Design Week
21 January 2010
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A broad school
21 January 2010
As one of the most robust design disciplines throughout the downturn, digital is an attractive option for ambitious designers. Anna Richardson talks to senior figures about the mindsets and skills you need in this competitive area
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A slow news day
21 January 2010
Newspaper publishers should forget the freebies, says Jim Davies. Playing to the strengths of their products - quality, portability and design - will bring readers back
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Aedas Architects has allied with Pininfarina Extra
21 January 2010
Aedas Architects has allied with Pininfarina Extra to create interiors and products within architectural projects.
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An exhibition of wallpaper
21 January 2010
Manchester- and Leeds-based consultancy Creative Concern has collaborated with Peter Saville to design marketing materials for Walls Are Talking, an exhibition of wallpaper designs by Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst and Niki de St Phalle, among others. The banners, invitations and programme feature a face with the mouth torn away to reveal a layer of wallpaper. Walls Are Talking opens at Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery on 6 February.
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COI take note: seven is the magic staff number
21 January 2010
I thank Fanny Sigler for responding to my letter with regards to the Central Office of Information’s brand and brand identity framework’s strict capacity and resources criteria (DW 7 January).
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Corporation Pop to develop the national campaign for music festival Creamfields 2010
21 January 2010
Manchester-based consultancy Corporation Pop has been appointed to develop the national campaign for music festival Creamfields 2010.
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Designers ‘need a union’, says DW poll
21 January 2010
More than 70 per cent of Design Week readers believe the design industry needs a trade union, according to a DW poll.
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Designers set to reap benefits of PoS revolution
21 January 2010
As current economic challenges make attracting the eye of the consumer more pressing than ever, point-of-sale design is increasingly important. Next month, designers, retailers and marketers will gather to discuss the latest trends in point-of-sale marketing at the International PoS Congress, held on 4 March in Fulda, Germany.
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Doone stands down at Conran & Partners
21 January 2010
Conran & Partners’ managing director Richard Doone is leaving after 25 years.
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Fleur McNally has joined Brandopus
21 January 2010
Fleur McNally has joined Brandopus as new business director. McNally has previously worked for advertising groups including M&C Saatchi and Wieden & Kennedy.
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Freeman Christie brews up ‘character’ collateral for pub chain
21 January 2010
Freeman Christie is creating a ‘landlord’s handbook’ as part of its work with national pub chain Village Pub and Kitchen.
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Greg Hadfield to join Cogapp
21 January 2010
Greg Hadfield, head of digital development at Telegraph Media Group, is set to join Cogapp as director of strategic projects.
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Inspired - Steven Blaess, Blaess
21 January 2010
The infinity symbol represented as a three-dimensional form was the original inspiration behind the Marli series of products I designed for Alessi.
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It isn’t as simple as Greg Hands, a case of right or wrong
21 January 2010
The comments made by Tory MP Greg Hands surrounding the NHS 60th anniversary logo, which cost £12 000 to create, has resulted in uproar in the industry and has raised issues within the public sector (Voxpop, DW 14 January).
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Jaime Hayón has designed the Pixel vases collection for Bisazza
21 January 2010
Jaime Hayón has designed the Pixel vases collection for Bisazza. The collection - titled Antenahat, Ballhat, Bulletrabbit, Black Bulletrabbit, Openmuñeco and Pointyhat - will be showcased at Bisazza’s flagship store in Paris from Friday as part of Maison & Objet 2010.
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Just browsing, thanks
21 January 2010
Sales of packaged games may be in decline, but it’s just a format thing - new software means the action is now all online, reports Tom Banks
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Kent Lyons has been appointed to work on designs for The World's Biggest Coffee Morning
21 January 2010
Kent Lyons has been appointed to work on designs for The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning, an annual fundraising event for Macmillan Cancer Support, while in a separate development, Rufus Leonard has created a viral campaign, featuring celebrities including Ricky Gervais and Ray Winstone, to promote the charity’s Cancertalk Week.
