Design Week
21 September 2006
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Airside creates interactive installation
21 September 2006
Airside has created an interactive installation called Insyde for the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Commissioned by National Museums Liverpool for the city's Biennial, the installation depicts a forest scene where visitors can tempt different creatures
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Bergne shapes Vidal Sassoon's premium haircare product range
21 September 2006
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CDG answers Sure mobile's brand needs
21 September 2006
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Clarks' shoe-cum-toy range receives the Taxi Studio brand treatment
21 September 2006
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Craft revival and an industry wake-up call
21 September 2006
Howard Milton's article, 'Let's revive our craft' (DW 31 August), appears to have been greeted by total apathy in the industry. He rightly points out that these days, design is so computer-driven that the life and soul has gone out of creativity and design in general. In addition, he says: 'Today anyone can do it, Mac skills are acquired in the same way you learn to type or drive a car'; and 'The machine has killed the craft it sought to replicate'. It goes to the heart of what is wrong ...
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Design Event 07 calls for submissions
21 September 2006
Design Event 07, the North East's design festival, is calling for submissions around the theme of 'How do we want to live?', raising questions about sustainability, emerging technologies and use of spaces in the North East. The deadline for submissions is 30 September. For details, visit www.design-event.co.uk.
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Design Museum to unveil new lighting commission
21 September 2006
The Design Museum is set to unveil a new lighting commission for its atrium by designer Stuart Haygarth on 18 September. The chandelier, entitled TwentyTwenty, features an arrangement of discarded spectacles, provided by Vision Aid, a charity that collect
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Designers need skills to compete in global market
21 September 2006
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Design's competitive enough without the mass of pretenders
21 September 2006
I'm starting up a design company from the unenviable position of having no clients. It's proving to be very hard work. Despite being a freelance graphic and publishing designer for 15 years, I didn't build relationships directly with the end-client. I didn't do that thing most designers do: nick clients from my employers and make them my own. So it's lots of marketing, cold calls, advertising and so on.
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GLA recruits for Design for London unit
21 September 2006
The Greater London Authority is set to announce the head of its Design for London unit early next month, with Will Alsop, Ricky Burdett and Peter Preston believed to be in contention for the job. It is understood that all three were shortlisted for interviews, which were held last week. A GLA spokeswoman confirmed that interviews took place but would not comment on the shortlist.
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Hat-trick rethinks learning at the Natural History Museum
21 September 2006
The Natural History Museum has appointed Hat-trick Design Consultants to rethink its suite of schools learning materials, following a three-way pitch.
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Humble 2 designs for Spiral Systems' In Your Dreams
21 September 2006
Humble 2 has designed the album cover, microsite, T-shirt, press kit and three digital EPS for Spiral Systems' In Your Dreams, released by Interchill sister label Macro Records.
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Inspired
21 September 2006
I have been fascinated by the career of the British architect Patrick Gwynne (1913-2003) for many years. His peculiar, albeit very British, mix of invention and mainstream European Modernism seems very pertinent to today's design trends.
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Interbrand appoints David Jenkinson
21 September 2006
Interbrand has appointed David Jenkinson as creative director, reporting to executive creative director Andy Payne. Jenkinson was previously design director at Enterprise IG and more recently a freelance for Figtree and ad agency JWT.
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LDF's future under review as fourth festival gets going
21 September 2006
Dramatic changes to the running of the London Design Festival could be in place as early as next year it emerged this week, during the opening of the fourth London event.
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Limited-edition for Heinz Baked Beanz
21 September 2006
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Liquid TV creates titles for National Lottery draw programmes
21 September 2006
Liquid TV has created the forthcoming titles for the National Lottery draw programmes, which launch next week. Liquid has designed a hero title sequence and 20 3D animated logos.
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London Design Festival has to make its objectives clear
21 September 2006
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London move confirmed for Nokia team
21 September 2006
Nokia designer Bill Sermon and the group's design team based in Southwood, Farnborough, are to relocate to Nokia's forthcoming central London design centre. The Farnborough studio is to be closed, but all its staff will be relocated next year, with some additional designers recruited, says a spokeswoman. Nokia's Finland design team is also being rehoused from Helsinki to Nokia headquarters in Espoo (DW 14 September).
