Design Week
15 April 2010
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Bell Design rebrands Crimestoppers' youth initiative as Fearless
15 April 2010
Bell Design has rebranded crime-fighting charity Crimestoppers’ youth brand, known as Shadow CS when it was launched in 2007, as Fearless.
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Best of the Web
15 April 2010
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Blumilk has appointed Kristin Morgan to head up its client services department
15 April 2010
Newcastle-upon-Tyne consultancy Blumilk has appointed Kristin Morgan to head up its client services department, and Adam Knight to set up its new digital department.
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Christiane Travers has been appointed managing partner of Bell Design's new office in Beijing
15 April 2010
Christiane Travers has been appointed managing partner of Bell Design’s new office in Beijing. Travers formerly headed up international public relations and marketing strategy for DH Gate.
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Colchester-based consultancy Silk Pearce has opened an office in Lismore
15 April 2010
Colchester-based consultancy Silk Pearce has opened an office in Lismore, County Waterford, in the Republic of Ireland. The new office is being run by creative director Gail Russell.
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Consumers will vote for brands they trust
15 April 2010
The General Election has put trust at the top of the agenda. Mac Cato considers how this elusive quality is central to branding success
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Coventry CC has appointed Astwood Design, The Happy Apple, Ice, Smith Creative, The Bridge Group, The Jade Group, Pixeltrix and Reeves Green Partners to its graphic design and creative services roster
15 April 2010
Coventry City Council has appointed Astwood Design, The Happy Apple, Ice, Smith Creative, The Bridge Group, The Jade Group, Pixeltrix and Reeves Green Partners to its graphic design and creative services roster.
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Dog Star Design has created a report to showcase The Royal Parks' allotment programme
15 April 2010
Dog Star Design has created a report to showcase The Royal Parks’ allotment programme, which saw the St James’s Park allotment opened to the public to promote organic vegetable growing.
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Elephant show
15 April 2010
Artist Benjamin Shine has completed the design of his ’taxi elephant’, one of 250 life-sized model elephants, painted and dressed by artists and designers ahead of a public exhibition planned for London in May.
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Forster has unveiled its work on the Carbon Positive online initiative for Unicef UK
15 April 2010
Forster has unveiled its work on the Carbon Positive online initiative for Unicef UK, which helps individuals and businesses to reduce their carbon footprints and invest in adaptation projects.
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Glorious Creative steps in to give socks an ethical stance
15 April 2010
Social enterprise Socks for Happy People has turned to Glorious Creative to create an identity, branding suite and website, helping the brand position itself as ethical and target independent retailers.
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Harry Pearce creates global marque for Pen
15 April 2010
Pentagram partner Harry Pearce is designing a new visual identity for writers’ association International Pen.
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House style
15 April 2010
Studio Blup has created branding for house label Defected’s summer clothing range, to coincide with the release of the label’s new album Defected ATC London.
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Ico Design creates animated revamp for Society for General Microbiology website
15 April 2010
Ico Design is working on a new website for the Society for General Microbiology, an organisation that aims to advance the art and science of microbiology.
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I'd bring in a visionary with brand building expertise
15 April 2010
If my consultancy were to bring in a new non-executive director from outside of the industry (Voxpop, DW 11 February), I would like them to challenge and contribute to our vision, scrutinise our performance and have an interesting little black book. So, I’d go for someone like Nick Jones - a complete visionary in his field, with an understanding of brand building and an appreciation of the role design plays for businesses. A small group like ours can respond quickly to opportunities, ...
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If the logo is dead, what's all this then?
15 April 2010
I think that Simon Manchipp (Insight, DW 1 April) had better have a rethink about his ideas before he continues to evangelise on calling a halt on the logo, or at the very least have a look at his own company’s website.
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Inspired: Tin Brown - Landor Associates
15 April 2010
A £3.50 return ticket for a seven-minute train ride to oblivion, the end of the world’s longest pleasure pier, tons of Victorian iron jutting out into a muddy estuary, where the blast of black air from a fog horn blowing up Aunt Daphne’s dress awaits.
