Design Week
12 June 2008
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£10M revamp for Exeter's Royal Albert Museum
12 June 2008
Work on a project that looks set to be the catalyst for realising the cultural potential of Exeter's Castle Quarter begins later this month.The £10m scheme will see the city's Royal Albert Museum and Art Gallery redeveloped, refurbished and extended by architect Allies & Morrison, with exhibition interiors designed by Ralph Appelbaum Associates.The aim of the project, for Exeter City Council, which won an £8.9m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, will see 95 per cent ...
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A change is gonna come
12 June 2008
Product design must evolve to address sustainability issues, and a Welsh educational initiative could point the way forward, says Emily Pacey
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A design education that leaves a lot to be desired
12 June 2008
I'm still reeling from a conversation I overheard in London's Royal Festival Hall last night and have to vent. I was wrestling with a concept when, from the table behind me, I heard two young girls talking. I heard 'I spoke to the printer', and my ears pricked up. They were putting together some kind of exhibition brochure or flyer and one was relating the results of the meeting to the other. Little nuggets like, 'We'll do this in the three-process colours', 'What size does type ...
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An influential design
12 June 2008
How come everyone’s suddenly cycling in Berlin? And what would it take to make London as amenable? Hugh Pearman on the art of zero-emission travel
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Creatives get technology explainer talks
12 June 2008
Creative Lancashire is to hold a series of local, interactive events in response to demands from creative businesses to learn more about technology.Entitled Hyphen, the events will take place over the next few months, with the first, a discussion forum, on 2 July at The Sandbox Centre at the University of Central Lancashire. It is free to attend for anyone in the region working in creative areas, such as design, architecture and photography.The event will include a panel ...
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Green light for change
12 June 2008
Print is a significant part of design work – and designers’ incomes – yet specifying sustainable paper is an eco minefield. Simon Creasey looks at how designers can fulfil their Green aspirations without compromising quality
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Happily ever after?
12 June 2008
One way to change the future of the planet is to influence the next generation. Nick Smurthwaite looks at illustrated eco books for children, which are capturing imaginations and getting the Green message across without being preachy
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Inspired
12 June 2008
Colors magazine always felt like a website, even before we knew what the Web was about. Good old-fashioned ink on paper maybe, but passionate, with a diversity of voices and a global perspective, it was a harbinger of things to come.With Colors Notebooks, the magazine has gone Web 2.0. It's interactive ink on paper. Created in collaboration with Reporters Without Borders, Colors Notebooks is an issue of Colors with 50 blank pages sent out to tens of thousands of readers around ...
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Introduction
12 June 2008
Sometimes the S-word feels like a challenge just too vast for designers to take on. If clients are putting 'sustainability' into the brief, it is often simply an attempt to be seen to be Green. Even the word 'sustainable' is much disputed and often confused with 'environmentally friendly'. Consider the Toyota Prius. It's brilliantly designed to reduce its environmental impact, but buying it will not save the planet. The real issue is how we get from place to place. Another example is an ...
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Is 'advergaming' the future?
12 June 2008
Advergaming has grown into a powerful, design-dependent medium, embraced by everyone from fast-food giants to Bupa and the Science Museum. Margaret Robertson wields the joystick in the lucrative terrain between advertising, gaming and design
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Landor Associates
12 June 2008
Landor Associates is moving on to the next stage of its rebranding of Morrisons, after being appointed last year, and is rolling out updated packaging for its premium food brand, The Best.
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Let's take steps to unleash our innovative power
12 June 2008
It was interesting to read your account of the Designers Breakfast event we ran to provide a response to the Government's New Talents for the New Economy report (News in Depth, DW 22 May). We support Nesta panellist Jon Kingsbury's assertion that design groups need to grow to compete globally, but we think there's an alternative - the untapped UK SME market. Sir George Cox told designers at our January event that their vision is what's needed to help conservative UK ...
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Limited edition Pendulum album
12 June 2008
This limited edition album for Pendulum, created by Paul West from the design consultancy Form, has been released on the Warner Music label. Pendulum's album, In Silico, hit the number one spot in the iTunes charts recently, so when it came to designing the physical product the graphics for the album were created to appeal to the group's diverse audience in an original, non-virtual way.
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Manchester Literature Festival rebrands
12 June 2008
Manchester Literature Festival is set to reinvent itself next month under a radically different identity, created by Mark Studio.The festival, now in its third year, is evolving with an expanding programme, according to festival director Cathy Bolton, and needed a flexible and forward-looking brand to take it into the next phase.The existing logo, by Astill Associates, was created in 2006 after the event grew out of the Manchester Poetry Festival, which had been running ...
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Means to an end
12 June 2008
What happens when end-users become involved in design? How does it affect the design process, and what effect does it have on sustainability? Clare Dowdy explores the concept of co-design, which sees designers adopting a participatory approach
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Middle East is a land of opportunity for aviation design
12 June 2008
Although storm clouds in the guise of rising oil prices have recently engulfed the airline industry - headlines from Ryanair cutbacks to the demise of business airline Silverjet indicate turbulence - the Middle East is showing a very different picture.This week's trade exhibition Aircraft Interiors Middle East in Dubai will feature more than 100 international exhibitors, comprising aviation companies, design buyers, aircraft interiors specialists and interior design consultancies ...
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News In Pictures
12 June 2008
Red Bee Media will be designing the opening titles, information templates and programme graphics for China Central TV's coverage of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The designs 'will integrate five athletes with the Chinese elements of fire, earth, metal, water and wood', says director of Red Bee Media's creative business in London Andy Bryant.
