Design Week
19 October 2006
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A professional approach means being able to say no
19 October 2006
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Adrenaline fuels a new look for academy
19 October 2006
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B&W Studio designs Urban Splash's annual review
19 October 2006
B&W Studio has designed Urban Splash's annual review. It features photography by Pete Defty and Mat Wright.
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Belgian fayre
19 October 2006
Is there really any need for another furniture fair? Can anyone really stand to benefit other than retailers of corn plasters? In its favour, you can at least say that Interieur 06, the furniture fair held in the little-known Belgian town of Kortrijk, near to Lille, is only held every two ...
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Bloom designs hotel collection
19 October 2006
Bloom has designed the third in the series of the Mr & Mrs Smith Hotel Collection. It is published by Spy Publishing this week.
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Design Council and CCS scheme to be rated by panel
19 October 2006
The skills consultation initiative being run by the Design Council and Creative and Cultural Skills is set to go into its second phase at the start of next month, when it is to be evaluated by the 25-strong Design Skills Advisory Panel.
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Design Reunited
19 October 2006
Will Different by Design close when its funding runs out, or morph into a different sort of development project? Scott Billings asks the question.
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Enterprise appoints US creative director
19 October 2006
Enterprise IG has appointed Wally Krantz as executive creative director for the US. He moves from FutureBrand New York, where he was creative director. Previously, he spent 11 years at Landor Associates's New York and San Francisco studios.
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Enviga drink design unveiled
19 October 2006
Nestlé and Coca-Cola have unveiled the design of the soon-to-be-launched Enviga drink this week. The calorie-burning beverage will be rolled out from the US, but its designer has not been identified.
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Fitch makes over George flagship store
19 October 2006
Asda is trialling a radical new retail look for George, its eponymous fashion brand, with the opening of a £1.1m flagship store designed by Fitch.
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Freelance and easy
19 October 2006
In-house photographers and illustrators are rare, so why the push for in-house writers? asks Jim Davies. Outsourced words can be creative and financial gold
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Hat Trick and Wentworth refresh six Scottish museums
19 October 2006
National Museums of Scotland is overhauling the naming and visual identity of its six institutions, under a scheme created by Hat Trick Design Consultants and Jane Wentworth Associates.
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Herman Miller's Aeron chair wasn't available until 1994
19 October 2006
While it was a privilege to be included in your Twenty Years On supplement in the Jeremy Myerson article Essential Selection, I would like to point out that the Aeron chair was launched in 1994, not 1992.
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Hookson lifts Scottish rescue service's report
19 October 2006
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Identica designs branding for Icelandic bank
19 October 2006
Identica has designed the brand identity for on-line Icelandic bank Icesave, which launches in the UK this month. The consultancy was appointed to the project in May. The website can be found at www.icesave.co.uk. The bank's identity features a simple and
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Imagination designs interactive show for Singapore
19 October 2006
Imagination has created the branding and exhibition design for Innovationation, an event commemorating 25 years of technology in Singapore.
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Inspired
19 October 2006
At art school in Madrid back in the 1980s I began a love affair with Pedro Almodóvar's films. In the darkness of the Alphaville cinema I was entranced.
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Licked
19 October 2006
A noble canvas for micro art, or a humble indicia set for a hi-tech overhaul? The postage stamp is both, inspiring both trainspotter loyalty and commercial indifference. Jane Austin sticks to the issues
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Liverpool One work correction...
19 October 2006
The Liverpool One work, by Bostock and Pollitt, that won Best of Category in Design Week's Benchmarks Awards, was based on branding created by Wolff Olins (DW 12 October). Wolff Olins also developed the positioning for the regeneration project.
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Looking ethical on-line isn't quite good enough
19 October 2006
I welcomed the latest cover article on ethical design (DW 21 September). Given the sometimes highly influential positions designers can find themselves in, I feel as an industry we are guilty of crime in absentia. Too often our extra energy is channelled into personal aims rather than ethical ones.
