Design Week
25 March 2010
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...As well as a very funny man in a serious business
25 March 2010
I can’t say that I knew Richard Murray very well, but all I do know is that every time I met him he made me laugh.
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Best of the Web
25 March 2010
www.johnsonbanks.co.uk/thoughtfortheweek/index.phpMichael Johnson’s thought for the week is a transcript of his interview with YolandaZappaterra on the present state and future of posters. This formed the basis of the poster design feature in last week’s Design Week (18 March).
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Blue Marlin points the way for Shell Retail with new convenience food brand Deli2go
25 March 2010
Oil company Shell’s retail arm is poised to start rolling out its new food brand Deli2go, with branding and packaging design by Blue Marlin.
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Disaster relief calls for practical help, not platitudes
25 March 2010
You recently asked what is the best thing designers can do to help the relief and rebuild effort in Haiti (Voxpop, DW 4 February).
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Dott event to work on agenda for Cornwall programme
25 March 2010
The think-tank event being run this week by Designs of the Time Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly will influence the direction of Dott’s programme over the next year, according to Dott programme director Andrea Siodmok.
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Graphic bedrock
25 March 2010
Designing a poster is an excellent way of creating focus and fine-tuning your ideas - never more vital than in election times. David Bernstein is looking forward to the campaigns ahead
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Graphic design group
25 March 2010
Build has created the identity for the Sustainable Futures exhibition at the Design Museum in London, which runs from 31 March to 5 September.
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Group dynamics
25 March 2010
The partners get financial and intellectual security, and clients get access toa range of talents not always present in more formally structured outfits, so what's not to like about collectives?
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Hat-Trick Design unlocks the potential of the playground
25 March 2010
Hat-Trick Design has created promotional imagery for Learning Through Landscapes, a charity that helps schools make the most of their outdoor spaces.
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Inspired - John Speight
25 March 2010
It’s a tricky question, inspiration. It’s like being asked what your favourite film is - it’s always changing and definitely unexpected. Which brings me to change itself. How things constantly change and evolve, especially today.
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Media Square groups create new website for Design Council
25 March 2010
Media Square-owned design consultancy Lloyd Northover is collaborating with its stablemate digital agency Twenty Six to create a new website for the Design Council.
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National Museum Wales brings in Sumo to revamp site branding and deliver publicity material
25 March 2010
National Museum Wales has appointed Newcastle-based consultancy Sumo to create new marketing materials for its visitor attractions.
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Neville Brody's RCA appointment is a bold move by the college
25 March 2010
Neville Brody’s appointment to replace Dan Fern at the Royal College of Art next year is likely to be controversial. Though Brody is renowned for shaping a generation of graphic designers in the 1980s through designs for The Face and Arena magazines and has a strong international following, his work has become less evident in the UK in recent years.
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News in Pictures
25 March 2010
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News in Pictures
25 March 2010
Engine Creative has designed the artwork for record label Renaissance’s latest release, Platform by Paul Woolford.
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News in Pictures
25 March 2010
David Carroll & Co has designed identities for the Poetry Society’s Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, and the National Poetry Competition.
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Open market
25 March 2010
In the quest for the perfect image, designers may spend hours trawling picture libraries and the Web, but often the design process is what makes imagery so successful. Anna Richardson looks at the creative use of stock images and photography ’found’ on the Internet
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Profile: Alex Trochut
25 March 2010
His technique of combining typography and illustration has garnered this young Catalan graphic designer an impressive client list of local and international brands. John Stones talks to the self-styled digital craftsman in his Barcelona studio
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Protect your IP rights, but remember the client's needs
25 March 2010
The Association of Illustrators has called for designers to share their experiences of moral rights infringement (Voxpop, DW 11 March).
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Public-sector clients need help with briefs
25 March 2010
It’s good to see public-sector design procurement issues being addressed (News Analysis, DW 4 March). There are certainly some serious questions that need answering.
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Richard Murray was a great, charismatic contact...
25 March 2010
Williams Murray Hamm co-founder Richard Murray was a fantastic contact in the design world, always a source of original insight (Comment, DW 11 March).
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The great and good
25 March 2010
Another year, another Milan - news of collaborations, installations and product launches at Salone del Mobile is rolling in thick and fast.
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The kitchen-table route to creativity
25 March 2010
Feeling that little bit older and wiser, Derek Johnston and his partner set up on their own. Here’s how it’s been working out so far
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Voxpop
25 March 2010
There is speculation that James Dyson is being lined up for a role in a potential Conservative Government. Who in the design world would you most like to see enter politics, and why?
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With a little help
25 March 2010
As the University of the Arts London launches a graduate internship programme funded by the Hefce, Laura Snoad looks at what a range of colleges are doing to ease the route into employment for students
