Design Week
13th August 2009
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A Banging good piece of work, but don't let kids near it
13th August 2009
I was saddened to hear the fate of Thomas Heatherwick’s iconic sculpture in Manchester, and feel sure the sculpture can be usefully recycled somehow. I think the spikes should be made into Baby B of the Bangs and sold as limited editions, to help cover Heatherwick’s out of court settlement to Manchester City Council. I’d love to own a bit of the Bang - but I’d keep small children very far away from it. Ali Johnson, Music and Dorothy, by e-mail
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Dalziel & Pow works on Betu flagship store
13th August 2009
Retail design consultancy Dalziel & Pow is working on the flagship store for Chinese fashion brand Betu.The Beijing flagship will follow a pilot store in Guangzhou (pictured) which opened last week.Dalziel & Pow was initially tasked with designing a new store concept, but has now been asked to look at the brand and graphic communications, according to the consultancy.The Guangzhou pilot store concept combines clean, geometric shapes with brightly ...
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...or a wake-up call for the UK design establishment?
13th August 2009
Regarding the Royal Society of Art’s Design & Society manifesto, there was no consultation ‘process’. The RDIs have been calling for a sympathetic exchange of ideas and expertise for some time, feeling, quite rightly, that many RDIs would have valuable input in matters like this that the RSA concerns itself with from time to time, without any question of resorting to ‘design by committee’. British design does need to project a position of strength, and it is precisely ...
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Angular perspectives
13th August 2009
Geometric intersecting lines, strong colours and hallucinatory compositions - it might appear that artists Dalek (pictured) and Delta have more in common than striking pseudonyms. However, although their work appears to have similarities, it is actually diametrically opposed, says Paul Jones, owner of London’s Elms Lesters Painting Rooms, who is bringing the artists together for the first time in an exhibition later this month. American James ‘Dalek’ Marshall’s background as a street ...
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Bargain bijou
13th August 2009
A smart hotel concept with a quality touch or two - iconic furniture, perhaps, or a more iconoclastic flea-market approach - can work wonders in the budget arena. Anna Richardson takes the measure of three inventive newcomers
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Cambridge Consultants and Armour Grouphave create the Q2 Cube Internet radio
13th August 2009
Cambridge Consultants and Armour Grouphave created the Q2 Cube Internet radio. The radio will be demonstrated at consumer electronics trade fair IFA Berlin from 4-9 September, before being launched to market in the run-up to Christmas.
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Copycat trap
13th August 2009
There is often a fine line between aligning your product with major consumer trends and blatant plagiarism of somebody else’s work, so how can you make sure you avoid infringement? Sarah Woods investigates
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Dave 'Bollo' Brown creates cover design for Tiny Acts of Rebellion
13th August 2009
Dave ‘Bollo’ Brown has created the cover design for the book Tiny Acts of Rebellion, by comedian Rich Fulcher, which also features illustrations by Mr Bingo. It will be published by Michael O’Mara Books in October, priced £10.
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Divine codes
13th August 2009
I cannot be the only person who screams faintly whenever he reads one of those lazy bits of journalism including the words ‘fast-forward’ and ‘rewind’ as a way to denote passing time. These are generally written by middle-aged men who think it makes them sound faintly hip. No - it just demonstrates that they are of the VHS generation.But the symbols have endured. The little triangular arrows - one for ‘play’, two for, ahem, ‘fast-forward’ and ‘rewind’, plus the associated ...
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Inspired
13th August 2009
You can often tell a lot about a country by simply walking around, browsing and observing the social interactions of the small market stalls that sprout up outside those corporate organisations that sell the latest consumer goods.A memorable trip to Akihabara electronic district in Tokyo last February springs to mind. These individual electronic components, displayed alongside new and old products, gave me such delight, and made me think of possibilities for our built environment. ...
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Let's not forget those who served in the Infantry ranks
13th August 2009
I couldn’t resist the irony in the title ‘Say it straight’ after reading Anna Richardson’s feature (DW 23 July).
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Mytton Williams checks in with Bath boutique hotel brand
13th August 2009
Bath-based Mytton Williams has created the brand for a new boutique hotel set to open in the city next year.The consultancy won the Halcyon Hotel brief around two months ago, according to designer Keith Hancox.Mytton Williams was tasked with developing a brand expression for the hotel, based on the concept of ‘affordable luxury’.Hancox says the Halcyon Hotel, on the site previously occupied by the George Hotel, will aim to cater for people who want ...
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News in Pictures
13th August 2009
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News in Pictures
13th August 2009
Artist collective Container Plus has created the stationery for creative agency The Assembly, as well as designing its website and identity.
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News in Pictures
13th August 2009
Furniture company Touch By will launch seven works from its Be What You Create collection at 100% Design in September. Each piece is signed by the designer, including Mico table by Silka Barrio (pictured).
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Profile - Rohan Daniel Eason
13th August 2009
The illustrations of Rohan Daniel Eason have the precision of Aubrey Beardsley’s line drawings, coupled with a dark fairy-tale twist. Dominic Lutyens enters the haunting world of the artist’s new children’s book venture
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RDI criticism of the RSA - a case of fragile egos...
13th August 2009
Sorry, but your piece on the Royal Designers for Industry, and their criticism of the Royal Society of Arts’ Design & Society manifesto (News, DW 6 August) just sounds like some Very Important People claiming not to have been treated like Very Important People. Aw, bless. I can’t believe people such as Chris Wise and Mike Dempsey sat through a presentation and didn’t use the opportunity then to ask questions or make comments. Resorting instead to this ...
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Saville is finally acknowledged as a major force in graphics
13th August 2009
Rarely has there been such a strong graphics line-up for the Prince Philip Designers Prize, won last year by building services engineer Max Fordham It is especially heartening to see Michael Peters, a founding father of design, among the contenders. The legendary branding designer already holds an OBE for his contribution and this year received the D&AD President’s Award from his acolyte Garrick Hamm. His influence will live on whatever this jury’s decision.
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Stepping up to the next level
13th August 2009
Just doing a good job isn’t good enough any more. If you want to make a difference now, you have to be brilliant at what you do, says Rod Petrie
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Studio Dempsey creates new logo for the Helen Bamber Foundation
13th August 2009
Studio Dempsey has created a new logo for the Helen Bamber Foundation, which draws on graphic designer Milton Glaser’s classic ‘I love NY’ identity. Dempsey and writer Tom Lynham have teamed up to work on a staging of Journey, an installation which tells the story of a trafficked woman, in New York’s Central Park. The original installation ran in London’s Trafalgar Square in 2007.
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Tibor Kalman features work in new title
13th August 2009
The work of graphic designer Tibor Kalman is featured in new title ‘T.Bor - A Book (to keep) + 30 Postcards (to send)’. The book features 30 of Kalman’s best-known images as postcards. It has been compiled by Maira Kalman, with an introduction by Steven Heller, art director of The New York Times Book Review. It will be published in September by Frances Lincoln, priced £9.99.
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Voxpop
13th August 2009
Thomas Heatherwick’s B of the Bang in Manchester is being taken down and the spikes recycled. What do you think would be a fitting new use for the sculpture?
