Design Week
26 February 2009
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Carter Wong Design
26 February 2009
Carter Wong Design has created a new range of packaging for Café Direct. It features a variety of growers' tools and quotes emphasising the Fairtrade company's partnership with grower organisations that have a stake in it. The packs will be unveiled at Whole Foods Market in Kensington, London W8, as part of Fairtrade fortnight, and will hit the shelves in April.
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Companies don't realise the benefit of 'new blood'
26 February 2009
As a student half way through a BA Product Design degree, I was heartened and inspired by Garrick Hamm's letter (DW 5 February). I wish that every design consultancy shared his opinion that new blood plays a vital role. Otherwise - as he says - 'our businesses will stagnate'. I completed the second year of my degree last summer and my intention was to get a placement. I soon learned that the downturn was about to affect my chances. Two companies were interested ...
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Cornish design manufacturer Mark
26 February 2009
Works by Cornish design manufacturer Mark are to be shown from 20-31 March at the Viaduct showroom on Summers Street, London EC1. The exhibition will feature Kay and Stemmer's Wave and Shaper tables, Sam Johnson's Net chair (pictured), and Tomoko Azumi's Spin tables.
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Courage, mes braves
26 February 2009
Clients must not be allowed to use the downturn - and the risk avoidance it encourages - to emasculate and neuter the creative process, argues David Bernstein
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Design course applications rise despite jobs gloom
26 February 2009
The number of applications to design courses has soared this year, despite the recession and a growing consensus in the design industry that positions for graduates are drying up.Figures released by university admissions organisation Ucas last week show that applications for undergraduate design courses have risen by 11.5 per cent since last year, with 40 732 people seeking to study.This compares to a rise in applications to all courses of just 7.8 per cent, while fine ...
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Designers cannot afford to let training take care of itself
26 February 2009
It is not surprising to learn that designers are indifferent to training (see Professional Development supplement). Assuming basic technical skills and a modicum of talent, design training often takes place on the job, as no two projects are the same.It is true though ...
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Designmap develops Crossness sewage visitor centre
26 February 2009
Designmap is developing the visitor experience at the Victorian-era Crossness Sewage Treatment Works Complex, London SE2, as part of a wider £3m restoration which is set to open to the public next year.The development will see new visitor facilities added to the complex, including a permanent exhibition, a retail space, a café and an education suite, as well as the restoration of the engines, pumps, auxiliary plant, decorative cast iron work, buildings and services.The ...
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Dogstar creates 'lively' new look for Crest young science awards
26 February 2009
Dogstar has rebranded Crest, an awards scheme for school pupils run by the British Science Association.Crest stands for Creativity in Science and Technology, and is a UK-wide award scheme that gives young people aged 11-19 the chance to develop their awareness of science, engineering, technology and maths by participating in creative science projects.The scheme, which has run for 22 years, attracts at least 28 000 participants each year.Alex Moore, account manager ...
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Fudge redesigns England Squash website and logo
26 February 2009
England Squash & Racketball is set to unveil a new identity and website designed by Fudge, aimed at extending the reach of the sport across the UK.
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Hidden persuaders
26 February 2009
It’s good to have something to celebrate in these straitened times, and giving designers a leg-up is a very good cause.
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If we're full of bull, nobody is going to take us seriously
26 February 2009
I have a plea to fellow design consultants: please read your press releases before sending them out to see if they are remotely interesting. Each week, we no doubt all roll our eyes at stories plumped up with trite or meaningless comments like 'the brighter red feels more contemporary'. A good case in point: Brand Image-Desgrippes & Laga's project with Air France is completely trivialised by the line 'merging the words Air and France asserts Air France's international ...
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Inspired
26 February 2009
To reflect an eternal love is rarely the basis for a building project today. But that was exactly what Emperor Shah Jahan had in mind in 1632 when, following the death of his wife Arjumand Banu Begum, construction began on the Taj Mahal, in the city of Agra in northern India. Some 355 years on, the Taj Mahal's architectural beauty has still not been surpassed.A work of passion and genius, it is believed that 22 000 workers and 1000 elephants helped to build this masterpiece, which ...
