Design Week
18 September 2008
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A vision of future car design
18 September 2008
Car design, shaped by the needs of the internal combustion engine for a century, is now undergoing a revolution thanks to developments in battery technology. Guy Bird looks at what we could all be driving in a few years
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AIG creates identity for Helen Hamlyn Trust learning drive
18 September 2008
Grants and innovation charity the Helen Hamlyn Trust has enlisted design group AIG to create an identity for its Open Futures learning initiative.AIG creative director Malcolm Garrett was introduced to Lady Hamlyn in August and was asked to review collateral materials, including handouts and information packs.Working with project research director Lucy O'Rourke, AIG was asked to develop a visual coherence for Open Futures, an initiative that seeks to establish 'a skills ...
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Bichard to lobby for design at Institute for Government
18 September 2008
Sir Michael Bichard is to become executive director of the Institute for Government, where he aims to lobby for solutions to Govern mental problems through inclusive design.
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Brockmans Gin to be launched in the UK
18 September 2008
Gin brand Brockmans Gin, which is intended to be drunk neat with ice, launches in the UK in November. Design consultancy Us claims that it was involved in its development, from concept creation and naming to branding, packaging and communications. It worked with brand development agency Ten 100 to develop the brand positioning and strategy for the product. The drink is primarily aimed at young bar or club drinkers.
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Commercial boom time?
18 September 2008
A slew of property ventures is launching in the face of a recessionary storm, and it’s all good news for branding consultancies, says David Benady
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Commercial push by universities may damage
18 September 2008
I'm writing in response to the ongoing debate in your magazine about universities undermining design consultancies by offering commercial product design services, and in particular your piece last week (News, DW 11 September). This latest article perfectly highlights the problems we face as professional consultancies from the very institutions that we trained in or source our employees from. How can we 'educate' these institutions not to bite the hand that (often) feeds? ...
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Could trends forecasting be the new design strategy?
18 September 2008
One of the great joys of design is the enterprising way in which consultancies do business. There is no set pattern. Each group has its own management style, reflecting its culture and personality, which is one of the reasons we invite practitioners to share their experiences ...
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Courting genius
18 September 2008
Adrenaline-fuelled work to tight deadlines is all very well, but real brilliance emerges when you allow time for a bit of tinkering and gazing, says Jim Davies
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D&AD is in good shape, and looking to the future
18 September 2008
In response to Lynda Relph-Knight's piece (Comment, DW 4 September), I would like to make a correction to your assertion that the financial shortcomings are the reason for the post of D&AD chief executive remaining unfilled.
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Design brings £100m Kings Place to fruition
18 September 2008
The much anticipated £100m London arts and music venue Kings Place opens officially to the public this week, the culmination of a raft of interiors, signage, branding and environmental design projects.The development, which lies in the heart of one of London's largest regeneration sites, will house the capital's first purpose-built concert hall since 1982, as well as two galleries, sculpture courts, cafés, restaurants and office space.Branding for the venue, created by ...
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Digest
18 September 2008
Architect and design group Future Systems has been appointed by global media giant News Corporation to transform its London headquarters into a 'dynamic and inspiring 21st-century workplace'.
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Digest
18 September 2008
International product and furniture designer Sebastian Bergne joins the Royal College of Art as visiting professor from this autumn.
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Digest
18 September 2008
Lewis Moberly has redesigned the packaging and branding for Warre's Warrior port, which owner Symington Family Estates claims is the oldest port label in the world.
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Digest
18 September 2008
Motif Creative has designed the brand name and visual identity for a range of premium organic knitting yarn, Ethical Twist, for Spectrum Yarns.
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Digest
18 September 2008
The Brand Union has appointed Stéphane Ricou chief executive of its Paris studio, replacing managing director Ismael Ibnoulouafi, who is to become chief executive for East Asia.
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Digest
18 September 2008
Caulder Moore has created a new visual identity for laser vision correction surgery Centre for Sight.
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Digital money
18 September 2008
Despite a gloomy economic outlook, interactive designers are better placed than many of their offline colleagues. Nurturing digital clients requires both creative and tactical thinking, plus an awareness of how design spend could shift, but there is definitely gold in the digital hills, says David Benady
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Ecodesign Centre Wales reports on sustainability drive
18 September 2008
Ecodesign Centre Wales this week reports back to the Welsh Assembly on its programme to embed sustainable design in business, with the ultimate aim of establishing Wales as an eco design-led nation.
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Fringe shows take limelight
18 September 2008
Though 100% Design is still expected to be one of the key attractions at this year's sixth London Design Festival, top names within the industry have created a raft of alternative events, installations and exhibitions across the capital.Building on the success of last year's installations by architects and product designers Zaha Hadid and Amanda Levete, David Adjaye's undulating tulipwood pavilion Sclera, for Size & Matter, is set to take centre stage on the South Bank, ...
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Futures
18 September 2008
It’s not easy to label Andy Cameron. The British-born creative director of interaction design at Fabrica describes himself as an artist, but he could just as easily be called a designer, curator, writer and educator. From his idyllic base outside Venice,
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Futures - Interaction
18 September 2008
Young designers are lucky. They’ve yet to be squeezed by the trials of studio life and can think freely on pure design ideas.
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Go your own way
18 September 2008
Personal wayfinding used to mean an unwieldy map and getting lost, but digital technologies mean that signs have the potential to become interactive. Costs are still high, reliability needs addressing, and privacy remains an issue. However, three nascent projects reveal the potential, finds John Stones HOW WE get to where we want to go has recently changed. Set off in a car, and you are now as likely to rely on in-car satnav as you are ...
