Design Week
25 January 2007
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Action stations
25 January 2007
Despite the UK's lead on the world stage of design, British petrol stations are not celebrated for their retail prowess and are notorious for poor-quality food and lacklustre facilities.UK fuel station convenience stores are a far cry from the US, where roadside gas stations are supported by a base of collectors of 'petroliana', Japan, where consumers can order products on-line and get them delivered to the nearest convenience store, or even developing countries, which are fast ...
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ASHA consultancy to sell Easter-themed educational toy
25 January 2007
The branding, corporate identity and campaigning consultancy Arthur Steen Horne Adamson is to begin selling its own Easter product called Eggventure Beads, which are plastic eggs filled with beads that tell the Easter story to children.Eggventure Beads aims to help parents guide children through the Biblical story, as well as making it more interesting and fun.The consultancy is shipping 20 000 units in time for mid- February and says it has already signed up The Church ...
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Beautiful browsing
25 January 2007
As the on-line book market goes from strength to strength, could appealing interior design be enough to change the fortunes of conventional bookstores? Clare Dowdy explores how bookshops are fighting back around the globe
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Blue Marlin wins Irn-Bru pitch
25 January 2007
Scottish soft drinks group AG Barr has appointed design consultancy Blue Marlin Brand Design to redesign the packaging for the entire product range of its iconic Irn-Bru brand.
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Circle creates Magnum's 60th book and DVD
25 January 2007
Circle has designed the book and DVD to accompany a 60th anniversary presentation for global photographic agency Magnum Photos, taking place at this year's Berlin International Film Festival.The Berlinale (8-17 February), will offer Magnum a sidebar at the festival showing 33 films by the agency's photographers. The 70-page book and DVD, titled Magnum in Motion - Photographers and the Moving Image, will present these films, along with essays and work relating to the photographers.The ...
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E-books will make designers more, not less, important
25 January 2007
The role of the book designer could grow to be ever more crucial if digital versions of books are to become commonplace.Speaking last week ahead of an industry gathering in London, Penguin Press art director Jim Stoddart suggested that the design world needs to be ready for the tipping point when electronic literature starts to become the norm. Though e-books are still not a widely spread phenomenon, their growth, he says, will demand more of the print book designer in creating ...
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Franz Kafka
25 January 2007
Penguin is giving Franz Kafka a striking new look as part of a revamp of its Modern Classics series. Cover photographs by Jacob Sutton and art direction by ad agency Mother combine to reveal what Penguin Classics publisher Adam Freudenheim calls 'the surreal that Kafka creates'.
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Head
25 January 2007
Global sports brand Head has unveiled a new corporate identity that includes a redesign of its iconic arc logo. Zurich consultancy Department beat international design groups from London, Chicago and Berlin to the project. It has adopted an orange colour and introduced the first strapline, 'Head is an athlete'. The identity will be implemented across Head's ski, racquet, snowboard and licence divisions.
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Homelessness charity Thames Reach Bondway
25 January 2007
Homelessness charity Thames Reach Bondway has been rebranded and renamed by Imagination to become Thames Reach. The previous, four-syllable name was hard to remember and awkward to say, according to the consultancy, which won the work after a four-way pitch. It has designed the primary logo, which 'reflects' the word home in the word Thames, as well as corporate guidelines and the website (thamesreach.org.uk). The strapline 'Decent homes, supportive relationships and fulfilling lives' ...
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Human industry
25 January 2007
In Joseph L Mankiewicz's dazzling 1955 musical Guys and Dolls, one of the strongest scenes is set in a sewer system bursting with polished steel and technicolour backdrops: bold, brash lines of light and primary colours that look firmly to a hopeful future, putting the dark days of European conflict behind them.In Britain, a similar aesthetic was being developed on a much smaller, more human scale by industrial photographer Maurice Broomfield, an ex-designer who used photography ...
