate, organise and present graphic work in book form, says Jim Davies I have a slight problem with compendiums of graphic design. First, there are too many of them. Competent, but unexceptional, they end up merging into one another, like so many tomes of bound wallpaper.Presumably, they're supposed to offer a snapshot of what's happening ...
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Magic touch
10 April 2008
A tactile, exact model is the perfect tool for packaging designers looking to sell structural innovations to clients. Trish Lorenz investigates
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Matters of the art
10 April 2008
Architects’ models are increasingly finding a market among private collectors keen to acquire their very own piece of Zaha Hadid, Amanda Levete or Will Alsop. Fiona Sibley browses the market
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Nightclub owner Mint Group
10 April 2008
Nightclub owner Mint Group has this week launched a website, www.maryjanesbar. com, for its London bar Mary Janes, designed by Clock.
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Perfect fit
10 April 2008
Designers are finding novel uses for modelling technologies, including a service that makes made-to-measure boots for professional footballers, says Scott Billings
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Product design: an overview
10 April 2008
Humans are tactile, visual creatures. Given the choice, we'd rather touch and hold physical objects to find out how they work than look at representations of them on a flat screen. And in the world of product design, a real, tangible manifestation of what's on the drawing board can be an essential tool to convince the client their product is developing in the way they want it to. Material objects give us information that's hard to discern in two dimensions, such as scale and finish, or ...
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Profile
10 April 2008
Experimental animator Suzie Templeton’s mantlepiece is groaning with awards, including a Bafta and an Oscar. It’s quite an achievement in a trade that can be rather solitary and obsessive, says Nick Smurthwaite
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Prototyping - Introduction
10 April 2008
Dictionaries seem to agree that a prototype is the earliest defining instance of a thing or class of things. So, for example, the Ford Model T is probably the prototypical mass-produced car and Hancock's Half Hour the prototype for all British TV sitcoms. But the meaning is a little different in the world of manufacturing, where prototyping is part of the development process of a product: a prototype doesn't define the product, but it helps us get there. Although we have several names ...
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Rapid manufacturing: an overview
10 April 2008
However fantastic rapid prototyping technology may be, it is what designers do with it that counts. This is a challenge that forward-thinking designers such as Ron Arad have been rising to for years, but its rich potential as a manufacturing medium is now being realised more widely, as a new generation of tech-savvy designers begins to take it up.Several of these have been working with Belgium-based prototyper Materialise on the MGX collection, conceived to showcase the creative ...
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Rapide response
10 April 2008
Aston Martin’s new design studio should speed up the development of prototypes, but natural light and traditional craft skills are still crucial to this company’s sculptural approach to designing cars, says John Stones
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RSA takes Design Directions scheme into health arena
10 April 2008
Do designers enjoy humiliating people who try to give up smoking? In the 1990s everyone guffawed the inhalator into oblivion, and now we can giggle at the Divert Ring, 'a displacement activity for smokers'. It is a big, personalised ring, featuring anti-smoking messages from your loved ones. Well, at least it's not a teething-style device.The Ring is one of more than 40 winning entries from this year's Royal Society of Arts' Design Directions competition. As such, it is unlikely ...
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Sony Photography Awards profiled
10 April 2008
With numerous high-profile awards, photography hardly lacks for prizes. However, Ed Barber wonders whose purpose they serve, and thinks the market may be as important as the art form itself
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Springetts Brand Design
10 April 2008
Springetts Brand Design has created an identity for Volvic and poverty charity World Vision's new Africa charity campaign, featuring on packs of mineral water.
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Strong leaders are a must-have
10 April 2008
There's one thing a design consultancy absolutely must have to succeed and flourish - exceptional leadership says Roger Huhes
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Strong leaders are crucial if design is to make an impact
10 April 2008
Roger Hughes is right to cite leadership as a key attribute for any consultancy bent on success.
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Studio Baum
10 April 2008
Studio Baum has designed a new identity and a website - www.margaterocks.com - for the Margate art and ecology festival Margate Rocks.
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The animated art of Persepolis
10 April 2008
Despite its stark monochrome look and potentially sombre storyline of growing up in revolutionary Iran, the animated film Persepolis has all the makings of a classic. Narrowly missing an Oscar adds to its credentials, says Nargess Shahmanesh-Banks
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The simplest ideas take on a life of their own
10 April 2008
In your Voxpop (DW 27 March), my ex-fellow student Greg Quinton recalls that our head of graphics claimed to have designed the iconic Che Guevara image. I'd since discovered that Jim Fitzpatrick takes credit for creating this iconic graphic in 1968 as an art student. The previous week I'd visited the Weapons of Mass Communication exhibition at the Imperial War Museum which displayed hundreds of the most arresting iconic war posters. I was eager to see the Che Guevara poster ...
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The Wellcome Collection's new exhibition
10 April 2008
The Wellcome Collection's new exhibition examines the journey from life to death through photographs of 24 terminally ill people. The work of journalist Beate Lakotta and photographer Walter Schels, Life Before Death runs from 9 April to 18 May at the Wellcome Trust, Gibbs Building, 215 Euston Road, London NW1.
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The winners of the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards
10 April 2008
The winners of the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2008 for publications in the fields of photography and moving image will be announced on 14 April. The two category winners will share £10 000 prize money. The 12 shortlisted titles include Michael Chanan's The Politics Of Documentary, James Naremore's On Kubrick and Stephen Shore's The Nature of Photographs: A Primer, with images including Frederick Sommer's 1966 Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and the Infant Saint John (pictured).Bentley ...
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Tottenham’s a nice place – just give Ts a chance!
10 April 2008
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Vectrix
10 April 2008
Electric scooter company Vectrix has released its annual report, designed by Carr Kamasa Design.
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Voxpop
10 April 2008
The Government has announced plans to tap into the popularity of independently run websites in the form of blogs, forums and networking sites to spread Whitehall's messages. Is designing a sexy Facebook page the best way for the Government to use the medium?