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Let’s help the public sector design better tender processes
21 January 2010
I have just hauled myself out of the torpor-inducing task of writing two public-sector tenders (see the debate on this page, DW 3 December 2009 and DW 7 January, as well as Adrian Shaughnessy’s case for better procurement in his Private View, DW 7 January).
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Licentious letterforms
21 January 2010
Ornament has had to put up with some bad press in the past, especially from Austrian architect Adolf Loos, who proclaimed in the early 20th century that superfluous decoration was essentially immoral. But, as a new book by Steven Heller and Gail Anderson shows, the ornamental has made a triumphant comeback over the past decades.
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London’s Aram Gallery launches the fourth exhibition of designers’ prototypes and experiments
21 January 2010
London’s Aram Gallery launches the fourth exhibition of designers’ prototypes and experiments on 21 January, this time focusing on objects made from metal. Models (coat rack, by Vandasye, pictured) will be displayed alongside original sketches, both rarely seen outside the studio. The show runs until 6 March.
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Make It Clear has been appointed by Asda
21 January 2010
Make It Clear has been appointed by Asda to develop user-guide communications across its ranges of sound and vision products
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Marvellous has created a cross-platform game
21 January 2010
Marvellous has created a cross-platform game for Santander, which is the new brand name for Abbey and Bradford & Bingley.
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News in Pictures
21 January 2010
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News in Pictures
21 January 2010
Jasper Morrison has designed the R5.5 collection for watchmaker Rado, which launches next month.
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News in Pictures
21 January 2010
Bath-based McGillan Eves has redesigned the National Trust magazine. The National Trust was recently rebranded by Wolff Olins.
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Profile - Fibra Design Sustentável
21 January 2010
Brazilian group Fibra Design Sustentável is drawing on its country’s biodiversity to develop sustainable materials and create products that benefit deprived regions. Gina Lovett visits these pioneers in Rio de Janeiro
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Reform Creative repositions arts charity Aim
21 January 2010
Reform Creative has designed the identity and website for Huddersfield-based arts charity Artists in Mind to position it as a ‘serious arts organisation’.
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Ruth Mackenzie named as director of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad
21 January 2010
Ruth Mackenzie, an adviser on cultural policy to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, has been named as director of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
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Sennep has created the Feel Good Doodle website
21 January 2010
Sennep has created the Feel Good Doodle website for the Feel Good Drinks Company.
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Start-up wins graphics brief at Moving Picture Company
21 January 2010
Digital and graphics start-up Waggott, Tripp and Graham has won a commission to create a series of wall graphics and installations at the London headquarters of post-production facility the Moving Picture Company.
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Terence Woodgate has designed the Josiah lighting range
21 January 2010
Terence Woodgate has designed the Josiah lighting range for SCP. The range, in bone china, is being launched at Maison & Objet in Paris, which starts on Friday.
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The body electric
21 January 2010
A new generation of powertrains using electricity could free automotive styling from the constraints of the conventional petrol-driven vehicle, but will manufacturers grasp the design nettle and launch truly innovative cars? John Stones looks at the options
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The fearless antidote
21 January 2010
Planning is very important, but it shouldn’t be allowed to stifle creativity. Brian Mansfield is convinced that fearlessness is the best way forward
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The real challenge is to improve quality is to improve quality across the board
21 January 2010
The kind of facile statement Tory MP Greg Hands recently made about public-sector identity work, saying anyone with ‘an average brain’ could do better, is beyond frustrating (Voxpop, DW 14 January).
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Voxpop
21 January 2010
Tourism South East has been rebranded as The Beautiful South. If you could use any band name to replace any brand name, which would you choose, and why?
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We must support the group appointed to brand London
21 January 2010
It looks as though the debacle over the mooted London identity is finally reaching a conclusion. If, as sources suggest, the seasoned city-branding team at Saffron Brand Consultants is appointed, we can be assured of a thorough approach and a good outcome.
