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14 September 2006

  • Apple goes ahead with film downloads

    14 September 2006

    Apple Computer is expected to launch a film download service this week, just as eMusic - the main rival to iTunes - launches with a two million song library in Europe. eMusic claims to be the first digital music service available in the EU. Unlike Apple's iTunes, its files can be played on all MP3 players, as well as the iPod.

  • Blacksheep brings New York chic to brasserie-style St Germain

    14 September 2006

  • Buena vistas

    14 September 2006

    Javier Mariscal has begun work on his first feature-length animation, Chico & Rita, drawing inspiration from post-war Havana's latin jazz clubs and New York's bustling Broadway. Charles Gant gets a sneak preview of the film

  • Cabin fever

    14 September 2006

    The exclusive club of private jetsetters is no longer, nor are those gaudy, ostentatious interiors - designers are being invited in to refine cabin space to cater for a new generation of luxury travellers, says Clare Dowdy

  • Carbon in question

    14 September 2006

    Smoke billowing from Drax Power Station's chimneys has fuelled protesters' fire, but we need viable solutions before chanting 'carbon free', says Hugh Pearman

  • Deco daydreams

    14 September 2006

    Period features are a favourite of chintzy cultural quarters. So the thought occurs that Chris Burden's display of 14 Deco-ish street lamps - 1920s Los Angeles originals and each a tonne-and-a-half of cast-iron - might be a subtle dig at regeneration aesthetics, particularly ...

  • DTI funding cuts force Design Council to seek regional aid

    14 September 2006

    The Design Council has had its core funding cut by the Department of Trade and Industry, which delivered £6.5m last year, despite published projections of a £7m grant. The DTI's revised projections also show that further reductions are in the pipeline.

  • Elmwood overhauls McCain

    14 September 2006

    Elmwood has overhauled the packaging and visual identity of frozen food brand McCain. The work is part of a wider 'It's All Good' campaign by McCain Foods to shed its image as a processed foods manufacturer.

  • Enterprise IG in race for Merc task

    14 September 2006

    Mercedes-Benz is in the midst of an international pitch to appoint a consultancy to work on the brand's profile, with Enterprise IG thought to be in the running for the work.

  • Fuel designs poetry book

    14 September 2006

  • Full Circle appoint Golley Slater for website redesign

    14 September 2006

    Golley Slater Digital has been appointed to redesign fashion brand Full Circle's website, www.fullcircleuk.com. It will introduce a simpler site that emphasises the clothing range and products.

  • Functional fashion

    14 September 2006

    To remain prominent in the mobile market, manufacturers need to strike an intelligent balance between style and specification, says Scott Billings

  • Graphical House creates brand for Glasgow art centre

    14 September 2006

    Graphical House has created a brand identity for a new £7m arts venue, Trongate 103, which is due to open in Glasgow in 2008.

  • Hi-tech research centre opens

    14 September 2006

    A hi-tech research and development centre called the Advanced Digital Institute has opened in Bingley, West Yorkshire. It will provide business and academic support for the development of new high-value products and services, and has been funded by Yorkshire Forward, Bradford Metropolitan District Council and the EU Regional Fund.

  • Inspired

    14 September 2006

    One of the challenges in designing the Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art at the Victoria & Albert Museum was to evoke a subtle sense of Islamic space, without resorting to pastiche. To unlock the puzzle, we visited Egypt, Syria, Turkey and Iran to appreciate the context in which the artefacts had been produced and enjoyed.

  • Let the ideas boost business

    14 September 2006

  • London Underground posters to go on display

    14 September 2006

  • Marked absence of UK groups from Eulda awards

    14 September 2006

    This year's inaugural European graphic design award competition, Eulda, was met with a disappointing level of interest from the design industry in the UK.

  • Morris and Kitching: Two face types, different characters

    14 September 2006

  • NB Studio to rejuvenate Mothercare

    14 September 2006

    Mothercare is launching its first comprehensive set of brand guidelines comprising a series of six books created by NB Studio, in a bid to create a more powerful high street brand.