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Opting for the middle way
12 June 2008
How do you run a successful medium-sized consultancy, staying profitable without selling out or losing creative edge? asks Jonathan Davies
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Pentagram rolls out new face of Akzo Nobel
12 June 2008
Dutch paint and chemicals giant Akzo Nobel is rolling out an updated identity and a new set of brand guidelines by Pentagram Design.Akzo Nobel bought British paint and chemicals company ICI last year, dropping its name but retaining sub-brands such as Dulux and Polycell.Pentagram was appointed in January, following an unpaid creative pitch against one or two other design groups.Akzo Nobel briefed Pentagram to create a 'dynamic, strong but practical' update of its ...
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Profile
12 June 2008
Self-professed ‘car nut’ Oona Scheepers is taking design from out of the shadow of engineering at Volkswagen. John Stones talks to her about emotionalisation, sustainability and the role women play in automotive design
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Resorts submit plans to secure Sea Change regeneration cash
12 June 2008
Blackpool, Dover and Torbay have submitted detailed proposals to the Government-funded initiative Sea Change, in the hope of securing large-scale funding to build and revamp visitor attractions. Sea Change panel member the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment is distributing £12m of Government cash to the three seaside towns to encourage their economic regeneration. Blackpool hopes to secure £4m towards a new £11m outdoor ...
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Rocking the cradle
12 June 2008
The best design thinking has moved on from ideas about reducing consumption and minimising eco-damage, says Henrietta Thompson. They still matter, but the new cradle-to-cradle thinking is about avoiding such damage in the first place
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Rule of thumb
12 June 2008
There are an overwhelming number of rules and regulations governing all things Green. There are also an increasing number of Governmental agencies, not-for-profits and industry bodies producing information on sustainable issues, plus a riot of conferences, seminars and competitions. A dedicated portal for designers collating every rule, reg and resource would be heaven-sent. Until then, below is a guide to the main organisations designers are likely to meet.British Council ...
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Seeing Green
12 June 2008
With designers a crucial ingredient in almost every product that gets made, our potential impact as a force for change is enormous. And the first place to start, when thinking about how to be more sustainable, is with your own studio. If you can't bring yourself to be motivated by the climate crisis, then perhaps you can by potential cost savings, and by new business possibilities that may emerge. An increasing number of reports are demonstrating significant commercial benefits to business ...
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Shutter cubs
12 June 2008
It's the diversity of the work you notice about Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed. From classic 16x20 framed prints to photographs wallpapering the gallery, and from slides to videos to Photoshopped strangeness, the fledgling photographers in The Photographers' Gallery graduate show reach across the art form. Curator Clare Grafik says the challenge of hanging the work, a total of 70 pieces, was to coral the contrasts and still leave each room to breathe. 'There's no theme or narrative to the ...
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Simple measures can do a great deal to control waste
12 June 2008
In reply to your Voxpop (DW 5 June), President cheese - there's a great example of a brand doing the right thing at the right time: giving people the choice of portioned products and resealable packs, helping them to better manage food waste at home.
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So what exactly is universal design
12 June 2008
'Age is not an illness' blasts designer Diana Kraus in Oliver Herwig's book Universal Design: Solutions for Barrier-free Living. Another page is devoted to another quote, this one by James Irvine, who says, 'good design is universal design'. Both comments
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Start the design debate by asking the right questions
12 June 2008
Design consultancies were asked what issues on design should be debated by Government (Voxpop, DW 29 May). Where to begin? How design can save the planet? How it can transform businesses and rescue the economy? How it is being taught? How designers are employed? Or maybe they should debate why UK designers are increasingly working in Russia, India, Dubai or China? If they want to harness the power of design for a better future, the Government needs to debate and understand ...
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Support for inner-city school wins Design Links top prize
12 June 2008
A Scottish design consultancy scooped the prize for Small Company of the Year at this week's Scottish Business in the Community Awards.Design Links, which employs ten people, received the prize - which rewards businesses that have had a positive social impact - for the support it has given an Edinburgh secondary school, Craigroyston Community High School.Once described as 'the worst-performing school in Scotland', the school has worked with the design consultancy to present ...
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Tasting the latest food retail concepts
12 June 2008
London’s streets are awash with food retail concepts that muddy their offers with coffee and sandwiches. Clare Dowdy looks at three new players taking a different approach, using branding and interiors to stand out in this crowded market
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The full service
12 June 2008
With businesses everywhere looking to achieve greater levels of sustainability, John Stones examines the track record of three design-led companies, and asks if upgrading products rather than replacing them could be the next logical step
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The Green brigade
12 June 2008
Three figures from the world of Green design – a product designer, a marketer and a grassroots designer – talk to Design Week about their approach to sustainability
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The Pigeon Detectives' new album
12 June 2008
The cover of The Pigeon Detectives' new album, Emergency, has been produced by designer Dan Forster, who created both the album and campaign graphics. The design is inspired by 1930s movie posters and takes on a retro sci-fi theme to pick up on the vibe of the band's audience. The album, which has been released on the Dance To The Radio label, is the second that Forster has worked on for the band.
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Voxpop
12 June 2008
London studio Peepshow Collective this week reports that it met with several obstacles while creating the new on-screen look for BBC2's Culture Show (see designweek.co.uk). What's been the biggest creative obstacle you've had to overcome on a project, and how did you get around it?
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Waste not, want not
12 June 2008
With waste packaging volumes continuing to increase, the need for designers to contribute to the development of sustainable products has now become more urgent than ever. Paul Gander looks at the many challenges posed by eco-design
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We're not ready to introduce sustainability accreditation
12 June 2008
Every so often the question of accreditation for design groups is raised, and it is invariably greeted with dissent within the industry. 'You can't measure creativity' is the usual response, though, with procurement officers in the ascendancy, particularly in the public sector where accountability ...
