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26 January 2006

  • Apple tipped for expansion into mobile market

    26 January 2006

    Apple Computer has applied to register the trademark Mobile Me in the UK, giving the most concrete sign yet that the company is planning a launch into the mobile phone sector.

  • Back to books

    26 January 2006

    With library usage in decline, these often-neglected interiors need updating, to bring them into the 21st century and regain public interest. Pamela Buxton explains how designers are looking to retail environments for inspiration

  • Big ideas

    26 January 2006

    What is the role of the creative director? How do you reward your long-serving star creatives? Not everyone wants to be a manager, says David Bernstein

  • Building society strategy by Lloyd Northover

    26 January 2006

    The Chelsea Building Society has appointed Lloyd Northover to review its brand positioning within the financial services market.

  • College Design appointed by Yell group

    26 January 2006

    College Design has been appointed to create the annual report and corporate responsibility report for Yell group. College Design was appointed following a four-way pitch in December.

  • Communal living

    26 January 2006

    By Richard Clayton

  • Design Project to design D&AD's 44th Annual

    26 January 2006

    D&AD has appointed Design Project to design its 44th Annual. The deadline for this year's D&AD Awards entries is this Friday, 27 January.

  • Flying solo

    26 January 2006

    With the design economy in a state of uncertainty, freelances have it all - senior roles, good rates of pay and a flexible lifestyle. John Stones explains why there is no better time to go it alone, with research by Michelle Reeve

  • Football clubs rebrand to lay down Community Design law

    26 January 2006

    The design industry is continuing to benefit from an upsurge in branding work for football clubs, with two Premiership teams in the throes of launching redesigned team crests and more redesigns in the pipeline.

  • Founder and chief executive of Group360

    26 January 2006

    The founder and chief executive of Group360 is Tim Petherbridge and not Tim Petherington, as stated in last week's issue (DW 19 January).

  • Global forum puts design on its agenda

    26 January 2006

    Design has been placed on the agenda of the World Economic Forum for the first time ever at this year's annual meeting, taking place in Davos, Switzerland, from 25 to 29 January, under the title The Creative Imperative.

  • Glorious Creative styles weekly paper for the North West

    26 January 2006

    Manchester start-up consultancy Glorious Creative has won the five-figure design project to create what is claimed to be the UK's first regional weekly newspaper.

  • Hat Trick identity for Ebbsfleet Valley

    26 January 2006

    Hat Trick Design Consultants is set to begin work on the identity for Ebbsfleet Valley, a vast mixed use development in north Kent, which received planning go ahead at the end of 2005.

  • Heat store cooker designed by Seymour Powell

    26 January 2006

    Mercury is launching a heat store cooker, Thermastone, designed by Seymour Powell. The cooker features cooking cavities made of silicon carbide, traditionally used for industrial kilns. The hob controls are incorporated into a twistable rail, a design that Mercury has patented.

  • Heineken gets on the wagon

    26 January 2006

    With non-alcoholic nightclubs set to reach Europe in a couple of years' time, Sarah Balmond wonders if they will ever be embraced in Britain

  • Idents and print materials for this year's Brit Awards

    26 January 2006

    Raw Nerve has designed the television idents and print materials for this year's Brit Awards, which air on ITV1 on 16 February. The group was commissioned by ITV Network Promotions to 'build hype' around the music awards ceremony, says Raw Nerve director Rebecca Molina. The design is centred around the strapline, 'Thank you for the music'. ITV is hoping to attract an audience of more than 6 million viewers to the show, adds Molina.

  • Inspired

    26 January 2006

    Writers sometimes forget that people see a piece of writing before they read it, or decide not to read it. Writing is visual first, then literal (which is one reason why writers should care about typography).

  • Is it really time for a London 2012 rebrand already?

    26 January 2006

    Sorry Kino. Nice job on the Olympic logo, but now it's time for the big boys to move in.

  • JHP Design develops retail format for Timberland

    26 January 2006

    London retail design specialist JHP Design has developed a retail format for Timberland, to showcase the company's Outdoor Performance range. The concept will be launched in the spring as a concession in El Corte Ingles department store in Madrid, Spain. It will then launch as a stand-alone store.

  • LDA to renew LDF funding

    26 January 2006

    Despite protracted negotiations, the London Design Festival is poised to secure funding from its main financial backer, the London Development Agency, within the next few weeks, according to festival manager William Knight. The LDA has provided financial backing for the event since its start-up in 2003, but its three-year contract came to an end last year.

  • Lippincott Mercer promotes Dave Mayer

    26 January 2006

    Lippincott Mercer has promoted Dave Mayer to the position of partner at the brand strategy and design group. .

  • Marmite tries to boost sales with 'squeezy' packs

    26 January 2006

    Marmite's iconic jar is being redesigned into a squeeze bottle, as Unilever seeks to broaden the brand's appeal.

