Design Week
14 January 2010
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It's time to stand up and argue the case for design
14 January 2010
We’ve heard it all before - pundits speaking out about the cost of design for public projects. But the piece that appeared in The Times on Boxing Day went one step further. Taking the 60th anniversary logo for the National Health Service as its cue, the newspaper quoted Tory MP Greg Hands as saying ‘anyone with an average brain’ could design, given the software packages available.
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20% discount on retail price to all readers of Design Week
14 January 2010
Fiona Paxton trained at the Royal College of art in Textile design and worked in the fashion industry for 15 years designing printed textiles and working in trend and colour prediction for a wide variety of clients including Chloe, Armani, Donna Karan and Romeo Gigli as well as many High Street stores such as Whistles, Coast and Marks and Spencer.
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All hail the era of brand theatre and digital retail
14 January 2010
I agree with the thrust of Angus Montgomery’s article (News in Depth, DW 10 December 2009) that retail brands of the future will be characterised more by digital brand experiences than by looks and logos.
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Authenticity means honesty - you can't just conjure it up
14 January 2010
In response to your Voxpop asking how brands can be made more authentic (DW 10 December 2009), authenticity needs substance. It cannot be invented. To do so is to attempt to fool your consumers, and we know that honesty is key to driving a deeper, more connected relationship with them.
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Board restructure after buyout at product design group The Alloy
14 January 2010
Staff at Surrey-based product design consultancy The Alloy have completed a buyout of the company.
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CMW has created a new website for Cadbury brand Wispa
14 January 2010
CMW has created a new website for Cadbury brand Wispa, and an integrated digital campaign for its Creme Eggs.
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David Milligan-Croft has been appointed creative director at Ice. He joins from The Hub in Preston.
14 January 2010
David Milligan-Croft has been appointed creative director at Ice. He joins from The Hub in Preston.
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Development opportunities
14 January 2010
Museum residencies allow emerging designers to develop - artistically and commercially - in a sympathetic environment. Laura Snoad reports
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Digital consultancy Quba has won a 12-month marketing brief for cutlery brand Oneida
14 January 2010
Digital consultancy Quba has won a 12-month marketing brief for cutlery brand Oneida.
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Festival explores symbiosis between craft and digital art
14 January 2010
Separated by more than 100 years and seemingly different principles, the Arts and Crafts Movement and digital design would seem unlikely bedfellows, but Lovebytes - a digital festival opening this month in Sheffield - will show them to be underpinned by the same mode of thought.
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Ico has designed a new website for the National Railway Museum
14 January 2010
Ico has designed a new website for the National Railway Museum. The consultancy was commissioned following a three-way creative pitch in spring 2009, and tasked with designing a website to enable the museum to engage with new and existing audiences in fresh and exciting ways.
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Ideo co-founder Bill Moggridge
14 January 2010
Ideo co-founder Bill Moggridge has been named director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York.
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Industry split on co-design, says DW poll
14 January 2010
Nearly 40 per cent of respondents to a Design Week poll say they do not think co-design is a good idea.
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Inspired - Helder Pombinho, Brandia Central
14 January 2010
When communicating something, there are two simple questions we, as a consultancy, need to consider - what’s interesting in what we’re saying, and what’s the most interesting way to say it?
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Kay Why Marketing has created packaging designs for new Vimto flavour Cherry Vimto
14 January 2010
Kay Why Marketing has created packaging designs for new Vimto flavour Cherry Vimto. The new product is the first permanent line extension for Vimto in its 101-year history, according to Kay Why founder Keith Young. He adds, ‘Careful design consideration was given to respecting the value of the core brand while providing enough differentiation to make sure that confusion at the point-of-sale is minimised.’
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Leicestershire-based group FSG Design
14 January 2010
Leicestershire-based group FSG Design has created the identity and marketing collateral for Passion 2 Print Rugby, an exhibition at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum.
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Let's see if regional design networks would sink or swim
14 January 2010
Regarding your article about the funding of regional design networks (News Analysis, DW 7 January), as someone who has run a design group for the past decade and as an entrepreneur, I would welcome the end of public funding for these kinds of organisations.
