Design Week
16 September 2010
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Best of the Web
16 September 2010
www.openhouselondon.org.uk/guideOpen House London promises to have the capital heaving with architecturally inclined folk next weekend as they take to the streets hoping to access normally forbidden buildings they’ve always longed to visit. Check it out soon though as you may need to book.
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Catwalk graphics
16 September 2010
The word branding comes within a hair’s breadth of its original meaning when a graphic designer brands a fashion label. It is merely that the savour of singed flesh is replaced by the stitching of a label that identifies a coat as belonging to Yves St Laurent, Chanel or Vivienne Westwood.
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Click, chat, buy
16 September 2010
Bye-bye high street, buy by my tweet. Angus Montgomery investigates how retailers are revamping their Internet presence to meet a rise in online spend, and increasingly adopting social media techniques to drive traffic to their sites
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Cog raises the curtains on new-look Marlowe Theatre
16 September 2010
Cog Design has created a new identity for the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, which is set to reopen in a new building next year.
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Creative Barcode software unveiled to protect designers from intellectual property theft
16 September 2010
New software application Creative Barcode is launching, which claims to allow designers pitching for work to guard against intellectual property theft.
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Fancy footwork
16 September 2010
Household has created the Christian Louboutin concession in the women’s shoe salon at Selfridge’s department store in London.
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Farrow sets sail with Camper racing yacht 'billboard' graphics
16 September 2010
Farrow has been appointed as graphic partner to a Camper-branded yacht that will enter the 2011-2012 Volvo Ocean Race.
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Get set for a more diverse and interactive London Design Festival this year
16 September 2010
There is surely no excuse for designers in London not to get out of the studio next week and sample some creative events. It isn’t often we get the chance of informal ’professional development’ offered by the London Design Festival - and many of the activities are free.
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Get the music right and everything clicks
16 September 2010
Life is indeed one big symphony (Insight, DW 26 August). Silence on this crowded isle of ours is a rarity.
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In tune with reality
16 September 2010
The ability to sex things up is an essential part of a designer’s repertoire, says Adrian Shaughnessy, but there are dangers in straying too far from the truth - just look at the world of PR
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Inspired
16 September 2010
Being a huge believer that car design leads the way for other designers to follow in terms of form and style, I often keep track of concepts unveiled at motor shows.
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Jam today
16 September 2010
Smith & Milton has redesigned the packaging for Crabtree & Evelyn’s fine foods range.
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Johnson Banks maps creatives' inspiration for V&A tour guides
16 September 2010
Johnson Banks has teamed up with the Victoria & Albert Museum to produce ten maps charting the inspiration of ten luminaries including designer Paul Smith and musician Florence Welch through the museum’s collections.
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News in Pictures
16 September 2010
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News in Pictures
16 September 2010
Work by Geoffrey Mann and Liam Hopkins will be at Lab Craft: Digital Adventures in Contemporary ...
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News in Pictures
16 September 2010
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Northern cool
16 September 2010
In the second report in our mini-series on Nordic design, Will Sorrell follows up a visit to Helsinki Design Week with an investigation into the state of the design industry in Finland, a country with a strong international outlook
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On the up
16 September 2010
Things are beginning to look rosy for freelances after a couple of rough years and could get better yet, discovers Emily Pacey, but it still pays to have the right skills and experience. Research by Suzanne Hinchliffe
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Onedotzero organisers adopt a utopian vision of the future
16 September 2010
This year’s edition of moving image festival Onedotzero Adventures in Motion will have a utopian theme that will attempt to bring about a more optimistic view of the sector’s future, the organisers say.
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Profile: Simon 'Sanky' Sankarayya
16 September 2010
With a CV that includes Geordie school drop-out and teenage graffiti artist, this digital pioneer has gone on to reach the top of the design establishment, and he still hasn’t turned 40. Lynda Relph-Knight talks to the new D&AD president
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Together creates launch materials for updated OUP primary school book range
16 September 2010
Together Design has created launch materials for new editions of Oxford Reading Tree, a book range from Oxford University Press for primary schools.
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Voxpop
16 September 2010
Peter Saville has designed the new England football kit. Which designer would you like to see turn their hand to sports design and what would you like to see them create?
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Web Stories
16 September 2010
Below are the top online news stories published by Design Week over the past week. Magazine subscribers can sign up for free e-mail alerts and access the archive at www.designweek.co.uk. You need to quote your subscription number for access
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What's the definition of design? Some more responses...
16 September 2010
I read with great interest ’So what is it that you do?’ - your feature on key industry figures attempting to define design (News Analysis, DW 2 September) - and although I realise some people don’t want sound bites, some of the explanations were, frankly, too long-winded.
