Design Week
17 January 2008
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Aiming for a market listing
17 January 2008
We floated Conchango on the Alternative Investment Market on 15 January. Getting there took a serious amount of work, but we learnt a lot and it's been very rewarding.
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Art in the City
17 January 2008
Art in the City, written by Tiddy Rowan, is a series of guides based on the concept of a combined art directory and travel guide, detailing galleries, artists and cultural finds in a number of European cities. Two volumes - Art in the City, London (pictured) and Art in the City, Paris - are to be published by Quadrille in April, with graphic design by Gabriella Le Grazia.
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Art of darkness
17 January 2008
The four photographers shortlisted for this year’s Deutsche Börse prize are far removed from the mainstream, each of them unafraid to put strong and personal statements at the heart of their work, reports Gareth Gardner
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Blue Marlin
17 January 2008
Blue Marlin has created the branding and packaging for the Orchard Pig drinks range, which includes a variety of ciders and five different types of apple juice. The identity has been created by curling a pig's tail into a circle, which doubles as the letter O in Orchard Pig. The ciders will be sold in wine bottles rather than the traditional beer bottles - each variant bears the marque and is distinguished by colour.
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Business sense and creativity aren't mutually exclusive
17 January 2008
I read with a little amazement Adrian Shaughnessy's piece on Christmas cards (Private View, DW 10 January).
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Creative sector to play vital role in Sheffield economic masterplan
17 January 2008
Design and the creative industries will play a key role in the economic advancement of Sheffield, according to a masterplan launched this week by the city's development agency, Creative Sheffield.The masterplan contains a number of goals, including the creation of 30 000 jobs across the creative industries, e-learning and digital sectors, as well as financial services.Creative Sheffield marketing director Brendan Moffett explains, 'The headline goal is not just to create ...
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Design studio Very
17 January 2008
Design studio Very has created the logo and website for Dulwich Squash Club in south London.
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Design Week's annual awards
17 January 2008
Design Week's annual awards will take place on 4 March at the London Hilton, Park Lane, London SW1. For details contact Helen Evison on 020 7970 4772 or e-mail designweek. awards@centaur.co.uk.
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Emap Radio
17 January 2008
Emap Radio has launched an on-line recruitment service brand called Work Moose, with naming and identity by Dragon.
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English & Pockett will be missed for its generous spirit
17 January 2008
I am saddened to read about the closure of English & Pockett (DW 10 January), not least because Carter Wong Design is indebted to them for an act of kindness that saved our fledgling company.
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Fifa
17 January 2008
Fifa has made its first foray into retail, with the opening of a dedicated store at Singapore's Changi airport, conceived and designed by Above Consultancy. Other locations are being mooted, including London.
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Holmes & Marchant
17 January 2008
Packaging design group Holmes & Marchant has appointed Jason Batterill as account director.
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In the beginning was the brand
17 January 2008
Recent initiatives in the once-sleepy world of religious publishing prove Christianity is not averse to the power of branding, says Sarah Woods
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Inspired, Matt Willey, Studio 8 Design
17 January 2008
When I was young I was fascinated by Saul Steinberg, by books [of his that] my dad had - The Passport, The Art of Living, The Inspector and The New World. I got a huge amount of pleasure from them, and I still do.He is probably the most enduring and constant influence of a sort related to the visual arts. There were many others, including writers and musicians and painters, but no graphic designers.In my foundation year, adamant that I wanted to be a painter, I came across ...
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Jerwood Moving Image Awards to boost category
17 January 2008
Digital moving image looks set to receive a boost to its standing in the arts world, with the inaugural Jerwood Moving Image Awards.The scheme joins a handful of awards, such as Film London's London Artists' Film and Video Awards, which recognise excellence in this growing category. The scheme is the latest in arts charity The Jerwood Foundation's visual arts awards portfolio, which includes ceramics, glass and drawing.The judging panel, which comprises resident choreographer ...
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Kemistry
17 January 2008
Kemistry has created a brand film for the Nokia 7900 Crystal Prism special-edition phone. The group was tasked with celebrating the collaboration between Nokia designer Matt Bickley and Parisian artist Frederique Daubal in producing the handset. The film debuts at the phone's launch in the new Moscow Nokia store this week.
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Love founder forms graphics consultancy
17 January 2008
Love founder David Simpson has formed a new design consultancy called Music.Simpson, who left his position as creative director of Love in March last year, is founding the group with former Love production manager Matthew Beardsell and designer Anthony Smith.The Manchester-based consultancy, which started operating in December, will focus on graphic design.'One of Love's founding principles is to work in both advertising and design,' says Simpson. 'But advertising ...
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Mind Corporation
17 January 2008
Mind Corporation has been appointed by the Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund to work on a number of on-line projects.
