Design Week
22 August 2002
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Blu Orbit made up with Laura Mercier flagship
22 August 2002
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Book
22 August 2002
Co-owner of architect Future Systems, Jan Kaplicky shares his inspirations in Confessions - Principles Architecture Process Life, published on 23 August by Wiley-Academy, priced £24.95.
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Build up an appetite
22 August 2002
Food by Design may cook up some interesting designer recipes, but Yolanda Zappaterra will probably wind up using it as a lap tray
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Call for entries
22 August 2002
The Arts Council and the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment is inviting architects, engineers, clients and contractors to submit projects for buildings completed in 2002 that have engaged the public in the construction process. The Building Sites Award, which has a top prize of £5000, closes on 30 September.Contact: www.buildingsites.org.uk for an application form and further information.
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Cargo Homestore makes a show of the magazine
22 August 2002
Product placement isn't usually our bag. However, we were amused to see a copy of Design Week proudly adorning a desk in the window of the Cargo HomeStore sale on Tottenham Court Road the other day.It's not quite Purves & Purves or The Conran Shop, but it's good to know some people think we're a discerning read.And as for a bit of reciprocal PR, we're happy to oblige.
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Conference
22 August 2002
Talks, presentations, workshops and thinktanks are on the cards at the Association Typographique Internationale 2002 Conference in Rome, Italy, from 19-22 September.Contact: www.atypi.org to register and for further information.
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Consultancies should be investing in graduates
22 August 2002
I read with interest the comments put forward by James Sommerville (Letters, DW 27 June) and the article by Clive Grinyer (Private View, 27 June) in the same issue.
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Davies Hall raises jar for Gordon's identity
22 August 2002
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Design Distillery builds stately homes branding
22 August 2002
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Digest
22 August 2002
Children's retailer Adams and Save the Children UK have launched Where's My Peg, a new initiative aimed at taking the fear out of starting school for the first time. The campaign includes two resource packs by Rees Bradley Hepburn.
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Digest
22 August 2002
Bristol-based TigerRed has been appointed to design a series of product and lifestyle brochures for B&Q. The appointment follows the consultancy's work on Outdoor Life, the first brochure B&Q sold in-store, earlier this summer.
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Digest
22 August 2002
Hat-trick Design has created a brochure for Total Relocation Solutions, which is published later this month. The consultancy is also designing the company's website.
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Digest
22 August 2002
Vivid Creative Communications has designed Christmas menus for Burtonwood Brewery. The menus, supported by posters, will be distributed to Burtonwood pubs from this month.
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Digest
22 August 2002
Litmus has designed the annual report for DAIWA Securities SMBC, which launches in early September. The design aims to give the document a progressive and dynamic quality, says Litmus director Rachel Williams.
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Digest
22 August 2002
NowWashYourHands has cultivated a virtual flowering window box for the digital home and gardening channel UK Style in time for its Garden Madness weekend later this month.
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Digest
22 August 2002
The Lines Group has designed a website for the Kent Reliance Building Society. The site, www.krbs.co.uk, is the company's first major on-line investment.
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Digest
22 August 2002
Cog Design has created publicity material to support London's 24th International Festival of Contemporary Dance. Additionally, a festival information site, www.dance umbrella.org.uk, built by Cog Design's sister company Dotcog, goes live this week.
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Digest
22 August 2002
GA Corporate Marketing has designed a website for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2002. The site, www.themanbooker prize.com, launched this week.
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Digest
22 August 2002
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Digest
22 August 2002
Crescent Lodge has created a website and one-off national press campaign for the London Institute to boost student recruitment during the annual post-A level scramble for university places.
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Digest
22 August 2002
The Design Dell is creating a campaign to raise awareness of London's Camden Lock. The campaign aims to re-establish the area as a centre of excellence for independent retailers.
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Digest
22 August 2002
Artworks Design Consultancy has created handbooks for crews, liaison officers and captains taking part in the international Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race so they can navigate their way round Portsmouth.
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Dine of the times
22 August 2002
Dominic Lutyens finds out if the age of flamboyant restaurant interiors is over
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Elmwood packs give the order to Go Eat on GNER
22 August 2002
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Elvis is alive, well and working at Interbrand
22 August 2002
Elvis finally left the building 25 years ago last Friday. But the bulky, rhinestone-sequinned man-god of Vegas holds an enduring fascination for the design community, as our long-running karaoke watch suggests.For the record, the best impression we ever saw came from Interbrand senior designer Andy Helme at the consultancy's Christmas panto a few years back. The king is dead, long live the king.
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Eskimo Design
22 August 2002
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Exhibitions
22 August 2002
Catch the last two days of an art show dedicated to humour, featuring Simeon Farrar's Michael Jackson installation and Derrick Welsh's obscene embroidery at The Joke's On Us, until 23 August.
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Falmouth College of Arts
22 August 2002
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Fish in troubled waters
22 August 2002
Colum Lowe thinks the end for independent designers is nigh and that the new fad will be for more in-house corporate design teams and design managers
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Furniture and clothing could make a princely sum
22 August 2002
So, Prince Charles is to move his Duchy Originals brand into clothing and bespoke garden furniture. Neo-gothic gazebos and tweedy knitwear? Can't wait.Maybe Charlie should commission his cousin, furniture designer Viscount Linley, to help with the tables and chairs.They'd be a sure-fire success on the patios of Belgravia.
