Design Week
14 October 2010
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Adam Ellis joins Elmwood from Coley Porter Bell
Wed, 13 Oct 2010
Coley Porter Bell design director Adam Ellis (pictured) is set to join Elmwood’s London office in the newly created role of creative director.
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Art to go
14 October 2010
Decadent trinkets, or classics on the cheap? Whatever your opinion, design art is alive and kicking, and the subject of a new exhibition. Dominic Lutyens looks at a sector that continues to grow in popularity worldwide
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Arthur Steen Horne Adamson rebrands Jude's ice-cream
Wed, 13 Oct 2010
Arthur Steen Horne Adamson has rebranded Jude’s ice-cream, creating new packaging and communication materials and redesigning the company’s website.
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Best of the Web
14 October 2010
http///designingsouthafrica.comFollowing the success of the Fifa 2010 World Cup, which saw South Africa consider its public space, infrastructure, transport and identity, Designing South Africa has launched a multi-media site revealing stories of World Cup experiences, documented through films, imagery, podcast interviews and editorial.
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Cogapp aims to engage with Tate Modern digital work
14 October 2010
Cogapp has created a digital platform for the 11th commission in Tate Modern’s Unilever Series of Turbine Hall installations - by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
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Conran launches new digital consultancy led by Daljit Singh
Wed, 13 Oct 2010
The Conran empire has moved into interaction design with the launch this week of new consultancy Conran Singh, headed by Digit co-founder Daljit Singh.
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Fashion statement
14 October 2010
’Money talks but has nothing to say,’ the artist Max Wiedemann splashes across his one of his subversive canvases which parody Vogue magazine covers. The models are painted with murderous drips pouring from them, while punning straplines loudly mock status-obsessed consumer culture.
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Festival fatigue
14 October 2010
Festivals aimed at boosting the public image of any profession make much of their cultural significance, but Hugh Pearman thinks they’re little more than self-congratulatory trade shows
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Form creates marketing material for Virgin Galactic
Wed, 13 Oct 2010
Form has designed marketing and promotional materials for Richard Branson’s commercial space travel venture Virgin Galactic.
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14 October 2010
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Hat-Trick to rebrand RNID as Action on Hearing Loss
Wed, 13 Oct 2010
Hat-Trick Design has been appointed to create a new visual identity for RNID, which will launch next year to coincide with the charity’s 100th anniversary.
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Home advantage
14 October 2010
British design groups can still see enough potential in the booming Indian economy to want to set up shop there, but the increasing maturity of local consultancies could soon lead to some stiff competition, finds Tom Banks
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Inspired - Bob Chan
14 October 2010
Working within a medium that’s constrained by time, I guess my greatest source of inspiration comes from the constant pursuit of flow. Recognising moments where individuals have perfected flow excites me the most.
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Is design all about making things better?
14 October 2010
I’ve just bought my first issue of Design Week (DW 30 September) since 1996. Up to that point I’d been a regular reader since 1987 and, depressingly, it appears little has changed in the way designers discuss, design and articulate their thoughts - something that has always bothered me as a designer, since, unlike many of my peers, I was acutely aware of my deficiencies and would not let feelings of personal pride stop me from admitting that fact.
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Less perfection, more distinction, please
14 October 2010
Computers have rendered many professions bland and conformist, and the design industryis no exception, laments Richard Watson
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Modelling the future
14 October 2010
Rapid prototyping is constantly evolving and inkjet-style 3D printing using multi-material printers is one of the latest developments. Emily Pacey discovers that with relatively low costs and improvements in technology the future of this process is bright
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Moves at Elmwood and Conran can only be good for the future of design
14 October 2010
If top-level shifts are one of the first signs of economic recovery then, next week’s Government public spending review notwithstanding, design can look forward to brighter times pretty soon.
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News in Pictures
14 October 2010
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News in Pictures
14 October 2010
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News in Pictures
14 October 2010
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Patrick Wilson - a friend as well as a client
14 October 2010
My mate Patrick Wilson died last Wednesday. I guess that, as managing director of Thrislington Cubicles, he was technically a client too, but I’d prefer to think that for more than 20 years we were mates who helped each other, doing stuff we liked doing and having a giggle along the way.
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Profile: Jump studios
14 October 2010
With an enviable track record in designing workplaces for a portfolio of big-name clients, this small London studio is now diversifying into graphics and interaction work. John Stones talks to Simon Jordan, one of its co-founders, about the future
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Red Bee Media creates identity for gaming channel Ginx
14 October 2010
Red Bee Media is working on the identity and on-screen presentation for the UK launch of gaming channel Ginx TV.
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SHH works on 'mad science lab' restaurant space for Manchester Museum of Science & Industry
Thu, 14 Oct 2010
Interior consultancy SHH is working on a restaurant space for the overhauled Manchester Museum of Science & Industry, which will have a ’mad science lab’ aesthetic.
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Spring cuts a dash with branding for new bespoke London tailor Shipton White
14 October 2010
Suffolk-based consultancy Spring has created the branding for start-up tailor Shipton White.
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Tony Phillips joins The Partners as head of digital
Thu, 14 Oct 2010
The Partners has appointed former Imagination creative director Tony Phillips as head of digital at the consultancy.
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Vox Pop
14 October 2010
Dowling Duncan has won a theoretical competition to redesign the dollar. What do you think is the best-designed currency and why?
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What is cool?
Tue, 19 Oct 2010
Guest blogger Sholto Lindsay-Smith, managing director at strategic brand and communication consultancy Uffindell, explores why brands are so obsessed with the quest for cool and considers the dangers this can pose to a brand’s longevity.
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Wine and noses
14 October 2010
Harry Pearce and his team at Pentagram have designed labels for Londis and Budgens wines.
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Work Foundation to research growth strategies for design
Thu, 14 Oct 2010
The Work Foundation is set to launch a research project which will aim to pinpoint how to create ’explosive growth’ in the UK creative industries, including design.
