Design Week
14 June 2007
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2007 Designs of Substance winners revealed
14 June 2007
Two students from Ravensbourne College of Design & Communication are among the three winners of the 2007 Designs of Substance contest
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3D Reid
14 June 2007
3D Reid, the product of a merger between Reid Architecture and 3D Architects, has launched its brand identity, by London design group To The Point.
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A chance for joined-up design
14 June 2007
A Government rebuilding programme and the Young Design Centre provide a big opportunity to rethink the design of schools, says Scott Billings
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Active duty
14 June 2007
The fruits of German Modernist designer Jan Tschichold's clean, typographical style are all around us today. The clean, asymmetric sans serifs he evangelised as 'the new typography' remain the de rigueur face of much corporate type and his redesign of Penguin Books in the late 1940s is a landmark. But it is Tschichold's early and sometimes unseen career that is the focus of a forthcoming book and exhibition at St Bride Library in London by type designer and writer Christopher Burke. ...
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Alive and printing
14 June 2007
Is print still turning heads the way it used to? Design Week asked a handful of leading designers working with print about its vitality, the digression to on-line and the growing question of sustainability. Here's what they said
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Apollonian quest
14 June 2007
Finding ways of expressing the experience of being out in space is far from easy, but Yolanda Zappaterra is impressed by an exhibition in which astronauts provide words to go with images of the Apollo missions of the late 1960s and early 1970s
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Barr Soft Drinks
14 June 2007
Scottish beverages group Barr Soft Drinks has revamped the packaging for its Barr range, with design by Glasgow-based consultancy Stand. Following an eight-way pitch, Stand was tasked with creating a design that retained the history of the brand yet also delivered differentiation across the range and maximised shelf standout.
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BBC's Junior Look North Reporter
14 June 2007
Yorkshire-based Core-ID, a division of Image Data Group, has unveiled a visual identity for the launch of East Yorkshire & Lincolnshire BBC's Junior Look North Reporter Initiative.
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Cardiff Design Festival targets the business market
14 June 2007
Celebrating the best in Welsh Design, the 2007 Cardiff Design Festival is approaching its final week of exhibitions, seminars, talks, awards and parties, and is set to close on 30 June.Festival director Olwen Moseley says, 'Over the past two years we've achieved our goal of bringing the Welsh design community together, but now we're in our third year we want to focus more on demonstrating how important good design is for business and the economy.'The festivities kicked ...
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Conspicuous creatives
14 June 2007
Being a designer isn't considered a proper job in some parts of the Middle East, where there's too much money floating around for there to be any real need for innovation and entrepreneurship. But there are clear signs of this changing, says Clare Dowdy
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Cracking the Chinese puzzle
14 June 2007
Design is set to follow manufacturing to the Far East. But, asks Jonathan Biddle, do the benefits of doing business there outweigh the risks?
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Dott 07 and Northumbria to host design practice conference
14 June 2007
Dott 07 and Northumbria University School of Design are joining forces to host a conference on design practice. Intersections takes place at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead from 25-26 October.
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Elmwood keeps branding sweet for Park Cakes Bakeries
14 June 2007
Food manufacturer Park Cakes Bakeries is plotting an addition to the premium dessert market, with the help of branding consultancy Elmwood.Elmwood is working with PCB's commercial director Simon Smith on the creation and development of a 'premium indulgent' range that they hope will rival Duchy Originals and Gü, to launch in the autumn.'Part of our brief was to assist in the creation of a new range that will be famous for its authentic attitude and edgy personality,' says ...
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Fight for Life
14 June 2007
Visual effects, animation and motion graphics studio Jellyfish Pictures has created a set of visuals for a new BBC One six-part series on how the human body copes with crisis, called Fight for Life, starting on 9 July. The brief was to create the illusion that an endoscopic camera was actually deep inside a body, recording what it was going through in its fight for life.
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Good try - now get the implementation right
14 June 2007
The London Olympics 2012 symbol is original, contemporary, dynamic, distinctive, edgy and flexible - everything it should be. Clearly, the initial reaction to it has been overwhelmingly negative, perhaps due to the ineptness of its launch. I cannot remember such a brand furore since Wolff Olins launched the 'prancing piper' identity for BT in the 1980s. The real issue about the new identity seems to be whether it is appropriate for both the Olympic movement and London 2012. A brand ...
