Design Week
13 March 2008
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A capital idea, but to gloss over grim realities is a crime
13 March 2008
How I laughed when I saw the new Tottenham identity (News, DW 13 March).
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Back to black
13 March 2008
Architect Jamie Fobert has collaborated with Givenchy’s fashion designer Riccardo Tisci to create some art-infused and highly conceptual interiors for the brand’s new Paris flagship. Caroline Roux is intrigued by the results
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Batchelors-owned Irish soup
13 March 2008
Batchelors-owned Irish soup and casserole brand Erin has overhauled its sauces and gravies range, with the help of Irish consultancy Mesh Design Consultants.
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Best of both worlds
13 March 2008
Brands that can offer consumers opportunities to personalise their products – while wearing their ethical and sustainable credentials on their sleeve – will be the big successes of 2008, argues David Benady
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Canadean
13 March 2008
Global beverage market research group Canadean has overhauled its corporate identity for the first time since its launch in 1973, in conjunction with Bloom Design .
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DBA inclusive design winners
13 March 2008
Two groups are celebrating after the conclusion of the 2008 Design Business Association Inclusive Design Challenge. Winners Judge Gill and communications group Adare were named last night at a ceremony at the Royal College of Art.Entrants were asked to come up with ideas and innovations to help people suffering from memory loss and dementia.Adare won for the Mind Book, a multimedia software application that acts as a virtual scrapbook, incorporating a diary and 'life book' ...
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Design Futures event to showcase Welsh potential
13 March 2008
The flagship event of the Welsh design industry - Design Futures - takes place tonight, with the announcement of the winners of the third Ffres student design awards, backed by a host of industry pundits.Among these are Welsh deputy first minister and minister for economy and transport Ieuan Wyn Jones, Elmwood chairman Jonathan Sands and Super Furry Animals illustrator and animator Pete Fowler.According to Design Wales' senior design advisor Gavin Cawood, one of the key ...
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Design moves centre stage
13 March 2008
Last week's 'party pooping' Budget was loudly condemned for its domestic fiscal strategy, but quietly celebrated by the business community, in part for plans to offer nearly a third of public contracts to innovative small companies.
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Display dramatics
13 March 2008
Window dressing can claim to be a very old form of marketing communication - after all, draping a couple of rabbits over a shop counter is a direct visual appeal to consumer need. Now, a new book, Visual Merchandising by Tony Morgan addresses the issue of the shop window in the context of the modern retail design industry. It's a comprehensive look at the business of design for merchandising, taking in window displays and in-store design, right through to the use of mannequins. And it's ...
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Ear defenders
13 March 2008
Sound dominates every aspect of our lives, and it’s time designers saw it as an essential consideration whenever plying their trade, argues Hugh Pearman
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Entering the digital arena
13 March 2008
Think creatively about digital design – and make sure you integrate these skills into the bloodstream of your offer, urges Thom Newton
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Events company All or Nothing
13 March 2008
Events company All or Nothing was previously known as Russells' Promotions not Capital VIP, as stated in DW 13 March.
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Frederic Ruyant in profile
13 March 2008
He trained as an architect, but Frédéric Ruyant doesn’t do buildings, preferring to design pieces for chic clients or display in top French museums.Trish Lorenz tries to keep up with the busy Paris-based polymath
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Global roofing company Monier
13 March 2008
Global roofing company Monier has unveiled a new brand identity and guidelines devised by Coley Porter Bell.
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Hammer & Tongs reveal next project
13 March 2008
The Hammer & Tongs pop promo duo had to make a big-league movie before being able to finance the film that was really close to their hearts. Charles Gant looks at the background to Son of Rambow, which opens next month
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Heatherwick design to be developed
13 March 2008
A prefabricated stainless steel cladding system being used by Heatherwick Studio at Aberystwyth Arts Centre could be developed into a specifiable product.HS project manager Tom Chapman-Andrews says that the methods used to develop the lightweight 'crinkled' cladding for Aberystwyth University's start-up business units have more in common with product design processes than traditional architecture and construction.'Instead of designing the system on paper, we have been designing ...
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High fliers
13 March 2008
Awards results are a useful indicator when selecting a design consultancy to work with. Here we publish the latest Design Week Creative Survey, and overleaf, the results of the DBA Design Effectiveness Awards
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How Books
13 March 2008
How Books is publishing The Design Essentials Index by Jim Krause. The edition includes three indices on colour, type ideas and design basics.
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Innovation minister hints at NHS plan for design
13 March 2008
Minister for Innovation Ian Pearson is pledging his support for the design industry, following the release of the Department for Innovation, Universities & Skills' White Paper, Innovation Nation.
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Inspired, Guy Marshall - Small
13 March 2008
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Just Rewards
13 March 2008
The DBA Design Effectiveness Awards scheme hands out marks for commercial results, not just creativity. Here are the latest groups to be lauded
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Language Farm
13 March 2008
Dairy producer Language Farm has revamped two of its products - Devonshire Clotted Cream and Devonshire Crème Fraîche - with designs by Devon consultancy Biz-r.
