Design Week
22 March 2007
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4 Digital Solutions
22 March 2007
This is Real Art has been appointed to develop the branding and launch campaign for 4 Digital Solutions, Channel 4's newly formed digital advertising sales agency.
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A mass-ive mistake
22 March 2007
In an era of consumer empowerment and targeted marketing, David Bernstein is astounded tha big organisations can still treat customers like number
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Airside creates Pop Art space in Wolverhampton gallery extension
22 March 2007
Wolverhampton Art Gallery is set to open a £6.7m triangular gallery extension, with a permanent space designed by Airside dedicated to Pop Art.The consultancy was briefed to design the identity, exhibition space and interactive installations aimed at a target audience of 14- to 25-year-olds, with a budget of £100 000.At the entrance to the gallery, which will display a permanent collection of 1960s and 1970s Pop Art, a host of colourful boxes has been painted ...
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Arc International Cookware
22 March 2007
Arc International Cookware last week launched an updated version of its Pyrex range, entitled Elegance. Conceived by Milan-based designer George Sowden, the glassware oven range retains the borosilicate glass Pyrex has become synonymous with but now has ergonomic features and smoother lines. The glass ovenware range is complemented by a non-stick bakeware range, designed by Morag Hutcheon.
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Blue Marlin repacks Coco for UK launch
22 March 2007
Blue Marlin Brand Design has created a visual identity and new-look packaging for the launch of a range of coconut-based juices, milks and creams in the UK.Dr Antonio Martins' Coco products - which are claimed to have health benefits, and are already available in Continental Europe - have been given a radical overhaul by the consultancy, in an attempt to create a more premium positioning for the range in the UK.Blue Marlin aimed for a 'category-breaking treatment that will ...
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Brandhouse WTS chief Gandy leaves
22 March 2007
Brandhouse WTS managing director Mark Gandy has left the consultancy after 12 years to pursue other interests.He is expected to take some time out from the industry to decide on his future path. He will not be immediately replaced and consultancy chairman Mark Wickens will step into the role of managing director to handle the day-to-day running of the business.Prior to Brandhouse WTS, Gandy worked on the client side at Shell International, before moving into business development ...
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Can design stop Pizza Hut going down the deep pan?
22 March 2007
I would like to respond to last week's Voxpop (DW 15 March), which asked/ what can design do to improve the Pizza Hut experience without losing its core values? As 'America's Favourite Pizza' becomes the 'UK's most reviled', you imagine that the current sticky, noisy, smelly, badly serviced and cheese-rimmed-with-four-dessert offer must overhaul everything it does to regain, not lose, its core values. Simon Thompson, Head of Marketing, Four IV, London EC1
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DW's salary survey provided valuable guidance on rates
22 March 2007
Can I say how helpful I found your recent salary survey (DW 15 March). It's very hard, as an employee working in a design consultancy outside London, to have an idea of what you might be worth in financial terms. It all seems a bit arbitrary in the Midlands, where there's no strong design community that I'm aware of to allow designers from different groups to swop notes. It is particularly helpful to me as I plan to move to London in the next few months to have ...
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East Homes
22 March 2007
Housing group East Homes, part of East Thames Group, has completed a set of hoardings, designed by To The Point, to cover construction work and enhance its brand positioning.
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Finnish abstraction
22 March 2007
For many years, Germany was the hot zone of European art photography, thanks to the alumni of photographic pioneers Bernd and Hiller Becher from the Düsseldorf Academy. Now it is Finland's turn, with Helsinki's University of Art and Design the star turn at art fairs and biennials. For about 30 years this art school - the largest in Scandinavia - has incubated photographers whose work is collectively known as the Helsinki School. Led by photographers Ola Kolehmainen and Timothy Person ...
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Inspired
22 March 2007
Have you ever spent weeks planning a top night out for you and your loved one, only to have it ruined by an arsy waiter? Or been with a service provider for years only to be told you are not eligible for its new product because you are not a new customer?Good service seems to be harder and harder to find nowadays. Is it because, as a society, we are ever more demanding, and with competition so fierce we lack any loyalty? Or is it that the bigger a brand gets the less in contact ...
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Is graffiti 'vandalism'? Should it be boycotted?
22 March 2007
This e-mail responds to a news story on the Design Week website, which reported that Adidas will be applying the work of seven graffiti artists to one of its clothing lines. 'We are members of the anti-graffiti association, whose aim is to reduce the impact of graffiti in our society. To any sensible mind it is ridiculous to glorify and accept graffiti as a style to use on any product. Acceptance of graffiti on the shoes suggests Adidas likes to see graffiti. Perhaps the ...
