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Design Week
23 January 2003

  • Added and nurtured values will help groups to thrive

    23 January 2003

    I wouldn't argue with Imagination's Ralph Ardill when he suggests that 'media neutral' design requires a 'freedom of thinking, diversity of skill-sets and genuine passion for collaboration and delivery' (Letters, DW 9 January), but I am inclined to go further.

  • Airside redesigns website for Lemon Jelly

    23 January 2003

  • Brewer Hall & Woodhouse appoint The Global Group

    23 January 2003

    Brewer Hall & Woodhouse has appointed Bournemouth-based The Global Group to create marketing material and trade advertising for its Free Trade and Hofbrau Lager accounts.

  • British Council plans show as design gets upgraded

    23 January 2003

  • Call for entries

    23 January 2003

    If throwing yourself off buildings, down ravines and ramps for fun is your bag, then entering the Exposed Freesports Film Competition could be for you. Judged by creatives including Jamie Hewlett of Gorillaz fame, entrants are invited to submit a film or animation with a freesports bias by the 28 February deadline.

  • Centre of attention

    23 January 2003

    As Nissan opens the doors to the Rotunda, its design studio in London's Paddington, Nargess Shahmanesh talks to the head of design Shiro Nakamura

  • Citibank Photography Prize Shortlist

    23 January 2003

  • Conway Media creates website for Oxford Ancestors

    23 January 2003

    Conway Media has created a website, www.oxfordancestors. com, for DNA sequencing group Oxford Ancestors.

  • Crumpled Dog Design creates identity for Change

    23 January 2003

    Crumpled Dog Design has created an identity, website and corporate literature for Change, a community finance company that offers financial services to housing association residents in London.

  • Design Distillery creates media pack for Chivas Regal

    23 January 2003

    Design Distillery has created a media pack for Chivas Regal. The pack includes an eight-page folder, five inserts and CD-Rom.

  • Design Matters designs for Baviera Eye Clinic

    23 January 2003

    Hastings-based Design Matters has created brochures, a CD-Rom, direct mail and press advertising for Baviera Eye Clinic, which launches in the UK today.

  • Design Museum gunning for nationwide coverage

    23 January 2003

    So, the Grand Theft Auto-toting Designer of the Year shortlist was unveiled on the same day as the Home Secretary's summit on gun crime. Caught in the crossfire of coincidence? Or a bit of collision course news management?

  • Domino Systems appoints head of design

    23 January 2003

    Domino Systems has appointed Piers Berry as head of design. Berry, who joins in February, was previously creative director at Uovo.

  • Engaging the customers

    23 January 2003

    Mobile phone operators are vying to market their next generation products. Richard Clayton looks at design's role in convincing customers to upgrade

  • Exhibitions

    23 January 2003

  • F1 in need of rebranding to bring back audiences

    23 January 2003

    Formula One motor racing is gearing up for radical changes to its image as it seeks to reduce spiralling costs and inject some pizzazz into the sport, and designers are poised to reap the benefits.

  • Fathom works out DMM packs

    23 January 2003

    Fathom has been appointed to revamp packaging for rock climbing hardware manufacturer DMM International. The Manchester-based consultancy will also create sales brochures and press advertising for the company in a project worth more than £15 000 to the group.

  • Future date

    23 January 2003

    Design Business Association Presentation Skills Workshops run by Shan Preddy of the Preddy Consultancy take place on 25 and 26 February.Venue: Design Council, 34 Bow Street, London WC2.Contact: Kate Dixon on kate@dba. org.uk or call 020 7251 9229.

  • Half-cut attention seeker brings in the passing trade

    23 January 2003

  • High street Chic

    23 January 2003

    With five new stores up its sleeve, retail clothing chain Topshop shows how its clever mix of cheap and chic is working on the high street. Mike Exon reports

  • How Bayley would decide to spend mega-millions

    23 January 2003

    Design guru Stephen Bayley surpassed himself last week when asked by The Independent what he'd do with a windfall inheritance.

  • Interbrand cuts costs with staff

    23 January 2003

    Interbrand has made an undisclosed number of staff redundant this week, as it looks to cut costs in response to market conditions.According to chief executive Tony Allen, the consultancy has lowered its growth forecasts for the next six months.Redundancies have affected 'a small percentage of our employees' and have been made from a cross section of teams, he adds.

