Design Week
26 June 2008
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...As Scottish National Portrait Gallery furthers £17m project
26 June 2008
The Scottish National Portrait Gallery has launched a fundraising campaign by Redpath and appointed an exhibition designer to work on its £17m transformation.Studioarc beat Hamilton Design, Redman Design, MKW Design and designers Cavan Convery and Andy McGregor, who made a joint pitch, to win the four-year contract.The five groups were whittled down from a shortlist of 13 in March, and Studioarc was appointed last month. The gallery briefed Studioarc to help create permanent ...
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£17m Belfast Lyric theatre revamp
26 June 2008
Belfast’s Lyric Theatre will embark on a major reconstruction this week which aims to establish a world-class theatre for the Northern Ireland capital.
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A look at the Dutch graphic design museum
26 June 2008
The Dutch have clocked another world first – a museum devoted solely to graphic design. Michael Johnson wonders at their seemingly disproportionate impact on the profession and asks what it would take for London to follow suit
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Accreditation? Advice is more useful, says BDI
26 June 2008
It is a matter of professional responsibility for all companies including designers to improve their understanding of sustainability issues that directly affect the discipline and sectors they specialise in. And I am sure that the Design Council will engage the design and innovation sector bodies to ask designers what they would find most useful to assist them in gaining sustainability advice, to increase their knowledge and value to clients. Almost without exception, sustainability ...
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Accreditation? We were aware in the 1950s, says CSD
26 June 2008
In your leader (Comment, DW 12 June) you address the question of 'accreditation', with reference to sustainability, in a rhetorical and negative manner. The design sector is made up of 'design users' and 'design education', not just 'design providers'. For these other stakeholders, the issue of accreditation is not a negative, and is, and has been for some time, integral to the metrics of business and education, not least to those operating in a global context. Design businesses ...
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Asia major
26 June 2008
If China came relatively late to modern graphic design, then the wealth of material emerging from the Asian giant suggests the country is rapidly catching up. A flurry of exhibitions and events in London, timed to coincide with the Beijing Olympics, reveals the diversity of young Chinese designers who both nod back to traditional forms and look forward to a playful, experimental and often robust new world. A recent book, 3030: New Graphic Design In China, provides a window on their ideas. ...
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Barclays bank lines up slew of designers
26 June 2008
Barclays is in the midst of major UK and international design overhaul, Design Week can reveal.
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Battersea Power Station creative hub plans
26 June 2008
Battersea Power Station could become a hub for creative businesses, under plans set out by its new owner, Real Estate Opportunities.
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Belfast unveils identity by Lloyd Northover
26 June 2008
A fresh identity for Belfast has been developed by brand strategy and creative consultancy Lloyd Northover. Unveiled on Monday, the Here Now brand is the result of the biggest branding consultation exercise ever undertaken for Belfast City Council. It has been created to prom ote a unified vision of the city as a vibrant and optimistic place to live, work, visit and invest inand to shake off misconceptions shaped by Northern Ireland’s troubled past.
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Design to cash in as airlines realign
26 June 2008
Where next for design in the airline industry? Emma Germain argues that future opportunities are likely to be at the top end of the market
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Further redesign for Glasgow School of Art
26 June 2008
Glasgow School of Art’s campus is set for a redesign, creating opportunities for consultancies and improving facilities.
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Going deeper with clients
26 June 2008
Chasing new clients may be exciting, but it makes more business sense to improve the way you handle your current stable, says Ricky Oh
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Graduates must try harder to display work at its best
26 June 2008
Last week a select group of international creatives celebrated the first Cannes Lions design prize - and the outstanding Grand Prix win for Turner Duckworth for its work for Coca-Cola. This week the focus is closer to home, on the student awards meted out by D&AD to top-flight graduates.Mon
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Inspired: Mark Brown, Irving
26 June 2008
I blame Alfred Hitchcock - into a 1970s Northern Ireland stepped Cary Grant in North by Northwest as ad man on the run Roger O Thornhill. The immaculate suit, the creative job, the superb styling and suspense.
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Kerouac brief nets Penguin prize for design student
26 June 2008
Penguin has named graphic design and illustration student Jenna Jones winner of its Penguin Design Award 2008, for her take on Jack Kerouac's On The Road.At a ceremony tonight in London, Penguin will offer the graphic design and illustration student £1000 and a six-week work placement after she graduates from Norwich School of Art & Design this summer.Jones will work on live briefs with Penguin art directors Jim Stoddart and John Hamilton. Both sat on the judging ...
