Design Week
2 October 2008
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ASHA updates Duke of Edinburgh identity
2 October 2008
The Duke of Edinburgh Award has modernised its image with the help of brand design group Arthur Steen Horne Adamson.The refreshed DofE logo and visual identity will be rolled out over the coming year, across the new website, photography style, magazine and printed materials.'Our brief was to breathe life back into the programme - to modernise it and make it more relevant to young people,' explains ASHA creative director Marksteen Adamson, who has been leading the project ...
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Auto Windscreens to revamps centres
2 October 2008
Auto Windscreens is mid-way through a redesign programme that will probably see it appoint a retail consultancy to revamp its 120 service centres.The RAC-owned car windscreen fitting company is trying to distance itself from its parent company, which previously dominated its visual identity.Auto Windscreens hopes to create a stronger, more independent brand, which is better able to compete against the market leader, Autoglass.With this goal in sight, ...
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BBC2 updates its on-air presentation system
2 October 2008
BBC2 will air a refresh of its on-air presentation system by design and animation duo Vincent for Red Bee Media and BBC2's head of marketing Lindsay Nuttall. Vincent director and designer John Hill says that the bold stepping animation works across endboards, menus and programme genres, with a consistent font weight.
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Bin there
2 October 2008
Abducting a wheelie bin is the sort of prank you associate with student dares and drunken nights out. It's on a par with nicking traffic cones and motorway service signs, and then filming yourself doing it and putting the image on YouTube. In the case of South African design consultancy Cow, which took five bins, the kidnap was more of an urban design project - albeit a project they didn't tell the bin owners about. 'We were interested in how people decorated their bins by painting ...
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Box matches
2 October 2008
Whether as transit protection, branding opportunity or merchandising, electronic goods packaging is a sophisticated challenge for designers already worrying about materials reduction. Paul Gander looks at the approaches taken by four brands
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Etch a text
2 October 2008
From illuminated manuscripts to graphic novels, the work of the illustrator fashions the way readers visualise fictional characters. We take a look at a new book which traces the history of the relationship between words and pictures
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Forge London creates branding for new BBC2 show
2 October 2008
Forge London has created the branding for a new BBC2 children's programme called Chuggington, which premiered on Monday.
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Hamm will have his hands full with the D&AD presidency
2 October 2008
We think Garrick Hamm's got a bit of a job on his hands with D&AD (Voxpop DW 25 September).
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How design drives consumption
2 October 2008
Any analysis of contemporary visual culture tends to major on art, but Deyan Sudjic suggests students of human behaviour shouldn’t underestimate the role played by design in creating the perceptions that drive us all to consume
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In-house isn't always a cost-effective solution
2 October 2008
Reading Scott Billings' article Insider Track (DW 18 September), I am struck by two thoughts that I have witnessed over and over again. First thought: critical mass is crucial to the success of in-house design, but churning 10 000 stock-keeping units a year is pretty extreme. When the requirement is significantly lower, a tipping point is reached and all of the very valid points about tightening design consistency and excellence fall by the wayside. Having run a ...
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Inspired
2 October 2008
Like many designers, I've always used the ubiquitous Moleskine notebook to sketch out ideas. But, recently it seemed that the world and his dog had one of these cool little books - even client meetings had turned into what seemed like a big Moleskine love-in.So, it was time to search out a new source of sketchbook - something that was a little different and more personal. Eventually, I chanced upon these beautiful handmade books from Five and a Half, a small design studio in Brooklyn. ...
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LDA reassures on design centre fears
2 October 2008
The London Development Agency is pouring cold water on rumours that the International Design Centre planned for London will be scrapped due to lack of funding.'We have no reason to assume this won't go ahead,' an LDA spokeswoman says. 'The IDX programme is going through our approvals process, and the next phase of the business case is being prepared.'A source close to the LDA told Design Week in August he suspected it would back out of funding the centre, and Boris Johnson's ...
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Le Cool produces city guides
2 October 2008
Barcelona-based publisher has produced a range of quirky design-led city guides for the discerning hipster.
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LTD commissions artist Jamie Brown
2 October 2008
Sticking a joyous finger up to credit crunch gloom, London-based graphics group LTD has commissioned this wallpaper illustration by artist Jamie Brown. The colourful 10m piece will take pride of place at the consultancy's unofficially dubbed 'F**k the recession' party tomorrow night.
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Nesta report aims to ease route into business for artists
2 October 2008
The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts is boldly attempting to match-make fine art graduates and big business, in the service of stimulating innovation in industry.Nesta's latest research paper, The Art of Innovation, asks how fine arts graduates contribute to innovation. Drawing on interviews with 500 graduates from the University of the Arts, from 1950 to the present, the report discovers potential synergies between the way artists and entrepreneurs regard ...
