Design Week
12 September 2002
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Abbey National banks on interiors by ABDA Design
12 September 2002
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Adaptable cutlery designed...
12 September 2002
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Airport group's rebrand takes off
12 September 2002
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Base London lands Softmoss look
12 September 2002
Softmoss has created interiors for Base London's first store, as the footwear group moves to strengthen its retail brand presence. The 232m2 store in London's Carnaby Street opens in October.
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Bean there and done that
12 September 2002
It seems like the heady days of the high street coffee shop may be coming to an end. Companies must diversify or they'll grind to a halt, says Clive Walker
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Book
12 September 2002
Furniture + Architecture by Edwin Heathcote, is published by Wiley Academy this month, priced £22.50, featuring classics in contemporary design.
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Browns builds on brief for property developer
12 September 2002
Browns has been appointed to design a website for property manager and developer MacDonald Egan this week, as the consultancy works towards an October launch of a promotional book for the company.
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Channel surfing
12 September 2002
As Channel 5 is poised to air its on-screen redesign, with help from Five director of marketing David Pullan's 'dream team', Clare Dowdy meets the orchestrator
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Chipperfield's Air Frame
12 September 2002
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Coexistence exhibition
12 September 2002
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Colourful concoction insures there's differentiation
12 September 2002
Bright Grey, the latest 'are-they-for-real?' brand name to splash into the murky depths of the personal finance pond, is a contradiction in terms. But that - before you even start on its merits - is precisely the point.
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Confirmation on BGA liquidation
12 September 2002
Accountant Kingston Smith & Partners has confirmed that Basten Greenhill Andrews has gone into voluntary liquidation.
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Creative Newcastle
12 September 2002
According to US mag Newsweek, Newcastle is among the world's creative hotspots right now. But such pyromania, snapped locally by Darren Richardson of design consultancy Gardiner Richardson, probably isn't what the Stateside sages have in mind.
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Digest
12 September 2002
Bentley Holland & Partners has designed a series of posters for an internal communication campaign at sugar manufacturer Tate & Lyle Europe.
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Digest
12 September 2002
BBC Broadcast has designed title sequences and a promotional campaign for hospital drama Casualty. It will go on air from 14 September.
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Digest
12 September 2002
Hemisphere has designed the brand identity, consumer brochure and stationery for specialist holiday company Theme Park Holidays. The work launches next week.
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Digest
12 September 2002
Airside has designed a website for pop star Richard Ashcroft. The site, www.richardashcroft.com, features photography by Nadav Kander.
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Digest
12 September 2002
Radley Yeldar has designed the annual review for Comic Relief. It is the fourth time the consultancy has been appointed to deliver the work.
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Digest
12 September 2002
Lambie-Nairn has been appointed to develop a brand strategy and identity for Dubai-based satellite broadcaster MBC and four of its channels. The project includes the redesign of the corporate identity and main channel and identities for three new channels.
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Digest
12 September 2002
Redhouse Lane has created BAA Heathrow's annual sustainable development report, Towards Sustainability. The report, which is published later this month, will be distributed to businesses, environmental specialists, community action groups, and Government.
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Digest
12 September 2002
The Field has created the brand strategy, positioning, identity and website for sports marketing agency Activate UK. The work will roll out over the next three months.
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Digest
12 September 2002
Attik has created point-of-sale branding for a Carlsberg campaign targeting lager drinkers in Ireland via 450 off licences across the country. The work was launched last weekend to coincide with the start of the Euro 2004 football qualifying matches.
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Digest
12 September 2002
Victoria Real has designed a website for Charlton Athletic Football Club, www.cafc.co.uk.
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Digest
12 September 2002
Blast has created the identity for Playtonics, a company which deals with child-related issues in the workplace and social environment. Playtonics needed an approachable, but professional image, says Blast business development manager Ralf Obergfell.
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Digest
12 September 2002
Icon Brand Navigation has appointed Simon Williams as chief executive officer. Williams joins from Enterprise IG where he was director, group strategy.
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Digest
12 September 2002
Re-Active has created an interactive video website for Film Four's Once upon a time in the Midlands.
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Digest
12 September 2002
Glasgow-based consultancy The Hub has been appointed to create the 2003 accommodation guide for Ayrshire and Arran tourist board. The guide will be published later this year.
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Drawing out ideas
12 September 2002
Every designer can harp back to their roots by sketching, so to inspire you Neil Churcher draws on examples
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Dynamo chips in on Tayto refresh
12 September 2002
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El Ultimo Grito creates for Mathmos
12 September 2002
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Elmwood brands Opera North
12 September 2002
Elmwood has created branding and advertising for Opera North's autumn season. 'We wanted to convey a real feeling of passion and emotion,' says Elmwood creative director Richard Scholey. Tosca, Jenufa and Der Rosenkavalier will be performed until 30 November.
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Ergo nuts about Planters rebrand
12 September 2002
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Events
12 September 2002
Design and Conquer!, a seminar on how changes in intellectual property law may offer new protection for creativity takes place on 19 September in Leeds.
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Exhibitions
12 September 2002
Painter David Spiller pours pop culture over canvas at There's a Starman Waiting in the Sky until 5 October.
