Design Week
11 April 2002
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Bar Lifthouse to open in May
11 April 2002
Quinn Architecture has created the interiors and furniture for bar Lifthouse at 85 Charterhouse Street in London.
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Barbican design jobs up for grabs
11 April 2002
Design work is up for grabs at the Barbican Centre in London following the Corporation of London's award of £12.25m to fund improvements to foyers and other public spaces at the arts complex.
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BBC MediaArc airs the identity for BBC Broadcast
11 April 2002
BBC MediaArc, the BBC's in-house design resource, has created the visual identity for BBC Broadcast.
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BBC narrows roster to five?
11 April 2002
The BBC was unavailable for comment as Design Week went to press on industry reports that its roster shortlist has been narrowed down from ten to five consultancies and that contracts are in the process of being signed.The BBC previously told DW that it hopes the roster will enable it to cut costs and tighten control (DW, 13 September 2001). The decision follows Lambie-Nairn's rebranding of the organisation last month.
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Book
11 April 2002
Amy Dempsey's encyclopedic guide to modern art is published by Thames & Hudson this week, priced £24.95.
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Call for entries
11 April 2002
The Society of Artists Agents has launched the Illustration Awards 2003 for professional illustrators and students, with a closing date of 30 May. Winners will be shown on Transport for London networks and the London Underground and in an exhibition at London's Transport Museum.Contact: www.saaillustration awards.com or careybennett@the saa.com for further details.
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Chaos reigns in Guildford as Quadraphic 'sits together'
11 April 2002
Design Week gets a lot of junk through its Design Week gets a lot of junk through its letterbox as you can probably imagine. So when yet another design consultancy sent through its self-promotion pack a collective 'so what?' rang round the office.
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Corporate Edge rebrands The Industrial Society
11 April 2002
Corporate Edge has created an identity for The Work Foundation, which rebranded from The Industrial Society this week.
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Design graduates lecture the next wave of graduates
11 April 2002
With regards to Design Week's News Analysis on graduate awards schemes (DW 21 March), I think it comes down to the simple fact that supply totally outweighs demand.
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Digest
11 April 2002
Dew Gibbons has created the packaging for Diet Coke with Lemon, a brand extension of the Coca-Cola soft drink, which goes on shelf in June. The design combines stylish, adult personality and the clean look and feel of Diet Coke's branding with an added vibrancy and sparkle, says Dew Gibbons designer Jacqui Owers.
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Digest
11 April 2002
Design Connection's Nick Jenkins has created a new visual identity for The Stationery Office, the Government's publishing service. The brief for the identity, launched this week, was to provide a more contemporary feel to emphasise the 200-year-old service's relevance in the digital age.
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Digest
11 April 2002
Material ConneXion this week announced the launch of its Milan office, the company's first international affiliate. Managing director Michele Caniato says the company plans to extend throughout Europe and the US over the next few years.
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Digest
11 April 2002
The Proctor and Stevenson Design Awards, the awards scheme for students in the south west of England and south Wales, has launched three new categories and increased its prize fund by £9500.
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Digest
11 April 2002
Kysen Group has named and branded a campaign to promote Panasonic's sponsorship of the Formula One team Toyota Racing. It has also created a microsite for the campaign, entitled the Panasonic Grand Prix Challenge.
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Digest
11 April 2002
Real Studios has designed the new Art & Tech rooms for Le Meridien. The first phase of 60 rooms will open on 22 April and a further 1025 rooms will be revamped over the next year.
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Digest
11 April 2002
SteersMcGillan launches a new logo for the Clore Duffield Foundation next week. The logo shows a 'C' with a 'D' seen in the negative space and aims to create a positive and distinctive look for the foundation.
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Digest
11 April 2002
Sky Creative Services has created 20 ten-second idents and 20 two-second stings for Wines of Bordeaux's sponsorship of the Hallmark Channel. The idents will go on air from 15 April for six months.
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Digest
11 April 2002
Silk Pearce has designed a corporate brochure for Maybridge Chemical Company. The design is inspired by the Cornish landscape.
