Design Week
27 April 2006
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Airmiles to reveal new identity
27 April 2006
AirMiles, the travel loyalty scheme, this week launches an identity designed by Lambie Nairn. The marque uses a bespoke dot-matrix-style font and introduces a bold yellow colour.
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Area Sq flies £3m revamp of EasyJet's Luton headquarters
27 April 2006
Work starts on site at EasyJet's new corporate headquarters at Luton Airport this week, with interiors designed by Area Sq, in what is a £3.1m refurbishment project for the group.
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At the heart of it all
27 April 2006
Some say design leadership begins in the boardroom, but David Bernstein believes design should be allowed to flourish at an organisation's very core.
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Audit time
27 April 2006
Back in the late 1990s, the Audi TT took the design world by storm, but does the new TT Coupé stand a chance of matching the success of its predecessor? asks John Stones
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BR&Me Foster's design heralds brand extensions
27 April 2006
Foster's Twist, the first extension to the Foster's brand in almost ten years, will launch this July from brewer Scottish & Newcastle, with packaging design by BR&Me.
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Design By Committee creates identity for Truckle Deli
27 April 2006
Design By Committee has created the visual identity, graphics and stationery for Truckle, a deli opening in Fulham, London this week.
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Design consultancies must budget carefully to stay ahead
27 April 2006
We should not be surprised by Willott Kingston Smith's findings that staff costs are down per head within design groups (see News, page 3). It is heartening to see the industry heeding advice to ensure a brighter future.
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Fair game
27 April 2006
The big names were all at this year's Milan Furniture Fair, but the new fairground has had a big impact on the fringe. Lynda Relph-Knight reports from a show that has become more polarised, yet gathered a new momentum
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Foreign alliances are a positive asset to any business
27 April 2006
Well done to Charlie Hoult and Loewy for their decision to hook up with a foreign partner - Iceland's largest ad agency, Hvita Husid (DW 13 April). There is a huge amount to be said for aligning yourself with key players in other territories.
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Forster company designs identity for Play England
27 April 2006
The Forster Company has designed an identity for Play England, a collaborative project between the National Children's Bureau and the Children's Play Council, which aims to create new, free and innovative play spaces for children across England.
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Fortune Street takes on Northern Edge branding task
27 April 2006
Start-up house building company Northern Edge is set to launch later this year with an identity, website and communication material created by Fortune Street.
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From No One to SomeOne
27 April 2006
Going solo may seem like a scary option, but the rewards can be great, argues Simon Manchipp, who has taken the leap.
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Get it while it's hot
27 April 2006
Is there any part of our lives that is more open to scrutiny at the moment than our eating habits? From celebrity chefs to Channel Four's hilarious You Are What You Eat and all those house makeover programmes, dining has never been more under the spotlight.
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Graduates are desperate to be given a chance
27 April 2006
I read the article on students getting placements in the industry while they are learning (DW 13 April). I was very lucky that a local company employed me, on a freelance basis, to do its advertising while I was at college. But the problem I'm having, since leaving college last year, is that I can't get a full-time job.
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Guerrilla Productions creates titles for football doc
27 April 2006
Guerrilla Productions has created a Roy-of-the-Rovers-inspired title sequence for Pitch Battles: England v Germany, a documentary broadcasting on Five tonight. The consultancy worked with illustrator Syd Brak at FolioArt. The film follows the two nations from a 1914 match in the trenches to England's 5-1 victory in 2001.
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Imagination to unify Aston Martin outlets
27 April 2006
Ford Motor Company-owned Aston Martin is developing a series of retail showrooms across the world, under a design scheme by Imagination. Forthcoming sites in Bordeaux, Milan, Newport Beach, Hong Kong, Nagoya and Towcester, Northamptonshire are all part of a drive to roll out a consistent design identity across Aston Martin's global retail operation.
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Inspired
27 April 2006
When I was training as an architect in Liverpool about 20 years ago, a friendly-looking guy called Nigel Irens turned up to tell us how he designed boats.
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International flavour for Scotland festival
27 April 2006
An initiative to elevate design in Scotland to an international stage launches this week, under the £3m Six Cities Design Festival project funded by the Scottish Executive.
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Modernism teaches us to strive for our ideals
27 April 2006
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News in Pictures
27 April 2006
Billed as the latest must-have hi-tech gizmo, Nabaztag is a 'smart rabbit' that is permanently connected to the Internet through a broadband wireless connection. Designed by Paris company Violet, Nabaztag retails at £80 and is available from the Design Museum in London.
