Design Week
27 September 2007
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Andrew Stafford
27 September 2007
Product and furniture designer Andrew Stafford has created a range of cardboard stools for Moving Brands. The London branding to digital group commissioned the seats for its talk on the future of creative and interactive design groups at last month's London Design Festival. Stafford recently designed the Kate MacGarry Gallery in London.
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CDG shouldn’t have gone along with a stigmatising term
27 September 2007
I can’t really go on criticising the work of well-known and should-know-better design consultancies (see Letters, DW 28 June), but Conran Design Group’s work for the Alzheimer’s Society is a shame (DW 20 September).
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Conran Design Group for Capital & Regional
27 September 2007
Conran Design Group has refreshed the brand for property asset management company Capital & Regional.
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Design can offer so much more than advertising in fmcg
27 September 2007
Get your coat, ad man, clients are spending on design because we add value (Voxpop, DW 20 September). Brand, packaging and point-of-sale design in the wonderful world of fmcg has to work so hard for its supper, flexing into every niche, yet engaging in a moment. The ...
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Design House and Career Moves
27 September 2007
Branding consultancy Designhouse has overhauled the visual identity of recruitment agency Career Moves. This consolidates the agency's divisions and aims to shed its perception as a secretarial recruitment group.
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Furniture designer Martino...
27 September 2007
Furniture designer Martino Gamper's 100 Chairs exhibition has opened at 5 Cromwell Place, London SW7, ahead of the launch of his book Chairs (100 in 100 Days). Gamper collected discarded chairs, which he dismantled and reassembled for the project. The book is published on 12 October and the exhibition continues until 15 October.
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Getting it right
27 September 2007
The smartest workplaces are those which adopt strategies to make their employees feel happier and more motivated. Pamela Buxton investigates some recent examples of forward-looking design thinking in the office arena
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GLA report on creative industries overlooks design
27 September 2007
A report published late last month by the Greater London Authority into the state of the creative industries has been criticised for failing to gather data on the capital's design industry.The 61-page report also makes some controversial claims, such as stating that the proportion of women to men in the industry is declining and ethnic minorities remain under-represented.Entitled London's Creative Sector: 2007 Update, the paper tabulates statistics about London and the ...
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Going global
27 September 2007
There's a glut of graphic design tomes out this autumn, as publishers vie to assess the state of the field. Fiona Sibley looks for inspiration from around the world in one of the most intriguing new additions
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HBOS
27 September 2007
International banking group HBOS has reappointed Elmwood to produce its print and on-line annual reports and financial summaries this year. The consultancy won a four-way competitive 'review' against unnamed groups.
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Inspired - Matthew Link
27 September 2007
Product designers thrive on the creative opportunities presented by ground-breaking technologies, materials and manufacturing processes. Clients want their products to include the latest innovations, to lead the competition and reinforce their future-thinking credentials.Companies are so focused on technological breakthrough being the sole driver of their business that they don't often look backwards at missed opportunities.Technology is great, but the notion that it must ...
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Island of image-makers
27 September 2007
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John Adams
27 September 2007
Toy maker John Adams has won top prize in the Science Museum Toy Competition 2007 for its Electro Mag construction kit. The toy uses magnets that allow children to create electrical circuits safely.
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Johnson Banks writes the script for Unbound identity
27 September 2007
Johnson Banks has created an identity for the US philanthropic organisation Unbound, designed using 59 separate words. The letterforms are constructed of words commonly used by the charitable foundation.
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Just have the balls to say 'no'
27 September 2007
Production-led or ideas-driven? If you're honest enough to stick to one side of this fault line, clients will flock to your door. Know thyself, says Simon Myers
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Kepak Convenience Foods
27 September 2007
Kepak Convenience Foods has unveiled a hot deli range, with an identity and packaging by London consultancy Leahy Brand Design.
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Made Thought nets Nike Basketball
27 September 2007
Nike is developing a global brand marque for its basketball division in conjunction with Made Thought. The division is set to launch at the end of this year. The London multidisciplinary consultancy won the business without a pitch, after Nike Basketball approached it directly to develop the marque and a set of brand guidelines in September.
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Maidstone museum wins heritage redevelopment grant
27 September 2007
A design scheme that is set to raise the profile of Kent’s Maidstone Museum & Bentlif Art Gallery is a step further to being realised this week, after a £2m earmarked grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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Manifest
27 September 2007
Manifest has designed a new identity and website for global agency Illustration. The consultancy was appointed in April to rebrand the 80-year-old company. Its new-look website launched last week at www.illustrationweb.com.
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Neglected maverick
27 September 2007
Storm Thorgerson doesn't have much time for the design world, but his recent lecture appearance was in a class of its own, says Adrian Shaughnessy
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News in pictures
27 September 2007
Sea Design has created the identity for the inaugural fashion trade exhibition Boutique London. The logo is set to be launched to the public in early 2008, when Sea will begin designing the exhibition. Boutique London aims to showcase independent and up-and-coming designers and takes place at Earls Court from 8-11 May 2008.
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Odd tones down interiors in the Colour Room for industrial feel
27 September 2007
Sony Bravia, the brand that launched the renowned multicoloured balls and paint ads, has unveiled two new event spaces called The Colour Rooms.
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Picture this
27 September 2007
Inspired by illustrated books from the Victorian era, novelist Alasdair Gray challenges typesetting conventions by illustrating his own work. Hannah Booth talks to the writer whose first publisher forgot to pay him for his designs
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Profile
27 September 2007
When John Sunderland sketched out his ideas for the Jorvik Centre, the template for the 'heritage experience' had been set. Henrietta Thompson talks to him about dumbing down, skiving off from school and life in New York
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Rapid prototyping isn’t sci-fi, it's the future
27 September 2007
I loved Scott Billings’ article on 3D prototyping (DW 20 September) – it brought out the space cadet in me.
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Shout to make yourself heard
27 September 2007
Critics argue the money could be better spent, but an appropriate identity is critical for a charity to stand out in a crowded market, says Sarah Woods
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Spencer du Bois guides MS society
27 September 2007
The MS Society is this week launching a set of brand guidelines, by Spencer du Bois, in a bid to reinstate the charity’s core principles
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Superdrug
27 September 2007
Superdrug's Hair Colourants range is to launch a makeover to its packaging by Burst, following the consultancy's appointment to the retailer's design roster last year.
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The Deptford design challenge was a true eccentric highlight
27 September 2007
The London Design Festival week got off to a really good start at the Royal Festival Hall and I was particularly pleased to be involved in the Deptford Design Market Challenge exhibition held there. Here 27 designers reinterpret 27 discarded objects found on a thrift market stall in Deptford. The results of these redesigned items ingeniously transformed from humble bargains to some really quite funky, charming and desirable 'objets' was really rather imaginative and unexpected ...
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The Design Council must keep pushing sustainability
27 September 2007
It is ironic that the Design Council should axe the post of Leader Sustainability at this time (see News, page 3). Just days before Clare Brass was made redundant design Council chief executive David Kester had highlighted sustainability as 'the only issue' in design.Kester was ...
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The Product Works...
27 September 2007
Design consultancy The Product Works was one of five consultancies asked to create a single-part product to show the advantages of rapid prototyping, as part of a seminar organised by the Royal College of Art and Materials and Design Exchange. Attendees voted Dopi, an acoustic horn that amplifies music devices without electricity, the most popular. Designers Sebastian Conran and Dick Powell also created prototypes for the event.
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Voxpop
27 September 2007
What do you think were the unexpected highlights of London Design Week?
