Design Week
24 May 2007
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Anarchy lures, OK?
24 May 2007
An easy facility with wordplay is one of the best skills a creative can have, and the surest way to puncture the pomposity of 'suits', argues David Bernstein
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BlankZero
24 May 2007
Nottingham-based Departure Creative Consultancy is changing its name to BlankZero, following 'legal circumstances beyond our control', according to managing director Sara Martin, who declines to comment any further on the reasons.
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Cadbury Trebor Bassett
24 May 2007
Cadbury Trebor Bassett is to unveil new-look Bass-etts packaging to attract a wider audi-ence, with design by Jones Knowles Ritchie. The consultancy has devi-sed a refined logo, as well as colourful shapes based around the sweets them-selves, to 'catch the eye'. The new design also aims to highlight the 'natural' qualities of the product.
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Credit
24 May 2007
Last week's feature on exhibition design (Hidden Treasures, DW 24 May) included a sketch of the London Transport Museum redesign which should have been credited to Conran Design Group.
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Design Week Top 100: All change
24 May 2007
With climate change and other shifts high up on the business agenda, the design industry is under pressure to compete responsibly in an increasingly global market. Lynda Relph-Knight looks back over a year of transformation – and welcomes many new entrant
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Dotcom déjà vu
24 May 2007
Emma Rubach looks at developments in the supercharged digital market as valuations for interactive groups keep reaching new highs
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Familiar faces
24 May 2007
When a little-known Swiss designer updated a minor font half a century ago, he had no idea Helvetica would become iconic. On the occasion of its golden jubilee, Simon Loxley looks at 50 influential typefaces
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Fighting back
24 May 2007
As Sony Ericsson launches a striking new range of mobile handsets, Mike Exon catches up with some members of its design team at the London launch event - and gains an insight into the company's creative philosophy
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Golden rules for cash converters
24 May 2007
If you're running a consultancy, it's good to know you can cash in at some point - but it's only worth what someone else is willing to pay for it, says Charlie Hoult
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Ice Station Antarctica
24 May 2007
Digital consultancy All of Us has created the interactive installations for the Ice Station Antarctica exhibition now showing at the Natural History Museum.
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If Friends Reunited can't help, give Design Week a try
24 May 2007
Thirty years? Surely not. Who knows where the time goes? Although many of the Royal College of Art's graphic design Class of '77 have kept in touch and a handful meet up sporad-ically, the whole group is poised to suitably celebrate the 30th anniversary of its graduation with a 'black tie and tiara' dinner in the RCA senior common room early next month. Although the usual suspects have been rounded up from their various locations around the globe, there are a few 'disappearoes' ...
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Imperial College London
24 May 2007
Imperial College London has enlisted Studio Tonne to help it create 200m-long graphics for an internal walkway. The space will serve as an area where students can display acti-vity notices and posters. This 'communication exchange' is intended to form part of the art installation, which is based on the visual form of a notebook. It will be installed in July.
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Inspired
24 May 2007
A packet of collar supports, a German envelope with an anonymous photograph inside, a raspberry jam jar label, and an exercise wallchart titled 'Woman: Her Heath and Beauty'
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IPA membership shows the value of integration
24 May 2007
With regard to Imagination becoming the first design group member of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (DW 3 May), it perhaps demon-strates that advertising now acknowledges in principle the value of integration with design. But I doubt it denotes any change in the battleground of who 'owns' a brand. Credit to Imagination for giving it a go. Jane Simmonds, Managing partner, Conran Design Group, by e-mail Following the significant debate in the ...
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It's Pop It's Art
24 May 2007
John Lennon's Imagine is the latest addition to the It's Pop It's Art website, a collabora-tion between UK design group Airside and EMI Music Publishing. The screenprint features the enigmatic lyrics debossed on to the page so they drift in and out of sight according to the light.
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Let's rejoice in our success - and embrace a digital future
24 May 2007
At last we have cause to celebrate. The business is doing better than it has for years and the upturn looks set to stay.That is the gist of Design Week's 2007 Top 100 survey, which charts the fortunes of the UK's leading independent design groups. Design fees earned by Top 100 groups in 2006 were up 10 per cent on the previous year, on turnover up 9 per ...
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Mark Studio kicks off Manchester sports
24 May 2007
Manchester City Council is looking to capitalise on its profile as host to a series of world sporting events in 2008, with the help of Mark Studio.The Manchester design consultancy is working with the council to umbrella-brand six sports events in a bid to raise the profile of Manchester as a premier sports destination at both a national and international level.'It's a great opportunity that allows Manchester to endorse the fact that we have the resources and venues to ...
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Mika
24 May 2007
Singer Mika will exhibit a series of artworks created around the release of his debut album Life in Cartoon Motion. Entitled The Debut Art Exhibition, the show will run from 11-14 July, at the Blink Gallery, Poland Street, London W1. Curated by design consultancy Air-side, which worked with Mika to turn the artwork into sleeve design, and co-curator Da Wack, the exhibition will feature work in psychedelic style as well as reference pop art ideas.
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Mogs need a break too, but do they fly Cat-hay Pacific?
