Design Week
18 January 2007
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Big prizes for Bristol design winners
18 January 2007
Bristol Media, a design promotion body, is launching a contest next month where designers will be able to win a substantial investment fund made available to creative and media companies in Bristol.The contest is called Goldbrick 6 and is being launched by Bristol Media as part of a wider strategy to establish a more dynamic design community in the South West region. For the competition, designers and companies will present work to a board of six local entrepreneurs in the hope ...
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Black Pig
18 January 2007
Black Pig has designed the branding and new media for Inspiration for Life, a series of events bringing 14- to 15-year-old UK students together with businesses.
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Boots Soltan
18 January 2007
Dew Gibbons has redesigned the packaging for suncare brand Boots Soltan. The fresh design is implemented across 12 different product ranges and features a refined logotype.
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Crafting its case
18 January 2007
It has been a turbulent period for the Crafts Council, which for about five months from November 2005 was without a permanent director and chairman. The period also saw the closure of its London shop and exhibition space - a venue that has given early public profile to a whole roster of now successful and celebrated designers.With the arrival of Rosy Greenlees in March last year to replace former director Louise Taylor, there came an internal acknowledgement that the council needed ...
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Dalziel & Pow takes on big Next and Primark projects
18 January 2007
Retail design consultancy Dalziel & Pow is remaining tight-lipped following its win of a £40m store revamp for fashion retailer Next this week.
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Datamonitor predicts fast rise in luxury food sales
18 January 2007
Speciality foods and drinks are flying off the shelves in the UK with retail sales of luxury brands set to grow, according to a new report from Datamonitor.Retail sales for the top end of the market were worth £3.6bn last year and are poised to increase by 16 per cent to £4.2bn by 2011.UK consumers spend an average of £56 each year on speciality foods and drinks, such as gourmet coffee, chocolates, spirits, wines and craft beers, which rely on the packaging design to frame ...
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Design should work with punctuation, not against it
18 January 2007
How refreshing to read Simon Loxley's piece about the apostrophe.
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Enterprise IG
18 January 2007
Enterprise IG production director Andrew Smith has left the consultancy to join Brandhouse. His replacement at Enterprise IG is yet to be announced.
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FGW train interiors revamped by Jones Garrard Move
18 January 2007
First Great Western has unveiled the first of the new interiors for its high-speed trains, as part of a £63m overhaul. The launch comes as a group of customers refused to pay fares on the service this week in protest against what they claim are unacceptable delays and overcrowding.The redesign, by Michael Rodber in his capacity as founder of specialist transportation design company Jones Garrard Move, is a result of more than two years of design work. It covers everything ...
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Fosters considers its future options
18 January 2007
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Glasgow media group...
18 January 2007
Glasgow media group SMG has unveiled interior and exterior branding for its Pacific Quay HQ designed by 442 Design. The design includes a neon timeline telling the 50-year story of Scottish Television, internal wayfinding, directories, and S-shaped seats to match the screen ident.
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Graphic legacy
18 January 2007
The 1972 Munich Olympics are sadly perhaps most memorable for the massacre of Israeli athletes by Palestinians. But for designers, the games are also memorable for the identity and graphics created by Otl Aicher. The work has assured him a place in the pantheon of design greats since his unfortunate death in 1991, when, in a freak incident, he was hit by a car while mowing his lawn.Aicher's intellectually rigorous, simple, yet ethically engaged design ethic led him to be seen internationally ...
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High profile fashion...
18 January 2007
High profile fashion designer Marc Jacobs is opening a boutique in London this week - his first in the UK - ahead of a formal launch party on 16 February to coincide with London Fashion Week. The 260m2 store in Mayfair's Mount Street is designed by the architect and interior designer Stephan Jaklitsch, who worked with president of Marc Jacobs, Robert Duffy, on the concepts. Jaklitsch has created some 50 Marc Jacobs stores worldwide. The London outlet will carry the Marc by Marc ...
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Holmes Wood wins Pitt Rivers Museum signage
18 January 2007
The Pitt Rivers Museum, an archaeological and anthropological trove in Oxford, has enlisted Holmes Wood to design a signage scheme as part of a £3.8m extension at the venue.
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In a world market you need design of world class
18 January 2007
Indian businesses are very design savvy, but buying design from the UK is going to be more expensive than if bought locally in India. Of course, in a world market, you need world-class design, and we have a lot of that on offer, in areas beyond branding, such as product and transport. Branding often has a higher cash value to a business than other areas of design, so it is not surprising it's singled out. If we all raise our prices to that of a decent branding job, then ...
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Indian companies are willing to pay for brand ambitions
18 January 2007
Following last week's Voxpop on India, I've observed that the intellectual nature of the Indian nation, the manner in which freedom of speech is celebrated and the explosive nature of the economy makes it a vital and compelling market for brand agencies to build business and reputation.The ...
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Inspired
18 January 2007
Newspapers now face both a technological and aesthetic revolution, more influenced than ever by the Internet - creating a full-colour newspaper has never been so challenging.Last year, the dramatic redesign of the Flemish newspaper DeMorgen exemplified how creativity and technology could work together without alienating its readership.I love the charming structure and colour palette of Die Zeit in Germany, the incisive picture editing at the Danish Politiken, the design ...
