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27 February 2003

  • 3G service makes right connections

    27 February 2003

  • 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.

  • 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'.

  • 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.

  • Andrew Rae designs flyers for The Future Starts Here

    27 February 2003

  • Astronaut feasts on Indian interiors

    27 February 2003

  • 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.

  • Back to school for Design Council furniture scheme

    27 February 2003

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Czech ceramic designers created pieces for Applied Art Agency exhibition

    27 February 2003

  • 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.

  • Department of Health campaign plays Mind 'n' Seek game with Hoop

    27 February 2003

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Exhibitions

    27 February 2003

  • Face redesigns 2003 prospectus

    27 February 2003

    Face has designed the 2003 postgraduate prospectus for the Kent Institute of Art & Design.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Get the hang of disruption

    27 February 2003

  • Holmes Place launches revamped website

    27 February 2003

    Holmes Place launches a revamped website next week, www.holmesplace.com, designed by Arnold Interactive.

  • 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.

  • Intersection relaunches

    27 February 2003

  • 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.

  • lookie-likies

    27 February 2003

  • 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.

  • Michelin plans for lifestyle branding

    27 February 2003

  • Mind your own business

    27 February 2003

  • Model behaviour

    27 February 2003

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Push the boundaries

    27 February 2003

  • Road to recovery

    27 February 2003

  • Sisley launches spring/suimmer 2003 campaign

    27 February 2003

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • Star qualities

    27 February 2003

  • Surbiton smiles on local dentist

    27 February 2003

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • Wardour Communications designs World Economic Forum annual report

    27 February 2003

    Wardour Communications has designed this year's World Economic Forum annual report.

  • 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.

  • Watt's Orrell makes a brief appearance in Leeds

    27 February 2003

  • 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.

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