Design Week
23rd July 2009
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Based Upon creates artwork for the Lucida New York residential condominium
23rd July 2009
Based Upon has created an artwork for the lobby of the Lucida New York residential condominium, which has been designed by architect Cook & Fox and interior designer S Russell Groves. Based Upon took moulds of natural surfaces in the city’s Central Park, capturing etched graffiti, striations of bark and graphite surfaces of rock. The work will be on public display from 4 August.
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Cees de Jong co-authores Type - A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles
23rd July 2009
Dutch designer Cees de Jong has edited and co-authored the first of two books about typefaces, called Type - A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles, Vol 1 1628-1900. With book design by German group Sense Net’s owner Andy Disl and due for publication by Taschen in August, the book traces the evolution of the printed letter. The two volumes will together feature works by William Caslong, Peter Behrens, Rudolf Koch and Eric Gill.
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Design enters TV reality show arena
23rd July 2009
Last Wednesday, Jam Design founder Jamie Anley and designer Phil Nutley watched themselves burst on to prime-time TV as frontmen for BBC Two interior design series Home for Life (News, DW 23 April).After cramming in filming around their day job - which includes revamping London’s 100% Design show - the duo had not had time to watch the finished product. So, at 8pm last Wednesday, Anley sat down with friends and family in a hotel room in London’s Covent Garden to watch his ...
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Design road trips round the UK
23rd July 2009
The British love a good road trip, and a new exhibition of art and design has been inspired by six such journeys around our shores. Maeve Hosea explores what it tells us about Britishness
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Dress for success
23rd July 2009
After an experiment in naked working at a Newcastle design consultancy, Jim Davies argues it’s dressing a brand, not undressing it, that makes good design tick
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Get to know your customer
23rd July 2009
The art of shopper marketing, says Andy Scott, lies in knowing how to apply branding messages in different retail environments
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Graduates, don't despair - online flair will land you a job
23rd July 2009
The survey released this week by the Association of Graduate Recruiters paints a gloomy picture for students leaving university this year, with the average number of graduates chasing one job rising to 48.
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Hidden Art creates South Bank show for 20th birthday
23rd July 2009
Hidden Art, the organisation which assists and promotes UK design talent, is creating an exhibition in London’s Oxo Tower Museum to celebrate 20 years in business.‘[Transforming Products into Passion] is a retrospective exhibition built around a timeline to visually retell our story, and hopefully it will exhibit work from each year of our existence,’ says Saul Sherry, Hidden Art’s editor and communications manager.One of the main challenges was selecting work. ...
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In or out? However you source your IT, beware
23rd July 2009
A recent report, published by PA Consulting, suggested that more than 30 per cent of companies plan to outsource more of their IT capabilities over the next year. This has been denounced as corporate cost-cutting. Many feel that such a move ‘out of house’ represents a loss of creativity and control, and will lead to a decline in internal knowledge bases. However, this misses the point entirely, particularly as it applies to small and creative businesses, where ...
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Inspired - Guy Smith
23rd July 2009
We all know what it’s like. You’re in a store, weighing up a purchase, trying to find that something that will convince you it’s worth parting with your hard-earned. All the more frustrating when a key part of the equation is missing and you discover that the staff simply don’t know their product.As retail designers we are used to managing this process, presenting the information consumers want in a way that they will enjoy. So imagine my delight when I found myself chatting ...
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Mostra creates news crest for Notts County
23rd July 2009
London consultancy Mostra has designed a new crest for League Two football club Notts County. Following the club’s recent acquisition by Middle Eastern consortium Munto Finance, Mostra was briefed to design a new crest that retained much of the club’s heritage while modernising it to symbolise the club’s potential.
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Muscle act
23rd July 2009
A photograph is a perfectly frozen moment in time - or is it? These days, Photoshop and a tendency to touch up snaps to the nth degree make photographic reality a movable proposition. This makes the new work from Alex & Cocco all the more eye-catching. Photographer Alexander James has been working on a series of images capturing parkour, the high-octane discipline which sees practitioners overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles in gravity-defying motion. There is a glut of images ...
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News in Pictures
23rd July 2009
The Crafts Council has acquired 11 new works for its collection of contemporary British craft, including pieces by Lin Cheung, Angela Jarman, Lina Peterson and Merete Rasmussen
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News in Pictures
23rd July 2009
David Bowden of Bowden Design has designed the promo packaging for new Sugababes single Get Sexy, using an oversized foil flow-wrap normally used for condom packaging. The promo launches ahead of the single, which is out in three weeks on Island Records.
