Design Week
16 March 2006
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Allowing in 'outsiders' could bolster the design industry
16 March 2006
It is not surprising to find Sir George Cox named as one of two design 'champions' by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport as part of its Creative Economy Programme.
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Appleby Bowers creates new packaging brand for Wolseley UK
16 March 2006
Appleby Bowers has created a new packaging brand for construction distributor Wolseley UK. The Invicta marque will be implemented across Wolseley's own brand retail operations.
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Back to life
16 March 2006
The St Bride Library is home to many precious relics of our printing past. Hannah Booth meets up with a designer determined to save this heritage by digitising forgotten typefaces, says Hannah Booth.
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Big Idea rolls out refreshed designs for Andrex
16 March 2006
Kimberly-Clark is poised to relaunch its core range of Andrex toilet tissues, with a revised colour palette and fresh packaging designs developed by Big Idea.
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British Council Talented winners to exhibit in Milan
16 March 2006
Fifteen design students from universities across Britain will have their work displayed as part of the Milan Furniture Fair next month, after winning a design competition run by the British Council.
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Cox named as UK design 'champion'
16 March 2006
In the week that saw the first meeting of the Cox Review implementation team - Sir George Cox, Sir Terence Conran, Nicholas Serota, Lord Foster, David Kester, Christopher Frayling and Alan Clark - the Department of Culture, Media and Sport has named Cox as one of two design 'champions' to lead its Creative Economy Programme. The second champion will be imminently named.
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Design Week Top 100 deadline
16 March 2006
The deadline for submitting your entries to the Design Week Top 100 survey has been extended to 22 March. Forms can be downloaded from the Design Week website, www.design-week.co.uk, and should be returned to Michelle Reeve at Design Week, 50 Poland Street, London W1F 7AX, or via email to michelle.reeve@centaur.co.uk.
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Designers to create Tate Modern's new layout concept
16 March 2006
Tate Modern is working with a host of designers to create a radical new look for its permanent galleries, as the organisation completes the first rehang of its collection.
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Design-led thinking was British Airways's asset
16 March 2006
As an ex-member of British Airways's marketing management team, I feel I must comment, more in sorrow than in anger, on the news of the disbandment of the British Airways design management team (DW 9 March).
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Dyson victory is landmark case for design rights
16 March 2006
A long-running court case, which concluded last week, served to clarify the reach of design rights in common law.
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Enterprise IG promotes Daun as Haggarty exits
16 March 2006
Steve Haggarty, managing creative director of Enterprise IG's Brand Experience division, has left the consultancy to 'pursue his own interests'. He is replaced by creative director Sue Daun (pictured).
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Forging ahead
16 March 2006
Next month, the Victoria & Albert Museum's Modernism blockbuster will showcase some of the most famous designs of all time. Hugh Pearman ponders the path of the era's classic furniture, from its progressive origins to ubiquity today.
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Holmes Wood works out branding for boutique gym
16 March 2006
Holmes Wood has created the brand identity and interior scheme for a new chain of 'boutique' gyms called The Fitness Space.
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Hue and cry
16 March 2006
Colour is so integral to brands that many of them see red when others step on their toes. But branding should work from the inside out, says Jim Davies.
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Imagination has designs on Terminal 5
16 March 2006
Imagination is understood to have secured a contract to design interactive walls for British Airways passengers at Heathrow's Terminal 5, which is due to open in March 2008. A spokeswoman for Imagination confirms that it has held 'preliminary discussions regarding Terminal 5', adding that these are at the 'very early stages'. She declined to confirm that the design group has been appointed by the terminal's owner BAA.
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Inspired
16 March 2006
Google Earth is great. For those that haven't seen it, Google Earth downloads on to your PC from the Web. It's an animated 3D globe, overlaid with all sorts of information, including detailed satellite imagery of every conceivable place on our planet, as photographed from ...
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JHP design creates retail concept for Les Néréides
16 March 2006
JHP Design has created a retail concept for French boutique jewellery retailer Les Néréides, based in London's Covent Garden. The design offers a 'neutral backdrop' to showcase the products.
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Laterooms.com gets new look
16 March 2006
Laterooms.com - a website that specialises in supplying customers with late availability hotel deals - is relaunching with a fresh look designed by L&Co.
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Letters page bullies keep running other designers down
16 March 2006
I pity the poor designers who get their work printed in Design Week, lest it gets picked on by the bullies of the letters page.
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Life after Nuovo
16 March 2006
As Frank Nuovo steps aside, Sarah Balmond asks can Nokia reclaim its place at the top of the mobile design league?