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Liverpool 08 is not so bleak for local creatives
13 March 2008
As one of Merseyside’s largest full-service creative consultancies, we agree there has been a lack of representation of the design sector in the official prog ramme of events for the European Capital of Culture festival in Liverpool (DW 17 January), but we see a more positive picture emerging. Liverpool Culture Company has perhaps sometimes been guilty of overlooking local creative talent in favour of the larger Manchester-based groups and there has been ...
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Manha
13 March 2008
Manha has designed the new print publication for the Architecture Foundation's Next Generation Architects series.
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Marmalade
13 March 2008
Multidisciplinary design consultancy Marmalade has created the new identity for the Committee on Climate Change.
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News in Pictures
13 March 2008
Electric Works - Sheffield's forthcoming digital creative campus - has appointed the designer behind the Tate Modern slide, Josef Wiegand, to create a similar, permanent installation for use by campus workers and visitors.
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News in pictures
13 March 2008
New York-based interior and furniture designer Karim Rashid has unveiled his latest work, the ‘endless Nile table’. Rashid, who is half-Egyptian and half-British, produced the piece for a consortium of Egyptian interior designers called the Design Republic of Egypt. The all-in-one concept integrates two tables and two seats formed using one continuous 4cm-thick strip of white Corian.
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Placements will be good for design, as well as the children
13 March 2008
Regarding your item on apprenticeship placements for schoolchildren within design consultancies (Voxpop, DW 13 March), I feel that the Government has a respon sibility for children and it’s the general consensus that industry must also play a part in Britain’s future as a global creative hub. Any undertaking like this must start in schools and include children from all backgrounds, many of whom will lack a real understanding and knowledge of the creative ...
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Reflected glory
13 March 2008
Mass-market mobile phone and sportswear brands have enjoyed great success by linking with upmarket designer labels, but these collaborations must be built on a genuine synergy between partners and provide real innovation for consumers, says Maeve Hosea
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Temples to consumerism
13 March 2008
Almost ten years since Nike introduced the concept of ‘retail as brand experience’ to the UK, Pamela Buxton reports on the new brand palaces arriving on the high street, which are making the customer the centre of the experience
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The Palm Springs Art Museum
13 March 2008
The Palm Springs Art Museum in California, in conjunction with Rizzoli New York, will next month publish its companion book to the Julius Shulman: Palm Springs photography exhibition. Designed by Zand Gee and written by Michael Stern and Alan Hess, it chronicles the rise of Modernism in the California desert and depicts more than 60 buildings by 15 architects, including John Lautner's Arthur Elrod House, Donald Wexler's Alexander Steel Houses and Victor Gruen's City National Bank.
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Top designers set to curate Noise festival
13 March 2008
Leading names in the design industry including Tom Dixon, Zaha Hadid and graphic designer James Sommerville are backing the second biennial virtual Noise Festival 2008.They will act as curators for the festival's website applications and offer a selected group of young people the chance to work in their studios.The charity encourages underprivileged young people with no connections to the creative industries, to demonstrate their artistic strengths by putting work on its ...
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V&A launches exhibition on UK's 'first interior designer'
13 March 2008
The Victoria & Albert Museum launches an exhibition this week showing the collections of the 'UK's first interior designer', Thomas Hope, who established the Regency style in England.
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Village Green
13 March 2008
Web design consultancy Village Green has created a limited edition, multi-room set-top box for MTV and Sky, the first time broadcasters have commissioned a branded design for this type of box. It features an image of a human X-ray, with the MTV logo where the heart should be.
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Virgin Atlantic Airways may take plane interiors work in-house
13 March 2008
Virgin Atlantic Airways is considering how to manage the interior design pitch for its new fleet of Boeing 787 aircraft.The airline worked with Softroom and Pearson Lloyd on the interiors and seats for its current fleet, but claims that it might attempt an in-house redesign this time around.'We have gathered so much experience through our work on past aircraft interiors that we could possibly keep the work in-house, although we are also looking at working with external ...
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Voxpop
13 March 2008
The Rector of the Royal College of Art, Professor Sir Christopher Frayling, is to step down next year. With fundraising challenges for its new applied arts campus lying ahead, who would you tip to take on the job? He will be hugely ...
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When the going gets tough, the tough look further afield
13 March 2008
The strength of its reputation overseas might decide the fortunes of many a design group if, as we are told, we are heading for straitened times.With financial services and retail already hit in the UK by the so-called 'world financial crisis', overseas clients, particularly in ...
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Whirlpool Europe
13 March 2008
Whirlpool Europe has unveiled its Green kitchen concept, based on sustainable principles. Devised by head of global consumer design at Whirlpool Alessandro Finetto and an in-house team, it features high-efficiency appliances, and a co-generation domestic electricity system that can produce hot water and electricity simultaneously. Key design features include heat generated by the fridge compressor which can be used to produce hot water for the dishwasher, while sensors measure the level ...
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Wine label branding off the shelf
13 March 2008
The success of New World wines can be attributed to striking graphics as much as the quality of the product. David Benady examines how European brands are responding in the struggle for shelf standout
