Design Week
24 June 2010
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A more exciting retail space is popping up
Thu, 24 Jun 2010
While retail interiors of the 1990s could be overly reverent, Carolyn Burke argues that stores became a lot more fun in the Noughties
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Basestation has redesigned and rebuilt the website for Judo Scotland
24 June 2010
Edinburgh-based consultancy Basestation has redesigned and rebuilt the website for Judo Scotland. The organisation is Scotland’s governing body for judo.
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BBC should stay true to its values to retain our respect
24 June 2010
Regarding your Voxpop (DW 10 June) relating to the major branding challenges the BBC faces following its strategy review, I feel that it needs to get itself out of the news.
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Best of the Web
24 June 2010
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Between the lines
24 June 2010
The tried and tested formula of slapping a movie poster on the cover was not an option when publisher Vintage decided to celebrate books that have achieved box office success in film adaptation. Anna Richardson talks to the publisher’s creative team about the design story behind their innovative concept
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Cada plans food and dining concept for old Tube station
24 June 2010
A new food retail and dining concept is to open in a former Tube station in London next month, with interior design, packaging, branding and graphics by Cada.
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Calculated risk-taking and 'creative bravery' will pay off
Thu, 24 Jun 2010
I agree wholeheartedly with Jonathan Ford’s phrase ’creative bravery’ being the right approach to the challenging times we are in (Comment, DW 17 June). It is our role as creative thinkers to take the lead and show more traditional businesses how to innovate and have the confidence to put new ideas into practice.
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Chris Dercon has been appointed as the new director of Tate Modern in London
Thu, 24 Jun 2010
Chris Dercon, director of the Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany, has been appointed as the new director of Tate Modern in London. Dercon replaces former director Vicente Todoli.
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Consultancy Casa Rex
24 June 2010
Consultancy Casa Rex, which has offices in Brazil and London, has designed the packaging for the Dove Dermo Aclarant range of deodorants from Unilever. The design uses a silver and copper colour palette.
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Culture hubs
24 June 2010
When it comes to museum retail it’s never enough to simply replicate the high street. The shop represents a cultural institution, so the environment and merchandise should have soul. As Anna Richardson discovers, when it’s done well it greatly enriches a day out
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Factory Design has appointed Matthew Fiddimore and Lee Bazalgette, as associates
24 June 2010
Factory Design has appointed Matthew Fiddimore and Lee Bazalgette (pictured),as associates. Both have been with the consultancy for more than six years.
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Forum for the Future to deliver CIKTN sustainability initiative
24 June 2010
A new project from the Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network aims to galvanise the creative industries into becoming more sustainable and help other sectors become more sustainable too.
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Hats off to history
24 June 2010
As adland teeters on the brink of neglecting its heritage in pursuit of the new, David Bernstein wonders how the History of Advertising Trust’s archive can become an active resource
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Home tome
24 June 2010
The book The Joy of Home, by interior designer Naomi Cleaver, is being released on 6 September by Conran Octopus, priced at £30. Cleaver has presented TV shows including Grand Designs/ Trade Secrets and Honey, I Ruined the House. The cover design for the title has been created by Conran Octopus’ in-house art director Jonathan Christie.
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Inspired: Tommy Taylor - Alphabetical
24 June 2010
I find change inspiring. I find that change can add refreshing vigour to my mind both creatively and emotionally.
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It's show time
Wed, 23 Jun 2010
It’s not hard to find something to enjoy this week - the sunshine, the World Cup (perhaps), Wimbledon or a festival. But if you fancy a more cerebral and imaginative way to enhance your week then look no further than a graduate show or two.
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Ladies of letters
24 June 2010
Typographically influenced work by Rosella Garavaglia, Deborah Hopson-Wolpe, Eleanor Suggett, Christine Toh, Jessica Turrell and Clare Hillerby - whose With Love to All From All brooch is pictured - are among the pieces going on show at Golden Age of Lettering, the new exhibition at the Bluecoat Display Centre in Liverpool. The exhibition runs from 26 June to 7 August.
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Lethal brands documentary on Punk icon
24 June 2010
Lethal has designed the identity for Meeting Joe Strummer, a new documentary about The Clash frontman which is to be released in the autumn.
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Let's get clear on the what, where and why of public art
24 June 2010
The ’what’ and ’where’ of public art will continue as long as public funding (the ’how’) is part of the package (’The good, the bad and the ugly’, www.designweek.co.uk/blog, 10 June).
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LFA and LDF organisers discuss possible collaboration to coincide with London 2012
24 June 2010
The London Festival of Architecture and the London Design Festival have discussed possible collaborations in 2012 - the year the Olympic Games come to London.
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Matthew Fairweather Design has created motifs for T-shirts for Insane
24 June 2010
Matthew Fairweather Design has created motifs for T-shirts for extreme sports and surf company Insane. Fairweather has previously worked for clients including Marks & Spencer and Paul Smith.
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News in Pictures
24 June 2010
Pieces by Italian studio Adriano are included in the Brazilian Allê collection, which is made using Methcrylate.
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News in Pictures
24 June 2010
Illustrations by Royal College of Art communication art and design graduate Owain Thomas will be on show as part of the college’s Show Two, which runs from 25 June to 4 July.
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News in Pictures
24 June 2010
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Pencil knits together new tea brand for Beyond the Bean
24 June 2010
Pencil has created the identity and packaging for a new brand of tea for Beyond the Bean, a company that supplies products and equipment to cafés.
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Point and learn
24 June 2010
The future of museum exhibition design lies in developing more intelligent and involving user experiences, but budget-busting technology isn’t always the best solution. Tom Banks investigates the state of the art in interactive applications
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Profile: Mark Denton
24 June 2010
Coy Communications’ advertising and design virtuoso has made an art out of following through his whims, describing his work as ‘a series of schoolboy jokes with a high-end finish’. Jim Davies looks back over his long, multifaceted career
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Scott Corbett to head international design at Body Shop
24 June 2010
The Body Shop has promoted Scott Corbett to the new role of international design director.
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Seymour Powell
24 June 2010
Seymour Powell has created the name, brand identity and packaging design for the new Shape Smart range of weight management products from pharmaceutical company Goldshield.
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The Design Group has designed new packaging for Sandtex Trade’s High X-posure paint
24 June 2010
The Design Group has designed new packaging for Sandtex Trade’s High X-posure paint. Sandtex Trade is part of the Crown Paints portfolio and provides protection in extreme weather.
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The Science Museum logo is a bold statement that reinvigorates the genre
Thu, 24 Jun 2010
The debate about the logo in identity took a new twist this week with the launch of Johnson Banks’ bold branding for the Science Museum (see News, page 3), flouting any notion that the logo is on its last legs.
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Time for tea
24 June 2010
Builders’ or antioxidant, herbal or fragrant, tea is a drink of many guises. Sipped, slurped and revered, a cup of tea is appreciated across the globe, and drinking tea is a favourite pastime in the UK.
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Voxpop
24 June 2010
Who would you like to have seen honoured in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list, and why?
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We'd never ever build in obsolescence
24 June 2010
In response to Hugh Pearman’s Private View on appliances seemingly designed to self-destruct (DW 10 June), we can report from the coalface of in-house design that we have never encountered an example of planned obsolescence being built into any of our products and we would be horrified if we ever came across one, as would our company’s quality department.
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Wheatcroft &Co has designed a website for Paul Dalling
24 June 2010
Wheatcroft &Co has designed a website for proofreader Paul Dalling, at www. pauldalling.co.uk. The consultancy worked with copywriter Nick Asbury of Asbury &Asbury on copy.