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Inspired
25 January 2007
There is nothing in the world like being surrounded by water, particularly sea water, and waterside locations have been a source of inspiration that I've drawn on nearly all my life. I don't believe a location exists in the world that couldn't benefit from a coastline.The Café Del Mar bar on the island of Ibiza is a fine example. The individual elements - the music, the architecture and the fine sangria - are in themselves characteristic enough.But the magic for me is in ...
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Making your start-up work
25 January 2007
Going it alone isn't easy, but it can be highly rewarding. Gavin Thompson shares his experience of setting up a product design consultancy
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News in Pictures
25 January 2007
Illustrator and animator Mr Bingo has designed two T-shirts - Prog Rock and Tie - for on-line T-shirt retailer moreTvicar.
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Olympic site opens with signage by Westmorland
25 January 2007
The roll-out of the UK’s 2012 Olympic training sites has begun, with the opening of the £16m Lee Valley Athletics Centre, featuring signage and wayfinding by Westmorland Signs International.
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Pitch perfection
25 January 2007
New Year. New business? Old topic - pitching. I have pitched, successfully and unsuccessfully. I have invited pitches from companies in disciplines other than my own...
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Profile
25 January 2007
Russell Pinch has gone from furniture designer to brand consultant andback again, with a stint for Terence Conran en route. Clare Dowdy traces his varied career path and talks to him about his furniture range
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Proud Creative leads wild card team on S4C new ident
25 January 2007
Welsh broadcaster S4C relaunched its on-air and off-air branding last week, including its first new-look screen idents in almost 15 years.S4C plumped for a wild card consortium of specialist designers led by Proud Creative. It has just revealed that the design and branding included input from Onedotzero's consultancy arm, Folk Design and Rare. The rebrand has been overseen by S4C creative consultant Dylan Griffith and extends to graphic, on-line and 3D design.Despite heavy ...
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Pulling in on three wheels
25 January 2007
Sebastian Conran tests the Piaggio MP3
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Rudge reveals plans for Tent London
25 January 2007
Tent London will be the brand name for the new design exhibition from 100% Design founder Ian Rudge and 100% East founder Jimmy MacDonald.Under the Tent London name, they will launch their first fair during London Design Festival this autumn. It will replace 100% East, which is being axed from the 100% Design portfolio, and will be independent of Reed Exhibitions, the organiser behind 100% Design.The event will occupy the whole Old Truman Brewery site. Rudge and MacDonald ...
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Surreal Things
25 January 2007
The Victoria & Albert Museum is launching a range of products for its forthcoming exhibition, Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design.
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Terry Pratchett
25 January 2007
Original artwork and front cover dust jackets used for Terry Pratchett books, by Paul Kidby, are shown at the Watercolours and Drawings Fair with Modern Works on Paper at The Royal Academy of Arts in London's Burlington Gardens from 1 to 4 February. The work will sit alongside a vast range of pictures for sale, including an exhibition of photographs by Lord Snowdon.
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The LDA must show its hand on London Design Festival
25 January 2007
We're still awaiting news from the London Development Agency about the future of the London Design Festival. We have yet to see the delayed economic evaluation by management consultancy Stratagem, finally due for publication next month, but word on the street is that funding of one sort or another will be forthcoming.Whatever form that funding takes and the conditions put upon it, London will be celebrating design in December. It will be business as usual for 100% Design, the ...
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Voxpop
25 January 2007
Next is set to overhaul its stores in a reported £40m revamp with Dalziel & Pow. Can design rejuvenate its fortunes?
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Why worry about apostrophes when you have sexism?
25 January 2007
Having read the 'Mind your language' article, I feel that a much more pressing issue than Tesco removing the apostrophes from its boy's and girl's toys signs is the fact that they have these sections at all. Is the influence on our children from this kind of sexism not a far greater concern for us designers than punctuation? It's a bit like worrying about the kerning in Mein Kampf. James Windsor, Designer, James Windsor Design, London W13
