Design Week
20 November 2008
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Aricot Vert designs brochure for Theo Fennell
20 November 2008
Aricot Vert has designed the brochure for jeweller Theo Fennell's 2009 collection. The brochure, which shows key pieces spotlit on a jet-black background, aims to showcase the collection like a gallery, highlighting craftsmanship and detail. The front cover private view invitation uses matt black foiled decoration, while the brochure also features a restrained typography, together with photography by Edward Edwards.
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Art metro
20 November 2008
Harry Beck it ain’t, but maps created over the years of the Paris Metro system have a beauty and interest all their own. Here is a selection from a book that looks back to the first few
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BBC seeks interiors group for London HQ
20 November 2008
The BBC is on the hunt for an interior design consultancy to create a 'radical' workplace for its news, radio and TV teams, as part of the redevelopment of Broadcasting House in central London.The first phase of the development started in 2006, and the second phase, which will begin next year, will create state-of-the-art TV and radio studios, production desks and multimedia facilities, as well as workspace set over 45 000m2 for the BBC's news, radio, music and World Service teams. ...
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Consultancies vie for Sainsbury's roster
20 November 2008
Packaging design and branding consultancies are this week in the process of presenting to Sainsbury's ahead of final appointments to the supermarket giant's design roster, Design Week can reveal.Sainsbury's confirms it is 'in the middle of the process' of putting together a new design roster and will 'appoint consultancies by the end of December'.It is unclear if consultancies that have a previous or existing relationship with Sainsbury's - Paul Cartwright Branding, BR&Me, ...
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Design Week launches weekly In Depth news alert
20 November 2008
Design Week has launched its weekly In Depth news alert, featuring online features and opinion. To subscribe, visit www.designweek.co.uk.
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Eleven heaven
20 November 2008
As well as being the first men to walk on the moon, the Apollo 11 astronauts also took some of its best photographs. The in-flight images recorded by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins are among the most iconic ever taken, and when space agency Nasa gave photographer Michael Light the chance to go through the master dupe film roll of Apollo 11, he understandably jumped to it. Light visited Nasa's gloomy basement photographic store, where the film is kept along with hundreds ...
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Game boys try branding ploys
20 November 2008
With sales of video games booming, developers are now tapping into the expertise of branding groups to maintain growth, says Tom Banks
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Gray's centre to act as Scottish design broker
20 November 2008
C4DI, Aberdeen's new £1m Centre for Design and Innovation Management, is seeking Scottish design groups to work with local businesses to improve their products and services.Gray's School of Art has set up the centre, which aims to use its three-year Scottish government funding to help hundreds of small businesses.'We want to have as many Scottish design consultancies on our books as possible, covering many disciplines, from branding to product design,' says centre director ...
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Green Thing scoops the Best Green Digital prize
20 November 2008
Eco-focused digital design group Green Thing scooped the Best Green Digital prize at this year's Green Awards, and has redesigned its website, www.dothegreenthing.com.
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How do you staff overseas offices
20 November 2008
Tempted to seek out opportunities abroad? You’ll have to have the right mix of international outlook and local know-how. Anna Richardson asks what talent design consultancies need for their overseas offices
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Inspired
20 November 2008
US President-elect Barack Obama owes much of his success to his command of the Internet as a fundraising and organising tool. Both Obama and Republican rival John McCain relied on the Net to bolster their campaigns, but Obama's online success dwarfed his opponent's and proved key to his winning the presidency.Volunteers used Obama's website to organise a thousand phone-banking events in the last week of the race - and 150 000 other campaign-related events over the course of the ...
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It may represent the future of shopping, but lose the italics
20 November 2008
I can't comment on the 'experience' per se, because I have not yet visited Westfield London (www.designweek. co.uk, 31 October). What I can say, however, is that whoever chose that god-awful italic script for the signage should be shot. Dated, clumsy and cheap. It looks as if someone in the back office knocked it up. Sue Turner, The Fine White Line, by e-mail
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Last week's front cover
20 November 2008
Last week's front cover and the 'bread and cheese landscape' pictured in the Profile (DW 13 November) were both taken by photographer Carl Warner.
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Mike Dempsey and Beautiful Books collaborate
20 November 2008
Designer Mike Dempsey and publisher Beautiful Books have collaborated to produce a new publishing format, B Format Chewed. Alex Burrett's book, My Goat Ate Its Own Legs, has been produced in the B Format dimensions but with the bottom-right-hand corner 'chewed' off. The book is being released tomorrow.
