Design Week
22 February 2007
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2014 Commonwealth Games
22 February 2007
Glasgow's bid to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games will feature a 'candidate city file' designed by Navyblue Design Group, the consultancy behind the London 2012 Olympic bid 'candidature file'. The group was appointed by Glasgow City Council last week.
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Architecture and interiors needn't be at loggerheads
22 February 2007
Concerns aired by Royal College of Art alumni over the status of interior design at their alma mater have prompted an interesting response within the industry.Sarah Harkins' comment paints a picture of personal angst at being caught up in a perceived shift towards architecture in the mid-1990s. But others have expressed wider beliefs that the RCA may be missing an opportunity to develop a discipline that has the potential to fly, to address social as well as cultural and commercial ...
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Award-winners succeeding in a confused marketplace
22 February 2007
Congratulations to our award-winners this year, and particularly to the team behind the Best of Show, the Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse at London Heathrow Airport.Awards give us a great opportunity to celebrate design's innate creativity. Work that impresses your peers gives everyone a creative benchmark to aim for in the often cut-throat world of commercial design.But awards also point to the direction design is taking in addressing shifting markets.This year's ...
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Big Design
22 February 2007
Midlands advertising agency Big Communications is launching a design division called Big Design, headed by Stocks Taylor Benson founder Dean Stocks - who becomes managing director - and Louise Almond, formerly senior designer at Checkland Kindleysides.
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Cultural machines
22 February 2007
Ettore Sottsass is indusputably one of the greatest designers alive, but his contribution is far from easy to categorise. Deyan Sudjic, director of the Design Museum, explains why it will honour his work
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Design practitioners have much to learn from 'grubby' DM
22 February 2007
As Hicklin Slade creative director Andy Barwood acknowledges in your News Analysis 'Crossing the line', there's nothing new about direct marketing agencies handling design work.
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Designers should not be pigeonholed by discipline
22 February 2007
With regard to this week's Voxpop, I never pigeonhole designers. Most of the best are creative in all aspects of their thinking. For example, a typical trip to Tesco by my wife and design partner Gerardine might go something like this: On her way out, something prompts her to want to improve our home… it could be the lighting, the colour, it might be that she fancies something different on the wall. Getting in the car, there could be a big balloon coming out of her hat saying, ...
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Different by Design applies for extension
22 February 2007
Organisers of Different by Design, the pioneering £2.7m design development project in Staffordshire, are hoping to extend its funding beyond the official close next month.The programme's director Bruce Wood (pictured) is in discussions with its funder, Regional Development Agency Advantage West Midlands, about extending the scheme beyond 31 March when it is due to end. He claims that its success in developing and launching commercially viable designs over the past three years stands ...
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Dylon
22 February 2007
Fabric-dye company Dylon has launched a brand refresh, by Coley Porter Bell.
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Familiar spaces
22 February 2007
Despite the increasing hours most of us have to spend in the office, it's generally a surreal, slightly unpleasant space. With very few exceptions, offices tend to be repositories of bits of furniture that unsuccessfully aspire to be functional, sporting an aesthetic vaguely anchored in the previous decade, and patterned with the employer's parsimony. The lives so many of us lead as battery chickens, structured by these offices, receives scant cultural acknowledgement or engagement. ...
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Feeling fine
22 February 2007
Design Week asked some senior figures from the digital media scene to suggest examples of Web design that they admired. While some went for the functional and usable, others went for the quirky and joyfully pointless
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Global Cool
22 February 2007
Sea Design, in conjunction with independent branding consultant Ralph Ardill, has created an identity for climate change organisation Global Cool. Originally conceived as an identity for a global music day, similar to Live Aid, it will now be used more broadly as the marque for the group. The ten petals on the logo represent 'ten ways people can make a change', says Sea Design creative director Bryan Edmondson.
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Inclusivity is key to differentiation
22 February 2007
A less fragmented approach, involvinig all departments at every stage, can help you stand out from the crowd, says Jon Davies
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Inspired
22 February 2007
It seems strange to be inspired by failure, but that was the catalyst for the [annual] Podge lunch. Half a dozen design luminaries joined me at the Oval in the 1980s, when British design was going great guns, both in the UK and overseas. Over a very civilised and somewhat boozy afternoon, the general mood was very gung-ho. Then came the crash, and one by one each of the consultancies present that day were fending off the receivers.Several years passed and I rang the original ...
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JCB brings in ASHA for toy strategy rethink
22 February 2007
Construction equipment group JCB has brought in Cheltenham design consultancy Arthur Steen Horne Adamson to develop a strategy for its range of branded children’s products.ASHA will work on creating a dedicated children’s website and look at new products for the children’s product range. At present, JCB has a Junior area on its website, but no dedicated children’s site.The consultancy was selected for the project by JCB following a series of pitch presentations ...