  • Job seeker attempts to sell his interview skills

    23 January 2003

    I'm writing in reference to a letter by designer Chris Prior (DW 5 December). I am glad Prior has found a new job within three weeks of applying and this is encouraging to those currently working in the design industry.

  • Johnson outlines plans for D&AD

    23 January 2003

    A new awards category and a series of 'polemical debates' are the two main strands of British Design & Art Direction president Michael Johnson's 'manifesto' for the organisation this year, unveiled today at the D&AD annual general meeting.

  • Kemistry sets out TV4+ brand

    23 January 2003

    Kemistry has unveiled an identity for Swedish television channel TV4+ this week, as it works towards delivery of the entire brand package by 17 February.The consultancy is creating all presentation and promotional elements, both onand off-screen, for the TV4 spin-off channel.

  • Know How's strategy is headed by Pearlfisher

    23 January 2003

    Pearlfisher has created the brand strategy for hairdresser Michael Van Clarke's nascent haircare brand Know How, in a project worth over £100 000 in fees to the group.

  • Lunn Poly experiences Rawls & Co interiors

    23 January 2003

    Rawls & Co has designed a 372m2 out-of-town store (pictured) in Swansea for Lunn Poly, as the travel retailer moves to rationalise a concept originally created by Checkland Kindleysides.

  • Marking Design appoints business development director

    23 January 2003

    Marking Design has appointed Atoosa Afshar as business development director. Afshar joins from Fitch London where she was associate director of business development.

  • Mueller Kneer has designed interiors for Silka

    23 January 2003

    Mueller Kneer has designed interiors for Silka, an Indian restaurant which references the Ayurvedic tradition of holistic healing and eating. Interiors feature a 'layered landscape' of Indian rosewood, ebony and makore, with a 'cloud ceiling' seemingly hovering above. 'Two frames, which mark the main areas of activity, are the visual focus,' says partner Olaf Kneer. Silka is at 6-8 Southwark Street, Borough Market, London SE1.

  • Museums directed to update signage

    23 January 2003

    Two of London's highest profile museums and galleries, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the National Gallery, are in the early stages of a Holmes Wood revamp of their entire signage and wayfinding systems.

  • 'Neutral' still a live issue

    23 January 2003

  • New division at Enterprise IG

    23 January 2003

    Enterprise IG this week launches Enterprise Business and Brand Engagement, a merger between two WPP Group companies - MCA Communicates and Added Value Internal Communication - and Enterprise IG's brand engagement staff.Kevin Thompson, formerly president of MCA, is the group's president and Peter Bell, formerly chief executive at Avicom, is chief executive.

  • No One on 'global footing'

    23 January 2003

    No One director Simon Manchipp says the consultancy has been put on a 'global footing', following its parent ad agency HHCL's acquisition by WPP Group network Red Cell.

  • NWEC plans for redevelopment

    23 January 2003

    Architect HOK International has been appointed by the New West End Company to create a masterplan for the development of London's Regent Street, Oxford Street and Bond Street.The plan will encompass street furniture, lighting and wayfinding. An HOK spokesman says it is too early to say whether designers will be commissioned for work.

  • Peacock has designed the sleeve for Robin Gibb's album

    23 January 2003

  • Piranha Design creates identity for Citizens

    23 January 2003

    Piranha Design has created an identity for Citizens, a group of community action-based charities. The identity will be applied across stationery, website and other material.

  • Players enter rugby pitch for World Cup

    23 January 2003

    The Independent Sports Network is holding a pitch this week to appoint a group to create titles for ITV's coverage of this year's Rugby World Cup, to be held in Australia in October.

  • Prevamp designs for Expedition Company

    23 January 2003

    Somerset-based group Prevamp has designed the 2003 corporate brochure and supporting marketing material for adventure travel group The Expedition Company.

  • Print works

    23 January 2003

    Too many players in a dwindling market are hitting the print sector - more reason to embrace new advances, says Yolanda Zappaterra

  • Pyott's plans for leisure concept

    23 January 2003

    Pyott has this week completed the first stage of a £40 000 identity project for three UK 'leisure-retail' developments, in Glasgow, Leicester and Southampton.

