Design Week
28 August 2008
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Barber Jackson
28 August 2008
Essex consultancy Barber Jackson has developed a new name and brand identity for St Nicholas Hospice in Bury St Edmunds.
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Beijing 2008 design? OK, but digital could make 2012 better
28 August 2008
Regarding the question, 'What's the best piece of design work you've seen around the Beijing Olympics?' (Voxpop, DW 14 August), most of the graphic design has been fairly predictable, although I like the Olympic mascots, which represent Chinese culture well, but I wouldn't say it is a fantastic design. Architecturally, the National Olympic Stadium in Beijing, dubbed the Bird's Nest, would take a lot to beat for the best piece of design - it is an unusual, beautiful building. Coming ...
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Big Shotz
28 August 2008
Big Shotz is a new prebiotic and multi-vitamin supplement, set to launch in Selfridges, Waitrose and AMT on 16 September. Design consultancy Branded Moments of Truth and packaging specialist AM Associates collaborated to create the brand name and packaging design. According to AM Associates creative director Laurel Miller, the bottle's pharmaceutical shape reinforces the efficacy of the product and distances it from other prebiotic drinks which are similar in size.
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Can grammar survive in the age of the iPhone?
28 August 2008
Ricky Oh's lament over the abandonment of correct spelling and grammar (Letters, DW 14 August) reminded me of the time when I taught at a design school at an East Midlands university. Apostrophes are just one of my many hobby horses, suffering as I do from that rare 20th century complaint - typographers' neurosis. Attempting to wrap a boring subject in some humour and fun, I invented the 'Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Apostrophes', to hammer home their importance ...
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Chocolate consistency
28 August 2008
Umpteen KitKats are sold every day, every one of them emblazoned with the brand's distinctive red-and-white wrapper and mixed-case lettering. It's a style that seems almost unchanged since 1949, when the chocolate and wafer bar emerged in its current form. Confectionery folklore attributes its creation to Nigel Balchin, a multi-talented novelist, Hollywood playwright, work psychologist and chocolate enthusiast who's also credited with coining the Black Magic name and putting bubbles into ...
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DBA IDC '09 to target the couch potato
28 August 2008
This year's Design Business Association Inclusive Design Challenge is to encourage designers to address the immobile culture being created by armchair-bound TV viewers and desk-bound workers.Entitled Sedentary Lives, the theme this year moves away from disability issues to a social one. DBA awards manager Natalie Maher says this is 'to make it more inclusive, so we don't just focus on people who are disabled per se'.The event, which launches on 11 September, is open to ...
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Department of Health to launch design tender
28 August 2008
The Department of Health is looking to pioneer the use of design in the fight against hospital ‘superbugs’ such as MRSA. The NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency has appointed the Design Council to coordinate a special fast-track project to find five UK design consultancies to collaborate with scientists and healthcare experts on the development of innovative design-led hospital furniture and equipment that could improve cleaning and reduce patients’ exposure to healthcare-acquired infections.
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Design consultancy FHD
28 August 2008
Design consultancy FHD has appointed Phil Heaton to lead its brand consulting business. He joins from Lloyd Northover.
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Developing tales
28 August 2008
Digital cameras make it easier than ever to get that perfect shot, but some photographers have discovered that there's more potential for experimentation with old-style, film based techniques. Fiona Sibley takes a look at the work of four artists who put analogue mechanics at the heart of their art
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Eye candy
28 August 2008
From restaurant interiors to packaging and cookbooks, design - for good or bad - has always been central to the art of making food look appetising. Clare Dowdy explores this historic relationship
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Give designers a fighting chance of making a difference
28 August 2008
Following the statement by the chairman of the Sustainable Development Commission, Sir Jonathon Porritt, that designers must cure themselves of 'client dependency syndrome' to further sustainable design, you posed the question, 'Is CDS debilitating, and what is the remedy?' (Voxpop, DW 31 July). It is very easy to place the responsibility for saving the world at the feet of designers but not, it seems, to provide them with the support structure to give them a fighting chance of ...
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Government departments are seeing design's potential
28 August 2008
As commissioner of the Cox Review, Gordon Brown has supported design since those halcyon days before he became Prime Minister. It is great to see that the message is now filtering through to the Civil Service, with individual Government departments acknowledging design as a mover for change.Witnes
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Industrial design challenges discussed
28 August 2008
This years Industrial Designers Society of America national conference and design gallery will look to address the sets of opposing forces designers face in their work.The conference, entitled Polar Opposites, will address the contradiction between mass consumption and minimising environmental impact; the need for both quarterly profits and long-term brand equity; and the challenges posed by men designing for women.Procter & Gamble will be tackling the issue of consumption ...
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'Industrial feel’ for O2 music venue
28 August 2008
The first details of the direction design will take at The O2's forthcoming club venue Matter have emerged, Design Week can reveal. The Pentagram-designed, 2000-capacity music venue, which is being built within the O2 Arena on London's Greenwich Peninsula, is set to be unveiled on 18 September.Club owner Cameron Leslie, who is leasing the space from Anschutz Entertainment Group with partner Keith Reilly, reveals what it will look like.'Although there wasn't a design brief, ...