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JHP and A&GP win Hungarian retail project
22 February 2007
A major greenfield site in Hungary is to receive a 50 000 square metres new-build shopping centre, designed by London consultancy JHP and Vienna architect A&GP.
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Kingsmill
22 February 2007
Kingsmill has revealed a brand relaunch, with new packaging by design consultancy Vibrandt. The redesign will involve the Kingsmill 'crown' being replaced by a sunburst, complemented by bold colours and key product information.
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News in Pictures
22 February 2007
BBC Two has unveiled a fresh on-screen look with 14 idents based on seven new themes, designed by advertising agency Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO and produced by Red Bee Media.
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News in Pictures
22 February 2007
The Air Is On Fire, an exhibition of filmmaker David Lynch's paintings, photographs and drawings, takes place at The Fondation Cartier Pour L'Art Contemporain in Paris, from 3 March to 3 June.
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Pentagram makes over Dorchester luxury hotel group
22 February 2007
Luxury hotel chain The Dorchester Group's global rebranding is in its final stages, with the fresh identity by Pentagram Design set to roll out to the group's Paris and Milan properties this month.The move to rebrand and reposition the group supports its plan to expand its portfolio of hotels from four to as many as 20 international properties.Pentagram partners John Rushworth and Lorenzo Apicella led the graphic design and architecture respectively of the project, which ...
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Peugeot Flux
22 February 2007
Twenty-year-old Romanian design student Mihai Panaitescu has won the Peugeot Design Competition with his Flux design, a compact, urban environment vehicle that uses a non-polluting fuel cell engine. Flux will be built as a full-scale model, in the form of a concept car to be exhibited at the next Frankfurt Motor Show, and will feature in a future Xbox 360 computer game. Panaitescu has also received a cheque for €6000 (£4040).
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Profile
22 February 2007
The founders of Softroom, joint Best of Show winner in the Design Week Awards, first made their names in the style press. Clare Dowdy talks to them about submerged hotels, airport lounges and 'proper' architecture
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Quickmap
22 February 2007
Designers David Sherriff and Andrew Sutton have created a series of central London maps integrating public transport connections, walking routes and the recently extended Congestion Charge zone. They are published through the pair's Quickmap company.
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SFA unveils new Daylesford Organic shop
22 February 2007
Organic food and produce store Daylesford Organic is launching its latest London offering, a three-storey shop in Pimlico.The group currently boasts a farm shop and café in Gloucestershire, a small farm shop in Selfridges food hall, a café in Sloane Square and a nursery in Maida Vale.Designed by Spencer Fung Architects, the interior of the Pimlico store covers 418m2 and will feature café dining tables - laid out with organic fruit, herbs and vegetables - as well as white ...
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Taking the mickey
22 February 2007
For two decades, a group of artists have been using images from comics and animation as their springboards for abstraction. Yolanda Zappaterra looks at a new exhibition in the US which explores territory at the intersection of low- and highbrow art
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The Institute of Designers in Ireland
22 February 2007
The Institute of Designers in Ireland has launched a promotional brochure, designed by Belfast consultancy Frank. Frank was tasked with designing a standard format with a fold-out, which aims to increase the institute's membership and attract new sponsors.
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The Liverpool Anglican Cathedral
22 February 2007
The Liverpool Anglican Cathedral has unveiled revamped interiors, designed by Mather & Co.
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The merits of middlemen
22 February 2007
Increasingly, designers and clients are appointing independent brokers to act as mediators, to reduce stress and free up time
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The smallest details can have a major effect
22 February 2007
In reply to James Windsor’s letter, I agree that ‘it’s all too easy to get caught up in the small things’, but small things like using the word ‘infer’ when I think the writer means ‘imply’, and deleting apostrophes from where they should be on signs such as ‘men’s magazines’ do matter.
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Too brief encounters
22 February 2007
Many clients do not get involved in the design process between briefings and proposals - to the detriment of relationships and end results, says David Bernstein
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Virgin Atlantic comes top in DW Awards
22 February 2007
Virgin Atlantic Airways' Clubhouse at London Heathrow Airport, designed by Softroom, Isometrix and Virgin Atlantic's in-house team, won Best of Show at Monday's Design Week Awards.The judges praised its integrated design and 'implicit branding that echoes the airline's culture'.Interiors, product design, digital and multimedia fared well at the awards this year, with judges praising the strength of entries. But judges were not as impressed by many of the submissions in ...
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Voxpop
22 February 2007
London is turning its attention to Fashion Week again, but is fashion valued enough by other types of designers? With more and more fashion labels launching products, should other design disciplines pay more than a fleeting attention to the fashion industry?
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We Are What We Do
22 February 2007
Accessories designer Anya Hindmarch has launched a limited edition, environmentally friendly designer shopping bag, in collaboration with Sainsbury's and global social change movement We Are What We Do. The bag will retail for £5 and will be available during March from various outlets including Anya Hindmarch UK stores, and from late April at Sainsbury's supermarkets.
