Design Week
11 October 2007
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Back to the drawing board
11 October 2007
If you're into food porn, look away now. The Javier Mariscal-designed English version of Spanish cooking bible 1080 Recipes is out this week and it is devoid of the lush, heavily manipulated images that seem to dominate the pages of other recipe books. The 800-page tome eschews much in the way of photography, replacing it instead with bold, faux-naif illustrations by Mariscal himself. From the cover onwards you're drawn in - almost every page features a drawing of sorts, ranging from ...
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Bookish charm
11 October 2007
Many are unaware of its existence, and those who make use of it cherish its eccentricities, so will the expansion of the London Library spoil the rich character of this venerable institution? Trish Lorenz gains a sneak preview of the redevelopment's first
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Bord Bia sets up Brand Service for Irish food and drink products
11 October 2007
Bord Bia, the Irish Food Board, is in the process of establishing a design panel to deliver brand projects as they arise.
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Conran, Dyson and Ive got it all wrong – if we believe Myers
11 October 2007
I was fascinated to hear from Simon Myers (Business Insight, DW 4 October) that you have to be ‘production-led or ideasdriven’ to thrive as a designer in the 21st century, and that a client-demanded fault line has developed which insists that you must be one or the other.
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Cornwall welcomes the present influx of creative businesses
11 October 2007
It's fantastic to see not one, but two recent articles on the flourishing Cornish design community (DW 30 August and 13 September). The businesses featured demonstrate the breadth of creative talent we have in the county, working for a vast number of local, national and international clients. Cornwall Pure Business, an inward investment service, is seeing a flurry of design consultancies relocating to Cornwall, attracted by the landscape and reeled in by the significant ...
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Courtauld’s logo redrawn by Salterbaxter
11 October 2007
The Courtauld Institute of Art has unveiled a redrawn identity and revised brand strategy by Salterbaxter.
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Croydon Higher Education College
11 October 2007
Croydon Higher Education College is to undergo a brand refresh as part of a recruitment drive to attract non-traditional and older students to the college. Launching next week, the brand, created by Mark Studio, will be applied to advertising, direct mail, signage and the 2007/2008 prospectus.
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Design Council needs to fill staff gaps to fulfil its role
11 October 2007
As we went to press, the Design Council was still awaiting news of its cash allocation from Government (see News in Depth, page 7).The implications of Chancellor Alistair Darling's Pre-Budget Report and Comprehensive Spending Review, though generally favourable, had yet to filter through its new master, the Department for ...
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Figtree
11 October 2007
Figtree has created the identity for the Foster & Partners-designed development Ruskin Square, a £3.
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Green wisdom or Greenwash?
11 October 2007
As the design industry strives to get to grips with sustainability issues, can it do anything more practical than influence and inspire? asks Gina Lovett
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Harveys Bristol Cream
11 October 2007
Harveys Bristol Cream is repositioning itself as a 'serious wine', following a brand review by Design Bridge. In an attempt to shake the brand free of its image as 'an outdated tipple drunk by vicars and aunties', Design Bridge group creative director Graham Shearsby led a radical redesign of the drink's logo, labelling and packaging. He hopes the new identity will move it 'from the schooner to the wine glass, from the cupboard to the fridge'.
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iDesign wasn’t the first digital design conference
11 October 2007
A recent editor’s comment (DW 27 September) claimed that the iDesign event during the London Design Festival was ‘London’s first big conference on digital design’. I beg to differ.
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Inspired, Helen Keyes, The Brewery New York
11 October 2007
What inspires me? How can I live in such an energetic city as New York and not say 'it' does? Well, it is not the city itself but its people that inspire me - the mix of ethnicities, the noise, the energy that is created by everyone. It is hypnotic.I love the fact that one of my favourite museums - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - is mobbed with visitors of every age, shape and form. The main lobby - the Great Hall - is as busy as Grand Central at rush hour, with people lining ...
