Design Week
14 August 2008
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British Film Institute to host Onedotzero
14 August 2008
This year's Onedotzero festival, Adventures in Motion, will be underlined by a Citystates theme. Held at the British Film Institute on the South Bank in London for the first time, the annual festival celebrates the latest developments across moving image, digital and interactive arts platforms.This year, the main event is preceded by two weeks of installation, cinematic, educational and performance projects, hosted at P3 Space in Westminster University from 27 October to 13 November.Jason ...
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Buddy Creative gives Kleenex Collections a clean new look
14 August 2008
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Design vision for Covent Garden
14 August 2008
Covent Garden London is looking to the power of design as part of wider plans to help it reconnect the area with a London audience, ahead of the 2012 Olympics.The developer, part of Liberty International Capital & Counties, will set out a multimillion pound vision involving the 'improvement of the public realm', and an overhaul of the current Covent Garden retail tenant mix. 'It will not be a case of knocking down buildings, but a repurposing,' says CGL brand director Beverley ...
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Freeview
14 August 2008
Freeview is set to launch a new range of digital TV recorders with branding by 999 Design. Freeview+ is being trialled in Currys stores in Milton Keynes next Wednesday before being rolled out across Currys, Comet and Tesco outlets from the end of the month. 999 Design has created the visual identity, packaging and point-of-sale materials for the new Freeview sub-brand. The design consultancy has worked with Freeview since 2004.
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Gap outlines plan to reduce London team
14 August 2008
Fashion retailer Gap has revealed further details about plans to reduce its London marketing and design team to Design Week.The global chain will axe its European fashion design team from September, and is moving its advertising team to its US headquarters. It will, however, retain an in-house design team working on store design, visual merchandising and in-store events.'It makes sense, if our clothes are being designed in the US, to create advertising there also, so we ...
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Genesis of an idea
14 August 2008
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Get the details right to create the perfect picture
14 August 2008
I'd been away for two weeks and on my return I picked up the two issues of Design Week that I had missed out on. I was met by the usual mix of informative news and thought-provoking discussion. In fact, I was quite enjoying grabbing ten minutes catching up on what I had missed out on while I had been away. Then I saw the work for The Family Friendly Film Festival '08, designed by Wonder Associates (DW 17 July). The copy on it promoted Stories on Screen and celebrated the ...
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Inspired, Joise Harold, Dirty Design
14 August 2008
Think of a number, any number. Numbers play an integral part in our daily lives and have been truly inspirational throughout history. Without numbers, the world today would be a very different place. No computers, no magnificent buildings and no commerce. When you think about it, numbers really are at the core of everything.My love for numbers started when I was a little girl watching Sesame Street's Pinball Number Count segments, sung by The Pointer Sisters. Not only did I learn ...
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It's time to start treating co-design as an opportunity
14 August 2008
I read with alarm the comment 'Watch out: co-design is as big a threat as free pitching' (DW 17 July). Co-design is not about getting members of the public to do designers' jobs, it's about drawing stakeholders into a design process facilitated by designers. It's about mitigating risk, improving success, generating buy-in and ownership, and ensuring that the design delivers real solutions. What Lynda Relph-Knight described - inviting members of the public to make ...
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Jury is out on London Mayor's commitment to design
14 August 2008
We may swear by change as a generator for creativity, but the huge shifts currently underway at the London Development Agency leave a slightly uncomfortable feeling about the future of design in the capital (see News Analysis, page 9).The uncertainty over the fate of the LDA's ...
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Mothercare Essentials redesigned by NB Studio
14 August 2008
Mothercare is set to relaunch its Essentials range, with a new name and packaging design by NB Studio.
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Negotiating the digital maze
14 August 2008
All businesses, from small design groups to FTSE 100 companies, face the same challenge: how to manage the problems and opportunities presented by digital technologies. Managers need strategies to tackle this. They need to adapt their culture, reorganise and grab the opportunities.The digital revolution is on a par with other scientific revolutions. Internet technologies have changed our world and continue to change it - look at Web 1.0, 2.0 and now 3.0; look at the frightening ...
