Design Week
23 April 2009
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Abu Dhabi continues fuelling the design sector
23 April 2009
With Abu Dhabi starting to overshadow its glitzier neighbour Dubai, more groups are setting up shop there. Angus Montgomery reports When design and branding consultants working in the Middle East talk about the respective profiles of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, it's hard not to stereotype the two emirates in the context of the recession.Dubai, described as ...
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Co-design workshops show soci-eco design opportunities
23 April 2009
The co-design approach may not be new, but using it to increase skills and help realise eco-economic opportunities during a recession is, according to sustainable design consultant Alastair Fuad-Luke.
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Design on screen is a real treat, so let's have more of it
23 April 2009
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Domodinamica
23 April 2009
Italian design company Domodinamica will launch Brodie Neill's furniture piece Scuba at this year's Salone Internazionale del Mobile. The product is made from leather and glass fibre, and is more than 2m wide. Scuba will be the focal point for Domodinamica's booth at the fair, which runs from 22-27 April.
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Enterprising consultancies triumph in Queen's Awards
23 April 2009
JHP Design, Chapman Taylor, Paul Smith and a raft of furniture design groups have been honoured for their business achievements at The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise.
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Goodge Street glory
23 April 2009
Designers write better than writers design. Several designers and illustrators have been masters of the pen - Ashley Havinden, Hans Schleger, Osbert Lancaster, Abram Games, Milton Glaser, Terence Conran, Alan Fletcher (I’ll no doubt think of others).
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Hot hubs
23 April 2009
Especially contrived creative hubs can have a lot going for them, particularly for fledgling businesses or sole traders. As well as the support and bonhomie, there’s the advantage of working from an address with a reputation for creativity. What’s more, m
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Inspired, Jonathan Silver: Silver & co
23 April 2009
‘Imagine … It’s easy if you try’. Could there ever be a better creed for a designer than this mesmerising phrase from John Lennon’s extraordinarily powerful and timeless plea for peace, written way back in 1971?For me, great design results from the opportunity to imagine - with freedom from restrictions, from the constraints of everyday life, from regulations, from costs, from programme and from all the things that we face every day in the design industry. However complex ...
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Jam design duo to front BBC Two home improvement show
23 April 2009
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Jones Knowles Ritchie
23 April 2009
Jones Knowles Ritchie has redesigned the packaging for Müller Rice, launching this week. Naturalness and provenance are echoed in the design, according to JKR, which has been working with Müller since 2007 - its first redesign, Müller Corners, was unveiled last summer.
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Less flimflam, more integrity
23 April 2009
The financial services sector badly needs to rebuild trust in its institutions, and design has a vital role to play in this regard, says Paul Barlow
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Margate - capital of the arts, or a refuge for hard-up bankers?
23 April 2009
You recently picked up on one of the challenges contestants on the new season of The Apprentice will face - to rebrand the seaside town of Margate - and asked how designers might approach this task (Voxpop, DW 9 April). In an ideal world, I'd suggest scrapping the 'family resort' image and rebranding Margate as the town that supports the visual arts. Then invest in small businesses that would run national competitions to design seafront B&Bs, bars and restaurants, and ...
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Mark Holmes’ luxury giftware venture unveiled
23 April 2009
Mark Holmes has swapped the large scale of Established & Sons for a small-scale new venture of luxury giftware. Anna Richardson talks simplicity, style and the joy of being in control with the designer
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Mathers & Co designs new Wimbledon viewing platform
23 April 2009
Mather & Co is designing an interactive viewing platform for Wimbledon’s Centre Court, which will allow visitors to view it from angles including the umpire’s chair, and the commentary and royal boxes.
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News in Pictures
23 April 2009
Mother by Tineshia Johnson. She studies graphic design at Matthew Boulton College, Birmingham.
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Respect for clients is best way to nurture growth, says Ardill
23 April 2009
Designers must quell their desire to ‘always be right’ and start focusing on existing clients rather than seeking new business if they want to nurture long-term growth, according to Ralph Ardill, chief executive of The Brand Experience Consultancy.
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Seeing triple
23 April 2009
Old-fashioned handicraft and hi-tech digital film technology collide in Coraline, the first stop-motion animated feature to be conceived and executed for digital 3D projection. While 3D stop-motion dates back to 1939 and John Norling's short film In Tune with Tomorrow, and films such as 1993's The Nightmare Before Christmas have been converted for 3D projection, Coraline marks a first for feature-length stereoscopic stop-motion production: each frame shot twice, for right eye and left ...
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Signs of revival
23 April 2009
Each city presents a different signage challenge, and Glasgow is no exception. Anna Richardson previews the UK’s largest wayfinding system, which is being implemented over the summer
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Stockport-based Origin
23 April 2009
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Studio Dempsey
23 April 2009
Studio Dempsey has designed Royal Mail's May issue of ten special stamps. Endangered Plants focuses on plants under threat at the bottom of the food chain, without which other life forms could not exist. The featured plants highlight conservation success, with illustrations which were researched by Mike Dempsey in botanical libraries - most came from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, which is celebrating its 250th anniversary.
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The New Deal of the Mind couldn't be more timely
23 April 2009
Last week, you asked for suggestions in response to the request from the New Deal of the Mind coalition, soliciting proposals for potential job-creation strategies for the creative sector (Voxpop, DW 16 April).We at the Design Council welcome this coalition and stand ready to support it in any way we can. It amplifies the message that only through creativity and innovation will businesses and communities recover from the recession.It is also a reminder that now ...
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The Yard Creative is on track with bar brand for rail operator Thalys
23 April 2009
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University challenge is to support, not compete
23 April 2009
The British Design Innovation report ‘Delivering the Innovation Dream’ and your article ‘Facing the university challenge’ (DW 2 April) provide strident critiques of the perceived danger of universities undermining the commercial design industry.However, the report leaves out two aspects where universities might make significant contributions to a wider culture of innovation and the well-being of the design industry.One is that we stimulate opportunities for designers. ...
