Design Week
14 May 2009
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A little less jargon is the best approach for brands
14 May 2009
How good it was to see Michael Wolff’s comments on design jargon last week (Letters, DW 30 April).
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A new simplicity
14 May 2009
Straitened times foster serious, sober work, with the colourful frippery of the recent boom confined to history for now. John Bateson reports from the frontline of the Uncivil Marketing War between Roundheads and Cavaliers
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An investigation into the dangers of moonlighting
14 May 2009
Moonlighting on private jobs is far from uncommon, finds Emily Pacey, but the consequences can be serious
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Artisan
14 May 2009
Artisan has created the packaging for shower brand Mira’s new Mira 360 rotating shower head. An aperture in the packaging allows customers to test the rotating function of the product without opening the box. A mirrored backboard displays the product from all sides, giving the illusion that the semi-circular box is cylindrical. The shower heads will be in stores from July.
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Bannenberg sails ahead with identity by Zulver & Co
14 May 2009
Branding consultancy Zulver & Co has created a new identity for super-yacht company Bannenberg.
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Capital views
14 May 2009
London’s transport authority has a strong tradition of using illustration, from the first commissions of artists and designers early last century and the bold and adventurous posters of the 1920s and 1930s, to the Art on the Underground commissioning campaign in the 1980s and this decade’s bold series of London skylines by Paul Catherall, commissioned by London Transport Museum. One of the museum’s latest initiatives is A View of London, an exhibition curated in partnership with the ...
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Creativity is about more than mastery of the Mac
14 May 2009
Ah yes, those were the days - Cow gum, Letraset, French curves, markers and ellipse guides. Paste-up artwork and putty rubbers. Hot-metal typesetting proofs, scamp visuals and studio banter.
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Dawton and Fitch advise graduates against going into business on their own
14 May 2009
Deborah Dawton, chief executive of the Design Business Association, and Rodney Fitch, founder and chairman of Fitch, have advised design students and graduates not to form their own consultancies in the current financial climate.
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Debuti adds a branded look to latest Bubble Food café interior
14 May 2009
Bubble Food is opening a café in Potter’s Field Park, London SE1, with interior design by Debuti Agency.
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Designers should be getting ready for the Mexican wave
14 May 2009
We designers are naturally optimistic folk, so most of us probably haven’t worried about swine flu yet.
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Do Humans Dream of Electric Cars?
14 May 2009
Bristol consultancy Wire Sky has created a book on sustainable travel, Do Humans Dream of Electric Cars? Commissioned by publisher Alistair Sawday’s imprint Fragile Earth last December, Wire Sky was given the copy before working with illustrator Rebecca Howard on layout graphics, illustrations and typography. The book, which advocates low-carbon travel solutions, launches next week.
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E3 Media helps osteoporosis group promote 'bone' message
14 May 2009
E3 Media is designing a website for the National Osteoporosis Society that the charity hopes will encourage children to look after their bones.
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Festival of the Sea
14 May 2009
Spring Design and Advertising has created a new identity for this year’s Suffolk Festival of the Sea, which is being held from 19-21 June. The branding was created to mark the festival’s 25th anniversary and the fact that it has moved to Southwold from Lowestoft. The herring’s distinctive hooked mouth is formed in the shape of the year, and the consultancy says it will be repurposed for next year’s festival.
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Gone, but not forgotten
14 May 2009
British Leyland, famous for making rubbish cars, had the wit to use Alec Issigonis to design a few classics - and the Mini wasn’t the best, says Hugh Pearman
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Inspired, David Tonge: The Division
14 May 2009
At art school we are encouraged to find our own way of seeing life.
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Large-scale design on hoardings
14 May 2009
The huge boards around new developments needn’t be eyesores in the urban landscape. In fact, they present the perfect opportunity for good design on a rare large-scale canvas. Anna Richardson sizes up some creative hoardings
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LDF looks set to highlight our thriving creative sector
Mon, 18 May 2009
We can expect senior players in design to remain optimistic in recession. As Jeremy Myerson suggested in last week’s Private View (DW 7 May), this time the ditch may be deeper than in previous downturns, but design has dug itself out more than once and bounced back eventually, better equipped as a business.
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London Design Festival chairman says 'be bold' faced with recession
14 May 2009
London Design Festival chairman Sir John Sorrell says this year’s event will be ‘a real opportunity to put London and the UK’s excellence in creativity at the heart of what’s happening in the world’. Sorrell adds that with the decline of the financial sector, the UK ‘has the opportunity to be seen by the world as a creative nation and the best creative partner’.LDF director Ben Evans says,
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London in focus at the Design Museum
14 May 2009
The Design Museum’s Super Contemporary exhibition is set to feature a new bus shelter by David Adjaye, a lamp-post chandelier by Thomas Heatherwick, and a rubbish bin by Sir Paul Smith (pictured).
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Magazine bosses debate how to extend brands
14 May 2009
The rise of digital media and the shrinking of the print advertising market means global magazine brands have for some time wanted to see themselves as more than simply providers of a printed product.
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News In Pictures
14 May 2009
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News in Pictures
14 May 2009
Design group Graf is working with Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara to create wooden hut-like installations as part of the Hayward Gallery’s summer exhibition, Walking in My Mind, which runs from 23 June to 6 September.
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PM endorses mobile phone security plans
14 May 2009
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has highlighted the Mobile Phone Security Challenge, a competition to develop new ways to secure mobile phones against fraudsters, as a key part of his new crime strategy.
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Sane and Able fashions look for Liam Gallagher label
14 May 2009
Consultancy Sane and Able, which set up in October last year, has created the identity for Liam Gallagher’s clothing label Pretty Green, which launches in June.
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Sensory design in packaging
14 May 2009
With packaging becoming increasingly important in the marketing mix, sensory design is a cost-effective and efficient way to gain customers and boost sales. Sarah Woods develops a feel for these tactile options
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Strudel
14 May 2009
Strudel has created the identity for the Mind Awards 2009, which takes place today as part of Mind week, an initiative hosted by the mental health charity. Commissioned in January and briefed to produce something bold, inspiring, and relevant, Strudel’s design aims to move away from negative perceptions of mental health through its use of bright colours. The tagline featured here suggests the diversity of conditions.
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Studio Space One digs down for online venture Manic Organic
14 May 2009
Studio Space One is creating the identity and website for Manic Organic, a new Web venture which aims to have the biggest online organic presence in the world.
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The sculpted furniture of Gareth Neal
14 May 2009
The sculpted furniture of Gareth Neal reflects a desire for longevity, informed by a strong historical awareness. Dominic Lutyens finds a craftsman out of step with the fast-food era but at the cutting edge of design art
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The Yard creates 'drastically different' Eurostar buffet cars
14 May 2009
The Yard Creative has designed new buffet cars for Eurostar’s fleet of 28 trains.
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Training can be about sharing
14 May 2009
Most employees feel that training contributes a great deal to job satisfaction, but what do you do when you can’t afford it? Gary Cooke looks at the options.
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Voxpop
14 May 2009
The London Evening Standard has launched a campaign apologising to Londoners for its previous behaviour. Which brands would you like to see say sorry, and what for?
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When it comes to defunct marques, nothing beats Italian
14 May 2009
In the light of General Motors’ announcement that it is to ditch its iconic Pontiac car brand, last week’s you posed the question, ‘Which now-defunct brand do you miss most, and why?’ (Voxpop, DW 7 May).
