Design Week
13 January 2011
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Bulletproof rebrands Welsh Football Association
Wed, 12 Jan 2011
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A logo can never tell the whole story
13 January 2011
I read with interest guest blogger Patrick Argent’s article regarding National Grid’s erstwhile logo designed by John McConnell from Pentagram. (www.designweek.co.uk, 8 November).
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Best of the Web
13 January 2011
http://tinyurl.com/26u4jxaMultidisciplinary design group Antrepo in Istanbul works with a dose of minimalism and an aim to change perceptions. We love its latest project, where it has designed simple versions for packaging brands including Lindt, ...
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Blue Marlin gets to work on Brains brew
13 January 2011
Blue Marlin has been appointed to redesign Brains’ cask ale portfolio as the Welsh brewer reacts to market shifts indicating real ale is experiencing steady growth.
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Colt creates ultra-simple, recycled look for Feel Films
13 January 2011
Colt has rebranded Feel Films, developing a new logo, stationery, showreel packaging and website for the company.
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Dear simplicity
13 January 2011
Why pay more for ’less’, when buying furniture or cars? Given the cost of aiming beyond disposability, Hugh Pearman fears that minimalist design will remain the domain of the wealthy
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Doodle zone
13 January 2011
The beauty of drawing is that the end result doesn’t have to be anywhere near perfect to be useful. In fact, doing some really rough sketches is often the best way of tapping into the unexpected and unleashing creativity, argues Yolanda Zappaterra
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Eden Project summer exhibition26 Flavours of Cornwall plans tocelebrate Cornish food and drink
13 January 2011
The Cornwall Design Forum and writers collective 26 are set to collaborate on an exhibition for the Eden Project called 26 Flavours of Cornwall, and are welcoming interest from designers and creative writers who wish to take part.
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Eggs before bacon
13 January 2011
Public institutions looking for alternative revenues are revamping their catering offers to compete with mainstream restaurants, exploiting their unique interiors to encourage social as well as educational visits. Emily Gosling investigates
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Elmwood repackages health supplement
Mon, 17 Jan 2011
Elmwood has created new packaging for a range of health supplements for Works with Water Nutraceuticals.
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Farrow Design gets out the cutlery for Royal Academy of Arts restaurants logo
13 January 2011
Farrow Design has created the visual identity for the Royal Academy of Arts’ three catering venues, including a new restaurant, which has interiors designed by Tom Dixon and the team at Design Research Studio (see News Analysis, page 9 and www.designweek.co.uk, 5 January).
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Holy innocents
13 January 2011
While there’s no denying the success of Innocent’s offer, a food market full of good-as-gold, faux-naif imitators is getting a bit tedious now. Emily Pacey casts a critical eye over the cutesy brand posturing which is all around us
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Inclusive design challenge launches as 24-hour initiative
Wed, 12 Jan 2011
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Inspired - Nicola McEwan, Zizzi
13 January 2011
In my role as design manager for Zizzi restaurants I’m always looking at what’s new in terms of interior design, product design, architecture and ceramics, and taking inspiration from all these things so that each of our new restaurants is different from the one before.
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Jonathan Sands' generosity with his time merits an OBE
13 January 2011
When printing out the table plan every year for the Podge lunch [for design industry heads] it always gives me a thrill when I have to add the letters CBE, MBE or OBE to the names of the legends I have come to respect over many years.
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Letter by letter
13 January 2011
Harrison & Co has designed the cover art for a series of Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment albums on its newly launched label OAE Released. The first album, Monteverdi Vespers, is released on 31 January. Consultancy creative director Chris Harrison says, ’The artwork for the range of CDs is based on using and illustrating a single letter for each CD. Over time the collection will build into an alphabet.’
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New consultancy moves make for a promising start to the design year
13 January 2011
It has been a cracking start to the year for the consultancy world with a couple of new ventures set to boost its strength in the UK, while putting a different slant on how things are done.
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News in pictures
13 January 2011
Illustrator Sroop Sunar revisits British pub signs in The Golden Glassy: A Visual Historyof England, on show at the University of the Arts London from 20 January to 5 March.
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News in Pictures
13 January 2011
Liberty’s in-house design team has created the second issue of quarterly magazine TheLiberated Press.
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Nottingham conference to set standards for Web design
13 January 2011
Purveyors and practitioners of Web design will come together in Nottingham next week to analyse the discipline to better define its values and establish best practice - which many involved currently see as muddied and unclear.
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Odd creates Reebok Classics look books
Wed, 12 Jan 2011
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Pop-up or link-up, the future should be fun
13 January 2011
The way ahead for retail designers and brands surely lies in the seamless integration of the virtual and the physical, reckons Julie Oxberry
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Profile: the keystone design union
13 January 2011
Its founder describes this New York-based global collective as a bunch of smart-arsed pirates who want to overthrow the system, but the anarchist veneer conceals a business model with strong client appeal. Emily Pacey talks to David Gensler
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Rune Gustafson to head up Prophet's Europe operation
Wed, 12 Jan 2011
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Stadium Creative turns to bubbles for Million Minutes logo
13 January 2011
Stadium Creative has created the branding for new youth advocacy charity Million Minutes, designing a visual identity to be applied across all printed materials, stationery and the charity’s website.
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Subversive wit
13 January 2011
Polite, modest and conservative: three defining characteristics of the Dutch, a people that has historically embraced pious morality and aesthetic restraint.
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Voxpop
13 January 2011
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Festival of Britain. If a new festival were to be held this year, what would you include and why?
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Web stories
13 January 2011
Below are the top online news stories published by Design Week over the past week. Magazine subscribers can sign up for free e-mail alerts and access the archive at www.designweek.co.uk. You need to quote your subscription number for access
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Webb & Webb works on musicals stamps
Wed, 12 Jan 2011
