Design Week
11 June 2009
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...while this critic just doesn't see it in too-clever wordplay
11 June 2009
I read with interest your piece on Brand Catalyst’s identity for Keep Britain Tidy (www. designweek.co.uk, 1 June).Peter Shaw is quoted as saying the design makes the brand more flexible, but, try as I may to understand the visual reasoning behind it, all I can see is ‘Keep Brain Tidy’.Tabrez Ahmad, by e-mail
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Artscience has created...
11 June 2009
Artscience has created an identity for Raspberry Pi, an initiative backed by Cambridge University and computer industry experts to engage children with computer science. Briefed to create an identity that would appeal to 11- to 18-year-olds in a way that was not ‘kiddy’ or ‘techy’, Artscience designed a logotype that will be rolled out at the end of the summer, when the Raspberry Pi initiative targets schools nationally.
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Buddy pockets gender-specific tissue pack brief from Kleenex
11 June 2009
Kleenex is poised to launch a new range of pocket tissues aimed at women, with packaging by Buddy Creative.
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Business-speak isn't just a shallow use of words
11 June 2009
The meaningless businessspeak John Simmons refers to (‘Verbal fuel’, DW 21 May) is a source of irritation because of the suspicion that it’s used to deliberately mystify the work of managers and mask inaction.
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Consultancy Drinkall Dean...
11 June 2009
Consultancy Drinkall Dean has created the first in a series of graphic designs, which will be applied first to T-shirts, before expanding into other everyday items. The T-shirt designs will be available at the end of this month.
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Cooling things down could make London a friendlier capital
11 June 2009
London Underground is crying out for air conditioning, and it would be a great opportunity to showcase design ingenuity.
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Coventry University Enterprises...
11 June 2009
Coventry University Enterprises and the Weee Suitcase Company have designed, developed and patented a robust and customer-approved carrier for waste electronic and electrical goods. The Weee case can safely store and carry all types of waste electronic and electrical equipment (hence the name) from fridges and washing machines to batteries and light bulbs.
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FC United of Manchester to launch stadium tender
11 June 2009
Football Club United of Manchester is planning to launch an open tender to find designers or architects to create its first stadium and club facilities later this year.
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Figuring it out
11 June 2009
One of the few sectors that is proving immune to the recession is annual reports, but that doesn’t mean clients or consultancies are playing it safe. Anna Richardson talks to four groups about the latest developments
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Funnel Creative brands Real Prospects
11 June 2009
Funnel Creative has created the identity for Real Prospects, a survey of graduate employers which explores what 22 000 UK graduates think of their employers’ recruitment, training and career development offer.
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How to gain some weight
11 June 2009
Designers are missing a trick with client relationships - adopting the harder-nosed approach of ad agencies could reap long-term benefits, says Shan Preddy
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Inn vogue
11 June 2009
Subtlety and understated luxury are the order of the day in the latest round of upmarket hotel launches. Trish Lorenz checks into three new five-star destinations to see how they are using design to differentiate themselves in a challenging market
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Inspired - Brendan Thorpe, Springetts
11 June 2009
Given the chance to write 200 words or so on what I find inspiring seemed like too good a chance to miss. Then there was the problem - the deadline. It should focus the mind, but did it? Not really.
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Max Fraser book gets LDF showcase
11 June 2009
The publication of design writer Max Fraser’s London Design Guide will be accompanied by an exhibition at this year’s London Design Festival.
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News In Pictures
11 June 2009
Guernsey-based consultancy Betley Whitehorne has created a series of print ads for stamp dealer Stanley Gibbons.
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News in Pictures
11 June 2009
A group of Royal College of Art students in the department of innovation design engineering is working with the Institute of Contemporary Arts to produce 8hertz jewellery, which transforms people’s words into a silver pendent using a custom algorithm.
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News in Pictures
11 June 2009
German artist and designer Mike Meiré’s Global Street Food exhibition will be on show at the Buckminster Fuller Dome on the Vitra Campus, Weil am Rhein, Germany, from 11 June to 12 July.
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Olde word charm
11 June 2009
The ephemeral nature of the Web, and its focus on technology at the expense of the literary, mean online writing will never win many awards, says Jim Davies
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Omega bunch
11 June 2009
In the era of the design superstar and big-name design collaborations, revisiting the Omega Workshops of almost a century ago offers an intriguing glimpse into an alternative working process. Beyond Bloomsbury: Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19 at The Courtauld Gallery, London, explores the six years of the workshop’s brief existence and its particular design process. Founded by artist Roger Fry in 1913 as a limited company, Omega was a laboratory of radical design ideas, with ...
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Packard Bell's initial repositioning makes this reader see red...
11 June 2009
Where is the value with Packard Bell’s new identity (www.designweek.co.uk, 28 May)?
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Profile: Tim Molloy
11 June 2009
In his long career at the Science Museum, Tim Molloy has used his position as design client to change perceptions and champion rising stars. Lynda Relph-Knight talks to this maverick ‘dealer in abstractions’ about his plans
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Studio Output has...
11 June 2009
Studio Output has created the look for this year’s Leicester De Montfort University’s art and design degree show. The work comprises a series of invitations, a show guide, event branding, and interior and exterior signage. The show starts on Friday.
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The latest reshuffle bodes well for the design industry
11 June 2009
If any party gained from the week’s Government debacle it is surely the design community.
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Voxpop
11 June 2009
The Design Museum’s Super Contemporary exhibition focuses on London design. If you could design one thing to benefit the capital, what would it be?