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Little Acorns
26 February 2009
Downturn or not, there are still entrepreneurs out there willing to take a chance on new product and retail concepts. Clare Dowdy picks three recent ventures, all majoring on design to see them through the credit crunch
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McFaul creates guidelines for Nokia Interactive
26 February 2009
Nokia Interactive Advertising appointed McFaul last summer, after Boston-based Oasis recommended the group to create illustrations for the website. The site aims to convince brands to advertise on websites modified for mobiles.McFaul founder John McFaul says the consultancy took on the design of the entire website as 'it was getting so convoluted and Chinese-whispery that Nokia decided to come to us directly instead of going through Oasis'.He also claims to have taken lowered ...
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News in Pictures
26 February 2009
Jawa and Midwich has art directed two books - God Clobbers Us All, and Things I Like About America - by Poe Ballantine. Both will be published next month by Old Street Publishing.
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News in Pictures
26 February 2009
Uruguay-born graphic designer and illustrator Jordi Labanda has teamed up with haircare brand Schwarzkopf Professional to create two new hairstyles which will be available in salons across the UK and Europe.
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Playing by different rules
26 February 2009
Playing by the rules is a risky game, argues Mark Taylor. In times of recession it’s much more important to be unconventional.
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Product designer Jake Dyson
26 February 2009
Product designer Jake Dyson has teamed up with lighting specialist Jason Bruges to create Focal Shift, an installation which will be launched at Fuori Salone, during the International Milan furniture fair, which runs from 22-27 April. Heads of design at architects, interiors and retail practices will be able to commission a part, or all of the installation for use on walls in their own design projects.
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Profile: Iain Johnston
26 February 2009
Entrepreneur Iain Johnston has taken up the reins at Loewy Group as it undergoes a period of consolidation. He tells Lynda Relph-Knight about looking after business while the creatives get on with exercising their talents
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Royalty check for designers
26 February 2009
As the economic climate remains tough, some consultancies are turning to joint ventures with clients as a way to win business, say Emily Pacey
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Sketchbooks uncovered
26 February 2009
If you could peek into the private sketchbook of any celebrated creative, whose would you pick? Anna Richardson catches some surprising glimpses in a new book which celebrates this hidden art
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Strategic design is key to economic recovery
26 February 2009
I'd like to offer my thoughts on your recent comment piece (DW 12 February). The value of the strategic design process and innovation activity is well supported and advocated by Government. The Cox Review made this very clear. However, the roll-out is likely to be very poor and will fail to deliver the Cox outcomes if the practising experts in innovation and design are not involved. Members of the strategic sector of the design industry and their chosen representatives ...
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Sunhouse Creative adds design to Aquapax 'cartonised' water
26 February 2009
SunHouse Creative has designed the face of the UK's first 'cartonised' water ahead of its relaunch next month.The entrepreneur behind Just Drinking Water's consumer brand Aquapax, Neil Tomlinson, says he hopes the product, packaged in a lightweight recyclable Tetra Prisma Aseptic 500ml unit, will revolutionise the water market by offering an 'ecologically sound' alternative to plastic bottled brands.He says, 'I was a director of South East Water, responsible for communicating ...
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The Art of Lost Words
26 February 2009
Works by Alan Kitching, Mike Dempsey, Johnson Banks (whose Habroneme sculpture is pictured) and NB Studio will be on show at The Art of Lost Words, an exhibition which runs from 5-9 March at the German Gymnasium, London NW1. The participants were all asked to create a piece responding to the theme of forgotten words.
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Voxpop
26 February 2009
What are the regional and national issues that next year’s Dott Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly should address?
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Whether it's Aviva or NU, it just can't 'quote me happy'
26 February 2009
How right Adrian Shaughnessy is to expose the flaws in Norwich Union's 'rebranding' as Aviva (Private View, DW 5 February). The company has done nothing to assure its customers, in this exercise of pure spin, that it is making an effort to do anything about what is supposed to be its core business - insurance. I've given up asking Norwich Union for quotes, because it has been consistently the most expensive insurer that I've come across. If it really wants to endear ...
