Design Week
12 August 2010
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...And ditching the sponsor would be Wheelie Good too
12 August 2010
In reply to your Voxpop in last week’s issue, asking for alternative names for the new Barclays Cycle Hire scheme in London, here’s my proposition.
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Airside into Orbit
12 August 2010
Airside has created the artwork for William Orbit’s new album Pieces in a Modern Style 2, released by Decca Records on 16 August. The artwork features a circle evolving from grassland to a city, reflecting Orbit’s modern take on classical music. Airside is also working on a 30-second animated version to be broadcast on TV at the end of August.
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Alphabetical gets off to a flyer with identity for Thamesmead community centre The Link
12 August 2010
Alphabetical is working on the branding for The Link - a new leisure, sports and community centre to be built underneath a flyover in Thamesmead, east London.
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Automobile industry moves with the times
12 August 2010
As carmakers are beginning to rebrand themselves as ’mobility providers’, Guy Bird considers the implications for design
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Best of the Web
12 August 2010
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Build to brand Gary Hustwit's feature film Urbanized
12 August 2010
Build has been appointed to create the identity and promotional materials for the new film Urbanized by director Gary Hustwit.
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Dalziel & Pow has created advertising for Savile Row menswear brand Bernard Weatherill
12 August 2010
Dalziel & Pow has created advertising for Savile Row menswear brand Bernard Weatherill. The consultancy previously rebranded and created new interiors for the brand.
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Design Studio creates 'filmic' site and logo for 3DW
12 August 2010
Design Studio has created an identity and website for 3D architectural visualisation company 3DW. Design Studio was appointed in April after 3DW founder Fabrice Bourelly approached the group on the strength of previous projects.
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Designroom Sport rebrands FA tournament
12 August 2010
Designroom Sport has rebranded The FA Umbro Fives tournament, to aid the Football Association’s aim of making it the biggest tournament of its kind.
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Further has appointed Jonathan Walker as senior client manager
12 August 2010
Further has appointed Jonathan Walker as senior client manager. Walker has worked for Merchant and Radley Yeldar, for a range of clients including Lloyds Banking Group, Pearson and Thomas Cook Group.
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Gendall Design has created the new name, branding and packaging for Simply Oil
12 August 2010
Falmouth-based consultancy Gendall Design has created the new name, branding and packaging for Simply Oil. The Newquay-based company produces cold-pressed rapeseed oil.
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Golden revamp
12 August 2010
The Design Group has created new packaging designs for Go Ahead’s Golden Crunch, which will launch in the Republic of Ireland at the end of the month. The consultancy says the new packaging incorporates wheat imagery and new product photography. Grant Marshall, creative director of the Design Group, says, ’The new design delivers both high visibility on-shelf while also communicating the food and health cues that are so important to Go Ahead Golden Crunch brand values.’
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Government policies are creating interesting opportunities for design
12 August 2010
Whatever we think of the coalition Government, its policies are potentially creating new markets for design. The Big Society concept and planned liberalisation of some social services could lead to branding projects at least, albeit on a local scale.
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Halo Media has created new branding for cosmetics company Beauty UK
12 August 2010
Bristol-based Halo Media has created new branding for cosmetics company Beauty UK. Among the things the group was asked to create were point-of-sale material and brand positioning.
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Inspired: Oded Ezer
12 August 2010
Oded Ezer Typography
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Kin to help museum visitors get interactive in Manchester
12 August 2010
Kin is designing a series of installations for Manchester’s Museum of Science & Industry that will enable visitors to interact with, and better understand, the exhibits.
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Lewis Moberly has created new packaging for The Famous Grouse
12 August 2010
Lewis Moberly has created new packaging for The Famous Grouse. Mary Lewis, creative director of Lewis Moberly, says, ’By elevating the bird above the brand name we celebrate the famous icon.’
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Matters of the art
12 August 2010
Artists should be wary of trying to create functional objects, while designers do best when they bear fitness for purpose in mind and stay clear of design art, argues Hugh Pearman
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New school ties
12 August 2010
The Government’s ’free schools’ initiative could lead to a greater variety of schools being set up and to more diversity in school branding. Angus Montgomery goes back to the classroom to see for himself
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News in Pictures
12 August 2010
Work by Antonio Gustafson will feature in the Drawing Fashion exhibition, which will be held at the Design Museum in London from 17 November to 6 March 2011.
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News in Pictures
12 August 2010
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News in Pictures
12 August 2010
Michael Anastassiades’ Gold Pendulum installation will be in the Norfolk House Music Room at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum from 17-26 September.
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Online music magazine Stunt courts specialist audience
12 August 2010
Both new online music magazine Stunt, which is preparing for launch, and Drowned in Sound, which is redesigning to mark its tenth anniversary, are aiming for a clean editorial-led and content-driven design to engage specialist audiences.
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Packing a punch
12 August 2010
Many brands are looking for innovative ways of making their packaging stand out, drawing on emerging technologies and sustainable methods to engage with their audience. Maeve Hosea considers a range of fun and eye-catching new solutions
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Profile: Silvia Filippini Fantoni
12 August 2010
With her strong background in history and personalisation technologies, this versatile Italian was destined for a career in museum interpretation, but has just moved across to a consultancy management role. Anna Richardson talks to her
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Random deals
12 August 2010
What’s Everton FC got to do with a Thai beer, and Arsenal with a Middle Eastern airline? Helen Hartley takes issue with the haphazard nature of many football sponsorship deals - not to mention the often ugly and thoughtless design of the branding slapped on the players’ kits
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Roy Bellamy Associates has created the identity for Lothbury Recruitment
12 August 2010
Roy Bellamy Associates has created the identity for Lothbury Recruitment. The brief was for the logo to be decorative and feminine, as the company is aiming to build relationships with women.
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The art of noise
12 August 2010
Popular music and visual imagery go hand in hand. Whether mainstream or counter-culture, artists have celebrated their wares via album covers, posters and flyers throughout history.
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The London Pedal-Pushers scheme must be addictive...
12 August 2010
In your Voxpop you recently asked, ’What alternative name would you have given to the London bicycle hire scheme, which is currently called Barclays Cycle Hire?’ (DW 5 August).
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The Yard Creative has created retail designs for fast-food brands Olive Oil & Oregano and Patafritas
12 August 2010
The Yard Creative has created retail designs for fast-food brands Olive Oil & Oregano and Patafritas. Both branches - the first in the UK - are located in Westfield Merry Hill in the West Midlands.
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Timothy Whitehead, has won the UK leg of the James Dyson Award
12 August 2010
Timothy Whitehead, a graduate from Loughborough University, has won the UK leg of the James Dyson Award for his design for a bottle that uses ultraviolet light to sterilise drinking water.
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Tsuko has opened a London office
12 August 2010
Scottish branding consultancy Tsuko has opened a London office to help service its London-based clients, which include Land Securities and the UK India Business Council.
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Virgin Atlantic's new livery lacks confidence
12 August 2010
Divide and conquer has been a successful tactic for overcoming adversaries for centuries, and it is one that Virgin Altantic Airways must be wary of, as its brands appear to be becoming increasingly disparate (www.designweek.co.uk, 29 July).
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Voxpop
12 August 2010
Heinz is unveiling a new 1kg plastic container for its baked beans. What is your favourite packaging design, and why?
