Design Week
14 April 2011
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...and the retro pomp of Manchester's Haçienda
14 April 2011
I’d say reimagine the Gaudí building in Barcelona that has all the masks on the front. I like playful things and reckon that’s a pretty playful building and would make a fun museum - lots of curves, bones, masks and tiles, and the roof is amazing.
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A funny old game
14 April 2011
Football clubs are increasingly on the ball in developing brand identities and marketing themselves. Tom Banks discovers that branding a football club in the 21st century is as much about what happens off the pitch as on it
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Affairs of the art
14 April 2011
A growing number of exponents of ’intelligent illustration’ are engaged in the practice of ’promoting visual literacy’. Emily Pacey explores this trend, looking at illustrators who are using their craft playfully to convey ideas and messages
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Ann Summers in design overhaul
Wed, 13 Apr 2011
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Best of the Web
14 April 2011
www.toddmclellan.comIt appears photographer Todd McLellan has way too much time on in his hands. However, photographs of exploding mantelpiece clocks and meticulously dissected telephones are actually fascinating. The attention to detail is extraordinary and displays how motion can be captured in a still image.
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Classical composition
14 April 2011
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D Studio has food for thought as it looks to reposition dim sum restaurant chain Ping Pong
14 April 2011
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D&AD launches new White Pencil Award
Wed, 13 Apr 2011
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Elmwood redesigns Andrex packaging
Wed, 13 Apr 2011
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Fallon sets up design group Made in Fallon
Wed, 13 Apr 2011
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Inspired
14 April 2011
Samuel Wilkinson - Samuel Wilkinson Design Studio
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It's time to stop teaching Web skills like it's still 1999
14 April 2011
In response to Lynda Relph-Knight’s editorial on the demise of craft skills and typography in college curricula (Comment, DW 7 April), I would add that the situation in Web design is even more acute. In many multimedia and Web-specific courses, there seems to be very little taught in the way of core graphic design skills and typography rarely gets a look-in. In fact, the underpinning technologies of HTML, CSS and Java Script, of which every Web designer should have a good grasp, seem ...
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Let's recreate Wembley's iconic twin towers...
14 April 2011
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Milan fair experience shows how not to do PR
14 April 2011
The arrival of spring can only mean one thing - Milan furniture fair. But Lynda Relph-Knight is unconvinced by most design promotions
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Nation creates magazine-style website to promote Barbour's seasonal collections
14 April 2011
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New model army
14 April 2011
The popularity of computer-aided design and technologies such as rapid prototyping has marked a sharp decline in the use of maquettes and small-scale, handmade models in the design process. But, says Anna Norman, even in this digital age model-making still has its place
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News in Pictures
14 April 2011
Brandopus has designed limited-edition packaging for honey brand Rowse to mark the Royal Wedding.
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News in Pictures
14 April 2011
It’s Nice That has created a campaign for the New Designers exhibition, which runs at the Business Design Centre in London from 29 June to 9 July.
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Odd seeks out cycling pros for Power Bike campaign
14 April 2011
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Portland creates identity for Al'Image chain
14 April 2011
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Profile: Nobrow Press
14 April 2011
Sam Arthur could not stand the idea of disposable print. Garrick Webster meets up with him and his colleague Alex Spiro to hear how they set up Nobrow Press and have created an astounding and esoteric library of work
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Sea change
14 April 2011
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See the signs
14 April 2011
Hugh Pearman laments the state of public transport’s slow, inflexible and all-too-often inaccurate information systems, and wonders why we don’t take a leaf out of our motorways
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Small Back Room picked as Nigerian bank reinvents itself
14 April 2011
Small Back Room has been appointed to develop the brand for the Urban Development Bank of Nigeria.
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Studio Output enlists artists for Playstation digital service
14 April 2011
Jon Burgerman’s Burgerbrained theme
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The Design Council's drive to address dementia is a good start, let's follow suit
14 April 2011
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The Plant rebrands Las Iguanas restaurants
Wed, 13 Apr 2011
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The Solent bunch
14 April 2011
I recently spent an interesting day with final-year illustration students at Southampton Solent University. I was invited by tutor Jonny Hannah to give them tips on how to make it in illustration and to crit a self-promotional project.
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Voxpop
14 April 2011
Lego has released a kit immortalising Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House. Which building would you like to create in Lego and why?
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What is the relevance of the new CSD logo?
14 April 2011
