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18 April 2002

  • Album cover artwork features in a special tribute to Scott Piering

    18 April 2002

  • Attik brands Foster and Partners' 'erotic gherkin'

    18 April 2002

    Attik has created a raft of branded elements for architect Foster and Partners' 'erotic gherkin' building in the City of London, which will house the headquarters of the insurer Swiss Re.

  • Baltic, Gateshead

    18 April 2002

    External sign design: Julian Opie

  • Blass interiors for Baron Jon stores

    18 April 2002

  • Book

    18 April 2002

    Paul Fryer's first collection of poems, illustrated by Damien Hirst is out this month, published by Trolley. Don't be so touches on drinking, drugs, love and life and is available for £24.95.

  • Bursary

    18 April 2002

    Need a helping hand? UK-based designer-makers in furniture, lighting, textiles and interior accessories can apply for a 100esign/ Crafts Council Bursary providing ten winners with 50 per cent off the cost of stand space at 100 per cent design in September

  • Call for entries Bursary

    18 April 2002

    The Oxo Peugeot Design Awards 2002 close for entry on 26 April. It's open to all UK-based designers for one object designed and made over the past year.Contact: Go to www.peugeot.co. UK/designawards to download an application form.

  • Clive Grinyer: Educating the educated

    18 April 2002

    Clive Grinyer thinks the UK needs to follow the US lead of holding design workshops that aim to restore passion and creativity in the design workforce

  • Consultancies are just too busy to take on new people

    18 April 2002

    It seems few consultancies are employing people at the moment. But, on the other hand, people are working longer hours than ever. And it's the regular 12-hour days experienced by many designers that have to be questioned.

  • Demand grows for work by Greenpeace artist Banksy

    18 April 2002

  • Design initiative for patient safety

    18 April 2002

    The Design Council and Department of Health are jointly funding a project that aims to improve patient safety through design-led solutions, health minister Lord Hunt announced this week.A Design Council research team will look at the design of medical equipment and patient information.Meanwhile, the NHS London Design Advisory Group, a Sorrell Foundation project, is due to present proposals on how design can improve NHS patients' experience.

  • Designers should innovate and communicate ideas

    18 April 2002

    I handed a copy of Jim Davies' feature (DW 11 April) to one of the brand voice specialists I'm working with. 'It makes some interesting points about verbal identity,' I said, 'but there's all the usual stuff about designers being illiterate'. He trundled off, giggling.

  • Digest

    18 April 2002

    Wirebox Designs has developed a new brand identity and website for legal headhunting firm Glass Consultancy. The work will be unveiled in the last week of April.

  • Digest

    18 April 2002

    In last week's issue (DW 11 April) we incorrectly referred to the Hayward Gallery as the Haywood Gallery and it is Jones Knowles Ritchie that has redesigned packaging for the Hammerite brand.

  • Digest

    18 April 2002

    Partners Columns has designed the covers for novels from the new Mills & Boon imprint Red Dress Ink, launched this week.

  • Digest

    18 April 2002

    Blueprint is this week due to deliver the annual review it has designed for HFC Bank, the UK's largest consumer finance business. The consultancy was appointed in January following a four-way unpaid creative pitch.

  • Digest

    18 April 2002

    Wolff Olins will present concepts for new branding for Gift Aid to The Giving Campaign later this month. The consultancy has been working with focus groups and stakeholders since early March and won the project following a four-way competitive pitch.

  • Digest

    18 April 2002

    Social is working on brochures and a transport-led advertising campaign for the June opening of a new five-star hotel in Leeds, the SAS Group's Radisson Hotel.

  • Digest

    18 April 2002

    Tayburn Design has designed Hilton Leisure Breaks' spring/ summer 2002 brochure, which launches next week. The consultancy will also design the hotel brand's autumn/winter 2002 brochure.

  • Digest

    18 April 2002

    Agenda Design has been appointed to create five corporate brochures for Historic Royal Palaces.

  • Digest

    18 April 2002

    Checkland Kindleysides has been appointed to revamp the store design, brand identity, packaging and point-of-sale material for fashion retailer Principles.

  • Digest

    18 April 2002

    Coventry University this week began development of a design laboratory. The £1.3m project will provide a drive-in 3D digitising bay, a computer-aided styling studio and digital production theatre, and will support research with both multinational and local companies.

  • Digest

    18 April 2002

    CLA was responsible for designing and staging this week's annual conference of the Defence Information Circle. The work included designs for the logo, theming and literature.

  • Digest

    18 April 2002

    Trickett & Webb has designed the packaging for Boots the Chemists' new Depilatories range. The consultancy, briefed to create a glamorous, summery image for the products, has used illustrations of 1950s-style pin-up girls by artist Syd Brak.

  • Enterprise IG NY revamps Foresters

    18 April 2002

    Enterprise IG New York has rebranded global insurance and financial services company Foresters, with all work, including a revamped identity, to launch on 26 April.

  • Events

    18 April 2002

    Architects and interior designers are scared of technology; Trite Hints

  • Exhibitions

    18 April 2002

    Beck's Futures 2002; On the Road; How to be Modern; A Fridge Too Far?; Ceramic Contemporaries

  • Fishburn Hedges builds Alfred MacAlpine reports

    18 April 2002

  • Foundation 33 stars on breakfast

    18 April 2002

    Foundation 33 has created the identity and on-screen graphics for Rise, the Channel 4 breakfast programme that will replace Big Breakfast by the end of this month.