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It's all in the name
11 October 2007
How did Google and Orange get their names - and how do you go about labelling new brands? Jim Davies on the arbitrary art of name-generation
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JHP to create a tempting strategy for Cadbury Ireland
11 October 2007
Confectionery giant Cadbury in Ireland is exploring the strategic development of its instore brand positioning, and has appointed UK consultancy JHP to tackle its approach.
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Lighting designer Stuart Haygarth
11 October 2007
Lighting designer Stuart Haygarth is to create a new version of his Spectacle chandelier, which is made from a selection of old pairs of glasses. The work will be unveiled at the Review Gallery in The Lighthouse, Glasgow, in December.
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Mars Family Refuel
11 October 2007
Mars Family Refuel, part of the Mars Drinks range, has a fresh pack design by Vibrandt. The three new packs are used as story-telling devices with quotes from athletes in action.
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National Gallery exhibition launches with the help of Abeyasekera
11 October 2007
The National Gallery is putting the finishing touches to its showpiece autumn exhibition, with the help of exhibition designer Karl Abeyasekera and lighting designer David McDade.
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Penguin Books
11 October 2007
Penguin Books has launched a community network website, Spinebreakers, created by design consultancy The Plant. It aims to promote literary culture among teenagers by asking them to generate content for the site, www. spinebreakers.co.uk.
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Pre-Budget Report promises more funds for DIUS
11 October 2007
Alistair Darling was under pressure last week to balance the financial winners and losers as he delivered his first Pre-Budget Report and Comprehensive Spending Review to Parliament since succeeding Gordon Brown as Chancellor.As a result, there were inevitably some losers in the commercial world, namely business owners who don't cash-out assets in the next six months and airlines, which are facing a Green levy.However, the creative industries appear to have benefited. The ...
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Profile
11 October 2007
Dutch artist Sarah van Gameren delights in the theatrical potential of design, and uses the idea of melting and burning to dramatic effect. Hannah Booth talks to her about the theory behind her signature piece
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Provokateur wake-up call for Otesha Project
11 October 2007
Ethical communications group Provokateur has created a brand identity and communications materials for the UK launch of Canadian environmental charity the Otesha Project.
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Screen tags
11 October 2007
NEWLY LAUNCHED television channels Diva TV, Dave, Virgin 1 and Sky Real Lives will join the increasingly frantic battle for viewers’ eyeballs this autumn.
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Show vrooms
11 October 2007
With more than 50 brands unveiling 100 new cars across ten halls at this year's Frankfurt Motor Show, making an impact takes some doing. Guy Bird looks at three car makers' stands that did just that
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Silk Pearce
11 October 2007
Branding consultancy Silk Pearce has created the posters and marketing literature for a series of events on donor insemination, organised by The London Women's Clinic, a fertility treatment centre. The first event is on 20 October.
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'Stigmatising' is not a fair criticism of new identity
11 October 2007
The Alzheimer's Society strapline does not use a 'stigmatising term' (Letters, DW 4 October). It uses wording carefully chosen for our vision of a world where 'dementia' can be defeated. Dementia is a medical term still shrouded by misconceptions, not a derogatory word. It describes symptoms that occur when the brain is affected by specific diseases, the most common being Alzheimer's. Michael Wolff's comments demonstrate the challenge we have. We do not tolerate prejudice ...
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Success and life outside the city
11 October 2007
If you're fed up with working in London, it could be time to move out. Marksteen Adamson has done it, but warns against following the rural dream too enthusiastically
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The North York Moors Visitor Centre
11 October 2007
The North York Moors Visitor Centre was wrongly called The North Yorkshire Moors Visitor Centre last month (DW 27 September).
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Voxpop
11 October 2007
What implications are there for design consultancy businesses as a result of the measures announced in the Chancellor's Pre-Budget Report and Comprehensive Spending Review last Tuesday?All-round bad news: while the main rate of corporation tax will be cut from 30 ...
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Yoplait
11 October 2007
Yoplait is replacing its limited-edition Doctor Who-branded Petits Filous Frubes pack with a new Spider-Man version, designed by Springetts, to tie in with the release of the UK DVD of Spider-Man 3 this week.
