Design Week
23 September 2010
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...And don't worry about paying much for it either
23 September 2010
I read Caroline Robert’s excellent article on crowdsourcing (Private View, DW 2 September) and was reassured, but was later amazed to see on one such site - www.designcrowd.com - that Queens, the self-styled ’ultimate entertainment centre’ in London’s Bayswater, was looking to rebrand and offering just £100 to the winning candidate.
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Bag a Banksy
23 September 2010
Most little tikes agree that birthday parties are greatly enhanced by a decent party bag. This principle also applies to Don’t Panic’s packs, distributed twice a month around the UK’s cultural venues.
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Best of the Web
23 September 2010
http///archigram.westminster.ac.ukTo see the work of the seminal architectural group check out the archive hosted by the University of Westminster. The way drawing styles change, Archigram’s inspirational drawings suddenly seem current, so the archive created by the university’s architectural research group EXP is pertinent.
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Breeze Creative bottles new Mayfair look
23 September 2010
Glasgow-based consultancy Breeze Creative has branded drinks company Mayfair Brands and created identity and packaging designs for its London Dry Gin and English Vodka.
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Dalziel & Pow works on store interiors for Jackwalk in China
23 September 2010
Dalziel & Pow has designed the interiors for menswear store Jackwalk in China.
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Family and Friends' logo for Peter Popple's Popcorn takes its cue from the alliteration
23 September 2010
Family and Friends has created the identity, packaging and promotional materials for new popcorn brand Peter Popple’s Popcorn.
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Former Fitch global planning director Pearse McCabe joins Rufus Leonard to head strategy
23 September 2010
Rufus Leonard has appointed former Fitch global planning director Pearse McCabe to lead its integrated strategic brand team.
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He may not be able to draw, but he knows what he likes
23 September 2010
How can Hugh Pearman be a design critic if he can’t draw (Private View, DW 9 September)?
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Heatherwick does a great job of boosting the UK'sreputation for creativity
23 September 2010
Thomas Heatherwick is an inspired choice for the London Design Medal (see www.designweek.co.uk, 20 September). Not only is he, at 40, relatively young for the accolades he has so far accrued and so promises to be a role model for many future generations, but his design has a rare diversity that touches all creative points.
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Inspired - Steve Price
23 September 2010
Simple things like sunshine. There is nothing better than a clear morning with the sun beating down. Travel helps broaden the mind (and get a suntan). Culture, music, food, the arts and writing can all help one be more aware and accepting.
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LDF deal with Beijing event set to boost Sino-UK design links
23 September 2010
With the London Design Festival in full swing, an announcement was made last night of a partnership between the capital’s main design event and China’s inaugural Beijing Design Week, which will be held from 27 September to 3 October next year.
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More chunky types
Thu, 23 Sep 2010
Playful 3D typography is proving popular at the moment, partly because of the advertising world’s ongoing love affair with the quirky and homespun.
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News in Pictures
Thu, 23 Sep 2010
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News in Pictures
Thu, 23 Sep 2010
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News in Pictures
23 September 2010
Matt Bucknall from Black Dog Publishing has designed Alphabets: A Miscellany ...
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Profile: Danny Miller
23 September 2010
A teenage obsession with magazines and movies spurred on this young creative entrepreneur to launch Little White Lies, now the core asset of a fast-growing branding and design group. Emily Pacey tracks him down to his Shoreditch lair
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Ranch gets straight to the point with Paperback rebrand
23 September 2010
Ranch has rebranded employee-owned co-operative paper company Paperback, which has been selling recycled paper since 1983.
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Scenes unseen
23 September 2010
Photographer Martin Parr is curating an exhibition of vernacular images - new or previously unseen, and often graphically inspired work by little-known artists - displayed in a frameless context across the seaside city of Brighton. John Stones reports
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Shopping - a force for the greater good
23 September 2010
Some say retailing caused the credit crunch, but Rodney Fitch celebrates its contribution to global employment, wellbeing and democracy
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To the barricades
23 September 2010
As the art and design world braces itself for the Government’s Comprehensive Spending Review next month, Angus Montgomery reports on some recently launched campaigns that are fighting back against funding cuts in the sector
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Too close for comfort
23 September 2010
Brands frequently adopt a chummy, over-familiar tone in their marketing, but forced bonhomie can never lead to meaningful relationships. Jim Davies says they should show more respect
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Until the funding is sorted, design education will suffer
23 September 2010
In support of David Kimpton and Julian Grice’s suggestions on how to raise standards in design education (Letters, DW 9 September), I would like to chuck my two-pennyworth in.
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Urban symphony
23 September 2010
999 Design has created the 2010-11 season brochure for the BBC Philharmonic.
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Voxpop
23 September 2010
What issues would you like to see Simon ’Sanky’ Sankarayya take on in his role asnew president of D&AD?
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Want dull design? Just ask a crowd...
23 September 2010
Your article last week about the redesign of Vogel’s bread by B&B Studio (News, DW 9 September) was a text-book illustration of how research used crudely can stifle innovation.
