Design Week
16 April 2009
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Anderson Norton Design
16 April 2009
Anderson Norton Design has designed the printed programme for the 37th Fipp World Magazine Congress. The programme has been produced by the UK Periodical Publishers Association and the Print City Alliance. The new programme celebrates the 'magic of magazines' by featuring a range of visual enhancements, including Dayglo florescent inks, thermochromic and scratch-and-sniff effects, and the use of translucent paper printed on both sides.
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Barber Design
16 April 2009
Barber Design has designed the flagship branch of Jessops on London's New Oxford Street, which opens tomorrow. Justin Langshaw, head of 3D at Barber Design, says that the group was directly appointed by Jessops, and has been working on its brand identity for 'quite some time'. The store is Jessops' second to have opened using the new concept, following its Westfield London launch last year.
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Creating type in three dimensions
16 April 2009
In the e-book era, physical manifestations of type may be destined for the museum cabinet, but enthusiasts from across the globe still relish the challenges of crafting type in three dimensions. Anna Richardson gets to grips with what’s on offer
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Draught Associates
16 April 2009
Draught Associates has created a new identity for the Poetry Society, which will be applied throughout the organisation's stationery before being used on the website, café and Poetry Review magazine. The group was appointed in October 2008 by the charity, which wants to unite its publications, website and London café under one brand to mark its centenary this year.
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Finch's Liverpool identity is a lazy, uninspiring cocktail
16 April 2009
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Inspired, Nicolas Tye: Nicolas Tye Architects
16 April 2009
The opportunity to design your own architectural office in the middle of a field is the kind of chance that does not come along very often, even for an architect, but we took this opportunity and made it an award-winning piece. As you study the building you can’t help but realise where the architecture is coming from, investigating the ideologies of ‘cabins’, ‘huts’, ‘camps’ and ‘nature-inspired design’.The Long Barn Studio is simplicity itself - an elegant glass rectilinear ...
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Let's dump the concept of ambition vs lifestyle
16 April 2009
It's always good to see Design Week (West life feature, DW 26 March) re-exploding the frustratingly persistent myth that designers can't combine ambition and lifestyle outside the capital (we even have broadband, decent coffee and schools for the kids!). Ambition and quality of life are not mutually exclusive - perhaps this is true in London, but not in the South West. I believe ambitious designers thrive here fuelled by opportunities and fresh air. The 45-strong Epoch ...
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Lifestyle Bazaar heads east with Shoreditch store
16 April 2009
Furniture and design retailer Lifestyle Bazaar is opening its second store, in Shoreditch, London E2 today. Co-owner and interior designer Laurent Nurisso is creating the two-level shop on Kingsland Road.
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Martin Dawe designs Tims Dairy yoghurt packs
16 April 2009
Martin Dawe Brand Design has created the branding and packaging for a new range of Tims Dairy yoghurts.
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News in Pictures
16 April 2009
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News in Pictures
16 April 2009
The work of Scottish glass artists will be on show in the Scottish Glass Society’s exhibition Migrate: 30 Years of Scottish Glass, which launches at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery on 4 July before touring the Highlands. Pictured here is The Sea Witch by
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Pepys show
16 April 2009
These days, everyone's a diarist. We leave a perpetual digital trail of our lives in blogs, social networking sites, text messages and tweets. Nothing's too trivial or mundane to record - the price of onions, a delayed train, an itchy nose, a like, a gripe, a passing observation. A person's ...
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Platt Limited brands retail start-up Woodie & Morris
16 April 2009
Platt Limited has designed the branding for new retail business Woodie & Morris, which will launch at the end of May.
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Profile: Gareth Williams
16 April 2009
As a museum curator, Gareth Williams is an interesting choice for a design post at the Royal College of Art. As he oversees a new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Liz Farrelly talks to the self-styled generalist
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Sebastian Conran calls for intelligent links with art schools
16 April 2009
There is a place for link-ups between art schools and industry, whichcan be of mutual benefit for students and business, but Sebastian Conran takes issuewith those who treat colleges as little more than a source of cheap design
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Social UK updates BUNAC branding
16 April 2009
London-based consultancy Social UK has redesigned the branding and logo for overseas work provider Bunac (British Universities North America Club).Bunac is a non-profit organisation that specialises in sending young people on working holidays and volunteering projects abroad.The branding will be applied to all its communications, including its website, advertisements, leaflets and brochures.Social UK was awarded the commission in February, after winning a five-way ...
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Sustain our Nation shows a shift towards social innovation
16 April 2009
The Audi Design Foundation’s Sustain Our Nation programme is the latest sign that design is shifting towards social innovation, says Gina Lovett
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Sustainability and simplicity are key to social innovation
16 April 2009
Our focus on handmade type this week is not an aberration. It heralds a growing interest in all things handmade as designers balance the new forms of expression technological developments afford with a return to authenticity.
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Symposium to explore design’s links with science
16 April 2009
The links between design and science have been highlighted recently by the Design Council’s formal tie-up with the Technology Strategy Board and Royal College of Art rector Professor Sir Christopher Frayling’s campaign to have design education recategorised in funding terms to bring it closer to science subjects.These links are being further emphasised by an international symposium organised by Kingston University’s Design Research Centre, Design Plus at Kingston University ...
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Teacake bags Land Securities work through auction
16 April 2009
Land Securities says nascent design group Teacake is lucky to have been picked up by the property giant after offering its services at a design auction.Land Securities paid £100 for Teacake's services at a design auction held in London last month in aid of Lincoln School of Art & Design's BA end-of-year show, and St Bride Library.'At least I know that this contract will be run with integrity,' says Tom Foulkes, head of development marketing, retail at Land Securities. ...
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Voxpop
16 April 2009
The New Deal of the Mind coalition is asking the design community to propose job-creation strategies for the creative sector. What would you suggest?Creative professionals’ most promising response to the recession could be deepened, committed engagement with their respective local ‘patches’. Policy should ...
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Wally, brands are measurable financial assets these days
16 April 2009
Wally Olins' recent article (Futile figures, DW 19 February) ignored the business reasons for increasing the technical robustness of brand valuations. Brands regularly change hands, requiring brand valuations for accounting, tax and financing purposes. Global accounting standards require the valuation of all assets, including brands, following an acquisition. Every major tax authority requires the valuation of brands when they are sold off-shore, which is increasingly common. Bankers ...
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Why not share and share alike?
16 April 2009
If the recession starts to bite and cost-cutting kicks in, you don’t have to watch your best people walk out the door never to return, says Mike Bennett
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Wonderland WPA
16 April 2009
Wonderland WPA has designed the branding and packaging for fruit-flavoured alcoholic drink Jinx, which launches in Sweden this week. The name Jinx, also created by Wonderland WPA, alludes to the mystery and surprise of a night out partying with friends, according to the consultancy.
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Yellow feast
16 April 2009
When a brand such as Selfridges celebrates 100 years of existence, it's a safe bet that the bells and whistles will come out. The department store will do just that when its centenary celebrations explode in a blaze of yellow on Oxford Street next month. Selfridges has commissioned designers, such as Paul Smith and Vivienne Westwood, to create special Selfridges carrier bags, and will sell exclusive luxury items including a Giles Deacon yellow dress and a Chrome Hearts leather appliqué ...
