Design Week
19 May 2011
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Ampersand conference to explore online typography use
19 May 2011
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Berlin bound
19 May 2011
Cheap rent and lots of space make the German capital an attractive destination for artists and experimental designers alike. Clare Dowdy peruses the city ahead of this year’s International Design Festival Berlin
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Best of the Web
19 May 2011
http://tinyurl.com/6bug6abNewfoundoriginal.com is an online shop set up by Jo Murray and Dominic Bell, selling new, found and original graphic products. This featured item ties in nicely with Garrick Webster’s piece on letterpress (DW 12 May). A set of luxury letterpress coasters by artist and designer Ryan Todd is this week’s must-buy.
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Blacksheep develops global retail concept for Wedgwood
Wed, 18 May 2011
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Canon Europe adds Stocks Taylor Benson to its design roster
19 May 2011
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Chilli gets the cream
19 May 2011
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Conran Singh in digital work for civic project Your Square Mile
Wed, 18 May 2011
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Create better brands, don't just greenwash
19 May 2011
Today a brand’s ecological manifesto needs to truly set it apart from its peers and not just pay lip service to sustainability, says Julie Oxberry
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Design Museum looks set to raise the bar for broader presentation of design
19 May 2011
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Dragon Rouge works on Duke of Edinburgh Award rebrand
Wed, 18 May 2011
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Events industry marketing body Face Time in good Form with new campaign graphics
19 May 2011
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Funding is not biggest problem for courses
19 May 2011
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Hemisphere digitally recreates gallery balcony in accessibility project
Wed, 18 May 2011
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Heraldic Blackburn Rovers kit is a truly British icon
19 May 2011
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Inspired
19 May 2011
Neil Svensen - Rufus Leonard
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Liquid assets
19 May 2011
Drinks manufacturers have increasingly turned to less expensive and versatile plastics, but recent technological advances have given a raft of new possibilities to packaging with traditional materials such as glass and tin, as David Benady explains
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Menagerie
Thu, 19 May 2011
Swooping hawks, geometrically-feathered chickens and glassy-eyed owls will all inhabit the London gallery Art Work Space at the end of May for an exhibition featuring Fran Giffard, Izzie Klingels, Ella Johnston and Susie Wright.
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News in Pictures
19 May 2011
Someone has rebranded PR group Resonate. It created the graphics by freezing flowers in liquid nitrogen before detonating them and capturing images on a Photron Fastcam SA1.
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News in Pictures
19 May 2011
Silk Pearce has created a campaign for Paper Co to promote its 9 Lives range of recycled papers and boards.
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Parker Williams cultivates new look for Miracle-Gro
19 May 2011
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Press 81 cider bottle glows with Touchpoint branding
19 May 2011
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Profile: Quayola
19 May 2011
This Italian conceptual artist and film-maker creates installations that respond to and rework famous pieces of art and architecture on the Continent. Garrick Webster talks to him about the art of sampling and deconstruction
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RCA to bring in new schools structure
Wed, 18 May 2011
Neville Brody is to become dean of the Royal College of Art’s School of Communication as part of a new academic structure being implemented at the RCA.
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Robots that draw
Thu, 19 May 2011
Perhaps 2001: A Space Odyssey’s Hal would have been a lot happier if he’d had a chance to draw as part of Stanley Kubrick’s film.The robot in action
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Scidox film-makers site by Baigent Digital
19 May 2011
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Shop of the range
19 May 2011
Mainstream high-street retailers such as Topshop, Marks & Spencer and Debenhams are competing to offer personal shopping services that were once the preserve of high-end department stores, says Emily Gosling
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Techtile topography
19 May 2011
Typography is transformed into art by Alida Sayer, who manipulates type to create works that resemble stills from 3D animations. Her latest creations, produced for the upcoming show Presence Absence, take printed passages from stories of encounters with altered states, including Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse V and Haruki Murakami’s The Mirror, which are then painted and projected on to layers of acetate.
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The new Ella's
19 May 2011
Blue Marlin has created packaging for organic children’s and baby food brand Ella’s Kitchen. Blue Marlin global chief executive Andrew Eyles says, ’The original design was very close to the founder’s heart. Our new look is bold and impactful; it strengthens the branding.’
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Virtual unreality
19 May 2011
While Twitter has opened up insular design debates to a wider audience, to some devotees it’s a perpetual distraction from what’s going on in the physical world, argues Jim Davies
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Voxpop
19 May 2011
The Brand Union and Lambie-Nairn are attempting to break the Guinness World Record by creating the world’s largest book. Which world record would you like to break?
