Design Week
15 February 2007
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A blossoming world (Design & Publishing supplement)
15 February 2007
The environment and evolving technologies are the two most significant factors affecting the publishing sector, reports Simon Loxley
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15 February 2007
Path has designed the packaging for new Brylcreem premium hair product b: - a sub-range designed to connect with consumers older than the brand's core market.
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Bookshelf: An overview (Publishing & Design supplement)
15 February 2007
There are lots of well-designed books out there, both from major publishers and small independents, but there are still very few publishing houses where good design is central to the business.
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Campbell/dpa deal is a merger, not a takeover or buyout
15 February 2007
The merger of lighting consultancies dpa Lighting and Campbell Design is a merger, and not in any sense a takeover, as you reported two weeks ago. There has been no buyout of one company by another, but rather two successful lighting design practices have come together in equal partnership to consolidate and strengthen our position in the marketplace and strengthen the service to existing and potential clients. As of 1 March 2007, dpa Lighting Design and Campbell Design ...
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Daz
15 February 2007
Daz is attempting to give a cheeky character to its brand, with fresh graphics for its packaging featuring a lyric from pop band Right Said Fred. Created by Belgium-based consultancy Design Board, the graphics and strapline 'I'm too sexy for my whites' aims to push the main message of 'whiteness' and will appear on the detergent packaging for Daz in the UK and Ireland.
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Design has a role to play in ending stereotyping
15 February 2007
In reply to Pat Starke's letter, I'm so pleased that my comments on the patriarchal dominance of our culture amused him so. I'm also very happy to hear that his wife has managed to raise both their children completely devoid of influence from our society. That's quite a feat. The nature vs nurture debate is a big issue. I agree that there are differences between men and women, but these differences have been exploited by consumer capitalism over time and distorted. Having us believe ...
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Dream on
15 February 2007
The Science of Sleep, Michael Gondry's latest feature film about the power of dreams and a love of creativity, is as gorgeous to watch as it was enjoyable to make. Charles Gant discovers how the relinquising of control can yield great results
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Editorial rising (Publishing & Design supplement)
15 February 2007
Trish Lorenz meets the young stars of publishing and discovers why it is still such an attractive employment option
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Family album
15 February 2007
The odd couple living in the house on Fournier Street in London's Spitalfields are about to have their first major retrospective at Tate Modern. Perhaps you should say formal retrospective, because since transforming their lives into works of art and becoming Living Sculptures in 1970, it's been one continual exhibition. The Six Bomb pictures, created specially for the show out of Evening Standard posters, will no doubt connect with the media in the same way that controversies around works ...
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Fingal rolls out Rolls-Royce brochure work
15 February 2007
Luxury car brand Rolls-Royce is supporting the debut of its £270 000 Phantom Drophead Coupe with a suite of print materials designed by Fingal.The consultancy was appointed to the work at the end of last year following a five-way pitch. It was given a brief to move the BMW-owned Rolls-Royce brand forward and create something younger, fresher and more vibrant.Led by Fingal creative director Neil Tookey, the project includes a customer-facing hard-backed book, a smaller brochure ...
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Handstand
15 February 2007
Workplace wellbeing consultancy Handstand has appointed Alembic Design Consultants to create a brand mark and visual identity to help establish the company. Alembic creative director Jonathan Miller says the brand had to avoid the 'touchy-feely, abstract imagery that one might expect'.
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Inspired
15 February 2007
By the time you have finished reading Design Week, the world will have changed. New ideas, people, places and products will have arrived, while others will have ceased to exist.Don't panic. As the globe grows smaller, the opportunities for innovation grow bigger. And, as the balance between man and nature continues to evolve, so too does the inspiration for innovative ideas and solutions that can equip us for the future.The individuals that conceive these innovations are ...
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Jestico & Whiles
15 February 2007
Jestico & Whiles is designing the interiors for Manufaktura Lodz, a hotel in the Polish town of Lodz housed in a former 19th-century textile factory.
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Logo area
15 February 2007
Sponsorship deals have taken over everything from rock festivals to marathons, but a heavy-handed approach can devalue the event that is being endorsed. It is important to maintain a degree of integrity.
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London Transport Museum
15 February 2007
The London Transport Museum has revealed the first look at its forthcoming branding, created by The Core. It is trying to shake off an image of a staid museum for 'lads and dads', in favour of one with wit and energy, says Core creative director Alistair Whitely. Various London Transport roundels relate to different areas of the new museum. The venue's Lumsden Design Partnership-designed shop reopens on 30 March and the main museum follows in October. Ralph Appelbaum Associates is designing ...
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Luke’s Time (Publishing & Design supplement)
15 February 2007
Few British designers have made as strong an impact in America as Luke Hayman. The Central St Martins College of Art and Design alumnus has resculpted the look of many US magazines and is now set to reform the venerable Time. What next for ...
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Mode handed brief to fashion Adjaye identity
15 February 2007
Renowned architect David Adjaye is rebranding his Adjaye Associates practice and has hired design consultancy Mode to create the identity system.Mode is developing a corporate identity to reflect the ‘maturity of the studio and an expansion in the size of projects it is undertaking’, according to consultancy director Phil Costin. ‘The identity is intended to reflect the qualities of David’s work through print. We started by looking at various paper stocks and materials that ...
