Design Week
16 February 2006
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All change for fast food giant
16 February 2006
As McDonald's plans a large-scale revamp, Sarah Balmond reveals how it is evolving the way it manages design in the process.
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Blacksheep to design interiors for Hugh Grover Associates
16 February 2006
Blacksheep is designing an interior concept for London estate agent Hugh Grover Associates, as part of a five-figure project to revamp the facade in its Islington premises. The design will take cues from the window displays of jewellery stores. Blacksheep has created bespoke ...
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Bob Design and Marketing creates school literature
16 February 2006
Start-up Bristol consultancy Bob Design and Marketing has created a set of literature for local independent school Rookwood School, including its latest prospectus.
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Camera obscura
16 February 2006
Ahead of the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize announcement, all four of those shortlisted are set to show their work in an exhibition in London. John Stones takes a sneak preview
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Cat that got the cream
16 February 2006
Non-executive directors may appear to get all the perks without the pain, but they can bring a fresh outlook to your design business, says Jim Davies.
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Challenge and fulfillment can be motivation enough
16 February 2006
David Bernstein questions the role of the creative director (DW 26 January). I feel the role of creative director is only partly to encourage and motivate staff, but is mainly about leadership and growing the business in general.
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Council needs someone with design experience
16 February 2006
The premature departure of Richard Eisermann from the Design Council raises questions about the direction the council might take. It is interesting that he will not be replaced in the short term, though his contract had a few more months to run.
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DBA and Nesta offer free training
16 February 2006
The Design Business Association and the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts are launching the latest round of the S/M/L initiative, which will award £50 000 worth of free business training and mentoring to design consultancies.
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Design tender by Sport England
16 February 2006
Sport England is running a public tender for 'design consultancy services'. The organisation declined to give specific details of the work, but is advising design groups to contact Jessica Smith on its legal team for application forms.
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Design Week news stories appeal to schoolchildren too
16 February 2006
I get Design Week every week at the school I teach at and, at the end of the month, I do my favourite job: I cut them up.
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Eisermann leaves Design Council as it reviews its strategy
16 February 2006
Richard Eisermann, director of design and innovation at the Design Council, has left the organisation prematurely to co-found start-up consultancy, Prospect, after two and a half years in the role.
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Fmcg coalition to design a rival food label system
16 February 2006
A single food labelling design, to rival the 'traffic light system', is being created by a loose 'coalition' of designers at five of the UK's biggest food companies. The front of pack system will not use colours to inform shoppers about healthy or unhealthy nutritional ...
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Form creates covers for The Modern single
16 February 2006
Form has created the covers and launch campaign for electro pop band The Modern's next single called Industry, released on 20 February on Mercury Records. Paul West's design references industrial images, such as Modernist and Bauhaus architecture, aeroplanes and machinery, ...
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Frayling to chair Designer of the Year
16 February 2006
Professor Sir Christopher Frayling has been named as the chairman of the jury for this year's Design Museum Designer of the Year Awards, following the departure of Alice Rawsthorn. The former museum director relinquished her role as chair of the jury when she left her position earlier this month. She continues to work with the museum for The Culture Show's Great British Design Quest on BBC2. The awards take place in May.
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Grade Design adds poetry to British Library exhibition
16 February 2006
An exhibition chronicling the life of writer and poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning will open at the British Library in London this week, with interiors and graphics by Grade Design Consultants.
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Inclusive design broadens reach in DBA Challenge
16 February 2006
The practice of inclusive design is being adopted by a widening range of design groups, says the Design Business Association, which has unveiled the shortlist for its sixth annual Inclusive Design Challenge, organised in collaboration with the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre ...
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Inspired
16 February 2006
One of the main reasons I wanted to write about design, as a journalist, early in my career, was an obsession with reading science fiction as a teenager. All those lurid stories about future worlds, with gleaming monorails, disobedient robots, visiting aliens and vanishing ...
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Interbrand set to ring changes as Orange brand extends its reach
16 February 2006
It emerged this week that the Orange brand will undergo a relaunch as early as May, under a strategic plan by Interbrand to incorporate the on-line and mobile businesses of France Telecom.
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Kemistry gives Digital Bridge a friendly interface
16 February 2006
A pioneering community television service that is delivered via the Internet goes on trial in London's Shoreditch later this month, with screen design and branding by Kemistry.
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Live work recruits as equity partner funds expansion plans
16 February 2006
London service design consultancy Live work has sold a small undisclosed stake of its equity to Pembridge Partners, a business accelerator.
