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25 July 2002

  • 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 ...

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Digest

    25 July 2002

    BBC MediaArc has created the titles for the BBC's coverage of the Commonwealth Games.

  • Digest

    25 July 2002

    Brighton-based Keymedia Design has appointed Barrie Robinson as creative director.

  • Digest

    25 July 2002

    Red Cell has revamped the brand and packaging for Lyle & Scott, the Scottish golf and clothing manufacturer.

  • 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.

  • Digest

    25 July 2002

    Martin Lore has created an identity for start-up information management company InfoCentric, which goes live this week.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Digest

    25 July 2002

    G3 has designed the corporate brochure for Edinburgh spa One. The brochure is published next week.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Exhibitions

    25 July 2002

  • 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.'

  • 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.

  • Freeze frames

    25 July 2002

    Liz Farrelly leafs through a book of Lomo images, and discovers what makes this cult camera tick

  • Get back to basics again to inspire great designs

    25 July 2002

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Legendary moments

    25 July 2002

    Richard Clayton captures the atmosphere at a retrospective exhibition of work by photographer William Eggleston at the Hayward Gallery

  • 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.

  • Orbit Elite

    25 July 2002

  • 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.

  • Playground gets Redd in the swing

    25 July 2002

  • 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

  • Ratchett and Clank's website is created at Random

    25 July 2002

  • 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.

  • Redhouse Lane tackles criminal agency literature

    25 July 2002

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Stanfords makes plans for rebrand

    25 July 2002

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • TalkSexShow

    25 July 2002

  • Therefore launches desk system

    25 July 2002

  • Three Kings follow stars in the eyes of designers

    25 July 2002

  • 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.

  • Verdict sees slowdown in retailing of homewares

    25 July 2002

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • Wells Mackereth knits together Pringle interiors

    25 July 2002

  • Wolff exits The Fourth Room

    25 July 2002

  • 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 ...

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