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High Drama
18 September 2008
Long gone are the days of no-nonsense exhibition design – today’s events are all about interaction, cutting-edge technology and narrative journeys. Yolanda Zappaterra learns the latest thinking from some maestros in the field
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In Reply
18 September 2008
The opening ceremony was a Chinese-led event RitaSue Siegel’s letter (DW 11 September) credited Jack Morton with the design of Beijing’s Olympic opening ceremony, before going on to express dismay at China’s use of foreign design talent. In fact, the Beijing ceremonies were very much led and designed by the Chinese, under the artistic direction of Zhang Yimou. Our involvement at the London office of Jack Morton was as production consultants, not designers as the letter ...
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Inspired
18 September 2008
Where can I begin and where can I end?As an individual, I am inspired by everyday experiences: an early morning run through Richmond Park, my walk to work, my studio location, my wife, my three daughters, an evening with friends, cooking, gardening, a motorbike ride on a beautiful sunny day - to improve my quality of life.As an industrial product designer, I am inspired by everyday challenges that face others: accessing hard-to-open packaging, lifting and using objects, ...
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Interface design
18 September 2008
TV used to be easy. There were just two broadcasters and three channels, and they decided what we watched, when we watched it. Now there are umpteen content providers and multiple platforms, and we watch when we please. This competition forces old-style broadcasters to think about interface design much more seriously. Richard Titus is taking no chances at the BBC
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Introduction
18 September 2008
INTERACTIVE MEDIA is the new design reality. While traditional media are chewing their heads off in the search to find new ways of surviving in an electronic, always-on environment, all things digital are calmly taking over the world.
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Island Records is set to release Keane’s new album
18 September 2008
Island Records is set to release Keane’s new album on 13 October, with a sleeve designed by east London design consultancy Tourist.
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Mobile Gaming
18 September 2008
The numbers speak volumes. Within 20 days of its App Store launch, Sega sold 300 000 copies of Super Monkeyball, while Tap Tap Revenge from Palo Alto start-up Tapulous was downloaded by a mindboggling one million users in a month.
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News in Pictures
18 September 2008
This five-storey-high paper cascade by artist Richard Sweeney, made from a single piece of structured paper, will tumble down the 20m-long Stamp Stair at Somerset House, The Strand, London WC2, as part of The Origin Intervention exhibition, which runs from 7-19 October.
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Nextbigthing appointed to design trophies
18 September 2008
London Remade has appointed Nextbigthing to design trophies for the Mayor of London's Green Procurement Awards.
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Observer of the absurd
18 September 2008
Multidisciplinary is a much-vaunted word today, but, arguably, the early 20th century term ‘polymath’ was more ambitious and all-encompassing. Take Jean Cocteau – poet, novelist, filmmaker, artist.
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Play away
18 September 2008
Far from hindering their use as a gaming platform, the small screens of mobile phones have triggered a renaissance in high quality, design-led games. Minimalism, nostalgia and Japanese comic art are strong themes.
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Profile: Luciano Giubbilei
18 September 2008
Garden designer Luciano Giubbilei doesn’t do flowers or perennial borders, but that hasn’t stopped him being a hit at Chelsea Flower Show. Hannah Booth admires his neatly clipped, manicured spaces for the uber-wealthy
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Rules of thumb
18 September 2008
As converging technologies morph mobile phones in to mini computers, the way users interact with them also changes. In demand is speed, simplicity and easy navigation, as much as rich media content, finds Sarah Frater
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School's in
18 September 2008
Pure interactive design courses may be rare, but there are plenty that integrate digital and interactive elements with conventional design disciplines.
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Schuh unveils installation
18 September 2008
At its Oxford Street flagship, footwear retailer Schuh has unveiled point-of-sale material and an in-store installation, by London group Roar Creativity, which will be rolled out across the UK, including at Westfield London, from next month. The work reflects a concept of being 'forever young' through beach and carousel images. A climbing frame spelling 'Schuh' in giant letters, against the backdrop of the shingle at Dungeness in Kent, is used to showcase casual ranges, while formal ones ...
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Sensory
18 September 2008
The rustle of petticoats, or snap of a lipstick case, may not count as music but they are just as evocative as any fanfare or lament.
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There's nothing new about the Thames Festival
18 September 2008
Cog's redesign of the London Mayor's Thames Festival identity is a very nice piece of work (www.designweek.co.uk, 26 August), but it is almost exactly the same as last year's Thames Festival print, so how can it be a new identity? Should they not have moved on the design somehow, instead of just repeating what's gone on before?Magali Tonoli, by e-mail
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Touch Feely
18 September 2008
Installations you can smell, hear and feel are at the forefront of interaction design. They create environments that enhance mood by engaging all five senses – and often seem to distort them as well. Scott Billings talks to the designers merrily working o
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Vibrandt’s Sandom on eco-innovation
18 September 2008
Reduce or reinvent? Why choose when you can do both, and help clients innovate with a clear conscience at the same time? says John Sandom
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Voxpop
18 September 2008
Innocent has just made a foray into the food market with its microwaveable Veg Pots. What do you see the impact on an established brand to be when it expands into unfamiliar territory?
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Wayfinding
18 September 2008
The importance of time and place information, and its propensity to change, make airport wayfinding an ideal candidate for digital signage. Basic systems now exist in many departure and arrival lounges, but with the new Heathrow Terminal 5 there was the opportunity to install something more. BAA design director David Bartlett was the man in charge
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Westfield London’s head of design on the mammoth retail project
18 September 2008
With the opening of Westfield London just weeks away, its retail design chief Paula Wyllie is not hanging around. Clare Dowdy goes on-site at the massive new shopping centre with its design head
