Design Week
20 May 2010
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2010 London Design Festival aims for international appeal
20 May 2010
Programme details are emerging for this year’s London Design Festival, which LDF director Ben Evans says will ’include activities from all over the world’.
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A new reality
20 May 2010
Consultancies specialising in CGI are offsetting the downturn in the property market - once the mainstay of their portfolios - by expanding into branding. This affords them greater creative freedom, while financial savings and innovative content are among the benefits for clients, says Anna Richardson
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A winning pair
Mon, 24 May 2010
Following on from our round up of comments on the launch of the Olympic mascots last week.
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All taped up
20 May 2010
Research Studios has created the identity and poster for the Royal Academy of Arts’ annual summer exhibition, which begins in June.
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Bar design team working on Nitrogen Lab ice-cream shop
20 May 2010
Andrew Haythornthwaite and Shai Akram, the designers behind London bars The Book Club and the Queen of Hoxton, are working on the identity and interiors for new ice-cream bar The Nitrogen Lab.
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Basque cider Zapiain taps into modern art for UK brand repositioning by Pink Sky
20 May 2010
Basque cider brand Zapiain, which claims to have been founded in 1595, is being repositioned for the UK market by consultancy Pink Sky with an identity and labelling designed to reference the brand’s cultural heritage.
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Best of the Web
20 May 2010
http://blog.tate.org.uk/?p=608Following its exhibition Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde, the Tate wants to know who your design heroes are. Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg, whose work ranged from art and design to text, founded the pivotal avant-garde movement and magazine De Stijl in the early 20th century.
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Branching out
20 May 2010
Like old rock bands, big consultancies have long-established family trees. Designers aspiring to be anything more than a twig should up roots and start a splinter group now, says Jim Davies
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Capital challenge
20 May 2010
Illustration and graphic art is going ’a bit free range’, according to Bill Tuckey, who is launching a new series of graphic art exhibitions. ’A number of things have conspired to let them off the leash and the work has become very interesting.’
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Dalziel & Pow refashions footwear retailer
20 May 2010
Dalziel & Pow is rebranding footwear retailer Gordon Scott.
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David Chaloner 1944-2010: always inspiring
20 May 2010
David Chaloner had such an impact on people. As his creative partner and friend, I feel as if I have lost my arms, legs, eyesight and hearing.
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Event Communications picks up archaeology exhibition brief for Hadrian's Wall visitor attraction
20 May 2010
Event Communications is working on exhibition and interpretive designs for a new visitor attraction at Roman Maryport in Cumbria, as part of a programme of renewal across the Hadrian’s Wall Unesco World Heritage Site.
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Gendall designs site for Cornish business improvement district
20 May 2010
Falmouth-based consultancy Gendall is working on a website for Falmouth Business Improvement District, after creating branding (pictured) for the organisation last month.
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Hype pad
20 May 2010
Publishers and brand-owners are getting very excited about the interactive and marketing potential of everyone’s favourite new toy, the Apple iPad, but design opinion is divided, says Mike Exon. Could its success kill off websites completely, or will consumer behaviour stand in the way of radical change?
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Inspired
20 May 2010
Jean-Michel Basquiat, who turned up to private views in the paint-splattered £700 Armani suits he painted in, and Keith Haring both showed a relentless creative energy and unselfconsciousness.
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Letters
20 May 2010
I first met David Chaloner in 2007. It was one of those rare occasions when you feel that you are almost meeting yourself. Our ages, backgrounds, career paths, loves, experiences and aspirations were uncannily similar.
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Letters
20 May 2010
I just saw the sad news about David Chaloner. In a time when we all get caught up in our own little worlds, this has come as an incredible shock.
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Mixed messages
20 May 2010
Dutch consultancy Studio Dumbar has created the branding for the 2010 European Design Festival, which takes place in Rotterdam from 27-30 May.
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News in Pictures
20 May 2010
Screenprints by artist Michael Craig-Martin will be on show in the Hayward’s touring exhibition Alphabet, ...
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News in Pictures
20 May 2010
Irving and Co has worked with illustrator Adrian Johnson to create a spaghetti poster for Carluccio’s. ...
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News in Pictures
20 May 2010
Cai and Kyn has designed the identity and associated material for London’s Clerkenwell Design Week, which runs from 25-27 May.
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On yer bike
Mon, 24 May 2010
If you want to make the most of the sunshine but also see the highlights of Clerkenwell Design Week, which runs from 25-27 May, then follow The London Festival of Architecture director Peter Murray.
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Our work must reflect the fact that we're not a fully digital society just yet
20 May 2010
Excitement is mounting in the creative community about the imminent launch of the iPad in the UK.
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Shelf starters
20 May 2010
Turning a ’mom and pop’ cottage industry product into a mainstream brand calls for genuine differentiation and serious long-term investment - and getting the packaging design right is crucial to success. Emily Pacey investigates
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The art of ‘swapsies’
Mon, 24 May 2010
As grown men regress into excited little school boys screaming ‘got’ and ‘need’ up and down the office it can only mean one thing - the start of World Cup fever. Filling their sticker books with the finest football players can be a painstaking task if you have too many duplicates. So this is where the old swapsie mantra ‘Got, got, got need’ comes into play.
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Voxpop
20 May 2010
How would you design the perfect voting system for the next General Election?
