Design Week
20 March 2008
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AND retains teaching council design brief
20 March 2008
Education advisory and regulatory body the General Teaching Council of England has awarded a three-year design and branding contract to Anderson Norton Design for the third consecutive time.The consultancy pitched against a shortlist of six other groups. AND partner Justin Anderson says, 'It wasn't a given that we would get the contract again. We felt that after six years [the GTCE] might want a new and fresh approach.'The win comes as the GTCE moves into a phase where ...
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Biz-r revamped products for dairy producer
20 March 2008
Devon consultancy Biz-r revamped products for dairy producer Langage Farm, not Language Farm, as stated in DW 20 March.
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Brand reaction to Green fatigue
20 March 2008
If 2007 was the year the public finally 'got' climate change, 2008 looks like it might be the year of the ethical backlash. Indeed, a term has already been coined to describe growing public cynicism and boredom with all things eco: 'Green fatigue'.The issue is, unsurprisingly, filtering down into design briefs. When Ico Design, the consultancy behind the Science Museum's current exhibition The Science of Survival, won the original pitch it was firmly cautioned to avoid Green fatigue ...
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Buy buy baby
20 March 2008
The market in premium baby design seems to be well and truly bouncing. 'One of our best sellers is a Maclaren buggy with leather seat, at £800,' says Janet Rawnsley, co-founder of The Baby on-line retailer, which has just been redesigned with a more lifestyle-led image by consultancy Caulder Moore. She reckons that her customers - parents with an average age of 38 - spend about £2000 on nursery furniture, compared to £300 a couple of years ago.And, as the popularity of the stylish ...
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Cisco's move to hire Grinyer puts design centre stage
20 March 2008
Clive Grinyer's move from Orange to Cisco is great news indeed (see News, page 3). Not only does it give Grinyer - one of the UK's staunchest champions of in-house design - a new challenge, it reaffirms the potential of senior design players to shape companies and organisations as well ...
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Code Computerlove
20 March 2008
Manchester consultancy Code Computerlove has created microsite www.tpexpress.co.uk for First Transpennine Express as part of the latter's 'official supporter' sponsorship of the 2008 Liverpool European Capital of Culture festivities.
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Contemporary Routemaster designer revealed
20 March 2008
After setting up automotive design studio Capoco in the 1970s, Alan Ponsford found his niche in bus design. Three decades later, demand for his experience is greater than ever. John Stones catches up with a seasoned veteran
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Design Bridge revamps Jamie Oliver ranges
20 March 2008
Jamie Oliver is relaunching his food and non-food ranges in supermarkets Tesco and Waitrose this week, with branding and packaging by Design Bridge. It replaces work executed by The Plant less than 18 months ago.The Plant creative director Matt Utber explains that the consultancy's designs were too 'niche ane elevated' and that FRV wanted to open up the range to a mainstream audience.Design Bridge was appointed in June last year following a six-way creative and strategic ...
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Don't push school children into the commercial world
20 March 2008
Regarding your Voxpop about apprenticeship placements for school children (DW 13 March), I'd say that traditional apprenticeships have always worked well based on a system of mutual benefit. Although changed, it is still an effective system for learning creative and practical disciplines. Standardising the existing practice of 'work placements' would benefit all involved. I would, however, draw the line at sending school children on apprenticeship placements. To benefit from this ...
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Ffres student award winners announced
20 March 2008
Welsh student design awards Ffres has announced details of the winners of its annual scheme.The category winners, honoured at a ceremony last week, are: University of Wales undergraduate Anthony Thomas for his fashion project for Peacocks; University of Wales Institute student Lucy Dixon for her textiles design for Ikea; and Joel Williams, of the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff for his work on Gelert's industrial design brief.Two students from Carmarthenshire College ...
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Fritz Hansen
20 March 2008
Danish furniture manufacturer Fritz Hansen will celebrate 50 years of Arne Jacobsen's iconic Egg chair, with a special event at next month's Salone del Mobile in Milan. Danish artist Tal R has decorated 50 Egg chairs for the event.
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Harrods is to relaunch its bedlinen range
20 March 2008
Harrods is to relaunch its bedlinen range with packaging design by Paul Cartwright Branding. The new black-and-white livery represents a move away from Harrods' corporate green and gold. Cartwright was appointed without a pitch last year, having worked with Harrods for the past three years. The new packaging will roll out from April.
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Hybu Cig Cymru
20 March 2008
The Welsh red meat industry's strategic body for promotion and development - Hybu Cig Cymru - has commissioned Bristol consultancy Fanatic Design to overhaul its website.
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Inspired
20 March 2008
I've not chosen an image of an object, not that design, utility and architecture don't interest me or inform what I do, but making a difference to people's lives through design is what gets me out of bed in the morning - mostly at 4.30am to run for a train.We're currently working extensively as interior designers and consultants to commercial and education projects throughout the world.An architect I know working in education recently dismissed educators and children as ...
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Lighting designers to shine at Luminale 08
20 March 2008
Clients’ concerns are evolving and sustainability is often now part of the brief. But it wasn’t always this way, so Clare Dowdy asked five consultancies how they would redo past projects to fit the new eco-conscious consensus
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New identity for Discover Ireland
20 March 2008
Consumer travel brand Discover Ireland is getting a new identity, by Irish consultancy Designworks, which will be applied across Ireland in coming months.Spearheading the country's 'largest-ever' domestic tourism push, the branding is a bid to challenge people's preconceptions of what is available in Ireland and to encourage them to discover the country.The logos have been commissioned by Ireland's national tourism development authority, Fáilte Ireland, and will be replacing ...
