Design Week
25th June 2009
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Let Weymouth Beach Group boost the resort
25th June 2009
The regeneration of Weymouth’s seafront (News Analysis, DW 18 June) has been dealt a vicious blow by the South West Regional Development Agency reneging on funding agreed in principle to the tune of £6.6m - but all is not lost if the private sector is allowed to come to the rescue.
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Barber styles salon for star hairdresser James Brown
25th June 2009
Barber has designed the first salon for celebrity hairdresser James Brown, who counts Kate Moss among his clients.
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Brian Webb designs David Mellor: Design book
25th June 2009
Brian Webb has designed 96-page book David Mellor: Design, which celebrates the life of the Sheffield-born industrial designer, who died in May.The book, which will be published in October by the Antique Collectors’ Club, is written by Teleri Lloyd-Jones and features a foreward by Sir Terence Conran.
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Course power
25th June 2009
Petrolhead appeal is taking a backseat as environmental and social issues increasingly drive development in automotive design. As the Royal College of Art’s specialist course reaches its 40th birthday, John Stones talks to some of those involved
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Curiosity is vital for more than just competent work
25th June 2009
Last week Michael Wolff outlined the three qualities that he believes make a good designer. He maintains you need curiosity, an appreciation of what’s around you and imagination if you are to make a difference through creativity. The last, he says, everyone has - if they care to exercise it - but the first two attributes are fundamental to the creative soul.
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Guiding touch
25th June 2009
Flashy design is rarely appropriate for wayfinding schemes in public cultural buildings such as museums and libraries. Keeping them deceptively simple is usually the best approach, finds Anna Richardson
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Inspired - David Preston
25th June 2009
As a young design student I was asked to help catalogue the posters of designer FHK Henrion. I hadn’t heard of Henrion at the time, but I soon realised he was of some historical significance and jumped at the chance to see his posters up close in the flesh.
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It's the 21st century - where did all the female directors go?
25th June 2009
As a creative industry that thrives on styling an ever-changing society, it deeply saddens me that we are neglecting the very thing that sets us apart - our vast and varied heritage.
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Lost in translation
25th June 2009
It can take years to create a successful brand, so owners should think carefully before making forays into new media territory, says David Bernstein
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New museum for West Auckland Town AFC
25th June 2009
West Auckland Town AFC, winner of the first football world cup, has accepted an offer by Logicbunker to design a ‘travelling museum’.
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News in Pictures
25th June 2009
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News in Pictures
25th June 2009
Jaime Hayón and artist Nienke Klunder are collaborating on an exhibition of furniture and art pieces inspired by 17th-century European crafts. The show, American Chateau Room One, will run from 11 September to 22 October at Spring Projects Gallery, 10 Spring Place, London NW5.
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News in Pictures
25th June 2009
Kenzo Maison is set to launch a sheepskin pouffe, inspired by nomadic ewes and featuring oversized cowbells. The product is new Kenzo Maison creativedirector Antonio Marras’ first project for the homeware brand.
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RFA wins brief for £150k show at Coventry Transport Museum
25th June 2009
Coventry Transport Museum has appointed Richard Fowler Associates to design a £150 000 permanent exhibition about the decline of the city’s car industry since the 1980s.
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Take a walk on the client side
25th June 2009
If you really want to produce world-class work, try helping your client to be world class too, says Franco Bonadio
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Tender grace of thread
25th June 2009
Textile art has come a long way, and is today a challenging and vibrant sector of the visual arts. The 62 Group, an artist-led initiative, has played an enormous part for more than 40 years in raising the profile of textile art, and a new exhibition at the Hub in Lincolnshire pays tribute to this collective. Coinciding with the bicentenary year of Lord Alfred Tennyson’s birth, Bending the Line: Textile Art by the 62 Group includes nearly 60 new works by more than 40 artists, with some ...
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Tim Molloy: dealer in abstractions, man of science... angel?
25th June 2009
I read your piece on Tim Molloy (Profile, DW 11 June), and the reference to his generosity as a design client. How true.Tim commissioned us about four weeks into starting The One Off, when we had no portfolio and only one job to our name.It brought us some paper, lunch and confidence - all of which was lacking at the time.What an angel!Adam Devey-Smith, Managing partner, The One Off, by e-mail
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Voxpop
25th June 2009
Lord Carter’s long-awaited Digital Britain report has been published. What one policy change do you think would encourage digital creativity in the UK, and why?