  • Rebrand born of Immaculate Conceptions

    23 January 2003

    Harrow-based Immaculate Conceptions is rebranding 25-year-old security firm Unitrust Protection Services, as the company seeks to modernise its image for the first time.

  • Reich & Petch Design International has completed wayfinding for The Lowry

    23 January 2003

    Reich & Petch Design International has completed wayfinding for The Lowry, Salford's visual and performing arts centre.

  • S&M weighs in with Kilogram look

    23 January 2003

    Kilogram has helped Sausage & Mash Cafe turn a boarded-up 'greasy spoon' in London's Islington into the chain's second outlet, restoring much of its late 1940s decor.

  • Sale

    23 January 2003

    Up to 60 per cent off contemporary and vintage furniture, lighting, products and showroom samples by Ron Arad, Cappellini, Barber Osgerby and Michael Young can be bought at the Twentytwentyone sale until 25 January.Venue: 274 Upper Street, Islington, London N1.

  • Seasonal worker affected by Santa's delivery service

    23 January 2003

    As anachronistic as an Easter Egg at Christmas or a Bank Holiday in November, a letter, CV and wooden truck from Tony the elf, one of Santa's little helpers, landed on our desk on 13 January.

  • SP interiors for Midland Mainline

    23 January 2003

  • Specially made exhibits created for Cupboard Love

    23 January 2003

  • Spencer Du Bois identity cultures European award

    23 January 2003

  • Stride Treglown appoints Zoe Wells

    23 January 2003

    Architect Stride Treglown has appointed Zoe Wells (left) as head of interior design and Sam Smith as senior designer. Wells joins from Esteem Design, where she was creative director and Smith from Applied Design, where she was interior design director.

  • Tagging is not vandalism, it's just free expression

    23 January 2003

    In reaction to Nick Lerner's response (Letters, DW 5 December) to your diary piece Anonymous East End taggers captured on camera, I too was appalled that Volkswagen UK decided to use graffiti to promote its cars.

  • Talks

    23 January 2003

    Iain Hutchinson, a practitioner in facial reconstructive surgery, joins artist Marc Quinn, medical psychologist Paul Farrand and painter Mark Gilbert in a discussion about how we relate memory to faces. Unforgettable Faces is on 24 January at 7pm, and tickets are £8, £7 concessions and £6 to Institute of Contemporary Arts members.

  • The Biography Channel launches revamped identity

    23 January 2003

    The Biography Channel launches a revamped identity this week, designed by Sky's in-house creative team. The channel's 'entertainment-based programming' is reflected in the new look, says a spokeswoman.

  • The changing shape of trademark legislation

    23 January 2003

    If designers are worried about protecting their creations, David Wilkinson helps by explaining how new European laws may be interpreted by the British courts

  • The feminine touch

    23 January 2003

    Don't expect the eponymous Women's Work exhibition to be full of intimate and sensitive oeuvre; forget the clichés, says Oliver Bennett

  • Those that bear all for the Museum of Childhood

    23 January 2003

    I'd like to add some information to last week's news story about our client, the Museum of Childhood in London, and its forthcoming Teddy Bear Story exhibition (News, DW 9 January).

  • Trade show

    23 January 2003

    The Stockholm Furniture Fair takes place from 5-9 February. Seminars, events and an exhibition of Swedish design over the past 100 years will feature at the event.Contact: www.stockholmfurniture fair.com for further information and venue details.

  • UK furniture industry will benefit from shared vision

    23 January 2003

    Good news for furniture design is that the new venture between Conran & Associates and mass-market manufacturer Christie-Tyler (DW 5 December 2002) is proving a big hit with high street retailers.

  • Vox pop

    23 January 2003

    Sherbourne Contemporary Arts' Past Perfect - Why Restore Things? exhibition begins this week, asking how we choose what objects to admire and why they become valuable. What design work past or present do you think is undervalued?

  • WPA Pinfold has created branding for Directors

    23 January 2003

    WPA Pinfold has created branding and packaging for Directors, the Scottish Courage ale. It was previously available in cans and the brewer has launched a bottled variant to take advantage of the fastest growing beer category, says WPA Pinfold managing d

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