Design Week
22 January 2009
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Acrobat creates new look for Delissential
22 January 2009
Manchester-based consultancy Acrobat has created a new identity and packaging range for gourmet food brand Delissential.Acrobat was appointed in January 2008 on the strength of packaging work it did for the Gourmet Candy Company, which owns the brand, according to Nik Haralambous, head of design at Acrobat.The client stipulated it wanted a pestle and mortar marque incorporated into the identity.Acrobat responded by replicating the 'D' of the logotype in the marque. ...
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An interview with Hussein Chalayan
22 January 2009
‘Body design artist’ Hussein Chalayan works across disciplines, without losing touch with his fashion roots. John Stones catches up with him at his Hackney studio ahead of a major Design Museum retrospective
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Celluloid revisited
22 January 2009
Film and photography often cross over into art, and vice versa, with many artists keen to explore the boundaries between the media. It's a theme that runs through the forthcoming Alan Cristea Gallery exhibition Young Contemporaries 2009. It showcases a quartet of hand-picked artists, who all take film and photography as inspiration and source material for elaborate works on paper. Kate Atkin, an MA graduate in Photography from the Royal College of Art, describes her large-scale, intricate ...
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Cravens creates children’s zoo identity
22 January 2009
London Zoo is set to launch a new identity, designed by Cravens, for its Children's Zoo, which it is renaming Animal Adventure.Cravens' branding will feature 'a very simple logo in a playful, childish font that will sit well with our photographic poster campaigns', says the zoo's brand executive Owen Croft.The Zoological Society of London briefed Cravens in October to create a new identity and marketing materials that would appeal to parents of children aged three to seven.Cravens ...
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Design Against Fur
22 January 2009
Derby University student Mair Perkins has won the first international Design Against Fur animation competition. The award runs alongside the Design Against Fur poster competition which started in 2001 and attracts around 7000 entries each year. To view the full animation and to enter this year's competitions, go to www.infurmation.com.
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Designers and craftsmen sought for Robert Burns museum
22 January 2009
The National Trust for Scotland is seeking graphic designers, model-makers and metal craftworkers as part of the £21m Robert Burns Birthplace Museum project.The museum, which is expected to complete in 2010, 251 years after the Scottish poet's birth, will be in Alloway, the Ayrshire town where Burns was born.The building, designed by Edinburgh-based Simpson & Brown Architects, will be the centrepiece of the museum, which will also feature the Burns Monument, Brig o'Doon, ...
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Don't diss the e-card - it's a first prototype of a future model
22 January 2009
As a student of sustainable design, Jim Davies' Private View 'E-cardinal sin' shocks me (DW 18 December 2008). To hell with deforestation? This is not a comment that I feel comfortable reading. Christmas cards create a huge amount of waste every year and the way an alternative, however crude or impersonal, can be disregarded in this way saddens me. There must be other alternatives to the traditional postcard that allow for greater creative freedom than churning out the clichéd, ...
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Don't let the crunch tempt you to give up on your marketing
22 January 2009
In response to your Voxpop (DW 8 January), I hope that 2009 brings an awareness from even more clients that design and marketing is the best investment that can be made during these trying times. And an understanding that a considered and professional marketing approach will make a positive commercial impact on any business, large or small. I also hope for world peace and an end of cruelty to furry little critters. David Major, Creative director, Creative Direction, ...
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Industry revenues are up, says report
22 January 2009
Profits are falling in the design sector, according to accountant Kingston Smith W1’s annual survey of design and branding consultancies.
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Inspired
22 January 2009
Red Detect is a landmine-detecting flower. This genetically modified plant has been engineered to change colour when its roots comes into close contact with landmines.
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Lambie-Nairn set to brand Renault TV channel
22 January 2009
Car manufacturer Renault has appointed Lambie-Nairn to design the branding and idents for its new promotional TV channel, Design Week can reveal.Branding and broadcast graphics group Lambie-Nairn won the contract about three weeks ago, following a competitive pitch. Both Renault and Lambie-Nairn declined to confirm the story, but a source connected with the project claims that the new channel is in the early stages of development, and will eventually be available to Sky subscribers.The ...