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London Transport Museum acquires Harry Beck Metro map
16 March 2006
A previously unknown Harry Beck map design for the Metro system in Paris has been acquired by the London Transport Museum. According to a spokeswoman for the museum, Beck was asked, in the late 1930s, to put forward a design for the Metro map, based on his iconic London ...
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Major supermarkets snub FSA's traffic light food-labelling scheme
16 March 2006
The Food Standards Agency's attempt to introduce a UK-wide traffic light food labelling scheme was effectively derailed last week, when supermarkets Tesco and Morrisons refused to reverse a decision not to adopt the front-of-pack designs.
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Negotiate a royal deal
16 March 2006
Including royalty payments as part of your agreement with a client is a sensible way of boosting designers' income, says Russell Lloyd.
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News in Pictures
16 March 2006
Marmite is getting a makeover with the launch of Marmite Squeeze Me, available from the end of March. Innovation Generation and The Core have designed its packaging.
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OTM rebrand revives Ladybird's retro look
16 March 2006
Iconic children's publishing imprint, Ladybird, is to launch a redesigned visual identity in an attempt to reach back to the 1970s heyday of the brand.
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Paths to success
16 March 2006
Though some remain suspicious of outsiders, design consultancies are increasingly looking to recruit specialists from a variety of business and research backgrounds, finds John Stones
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Photographer David Goldblatt scoops prestigious award
16 March 2006
South African photographer David Goldblatt has scooped this year's prestigious Hasselblad Foundation International Award.
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Profile: Peet Pienaar
16 March 2006
After slicing off his foreskin, moving from art to design seemed a natural progression for South African Peet Pienaar. Tomas Roope catches up with the larger-than-life character in Cape Town.
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Ralph designs McDonald's Nutrition website
16 March 2006
Digital media group Ralph has designed a website to inform McDonald's customers about the nutritional content of their meals. Users can work out their Guideline Daily Amounts, see what food fits in with GDAs and compare meals to see which suits them best. The scheme is to be piloted in-store via interactive kiosks.
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Red Bee Media wins BBC1 deal to rebrand on-air idents
16 March 2006
The BBC has appointed Red Bee Media to redesign its iconic screen idents for BBC1, following a pitch held among its rostered consultancies.
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Reform Creative wins Warrington Borough Council pitch
16 March 2006
Manchester consultancy Reform Creative has won a five-way pitch to design the Warrington Property Review 2006 report for Warrington Borough Council.
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Review
16 March 2006
Exhibitions, events and talks...
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Royal Society of Arts points students in the right direction
16 March 2006
Concerning the confusion between awards offered by the Royal Society of Arts and Chartered Society of Designers (DW 2 March), may I clear up a further error? The name of the RSA student award scheme is RSA Design Directions, not Future Directions. Susan Hewer, Head of design, Royal Society of Arts, London WC2N
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Sainsbury's Kids packaging looks remarkably familiar
16 March 2006
Having seen the latest designs for Sainsbury's Kids range, by Parker Williams, it reminded me that nothing is ever truly new (DW 2 March). About five years ago, my business partner and I produced the packaging design for a small, local producer of organic ready meals, called ...
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Stadium of the art
16 March 2006
Entering from the urban jungle that is London's Holloway Road, my first impression of Arsenal's new Emirates Stadium (designed by HOK Sport) was 'wow' - here is a true temple to the beautiful game. Seeing it took me back to the first time I visited Wembley with my father.
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Sudjic signs up to 'once in a lifetime' Design Museum job
16 March 2006
Deyan Sudjic signed a contract on Monday to become the next director of the Design Museum.
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The old ones are the best when it comes to slogans
16 March 2006
'Here here.' - to David Bishop, regarding Coley Porter Bell's Blue Sky designs competition (DW 9 March).
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United Biscuits relaunches Jacobs Crackers range
16 March 2006
United Biscuits UK is relaunching its Jacobs range of cream crackers, with a refined brand identity and packaging by Bloom Design. The iconic black diamond marque has been 'softened up' to create more of a friendly proposition, while 'foodie' elements have been worked into the on-pack designs, says Gavin Blake, executive creative ...
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Voxpop
16 March 2006
What do you make of British Airways's decision to close its centralised design department, make its head of design redundant, and disperse the design function across different areas of marketing and product development?
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Wolff Olins to design 2012 Olympics logo
16 March 2006
The London 2012 Olympic Games emblem will be designed by Wolff Olins, which has beaten shortlisted Omnicom-owned sister group Interbrand, as well as Identica and Lambie-Nairn, to take the prestigious branding job.
