Design Week
11 November 2010
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A devil's advocate in the big group debate
11 November 2010
Andy Chambers reflects on his experience of consultancy ownership and considers the pros and cons of commercial partnerships
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Voxpop
11 November 2010
Staines is considering changing its name to escape association with Ali G. Which town/city do you think should be rebranded and why?
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Wellcome to the pleasuredome
11 November 2010
’It is very difficult to be trippy and classy at the same time,’ muses Mike Jay, co-curator of the Wellcome Collection’s new exhibition about drugs. Yet Jay’s brief to the show’s designers - Jonathan Hares, Laurent Benner and Michael Marriott - was to achieve this very feat. ’And yes, I do think they have managed to avoid corniness while not underselling the show’s mind-expanding material,’ says Jay.
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A diamond job - no experience necessary
11 November 2010
I was dumbfounded to read your piece about the launch of a competition, organised through the BBC TV programme Blue Peter, calling on children to design the emblem for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012 (www.designweek. co.uk, 1 November).
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Art and artifice
11 November 2010
Museums are increasingly incorporating multimedia within their exhibitions. Emily Pacey investigates the technologies taking the world of exhibition design by storm
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Barber blueprint for Apricot store renewal
11 November 2010
Barber Design has created a new retail concept for fashion store Apricot, which opens its new flagship store at Westfield White City this week.
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Best of the Web
11 November 2010
http://tiny.cc/qapqc
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British Council grants aim to encourage links with India
11 November 2010
The British Council wants to develop closer links between the creative industries in the UK and India through the Connections Through Culture programme.The initiative provides three different types of grant, worth up to £5000 per application, to projects that involve collaboration between British and Indian partner groups - with each group having as close to an equal role as possible.
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Design LSM creates Hertfordshire pub with a rural feel and links to Henry Moore
11 November 2010
Design LSM has created the interiors for The Hoops Inn, a pub and dining room run by the Henry Moore Foundation at its Perry Green sitein Hertfordshire.
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Drive for Shelter
11 November 2010
Breed illustrator Kate Moross has contributed the A to Z of Video Games piece (pictured) to charity Shelter as part of an exhibition of works to highlight Britain’s housing crisis. Works by Grayson Perry, Eine and Sir Peter Blake will also feature in the show, which runs at 20 Hoxton Square Projects in London from 25-27 November. The pieces will be auctioned off on 24 November.
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Hooke Design rebrands The Apprentice star Ruth Badger's business portfolio
11 November 2010
Hooke Design is starting to rebrand former The Apprentice contestant Ruth Badger’s portfolio of businesses, which will see a suite of new identities, guidelines and on-and offline materials worked up.
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Identica appoints Sam Stone to 'raise creative standards
11 November 2010
Identica has appointed Sam Stone to the newly created role of creative director.
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Inspired
11 November 2010
Dominic Wilcox - Independent designer
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News in pictures
11 November 2010
Webb de Vlam has worked on the design of a limited-edition bottle and gift pack for Bombay Sapphire gin.
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News in pictures
11 November 2010
Carl Jones Design has created marketing collateral for Arts Council England’s Arts Award scheme’s fifth birthday celebrations on 16 November.
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No gender bias in design? Take a look at Design Week
11 November 2010
Finally, the important question about why there are so few women in senior roles within the design industry (Hugh Pearman’s Private View, DW 21 October) was answered in Rising Stars (DW 28 October).
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Parental guidance
11 November 2010
Bright colours and cartoon characters might seem key to branding products for children, but Emily Gosling discovers designers are just as keen to employ clarity and nostalgia to appeal to the parents who hold the purse-strings
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Prince Philip prize honours the seminal work of Ideo founder Bill Moggridge
11 November 2010
Who better to represent design as we tackle economic and social change than Bill Moggridge, the worthy winner of this year’s Prince Philip Designers Prize. Throughout his career, the Ideo founder has married design and technology and taken creative thinking way beyond its roots - product design in his case - to effect major breakthroughs.
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Private View Believe in the bibelot
11 November 2010
We’ve all been guilty of buying tasteless frills, causing house guests to grimace at some hideous ornament on our walls. But why do we insist on keeping such oddities? asks Hugh Pearman
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Profile: The stone twins
11 November 2010
The closely intertwined careers of identical twins Declan and Garech Stone have taken them from Dublin to the heart of the design establishment in the Netherlands. Here they talk to Clare Dowdy about playfulness, advertising and turning 40
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Setting up in India can't be done without commitment
11 November 2010
I’d like to echo the views of Lois Jacobs from Fitch (Letters, DW 28 October) regarding the intricacies of setting up a creative business in an emerging market such as India.
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Sight and sounds
11 November 2010
Design and branding have always been of paramount importance to a band’s success. Garrick Webster discovers how entrepreneurial designers are helping upcoming musicians to stand out from the throng
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Simon Pendry takes up creative director post at Blue Marlin
11 November 2010
Blue Marlin has appointed Simon Pendry as the new creative director of its London office.