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Digest
11 April 2002
Feltons has designed Life in Lambeth, a guide to services in the London borough. The group was briefed to produce a design that would appeal to all ages and have an easy-to-navigate format. Managing partner Roger Felton led the project with senior designer Brion Furnell.
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Digest
11 April 2002
John Knowles Ritchie has redesigned the European packaging for ICI Paints' metal care brand Hammerite. The new look features a revamped version of the Hammerite arch and is blue in an effort to make a bolder in-store impact. Packs will appear on shelves from the end of this week.
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Douglas Cooper sets up own group
11 April 2002
John Lewis Partnership design consultant Douglas Cooper is to retire from the position at the beginning of June to start up a design management and retail design consultancy.
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Exhibitions
11 April 2002
Body Worlds; We did it!; Film Posters from Cuba; Solid Air - new work in glass; Dramatic Events; Open Up/02; DS4 West Collection
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Feeling misdirected or have we missed the point?
11 April 2002
I have been waiting with bated breath for the next few copies of Design Week since Patrick Smith's letter was published (DW 21 March). Not for the usual columns of hot industry news, but for the torrent of outraged letters in response to Smith's clarification and justification of the new Cancer Research UK logo.
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Financial sector banks on design
11 April 2002
Richard Clayton asks whether design can improve consumer perceptions of financial services brands
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Football heroes celebrated as you moisten the stamps
11 April 2002
I was interested to read in Design Week's Dairy section that the Isle of Man Post Office is commissioning World Cup stamps featuring footballers such as Manchester United's David Beckham and Liverpool's Michael Owen (DW 28 March).
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Furnishing ideas
11 April 2002
Milan will be coming to London for the first time this year with Selfridges and the Victoria & Albert Museum getting in on the act. The London department store opened its Porta Via: Milan comes to Selfridges yesterday, while the V&A is bringing us Milan i
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Good things don't just come in small boxes
11 April 2002
Large, international groups are able to give brands a lot more exposure than smaller consultancies, but a mixture of both could be best
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Hugh Pearman: Mapping out the basics
11 April 2002
Hugh Pearman talks graphically about why he doesn't like the new version of the Ordnance Survey's Landranger maps. He thinks they've become too touristy
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Its jewellery scholars need to get a grip
11 April 2002
Is it a necklace? Is it a tongue clamp? Does it dig out bits of dirt from under your nails?
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Lewis Moberly wines Mateus Rosé
11 April 2002
First Drinks Brands will launch revamped packaging by Lewis Moberly for the Portuguese wine brand Mateus Rosé, including an update of the carafe-style bottle shape, later this month.
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London's Skandium store to host exhibition of Tora Urup's glass designs
11 April 2002
Danish artist Tora Urup will exhibit her glass designs, including a range of bowl prototypes, at the Skandium store in London from 16-31 May.
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M&S sets the brief for future store formats
11 April 2002
Marks & Spencer is developing plans for new retail formats, which involves reassessing the way it works with external design groups.
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National Lottery points to Landor
11 April 2002
Landor Associates has revamped The National Lottery's crossed fingers logo, which was relaunched on Wednesday 10 April.
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National Trust trials restaurant concept by First
11 April 2002
The National Trust is piloting a bistro-style restaurant concept in Northern Ireland, designed by retail consultancy First, with plans to roll out the concept to other parts of the UK later this year.
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New shopping centre to open in Kuwait on 21 April
11 April 2002
A new shopping centre launches in Kuwait on 21 April with interiors designed by Eldrige Smerin.
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Oakwood prepares for flying start
11 April 2002
Oakwood 3D has designed a new exhibition for the Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovilton, Somerset. Entitled Projecting Power - The Fleet Air Arm in Action, the exhibition will open in the summer.
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Orange product brochure has zest added by Captive
11 April 2002
Captive Communication has designed a new quarterly product and services brochure for Orange Switzerland in what is believed to be a six-figure design investment by the company.