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Love goes the extra mile with educational pack for Sport Relief
16 February 2006
Manchester group Love has created an educational pack, which will be sent to all primary and secondary schools, to promote this year's Sport Relief, organised by Comic Relief.
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Marketing speak needs to break the rules to stay fresh
16 February 2006
Being a stickler for grammar is inappropriate when judging marketing copy (Letters, DW 9 February). It has to communicate messages in a tone of voice that conveys the brand. So, if the brand stands for creativity and independent thinking (as in the case of Apple Computer), then it's right for it to play fast and loose with grammar. Mistakes should be sanctioned if they distract from the message, but let's not upbraid writing that breaks the rules appropriately.
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Masters Design redesigns identity for The Leadership Trust
16 February 2006
Masters Design has redesigned the corporate identity for The Leadership Trust, a 30-year-old leadership development organisation.
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Mathematics, machines and man
16 February 2006
Few can have had as varied a career as 95-year-old Alexandre Vitkine. Trained as an electromechanical engineer, Vitkine became a photographer and graphic artist, before moving into sculpture. He was also involved in pioneering work on rapid prototyping technology and computer-generated art, and is a founder (with Christian Lavigne) ...
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Mobius Awards
16 February 2006
A clutch of UK design groups took prizes at The Mobius Awards in Los Angeles last week: Williams Murray Hamm for Horlicks; Fortnum & Mason and Sainsbury's; Mark Denton Design for Styling Lard Magazine; Dare won for Toro wines; and Elmwood for its Moo Book
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News in Pictures
16 February 2006
London illustrator Rian Hughes has designed a splash for a special 200-page anthology edition of Image Comics' NYC Mech graphic comic. The title is currently in production at the US publisher.
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Nottingham to receive inner city arts centre
16 February 2006
Nottingham is to receive an inner city arts centre next year, after planning permission was granted for the £3.7m scheme by Nottingham City Council. Architecture and interiors for the New Art Exchange building are by Hawkins Brown, with funding from the Arts Council England. ...
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Profile: Tomato
16 February 2006
Despite being revered by its peers and clients alike, Tomato has kept a low profile for the past decade, as each creative evolves in a more individualistic direction. Liz Farrelly asks where are they now?
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Rawsthorn's successor should be a designer
16 February 2006
With reference to Alice Rawsthorn's departure, I hope the opportunity will be taken to appoint a more suitable person to direct this important museum.
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Red Design appoints Alastair Reid
16 February 2006
Brighton graphic consultancy Red Design has appointed Alastair Reid as its first managing director.
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Review
16 February 2006
EXHIBITIONS, TALKS AND EVENTS...
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Sage Associates designs careers website for local Govt
16 February 2006
Sage Associates has designed the careers website for the Employers' Organisation for local government. The website, www.lgcareers.com, offers careers advice.
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Sci Fi channel appoints Branded
16 February 2006
The Sci Fi Channel has appointed strategic consultancy Branded to undertake a three- month brand positioning and evaluation project.
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Team of creatives overhauls Sainsbury Centre at UEA
16 February 2006
A £10m project to refurbish and extend the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia will come to fruition this summer, drawing on the work of a multidisciplinary team of designers.
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The art of showing off
16 February 2006
Creating displays for very disparate or unusual subjects can prove an interesting challenge for exhibition designers. Pamela Buxton investigates how the issue was approached in three recent major exhibitions from around the world.
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Thoroughly modern
16 February 2006
The shadows of the great pioneers of the Modernist movement still lie heavily over design. With two major shows set to showcase their achievements, Rick Poynor evaluates Modernism's legacy and influence on graphic design in the UK.
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Tiger stripes by Design Bridge
16 February 2006
Tiger Beer is poised to launch an identity and packaging design created by Design Bridge.
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Voxpop
16 February 2006
The Milan fair organisers have stalled their plan to bring an Italian furniture delegation to London for 100% Design. What might UK designers have learned from the Italian contingent?Much less than they will learn from the Italians during the Milan Fair. Creativity is so much greater when it's fuelled by copious quantities of prosecco at a showroom opening, followed by long talks over a risotto Milanese.
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VX Collective lures 'hot' talent with bursary
16 February 2006
Vauxhall is looking to breathe new life into its VX Collective by enticing new members with a £5000 'bursary'.
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Write your own commission
16 February 2006
Adrian Shaughnessy talks to creatives who have developed their own ideas, nurturing the growing popular interest in graphic design.