  • French designers win exhibition job

    18 April 2002

    Event Communications and Team Saatchi Events have lost out to French designers Veronique Massenet and Remy Dumas-Prymbault in a pitch to design Fatal Attraction, a travelling natural history exhibition.

  • Frost Design has created the graphics and literature for NYC

    18 April 2002

  • Giant photomosaic to wrap London's Imax Cinema

    18 April 2002

    From 10 April, the façade of London's Imax Cinema will be wrapped in a giant photomosaic, as part of Canon Europe's You Can brand campaign.

  • Grand masters

    18 April 2002

    While visiting this year's Milan Furniture Fair Lynda Relph-Knight checked into two challenging hotel design installations

  • Hampstead Theatre stages rebrand

    18 April 2002

    Venture 3 has begun research into the brand positioning of London's Hampstead Theatre, as part of a wider rebranding exercise.

  • Helmet size is reduced to avoid drooping effect

    18 April 2002

    Heard the one about the policeman's wobbly helmet? For years, tourists have flocked to admire the size and stature of the humble British bobby's dazzling dome.

  • Image isn't everything, but writers have a lot to learn

    18 April 2002

  • Imperial War Museum of the North, Trafford, Manchester

    18 April 2002

    Sign and identity design: Agenda Design Associates

  • Jack Morton in training for games ceremony job

    18 April 2002

    Jack Morton Worldwide is beginning rehearsals in the City of Manchester Stadium next week for the £12m design and staging of the opening and closing ceremonies of this summer's Commonwealth Games.

  • Man Of Letters

    18 April 2002

    Mike Dempsey meets legendary advertising copywriter David Abbott to talk about his first interview, famous colleagues and the power of the written word

  • Maps aren't so shady and reflect changing landscape

    18 April 2002

    I too share Hugh Pearman's fondness for maps, particularly mountainous ones (DW 11 April).

  • Milan Furniture Fair has a feeling of emptiness

    18 April 2002

    What would you do with an empty stand at the high-profile Milan Furniture Fair fringe event, SaloneSatellite?

  • NFU to farm out update of logo

    18 April 2002

    The National Farmers Union is in consultation about the future of its red tractor logo following Government recommendations that it needs to be updated.

  • Novartus' identity born of Immaculate Conceptions

    18 April 2002

  • OPX covers Interface carpet tiles campaign

    18 April 2002

    OPX has created the designs for carpet tile manufacturer Interface's largest ever brand awareness campaign.

  • Photography

    18 April 2002

    Glow, an exhibition of photographs by Philip Simpson, studying the area surrounding Dungeness nuclear power station in Sussex, shows from 19 April until 14 June.Venue: Browns, 29 Queen Elizabeth Street, London SE1.

  • Rose tunes into new TTC literature

    18 April 2002

  • Russian reservation for GA Design

    18 April 2002

  • Snacks that will whet your appetite

    18 April 2002

    Trish Lorenz finds out how companies are using design to target the foodies of the 'adult snack' market

  • ST Strange Thing sofa designed by Philippe Starck has launched

    18 April 2002

  • Taking the pain out of a management buyout

    18 April 2002

    Management buyouts may have slowed down in the UK over the past year, says Martin Griffiths, but high success rates have ensured it is still a buoyant sector

  • The Deep, Hull

    18 April 2002

  • Time to inject an element of fun into the hard work

    18 April 2002

    An artist friend said recently of the Milan Furniture Fair, 'It's only a chair show', but even he - a self-confessed chair addict - turned up there last week because he knows it represents so much more. It is an international cultural event that brings together art, design and manufacturing with a passion that was hardly dampened by the constant rain that poured down in Milan this year.

  • V&A plans more redevelopments

    18 April 2002

    The Victoria & Albert Museum will tomorrow announce plans for a £150m redevelopment of the museum over the next ten years, including a £4m investment in design over the next 12 months.

  • Vox pop

    18 April 2002

    Clients are becoming increasingly reluctant for design groups to release information to the press about their projects. How can design groups change clients' minds on this, given the lost potential for publicity all round?

  • Waking Life to open in cinemas this week

    18 April 2002

  • Waterfall's Pokia network uses shock-headed tactics

    18 April 2002

  • Way ahead

    18 April 2002

    Pamela Buxton finds her way round unusual signage systems inside three landmark UK visitor attractions

  • Woolworths set to refresh brand

    18 April 2002

    Woolworths is revamping its identity and will reveal the outcome of strategy work in September. It will refresh branding in-store and in Christmas ads, but denies any changes are planned to the logo.The revamp follows last month's appointment of Trevor Bish-Jones as chief executive.

  • Young designers need Exposure

    18 April 2002

    New Designers is inviting applications to be part of Exposure, an exhibition of newly established working designers coinciding with its London student shows at the Business Design Centre in July.Exposure, organised in association with Design Week, will showcase designers who have been in business for five years or less.For further details contact Tanem Mehmet on tanemm@businessdesigncentre.co.uk.

  • Ztwo brand recipe for the Bakin' Boys

    18 April 2002

    Cake and snack bar brand The Fabulous Bakin' Boys is launching three new products with packaging design by Ztwo Design.

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