Design Week
11 February 2010
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Beef creates Ladybird virtual pet care drive
11 February 2010
Beef is working for Penguin brand Ladybird to produce a website that will explore the value of looking after animals through a new series of books and a Tamagotchi-style game.
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999 Design has designed the British Council’s annual British Films Catalogue
11 February 2010
999 Design has designed the British Council’s annual British Films Catalogue, which lists British films made in the past year. The council appointed the rostered consultancy last October, following a three-way pitch against two of its other preferred design suppliers. The catalogue will be used to promote British films at festivals across the world.
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Applied Information Group has completed its branding for Trans Link
11 February 2010
Applied Information Group has completed its branding and wayfinding brief for Vancouver’s transport system Trans Link. The signs, maps and network diagrams are being rolled out across the bus and train network, in time for the Winter Olympics, which the city is hosting this year. Trans Link is expecting user capacity to double across Greater Vancouver during the event, and AIG says it has attempted to reflect local culture in its branding and designs.
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Blueleaf Digital has been appointed for self-storage company Big Yellow
11 February 2010
Blueleaf Digital has been appointed to work on marketing campaigns for self-storage company Big Yellow.
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Brandopus has rebranded Wellness Foods brand Grove Fresh
11 February 2010
Brandopus has rebranded Wellness Foods brand Grove Fresh as Grove Organic Fruit Company.
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Bruce Munro has created chandeliers for The Queen’s Theatre
11 February 2010
Bruce Munro has created chandeliers, circle-edge balcony lights and general lighting for The Queen’s Theatre in London’s West End.
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Central Station has launched a members' fund
11 February 2010
Online creative network Central Station has launched a members’ fund to support the creation of new work by artists, designers and filmmakers.
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Creative industries minister Siôn Simon is standing down
11 February 2010
Creative industries minister Siôn Simon is standing down to launch a bid to become mayor of Birmingham.
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Crime initiatives boost bid to engage civil servants in design
11 February 2010
Last week it was glassing, this week it is mobile phone fraud. The Home Office is on a roll with projects to combat crime through design, guided by the Design Council and the Technology Strategy Board.
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Evolution not revolution is stifling vehicle design
11 February 2010
Regarding your feature ’The body electric’ (DW 21 January) and the opportunities offered automotive designers by electric vehicles, in theory the opportunity is indeed a great one and we would hope to see a new automotive aesthetic emerging.
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Factory Design shrinks Techne DNA cloning device
11 February 2010
Factory Design has redesigned the Thermal Cycler (pictured), a scientific device which can clone DNA and increase the size of a DNA sample.
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Flying a kite?
11 February 2010
Not all self-initiated concepts make it to production, but the PR and goodwill generated make it all worthwhile. Angus Montgomery reports
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Inspired - Nick Bedford Wonderland WPA
11 February 2010
The most important thing about inspiration is to never go looking for it. It has a habit of finding you. But if I’m in need of a fix, I go shopping.
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Jon Davies launches new consultancy
11 February 2010
Former Holmes & Marchant managing director Jon Davies is launching new consultancy Butterfly Cannon.
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Keep your vision keen
11 February 2010
Success often hinges on having a clear agenda - or better still, a dream. Make sure you take stock of it regularly and keep it crystal clear, urges Shan Preddy
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Marc Newson has created Black Box
11 February 2010
Marc Newson has created Black Box, a travel-friendly case for champagne brand the House of Dom Pérignon. This is the fourth collaboration between Newson and Dom Pérignon - the two have been working together for the past five years. Black Box will be sold at Harvey Nichols in London.
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Mayor Boris taking a different route on London bus design
11 February 2010
Boris Johnson makes some wayward decisions on design - to replace the Routemaster, he launched a competition in which the winners were two projects with rear platforms.
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New Frontiers launches Green events and Web push
11 February 2010
Product and interior specialists seeking to create sustainable designs will soon have access to information, courtesy of start-up initiative New Frontiers. Based in Manchester, New Frontiers is poised to roll out a website, seminar programme, a major awards scheme and accompanying exhibition.
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New hotel in Southwold to hold pitch for interiors brief
11 February 2010
A new 30-room, luxury hotel located at the shoreward end of Southwold Pier in Suffolk plans to hold a pitch to find an interior design consultancy in 2011.
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News in Pictures
11 February 2010
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News in Pictures
11 February 2010
Industrial design students Fernando Cruz and Benedikt Lowenstein from the University of Applied Sciences NW Switzerland have designed the Steil, a sledge that offers a range of seating positions and can be carried on shoulder straps.
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News in Pictures
11 February 2010
Peter Blake, Allen Jones, Zandra Rhodes and John Squire have designed covers for Penguin’s Decades series. The series has been art-directed by Jim Stoddart and John Hamilton.
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Only joined-up thinking will help the people of Haiti
11 February 2010
With regard to the question, ’What is the best thing designers can do to help the relief effort in Haiti?’ (Voxpop, DW 4 February), maybe the best thing that the UK design community could do for this type of disaster is to discreetly develop an intelligent, functional, co-ordinated range of equipment that can be stored around the world, ready for such incidents.
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Poke co-founder Iain Tait is leaving the consultancy
11 February 2010
Poke co-founder Iain Tait is leaving the consultancy to join Wieden & Kennedy in the United States.
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Profile - Eva Zeisel
11 February 2010
Design is populated with earnest young things, but more senior players can take heart from Eva Zeisel, who is still pitching for work at 103. Hannah Booth tracks down the ceramics artist with a life story few can match
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Purpose has acquired Reef Design Management
11 February 2010
Purpose has acquired Reef Design Management. The company says no job losses have resulted from the merger.
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Sennep has designed websites for Kantar Worldpanel
11 February 2010
Sennep has designed websites for Kantar Worldpanel and creative collective Peepshow.
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Sir Michael Bichard has been appointed to the House of Lords
11 February 2010
Sir Michael Bichard, chairman of the Design Council, has been appointed to the House of Lords.
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Stage school
11 February 2010
The Motley theatre design course has had a huge impact on the dramatic arts since its inception more than 40 years ago. Maeve Hosea assesses the continuing legacy of the course and its current director Alison Chitty
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Studio Dempsey has designed a set of three CD covers for the London Chamber Orchestra
11 February 2010
Studio Dempsey has designed a set of three CD covers for the London Chamber Orchestra’s live recordings from St John’s, Smith Square, SW1. The second CD (pictured) will be released in May. The three CD covers are differentiated by their colours schemes and titles.
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Surreal overtures
11 February 2010
As one of the few art forms allowed in post-World War II Poland, Polish poster design reached its golden age in the mid-1950s through to the early 1970s.
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Take stock
11 February 2010
Printing on recycled paper alone is no longer the absolute benchmark of a sustainable process, says Anna Richardson, with paper wastage, transportation miles and intelligent use of ink among a host of issues to be considered
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The Centre for Alternative Technology is launching a course in eco interior design
11 February 2010
The Centre for Alternative Technology is launching a course in eco interior design in July.
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The Priory repositions with Design House integrated push
11 February 2010
Design House has created an integrated campaign for mental health care group The Priory Group, challenging the misconception that the organisation is just for celebrities.
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Voxpop
11 February 2010
If you could bring in anyone from outside the design industry as a non-executive director, who would you choose, and why?
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Watching the others
11 February 2010
Companies express outrage at counterfeiters brazenly exploiting their hard-won brand equity, but surely it’s a mutually dependent relationship? says Hugh Pearman
