Design Week
27th August 2009
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A complementary, not competitive, resource
27th August 2009
There is ongoing debate around the perception that universities are increasingly encroaching on the work of professional design consultancies, with some taking a view that higher education institutions offer inferior design services to their commercial brethren. The report on this topic released by British Design Innovation earlier in the year (News Analysis, DW 2 April) recommended that universities and the private sector should work closer to build closer working relationships. ...
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Are interior designers too diverse to pull together?
27th August 2009
It is no surprise to find the British Institute of Interior Design seeking links with the wider design community. The interiors crew has long tried to draw together as a group outside the confines of bodies such as the Design Business Association and the Chartered Society of Designers, though both include interiors interests in their membership.
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Cheeky to suggest cosmetics branding represents Pop Art
27th August 2009
There is nothing Pop Art about Longfield Studio’s brand identity for the Cheeky Girls cosmetics range - it’s merely a modern-day take on traditional cartoon forms (www. designweek.co.uk, 31 July). Pop Art is an art movement dominated by cartoon, but combined with mundane objects creating montages. A good brand solution with more of a relevance to the Pop Art movement, I feel, is Soap & Glory (pictured). Tanya Gander, by e-mail
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Collaboration is key to survival
27th August 2009
After a stint working in Hong Kong, Laura Williams reflects on the UK’s future role in the global creative industry
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Collectiva rebrands Royal Lancaster Hotel
27th August 2009
Collectiva has created a new identity for the Royal Lancaster Hotel in central London, now branded as Lancaster London.The consultancy has worked with the hotel for around five years on projects, according to creative director Francesco Nerici.Nerici says, ‘The Royal Lancaster Hotel brand had accumulated too many layers over the years. The current logo uses six words: Royal, Lancaster, Hotel, London, Hyde and Park.’He adds, ‘We renamed it Lancaster ...
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Draught Associates launching Visual Aid 2: You Can Never Know Enough Stuff
27th August 2009
Draught Associates is launching Visual Aid 2: You Can Never Know Enough Stuff, a follow-up to the earlier book Visual Aid: Stuff You’ve Forgotten. With graphics designed by the Draught Associates team, the book looks to answer questions including who actually stood on the grassy knoll, what animal lives longest - an elephant or a parrot - and who sits behind the clarinets and to the right of the trumpets? The book will be released by Black Dog Publishing on 4 September.
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Eliminating noise
27th August 2009
Presenting on the art of presentation can be a daunting prospect - and some own goals are nigh impossible to prevent. David Bernstein shares his experiences
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Essential Waitrose designs: more than just one meat label
27th August 2009
I’ve just seen the article ‘Brand battle hits the aisles’ (News Analysis, 13 August), which refers to our newly branded range, Essential Waitrose. I very much wish we had been given the opportunity to supply an image to represent the scope of the work we have been doing on this project. We have designed the packaging for more than 1400 products, and commissioned around 1000 illustrations. The design attention given to each pack and product area was a crucial ...
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Inspired - Keshi Bouri
27th August 2009
I’m a hoarder. There, I’ve said it. I have a very hard time throwing things away. I think I inherited it from my mum or nan. Their houses were like Aladdin’s cave, full of interesting things to discover.I’ve always loved ‘stuff’. Whether it’s old magazines, advertising, concert ticket stubs, travel cards, flight boarding cards, stickers, photographs, random bits of typography, shells and fossils from the beach or name badges from events, I keep it all. These items are like ...
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Magpie Studio designs a poster campaign and website for photography exhibition Shift
27th August 2009
Magpie Studio has designed a poster campaign and website for photography exhibition Shift: Framing a City in Constant Motion. The posters will be used as invitations to the exhibition, which runs from 12-23 October at Cowcross Street, London EC1. Guests will receive an invitation with a viewfinder which they can use to frame their own images (pictured). The consultancy is now working on graphics to be used for the show.
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News in Pictures
27th August 2009
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News in Pictures
27th August 2009
The winning entries for this year’s Design Against Fur competition, organised by Respect for Animals, have been announced. The winning designs – all by students – will be shown at the Dreamspace gallery, London EC1, during September.
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News in Pictures
27th August 2009
Works by Atelier Van Lieshout and Gabriella Crespi will be on show at the Pavilion of Arts & Design London, which is being held in Berkeley Square, London W1 from 14-18 October.
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Post-colonial pioneer
27th August 2009
Wasafiri magazine has been blazing a trail for international writing for 25 years. Set up in 1984 at a time when writers from Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia were often perceived as off-centre, the literary magazine has championed early work from the likes of Vikram Seth, Salman Rushdie and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
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Profile - Michael Seresin’s
27th August 2009
Cinematographer Michael Seresin’s career has taken him from New Zealand to the UK, and from some famous collaborations with Alan Parker to the role of director of commercials. Mike Dempsey traces his journey
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Return of interior design to the RCA is very good news
27th August 2009
The British Institute of Interior Design wholeheartedly welcomes the news that the Royal College of Art is to bring back the Interior Design course (News, DW 30 July). Interior design covers a wide spectrum of practitioners and practices, and the BIID has been active in promoting good professional practice through its collaboration with the Royal Institute of British Architects on the Form of Agreement ID/05. This aims to clarify the ways a designer may work. A ...
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Seven housing co-operatives get sustainable branding
27th August 2009
Consultancy Llewelyn Davies Yeang Eco Graphics is creating the identities of seven residential property management companies, based in south-west London.Appointed from a credentials pitch in May, the consultancy, a specialist in sustainability, initially received a brief to develop an identity for the Goulden House Co-operative brand, targeting residential tenants.On completion, the brief was extended to look at six other housing co-ops and create a distinct ...
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TfL competition celebrates off-centre sights
27th August 2009
Alex Jeffries is the winner of Transport for London’s poster design competition to promote outlying areas of the capital.Jeffries has won The Outer Limits - Beyond Zone One competition with his London Lidos design, inspired by Tooting Bec Lido in south London, which references the colours of the capital’s Tube lines.The competition was set up by TfL, the London Transport Museum, London Design Festival and Visit London to ‘celebrate the discoveries, pleasures ...
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The British Council commissiones for works in Lisbon
27th August 2009
The British Council has commissioned six designers and collectives to produce works for the Experimenta Festival in Lisbon, Portugal, which runs from 9 September to 11 November. Abake, Linda Brothwell, Anthony Burrill (work pictured), Fabien Cappello, Ben Kelly and Public Works are all contributing.
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Three photographers who've found their voice
27th August 2009
For aspiring photographers, finding your voice is just half the battle - you’ve got to get noticed too. Liz Farrelly presents three practitioners at the top of their game who are using some clever ideas to establish their niche
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Together creates identity for New British Design
27th August 2009
Together has created the identity for New British Design, an enterprise launching next month to mentor emerging British designers while they develop work from concept through to production. Its first range will be furniture by designer Ben Huggins.
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Unit Editions makes its debut with book on consultancy culture
27th August 2009
Unit Editions, a publishing venture set up ‘by designers for designers’ (logo pictured), will launch its first book - Studio Culture: The Secret Life of the Graphic Design Studio - in September.Tony Brook, founder of consultancy Spin, and Adrian Shaughnessy, co-founder of design group Intro, have set up the enterprise independently.Shaughnessy says, ‘We’ve had frustrations with other people’s books that have just missed the point slightly for designers. I’ve ...
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Voxpop
27th August 2009
Paul Finch has been appointed chairman of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. What one key issue would you like him to address, and why?