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Monocle
15 February 2007
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News in Pictures
15 February 2007
Family Ties: Dreams & Desires, by animator Joanna Quinn, is one of a number of films featured in Birds Eye View, a showcase of work by women filmmakers
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Newsstand: An overview (Publishing & Design supplement)
15 February 2007
Standing in front of the racks in WH Smith at Heathrow, there is nothing on the shelves that grabs you. It’s just rows and rows of newspapers and magazines featuring cover shots of a celebrity or some anonymous, beautiful face. In terms of editorial design, everyone is doing the same thing. It’s all rather bland and the room to stand out is immense – if you’re brave enough.
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ODA launches procurement website for London 2012
15 February 2007
The Olympic Delivery Authority is launching a major procurement website for the London 2012 games, the first system of its kind for a programme of this nature, it claims.An e-tendering website - https///etenders.london2012.com - will list all live tenders, while forthcoming large-scale and direct ODA contracts can be found on the main London 2012 website.Upcoming contracts include the design of the Velopark, film ...
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Organic growth
15 February 2007
As Whole Foods Market prepares to open its first UK superstore, Sarah Woods considers how the US food giant is likely to be received in London
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Pilot Chop'd store was designed by Platform Group
15 February 2007
It was stated that Cada Design Group had been appointed to undertake a strategic review of the brand and develop new store concepts for Chop'd. I would be surprised if the client had chosen to 'redesign' the store concept, especially with it being so successful and the client having spent a lot of time working with his branding specialist and ourselves. The image shown was not by Cada. It was the pilot store for roll-outs and was designed by Platform Group - I believe Cada has ...
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Profile
15 February 2007
Frenchman Patrick Blanc's unusual combination of botanical expertise and design is proving to be a hit around the world. Natasha Edwards talks to him about nature, vertical gardens and his latest exhibition
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Quick draw (Publishing & Design supplement)
15 February 2007
Illustrators are fast learning the benefits of self-promotion in the fight back against photography and graphic design, says Adrian Shaughnessy
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Samsonite
15 February 2007
Luxury goods brand Samsonite has appointed London design consultancy Mammal to revamp its internal and external brochures for both the primary and top-end Black Label luggage collections.
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SeaTriever floats device to locate seafarers' valuables
15 February 2007
SeaTriever International, a Staffordshire company backed by the now-defunct Different by Design programme, is to take its Waterbuoy design to global markets.The Waterbuoy device, created by James Halliburton and engineering consultant Peter Jeffrey, ensures that keys or other valuables will not get lost if dropped into water. The miniature unit can be attached to a range of objects and features a water-sensitive trigger which releases gas to inflate a balloon. A flashing orange ...
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Show time
15 February 2007
The £100 000 Gulbenkian Prize has become the equivalent of Oscars for the museums and galleries world. But to what extent is, or should, the role of design be acknowledged?
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Slavery show marks bicentenary of abolition
15 February 2007
The Royal Naval Museum in Portsmouth launches an exhibition this week to mark the bicentenary of the abolition of slavery.It has been created to show the crucial role that the Navy played in the abolition of the slave trade by policing the waters between Europe, Africa and America. The display has been created by graphic designer Philip Simpson and uses sepia-toned photographs, maps and etchings to depict the human misery for both the slaves condemned to captivity and the sailors ...
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Stocks Taylor Benson appoints Peter Waring
15 February 2007
Stocks Taylor Benson has appointed Peter Waring to the consultancy's board as client director.
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Strictly confidential
15 February 2007
It's still hard to get your head around the small miracle of being able to shoot documents from your desk half way round the world in mere seconds.E-mail is little more than a decade old, but has totally changed the face of the daily grind. We can work more or less where we like, and take our deadlines to the very edge. It's spawned an informal, to-the-point language, allows queries to be resolved in an instant and cuts down on unnecessary conversations.
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Success of Scottish festival will depend on creative initiative
15 February 2007
Whether there is an appetite for a publicly funded design festival in Scotland relies entirely upon its content. If this seems non-committal, my reticence is due to the fact that the creative industries are often highly aware of their role but are, ironically, unable to communicate this to the public. Even with the Scottish Executive's embrace of the creative industries, it will remain to be seen whether the public supports these initiatives or remains unaware of them. ...
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Virgin Media roster completes brand rebirth
15 February 2007
The creation of Virgin Media - a so-called 'quadruple play' business offering TV content, broadband, telephone services and mobile - has been a major three-into-one branding exercise for its managing director of brand Ashley Stockwell.Unveiled last week in a fanfare of 'V Day' celebration, Virgin Media is the spawn of NTL Telewest (itself two amalgamated cable companies) and Virgin Mobile, and results from the £962m merger between the companies in July last year.Stockwell, ...
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Voxpop
15 February 2007
The design community gave a mixed reaction to the in-house redesign of The Times Online when its relaunch was covered on designweek.co.uk on Monday. What do designers of such news sites need to take on board to keep them true, but interesting to their audiences?
