Design Week
27 February 2003
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3G service makes right connections
27 February 2003
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999 Design creates interiors for Dhabba
27 February 2003
Glasgow-based group 999 Design has created the interiors and identity for Indian restaurant Dhabba. The restaurant, which opens in Glasgow this week, features 'authentic interiors with earthy colour schemes', says 999 Design 3D specialist Stuart Kerr.
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A fear of words, but you're already getting the picture
27 February 2003
Why does the design industry find words, and marketing words in particular, so frightening? Colum Lowe in his Private View (DW 6 February) found it necessary to argue for the adoption of the word 'brand'.
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Abstracts appointed by Old Mutual Asset Managers
27 February 2003
Abstracts has been appointed by Old Mutual Asset Managers to revamp the company's marque and design 2003 marketing literature.
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Andrew Rae designs flyers for The Future Starts Here
27 February 2003
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Astronaut feasts on Indian interiors
27 February 2003
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Attik look for Las Vegas eco project
27 February 2003
Attik has been appointed to create a brand identity and communications material for an ecological visitor experience in Las Vegas, in a project worth $500 000 (£317 000) in fees to the consultancy.
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Back to school for Design Council furniture scheme
27 February 2003
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Blue Peach appointed by Edinburgh World Trade Centre
27 February 2003
Edinburgh-based Blue Peach has been appointed to create a corporate identity and website for the city's nascent World Trade Centre.
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Book
27 February 2003
Wood, by Chris Lefteri is published by RotoVision this month, priced £27.50. It continues the series by Lefteri of 'Inspirational Materials for Design', which includes the titles Plastic and Glass.
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Boxer's branding to add punch to Birmingham
27 February 2003
Boxer is creating a brand for Birmingham as the city's cultural and environmental renaissance gathers pace ahead of the launch of the revamped Bullring complex later this year and a decision on the 2008 City of Culture.
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Bristol finds its way with help from Placemarque
27 February 2003
Placemarque is creating signage prototypes for Bristol City Council, following its appointment last month to develop a wayfinding strategy for the city's surrounding districts.
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BT books Design House revamp
27 February 2003
Design House is revamping BT's residential phone book, delivered to 22 million UK homes, as the telecoms giant goes 'head to head' with Thomson and Yellow Pages in the local directories market.
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Bursary
27 February 2003
The Arts and Humanities Research Board are offering artists and scientists the chance to collaborate on projects spanning the creative arts, science and engineering with funding up to £35 000.Contact: www.ahrb.ac.uk, Alison Henry by e-mail at a.henry@ahrb. ac.uk or telephone 0117 987 6664 for further details.
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Consultancies don't just design pretty identities
27 February 2003
I read with interest your Vox Pop on whether or not groups should offer strategic advice to their clients and this has prompted me to write and expand on the issues.
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Correction
27 February 2003
In last week's issue (DW 20 February) we incorrectly stated in a headline on page 3 that the Design Council was revamping its brand.
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Coverage for Forte's Coco de Mer drawers
27 February 2003
Talking of positions, what kind of gymnastic exertion do you think is required to model for erotic drawing? It's a question we'd like to ask design PR and Forte Communication's Giovanna Forte, who let slip this week that she's doing some sexy sketching at
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Creativeblade creates identity for Rhythms of the Indus
27 February 2003
Creativeblade has created the identity for Rhythms of the Indus, an event designed to raise the cultural profile of Pakistan in the UK.
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Czech ceramic designers created pieces for Applied Art Agency exhibition
27 February 2003
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D&A creates Adidas window display
27 February 2003
D&A has created a window display campaign for Adidas. The work, which will be applied in sports retailers throughout the UK, launches in JD Sports and Gilesport shops this week.
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Department of Health campaign plays Mind 'n' Seek game with Hoop
27 February 2003
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Designers can contribute creatively and strategically
27 February 2003
Following on from your Vox Pop (DW 20 February), traditional design businesses aren't fleet-of-foot enough to partner clients on the decisions they need to take in order to develop their brands.
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Docklands Museum gets go-ahead
27 February 2003
Pentagram this week presents brand identity concepts to London's Docklands Museum. The work comes after last week's announcement that the troubled museum has been saved by a merger with the Museum of London and is set to open in May.
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Duo gets Misha Black awards
27 February 2003
Professor Sir Christopher Frayling and Professor Adrian Forty will both be recognised in the Sir Misha Black Memorial awards next week.Frayling receives the Memorial Medal for Distinguished Services to Design Education and Forty receives the Innovation in Design Education award.
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Events
27 February 2003
The Metapod Digital Arts Festival starts tomorrow and continues until 3 March, looking at new ways of working in digital media to create visual and sonic technology by using old techniques and equipment. The festival takes place at various venues in the West Midlands. Print design for the festival was designed by Heavy Object.
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Exhibitions
27 February 2003
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Face redesigns 2003 prospectus
27 February 2003
Face has designed the 2003 postgraduate prospectus for the Kent Institute of Art & Design.
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Fishburn Hedges rebrands
27 February 2003
Fishburn Hedges is to rename and rebrand healthcare charity PPP Foundation to give it a clearer identity and raise its profile within the policy-making community.