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News in Pictures
20 March 2008
Gaymer Cider Company is extending its core brand, with the launch of a pear cider. Parker Williams Design has created the pack graphics.
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News in pictures
20 March 2008
Former BAA-owned travel retailer World Duty Free has unveiled its flagship store at Heathrow Terminal 5, with interior design by JHP.
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Night and day
20 March 2008
With Luminale light festival opening next week in Frankfurt, Trish Lorenz wonders how much longer such showcases for technology can continue to skate over issues of sustainability, while Henrietta Thompson looks at the work of a designer keen to take a hu
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Pizza Express cooks up new supermarket range by Pearlfisher
20 March 2008
Pizza Express has unveiled a new supermarket range with a pack design by Pearlfisher.The consultancy was appointed last November as part of an ongoing relationship with the chain, an existing client.Launching in Sainsbury's this month, the Romana pizza will be available nationwide.Its visual identity is being created to complement the existing Pizza Express branding, while differentiating it from other varieties within the range.Pearlfisher designer Claudio ...
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Planning permission James Dyson's
20 March 2008
James Dyson's design and engineering school in Bath has been granted planning permission following a vote last week among local councillors.
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Preloaded has won the Best in Show
20 March 2008
Digital consultancy Preloaded has won the Best in Show and Best Web gongs at the South by Southwest Interactive Web Awards for its work on Launchball for the Science Museum.
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Premiumise me
20 March 2008
Designers and retailers report a booming demand for luxury goods – a trend backed up by market research – but premium brands have to work hard to maintain their exclusivity. Trish Lorenz follows the über-lux trail
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Rimmel has contracted consultancy Dew Gibbons
20 March 2008
Cosmetics brand Rimmel has contracted consultancy Dew Gibbons to work on special packaging projects, creating designs for new products and existing sub-brand relaunches.
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Royal Mail has commissioned photographer Nigel Millard
20 March 2008
Royal Mail has commissioned photographer Nigel Millard to commemorate the centenary of the adoption of SOS as the worldwide Morse code distress signal, on a new range of first class, 46p, 48p and 54p stamps. Millard's images show lifeboats in action in St Ives, Barra Island, north Devon and Dorset. They are designed to show the SOS signal of three dots, followed by three dashes, followed by three dots on perforations along the stamps' edges.
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Stone cold
20 March 2008
London's Westway - the elevated section of the A40 - has a certain urban grit, and has been honoured by a line in the Clash's White Riot. But it has never been shown alongside the work of Neo-Classical architect Sir John Soane - until now. For in Pitzhanger Manor's PM Gallery, the house designed by Soane where he entertained friends and displayed his collection of art and antiquities, an exhibition is about to open called Set in Stone, where five artists interpret architecture ranging ...
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Tales of the trade
20 March 2008
Let me tell you a story… on second thoughts, maybe not.Have you noticed how suddenly a brand without a 'story' is like a cat without a tail? Or should that be tale? I even came across a gourmet cookie brand recently called Elsa's Story - 'why hold back, let's put it right up there in the name'. Yes, there's no escape from ubiquitous brand story coming at you like some interminable camp-fire raconteur intent on telling you how it all began, long, long ago.'First it was just ...
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The designs for London's Serpentine Gallery unveiled
20 March 2008
Frank Gehry's designs for London's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008 have been unveiled this week. The multi-dimensional space, comprising large timber planks and multiple glass planes, has been designed and engineered in collaboration with Arup. A wooden timber structure that acts as an urban street running from the path to the gallery, the pavilion is designed to be part amphitheatre, part promenade, making a place for 'reflection and relaxation by day, and discussion and performance ...
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The Seven Arts Consultancy
20 March 2008
Curious has developed an identity, brand and website for search specialist The Seven Arts Consultancy.
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Time to topple the pyramids
20 March 2008
Networks, clusters and ‘hub and spoke’ arrangements – rather than big consultancies - are the working models of the future, says Bill Wallsgrove
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Voxpop
20 March 2008
This month sees the launch of a host of China design initiatives. Are we right to be celebrating China's design achievements? Do politics get in the way?At my old college, the head of graphics' claim to fame was that he'd designed the iconic Che Guevara image, adopted by so many ...
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What’s driving innovation in food packaging
20 March 2008
Packaging designers need to think more laterally, and in terms of systems, rather than discrete elements, says a report into food packaging by trend research group The Future Laboratory.Its forthcoming Food Futures book, published on 21 April, claims packaging designers need to think about the challenges facing them - from preservation, cost-effectiveness and brand experience to sustainability and waste minimisation - in a more holistic way.But while consumer concerns ...
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Wiesner Hager will launch its latest workspace concept Client
20 March 2008
German furniture manufacturer Wiesner Hager will launch its latest workspace concept Client on 1 April. Designed by Viennese architect Dustin A Tusnovics, the multi-functional desk is based on the idea that workspace needs to be adaptable for a range of situations. As a result, the design offers a number of formats, using multi-level surfaces and 'wave slot-in' elements. The Client's design aims to integrate with its surrounding environment, offering standing, sitting or lounging solutions.
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Williams Murray Hamm didn't work on Grant's whisky
20 March 2008
I spotted on the Design Week website that in 2006, Williams Murray Hamm was involved in a three-way strategic pitch for Grant's whisky. It's untrue. We were approached about the project and decided not to participate because the terms, imposed by an external procurement resource, were completely unacceptable to us. Richard Williams, Founder, Williams Murray Hamm, by e-mail