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News in Pictures
2 October 2008
Emory Douglas, the official graphic artist of the Black Panther party who documented the US civil rights movement in his work, will exhibit for the first time in the UK at The Urbis Museum in Manchester, from 30 October to 9 April 2009.
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News in Pictures
2 October 2008
Play & Soft, a range of children’s soft furnishings created by Italian education consultancy Reggio Children, has been designed to change shape and size to encourage exploration and fit in with learning progression.
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Publish and be damned
2 October 2008
Barbarian publishers, focus groups and falling sales have all put paid to the notion that designers influence the look of magazines, says Adrian Shaughnessy
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Pyott creates communications for DHL
2 October 2008
Design consultancy Pyott has created the sustainability communications for DHL. Pyott was awarded the £199 000 contract in August last year, following a strategic pitch against two other consultancies.
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Recession-proof reads?
2 October 2008
This month sees the launch of two design-led magazines which target the wealthy and the creative. David Benady examines their genesis
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Royal College of Art students use Toyota's city car as a template
2 October 2008
Royal College of Art students are using Toyota's new iQ city car as a template to create an item that reflects 'intelligent urban living' within four categories: living room, kitchen, bedroom and garage. The collaboration will run through to next summer.
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Sao Paulo's banned adverts
2 October 2008
When the local mayor introduced a law banning outdoor advertising in São Paulo, landmarks disappeared and citizens lost income from renting out the walls of their homes. However, Michael Canturi thinks it could spark a resurgence in creativity
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Sarah Frater meets Tate Media¹s Jane Burton
2 October 2008
Tate Media creative director Jane Burton knows a thing or two about digital. She helped to forge Tate’s online offering and is now morphing it into a broadband arts channel. Sarah Frater asks her how it’s done
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Snowboard scoops £50 000 Fiat prize
2 October 2008
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Social UK creates new visual identity for Capital Radio
2 October 2008
Capital Radio is rolling out a new visual identity, designed by Social UK.
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Stay local to make it globally
2 October 2008
To make the best of overseas prospects, consultancies should act globally but stay UK-based, says Jonathan Cummings
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The Arts Council refines its vision
2 October 2008
The Arts Council has redefined its three-year vision for the future with the help of branding consultancy Intro. Responding to the Arts Council's updated mission statement of 'more arts, less council', Intro has devised a dynamic new plan, using hand-drawn typography and bold imagery to put creativity back into the foreground.
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The public sector still hasn't got the design message
2 October 2008
A recent review of the Victoria & Albert Museum's current extravaganza, tracing design's progression throughout the 25-year Cold War between Russia and the US, concluded that design flourishes under capitalism.
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United Utilities will unveil its international corporate brochure
2 October 2008
UK water company United Utilities will unveil its international corporate brochure, designed by Manchester design group Corporation Pop at the end of this month. The consultancy won the contract following a three-way pitch.
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University design consultancies - a virtuous circle?
2 October 2008
The suggestions that design-hungry clients are turning to universities to get design work on the cheap, that they are naive about design, or that the service which universities provides is somehow sub-standard do a massive disservice to the authors of your Debate piece (News, DW 11 September), to universities and to our many clients. Clients come to Central St Martins Innovation, and to our in-house consultancy, the Design Laboratory, because they have the opportunity to ...
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Voxpop
2 October 2008
Professional services and corporate brands, with their vague, abstract marks and 'dynamic/forward-looking' brand values, beat their chests, but say nothing of substance. Why are these normally ...
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War Child Heroes
2 October 2008
Former Stone Roses guitarist John Squire has worked with London-based design group Studio Thompson to create the album artwork for a new War Child album, Heroes, released on Parlophone on 24 November. Squire designed cover art for the previous War Child album, Help, and both Stone Roses albums.
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Wearable games console launches
2 October 2008
The first games console to use radio frequency identification technology, designed around interaction, launches in the UK today.The designer behind some of Nokia's most popular handsets, Khodi Feiz, has turned his hand to start-up brand Swinxs, initiated by its creator Govert de Vries and backed by the founder of Bugaboo strollers Eduard Zanen.Feiz, the founder of Dutch product design consultancy Feiz Design, explains that the promotion of physicality among children has ...
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Wrigley launches two new flavours
2 October 2008
Chewing gum brand Wrigley is launching two new flavours into its Extra Fusion range, with packaging by Slice Design. The consultancy says that the branding for the two new limited-edition flavours, Electric Fruits and Berry Tronic, were inspired by street culture and musical styles. The graphics reference nightclub lasers and neon signs, according to Slice.
