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15 September 2005

  • Adidas opens Adicentre

    15 September 2005

    Adidas has opened its Adicentre, a non-retail showroom based near Manchester, designed by London consultancy Project-X. The centre delivers a 'brand statement environment' to highlight the company's philosophy and product lines.

  • Alton College student named Audi Young Designer

    15 September 2005

    Jack Spencer has won the Audi Young Designer of the Year award for his kite landboard design, with a previously unheard of steering system. Spencer is a student at Alton College.

  • B&Q staff under threat as sales slump

    15 September 2005

    The fate of B&Q's in-house design staff will be decided tomorrow, following the announcement that the Kingfisher-owned retailer is shedding 220 jobs from its Southampton headquarters.

  • Beautiful buggies

    15 September 2005

    Along with 4x4s, push chairs or buggies have become part of the urban armoury of status-conscious parents. Pamela Buxton tries them out and looks at some of the design challenges involved.

  • Building Design Partnership names profession director of interiors division

    15 September 2005

    Building Design Partnership's interiors division has appointed Sarah Turnbull as profession director.

  • Defeating Deafness rebrands to Deafness Research UK

    15 September 2005

    Defeating Deafness, the UK's medical research charity for the deaf and hard of hearing, is launching a new name, Deafness Research UK and an updated marque, both created by Spencer du Bois.

  • Designers display their craft skills at Experimenta

    15 September 2005

    Seven British designers are to unveil exclusively-commissioned work as part of an international exhibition opening at Experimenta 2005, the fifth Lisbon Design Biennale, which opens this weekend.

  • Factory Design creates compact flat bed for airlines

    15 September 2005

    The airline industry is set to benefit from a new lightweight, compact flat bed, created by Factory Design.

  • Fashion meets technology

    15 September 2005

    Fashioning the Future is a large and cleverly illustrated book by Suzanne Lee, senior research fellow at Central St Martins College of Art and Design. In an abundance of history-based glossy fashion books, this one presents a maelstrom of inventive ideas on how technology ...

  • FutureBrand appoints head of client services

    15 September 2005

    FutureBrand has appointed Patrick Larsimont as head of client services to lead a 15-strong team. He was previously managing client director at Enterprise IG.

  • Going underground

    15 September 2005

    The proposed design revamp for the London underground Tube system is set to rival the world's leading subways, says Sarah Balmond

  • Going up a gear to London pace

    15 September 2005

    After much deliberation, Lin Dickens decided Aricot Vert needed the stimulation of big city life to grow beyond its rural roots.

  • Gregor Partnership styles Hamleys abroad

    15 September 2005

    Renowned toy store Hamleys is embarking on its first programme of international expansion and has brought in Gregor Partnership to design its forthcoming concession store format (pictured above right).

  • Home Brew is more fun when you give it a DIY twist

    15 September 2005

    I write regarding the News in Pictures section (DW 1 September), with some amusement!

  • Hyland takes advisory role at Laurence King

    15 September 2005

  • Industry bodies need to be up for design's cause

    15 September 2005

    I really applaud Design Week for raising the incredibly important issue of design becoming commoditised: 'little better than a supermarket price war' (Comment, DW 1 September), but I disagree totally with your view of the causes.

  • Inspired

    15 September 2005

    I suspect that, like everyone, I find new inspiration at every turn, usually through people and their response to events around them, but often through something quite small and seemingly insignificant. On a train I was struck by how people sitting face to face across a ...

  • Is the London Design Festival too much to bear?

    15 September 2005

    With the Ashes won, the next big event on the UK agenda is the London Design Festival, which kicks off tomorrow with the official opening in Admiralty Arch. It, along with grand settings such as the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of London and the Victoria & ...

  • Kitching starts the press on new service

    15 September 2005

    Typography specialist Alan Kitching and his partner Celia Stothard are launching an 'old-fashioned' printing press and design service from Kitching's Typographic Workshop in London. It is the first time that Kitching will accept commissions from private individuals, in addition to companies. 'I'm turning the clock back to the 1950s; it is a marriage of design and old-fashioned printing,' he says.