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Make sure that any consultancy you use checks its clients
19 October 2006
In response to the feature on ethical design (DW 21 September), the world will be a better place
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Media Sq shareholders rebuff bid
19 October 2006
Media Square chief executive Jeremy Middleton says shareholders are sticking to its strategy, despite receiving an acquisition offer for about two-thirds of its businesses this week. In design, the group owns Lloyd Northover, CRC and Holmes & Marchant. The offer valued the design and services businesses at more than £41m.
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Merrell Publishers launches The A-Z of Modern Design
19 October 2006
Merrell Publishers is this week launching The A-Z of Modern Design by Bernd Polster, Claudia Neumann, Markus Schuler and Frederick Leven. The 540-page encyclopaedia of international product and furniture design features influential designers ranging from
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News in Pictures
19 October 2006
Jamie Hewlett has designed Gorillaz: Rise of the Ogre, which chronicles the rise of the virtual band. It is published in hardback by Penguin at the end of the month, priced £25.
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Profile: Lesley Morris
19 October 2006
Lesley Morris is the Design Council's self-effacing head of skills, and she has managed to get the industry excited about education, skills and learning. She tells Mike Exon how she did it
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Prospect designs site for Silverjet
19 October 2006
The soon-to-launch, low-fare, business-class air carrier Silverjet, which is due to start flying in January next year, has launched its on-line bookings site (www.flysilverjet.com) designed by Prospect Design. The carrier is also is set to unveil a livery by Strategic Fusion. The initial strategic positioning and branding was by Promise and M&C Saatchi (DW 20 April).
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Review
19 October 2006
Forthcoming exhibitions, talks and events
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Save the Children calls up Johnson Banks for review
19 October 2006
Save the Children UK is to embark on a full review of its brand positioning and tone of voice, and has appointed Johnson Banks to the task, Design Week can reveal.
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shortlist announced for Jerwood Applied Arts Prize
19 October 2006
The shortlist for the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize 2007 has been announced, with six designer-makers - Sue Cross, Nora Fok, Yoko Izawa, Grainne Morton, Adam Paxon and Mah Rana - selected from a total of 87 entries. The winner of the £30 000 award, which this year turns to jewellery, will be announced in June 2007 and will be followed by an exhibition of shortlisted work at the Jerwood Space in London.
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Slovenian design centre on cards at this year's Bio
19 October 2006
Slovenia's 20th Biennial of Industrial Design, which is underway in Ljubljana until 5 November, will expand its global reach and seek to attract more international designers and partners from South America and Asia in the future.
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Talk the talk for a Chinese walk
19 October 2006
Word of mouth and brand heritage are more important than advertising in China. This is vital knowledge for designers eyeing the market, says Wing Hang Yip
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Tayburn design Glenmorangie xmas pack
19 October 2006
Glenmorangie this month launches a Christmas gift pack, with design by Tayburn.
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The Partners promotion fills Thomas's role
19 October 2006
The Partners has promoted Nick Clark to the position of creative consultant, filling the role left by Gillian Thomas in May (DW 13 April). He joined The Partners in 1997 and has led visual identity projects for clients including Ford and Telstra. The consultancy has also appointed former Interbrand consultant and founder of strategic consultancy Onesixtyfourth Martin Rowlatt as strategic consultant.
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The Plant cooks up a new design for Oliver
19 October 2006
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is relaunching his Italian-inspired food range with a revamped design by The Plant.
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Toyota Design gets production go-ahead
19 October 2006
Toyota has confirmed that it is to roll out further designs from its European Design Centre in France, the home of the Toyota Yaris.
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Typo Circle season looks to raise profile
19 October 2006
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Voxpop
19 October 2006
As London sets about redesigning its wayfinding ahead of the 2012 Olympics, how could street signage in your home town be improved to help travel on foot and encourage exploration?
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Where are the lobby groups if designers have gone Green?
19 October 2006
Clare Dowdy's report on the development of ethical consciousness among design consultancies (DW 21 September) chimed with my experience of the state of the British design industry.
