Design Week
25 July 2002
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2002 World Technology Awards trophy
25 July 2002
Philips Design has created the award trophy for the 2002 World Technology Awards, held in New York earlier this week. Designed by chief creative director Stefano Marzano, the award is circular with an external steel ring, a transparent Perspex ring and aluminium base. Using different materials and shapes for the trophy represent the essence of the awards, which brings together innovators from different technologies and focus on the value that can be achieved by bringing diverse areas ...
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A creative name should keep the critics at bay
25 July 2002
It seems like every time a new company name is created, the brickbats come out at the same time.
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Barbican to examine £1m design budget and roster
25 July 2002
The Barbican is likely to review its design roster and the allocation of its £1m annual design budget, as the organisation continues to consolidate its rebranding strategy.
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Book
25 July 2002
Office Design, edited by Fabrio Fabbrizzi, features 30 office spaces from around the world. The book is published tomorrow, 25 July, by TeNeues, priced £12.50.Contact: www.teneues.com.
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Call for entries
25 July 2002
The Royal Society for Arts calls for entries to the RSA Student Design Awards, with the focus this year on sustainability. The closing date for entries is 28 November.Contact: www.rsa-design.net for further information and to download an entry pack.
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CLN wings it with a lifeless 'we have moved' notice
25 July 2002
'We have moved' notices are a bit like books and their covers. Should you judge a consultancy's creative qualities by them?
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Current identity work is of detriment to our industry
25 July 2002
I note the article written by Richard Clayton (DW 18 July) along with the ongoing press attention given to the likes of Consignia, Monday, and Aviva among others. Following this, I feel the design industry has achieved its nirvana - to be topical and newsworthy. And, I have to say, we deserve it. Criticism that is.
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David Bernstein : A case of 'I'm right, jack'
25 July 2002
At a creativity seminar for junior creatives David Bernstein set an assignment to devise a new card game - with some interesting results. Here's what the deal was
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Design in a sporting role
25 July 2002
As the Commonwealth Games get underway in Manchester, James Knight is under starter's orders to find out how our British design talent is performing
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Digest
25 July 2002
Kemistry has created an identity for Friends of Scotland, the organisation that represents Scottish Business, Education and Culture abroad. The identity, which launched this week, is based on tartan, but with a modern interpretation, says Kemistry creative director Graham McCallum.
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Digest
25 July 2002
BBC MediaArc has created the titles for the BBC's coverage of the Commonwealth Games.
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Digest
25 July 2002
Brighton-based Keymedia Design has appointed Barrie Robinson as creative director.
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Digest
25 July 2002
Red Cell has revamped the brand and packaging for Lyle & Scott, the Scottish golf and clothing manufacturer.
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Digest
25 July 2002
Tate Modern has introduced the world's first location-sensitive tour of its displays Still Life/ Object/Real Life, developed in association with Antenna Audio, with support from Nykris.
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Digest
25 July 2002
Martin Lore has created an identity for start-up information management company InfoCentric, which goes live this week.
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Digest
25 July 2002
Work has just begun on the Chetwood Associates-designed refurbishment of interiors at Edinburgh House in Lambeth, London. The project is J Sainsbury's Developments' first foray into office development.
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Digest
25 July 2002
ITSO, the integrated smart-card organisation, has appointed Marketplace to design a brand identity and logo. The revamp is part of ITSO's move to expand its remit from the UK national transport market to international markets, and to applications beyond transport.
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Digest
25 July 2002
G3 has designed the corporate brochure for Edinburgh spa One. The brochure is published next week.
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Digest
25 July 2002
Eureka this week presents first concepts to the Disabled Living Foundation, as part of the consultancy's revamp of the charity's entire range of communication materials.
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Digest
25 July 2002
Natural Associates, a consultancy formed out of the merger of Creative Hands and Summerhouse Communications earlier this month, this week launches its first work, a campaign for Connexions London South East Partnership.
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Digest
25 July 2002
The Royal National Institute for the Blind has designed a typeface specifically for large print publications for adults with low vision, called LPfont.
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Digest
25 July 2002
Glasspac is planning a major expansion of its website, www.glasspac.com. The revamped site will offer more detailed explanations of glass packaging, design and manufacture.
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Event
25 July 2002
This weekend, 26-28 July, architects, designers and engineers create a Light and Sound Event as part of the Queen's Jubilee and Bexhill's Centenary celebrations.Contact: Sally Ann Lycett on 01424 787937 for further details and tickets.Venue: The De La Warr Pavilion, Marina, Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex TN40 2BE.
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Exhibition of photos from 1840s to 1990s
25 July 2002
An exhibition of photos from the 1840s to 1990s, assembled by picture editor Bruce Bernard, is on show at the Victoria & Albert Museum from 5 September.
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Exhibitions
25 July 2002
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Fitch makes 15 staff redundant
25 July 2002
Fitch London has made 15 staff redundant, as the big conglomerates continue to struggle in sluggish market conditions.Departures include five designers, four digital and six support staff.Fitch London chief executive Jane Simmonds says, 'The market hasn't shown the recovery the industry was hoping for so we have decided to focus on our core competency [brand experience] and draw on the economies of scale that are achievable as part of a wider group.'
