Design Week
20 September 2007
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999
20 September 2007
Design consultancy 999 has developed the branding and identity for The Green Insurance Company.
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A challenge to the status quo
20 September 2007
A brave move by Procter & Gamble has bolstered an industry initiative designed to protect intellectual property rights, says Emma Rubach
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Agent Provocateur
20 September 2007
Agent Provocateur has unveiled its on-line campaign for the forthcoming season, featuring actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, by Large Design.
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Bath urgently needed Dyson's design school
20 September 2007
As an ex-Dyson designer, now running a product design consultancy in Bath, I want to express my dismay and huge disappointment at the council's decision not to sell the South Quay site to James Dyson for his School of Design Innovation. For a city that recently has been slated in The Observer, described as lacking in culture, depressing, backward and hostile to productive change, we have to ask how the Preservation Trust came to this decision.
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Designer Breakfasts
20 September 2007
The monthly networking event Designer Breakfasts has launched a website, www. designerbreakfasts.net, designed by Abrahams founder Mike Abrahams.
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Designers don't have to be business savvy - there is helpBath urgently needed Dyson's design school
20 September 2007
Ever since I started reading Design Week, in every issue I have found some mention of the ongoing discussion on lack of business acumen among the majority of designers. I come from the business world, and echoing Clive Grinyer's view in Voxpop (DW 13 September), I was frustrated with how stale, boring and uninspiring the traditional frameworks of business management are. Then I was introduced to the world of design and I loved it. At the same time, I was shocked at the ...
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Engage Group
20 September 2007
Engage Group has created the Disability Rights Commission's final report, before it merges with the Racial Equality and the Equal Opportunities commissions in October.
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English & Pockett
20 September 2007
English & Pockett has created a TV broadcast sponsorship campaign for Ford of Europe, consisting of eight different spots connecting the brand with the game of football.
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Giorgio Armani
20 September 2007
Giorgio Armani is poised to launch a range of portable and home consumer electronics in conjunction with Samsung, following the unveiling of a mobile phone handset at his Milan womenswear show earlier this week. The range will go under the Giorgio Armani, Emporio Armani and Armani Casa brands. The handset, which is the size of a credit card and uses a touch-sensitive interface, will be available from November.
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Glue London sticks out at the Y Design Awards
20 September 2007
Digital advertising agency Glue London has scooped five out of a total of 14 honours at this year's Y Design Awards.London Design Festival deputy director William Knight hailed the digital awards scheme, held at London's Royal Festival Hall for its second year, as being a leap forward in the recognition of digital design.Glue London saw off competition from consultancies including Poke, Start Creative, All of Us, Preloaded and Rufus Leonard to clinch the best application, ...
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H Studio cooks up Law Society restaurant
20 September 2007
The Law Society has opened a new restaurant, designed by H Studio. The Six Clerks Restaurant and Bar will serve the society’s members and their guests, as well as ‘social members’ allowed in under a new paid membership scheme.
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Inspired
20 September 2007
It's 10.45am on a lovely sunny day in Manchester. I have just bought a latte and taken a seat in an area bathed in streams of sunlight, inside the Royal Exchange main hall. As I look upwards, the sunlight brings out the bright colours of the stained glass in a rich combination.I never become tired of this place. I can get away from the office, switch off the mobile and just sit here and close my eyes, soaking up the peace and quiet. Outside the city is bustling with its daily routine, ...
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Liverpool plans city rebrand after European year of culture
20 September 2007
Liverpool Culture Company plans to launch a tender to rebrand the city following its reign as European City of Culture in 2008. The process could begin in the spring, according to LCC marketing director Kris Donaldson.
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M&G Investments
20 September 2007
M&G Investments has launched a new brand and corporate identity, following a year-long brand review by Corporate Edge.
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Make sure that your employees don't go for greener pastures
20 September 2007
I would suggest that it is vital to retain staff, or you risk poor performance and reputation damage. One of the key differentials in design is purely down to the quality of staff. Retention of employees is essential, but how can design consultancies balance the demands from clients with their staff's well-being? In a turbulent sector where consultancies experience peaks and troughs because of economic cycles, a watchful eye on the bottom line is a must. However, this should ...
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Musical mystery tour
20 September 2007
When Julie Taymor announced she was creating an original 1960s-set big-screen musical using songs by The Beatles, the director's fans knew that, at the very least, the result would prove a visual feast. And Taymor, who created The Lion King musical on Broadway in New York, has not disappointed. Her politically charged love story, which mixes gritty reality and psychedelic fantasy, is even richer than Titus, her film interpretation of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, and Frida, her Oscar-winning .
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National identity explored at 100% Design discussion
20 September 2007
National identity was the subject of a discussion on European design at trade show 100% Design last Friday.
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News in pictures
20 September 2007
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Other worldly
20 September 2007
Simple techniques are often the most effective, and paper cut-outs – perhaps the most basic of all – can achieve striking results. Lydia Fulton looks at the work of two exponents of this time-honoured craft
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Pemberton & Whitefoord
20 September 2007
Pemberton & Whitefoord has created the branding and packaging for start-up petfood company Organipets, based in Oxford.
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Peter Boizot collaboration
20 September 2007
Pizza Express founder Peter Boizot and its original designer Enzo Apicella are to collaborate with design consultancy Brinkworth on a new site in Peterborough, to open towards the end of the year.
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Profile
20 September 2007
From Carmen to Kanye West, stage designer Es Devlin's talents have been much in demand throughout her career. Talking to Yolanda Zappaterra, she reveals that she is still in thrall to the lure of live performance
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R&D&Co refreshes face of social care body
20 September 2007
Human relations organisation The Tavistock Institute celebrates its 60th anniversary this week, with a revamped identity designed by R&D&Co.
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Savile row in a primark world?
20 September 2007
Virtual agencies offering bespoke 'total solutions' for each brand or campaign are the future, Simon Barbato argues. They can also be a lot cheaper than traditional creative groups
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Self-assessment
20 September 2007
Corporate responsibility reports are never going to top the bestseller lists, but social and financial pressures are forcing even the biggest companies to show their caring side. Clare Dowdy looks at the genre’s short history, and deconstructs three examples
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Sensing the shift
20 September 2007
Few of us spot the big cultural and creative moves when they start - fewer learn to exploit them early. Change takes time to sink in, says David Bernstein
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Seymour Powell
20 September 2007
Seymour Powell director Russell Lloyd was responsible for managing Seymour Powell's deal with Loewy, not Results International as stated last week (News Analysis, DW 20 September).
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Survey shows it pays to go freelance
20 September 2007
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The festival was a success, but let's keep up the debate
20 September 2007
It's been a week of recovery and reflection in design on what proved to be the most dynamic London Design Festival yet.Its backers at the London Development Agency patently listened when they trawled opinion last year about the future direction of the festival. The result was more ...
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The golden rates
20 September 2007
Skills shortages are driving up the demand for certain freelances, leading to inflation-busting increases in remuneration and warping the market for permanent staff. Fiona Sibley analyses the findings of our survey of freelance salary levels
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The Victoria & Albert Museum
20 September 2007
The Victoria & Albert Museum's Golden Age of Couture exhibition microsite has been designed and built by E3, not Red Bee Media (DW 6 September).
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Vivienne Westwood's retrospective
20 September 2007
Vivienne Westwood's retrospective opens this week in Italy at Milan's Palazzo Reale, three years after it took London's Victoria & Albert Museum by storm.
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Voxpop
20 September 2007
Do clients feel increasingly able to manage their own brands in-house? Is the role of the external consultancy changing, and what happens when clients don't quite get it right themselves?