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Magpie Studio creates look for trend forecasting start-up
14 January 2010
Magpie Studio has created the identity and website for The Neon Birdcage, a trend-forecasting resource pitched at brands, organisations and creative groups.
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Manchester consultancy Love has appointed Mike Hughes as creative head
14 January 2010
Manchester consultancy Love has appointed former St Luke’s Communications art director Mike Hughes as creative head.
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Michon has produced the Onenergy magazine for Eon, which is distributed to MPs.
14 January 2010
Michon has produced the Onenergy magazine for Eon, which is distributed to MPs.
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Minale Tattersfield has created a visual identity for the Italian region of Trentino
14 January 2010
Minale Tattersfield has created a visual identity for the Italian region of Trentino. The new identity is being rolled out across brochures for the region, its website and other communications materials. The revamped marque is intended to look less corporate than its predecessor, promoting the province to tourists as well as to businesses.
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Motion sensors
14 January 2010
Holographic light beings, drawing robots and a giant vertical electronic wave are among the marvels at this year’s Kinetica Art Fair in London. The ‘kinetic art’ umbrella encompasses all kinds of robotic, sound, light and time-based art, but the key is that the artists involved are pushing boundaries across all disciplines, says Dianne Harris, art director and curator of the Kinetica Museum, which launched the annual fair last year.
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News in Pictures
14 January 2010
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News in Pictures
14 January 2010
Blast has designed the identity for the State of the Arts Conference, co-organised by the Royal Society of Arts and Arts Council England. The conference starts tomorrow.
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News in Pictures
14 January 2010
Works by the Campana Brothers, Anish Kapoor and Bruce Munro (concept pictured) will feature at the Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum exhibition, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, from 12 February to 28 April.
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Pop star Lady Gaga has been appointed as creative director of camera brand Polaroid.
14 January 2010
Pop star Lady Gaga has been appointed as creative director of camera brand Polaroid.
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Profile - Afroditi Krassa
14 January 2010
After a brief from a major sushi chain, Afroditi Krassa finds herself as much in demand for interiors as for her first love, product design. John Stones talks to the Anglo-Greek with novel ideas about café concepts
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Protocol serves up interiors and branding for Dishoom café
14 January 2010
Afroditi Krassa’s interior design consultancy Protocol is working on a new Indian café that will open in London’s Covent Garden at the beginning of June.
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Regs'n'drugs
14 January 2010
With users often confused, and pharmacists liable to prosecution, medicine packaging can be a minefield for designers. Matthew Valentine discovers the shortcomings of conventional fmcg branding strategy
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Software can never replicate the talent of good designers
14 January 2010
On Boxing Day 2009, an article appeared in The Times newspaper about public-sector spending on design. In it, the Conservative MP Greg Hands said that modern software packages make it possible for ‘anyone with an average brain’ to create work as good as, if not better than, that of trained designers.
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Take a Martian view
14 January 2010
Why do cars and planes look like they do? It’s just habit, says Hugh Pearman - we’re too stuck in our ways to be able to create genuinely new objects
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Tayburn has created the annual report for Edinburgh children's charity The Yard
14 January 2010
Tayburn has created the annual report for Edinburgh children’s charity The Yard.
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The If You Could Collaborate exhibition
14 January 2010
The If You Could Collaborate exhibition is at the A Foundation Gallery in London from 15-23 January. It features 33 collaborations including works by Fontaine Anderson and Deanne Cheuk, Karl Grandin and And Beyond, and Max Lamb and Gemma Holt (pictured).
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Time to start taking the lead
14 January 2010
Branding is too important to be left in the hands of advertising agencies, says Christian Schroeder. Designers should market their strategic skills better
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Tourism South East goes pop in Harrison & Co rebrand
14 January 2010
Tourism South East will now be known as The Beautiful South, following a rebrand by Harrison & Co.
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Verbal grace
14 January 2010
Writing for design is becoming ever more integral to the process, as writers are increasingly brought on board from the very start. Anna Richardson hears what three experts in the field have been up to lately
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Voxpop
14 January 2010
Referring to public-sector identity work, Tory MP Greg Hands has claimed that modern graphic design software packages ‘surely allow anyone with an average brain to design something as good as, or better than, what we see in front of us here’. How would you respond to this assertion?
