Design Week
10 September 2009
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Bruce Munro
10 September 2009
Lighting designer Bruce Munro’s new installation Water-Towers will be unveiled at the Fuel Cell Symposium in central London, which runs from 22-24 September.Munro says that the installation, which uses rainwater, discarded plastic bottles and recycled plastic sheet, was conceived as a visual representation of pure water power.
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Beer, chips and a short course in film studies - perfect!
10 September 2009
Last week, you posed the question, ‘What’s your favourite pub, and why?’ (Voxpop, DW 3 September).
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Celluloid rituals
10 September 2009
A pursuit is on. The soundtrack of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Isle of the Dead rivals the silhouetted woman’s clicking heels as the camera follows her through the anonymous interior and out on to the streets of London in the double projection work The Prisoner (2008). It is one of the five 16mm films by Rosalind Nashashibi on show at her first major exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London. ‘Gathering a group of Nashashibi’s films with her less well-known photographs gives ...
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D&AD's D Annual
10 September 2009
D&AD’s D Annual, art directed by Peter Saville and with design by graduate Luke Sanders, will be sent out as a limited edition to D&AD members later this month. A standard edition of the book, which showcases 748 projects, will go on sale next year, published by Taschen.
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Design, not user-testing, will challenge convention
Thu, 10 Sep 2009
Regarding Anna Richardson’s article Modern Hieroglyphics (DW 6 August), Gary Davis says, with reference to making symbols recognisable and conforming to an established standard, ‘But who makes that judgement? Not the designer, that’s for sure.’ (Letters, DW 20 August).
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Foster & Partners
10 September 2009
Architect Foster & Partners has designed a new dining table - to be known as the Arc - which will be unveiled on 23 September at the Molteni & C Dada store in London.
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How can clients take us seriously if Boris can't?
10 September 2009
I just wanted to echo the sentiments of Lambie-Nairn and others (News, DW 3 September) about the frustrating communication - or lack of it - within the Greater London Authority.
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Inspired: David Martin, M Worldwide
10 September 2009
As a student at the Royal College of Art I lived in Greenwich in south-east London and happened across the most original lunacy - a Sunday night comedy show called Vic Reeves Big Night Out at the Albany Empire in nearby Deptford. Vic and Bob [Mortimer] are back on TV with a new series of Shooting Stars - 15 years since the show first aired in 1993. Apart from the odd Christmas special, it’s all been quiet from them in the past few years. I wasn’t sure that I wanted to watch it - perhaps ...
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Magical alchemy
10 September 2009
Storytelling and illustration combine to great effect in the fairy tale, giving the members of an east London printmaking collective the perfect opportunity to showcase their skills in a new exhibition. Anna Richardson uncovers the narrative in their work
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Manchester City Football Club
10 September 2009
Music has created a campaign for Manchester City Football Club in the lead-up to the club’s home game against Premiership rival Arsenal on 12 September. The campaign features striker Emmanuel Adebayor, who moved from Arsenal to Manchester City during the summer.The image was conceived by Music and produced by San Francisco-based illustrator Michael Gillette.
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Master of all departments
10 September 2009
Freelances are fearless warriors, but it can be tough out there at the moment. Lynne Boon offers her top survival tips for riding out the recession
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More rounded graduates may better meet industry needs
10 September 2009
The mismatch between the kind of graduates design colleges are providing and what consultancy creative heads require was highlighted again this week at D&AD’s Xchange conference for college tutors.
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News in pictures
10 September 2009
High & Dry, a dish rack designed by Black & Blum, will launch next month
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News in pictures
10 September 2009
Richard Horne has written and designed A is for Armageddon: An Illustrated Catalogue of Disasters. The book is published by Square Peg, priced £14.99.
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News is pictures
10 September 2009
Furniture designer Steve Watson will present his 2009 collection for the first time in the UK at 100% Design, which is at London’s Earls Court from 24-27 September.
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Option freedom
10 September 2009
For long an inveterate driver of a gas-guzzling eightseater, Hugh Pearman gets a whiff of true liberty at the thought of ditching his car altogether
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Profile: Mario Trimarchi
10 September 2009
Italian designer Mario Trimarchi is a master of minimalism and monochrome restraint, but his Sicilian origins and the sirocco wind add a touch of exuberance to his new collection for Alessi. Dominic Lutyens reports
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Red, blue, yellow and Green
10 September 2009
With the Lib Dems looking to adopt an interventionist stance on waste reduction, Angus Montgomery explores the politics of planet-friendly packaging
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The outer limits
10 September 2009
Rooted in 19th-century socialism and the development of public transport, suburbia is often parodied, but plays a central role in the lives of millions. John Stones finds much to admire in a new exhibition celebrating this phenomenon
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Voxpop
10 September 2009
The Greater London Authority’s contest for a new logo and branding for London asks for creative work at the first round. Do you think it is better to boycott the tender completely, like Lambie-Nairn, or open the process up to the public, as Moving Brands has done, and why?
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Yacht design goes for mod cons and retro to beat crunch
10 September 2009
The have-nots and the haveyachts will gather at the PSP Southampton Boat Show this weekend to marvel at - and in some cases actually buy - one of this year’s crop of spanking new launches.