  • Match character with destination

    26 January 2006

    Jeremy Hildreth thinks the design for tourism market is set to grow as people express themselves through their choice of holiday destination

  • Misha Black award for Rolls Royce chief

    26 January 2006

    Professor Geoff Kirk, chief design engineer of civil aerospace for Rolls Royce, has been nominated to receive the Sir Misha Black Medal this year, for his long-term services to design education. Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design will also pick up an award at the presentation ceremony on 15 March, for its research centre specialising in design against crime.

  • Miss a trick

    26 January 2006

    Nike has finally started a dedicated skate shoe line, but will it ever rival the underground brands that have dominated the market for a generation? John Cooper rates Nke6.0's chances

  • News in Pictures

    26 January 2006

    Tayburn has completed the design of the identity supporting Scotland's bid for the 2014 Commonwealth Games (DW 15 December 2005). The identity comprises the logotype, which references famous Scottish architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and a

  • Nike CEO appointment puts product designer at helm of global business operations

    26 January 2006

    The anointing of Mark Parker as Nike's chief executive this week puts a product designer at the helm of one of the world's biggest companies.

  • Partnership business models do pay off

    26 January 2006

    I agree wholeheartedly with Nigel Forsyth's article (DW 12 January) looking at lessons to be learnt from the partnership business model of law firms - notably empowered team leaders with the freedom to develop, innovate or focus, but with ownership (and risk) spread among like-minded fellow travellers.

  • Profile: Marc Bretillot

    26 January 2006

    Culinary designer and contemporary performance artist Marc Bretillot brings fantasy to food, while exploring the rituals and symbolism associated with mealtimes. Natasha Edwards tucks in

  • Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture

    26 January 2006

    Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture have been appointed to design the Milstein Hall at Cornell University College of Architecture Art and Planning in New York.

  • Review

    26 January 2006

    CALL FOR ENTRIES

  • RHM should improve the cakes, not the packaging

    26 January 2006

    This won't be the only letter on the subject, but has the chief executive of food giant RHM (DW 5 January) considered that the failure of his product to generate the desired turnover could be explained by the fact that Mr Kipling Bakes Exceedingly Crap Cakes?

  • Rodd Industrial Design brainstorms for Hasbro toys

    26 January 2006

    Games and toy specialist Hasbro has begun working with Rodd Industrial Design on idea generation, in a move which could usher in a wave of novel toy designs.

  • Soil Assoc set to unveil new branding

    26 January 2006

    The Soil Association is set to unveil a revised brand identity later this year. The organisation's in-house team has worked alongside numerous undisclosed consultancies on the project. The redesigned logo will be 'evolutionary not revolutionary,' says director Patrick Holden.

  • Steven Marshall plans exhibition at the Mark Jason Gallery

    26 January 2006

    Devon artist Steven Marshall is planning an exhibition, Paused, at the Mark Jason Gallery in London NW1. Pictures use a mixed media form, with Marshall painting figures on to layers of glass. The exhibition continues Marshall's fascination with the urban environment. It runs from 2 to 24 March.

  • Tales of the unexpected

    26 January 2006

    Independent animators The Quay Brothers are set to release their second film, a sci fi feature imbued with their characteristic madness, visual poetry and eastern European storytelling. Yolanda Zappaterra finds out what inspires them

  • Tonic gets job to put Hyundai on-line

    26 January 2006

    Tonic Design has been appointed to redesign the website for Korean car manufacturer Hyundai. The project marks the creative group's first foray into automotive branding and design, since its work with Audi several years ago.

  • UK designers must stay ahead of world competitors

    26 January 2006

    Product design, as we know it, was largely born of 1930s German Bauhaus influences. The 1950s saw the Americans reign supreme, building on technologies generated in wartime, putting forward the notion of a lifestyle via the 'American Dream' and promoting consumerism, by creating obsolescence through styling.

  • Use of stereotype was discrimination against Scotsmen

    26 January 2006

    As a proud Scot and a graphic designer working in a Scottish consultancy, I must question the use of such a ridiculous stereotype in Hugh Pearman's article (DW 12 January).

  • Visual Source redesigns website for William Cash

    26 January 2006

    Visual Source has redesigned the website www.spearmedia.co.uk for publisher William Cash.

  • Voxpop

    26 January 2006

    With the huge job of branding London's 2012 Olympic Games soon to be awarded to a branding consultancy, what opportunities and challenges can we expect, bearing in mind the enormous range of stakeholders involved?

  • Web design for www.my-wardrobe.com

    26 January 2006

    The Web design for www.my-wardrobe.com (DW 15 December 2005) was by Green Cathedral. Niche created the branding and stationery for the project.

  • WMH to relaunch teas for Jacksons

    26 January 2006

    Jacksons of Piccadilly is poised to relaunch next month as an alternative tea specialist, with a brand identity and packaging designs developed by Williams Murray Hamm.

  • Wrap offers £3.8m for design that cuts waste

    26 January 2006

    Designers are set to benefit from Wrap's latest tranche of funding, as the waste and resources action programme calls on applications for ground-breaking designs that reduce household rubbish.

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