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Free radicals
27 February 2003
The work of influential 1960s Italian group Superstudio will be given centre stage at the Design Museum next month. Dominic Lutyens reports
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FutureBrand to reshuffle roles
27 February 2003
FutureBrand has merged its corporate and consumer divisions as FutureBrand London. Elizabeth Finn, formerly managing director of the consumer division, becomes managing director.
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Get the hang of disruption
27 February 2003
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Holmes Place launches revamped website
27 February 2003
Holmes Place launches a revamped website next week, www.holmesplace.com, designed by Arnold Interactive.
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Hudson Fuggle designs identity for Inside Out Trust
27 February 2003
Hudson Fuggle has designed an identity for the Inside Out Trust, a charity that works with prison inmates. The marque will be applied to print material from this week.
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Intersection relaunches
27 February 2003
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Kitchenware Records rebrands
27 February 2003
Kitchenware Records, whose artist roster includes Prefab Sprout and the Lighthouse Family, is rebranding with an identity by The Solution Group.
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lookie-likies
27 February 2003
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Love designs for Greater Manchester Youth Justice Trust
27 February 2003
Love has designed the 2002 annual report for the Greater Manchester Youth Justice Trust. The consultancy has worked with the organisation for the past three years.
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Michelin plans for lifestyle branding
27 February 2003
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Mind your own business
27 February 2003
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Model behaviour
27 February 2003
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Mosaic creates identity for Brighton Pier
27 February 2003
Brighton-based group Mosaic has created a corporate identity for Brighton Pier. The identity incorporates elements of Georgian and Victorian design because of their association with both the Pier and Brighton, says Mosaic managing director Laurie Griffi
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Museums can bring much more than cash to the show
27 February 2003
At an industry dinner last week the thorny issue of whether design can help to heal society came up. Speaking in the context of museum design, the Museum of London's eminent new director Professor Jack Lohman indicated that it could.
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Nevis revamps identity for George Campbell & Sons
27 February 2003
Glasgow-based design consultancy Nevis has revamped the retail identity, signage and packaging for Edinburgh-based seafood company George Campbell & Sons, which was founded in 1872.
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Output designs EP sleeves
27 February 2003
Output has designed EP sleeves for drum 'n' bass artists Futuretech and Drumsound & Simon Bassline Smith. The Drumsound cover (pictured) takes inspiration from mapping conventions and geographical influences, says Output managing director Dan Moore, who d
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Pantone accessorises us with its colourful swatch
27 February 2003
It's not quite Marc Jacobs, but it should put a colourful spring in many a fashion-conscious designer's step. Pantone Universe is bringing out a range of accessories from rubber photo-albums to corduroy bags in the hues and shades you know and love from your favourite Pantone colour reference system.
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Pre-tax profits down at WPP
27 February 2003
WPP Group's pre-tax profits for 2002 were down 19 per cent to £400.6m, the marketing services giant announced this week, confirming the gloominess of earlier trading statements.Glimmers of light included the performances of Lambie-Nairn in the UK; while in quarter four, North America showed revenue growth for the first time in seven quarters.
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Push the boundaries
27 February 2003
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Road to recovery
27 February 2003
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Sisley launches spring/suimmer 2003 campaign
27 February 2003
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Skakel & Skakel blends ideas for whisky centre
27 February 2003
Edinburgh-based Skakel & Skakel is designing a 279m2 visitor centre for the Bell's whisky brand that will go head-to-head with Land Design Studio's Famous Grouse Experience, created last year for Highland Distillers (DW 17 January 2002).
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Spencer du Bois creates identity for Building Tomorrow
27 February 2003
Spencer du Bois has created the logo, identity and materials for the Building Tomorrow: Culture in Regeneration conference, which takes place in Manchester this week.
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Star qualities
27 February 2003
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Surbiton smiles on local dentist
27 February 2003
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Symposium
27 February 2003
The Faculty of Art, Design & Music at Kingston University and the editors of Visual Communication in association with Graphics International present The New Typography on 13 March.
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Talk
27 February 2003
French designer Matali Crasset talks about her work on 28 February at 7pm. Places are free, but space is limited. Contact: 020 7942 2000.
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Vox pop
27 February 2003
As Six Continents reverts back to its original Mitchell & Butler moniker to avoid a made-up, meaningless corporate name (DW 13 February), have abstract names had their day?
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Wardour Communications designs World Economic Forum annual report
27 February 2003
Wardour Communications has designed this year's World Economic Forum annual report.
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Waterways has Poke on Agenda
27 February 2003
Agenda Design and Poke are collaborating with British Waterways on its first consumer brand, as yet unnamed, designed to promote the UK's canals and rivers as leisure destinations. The project, which will initially be Web-based, is set to go live in June.Poke starts work this week on Web development. Agenda will create the name and brand identity.
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Watt's Orrell makes a brief appearance in Leeds
27 February 2003
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Wren & Rowe look for Andresen
27 February 2003
Wren & Rowe's work for premium port producer JH Andresen begins rolling out next week as revamped packaging appears in stores in Germany, followed by launches in France, Canada, the US and the UK later this quarter.