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Loyalty should pay off in the Russian market
22 January 2009
We were interested in the article on Russia (News Analysis, DW 8 January) as we have been working there since 1998 and have more than 50 clients in retail, banking and real estate. We saw the effect of the rouble crash in 1998 and the current situation is a bit déjà vu for us. It's a test of commitment - we stayed loyal to our clients and supportive when money wasn't available. It certainly paid off as Russians, like most people, like to deal with committed companies they can trust, ...
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Naughty innuendo
22 January 2009
Sex and design are inextricably linked – both depend on fuelling desire and satisfying appetites. But make sure you get risqué tastefully, argues Jim Davies
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News in Pictures
22 January 2009
Teddy bears’ picnics and frogspawn-collecting are two of the subjects being explored by artist James R Ford in 33 Things To Do Before You’re 10. His residency at Ferreira Projects-01 in London EC2 runs until 19 February.
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News in Pictures
22 January 2009
An exhibition of 19 objects from the Crafts Council’s collec tion arrives at the City Gallery, Leicester this week.
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Plan before you pick up a pencil
22 January 2009
It’s important to keep packaging design planning focused and efficient, but that doesn’t need to come at the expense of creativity, says Andrew Collins
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Playful sell
22 January 2009
Customer silhouettes displayed on plasma screens, ability testing and golf games – Maeve Hosea looks at what some forward-thinking retailers are offering their shoppers as the high-street scene becomes ever more digital and interactive
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Radical poster design
22 January 2009
Posters tend to lead a virtual life these days, circulated online rather than pasted up on walls – but the radical edge is still there. John Stones is invigorated by a sudden flurry of work triggered by a recent incident in Greece
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Sampled stuff
22 January 2009
What happens when you ask artists and designers to experiment with cutting-edge technology with a view to discovering a new aesthetic? Trish Lorenz gets a sneak preview of insects scanned in 3D and other quirky delights for an upcoming show
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Seymour Powell in Loewy rejig
22 January 2009
Seymour Powell has merged with Loewy Group stablemate Loewy Brands & Packaging.
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Show marks seven decades of Penguin book design
22 January 2009
A selection of classic orange fiction paperbacks, together with original drawings of the Penguin logo, are among the exhibits on display at Gateshead's Shipley Art Gallery, as part of a show marking seven decades of Penguin book design. The exhibition, 70 Years of Penguin Design, also features the design layout for the classic orange striped cover. The exhibition runs until 31 May.
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The Ancient Egyptian gallery opens
22 January 2009
The new Ancient Egyptian gallery opens at the British Museum in London WC1 today. The principal designer at the museum, Geoff Pickup, art-directed the project, with 3D design by At Large and graphics by Lucy Or Robert. Both of these groups were commissioned by the British Museum in 2006. Pickup says, 'The challenge of the project has been to provide a setting that evokes the confined space of the tomb-chapel, but still allows large numbers of visitors to enjoy the details of the paintings ...
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The Government must use more subtle methods to drive design recruitment
22 January 2009
The Government needs to look beyond simple incentivisation if it wants to drive recruitment in design, industry experts tell Angus Montgomery
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Triflow Concepts relaunch
22 January 2009
Triflow Concepts, formerly Avilion, has commissioned architect Zaha Hadid to design a bathroom tap for the company's relaunch on 28 January. The tap will use the existing filter system designed and patented by Avilion in 1992. Triflow and Hadid are discussing whether to collaborate on future design projects.
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Voxpop
22 January 2009
Keep Britain Tidy has named McDonald’s, Greggs, KFC and Subway as some of the brands that together make up about a quarter of our litter, despite on-pack graphics and messaging. What can design do to alleviate the problem?
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Wedgwood is all very well, but Spode set the standard
22 January 2009
Hugh Pearman's article 'Wonder of Wedgwood' is great (Private View, DW 15 January), but I would disagree that it was 'especially Wedgwood' of the two Josiahs who had the most influence in the development of ceramics at the turn of the 19th century. It was Josiah Spode who perfected the formula for fine bone china and mastered the difficult technique of underglaze transfer printing - and in so doing revolutionised the tableware industry. Over the next 200 years it was actually the ...
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We've lost a true visionary with the passing of Kaplicky
22 January 2009
We add our contribution to the many tributes that have been heaped on architect Jan Kaplicky since his untimely death last week.Would that as many people had honoured him in a lifetime spent pushing the boundaries of ideas and technology for work that was truly ground-breaking. ...