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Handling a culture shock
22 August 2002
With the introduction of free admission, visitor numbers at museums and galleries are soaring. Trish Lorenz asks what are the implications for design
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IBM takes on a winner, but forgets it's Monday
22 August 2002
Perhaps mindful of the dangers of hubristic introductory websites and newt-fingered imitators (see Diary, DW 1 August), IBM is publicising its acquisition of PwC Consulting with texty full-page ads in The Financial Times.
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In-house/external design mix can be a good thing
22 August 2002
The move by Boots the Chemists to bring in a full-time creative director is indicative of the way retailing is going. High-level design jobs are reported to be in the offing with a number of high-street names - WH Smith, Ann Summers and MFI are among those mentioned recently in this context.
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Investors in People backs Brazil report
22 August 2002
Investors in People UK, the national standards organisation for good practice in employee training and development, is to launch a Web-based annual report next week, created by Brazil Design.
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Isokon Plus
22 August 2002
Isokon Plus has collaborated with designers from three different genre's to create three products which will launch at 100 per cent Design in September.
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It's all about getting yourself a reputation
22 August 2002
PR is often a tricky business. Martin Brown suggests that, done properly, it can play a role in helping your consultancy's name be on the tip of a client's tongue
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London Eye sees website revamp
22 August 2002
The Open Agency's phased revamp of the British Airways London Eye website is poised to go live this week. Stage one of the overhaul concentrates on enhancing interactivity. An improved on-line ticketing and on-line ad campaign are also planned.
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Mama always said...
22 August 2002
Mama always said working in television would be glamorous. 422 has just created CGI animations for the BBC's latest natural history odyssey, Animals - The Inside Story, a sort of 'Fantastic Voyage' through the innards of the finny and the furry,
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Media recovery warning by WPP
22 August 2002
WPP group boss Sir Martin Sorrell has reiterated his warning that global media markets will not recover strongly until 2004, on the back of a 17 per cent fall in the group's half-year pre-tax profits.In the six months to June 2002, WPP's pre-tax profits were £210.4m, less than the £220m predicted by analysts. Revenues were down 2 per cent on the previous year to £1.96bn.
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North East designers come up against free-pitching too
22 August 2002
Of course designers in the North East are capable of good design (Letters, DW 25 July).
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Oxford Castle exhibition on lookout for designers
22 August 2002
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Philip Watts goes the extra miles
22 August 2002
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Photolibrary Getty Images
22 August 2002
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Product design high on agenda of NHS initiative
22 August 2002
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Reebok sizes up interiors revamp
22 August 2002
Reebok Europe has appointed Marketplace to create a fresh interior look for its chain of stand-alone stores in a bid to promote the brand's heritage and diversity.
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Seminar
22 August 2002
Political discussion on art and the urban environment is on the agenda for architects, artists and ecologists at Through Flow on 31 August and 1 September.Contact: 020 7377 0385 or e-mail info@crossover-uk.org for further information and to book tickets.Venue: Whitechapel Art Gallery, Whitechapel High Street, London E1.
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Small Back Room energises BP marketing project
22 August 2002
Small Back Room has created a marketing package for BP Solar Solutions designed to raise its Green credentials at the forthcoming Johannesburg Earth Summit.
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Somerfield hails Taxi repackaging
22 August 2002
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SS Robin gets Second Opinion for conversion
22 August 2002
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Stamps issued to honour GOSH
22 August 2002
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Stick to your principles or undervalue the industry
22 August 2002
I spent a day travelling to and from the British Chiropractic Association's offices in Reading earlier this week to attend a pre-pitch briefing meeting. As a member of the Design Business Association, I of course drew to its attention the fact that, as a DBA member, my company would request a nominal fee to cover the pitch work, since free-pitching is prohibited.
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The director's cut
22 August 2002
The British Film Institute is going through a period of upheaval and evaluating its 69-year-old brand. Hannah Booth meets the man in charge, Jon Teckman
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Unhappiness over description of naughty Lycra lovers
22 August 2002
Word reaches us that DuPont Textiles and Interiors - the maker of Lycra - has written to the editor of The Times asking the paper to refrain from describing recalcitrant city cyclists as 'Lycra louts'.
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V&A exhibition for D&AD Awards
22 August 2002
Forty years of creative excellence from British Design & Art Direction will be celebrated at the Victoria & Albert Museum in an exhibition designed by Din Associates.
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Vox pop
22 August 2002
Ahead of the Johannesburg Earth Summit, the Government has floated the idea of reintroducing returnable soft drinks bottles. What can - or should - design do to address the 'throwaway society'?
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Waterlogic International WL3000 range
22 August 2002
Conversations around the watercooler take on a whole new meaning with the launch of the Waterlogic International WL3000 range, created by Therefore. The WL3000 has four ranges and customers have the option of a tabletop unit or free-standing dispenser. In Europe, it is available from this month and in the US from next year.
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WH Smith draws in head of design
22 August 2002
WH Smith has hired Philip Ridge to replace Liz Lyons as head of design. Ridge, who takes up the post in September, will lead a 15-strong team. His remit embraces all creative output for the UK.