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Kin creates Wimbledon tennis installation for IBM
26 June 2008
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Latest bank jobs may spark 'second wave'
26 June 2008
The launch of new-look Barclays and Lloyds TSB retail branches this summer suggests that a second wave of bank design innovation is breaking upon the high street.In the late 1990s, retail banks flexed their imaginations for the first time, resulting in Abbey National installing Costa Coffee shops in its branches - in what looked like a desperate attempt to bring excitement to personal finance.But last month, Barclays began trialling a new concept in Manchester that simply ...
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LG Electronics
26 June 2008
LG Electronics will later this month unveil the LG70, designed by Seymour Powell. The LCD television, earmarked as one of the South Korean electronics giant's flagship products for 2008, features a thin, teardrop structure finishing at a point at the base of the television that aims to give the appearance of floating when it is positioned on a stand. The television is the first product that the consultancy has worked on with LG to be released commercially.
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News in Pictures
26 June 2008
Glasgow consultancy The Hub has created a handcrafted, bespoke promotional item targeted at A&R scouts for Glasgow band Sindustry.
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News in Pictures
26 June 2008
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Profile
26 June 2008
The Fredrikson Stallard duo were ‘ones to watch’ from the moment they set up in 2005, and have stayed busy ever since. Henrietta Thompson talks to the designers who combine gothic fairytale with Scandinavian cool
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Saffron deserves to take the credit for Akzo Nobel
26 June 2008
We were dismayed to see your news item 'Pentagram rolls out new face of Akzo Nobel' (News, DW 12 June). To say 'Akzo Nobel briefed Pentagram to create a "dynamic, strong but practical" update of its marque' implies that Pentagram created the updated Akzo Nobel logo, when, in fact, we did. The relationship between Akzo Nobel and our chairman, Wally Olins, goes back 20 years. Wally led the team that created the original logo in the 1980s when he chaired Wolff Olins and, together ...
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Tapping into water branding
26 June 2008
Getting people back on to tap water might not be easy - even though many bottled waters contain just that
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The craft skills of Piet Boon
26 June 2008
He doesn’t conform to the image of the eccentric Dutch designer, but Piet Boon is achieving success through craft skills and the ability to understand the needs of his clients. David Chaloner looks at his work
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The generation game
26 June 2008
Conventional research techniques restrict creativity, says David Bernstein. Disciplined anarchy is better – without it, PCs would just be word processors
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The Spiri
26 June 2008
The Spiri is an innovative organic air filter, designed by Brunel University student Richard Jennions. A fan at the back of the unit pushes air to the four plant cartons, where it reaches the roots of the plant in the soil. The idea is that the roots remove the volatile organic chemicals from the air, which is then pushed out of the mechanism up into the breathing zone. Water is stored in a reservoir at the base of the unit to feed the plant over several days.
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Time for mobiles to go sustainable
26 June 2008
Disposability – that bedrock of consumerism and bête noir of the Green movement – is rife in the mobile phone industry, sustained as it is by contracts offering perpetual upgrades. Scott Billings asks what role design plays in this environmental quagmire – is it complicit, or can it help stem the tide of electronic waste?
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Top drawers
26 June 2008
Cartoons can be as ephemeral as the subjects they lampoon, but the best exponents of the art spend a lifetime learning how to communicate a moment. Two new books and an exhibition give some idea how they do it, says Steve Way
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Unholy script
26 June 2008
Everyone seems to be sporting tattoos, popularised by footballers and celebrities – often ones featuring non-Latin alphabets like Sanskrit, Hebrew and Arabic. Simon Loxley reviews the trend, and wonders if it might betray a longing for a tangible spirituality in our hyper-transient world
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Voxpop
26 June 2008
Copenhagen has just been judged the best city in the world to live in. What would London have to do to achieve this status? London is one of the world’s greatest cities and, some would argue, ‘the’ global centre for ...
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Wigmore Sports serves up new store interiors by Portland
26 June 2008
Wigmore Sports has charged Portland Design with creating the interior of its new tennis-inspired store in central London.The 350m2 outlet is just a few doors up from its current premises on Wigmore Street, W1. Arranged over two floors, the store will feature a tennis court environment in the basement, where customers can test sports equipment.'Although the new store is very slightly smaller than our current one, it has the benefit of being designed as a single space, ...