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Lumsden creates retail concept for Lingo
21 September 2006
Lumsden Design Partnership has created a retail concept for Lingo, an electrical and technology retailer that opened its first store in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia last week. More than 100 stores are planned for roll-out over the next 12 months.
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Metropolis meditations
21 September 2006
By Christophe Egret
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News in Pictures
21 September 2006
The Partners is putting on an exhibition called Undesign, featuring a number of everyday landscapes with all the 'design' elements removed. It shows at the consultancy's office at Albion Courtyard, London EC1 throughout the festival.
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No place like home
21 September 2006
You only appreciate the well-designed comfort-zone of home when, says Jim Davies, you leave it behind to enter the unknown... on the dreaded summer holiday
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Perfect Day revamps Conservative Party logo
21 September 2006
Perfect Day has revamped the Conservative Party logo, which will launch at the party conference next week. A tree, representing 'strength, endurance and renewal', according to Perfect Day creative director Alex Aiken, replaces the torch marque designed by
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Profile: Moritz Waldemeyer
21 September 2006
Moritz Waldemeyer's inventive and playful forays into technology have attracted the big guns of design. So where, asks Clare Dowdy, will his 'mechatronics' and his high-profile collaborations take him next?
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Review
21 September 2006
EXHIBITIONS l Innovation at the RCA 2006, 23-27 September, centres around two major shows by RCA researchers, staff and graduates. Human Frame and Moving Frame focus on industry collaborations and film, video and digital media. Venue: RCA, Kensington Gore
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Sign language
21 September 2006
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'Simple' tender process complicates business practice
21 September 2006
Claire Lowson of Minale Tatterfield devoted many public words of praise to her client Transport for London (DW 14 September), which I'm sure TfL appreciated. But her support of simplifying the public sector tender process was somewhat misguided.
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Street project honours Bristol's Brunel past
21 September 2006
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Studio MB relives Bosworth Fields in interactive exhibition
21 September 2006
The Battle of Bosworth Visitor Centre, located in Leicestershire, is relaunching next year with a £400 000 makeover, featuring an interactive exhibition design created by Studio MB.
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The Havas and have nots
21 September 2006
CDG's chequered history of high-profile dismissals continues - so where will French holding firm Havas take its British baby next? asks Mike Exon
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The Nest creates Maplin concept store
21 September 2006
Electronics retailer Maplin launches a revamped identity and a concept store designed by The Nest this week, the retailer's first update of its visual identity in 34 years.
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The write way to do business
21 September 2006
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Tokyo tactics
21 September 2006
Japan's insatiable appetite for design doesn't make practising as a consultancy in a different culture any less of a daunting prospect. Michael Johnson enjoys the challenge and relishes the rewards of setting up business in Tokyo
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Twenty years of Design Week recalled
21 September 2006
Design Week celebrates its 20th birthday this week with a supplement charting developments in design over the past two decades. The magazine was founded in 1986 with Jeremy Myerson as founding editor. It was designed by the then group art director Bob Bateman.
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Virtuous circles
21 September 2006
Ethically conscious designers often make compromises when working for morally questionable companies, but more and more consultants are now nurturing social responsibility in clients from within, says Clare Dowdy
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Voxpop
21 September 2006
The Sorrell Foundation's Young Design scheme places schoolchildren as clients and design students as consultants in a bid to improve the design of schools. What other organisations could benefit from putting end-users at the heart of design consultation in this way?
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Waterfall promises 'fully digital' D&AD
21 September 2006
Future D&AD president Simon Waterfall (pictured), creative director of Poke, has confirmed that the organisation will become 'fully digital' by the end of his two-year term on the executive board.
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Woodward set to open DBA awards show
21 September 2006
Minister for Creative Industries and Tourism Shaun Woodward will open and speak at the Design Business Associaton's Design Effectiveness Awards ceremony, which will be held at The Hurlingham Club on 27 November.
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Young Vic returns with three theatres
21 September 2006
The Young Vic reopens its doors on 11 October, with a revamped identity by Intro and interiors designed by architect Haworth Tompkins.
