Design Week
17 April 2008
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Adidas trademark ruling triggers warnings over 'lookalike' stripes
17 April 2008
Lawyers are advising UK retailers to halt the sale of goods that bear patterns resembling the three-stripe Adidas trademark or face legal action, following a ruling by the European Court of Justice.The ECJ has clarified a section of intellectual property law dealing with shapes, during a hearing between Adidas and a group of Dutch retailers including H&M. Adidas is suing the retailers for trademark infringement after they sold clothes featuring two stripes.H&M had ...
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Approaching transport brands
17 April 2008
Although transport companies are sensitive to charges of wasting money on branding when they could be investing in trains or buses, they still need a visual identity. And changing it is a complex process, explains Dominic Murphy
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Circle
17 April 2008
Circle has appointed Helen Dwyer as design director, supporting creative director Neil Giles.
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'Co-design' can work well, but let's not push it too far
17 April 2008
The thorny issue of 'co-design' raised its head again last week at a debate hosted in London by the Audi Design Foundation.Is it good to involve 'lay' people in design - beyond a preliminary consultation - or does it undermine the position of the designer? And does innovation suffer ...
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Domus
17 April 2008
From this month, Italian design and architecture magazine Domus will sport a new look, courtesy of Swiss graphic design group Onlab.
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Forcing accessible font sizes
17 April 2008
For years the poor relation of graphic design, accessible print is now attracting a new generation of creatives applying the same imaginative thinking for the visually impaired as they do for the fully sighted. Impending legislation may force all designers to follow suit, saysYolanda Zappaterra
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Games controllers under scrutiny
17 April 2008
It's tempting to think of video games as experiences that only take place on screen. With a nation upgrading to HD TV sets and then discovering there's little HD content to watch on them, Sony's Playstation and Microsoft's Xbox are busy evangelising the b
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Graphic design title Eye
17 April 2008
Graphic design title Eye has come under the management of Eye Magazine Limited, established by editor John Walters, art director Simon Esterson and publisher Hannah Tyson.
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Green claims face scrutiny
17 April 2008
Marks & Spencer is the top Green brand in the FTSE 100, while BP has emerged as the biggest Green 'pretender', in a poll by media company Chatsworth Communications.
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Heatherwick Studio
17 April 2008
Heatherwick Studio is launching the Piggyback table, at the Milan furniture fair this week.
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Heinz
17 April 2008
Heinz is rolling out its new Salad Cream packaging design by Cowan this week.
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Inspired - Daniel Charny: Experimental design curator
17 April 2008
There is a coin cut into four parts, next to a round tile made of compressed tobacco that is missing a chunk. These two are displayed alongside other currency solutions that pre-date PayPal. In another cabinet there are crafted objects made of nails and frogs, and various other charms with handwritten labels describing the hexes they were part of, including some ancient bottles, one reportedly containing the spirit of a witch.This is the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, founded in ...
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Interbrand index shows the value of UK retail branding
17 April 2008
In the first of a series of sector-specific branding league tables, Interbrand has revealed that the UK owns nearly a third of the best-performing retail brands in Europe.
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It's high time that design dropped the 'fortress mentality'
17 April 2008
Why is it that product design is not getting profile, and is often charging ridiculously low fees for its contribution?
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Karim Rashid
17 April 2008
US designer Karim Rashid has created a limited edition, multi-functional yet 'decorative design' object that acts as a portable cooler - with a 'soft halo of light' - for champagne brand Veuve Clicquot. Globalight will launch today at the Milan furniture fair, which runs until 21 April.
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Lambie-Nairn
17 April 2008
Lambie-Nairn has refreshed the identity for international debt purchase group Aktiv Kapital.
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Leader of the pack
17 April 2008
The Harley-Davidson is a revered American icon, so it made sense to dedicate a museum to its history. Mike Exon checks out the plans
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Let's all start to embrace the new creative world order
17 April 2008
Increasingly we are seeing world class creativity in advertising originating from developing markets. We haven't seen a shift in our business, however, if there is one I'm sure there are good reasons, not least financial. On a creative level we need to embrace all fresh, new work regardless of where it originates from. There is some great stuff coming from the likes of the Brazilian market. Though I don't think the UK industry needs to radically rethink its direction, I ...
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Loewy to ramp up offer after £5m buy
17 April 2008
Loewy is planning to ramp up its strategic offer with a fourth 'cluster' of expertise in brand strategy. The move follows the acquisition two weeks ago of the ten-strong brand strategy group Branded, for a cash and shares deal reportedly worth about £5m. Its other clusters are design, PR and brand communications.Loewy chief executive Charlie Hoult says the grouping of the brand strategy cluster will be informal to begin with, tapping into talent from Loewy network teams such as ...