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News in Pictures
20 November 2008
Finnish illustrator Kustaa Saksi will present his new book of retrospective work, and show a new series of war-hero characters and large-scale, never-before-seen prints as part of The Heroes exhibition at the Boudisque gallery in Amsterdam, The Netherla
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News in Pictures
20 November 2008
It Was So Quiet I Could Hear a Pin Drop, a new children’s book about the sounds we hear around the house, has been designed and written by Fivebargate creative director Andy Goodman. It will be published next month by Edizioni Corraini.
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One word changes it all - guilty by association?
20 November 2008
When the Government first passed the London 2012 Olympic bill, which was partly aimed at protecting official sponsors of the event, there was a whole debate as to whether the bill stopped any organisation that was not an official sponsor of the games from using certain words - such as 'games', 'olympics' and '2012' - in a promotional context. I was reminded of the two sides of the debate this morning as I cycled through Stratford. One particular shopfront caught my eye, and, on ...
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Punch through the crunch
20 November 2008
High street retailers are in the credit crunch front line, but it’s not all doom and gloom, says Julie Oxberry. Adding value to the shopping experience will keep tills ringing
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Rediscovering time
20 November 2008
The economic downturn is really an opportunity, argues Jim Davies – it could free us from some of our burdens and give us a chance to take stock
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Rosters are here to stay, so use them to do good work
20 November 2008
The R-word is well and truly back in design. Rosters have long been with us, but there has been a flurry of them of late, from Sainsbury's to Heinz, and we are told more roster adjustments are due.This makes sense, given the commercial pressures on brand-owners to fight ...
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Support for creative sector in Coventry 'lacks co-ordination'
20 November 2008
A lack of co-ordination across projects and initiatives to support the creative industries is hampering growth in the Coventry region, according to a report produced by Coventry University for Coventry City Council.The document, Creative Industries in Coventry and Warwickshire, pinpoints a lack of co-ordination between public agencies working across the Coventry Local Enterprise Growth Area to support the creative industries, which is creating a weakly developed sense of creative ...
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The D&AD judging process is not such a mystery after all
20 November 2008
It is the morning after D&AD's 'How the hell did that get in?' event, and I can't figure out if my head is spinning from drinking too much Guinness or from the sheer passion that the evening's debates aroused.
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The latest batch of graphic novels
20 November 2008
A recent batch of graphic novels shows artists and illustrators using ever more ingenious ways of conveying visual narrative. Yolanda Zappaterra describes their work, which includes visual puns, delicate painting and facsimile text
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The One Off creates two new UK stores for Kathmandu
20 November 2008
The One Off is designing two new stores for Kathmandu, in an attempt to differentiate the outdoor retailer’s offer from rivals Blacks and Millets. Australia-based Kathmandu is understood to have appointed the consultancy in July, following a four-way pitch. The project brief requested a new retail model that would encourage sales at the stores in London’s Westfield White City and Brighton, which exclusively stock the retailer’s ownbranded products (pictured). ...
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The Victoria & Albert's Masterpieces in Ceramics set to open
20 November 2008
The Victoria & Albert's Masterpieces in Ceramics touring exhibition is set to open in the Khan Asad Pasha in Damascus, Syria.
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There's a place for politics, and it's not in Design Week
20 November 2008
Do we need political bias when reading Design Week? When reading the recent article by Michael Johnson on the US presidential election, I certainly got it (Poll positions, DW 30 October), complete with an over-simplified and skewed explanation of the Bradley effect. Politics - and politics within design - is an interesting and worthy subject, but please let us make up our own minds. Timothy Wall, by e-mail
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Trunk Animation wants to retain its collective approach
20 November 2008
The five-strong Trunk Animation team is keen to build on its record of TV idents, Bafta nominations and music videos, but wants to retain its collective approach. Anna Richardson talks to three of them
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Voxpop
20 November 2008
London lights the way with its cutting-edge creative sector, but it is so easily snuffed out in times of recession. Boris Johnson should use us, not lose us. He should support us to trailblaze ...
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Wrap backs lightweight wine bottle aimed at own-brand market
20 November 2008
Waste & Resources Action Programme is in the early stages of developing a lightweight wine bottle that could see UK retailers adopt the design for own-brand ranges.