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Private viewing
11 April 2002
Private members' club Soho House is leading a re-launch of antiquated London cinema, the Electric. Francesca Syz gets the picture
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Puffed up job titles only the bearer understands
11 April 2002
New appointments might not be abundant in the design industry at the moment, but new job titles seem to be taking the industry by storm.
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Red Design creates artwork for Super Collider's album Raw Digits
11 April 2002
Red Design has created the artwork for experimental electronic funk pioneer Super Collider's album Raw Digits and the single Messageacoming, which is released at the end of April. The album is due for release at the end of May on the label Rise Robot Rise.
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Restructure co-founder to educate Design Museum
11 April 2002
The Design Museum has appointed Restructure co-founder Helen Evenden as its first head of educational activities since 1998, as part of its commitment to increase the emphasis on its education programme.
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Ron Arad launches six products in Milan
11 April 2002
Ron Arad, who will have a supporting role in the Ingo Maurer exhibition, launches six products while in Milan including the Moby's Strip for The Gallery Mourmans.Maurer and Arad jointly present the Pixel Birds light installation and Vitra launches The Bad Tempered Chair, a carbon fibre version of the Well Tempered Chair by Ron Arad for Vitra. Vitra will also launch a new translucent version of the Tom Vac. Maurer will present his production version of Arad's Ballpark.
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SAS assembles MFI annual report
11 April 2002
SAS Design has redesigned the MFI Furniture Group's 2001 annual report, published last week.
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Seminar
11 April 2002
International trend research and design consultancy Promostyl holds its bi-annual presentation looking at trends for Winter 2003/04 on Thursday 18 April at 10.30am. Development director Matthew Jeatt and creative director Laurent Le Mouel take a look at future cultural and lifestyle trends, identifying key colours, materials, product concepts and development strategies. Tickets are £45.
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Shifting methods will affect results of Top 100 survey
11 April 2002
It's amazing how many requests we've already had for the Top 100 form, which is published this week. Let's hope the folks so keen to receive it actually fill it in, to give us the best possible picture of the design business.
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Sotheby's to hold an auction of Applied Arts and Twentieth Century Design
11 April 2002
An auction of Applied Arts and Twentieth Century Design is to be held at Sotheby's on 3 May.
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Sound Off
11 April 2002
Designers must be more aware of the power of language when creating a brand
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Start Design delivers a new Virgin Holidays logo
11 April 2002
Virgin Holidays is to launch a revamped identity, created by Start Design, later this month.
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Still Waters manages MHA image
11 April 2002
Still Waters Run Deep has been appointed to create an identity, website and print material for public sector management consultancy MHA.
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TalkS
11 April 2002
Beck's Futures artists Paul Hosking and Neil Rumming discuss current themes in their work on 13 April at 2pm. Entry to the talk is free with a day membership of £2.50 and £2 concessions.
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Ted Baker stores designed in-house
11 April 2002
Ted Baker is planning to open a 395m2 showcase store in New York as well as its first shop in Paris within the next two months.
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Top 100 survey calls for entries
11 April 2002
Preparations for Design Week's 2002 Top 100 Consultancy Survey are underway with the publication this week of the questionnaire which forms the basis for the data.
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Translation loses Central St Martins students
11 April 2002
Scribes like us don't profess to know how to draw. So we don't look kindly on design students trying to give us language lessons.
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Vox pop
11 April 2002
Last week's feature on recruitment in design showed that, while times are tough and competition fierce, consultancies are still hiring. What advice would you give to people looking for a job?
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WMH rediscovers Phileas Fogg brand
11 April 2002
Williams Murray Hamm has designed packaging for premium crisps brand Phileas Fogg, due to launch next month. The relaunch is part of the brand's drive to reclaim leadership in its category against rivals such as Kettle Chips.
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Yorkshire taxi design and image driven by Ratdesign
11 April 2002
It was good to see Design Yorkshire mentioned in the pages of Design Week once again, particularly your editorial (DW 28 March).