  • Lief Design mixes decor for Funktion Room interiors

    15 September 2005

    Nottingham-based consultancy Lief Design has unveiled the interior concepts for a 'destination nightclub' - dubbed Funktion Rooms - scheduled to open in Eastbourne later this year.

  • News in Pictures

    15 September 2005

    Jonathan Ive's team at Apple Computer have done it again with the new iPod Nano, launched this week in 2Gb and 4Gb models, which retail from £139.

  • Newson packs vibrancy into Samsonite range

    15 September 2005

    Samsonite, the luggage and travel products specialist, has drafted in design guru Marc Newson to help relaunch the company as a high-end, luxury travel and accessory business.

  • Oyster rebrand on the cards as functions grow

    15 September 2005

    Transport for London is considering implementing a separate identity for Oyster smart card as it evolves into an 'e-purse' next year.

  • Paper chain

    15 September 2005

    Gillian Thomas looks at paper's myriad possibilities as she leafs through a compendium of novel and dynamic contemporary applications that are pushing the envelope of pulp's creative potential

  • Patent Office asks designers about registration improvements

    15 September 2005

    The Patent Office is calling on designers to assist with the modernisation of the UK design registration process, as part of a consultation exercise taking place before changes are implemented in October.

  • Priestman Goode to put TfL stations back on track

    15 September 2005

    Transport for London is launching a raft of projects, which will give the transport network its most significant facelift in years, Design Week can exclusively reveal.

  • Profile: Ultz

    15 September 2005

    Enigmatic theatre designer Ultz has tried his hand at acting, teaching, drama and directing, on everything from opera to hip hop, classics and cutting edge drama. He takes a break to talk to Nick Smurthwaite

  • Rescue Buoy wins Braun Prize for young designer

    15 September 2005

    The first prize in this year's Braun Prize for young designers has been awarded to Jens Andersson from the Institute of Design, Umea University, Sweden. His product design, Rescue Buoy, is a swimming robot designed to monitor hazardous seas and alert coastguards to potential rescue situations.

  • Research calls for NHS designs to prevent spread of MRSA

    15 September 2005

    Researchers from De Montfort University department of design research are calling on the NHS to house up to 80 per cent of hospital patients in single rooms, in a bid to halt the incidence of hospital-acquired infections such as MRSA.

  • Review

    15 September 2005

    EXHIBITIONS: Time Again, an exhibition of work by Daniel Weil, runs from 21 September to 8 October. Venue/ England & Co. 216 Westbourne Grove, London W11. Eileen Gray is the subject of an exhibition at the Design Museum from 17 September to 8 January. V

  • Rise of the machines

    15 September 2005

    Most Brits return from holiday with a sunburn, but Jim Davies was feeling flushed before he left - after a disastrous encounter with technology

  • Serif confusion revealed by eagle-eyed trainspotter

    15 September 2005

    In your article you state that 'a specially-commissioned sans serif typeface, Guardian Egyptian has been developed' (DW 8 September). Hopefully the designers, Paul Barnes and Christian Schwartz, won't be too upset at you for implying that they decided to design an Egyptian typeface, then somehow forgot to include any serifs. Fortunately you include a picture, in which they are quite clearly visible. The Typographic Trainspotter, by e-mail

  • Students cannot blame colleges for poor portfolios

    15 September 2005

    In answer to Darren Bolton's questions about the quality of advice graduating students receive from tutors (Letters, DW 1 September), I can only speak from my own experience as a graduate (of University of Lincoln's HND Graphic Design course).

  • The interactive Orientation Table

    15 September 2005

    The interactive Orientation Table (pictured left) shown in last week's Inspired (DW 8 September) was part of the Samsung Experience and not created by Philip Worthington, as indicated. However, Worthington did create Shadow Monsters (pictured right), which can be found at www.worthersoriginal.com.

  • Thomson sets up shop on his own

    15 September 2005

  • Voxpop

    15 September 2005

    Following Timberland Boot Company's admirable re-purposing of an old banana warehouse as its new flagship store last week, what scope is there for incorporating this design ethos into everyday design activity? What is holding it back?

  • Vroom cleans up in women's car care market

    15 September 2005

    Vroom, a range of car care products targeting female consumers, is set to launch across the US, with the name, logo and packaging designed by Turner Duckworth.

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