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14 March 1996

  • A city's roots forgotten

    14 March 1996

    Is Glasgow's new Gallery of Modern Art a missed opportunity to showcase its past and build for the future? Instead of adding to the worldwide glut of modern art museums, a design museum would have been more representative of the city, says Janice Kirkpatr

  • All along the Swatch tower

    14 March 1996

    Clock that expression. Ron Arad is watching your every move beneath the Swatch Art Clock tower he designed to "express his interpretation of Olympic values" at the Royal Festival Hall at London's South Bank.

  • Bic Biro draws on Interbrand

    14 March 1996

    Interbrand is researching a worldwide standard for Bic Biro stationery packaging in several countries. The project could also include a review of the Bic branding, says Interbrand creative director Chris Lightfoot, who declines to comment further.

  • Brief

    14 March 1996

    Royal Opera House art director Nicholas Blosch took a traditional approach to this black and white poster for Arabella by Austrian composer Richard Strauss. 'It's based on an old Eastern European form of endearment - if a girl wants to get engaged she presents her lover with a glass of water,' explains Blosch. The photographer is Jeff Cottenden. Arabella will be performed by the London Opera Company on 27 and 30 March and on four dates in April.

  • Brief

    14 March 1996

    Graphic designer Vince Frost and his consultancy Frost Design have reaped an armload of awards for work on the Independent Magazine. The list of honours includes a gold award from the Society of Publication Designers in New York for this cover. And three other covers and three complete magazine editions took merits as well. The New York and Tokyo type directors clubs lauded Frost's Independent Magazine work, and the Art Directors Club in New York conferred an award of distinctive merit ...

  • Brief

    14 March 1996

    The chap in the dog collar is called Gary. He's a designer friend of graphics muso Vaughan Oliver. Oliver wanted Gary to pose for the poster for his current exhibition, but failed to inform him that Minty is Geordie-speak for 'smelly and dirty'. The exhibition features work by design group v23 and Oliver's work for the Cocteau Twins, the Pixies and Raygun magazine covers. It runs until 29 March at the University of Northumbria gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne.

  • Briefs

    14 March 1996

    Saturday 16 March Cartoons, technology and the Black American in consumerist US society influenced the work of painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose work is on show at the Serpentine Gallery, in this first solo show of his work since his death.

  • Briefs

    14 March 1996

    Lipson Laport Glass Associates in the US has designed the graphics for Perrier's new limited edition range of sparkling water, the Jazz Bottle.

  • Cordiant posts loss

    14 March 1996

    Cordiant, parent group of Siegel & Gale and Saatchi & Saatchi Design, has posted unaudited results for 1995 showing a pre-tax loss of 22.

  • DCA behind the wheel in London bus project

    14 March 1996

    DCA Design International is working for London Transport Buses on designing the capital's next generation of buses. A full-size, double-deck rig is being built to test the ideas generated.

  • Design absent from many annual reports

    14 March 1996

    The vast majority of annual company reports do not appear to have a significant design input, suggests a new study by corporate communications consultancy Peter Prowse Associates.

  • Design Council talks shop to explore ideas

    14 March 1996

    The UK has an international reputation for turning out world-beating designers from its education system. Why else would our politicians be so keen to claim design skills as a valuable export, even if they're not well enough used by industry here?

  • Design Council vision appears to be blurred

    14 March 1996

    In response to Michael Rodber's letter, John Boult of Product First raises an interesting point about criticism in the public arena (DW 1 March). I could feel my pulse quicken at the thought of some genuine bloodsport inferred by your heading "Stabbed by the rare sword of criticism".

  • DW award-winners flush in glory

    14 March 1996

    Tears, smiles, hugs and kisses broke out at Kinneir Dufort's table at last Wednesday's Design Week awards when the Bristol consultancy's inhaler for asthma sufferers, the HandiHaler, won the Best of Show accolade.

  • Flat tops and bottms at Rox

    14 March 1996

    The most popular hairdo at London hair salon Rox just has to be a slaphead. This perverse approach to flier design is the work of Curious designer Paul Cowley, who prowls around Soho phone boxes.

  • Fry's Cream repackaged

    14 March 1996

    Wagstaffs has redesigned Fry's Creams chocolate brand for Cadbury, after winning a free creative pitch for the project against Beresfords and Cadbury's in-house design team.

  • Glasgow lists design service

    14 March 1996

    Glasgow Design Initiative has published The Directory of Design Capability in Glasgow - a 128-page guide to the 600-plus Glasgow businesses which offer design services.

  • Groups with own niche swell on buoyant profit

    14 March 1996

    Design groups have the potential to generate significant profits if they improve productivity and reduce fixed costs, according to findings from Willott Kingston Smith's latest Monitor survey.

  • Hostess crisp bags are front page news

    14 March 1996

    Canada's top crisp has been packaged in special edition promotional bags for the lead-up to the brand's relaunch. Both newspaper-style packaging and the ultimate redesign for Hostess Potato Chips are by Thomas Pigeon Design in Ontario.