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Jim Nature Television
22 March 2007
Philippe Starck's Jim Nature Television has been selected as one of 25 'great' creations to appear at the 25/25 Celebrating 25 Years of Design exhibition at London's Design Museum from 29 March to 22 June. Other designs featured will be the Alessi Whistling Kettle, designed by Richard Sapper in 1983, and the Freeplay wind-up radio, invented by Trevor Baylis and designed by Andy Davey of TKO in 1995.
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Marks & Spencer
22 March 2007
Marks & Spencer is to label food that has been imported to the UK by air with a logo designed in-house.
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Mediacom
22 March 2007
The Edinburgh office of media planning and buying agency Mediacom has been redesigned by 442 Design. The design features a 'treetop chill-out space' in the loft.
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Move with the times
22 March 2007
If illustrators are prepared to animate their characters, they are more likely to appeal to the commercial sector. For many, it's a natural progression
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News in Pictures
22 March 2007
Karim Rashid has designed the Clicquot Loveseat, the first piece of branded furniture from champagne producer Veuve Clicquot. The 'lovers' seat' is presented in soft pinks to complement the company's rosé champagne.
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NI reservoir operator unveils visitor exhibition and new look
22 March 2007
Northern Ireland mountain park tourist attraction Silent Valley is to unveil an innovative educational exhibition for its visitor centre, designed by Belfast consultancy Parker Butler.At the same time, a redesigned visual identity for Silent Valley reservoir operator Water Service is to be launched next month. Rebranded by public relations company Weber Shandwick in Belfast, the business will become Northern Ireland Water, as it ceases to be an agency of the country’s Department ...
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Penguin launches student design awards
22 March 2007
Penguin has launched its own student design awards to stimulate interest in graphic design within the publishing sector.Aimed at final-year students on a degree or HND Art & Design course, the scheme sets several jacket design briefs, for four Penguin titles - Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, Mr Clarinet by Nick Stone, and Vince and Joy by Lisa Jewell. Entries can include collaborations with illustrators, but only one entrant can be awarded.The ...
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Place your bets
22 March 2007
The new breed of supercasinos - complete with lavish arhitecture, restaurants, sports and shopping facilities, hotels and even museums - could offer interesting opportunities to designers
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Red Design creates sleeve for concept CD
22 March 2007
Start-up label Fascination Records this week launches the debut album from Paul Steel, its first signing, with sleeve design and art direction by Brighton consultancy Red Design.April & I is a concept album about a boy and his imaginary friend, April. It chronicles how April helps him with the struggles of growing up. To illustrate the tale, Steel drew a series of crayon scenes which Red Design has applied to a board storybook, with each picture relating to a track on the record.'We ...
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Royal Dutch Shell
22 March 2007
Digit has created an interactive section within Royal Dutch Shell's website, as part of the energy company's 'Real Energy' campaign.
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Safeguard the value of design
22 March 2007
Pay more attention to your clent's brief if you want the freedom to come up with a creative solution, says Nir Wegrzyn
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Stick and go
22 March 2007
Stand out from the crowd with custom decal kits that give your scooter a bit more zip. Liz Farrelly checks out the illustrations on offer for those who want to pimp their Vespas
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The Scottish Show takes on hair and fashion
22 March 2007
The organisers of The Scottish Show have revealed that it will include fashion and hair design this year, for the first time since its inauguration in 2004.'We wanted to show that it's not just about us selecting design - it's about the public making up its own mind about what design is. Hopefully, by bringing in disciplines like hair design, we are challenging people to think about what design really is,' says curator Leonie Bell.The exhibition, organised by The Lighthouse ...
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UK misses top spots in Red Dot awards
22 March 2007
British designers took only ten of the 523 gongs given at this year's Red Dot product design awards, announced in Germany last week. None of the 43 Best of Best awards went to British designers.However, Softroom and Virgin Atlantic, Best of Show winners in the Design Week Awards, also picked up a Red Dot for the airline's business class lounge. Other British design groups honoured include Studio SDA for its paint brush cleaning device for Brushdoctor, and Ergonomidesign for the ...
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Voxpop
22 March 2007
The Chartered Society of Designers has signed up the first accredited design group to its Design Association, following a four-month assessment process. What is the value of consultancy accreditation to the design industry?