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Mike Dempsey
17 April 2008
Pictured are three frames from a motion graphics sequence created by graphic designer and former Master of the Royal Designers for Industry Mike Dempsey, and his consultancy Studio Dempsey. The work is one of his first projects since he left CDT Design at the start of the year. The graphics will support the Royal Society of Arts' forthcoming lecture series Vision, and will coincide with the relaunch of the RSA website this month.
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News in Pictures
17 April 2008
1 New York consultancy FWIS has designed the ReadyMech camera for image library Corbis, to help it mark Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day on 27 April. The day will celebrate the 'lost' art of pinhole photography, while participants can upload images to www.pinholeday.org2 Gallery Libby Sellers is set to show its latest series of commissions, including designs by Khashayar Naimanan and Nicolas le Moigne. The show - Strativarious - takes ...
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News in pictures
17 April 2008
Zaha Hadid Architects has created furniture and lighting pieces for Swarovski, Vitra, B&B Italia and Sawaya & Moroni.
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Profile: Jason Miller
17 April 2008
Jason Miller and I met in March, while making a documentary on design for the Italian sunglasses brand Persol to show at the city's Salone del Mobile. Miller's unconventional and North American approach to design made an intriguing contrast to the Italian
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R/GA's Bob Greenberg in profile
17 April 2008
There is a magical moment at the cinema when the lights gently fade, the curtains open, rainbow shafts of light dance above your head and the movie begins. And in those opening moments, there is often the added joy of a well-designed title sequence.
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Stuck in a rut? Why not freelance your way to freedom
17 April 2008
Interesting comments and right on the button (Salary survey, DW 20 March). My own story only backs up your gripes. I worked in West End sweat-shops followed by a stint at O&M. Yet I was held back because of 'experience'. The best I could hope for was becoming studio manager. Once I went freelance, I could draw on my full range of talents. I worked as designer, art director, copywriter, account handler and media buyer. I'm currently working on a graphic novel, logo designs, ...
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Studio Wyld Stallyons
17 April 2008
Studio Wyld Stallyons has created animation to complement illustrator Jon Burgerman's forthcoming book Pens Are My Friends, published in September by Idn.
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Tapping your firm's talent
17 April 2008
In a market with a skills shortage developing and retaining the skilled staff that help our digital consultancies succeed is critical, says Ben Hart
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Terminal condition
17 April 2008
With Heathrow’s Terminal 5 in meltdown, Hugh Pearman bemoans the lot of the airport designer, who is held in contempt by frustrated passengers
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The Chase
17 April 2008
The Chase has created a range of stationery using glow-in-the-dark ink for emergency electrician Paul Werman.
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The Tin
17 April 2008
Digital consultancy The Tin has designed a microsite to mark the maiden voyage of UK superliner the Ventura Experience.
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The University of Gloucestershire
17 April 2008
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Top chef Simon Rogan cooks up casual dining brand
17 April 2008
Michelin star-winning chef and restaurant proprietor Simon Rogan is set to diversify his restaurant business, with the launch of a casual dining brand created by London consultancy Fudge.
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Top of the shops
17 April 2008
As the high street becomes depressingly homogenised, an adventurous breed of independent retailers is creating individual shops that both rework the past and look to the future. Clare Dowdy examines their appeal
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TwelveStars in global push with launch of Brazil office
17 April 2008
London-based branding and corporate vision group TwelveStars is set to open an office in São Paulo, Brazil, later this year as part of an ongoing expansion drive to create key international hubs for the business.The new São Paulo base follows the creation of the group's Shanghai office in China at the end of last year, which serves as a hub for the Asia market, TwelveStars chief executive Nicolas De Santis explains.'We are planning to set up a joint venture in partnership ...
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UK duo give creative direction to Turin 'design capital' event
17 April 2008
The Bureau of European Design Associations chief executive Michael Thomson and Little Dipper director Christine Losecaat will provide the creative direction for an international design conference and exhibition in Turin, the first 'world design capital'.Appointed by the Torino World Design Capital 2008 team last December, Losecaat and Thomson will be working on the International Design Casa exhibitions and the International Design Policy Conference.The two-day international ...
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Voxpop
17 April 2008
Senior vice-president of Unilever Simon Rothon and WPP chairman Martin Sorrell last week referred to how creativity in advertising is beginning to originate from emerging markets such as Brazil and India, rather than from established markets like Europe and the US. Is there a similar shift in design, and if so, how should the UK respond?
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We need a design effort of Olympic proportions
17 April 2008
You were generous to include my name with some of my heroes in your second piece about your fears, which I share, about the quality of Olympic design for 2012 (Comment, DW 3 April).
