Design Week
24 April 2008
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...and Scotland will surely benefit from such innovation, too
24 April 2008
As a group of designers covering a wide range of skills and disciplines, we've been pursuing for more than two years the idea of a design innovation school in Scotland, similar to James Dyson's project in Bath (DW 3 April).
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999 Design
24 April 2008
999 Design has redesigned the logo for Purely Mineral. The cosmetics company recently won a business competition allowing it to commission further collateral from 999.
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A sign of the times for cash-strapped local government
24 April 2008
So Westminster Council is planning to crack down on copyright infringements of its iconic street signs, and has spent £50 000 buying that copyright (News, DW 10 April).
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Aricot Vert
24 April 2008
Aricot Vert has been appointed by employment law consultancy Byrne Dean to produce a brochure explaining its offering to both existing and new clients. Aricot Vert was appointed following a referral.
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Corporate Edge splits to form communications arm
24 April 2008
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Coventry City FC nets birthday badge
24 April 2008
Coventry City Football Club is to unveil a commemorative anniversary badge later this year, crafted by Cheshire-based graphic designer Nick Job.The modified crest, chosen by fans from three options, will be used on promotional merchandise and the team's kit, to mark CCFC's 125th anniversary.According to Job, the football badge is a 'respectful evolution of the popular and iconic club badge from the 1970s'. The club's commercial director, Ken Sharp, explains, 'The aim was ...
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Crown
24 April 2008
Paint brand Crown is launching a new-look website by Code Computerlove, www.crownpaint.co.uk, which features a 3-D visualisation tool allowing users to view rooms in colours of their choice. The consultancy was appointed in January following a three-way pitch.
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Emerging markets are an inspiration as much as a threat
24 April 2008
In response to your piece on how the UK should respond to the news that design is starting to originate from emerging markets, rather than Europe and the US (Voxpop, DW 17 April), I would argue that the notion of creativity originating in emerging markets is patronising. What's happening is we are rediscovering cultures that have flourished for millennia. Design can migrate across borders with a fluidity advertisers can only dream of. We have not lost out in emerging markets due ...
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Enduring designs are about much more than aesthetics
24 April 2008
Design icons are under scrutiny once again. In London, department store Harrods has joined the Design Museum in a series of debates on the subject. Meanwhile, at the Milan furniture fair last week the pursuit of the perfect product was on, with manufacturers Plank and Philippe Starck's ...
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From pencil to stencil
24 April 2008
He’s ducking and diving his way to the top, but will success blunt Banksy’s edge? Jim Davies says design can help cult brands deal with growing pains
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Full steam ahead?
24 April 2008
P&O hopes to mimic boutique hotels and business-class airlines with its super cruiser Ventura, but the ship’s interiors are dated. Trish Lorenz suggests cruise lines should take a more modern approach to design to expand beyond the retiree market
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Godrej Group
24 April 2008
Interbrand has created a new identity for Indian engineering and product development company Godrej Group, to help it compete against foreign rivals.
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Heinz
24 April 2008
Heinz is launching a new mayonnaise line, with branding and packaging by Cowan London. The consultancy's creative director David Pearman describes the Heinz Deli Mayo design as having a 'no nonsense New York attitude', summed up in the tagline 'Show your sandwich some respect'. Cowan has worked with Heinz since October 2006.
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Industry links help create world-class designers...
24 April 2008
The Dyson School of Design Innovation has been given the go-ahead for Bath, awaiting a final decision from the Government (News Analysis, DW 3 April), and JCB is pushing forward with its academy. Both are due to open their doors in 2010. These two successful design-led organisations are investing a great deal of time and money in ensuring their design academies work in close conjunction with industry. They clearly believe that tomorrow's engineers and designers require regular ...
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Inkthis show to focus on Helvetica letterforms
24 April 2008
Design event organiser Inkthis is to hold its largest exhibition to date this month, featuring work from 40 international designers and artists.Now in its third year, the event - held in Leicester under the theme of Facelift - will showcase a series of crafted letterforms developed from Helvetica through disciplines including type, design, illustration, sculpture, painting and graffiti.The project will include work from 40 emerging and established artists across the globe, ...