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News in Pictures
17 January 2008
Consultancy Curious has designed the book and cover artwork for poet John Davies' latest collection, called Shedman. The book will be published by Pighog Press later this month.
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News in pictures
17 January 2008
Procter & Gamble’s Fairy Non Bio range relaunches this week, with the help of Landor Associates. The refreshed branding and packaging is intended to widen the appeal of the detergent, repositioning it as a brand suitable for those of all ages with sensiti
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NMNI appoints Belfast group to museums task
17 January 2008
National Museums Northern Ireland, the umbrella organisation for four of the country's museums, is to rebrand in an attempt to modernise itself.The organisation has appointed Belfast-based advertising and design consultancy AV Brown to carry out the work following a tender process.As part of the rebranding exercise, the consultancy will develop a new unifying brand identity to replace the old marque (pictured below) and a strategy to 'assist with improved public engagement ...
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Panaz
17 January 2008
Contract furnishings group Panaz has restructured into healthcare and hospitality divisions, to be headed by Carmel Satterthwaite and Tony O'Donnell respectively.
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Pentagram and All of Us collaborate on resort rebrand
17 January 2008
Pentagram Design and All of Us are collaborating on the relaunch of Mauritian luxury hotel resort Le Touessrok this week.The rebrand follows the resort's departure from the One & Only hotel chain, which Pentagram also helped to design.Pentagram partner John Rushworth says that, after the recent management changes at Le Touessrok, his consultancy's strategy was to make the hotel a standalone, one- off resort.Rushworth adds, 'The branding was about taking something ...
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Profile
17 January 2008
The duo behind Silent Studios combines hard-hitting visuals with original music compositions, and is keen to promote the virtues of ‘sound design’. Fiona Sibley meets the collaborators who like to make you cry
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Snapshots of the future
17 January 2008
Another rich seam of material issues forth this week from the reliably creative terrain of Onedotzero, in the form of a follow-up edition to its successful Motion Blur book and two-hour DVD package. Everything you could want to know about the international practitioners leading this field is packaged stylishly in this tactile felt-bound and embroidered volume, an attempt perhaps to shake off the genre's scratchy, tech-focused image. Onedotzero doesn't need to try that hard, however. As ...
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Tate Trinidad
17 January 2008
Artist Peter Doig has been working in Port of Spain, painting subversive film posters for a series of indie screenings. Yolanda Zappaterra pays a visit to his StudioFilmClub, ahead of a retrospective at Tate Britain (All images © Paul Murphy)
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That's amore
17 January 2008
As the new Fiat 500 starts to grace the nation’s highways and byways, John Stones wonders whether this car is as innovative as its 1950s namesake. Just to make sure, he takes a turn behind the wheel of both to find out
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The Central Office of Information
17 January 2008
The Central Office of Information has appointed Chris Wood, chairman of Corporate Edge, as a non-executive board director. He will also sit on the COI's audit and risk committee.
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The Church would do well to be bolder with design
17 January 2008
Suddenly, all things Biblical appear to be coming under review, at least in terms of publishing (see News Analysis, page 9).Have Christians stepped up their religious interests to combat the strains of 21st century life and are they looking for greater accessibility in their texts? ...
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The eco evangelist
17 January 2008
Jim Davies is a convert to all things organic, ethical and sustainable, from tree-hugging to peace petrol. Mock ye not. The Green and pleasant land is at hand
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The Jockey Club Rooms
17 January 2008
The Jockey Club Rooms at Newmarket has appointed Cambridge design group Brownstone Design to create a brochure.
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UK product design needs indigenous industries to prosper
17 January 2008
I was very interested to read Jim Dawton's piece on product design in the UK (News Analysis, DW 10 January). Only a handful of names in the UK could be considered as having raised the product design bar, in international terms. The problem is that we don't have any factories left. Consultancies in the UK can turn out ground-breaking Web design and brochure graphics, but as a graduate product designer I have found that the only way to make it big is to work overseas. Consultancies ...
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Voxpop
17 January 2008
Last week, David Hillman confessed his regret at losing out to Cases Associats on the forthcoming redesign of the Daily Mirror. What dream job have you missed out on by a cat's whisker?
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Westover House
17 January 2008
Private healthcare provider Westover House has appointed Caulder Moore to create a new identity.
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Why fly south for design and ignore local talent?
17 January 2008
Now, here's a question. Liverpool John Lennon Airport is key to Liverpool's growth. In fact, it is an integral part of commerce throughout the North West. So, my question is this. Why did the job to redevelop the brand and its internal space go to a consultancy on the South Coast (www. designweek.co.uk 7 January)? Broome Jenkins (which commissioned illustrator John McFaul to create a 300m-long mural for the airport terminal, pictured above) is a great consultancy with a ...