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In thrall to capitalism
14 June 2007
Tibor Kalman once pointed out that the aim of much design is creating wealth. Jim Davies has second thoughts about the moral emptiness of branding
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Inspired
14 June 2007
In 2003, we conceived and instigated Head/Hand/ Heart - an ongoing series of talks and exhibitions by design luminaries
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JKR sees Birds Eye brand through
14 June 2007
Birds Eye is set to relaunch its identity and packaging, with the help of Jones Knowles Ritchie, in a bid to change consumer attitudes towards its health credentials.The cross-category frozen food brand has spent £25m on marketing and advertising throughout 2006/07 in a bid to change public perceptions, and is hoping the new packaging will realign the brand with the healthy food message conveyed through recent above-the-line advertising.From July, the brand will sport a ...
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Let's forget the Olympics - and check out student work
14 June 2007
Let's hope that next week's D&AD student fest brings welcome relief from the logo mania that's beset the media
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New branding and identity for Go
14 June 2007
Branding consultancy Turquoise has created a fresh brand and identity for Malta telecoms service Go.
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New Designers
14 June 2007
The New Designers exhibition showcases a selection of work by emerging design talent from among the graduates of 2007.
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Penguin launches design awards
14 June 2007
Penguin has announced the winners of its first annual design awards, launched earlier this year to bridge the gap between British design students and the publishing industry.Korean-born Ara Youn from the London College of Communication won first place for her sparse, graphic jacket design of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, which used a double-layered cover and contrasting colours to express a 'snap judgement', the novel's theme.The robust panel of judges included Penguin's two ...
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Pentagram partners fail to inspire D&AD lecture audience
14 June 2007
I took most of my staff (14 of us) to last month's D&AD President's Lecture on the culture of Pentagram, and I have to say that I was very disappointed
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Profile: Tom Barker
14 June 2007
Industrial design professor Tom Barker worked on the London Eye pods, and his side project, the SmartSlab, has made him a millionaire. Scott Billings talks to him about heroes, hard work and the digital future
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Purple Label
14 June 2007
Cambridge consultancy Black Pig has designed an identity for bespoke jewellery maker Harriet Kelsall's ready-to- wear Purple Label brand.
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Small, yes, but shy? No, just confidential and loyal
14 June 2007
Having read with interest the Top 100 survey, we have to pick up on the point about product design consultancies being small and shy. We're small, yes, but we're definitely not shy. Our clients love the fact that we're a small team as it gives us the ability to react and adapt, go that extra mile, work on a personal level and become integral to their in-house teams. We help develop core global brands to maintain competitive advantage across many sectors. Of course, we can't ...
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Stirling identity
14 June 2007
The city and region of Stirling in Scotland has unveiled an identity devised by Tayburn.
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Tate Modern's Global Cities
14 June 2007
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The Science Museum
14 June 2007
The Science Museum is to join the London Consortium, the postgraduate programme set up between the Institute of Contemporary Art; Birkbeck, University of London; and the Architectural Association.
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Tom, Dick and Harry
14 June 2007
A trio of chairs - called Tom, Dick and Harry - has been designed by Mark Gabbertas for a creative commission from West Midlands manufacturer Boss Design. The chairs use large-scale liquid foam moulds around hidden steel frames and come in a variety of fabrics, with a choice of polished aluminium or chrome 'skid' legs.
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Trees in the City
14 June 2007
Trees in the City, a poetry collection commissioned by Lloyd's of London, has been designed by Axon Publishing. It aims to raise awareness of climate change and its effect on the insurance industry.
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V&A birthday bash to focus on design links
14 June 2007
The Victoria & Albert Museum is to highlight its contribution to the design industry when it celebrates its 150th anniversary later this week.
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Voxpop
14 June 2007
As the Wolff Olins-designed London 2012 branding debate continues, should the Olympic organisers reveal the full scope of the 'evolved' work now, or wait for the fuss to die down?