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Four groups cop Met Police roster
25 July 2002
Four consultancies have been appointed to the Metropolitan Police's design roster, including three private sector groups - CGI Brandsense, Stairway Communications and The Team.The fourth is COI Communications, the Government's 'in-house' design resource.The contracts are effective from this week and run for three years.
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Freeze frames
25 July 2002
Liz Farrelly leafs through a book of Lomo images, and discovers what makes this cult camera tick
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Get back to basics again to inspire great designs
25 July 2002
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Getting to grips with the prospecting game
25 July 2002
If you want to generate new business, Clare Dowdy finds out whether you should use an external source, appoint an in-house person or do the job yourself
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Gradwell makes plans with Government department
25 July 2002
Gradwell Corporate Design has created a 152-page book, Making Plans, for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. The book is launched as the department announced amendments to its housing and planning policy.
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Just The Type
25 July 2002
Always more a typographer than a graphic designer, Derek Birdsall's body of work, from Pirelli calendars to Penguin books, demonstrates his mastery of the art. Mike Dempsey met him
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Lecture
25 July 2002
Alan Chan talks about his work with the 'East meets West' design concept and his career as a multidisciplinary designer on 29 July from 6.30-7.30pm. Oriental Passion - Western Harmony concludes the Hong Kong Style series of lectures.Contact: 020 7499 1287 for tickets and further information.Venue: Stevenson Lecture Room, British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1.
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Legendary moments
25 July 2002
Richard Clayton captures the atmosphere at a retrospective exhibition of work by photographer William Eggleston at the Hayward Gallery
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Local groups should be favoured over London ones
25 July 2002
Are all designers in the north-east incapable of good design? Being from Newcastle myself (although now working in London unfortunately), I think not.
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Orbit Elite
25 July 2002
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Partners' cover for Wellington brand
25 July 2002
The Partners has been appointed by Wellington Re-Insurance, the newly formed arm of established insurer Wellington Underwriters, to develop the company's positioning and brand identity.
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Playground gets Redd in the swing
25 July 2002
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Putting on a show
25 July 2002
From Testino to toilets, there's nothing National Portrait Gallery head of design Jude Simmons can't handle. She walks round the galleries with Hannah Booth
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Ratchett and Clank's website is created at Random
25 July 2002
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Rebrand needed to shed decayed in Deptford tag
25 July 2002
The dour wastelands of London's SE14 have been good to Cog Design's Michael Smith. We smirked into our Soho mochaccinos at the title of his consultancy retrospective, 'A Decade in Deptford', which sounds more like a prison sentence than a celebration.
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Redhouse Lane tackles criminal agency literature
25 July 2002
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S&M packs Sainsbury's new range
25 July 2002
Sainsbury's begins rolling out Perform+Protect from today, its first cross-category own-label brand for health and beauty as well as household products, with an identity and packaging designed by Smith & Milton.
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Skakel & Skakel towers over loch
25 July 2002
Skakel & Skakel has designed interiors, signage, packaging, merchandising and marketing literature for Drumkinnon Tower, a visitor attraction on the banks of Loch Lomond, for a fee believed to be in the region of £150 000.
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Stanfords makes plans for rebrand
25 July 2002
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Student awards that are independently thriving
25 July 2002
With regard to your recent Comment (DW 4 July), the Royal Society of Arts and British Design & Art Direction are very proud of their respective student award schemes, which are both thriving.
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Talk
25 July 2002
As part of Park Nights, a special programme of film screenings, talks and the BBC Poetry Proms taking place until 13 September, Richard Rogers talks to writer and critic Jonathan Glancey on 26 July at 8pm. Entry is free and the licensed café is open until 10pm.Contact: 08700 600100.Venue: Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London W2.
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TalkSexShow
25 July 2002
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Therefore launches desk system
25 July 2002
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Three Kings follow stars in the eyes of designers
25 July 2002
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Tileywoodman builds Canon brand
25 July 2002
Tileywoodman is to create a corporate brochure and environmental branding for Canon Europe, in what is a six-figure design investment by the company.
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Verdict sees slowdown in retailing of homewares
25 July 2002
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Virgin toilets misnomer the butt of amusement
25 July 2002
Some people push product testing to the limit, as Richard Branson's interview in The Independent last week revealed.
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Vox Pop
25 July 2002
Big Fish was last week named as Mothercare's first brand guardian. What benefits do retailers gain from this type of external advice, rather than an in-house design management system?
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Wells Mackereth knits together Pringle interiors
25 July 2002
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Wolff exits The Fourth Room
25 July 2002
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World's Most Beautiful Stamp
25 July 2002
A Design Week Award-winning image has scooped the Asiago Trophy for the World's Most Beautiful Stamp. The Peace stamp is one of six designed by HGV for Royal Mail's Nobel Prize issue and was joint-winner of Design Week's Print Design category in March. The Asiago judging panel praised the design's 'overall elegance, the simplicity of printing, [and] the clever use of colour [which has] created a jewel-stamp [that is] an example of great and refined philatelic art'. The Asiago Trophy ...