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Former WH Smith design head clarifies position
12 September 2002
In response to your news on the new appointment to head of design at WH Smith (DW 22 August) perhaps I may shed some light on my own departure from that role.
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German department store makes way for 20/20 look
12 September 2002
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Have two identities? But not two for the price of one
12 September 2002
I feel the need to write and compliment Quentin Newark on his wonderful and insightful feature on football club badges, Defensive Shield (DW 29 August).
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HPW serves up fast food interiors
12 September 2002
HPW has designed interiors for Bauwaus Gourmet Hotdogs, which opens in Edinburgh this week and aims to transform the traditionally down-at-heel snack into an upmarket treat.
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Ideo interaction at BBCi's studio
12 September 2002
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Inner sense
12 September 2002
Lynda Relph-Knight boards Eurostar to meet sound design consultancy Sixième Son, which is planning to bring its offer to the UK
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Knowing rite from left
12 September 2002
Hugh Pearman believes the design landscape adapts to the national political mood, and being able to interpret the undulations makes good business sense
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Like a duck to water
12 September 2002
Lakshmi Bhaskaran tours Mandarina Duck's impressive London flagship, under the watchful eye of its resident, a giant yellow mannequin
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Martin Dawe bottles look for Crystal Drinks brand
12 September 2002
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Meeting Point places available
12 September 2002
There are still places available for Meeting Point, Design Week's social event for young designers.The event will be held at a central London venue from 7pm on Wednesday 18 September and is ticket only. For tickets e-mail natalie.adams@centaur.co.uk.
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Michael Dowd and Two Design go Off The Wall
12 September 2002
A fabric screen, which its creator hopes could revolutionise the way paintings and prints are displayed in bigger residential and work spaces, will be previewed at 100esign later this month.
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Michon catalogues Homecraft job
12 September 2002
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Oasis website calls in SAS to marshal redesign
12 September 2002
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Pentagram sets up Berlin office
12 September 2002
Pentagram opens its first continental office next month in Berlin's Mitte district, in a bid to win business in the lucrative East European market and build its credentials in Germany.Discussions are taking place with existing clients, believed to include CitiBank, with a view to relocating business from Pentagram's London headquarters to the new operation.The Berlin office will be headed by partner Justus Oehler.
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Prize to improve UK town halls
12 September 2002
Designs on Democracy, a national competition aimed at reinventing town halls, launches this week promising to create better community spaces in Bradford, Stockport and north Hertfordshire.Organised by Cabe and the Design Council, the competition offers £60 000 worth of prizes. For more information see www.designsondemocracy.org.uk.
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Rail operators missing an opportunity to own trips
12 September 2002
With regard to you recent Vox Pop on train design (DW 29 August), people would be happy now if their train turned up on time, they could get a seat and they arrived safely.
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Red Studio's stackable barrier
12 September 2002
Red Studio has created a stackable barrier system, called Dart, which combines 'nesting' pyramids and linking rails that save storage space and offer the potential to carry brand messages on the facia. Made from aluminium sheet with a silver anodise finish, the product will be marketed as an alternative to the 'post-and-tape' demarcation devices that are found in supermarkets, banks and airports. Red Studio designer Nigel Mac-Fall says, 'We wanted to do something different from the ...
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Research centre of electronics giant has Vision
12 September 2002
Vision has been appointed to create corporate literature for Samsung's UK research division this week, following its design of a five-figure identity and brand 'mascot' for the organisation.
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Show
12 September 2002
The Retail Interiors Show is held from 17-19 September.Contact: 0870 429 4360 or visit www.retail-interiors.co.uk.Venue: Earls Court, London SW5.
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Talent will out, but design could do more to foster it
12 September 2002
Last week I had the honour of chairing a seminar involving celebrated film producer turned education activist Lord Puttnam. Organised by British Design & Art Direction, it was part of the three-day XChange programme, intended to inform and inspire college tutors in the creative industries. It was therefore provocative to involve Puttnam, who has no academic training in his chosen areas - advertising, then film and now education - having left school relatively young by mutual agreement ...
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TalkS
12 September 2002
Pentagram partner Daniel Weil gives a talk for Teknion Europe on 18 September at 6.30pm.
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Tesco shops for a roster of creatives
12 September 2002
Tesco is to review its ten-strong packaging design roster, which includes Rocket, Pemberton & Whitefoord and The Nest, as part of a cost management exercise by the retailer.
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Toy brand moves on to Third Planet
12 September 2002
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Turner Duckworth leaves offices without rubbers
12 September 2002
Don't try calling Turner Duckworth's London or San Francisco offices for the next few days.
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Vox pop
12 September 2002
Williams Murray Hamm has reportedly resigned from the Superdrug roster because it has been asked to re-pitch for a place following the acquisition of Superdrug parent Kruidvat by Hutchison Whampoa (DW 5 September). What would provoke you into resigning a client account?
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When new badge was paraded Arsenal fans booed
12 September 2002
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Who's in charge of managing the group?
12 September 2002
Clare Dowdy takes a look at four approaches to the overall management of design consultancies and finds out what works for one may not work for another
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You could end up putting something back into design
12 September 2002
Design for free? Well, there is another way you know.