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Inspired
28 August 2008
I can find inspiration in anything. For example, after years of buying food purely for its packaging, my wife now refuses to go to the supermarket with me. Not only do I double the bill, I treble the time spent in the aisles. You see, as a designer you never stop looking and you never stop thinking.So how do I channel the inspiration? Well, everybody needs space to think and living on the edge of Edinburgh provides me with that perfect opportunity to escape.In addition, ...
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London gets taste of creative Berlin
28 August 2008
London gets a taste of Berlin this month with an exhibition showcasing some of the brightest talent from the German capital. Clare Dowdy explores a historic city determined to hang on to its non-commercial creative aesthetic
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Manchester Comedy Festival gets a miserable face
28 August 2008
Manchester Comedy Festival is looking to attract a host of sponsors to secure its future development, using an innova - tive look and feel created by Mark Studio.
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Mayor calls on design for Olympic legacy wow factor
28 August 2008
The Olympic Park Regeneration Steering Group is calling on the world’s ‘most creative minds’ for help in making London’s Olympic Park a success once the 2012 Games have ended.
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Michael Sodeau to launch stationery range
28 August 2008
Product designer Michael Sodeau is planning to launch an international stationery range at 100% Design in London next month.
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News in Pictures
28 August 2008
Photographer and multimedia designer Olimax is holding an 'Olimax Condensed Alphabet Shoot' on 31 August, to create a group environment to photograph subjects for his latest book, ABCD Goldfish. Portraits will be given letters of the alphabet to create
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News in Pictures
28 August 2008
Pictured is David Collins Studio's revamp of the Connaught Bar, formerly The American Bar at The Connaught Hotel, London W1. It is the third hotel bar DCS has created for the Maybourne Hotel Group.
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Nitro London
28 August 2008
Nitro London has produced an integrated pan-European launch for the new 'Nike Tuned 10' shoe, to be sold exclusively through Foot Locker's 500-strong store network. The creative work includes retail graphics, merchandising, interactive windows and pavement graphics, while digital work encompasses games, a MySpace page, product information and a television advertising campaign. Pictured are screen-grabs from the website.
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'No change' to elderly people road signs design, says DfT
28 August 2008
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Overtaken by events
28 August 2008
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Profile
28 August 2008
The Aram Gallery is too small a stage for curator Daniel Charny - he’s also working with the design museums in London and Israel, as well as running his own group. Hannah Booth catches some of his enthusiasm.
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Rescue packaging for confused chocolate brand
28 August 2008
Brandopus has given luxury chocolate range Dr Indulgence emergency resuscitation, after its previous incarnation under the brand name 'Pharmacy' was pulled from the shelves.The client - Chocolate on Chocolate - will relaunch its medicinally inspired Dr Indulgence collection later this month, following branding issues with the name Pharmacy. In May, Chocolate on Chocolate was forced to pull the range from the shelves after a complaint from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society pointed ...
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Should i stay or should i go?
28 August 2008
Relationship with clients can be just as tricky as personal ones, so what do you do when the going gets tough? asks Elizabeth Lockwood
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Suck and Chew sweet shop gives East End a taste of the past
28 August 2008
A sweet shop fashioned on tradition, service and nostalgia has opened on London’s Columbia Road, E2.Suck and Chew founder Vicki Maguire, a copywriter at advertising agency Hurrell Moseley Dawson Grimmer, came up with the idea after hankering after old-fashioned service and carefully crafted products.Typographic designer Andy Dymock has devised the logo and livery.Suck and Chew sells traditional sweets such as pear drops, as well as old records, books ...
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Sylvie Fleury
28 August 2008
Artist and designer Sylvie Fleury has designed a set of glasses for a Dom Perignon coffret. Part of a limited-edition run of 999, available in Selfridges, the glasses, featuring a lipstick motif, will accompany a bottle of 1998 rosé vintage. The Swiss avant-garde artist, known for her collaborations with luxury fashion brands, designed both the glasses and the motif. Each set is signed and numbered.
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The Cancer Counselling Trust
28 August 2008
The Cancer Counselling Trust is calling on designers and furniture manufacturers for help in creating one of five new counselling rooms at its new London premises. BoConcept has so far confirmed it will help.
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The results of unconventional illustration commission
28 August 2008
In a break from conventional commissioning practice, one publisher has let artists pick the stories they would like to illustrate. The results of this brave approach are quirkily imaginative reinterpretations of some well-known titles, discovers Simon Lox
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Tom Dixon
28 August 2008
Designer Tom Dixon is to release a new book, published by Conran Octopus. The Interior World of Tom Dixon explores the designer's theories and methods of working. Explaining materials, processes and styles of design, his discussion focuses around six chapters: Materialism, Constructivism, Futurism, Reductionism, Expressionism and Fundamentalism. It will be published in September.
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Voxpop
28 August 2008
As Garrick Hamm prepares to take over as president of D&AD, the organisation is still trawling for a chief executive. Who would you like to see take the helm there and what do they need to contribute most?
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Waterloo regeneration design shortlist revealed
28 August 2008
The makeover of London’s rundown Waterloo Station area has come one step closer, with the announcement of the short - listed design teams in the running for the projects.