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News in Pictures
14 August 2008
Nottingham-based creative design and build company Philip Watts Design consultancy will unveil its latest light design at the 100% Design show, London, SW5 in September. The Blimpy, which can be hung in three different ways, is a rotationally moulded plastic pendent, which comes in white, orange or red.
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News in Pictures
14 August 2008
1 Free Tibet campaigner and founder of Barnbrook Design Jonathan Barnbrook has created a 90-second animated film supporting Tibetan independence. Not Made in China can be viewed from tomorrow on www.remembertibet.org.2 This is the latest graphic novel to be illustrated by Adrian Tomine. Sleepwalk is published by Faber and Faber on 21 August.
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Opportunities for design as shops return to Cheapside
14 August 2008
London's Cheapside is to become a major shopping district again for the first time since the departure of its medieval market, opening up design opportunities all across the Square Mile.Due for completion in 2012, 12 developments will occupy 140 000m2 of retail space, stretching from Paternoster Square in the west to Royal Exchange in the east.Following an initial consultation meeting on 15 July, where the City of London set out its proposals, an ongoing public consultation ...
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Profile
14 August 2008
After a stellar dual career designing book jackets and editing graphic novels, Chip Kidd has little to prove – so he’s written two novels. Simon Creasey asks him about storytelling, and art directing his own covers
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Silk Pearce campaign funds cancer care centres
14 August 2008
Cancer support organisation Maggie's Centres has named Silk Pearce as its lead creative consultancy, as the Scotland-based charity prepares to build five new centres in England and Wales.The charity has strong links with design - its five existing cancer advice centres have been created by architects including Frank Gehry, Richard Rogers and Page & Park.Maggie's has recently commissioned architects, including Wilkinson Eyre and Piers Gough, to create the five new centres, ...
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Tangible creates logo for Outward Bound
14 August 2008
Educational charity The Outward Bound Trust has revealed a new logo and brand identity, created by London-based design group Tangible Financial.Tangible Financial, which has not worked in the charity sector before, was appointed by head of marketing and communications Catherine Sturrock, following a previous collaboration before she worked with the trust.The new logo (shown above) unites the different arms of the organisation in a single design, Sturrock explains. 'The ...
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The illustrations of Osbert Lancaster
14 August 2008
The illustrations of Osbert Lancaster are celebrated in a new book by Frances Lincoln Publishers. James Knox's Cartoons and Coronets: The Genius of Osbert Lancaster features jacket artwork for his collections of cartoons, which first appeared in 1940. Designed by Octavius Murray, the book coincides with an exhibition of Lancaster's work at London's The Wallace Collection in October.
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The rise of online-only exhibitions
14 August 2008
As museums start to experiment with online-only exhibitions, Yolanda Zappaterra looks at the empowering potential of Web-based media to turn visitors into virtual curators, while offering access to material often hidden from the public eye
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Toon in
14 August 2008
Crikey! Who'd have thought The Beano and The Dandy were 70 years old? The sibling comics may be publishing veterans, but Dennis the Menace, Roger the Dodger and the cow-pie-eating Desperate Dan feel like eternal small boys. Their graphic creators, Dudley D Watkins, Leo Baxendale and Ken Reid, among others, amused umpteen children (circulation topped almost two million in the 1950s) and also inspired a younger generation of illustrators and animators, among them Nick Park. 'It was such ...
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UK 2012 Cultural Programme
14 August 2008
As part of the UK 2012 Cultural Programme, 300 young people from six west London boroughs have been encouraged by five artists to produce art in digital media. Using video, photography, sound and animation, the designs show London as seen by its youth. London Mix runs until 28 September - the day of the Olympic handover from Beijing - at Watermans Gallery, Brentford, TW8.
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Voxpop
14 August 2008
What's the best piece of design work you've seen around the Beijing Olympics, and why?I believe the most dramatic designs at the games are the bold architectural statements seen in the stadiums, probably none more so than that seen in the National Aquatics Centre. I love the fact that ...
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Where now for design at LDA?
14 August 2008
The root-and-branch review of the LDA and cuts to staff numbers couldspell change for its design set-up, says Emily Pacey
