Design Week
13 May 2010
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Best of the Web
13 May 2010
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Biz-R has designed the branding and packaging for Schmoo
13 May 2010
Biz-R has designed the branding and packaging for yoghurt lassi drink Schmoo.
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Blueleaf has created a brand and website for holiday and wedding venue Combermere Abbey
13 May 2010
Blueleaf has created a brand and website for holiday and wedding venue Combermere Abbey in Shropshire.
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CCL has been appointed by Bristan, to launch its range of electric showers
13 May 2010
CCL has been appointed by Bristan, which supplies showers and bathroom accessories, to launch its range of electric showers.
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Claire Nuttall has moved to 1HQ as insight and innovation director
13 May 2010
Claire Nuttall, a former partner at Dragon Rouge, has moved to 1HQ as insight and innovation director.
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Clerkenwell mix
13 May 2010
In London’s Clerkenwell you can’t turn a corner without bumping into a design showroom, studio or practitioner. So the new Clerkenwell Design Week - ’a three-day festival in London’s creative heart’ - makes perfect sense, and its mix of events and installation looks promising.
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Cog Design looks to the big picture forcultural production company Web brief
13 May 2010
Cog Design has created a website for Artichoke, the cultural production company behind Antony Gormley’s One & Other installation on Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth and The Sultan’s Elephant event that visited London in 2006.
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Design Studio and Dusst create modern Mexican restaurant space
13 May 2010
Branding consultancy Design Studio and interiors specialist Dusst have created the interiors for a new Covent Garden branch of Mexican restaurant Benito’s Hat.
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Designers need to set the media straight about design's true potential
13 May 2010
The past few days will be remembered for the political shenanigans that have dominated the media. But there was a small respite from politics as the media cast its gaze to design.
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Eve Stewart creates 1930s interiors for BBC revival of ITV's Upstairs Downstairs
13 May 2010
Production designer Eve Stewart is working on a BBC update of period drama series Upstairs Downstairs.
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Fit Creative finds 'catchy' name for Tri UK disability rebrand
13 May 2010
Fit Creative has rebranded and renamed Tri UK, a company that supplies services for deaf and disabled people.
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Forster has created the Food Glorious Food campaign for the National Trust
13 May 2010
Forster has created the Food Glorious Food campaign for the National Trust, celebrating local and seasonal food.
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Industrial honey
13 May 2010
Ded Associates has created branding for The Sheffield Honey Company, which will launch at the Sheffield Food Festival in June.
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Inspired: Zoë Bather - Studio 8 Design
13 May 2010
I first saw Stanley Spencer’s Shipbuilding on the Clyde series in London’s Imperial War Museum.
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Is any CSD certification scheme worth the trouble?
13 May 2010
The Chartered Society of Designers member who contacted you, preferring not to be named, about the delays and lack of detail in the CSD’s application to the Privy Council to set up a designer certification scheme (News, DW 1 April), refers to CSD affixes as ’light assessments’ and to chartership as ’hardcore’.
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Leading by design
13 May 2010
Pop-up stores, anechoic chambers and sustainable bags are just some of the initiatives being adopted by major brands repositioning themselves to cope with changing markets. Tom Banks investigates these design-led strategies
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Liberty's in-house design team has produced the store's newspaper The Liberated Press
13 May 2010
London department store Liberty’s in-house design team has produced the store’s newspaper The Liberated Press, tying in with the protest themes of its current menswear window displays.
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News in Pictures
13 May 2010
Work by designers including Manfred Reiss will be on show at the Modern British Posters exhibition, which is being held at the Black Dog Gallery, 10a Acton Street, London WC1 from 11 June to 13 August.
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News in Pictures
13 May 2010
The School of Life in London has asked students at Chelsea College of Art & Design to create posters (work by Alistair Hanson, Nicolas Cambier and Daniel Lincoln pictured) responding to its strapline ’ideas to live by’, which it is installing in its windows until 28 May.
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News in Pictures
13 May 2010
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No limits?
13 May 2010
Flexible branding may be an old concept, but multiple platforms and user-generation are adding new possibilities for easily configurable customisation - all it needs to work properly is adequate oversight and management. John Stones reports
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Not so Smartie
13 May 2010
The trend towards super-sizing products fulfils no basic human need, and surely denotes more than a hint of fat-headedness on the part of the designers involved, says Hugh Pearman
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Pearlfisher has created new brand Anon
13 May 2010
Pearlfisher has created new brand Anon - a range of jewellery for HD Group.
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Pencil has created a campaign for Somerset College of Art and Technology
13 May 2010
Pencil has created a campaign for Somerset College of Art and Technology, which aims to increase awareness of the college among 14- to 16-year-olds.
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Profile: Laura Carlin
13 May 2010
The irony of the situation won’t be lost on Laura Carlin when she gives a talk about her career in illustration at the Apple Store on London’s Regent Street on 24 May.
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Reunited - if only the Apple employee had been as lucky
13 May 2010
Following news of the Apple employee who apparently left an in-development iPhone in a bar, you asked the question - what is the most embarrassing thing you’ve ever lost?
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RSA unveils winning projects in Design Directions scheme
13 May 2010
A woven textile garment that helps people suffering from sensory processing disorder cope discreetly with anxiety in public places and a service aimed at encouraging workers to leave the office at lunchtime are among the winning projects in this year’s Design Directions scheme from the Royal Society of Arts.
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Sheet attitude
13 May 2010
Some say big posters represent a dying medium, but their directness and simplicity have long made them a fixture in the world of music and cultural festivals. Anna Richardson looks at some graphic approaches to the big scale dotted around cities throughout the UK this summer
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Stucco style
13 May 2010
Buddy Creative has designed a brochure and website for stucco sculptor Geoffrey Preston.
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The benefits of a consortium application
13 May 2010
In response to David Bartholomew (Letters, DW 29 April), who referred to my consultancy Bell Design and its application to work for the Department for Children, Schools and Families (News, DW 15 April), I would like to stress that Bell itself is not bidding for the DCSF Integrated Service Provider tender. We are part of a consortium made up of number of creative service suppliers and procurement specialists - we are certainly not going it alone.
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The Drawing Room has designed a new identity for Amanda Doyle Law Services
13 May 2010
The Drawing Room has designed a new identity and website for Amanda Doyle Law Services, a boutique law practice that specialises in technology, media, intellectual property and employment advice.
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To The Point puts a swirl in salon branding
13 May 2010
To The Point has rebranded salon chain Sean Hanna to mark the launch of a new Bristol branch, overhauling a suite of graphic and digital materials which are informed by its interiors.
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Voxpop
13 May 2010
What would you do with the London 2012 Olympic stadium once the games have finished, and why?
