Design Week
25 May 2006
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Appointments expected at St Pancras Chambers
25 May 2006
A team of designers is being assembled to re-envisage the Grade I-listed building located next to King's Cross Station as a £100m five-star luxury hotel. The site, St Pancras Chambers, is likely to see future designers appointed in the field of graphics,
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Arthur Steen Horne creates identity for The Crusaders
25 May 2006
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Blue River to design Dott 07 website
25 May 2006
The website for Dott 07, the regional design biennial event from the Design Council and One North East, will be designed by Newcastle consultancy Blue River. The group was appointed following a credentials presentation and the site will launch in the summer.
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British Library seeks paper of future
25 May 2006
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Cauldron Foods considers a revamp of Reach's designs
25 May 2006
Vegetarian and organic convenience food manufacturer Cauldron Foods is looking to revamp its brand identity and packaging, three years after Bristol-based consultancy Reach created its existing image.
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Certification issues delay launch of Virgin America
25 May 2006
The launch of major US domestic airline brand Virgin America continues to be delayed, although branding and livery are understood to have already been designed by Start Creative in London.
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Crafty business
25 May 2006
The Crafts Council's exhibition space that gave many famous names their first break is no more. Pamela Buxton looks back and assesses its legacy
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D&AD appoints Hike Design
25 May 2006
D&AD has appointed Hike Design to create the marketing campaign for the D&AD Annual & Showreel 2006. The D&AD Awards take place on Wednesday evening this week.
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Design Week correction...
25 May 2006
Robert Soar is not Fishburn Hedges Design's first creative director as reported (DW 11 May). However, the consultancy has been without a creative director since the departure of Carl Ison in the summer of 2005.
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Designer of the Year goes to Hewlett
25 May 2006
Jamie Hewlett was awarded the Designer of the Year award at the Design Museum on Monday evening. The cartoonist was nominated for the £25 000 prize on the back of the 2005 Gorillaz album Demon Days.
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Devota & Lomba commission Santamaria to create packaging
25 May 2006
Spanish fashion label Devota & Lomba commissioned London group Santamaria Design Consultants to create the packaging for a range of extra virgin organic olive oil, to be distributed to high-end fashion retail outlets across Europe this summer. The packagi
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Discover your niche
25 May 2006
Start-up companies should establish how they differ and it's crucial to get the details right - right down to the design of a card, says David Bernstein
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Dollond & Aitchison tests Hart D'Lacey concept
25 May 2006
Dollond & Aitchison is evaluating the design of a £750 000 flagship concept store in London's Regent Street, ahead of a nationwide overhaul of its 400-strong estate.
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Don't make office chairs that resemble machines
25 May 2006
With regard to the article about office ergonomics (DW 11 May), it is true to say that trends come and go in the office environment. One of which was adjustability, a phenomenon we don't seem to be able to get away from. It left us with office chairs that looked like machines, which you needed a qualification in car mechanics to be able to ...
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Don't pick the wrong partner
25 May 2006
Walking out on the perfect consultancy merger deal at the eleventh hour has had its benefits for the company, says Simon Davies
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Grumpy misses the mark
25 May 2006
Old perhaps. Grumpy never - life is too interesting for that (Nick Paul letter, DW 11 May).
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Hewlett as Designer of the Year won't please everyone
25 May 2006
Terence Conran is unlikely to be happy at the Design Museum's choice of Jamie Hewlett as Designer of the Year. Hewlett's virtual band Gorillaz is a far cry from the furniture and lighting for which shortlisted Tom Dixon is best known, and which Conran is more likely to believe fits the museum's ethic.
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Ico Design creates branding material for The Collection
25 May 2006
Ico Design has created a brand and marketing material for The Collection, a development of town houses on a former site of the Saatchi Gallery in North London.
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Inspired
25 May 2006
I was packed off to boarding school aged 11. My father had died suddenly in 1957 and my mother thought, as they did in those days, that it would be better for me to grow up with men around me. I was utterly miserable until, around the age of 14, I was put into a boarding house under the auspices of George Sellick - the template for ...
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Law Society seeks consultancy to overhaul brand
25 May 2006
The Law Society, which regulates the UK's legal profession, is looking to review its existing identity and will hold a pitch later this year to appoint a consultancy to undertake the task.
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LDF is still looking for a main sponsor
25 May 2006
London Design Festival has secured £300 000 of funding, but is still seeking a major sponsor and is charging exhibitors for the first time this year, director Ben Evans has confirmed.
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Let the best courses thrive
25 May 2006
Many of us can sympathise with Geoff Gradwell's rant against 'whingeing students' (DW 11 May) and the annual moan that it is hard to find work. As an employed product designer, I realise I have made it against incredible odds.
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London Colleges win £5m for overseas business network
25 May 2006
A pioneering scheme to help UK creative businesses forge links with foreign markets has been awarded £5m of launch funding by the Government.
