Design Week
18 March 2010
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A graphics course would help my MP to communicate
18 March 2010
In response to the question ’What would you design for your MP, and why?’ (Voxpop, DW 18 February), it would have to be a crash-course in design - to top off his flawless socialist credentials.
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A new balance
18 March 2010
Rattled by the recession over the past year, many in the industry have had to reduce their expectations and reassess their objectives. Anna Richardson unpacks this emerging sense of realism on the cusp of a tentative upturn. Research by Suzanne Hinchliffe
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Are old hands better than young Turks?
18 March 2010
George Foster thinks that there’s something to be said for having a few grey hairs when it comes to devising a Great Idea for a client
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Best of the Web
18 March 2010
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Billboard blues
18 March 2010
Michael Johnson fears a decline in the quality of poster design in the commercial and cultural arenas, as print skills are edged out by digital design. But there’s hope on the horizon in the form of strong Polish work - and nothing’s stopping us here in the UK, either. Yolanda Zappaterra reports
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Blueleaf is designing a set of training materials for British Cycling
18 March 2010
Blueleaf is designing a set of training materials for British Cycling to give out to coaches, covering BMX, mountain biking, and road and track racing.
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Body Shop looks to recruit new global creative director after departure of Nikki Austen
18 March 2010
The Body Shop International is recruiting for the role of global creative director, in the wake of Nikki Austen’s departure in January.
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Creative Concern unveilsbranding for new Lancashire Wildlife Trust nature reserve
18 March 2010
Creative Concern has branded a new £8.6m nature reserve and visitor centre called Brockholes, which is due to open next spring.
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Crush gives new identity to Arts Agenda
18 March 2010
Creative production company Arts Agenda has appointed Brighton-based design consultancy Crush to create a new brand identity and website.
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Digital consultancy Fish in a Bottle has created a series of online educational games for BBC Ireland
18 March 2010
Digital consultancy Fish in a Bottle has created a series of online educational games for BBC Ireland - entitled Top Teeth - to teach children about the importance of oral hygiene.
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Folding plug concept wins 2010 Brit Insurance Awards
18 March 2010
Min-Kyu Choi’s folding plug design has won the Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2010 award.
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Forster has appointed Sally Robson as its client services director
18 March 2010
Forster has appointed Sally Robson as its client services director.
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Government move will hit smaller outfits
18 March 2010
Well, it was all very interesting to read ’Buyers’ guide’, your article about the Associate Parliamentary Design & Innovation Group’s long-awaited report on public-sector design procurement (News Analysis, DW 4 March), but the group doesn’t seem up to speed with recent events.
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Inspired: Steve Smith - Beakus
18 March 2010
The technology behind, or often at the front of, visual expression inspires me.
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Making do
18 March 2010
Could the success of the Keep Calm and Carry On poster represent a hankering for the wartime values of stoicism and simplicity - in graphics, as well as in life? Jim Davies thinks so
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Mummy Marketing and Attica Design dress up mother-and-toddler club Mummy n' Me
18 March 2010
Attica Design is creating the branding and Mummy Marketing is designing the interiors for a new mother-and-toddler club called Mummy n’ Me.
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Museum piece
18 March 2010
A Practice for Everyday Life has created initial promotional material for The Hepworth Wakefield, as part of its work on the new museum’s identity.
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Navyblue has designed branding and packaging for Speyside single malt Scotch whisky
18 March 2010
Navyblue has designed branding and packaging for distiller Gordon & MacPhail’s Mortlach 70-year-old Speyside single malt Scotch whisky, featuring an engraved, tear-shaped bottle.
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News in Pictures
18 March 2010
Design Bridge has created liveries for Finnish transport company VR Group.
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News in Pictures
18 March 2010
Tom Dixon will be presenting the Industry collection at the Milan furniture fair. New products include the Void light and the Peg chair. The Milan furniture fair runs from 14-19 April.
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News in Pictures
18 March 2010
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Nowt so queer as...
18 March 2010
True North has created an identity and promotional materials for this year’s Queer Up North event, a Manchesterbased festival that celebrates gay culture through the arts.
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Profile: Anitha Soni
18 March 2010
The unveiling of a new brand image for South Africa represents an important step in the development of the young democracy, and signals the growing political and economic influence it now wields. Clare Dowdy talks to the marketing strategist behind it
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Public perception of moral rights issue needs to change
18 March 2010
Regarding the issue of moral rights infringement (Voxpop, DW 11 March), I think the best way to address manipulation of other people’s work is to put in place a system that recognises ownership and provides a cost-efficient and simple means of licensing and permission-based usage.
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Richard Murray and Sam Sampson made great contributions to design
18 March 2010
It has been a sad couple of weeks for design, in which the industry lost two of its leading players. Both Martin ’Sam’ Sampson and Richard Murray made outstanding contributions and both are already deeply missed.
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Sam Sampson: larger than life and a true innovator
18 March 2010
I worked with the late Sam Sampson, first as his client and then as his business partner. In all, we worked closely together for more than 20 years. We made Sampson Tyrrell into one of the leading UK design consultancies and then, in the 1990s, we created and implemented the plan that built Enterprise IG, now The Brand Union.
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Slice Design has redesigned the packaging for Spotless Punch's Lord Sheraton furniture care range
18 March 2010
Slice Design has redesigned the packaging for Spotless Punch’s Lord Sheraton furniture care range, its first redesign in 13 years. A floral motif highlights the products’ natural ingredients.
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Someone rebrands Bethnal Green Old Town Hall as hotel
18 March 2010
Bethnal Green Old Town Hall has been rebranded Town Hall Hotel and Apartments in a project by Someone which references the building’s Edwardian, Art Deco and modern interiors.
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Sowing the party line
18 March 2010
James Dyson’s Ingenious Britain report for the Conservative Party has thrown the spotlight firmly on the role of design in future Government policy thinking. Laura Snoad sounds out senior figures from the industry for their responses
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Swathes of wood
18 March 2010
Martin Grierson’s passion for UK furniture designer-makers is infectious. Granted, he’s a celebrated designer-maker himself, so a love of his craft should be a given, but shining a light on all the 200 workshops he knows of in the UK is one of his main drivers. Last year, Grierson and John Makepeace launched an annual exhibition to raise awareness of the talent among furniture makers.
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Tangerine has designed the identity for Asian media group Chosun
18 March 2010
Tangerine has designed the identity for Asian media group Chosun, unveiled on the face of a 90m rice cake at a conference in South Korea to mark the 90th birthday of newspaper Chosun Ildo.
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Tayburn has designed the logo for Scottish initiative Active Nation
18 March 2010
Tayburn has designed the logo for Scottish initiative Active Nation, which encourages people to exercise more. Among several generic characters used, a jeans-clad figure represents ’everyman’.
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Trevor Flannery has moved to West Midlands-based CCL Design
18 March 2010
Stocks Taylor Benson business development director Trevor Flannery has moved to West Midlands-based CCL Design to become the consultancy’s sales and marketing director.
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Voxpop
18 March 2010
Virtual conferences and events are rising in popularity as companies seek to cut travel costs. Which event would you like to see go online, and why?
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WPA Pinfold has rebranded shooting accessory company AC Supplies as Croots
18 March 2010
WPA Pinfold has rebranded shooting accessory company AC Supplies as Croots.