  • I use a Mac, therefore I lack skill and talent

    14 March 1996

    Janice Kirkpatrick (Private View, 16 February) and Denis Flin (Letters, DW 1 March) both view the use of computers in design as a backward step and appear to be suggesting that specialist typesetters have some kind of monopoly on typographical excellence.

  • Johannesburg team offers healthy option

    14 March 1996

    South Africa has a new health insurance company, formed out of a joint venture between mining interest Anglo American, Southern Life insurance company and United Healthcare in the US.

  • KeyBank cashes in on virtual branch by FRCH

    14 March 1996

    KeyBank of Washington is trialing a virtual bank branch featuring video games and an electronic hostess. The project is the first design work by New York group FRCH Design Worldwide for the bank.

  • Landor silent on work for Delta

    14 March 1996

    Delta Air Lines, one of the world's top five carriers, is to launch a new corporate image and identity designed by Landor Associates in London.

  • Late payers crackdown lauded

    14 March 1996

    Design's trade bodies have welcomed Prime Minister John Major's promise to "embarrass" larger companies into paying their bills on time.

  • Licence rush sparks logo work

    14 March 1996

    GRAPHIC design groups are cashing in on the latest batch of radio licences as potential broadcasters present their bid documents, complete with logos, for new regional stations.

  • Little Buddha

    14 March 1996

    John Pawson's belief that less is more determines his approach to an architectural design project. Clare Melhuish asks him about his recent work for Jigsaw

  • Lower goes amicably

    14 March 1996

    Chris Lower has left as creative director of one of Design House's two packaging design arms. Frances Lovell, former creative director of the other pack arm, will take responsibility for the now-unified unit.

  • Museum style decision near

    14 March 1996

    The Victoria & Albert Museum will soon decide whether to appoint a consultancy to redesign its house style, following a presentation last week from Rufus Leonard.

  • New name for drugs giant

    14 March 1996

    Siegel & Gale has created the name and identity for the newly formed Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Novartis - the result of the biggest ever merger.

  • Northcross keeps Scottish prize

    14 March 1996

    NORTHCROSS has been named Robert Horne Scottish Design Consultancy of the Year for the second year running. The Edinburgh consultancy topped the table in Scotmedia's surveys, which covered consultancies' financial health, opinions of design buyers and the

  • Pic Stop

    14 March 1996

    Using picture library stock doesn't automatically lead to bland pages of work and nature shots, as Mark Wilson discovered through three recent projects

  • Prince's youth trusts fly under new banner

    14 March 1996

    BAMBER Forsyth's new identity for the Prince of Wales's youth trusts spearheads the restructure of the four trusts under a single name, The Prince's Trust.

  • Shoe chain takes a step onward

    14 March 1996

    Norwich women's shoe manufacturer The Florida Group has new corporate and branding marques as part of the company's marketing initiative. It is the first job for Florida by Cambridgeshire design group Precept.

  • Siebert Head's Optrex vision

    14 March 1996

    Siebert Head has designed new packaging for Boots Healthcare's international range of Optrex eye solutions. The consultancy has tweaked the Optrex typeface and created new colour-coded packs for global distribution.

  • Simple switch expected to be precisely that

    14 March 1996

    THE Simple range is being relaunched in anticipation of the 1997 EC directive for skincare and bathcare products to list all ingredients used. Packaging and identity are by Brewer Riddiford.

  • South London mob hutches it up

    14 March 1996

    It's unclear who exactly Four IV director Tony Blurton has upset. But it's not a hardcore branch of the mafia, that's for sure.

  • Spanish college seeks industrial designers

    14 March 1996

    Our design school in Barcelona is developing research studies on industrial products that reflect improved and inspired design.

  • Staff morale improves without cheesy crackers

    14 March 1996

    You quoted comments by former Acting Communication Director Pamela Taylor about internal communication at the Design Council (DW Diary, 1 March). Pamela quoted some results from a staff survey taken after a fairly bloody time of mass redundancies and cultural change. Unsurprisingly, staff morale had plummeted, but the depths to which it plummeted were some of the worst that anyone (including Smythe Dorward Lambert) had seen.

  • Tired look is history in museum shops

    14 March 1996

    Museum shops can be a central source of generating revenue. So it's time to throw out the tack and start selling slick branded products, says Andy Gilgrist

  • Top crisp hits the headlines

    14 March 1996

    US digital graphic designer P Scott Makela (whose work is pictured) will speak on passion and design at the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada's Typographic Exposition next month. The Toronto symposium celebrates the GDC's 40th anniversary and will be addressed by Gerard Unger from The Netherlands, US designer Jeffrey Keedy, Siobhan Keaney and Dave Farey from the UK and others.

  • VASES AND CANDLESTICKS

    14 March 1996

    BY Hollington Associates WITH DESIGN IDEAS

  • Vibrant Lopex plans growth

    14 March 1996

    Design In Action is in a bullish mood as it announces preliminary end-of-year results for 1995 showing a pre-tax profit of almost 1.5m, compared with an 890 000 loss in 1994.

  • Whitehall design buying reviewed

    14 March 1996

    Government departments are reviewing the way they procure design in an effort to conform with the EC directive on public services contracts and a Government White Paper on forming closer relationships with suppliers.

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