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Inspired, Ken Shuttleworth - Make
24 April 2008
I'm inspired by many things, but I'm particularly fascinated by the quality of light - the infinite ways it can sculpt spaces, illuminate colour and throw texture into relief.Light isn't just an effect - it's a vital element in architecture and critical to how a space makes us feel. My favourite architectural space has to be a forest or woodland, precisely because of the magical way that light filters through the leaves. This particular interplay between light and shade creates ...
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It pays to widen the gene pool
24 April 2008
We may live on an island, but our ability to communicate and trade with the rest of the world has never been more potent. In this new global-scale economy, recruiting talent from abroad is a necessity for British consultancies, particularly the independen
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James Joyce
24 April 2008
One Fine Day founder and graphic designer James Joyce is exhibiting a collection of his illustrations at Kemistry Gallery, London EC2, next month. Drawings And Other Objects will feature a selection of Joyce's personal and commissioned images, including some signed limited edition prints. The exhibition runs from 2 May to 14 June.
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News in Pictures
24 April 2008
1 Haunch of Venison will host an exhibition by Los Angeles graffiti artist Gajin Fujita at its central London gallery, from 25 April until 24 May.2 Brown Dog Creative has produced the Autumn and Winter 2008 look book for fashion brand John Smedley. It was shot in the John Smedley factory, which dates back to 1784.3 Dalziel & Pow has rebranded the Store 21 chain, owned by UK value fashion retailer QS.4 Monotype Imaging has released its latest ...
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News in pictures
24 April 2008
Bollinger this week launches a Rosé champagne variant in Selfridges, with a look created by Lewis Moberly. The consultancy, which designed the original identity, has created a pale pink pearlised label with minimal typography, embossed and foiled in black, grey and gold. A deeper pink foil sets off the new house marque and black neck label.
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Oldham city
24 April 2008
Oldham city’s new branding has laid itself open to accusations of copycat tactics on local media industry website www.how-do.co.uk. The designs, by Hemisphere, have been likened to London’s Oyster card and Congestion Charge logos.
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Robert Franks' photobook The Americans
24 April 2008
Steidl will publish the 50th anniversary edition of Robert Franks' photobook The Americans next month. Through this book, it claims, Frank 'established a new expression of documentary photography which was objective and highly personal'. It has been redesigned by Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl, involving a range of changes which include the re-scanning of the vintage prints, new crops on many of the images, the replacement of one street scene with a different frame, and a complete ...
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Silk Pearce
24 April 2008
Silk Pearce has rebranded road repair company ASI as Rhinoworks, in a bid to bring its image up to date with the technological advances it claims to have pioneered.
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Structural packaging
24 April 2008
It's easy enough to spot the differences between fashion and architecture. In many ways they're creative opposites - buildings take years of planning and construction, and are generally built to last, while fashion is altogether faster and more frivolous. Buildings tend to be large-scale and static, fashion is personal and mobile. But it's far more fun to trace where the two overlap, as demonstrated by Skin & Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture, the debut show ...
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Suffering for their craft
24 April 2008
A romantic illusion has always been attached to the notion of those with a creative talent. Pablo Picasso was supposed to have created his best work while starving in a Parisian garret. That was more than 100 years ago, but now there are moves in the design world, at least, to ensure that new designers get paid fairly.The Brand Union has set a minimum wage for its trainees of £20 000 because its executive creative director, Glenn Tutssel, says he does not want graduates to be 'used ...
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Thomson Reuters media group
24 April 2008
Movement of the human eye informed Interbrand's visual identity for the newly merged Thomson Reuters media group, according to the consultancy's executive creative director Andy Payne. 'Thomson Reuters asked us to help it escape dry, business-to-business branding,' says Payne. 'The company's main touchpoint will be its on-line search engine, which it hopes to make as intuitive as possible. Reuters is currently 86th on our brand league table, but this should boost it into the top 30.'
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Universal Design targets Asia with Melbourne office
24 April 2008
Universal Design Studio is to expand its reach in the pan-Pacific market with the opening of an office in Melbourne, Australia, this week.Director of Australia Mark Simpson, who will be recruiting additional team members over the coming months, is to take the helm.London-based director Dan Higgott, who joined Universal Design Studio last October, explains that Simpson is back working with Universal following his first stint with the consultancy in London a couple of years ...
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Voxpop
24 April 2008
Italian design and architecture title Domus has unveiled a radical redesign, based on a flexible content system rather than a set format. What is the most radical graphic design you have come across for a magazine, and why?I haven't seen the new Domus so I can't comment on that yet, ...