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News in Pictures
23rd July 2009
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On a social mission
23rd July 2009
The Royal Society of Arts is becoming a real force for change, as borne out by its new Design & Society manifesto, says Lynda Relph-Knight
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Pierre Vermeir will be a great loss to design in the UK
23rd July 2009
Many years ago, when I was a designer at Brewer Jones, I interviewed a young designer from Belgium. His work spoke for itself. Although we weren’t recruiting, we took him on as the principals, John Brewer and Joe Jones, recognised an exceptional talent.
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Profile
23rd July 2009
Ten-year-old consultancy Bulletproof has managed to buck the downturn through hard work, common sense and ambition. Anna Richardson talks to its founder about the benefits of ‘mining’ and strong client relationships
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Say it straight
23rd July 2009
From hard-hitting political drives conveying complex messages at a stroke to public information and charity campaigns, film posters and advertising, Anna Richardson finds that there’s still plenty of life in the good old poster
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Six brands Tom Foulkes blog
23rd July 2009
Leicestershire-based consultancy Six has designed and branded a blog (pictured) for Tom Foulkes, head of development marketing, retail, at Land Securities.Six was appointed to the work, which is a private project and not affiliated to Land Securities, just over a month ago, according to the consultancy’s managing director Darren Jessop.
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Small Black Room develops poster campaign for the Crown Estate
23rd July 2009
Small Black Room has developed a poster campaign for the Crown Estate to promote London’s Regent Street for the summer. The campaign, which will appear in bus stops, will feature two poster executions, which complement each other. One design will show an arrow image (pictured), created using store names, which will point north or south and name all the retailers in that direction. The other will act as a ‘brand map’ for the street.
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TDC creates Dubai's version of the Oyster card
23rd July 2009
Transport Design Consultancy has designed Dubai’s version of the Oyster travel card.The Nol card will be the Gulf region’s first-ever stored-value travel card, and will enable passengers to use all modes of public transport in Dubai, including Metro, marine and bus services.Transport Design Consultancy started working on the cards, for client Dubai Roads and Transport Authority, around a year ago, according to principal Tony Howard. The consultancy had previously ...
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The RSA unleashes its design manifesto
23rd July 2009
The Royal Society of Arts’ Design & Society manifesto is being launched tomorrow.The manifesto, written by RSA director of design Emily Campbell, outlines the society’s plans for its engagement with design. It is titled ‘You know more than you think you do: Design as resourcefulness and self-reliance’.Campbell says the key messages are ‘to show how design contributes to self-reliance and resourcefulness’, and to propose that designers can redefine themselves ...
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This is the perfect time to find a new model for design
23rd July 2009
One of the best commentaries on the recession and how creativity can ride it came last week from celebrated architect Amanda Levete.Speaking to graduates at the New Designers show at London’s Business Design Centre, she made no bones about the toughness of the times, but urged the audience to use the situation to their advantage. ‘There is a financial crisis, but there is not a creative crisis,’ she said.With everything in flux, not just in design, but in all ...
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Voxpop
23rd July 2009
Interior design products will hang from the rafters of the foodie haunt Borough Market during London Design Festival in the Food With Thoughtevent. Where is the most incongruous place your work has been displayed?
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When you're over 50, every decade makes a difference
23rd July 2009
Reading your piece on the brand resistance of the elderly (News in Depth, DW 9 July), I wondered whether it isn’t about time we stratified the age bands of the over-50s? Grouping everyone older than 50 as one homogeneous market is short-sighted, to say the least. Age groups of ten years, somewhat similar to younger age bands, would be a start - for example, 50- to 60-year-olds, and so on, would reflect the very different thoughts and emotions of the over-50s. ...
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Xsite interiors for Newcastle boutique venture Saints Hotel
23rd July 2009
Xsite is creating interiors for a new boutique hotel in Newcastle, scheduled to open in January 2010.The ten-suite Saints Hotel at Friar House, which was named and branded by Newcastle-based Gardiner Richardson, will include a wine bar, a lounge, a 60-seat restaurant, a 24-seat tearoom and a retail offer.Saints owner S2 Hotels appointed architecture and interior design group Xsite last year, following a competitive creative pitch against ‘a handful’ of other ...
