Design Week
20th August 2009
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Cabe appointment echoes opportunities in design
20th August 2009
It’s great to hear that Paul Finch is to take over as chairman of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment when Sir John Sorrell steps down in December.
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Consultancy 999 creates brochure for the BBC Philharmonic's 2009/10 season
20th August 2009
Consultancy 999 has created a 40-page brochure for the BBC Philharmonic’s 2009/10 season, which celebrates the orchestra’s 75th anniversary. The brochure, which was created by 999’s Manchester office, features a radial pattern on the front cover which is carried throughout.
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Consultation must start with some engagement
20th August 2009
I feel I must put the record straight regarding Emily Campbell’s assertions (DW 6 August) that she ‘consulted’ with the Faculty of Royal Designers on her Design & Society manifesto/pamphlet. To use the words of former Cabinet Secretary Sir Robert Armstrong, Campbell is being ‘economical with the truth’. When Campbell joined the Royal Society of Arts last year she attended a Royal Designers for Industry executive meeting to meet and get to know us, as she ...
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Corkart goes on sale next month
20th August 2009
Corkart, designed by Sebastian Bergne, is going on sale next month. The product allows people to create cork ‘sculptures’ that can grow over time. The product, which was first shown as part of Bergne’s exhibition at London’s Aram Gallery last month, is being brought to market by Winebox/WBC.
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Deadline designs brochure for the Prince's Trust Palace to Palace annual charity bike ride
20th August 2009
Deadline has designed the posters, postcards and a 36-page promotional brochure for the Prince’s Trust Palace to Palace annual charity bike ride. The cycle ride starts at Buckingham Palace in London and ends in Windsor. Deadline has worked with the Prince of Wales’ charity on this brief since September last year. This year’s Palace to Palace cycle ride will take place on 27 September.
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Design Bridge sets the tone for plant conservation campaign
20th August 2009
Design Bridge has created an online educational resources pack for organisation Botanic Gardens Conservation International, a group dedicated to the conservation of threatened plants.Design Bridge was appointed to create an online pack and marketing material for the Voice Your Choice campaign, which examines how climate change affects plant species. The consultancy was appointed in spring, having worked on similar projects for BGCI, according to sustainability director Helen ...
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Ethical shape
20th August 2009
How do you create packaging that combines real sustainability and compelling form, without compromising on either? Sarah Woods unpacks the issues involved and looks at what some key brands are doing to get their offer right
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Facing up to independence
20th August 2009
The cultural transition from big business to independent working can be as challenging as it is rewarding, says Kate Blandford
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Heatherwick to star at Irish Design Week
20th August 2009
Thomas Heatherwick will open this year’s Irish Design Week in Dublin on 2 November.After saying last year that he would ‘do anything to get [Heatherwick] over’, Barry Sheehan, immediate past president of the Institute of Designers of Ireland, one of the IDW’s key organisers, says he can ‘rest happy now’.The festival will also host the three-day Offset 2009 conference, taking place in Dublin from 6-8 October. Speakers at Offset will include graphic designers Leila ...
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Inspired - Jason Holland
20th August 2009
My source for inspiration has changed many times during the past 15 years of designing for digital, but I make sure the sources are not just in pixel form. All things pre-screen and retro fascinate me, especially when combined with ‘modern’ methods (my current favourite example being the typographic posters from Official Classic - The Sport of the Kings and I Love Techno pictured here), and interactive thinking (how new behaviour can be used with old imagery).One thing has ...
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LFH creates packaging for Carlsberg Baltic
20th August 2009
LFH has created the packaging for Carlsberg Baltic’s new beer and spirits mix range, D-Night, aimed at 18- to 25-year-olds. The line takes design cues such as the red ‘D’ and tattoo effect from its parent brand D-Light. The three flavours - cachaca and lime, vodka and blood orange, and tequila and lemon - will launch in Latvia and Lithuania.
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Make sure symbols are comprehensible as well as graphic
20th August 2009
Anna Richardson’s article Modern Hieroglyphics (DW 6 August) promoted the graphical diversity of pictograms (or symbols, according to BS and ISO standards). I agree entirely that these devices exist to provide users with a ‘clear and unambiguous understanding’. However, I’m concerned that in striving for graphical interpretations of the same information, comprehensibility is often compromised. Bruno Maag says they must be ‘structurally recognisable and close to the established ...
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Martin Cox sorely missed by friends and colleagues
20th August 2009
We have received the incredibly sad news that Martin Cox died on Monday 10 August, aged 42, at his family home in Slovakia. Martin was a kind, gentle man who was much loved by his family and friends and will be hugely missed. Martin worked as a designer at Williams & Phoa and Trickett & Webb before founding London graphics consultancy Blast in 1996, along with his friend and colleague Colin Gifford. He left Blast as a director in 2003, but continued to ...
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News in Pictures
20th August 2009
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News in Pictures
20th August 2009
Sculpture pieces by typeface designer Eric Gill, including Mother and Child and A Roland for an Oliver, will be on show as part of the Royal Academy’s Wild Thing exhibition, from 24 October to 24 January.
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News in Pictures
20th August 2009
Tom Dixon has designed a four-piece collection for the Rug Company. It will launch at The Dock, a creative hub curated by Dixon, on 21 September during the London Design Festival.
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NPG map and guide brief for Thomas Manss
20th August 2009
Thomas Manss & Company has designed a map and guide for the National Portrait Gallery in London.Thomas Manss designer Sandra Zellmer says the consultancy was appointed directly to the work last year. Thomas Manss is on the gallery’s roster of design groups.The map and guide have been designed in tandem with each other, but while the guide has already been released and is on sale in the NPG’s shop, the map is set to roll out in the autumn.Zellmer ...
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Pop fragments
20th August 2009
‘The word is very important to me,’ says artist David Spiller. ‘I did a painting that was just a big “A” once; it was me tipping my hat to Johannes Gutenberg, because without his invention we would never have had books and all those wonderful stories I used to get lost in as a kid.’ A new exhibition at Beaux Arts in London will show some of Spiller’s latest work and the importance of words to it. Fragments of lyrics and other phrases combine with blocks of colour and motifs from popular ...
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Seeking shelter
20th August 2009
Taking space in a ‘mother store’ can be a tempting and less risky alternative to opening your own shop. Clare Dowdy looks at how three fledgling businesses are using this option to get a head start
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The past is rubbish
20th August 2009
If you’re looking for a new start in life, there’s nothing like some serious decluttering to rediscover what’s important and focus your mind, finds Jim Davies
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Voxpop
20th August 2009
Hat-Trick Design has created the new identity for breast cancer charity Breakthrough. Which charity would you like to rebrand, and why?