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O2 Creative wins Henderson Global Investors pitch
27 April 2006
Norwich graphic design consultancy O2 Creative has won a three-way pitch to design the annual report for Henderson Global Investors property division.
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Profile: Teresa Monachino
27 April 2006
Teresa Monachino has combined her love of typography and the English language in a book that gently subverts and questions the art of expression. Trish Lorenz talks to the designer with a passion for words
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Proximity London appoints digital creative director
27 April 2006
Digital consultancy Proximity London has appointed Pete Petrella as creative director of digital, overseeing a team of eight. Petrella was previously associate creative director at Wheel. The group is seeking to appoint additional designers.
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Radford Wallis for TV festival identity
27 April 2006
Radford Wallis is designing the visual identity for this year's Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival and has just revealed branding for the festival's educational arm Television and Young People.
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Review
27 April 2006
DEGREE SHOWs l Sense of Space runs from 1 to 5 May and is an investigation into the nature of creativity and innovation in visual communication design by final-year students in the Department of Electronic Imaging and Media Communications. Venue: Gallery
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RIBA opens function rooms
27 April 2006
The Royal Institute of British Architects has opened a series of function and meeting rooms designed by in-house architect Martin Pascoe. The 15 rooms are 'contemporary and neutral', in deliberate contrast to the organisation's existing 'classic, Art Deco set-piece rooms,' says Pascoe.
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Run with the ball
27 April 2006
To promote the forthcoming FIFA World Cup, the German host has injected some culture into the proceedings with World Cup Art Edition posters. Clare Dowdy takes a look at designs from around the globe
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Sandeman revamped by Wren & Rowe
27 April 2006
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Scholey heads back to Leeds office
27 April 2006
Richard Scholey, creative director at Elmwood Melbourne, is to leave the consultancy in July after completing an 18-month contract, with no immediate replacement lined up. Scholey will return to the group's Leeds office after a period of travelling.
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Shared risk schemes benefit everyone involved
27 April 2006
Let's face it - time and materials billing schemes are old hat (DW 20 April). Shared risk schemes benefit both clients and designers. A company's commitment in the long term gives designers the space to do what they do best and gives the company greater access to ideas. Now, if we can only get the model implemented in areas other than furniture. Richard Eisermann, Director, Prospect, London NW1
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SHH creates £2m restaurant in Bahrain
27 April 2006
London consultancy SHH has created the brand identity and interior concept for a £2m three-storey, 300-seater restaurant called Nu Asia, which will open in Bahrain this winter.
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Shoot from the hip
27 April 2006
Camera phones are providing opportunities for a new kind of image-making and there's a whole market out there for small photographs aimed at mobile screens. Are photographers taking up the challenge? asks Yolanda Zappaterra
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Soft drinks brand Panda reinvents itself
27 April 2006
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Start-up shoe manufacturer launches first product
27 April 2006
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Trouble continues at The Public as chief exec is axed
27 April 2006
The future of high profile West Midlands cultural venue The Public looks increasingly uncertain as it emerged that its chief executive has been made redundant and design consultancies remain unpaid.
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Up, up and away
27 April 2006
Airlines are investing millions in luxury business class cabins, but the designs are slowly filtering down to economy, says Sarah Balmond
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Virgin Atlantic plans to transform economy seating
27 April 2006
Virgin Atlantic is set to overhaul its suite of Economy and Premium Economy airline chairs, working with product design consultancy Pearson Lloyd, Design Week can exclusively reveal.
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Voxpop
27 April 2006
Amazon has begun to sell corn flakes and soup, in a bid to become a mighty, one-stop, on-line shopping destination. Do books and groceries sit happily together on the virtual shelf and, if anything goes, what could other retailers add to their portfolio?
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Weinfeld goes Brazilian in Knightsbridge
27 April 2006
Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld is designing the interiors for a contemporary Brazilian restaurant, Mocotó, which will open in London's Knightsbridge this July.
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WKS report shows falling staff costs
27 April 2006
Design consultancies have trimmed staff costs by more than 15 per cent in the past six months in a bid to streamline their operations, but the savings are accompanied by a fall in operating profits and productivity.
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WPP reports slow growth in UK market
27 April 2006
The UK is the slowest-growing region in terms of marketing services revenue, according to Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP. The company's UK revenue rose by just 9.6 per cent year-on-year during the first quarter, compared with a global growth of 23.4 per cent. Overall, WPP's Branding & Identity, Healthcare and Specialist Communications division reported the strongest growth, with revenues up by 28.7 per cent.