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Makeover madness
25 May 2006
Some prime time TV viewers might think they've had their fill of home makeover shows, but not the programme-makers - though now, at least, they are trying to move the genre on.
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Museum of London in £9m design rethink
25 May 2006
Ahead of its £18m refurbishment, the Museum of London expects to more than double the size of its in-house design team and appoint a cluster of external consultancies. It will also redesign its brand identity to better represent the other museums in the group.
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Navyblue picks Jenks for London post
25 May 2006
Navyblue Design Group has appointed former Finisterrre senior designer Marc Jenks as design director of its London studio. Jenks's appointment follows the departure of former Navyblue design director Alan Ainsley, who is now design director of Glasgow design group Stand.
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New designs contribute to M&S revival
25 May 2006
Marks & Spencer's chief executive Stuart Rose credited a 'strong performance in furniture' and an 'upturn in brand momentum' as key contributors to its 35 per cent profit rise for 2005. 'In-store we have developed innovative and stylish new packaging and
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News in Pictures
25 May 2006
A cheeky adaptation of Thomas Gainsborough's painting The Honourable Mrs Graham has been designed by Manchester consultancy Reform Creative to promote She Stoops To Conquer, which opened at the city's Royal Exchange Theatre last week.
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Outlandish designs meet the functional at RSA Awards
25 May 2006
Fancy flying sedated in coffin-like explosion-proof pods? Or wearing glasses that merge digital blog information with normal vision? These are just a few of the more outlandish concepts to emerge from this year's Royal Society of Arts Design Directions Aw
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Parkinson to lead Six Cities Design
25 May 2006
Caroline Parkinson has been appointed as project director of The Lighthouse's Six Cities Design Festival, an initiative running next summer to promote Scottish design. She is executive director, nations and regions, at Creative & Cultural Skills.
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Profile: Gregg Sedgwick
25 May 2006
Gregg Sedgwick has come a long way since he set up alone in Dubai's Media City district some five years ago, broken by an unhappy partnership in The Media House with a local businessman, which had brought him to the Middle East five years previously. From
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Publish it yourself
25 May 2006
In an era of blogging, print is still the first choice for many designers who are embracing the DIY ethic by producing their own independent publications. Liz Farrelly speaks to a selection of designers who have gone it alone
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RA aims to open City of London store
25 May 2006
The Royal Academy of Arts is planning to open its first stand-alone retail store and is thought to have earmarked a site in the City of London. The move would provide a branded environment through which the RA can generate revenue. A consultancy is yet to be appointed, according to a spokeswoman, who says discussions are taking place.
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Review
25 May 2006
EXHIBITIONS l D&AD The Exhibition, from 27 May to 2 July, exhibits work nominated for the D&AD awards and gives an insight into the world of art direction. Expect to see international advertising and design, from billboard campaigns to innovative conc
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Silk Pearce to advise Tristel on branding
25 May 2006
Silk Pearce has been appointed to advise hospital disinfectant brand Tristel with its international branding programme. Tristel plans to expand its range of sterilisation products this year in the fight to eliminate the spread of hospital-acquired infection.
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Sixixis roll out environmentally friendly summer house
25 May 2006
A 4m mobile summer house, made from locally-sourced Cornish hardwood, is being rolled out for the new season by Sixixis, a Cornish design group set up just before the Milan Furniture Fair by three Design for Sustainability graduates from Falmouth College of Arts. The design group uses environmentally-friendly steam-bending techniques to shape ...
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Supermarket tweak
25 May 2006
To stand out in the stores, some brands are opting for a retro look at the moment, while others tap into our desire for simplicity with an uncluttered, minimalist approach. David Benady checks out the latest revamps
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Take care when applying
25 May 2006
I read Geoff Gradwell's letter (DW 11 May) with interest. At first, I was wincing at his apparent lack of empathy for our poor students, but, as I read further, I found myself nodding in agreement, rather than shaking my head. His comments are no doubt b
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The future of your industry
25 May 2006
As the Government opens up the debate on the future of British design, Scott Billings discusses the challenges ahead
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V4 Studio designed the Dairy Milk egg, not FutureBrand
25 May 2006
It was great to see Cadbury brands feature so prominently in your article on Easter egg packaging (DW 20 April), but I must correct your claim that FutureBrand was responsible for designing our key Cadbury Dairy Milk egg. This egg, along with other leading lines, was designed by V4 Studio, Cadbury Schweppes's design house.
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Voxpop
25 May 2006
Hard Rock Hotel, Miss Sixty and Giorgio Armani are all poised to launch their own branded hotels. Are such brand extensions the future of the leisure industry or a step too far in terms of brand creep?
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Wechsler, Ross & Portet appoint Mike Hall
25 May 2006
Wechsler, Ross & Portet has appointed Mike Hall as creative director, while Nick Portet moves to concentrate on the managing director role. Hall joins from SAS where he was design director.