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It's the loss of departmental rosters that will really hurt
15 April 2010
I am puzzled about why you are giving such prominence to the changes in Central Office of Information design procurement procedures (News, DW 1 April), yet ignoring the far larger change that is taking place. (I accept you kindly published my letter on 18 March, but that’s the only publicity the matter below has had.)
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Join the blogosphere
15 April 2010
While global media magnates agonise about paywalls and how to make money from the Web, more savvy publishers are using it to promote cult titles to great effect. Jim Davies rejoices
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Lime Green Tangerine has created the branding, packaging and website for start-up Just Love Food Company
15 April 2010
Cardiff-based consultancy Lime Green Tangerine has created the branding, packaging and website for start-up Just Love Food Company. The new brand produces nut-free bakery products.
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Marx to marques
15 April 2010
As China’s economy continues to grow and its consumers become wealthier, indigenous companies are anxious to rival the global awareness of established Western marques. Sarah Woods looks at how businesses there are discovering the importance of an effective branding strategy
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Michael Salmon has joined Tayburn as head of digital
15 April 2010
Michael Salmon has joined Tayburn as head of digital. He previously worked for tourism body Visit Scotland before joining Homecoming Scotland as digital marketing manager.
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More collaboration across disciplines could help to reinvigorate the industry
15 April 2010
It’s all change at the top end of design, with yet another move in the creative upper echelons. Ben Stott’s decision to quit NB Studio, the consultancy he co-founded some 13 years ago, adds to the pool of super-talents who see the current climate as a great opportunity to go it alone.
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Narrative Space conference puts spotlight on storytelling
15 April 2010
As part of a drive to encourage ’design thinking’ in museum studies, the University of Leicester is holding an international conference at the end of April to develop and theorise the trend towards storytelling in exhibition design.
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News in Pictures
15 April 2010
La Boca has designed the cover for Canadian band Shout Out Out Out Out’s album Reintegration Time, which is released in the UK on 17 May.
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News in Pictures
15 April 2010
Ded Associates has created a series of print ads for BBC World News. The consultancy was briefed to create imagery inspired by the phrase ’Never stop asking’.
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News in Pictures
15 April 2010
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Olympiad challenge
15 April 2010
Design consultancies that missed out on previous 2012 briefs because of procurement hurdles could get a second chance to compete, as a raft of partner-led cultural projects search out branding help. Emily Pacey reports
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Profile: Adam D Tihany
15 April 2010
The work of this veteran restaurant designer can be sampled in major cities across the globe, and in 2010 he is returning to London to create venues for two Michelin-starred chefs. Kerstin Kühn talks to the ’factotum’ who never repeats himself
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Quiet zone
Wed, 14 Apr 2010
Sony’s collaboration with Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby for the Milan furniture fair opens today. Inspired by Sony’s new design concept ‘monolithic design’ - a minimalist style that uses only what is necessary, the designers have interwoven electronics into furniture and architectural design.
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Screen aesthetics
15 April 2010
Emphasis on typographic principles for online use is still lagging behind type in print, but as live Web fonts are becoming a reality, digital designers are increasingly addressing these issues and paying more attention to how text can work on screen. Anna Richardson reports on a new era of on-screen design
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SVI Design brought back to work on brand implementation of its 'dormant' identity for Yachtique
15 April 2010
SVI Design is working on the brand implementation for yachting services company Yachtique, after creating the name and identity for the organisation.
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Technical finesse is a poor substitute for creativity
15 April 2010
In response to Philip Ainley’s letter regarding young talent (DW 8 April), I couldn’t agree more.
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The Workroom has designed Reckitt Benckiser's tenth anniversary annual report
15 April 2010
The Workroom has designed Reckitt Benckiser’s tenth anniversary annual report. The online report launches with a Pop Art-style animation featuring some of its leading brands.
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Venetian fancies
15 April 2010
When you imagine the recycle aesthetic of Brazil’s Campana brothers, you wouldn’t naturally place them in a 19th-century, Rothschild-owned manor house in the Buckinghamshire countryside. But that’s where Humberto and Fernando Campana’s new collection of chandeliers is heading next month.
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Voxpop
15 April 2010
Webb & Webb has created a new look for the Harry Potter books. What is your favourite children’s book, and why?