24 May 2007
On several occasions during the past two years (maybe more), I've found myself in the baggage hall in the North Terminal, at London Gatwick Airport, waiting for my luggage. On each occasion, I've been trans-fixed by what appears to be six trays of cat litter wel-coming visitors from all over the world. The trays are neatly set in the centre of each carousel (see photograph). Can this unusual installation be part of YRM's original vision for Gatwick all those years ago? ...
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Nameless identity for 'inside out' theatre in Leicester
24 May 2007
Leicester is to house a new theatre with an 'inside out' concept that aims to include the community in the experiences, with naming and branding by design consultancy Nameless Brands.Designed by architect Rafael Viñoly, the theatre will replace the functions of Leicester's existing Haymarket Theatre and Phoenix Arts Centre. It will open in September 2008.Leicester Theatre Trust appointed Nameless Brands, following a final three-way pitch, to come up with a name, visual ...
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News in Pictures
24 May 2007
This hand-crafted doll is by Stela Martins, one of 17 Brazilian artists exhibiting work at Pulse in Earls Court, London SW5, from 3-5 June
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One New Change
24 May 2007
Land Securities has appointed MoreySmith to design the marketing suite for One New Change, the Jean Nouvel-designed shopping centre in London EC4.
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Parallel worlds
24 May 2007
The success of Second Life has created a need for a holistic approach from the design industry to satisfy the peculiar demands of this virtual world. Emma Rubach talks to designers and students to see how they are meeting this challenge
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Press Gazette
24 May 2007
The trade magazine Press Gazette has relaunched in a fresh format, with design by Michael Crozier. Accor-ding to editor-in-chief Tony Loynes, the revamp was needed to 'make the magazine more than a skim read and to make it more practical, as well as to include a lot more valued content'. The typeface has changed, and the website has also been redesigned by Abacus.
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Profile: Donna Wilson
24 May 2007
RCA graduate Donna Wilson has resisted the lure of the mainstream fashion and textile industries to carve out a career path as a 3D designer working with 'knit'. Fiona Sibley is mesmerised by her grotesque dolls
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Race Cottam opens division for interiors
24 May 2007
South Yorkshire architect Race Cottam has opened a dedicated interior design division.Director David Cottam explains that having a specialist design arm will allow his practice to offer added value to clients, and expects the team to gene-rate almost 20 per cent of Race Cottam's turnover within 18 months.Currently staffed by a team of three, headed by interior designer Keith Dudson - who previously ran his own interiors consultancy, Des-ign Edge, now subsumed into Race ...
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Random House opts for Vintage Classics twin approach
24 May 2007
Book publisher Random House is redesigning its Vintage Class-ics imprint, with the first new-look titles out in August.A team of designers, illustrators and photographers has been commissioned to create limited edition book jackets to adorn 'twinned' pairs of modern and established classics, from Henry James to Ian McEwan.Each pair of Vintage Classic Twins has been selected to provide a 'thought-provoking combination', says Random House design director Suzanne Dean, and ...
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Responsible design celebrated at RSA Design Directions
24 May 2007
The elderly, the visually impaired and the environment are all set to benefit from the winning projects in this year's Royal Society of Arts Design Directions awards competition.The annual scheme, launched in 1924, is for socially inclusive design, and offers UK and international students a range of projects that comment on the changing role of the designer in relation to society, technology and culture. An exhibition of the winning work launched yesterday at
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Skylon resurrected as RFH restaurant/bar
24 May 2007
Skylon, the latest venture from D&D London, formerly Conran Restaurants, is set to open next month on the third floor of London's newly refurbished Royal Festival Hall.
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Sugar and spice
24 May 2007
Just how many 1980s revivals can youth culture sustain right now? While the nu-rave movement shows no signs of fading from England's sticky dancefloors, over in Japan the kids have been in thrall to the fashion craziness of the somewhat ridiculed New Romantic movement for well over a decade now, if a new book, Gothic and Lolita, is to be believed. Photographer Masayuki Yoshinaga, who has worked for Dazed & Confused and The Face, travelled through Osaka and Tokyo, documenting this homage ...
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The Guardian homepage is OK, but an irrelevance
24 May 2007
In response to the Voxpop last week on The Guardian's home page redesign, I should first note that Mark Porter deserves credit for being one of the few established British editorial designers to proactively embrace on-line interaction design. He can also talk about his work more cogently than some of his peers in the on-line news industry. As Porter has found, unlike other areas of design, every-one is a critic when consid-ering the Web. Yet the quality of our discussion ...
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Voxpop
24 May 2007
With the Cutty Sark off the agenda for the time being, what tourist attraction would you recommend to the design-conscious visitor?Following on from the shipping theme, I'd take a seasonal approach to look at planes and trains instead. It's summer and the 'big ...
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What's Next For Schools?
24 May 2007
The Sorrell Foundation Young Design Centre opens this week at Somerset House with a show called What's Next For Schools? created by exhibition design spec-ialist Cass-on Mann. Pictured is a concept for Grafton Primary School, London, by Adams and Sutherland. It is an inter-active dis-play that features films, Web games, models, audio and imagery. Over the next three years, the centre will present exhibitions, run work-shops and create a research centre.