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Light meal
18 January 2007
After the food, lighting plays a crucial part in the whole eating-out experience. Trish Lorenz picks three new restaurants that use it to maximum effect
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Magma diversifies and Taschen refits
18 January 2007
Magma, the designer bookshop chain (pictured), is seeking to grow its portfolio of stores with outlets that sell a different mix of merchandise.The company, established in 2000, is seeking to launch its first non-bookstore in London later this year, possibly as early as spring, according to Magma co-founder Marc Valli. A second store could also launch in Brighton, although this is yet to be confirmed.The next generation of stores will retail a more varied mix of items, ...
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Mind your manners
18 January 2007
Our passion for speed comes at a price. Faster computer chips and instant communication mean we can crank through our work much more quickly, but this zippy, unrelenting pace brings with it a brand new set of modern-day pressures.Pushy clients have come to expect faster turnaround and impose shorter deadlines as a matter of course. ...
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NB Studio creates V&A show identity
18 January 2007
NB Studio has designed the brand identity, exhibition graphics, signage and marketing material to promote the Victoria & Albert Museum’s forthcoming Uncomfortable Truths show.
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New markets may not be so different from the old
18 January 2007
Not that long ago we were blithely referring to 'emerging markets' for design, lumping together China, Russia, India and even Brazil.Some, notably China, were seen as challenges to the UK economy, given their ability to produce goods at low cost, or, in the case of India, cheap call centre services. But for design groups, all presented opportunities to broaden their horizons and source work abroad.Several consultancies have made successful forays into these territories. ...
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News in Pictures
18 January 2007
London's Barbican this week launches Japanimation, a series of events examining the relationship between Western film and Japanese animation. Anime expert Helen McCarthy will discuss seminal manga films throughout February and March.
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News in Pictures
18 January 2007
Brighton consultancy Tonne has designed a series of graphics for this week's New Scientist magazine illustrating the concepts of 'solidified light'.
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Profile
18 January 2007
Best known for his adaptation of a London Underground map, multimedia artist Simon Patterson applies his dry humour to all of his collaborations. Liz Farrelly talks to him about his latest adaptation
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Rankin
18 January 2007
The eye and its iris are the subjects of Rankin's latest exhibition, Eyescapes, on show at The Gallery on London's Charing Cross Road from 7 February. Rankin has photographed people's eyes up close and then created a series of round photographic prints that show the iris exposed and enlarged. The framed prints will be on sale at The Gallery.
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Serial freelance contracts don't benefit anybody
18 January 2007
You can tell the design world has been busy recently because of the rise of the freelance. Yes, there are some great people out there freelancing, but I would question whether the design consultancy or the freelance actually benefit from the serial one-week dates everyone seems to be on. In my experience, it's impossible for people to get their head around the client, the project and the challenge - let alone the design group's way of working - in such a short time. When ...
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Shooting the messenger
18 January 2007
Being asked to create designs for a problematic product can be a poisoned chalice for designers. Clare Dowdy looks at some of the challenges involved
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Slow start for South Bank's new branding
18 January 2007
The South Bank Centre quietly unveiled its Wolff Olins-designed branding this week, almost a year after the anticipated launch date.A bold graphic style of coloured, overlapping stripes and block shapes has been adopted for the visual identity, as previewed by designweek.co.uk last Friday.The identity is intended to act as an overarching style for the centre's cultural venues, including the Royal Festival Hall and Hayward Gallery, although it is not clear how these potentially ...
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Smart move
18 January 2007
Apple's design for its recently announced iPhone surpasses expectations with its intuitive user interface and attention to detail. But will it take over the smart-phone market? Mark Delaney says rivals could find it very hard to compete
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The blue sky is the limit
18 January 2007
Internal creative schemes can give staff the freedom to explore ideas that engage them and be great incentives for creativity
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The Institute of Chartered Accountants
18 January 2007
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales has unveiled a £65 000 corporate identity for the first time in over 50 years, designed by Dragon. The design retains Economia, the female figure from the Institute's coat of arms. The symbols of the accountancy profession - the rod, the rudder and the dividers - have been redesigned.
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The writer's job starts with brand definition
18 January 2007
Let's hope that John Allert's prediction is right. Perhaps '2007 will be the year of words used wisely'. He's in a good position to influence this, as he heads Interbrand. The big consultancies have a lot to answer for, because so often they use such clunky words to define brands, and they squeeze them into brand models with geometric shapes, as if lacking confidence in the words themselves. Such lack of confidence can be explained when words emerge from a 'strategic process' ...
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Tory story
18 January 2007
The big guns of caricature love failure - nothing excites the pen more than a constant turnover of policy and faces. It makes the approach simple, if a bit unfair
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Voxpop
18 January 2007
Design and branding in India are tipped to boom. Reports, however, suggest that the major branding groups are often seen as too expensive for the market. Do Indian corporations still need to realise the real value of strategic branding?The concept of branding is relatively ...