  • News in Pictures

    14 September 2006

    Design studio La Boca is presenting an exhibition of its record sleeve artwork for DC Records. The show runs at Phonica Records in Soho, London W1, until 23 September.

  • Nike settles London council logo dispute

    14 September 2006

    Hackney Council has won £300 000 from Nike in an out-of-court settlement, after the sportswear brand produced trainers, footballs and T-shirts bearing the council's logo, designed by Alec Davis in 1965.

  • Nokia to set up London studio in global rethink

    14 September 2006

    Nokia is planning to open a design studio in London next year, Design Week can reveal.

  • Orange takes on Ivrea head for design role

    14 September 2006

    Orange has appointed Neil Churcher, former academic director of the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, to the newly created role of visual design manager. Based in the company's London office, Churcher will work on the global manifestations of the Orange brand. He takes up the post this week and will collaborate with Orange director of design and usability Clive Grinyer in Paris.

  • Pentagram to unveil group identity for Dorchester chain

    14 September 2006

    The Dorchester Group hotel chain is to be rebadged in November with a new group company name. The brand identity will be designed by Pentagram and strategy undertaken by Schmidt & Co.

  • Profile: Stephan Müller

    14 September 2006

    Stephan Müller's near obsession with collecting typefaces led the Berlin-based graphic designer from diversion - via Lineto and major contracts - to commercial accomplishment, says Hannah Booth

  • Review

    14 September 2006

    EXHIBITIONS l SCP in Mono, from 16 September, features work resulting from print group Blanka's brief to 28 graphic designers to produce an A1 black-and-white poster representing a single graphic design term. SCP will also show its best products at the SC

  • Simplifying tender processes brings better UK design

    14 September 2006

    Letters have been flying about regarding the vagaries of public sector pitching. Mark McArthur Christie (DW 3 August) made a valiant cry for simplifying the process but was soundly put in his place by David Bartholomew (DW 24 August).

  • So design gains in adworld... but admen still call the shots

    14 September 2006

    There's been a degree of smugness in design about ad agencies fighting back. News in July that Saatchi and Saatchi is strengthening its design unit only added to the trend set by ad agencies Mother, through Poke and others, and St Luke's through its deal with The Nest.

  • The ICA unveils revamped identity

    14 September 2006

    The ICA has unveiled its revamped brand identity and website, created by Spin. The visual identity is based on 'molecule structures', says Tony Brook, Spin creative director (DW 10 August). The website, www.ica.org.uk, also relaunches this week.

  • The National bingo Game to unveil new branding

    14 September 2006

    The National Bingo Game unveils a brand identity by The Workroom this week, part of a £2m rebranding campaign including a website designed by Spinnaker at www.nationalbingo.co.uk.

  • The Partners warms up Chesterton's agent image

    14 September 2006

    London estate agent Chesterton is overhauling its services and brand identity following a strategic review of the company by The Partners.

  • Those halcyon football days when less was more

    14 September 2006

    The article on old football programmes brought back many great memories (DW 7 September). In this era of sponsors, TV rights and boards around grounds that rotate annoyingly during the match, it is refreshing to look back on when 'less was indeed more'.

  • Voxpop

    14 September 2006

    Following ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty's resignation of the Sony Ericsson advertising account over an alleged strategy clash with Wolff Olins, do you feel this represents a power shift in favour of the brand consultancy?

  • WMH denies plans to sell up or merge

    14 September 2006

    Independent design consultancy Williams Murray Hamm has denied industry murmurings that it is set to sell all or part of its equity to a trade buyer. WMH director Richard Murray says there is no truth in the rumour, despite multiple reports suggesting that a trade sale or merger could be in the pipeline.

  • Worthington ousted in CDG-CGI merger

    14 September 2006

    David Worthington (pictured), Conran Design Group's long-standing managing director, has been ousted from the consultancy in a surprise move resulting from a planned merger of the retail specialist and its Havas stablemate CGI Brandsense.

  • Young Design scheme in UK roll-out

    14 September 2006

    A pilot initiative in London bringing together schoolchildren, design students and the industry to improve school environments, is set to be extended across the country by its founding group The Sorrell Foundation.

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