Design Week
28 February 2008
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Fresh look for London Fire Brigade
28 February 2008
London Fire Brigade is launching a new identity by Hertfordshire design group The Creative Consultancy, which will be applied across the capital in coming months.The aim of the identity (pictured right), says the consultancy's creative director Teresa Sullivan, is to make the brand more consistent.According to a London Fire Brigade spokeswoman, the plan is to phase in the identity across all signage in London's 112 fire stations, as well as on fire engines, firefighters' ...
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A load of hot air
28 February 2008
Hands up anybody who's been to the loo at London's Victoria Station lately. Strictly speaking, it's hands down, because that is the way you dry your hands with the newly installed Dyson Airblade. Insert your hands and the Airblade starts automatically. Then withdraw them upwards through the ...
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Andrée Putman and Jaime Hayon
28 February 2008
Designers Andrée Putman and Jaime Hayon are collaborating with Italian glass mosaic brand Bisazza to create two furniture and accessories installations at Superstudio Più, at the Milan furniture fair in April. They have worked with the Bisazza Design Studio, a team of young designers directed by architect Carlo Dal Bianco, since 2004.
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Apple should aim to lead on achieving sustainability too
28 February 2008
The iPhone looks set to break all records for the sheer creativity behind the design. The award of Best of Show in the Design Week Awards this week - and its category wins for both product and interaction design - undoubtedly heralds a stream of highly deserved prizes for Jonathan Ive ...
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Apple sweeps the board at DW Awards
28 February 2008
Apple's iPhone has scooped the Design Week Awards Best of Show 2008.The product received top honour for Best Consumer Product Design, which Apple has now won three times. The iPhone also won the Digital Design - Information category.Other Design Week Award winners included Pearson Lloyd's cantilever chair and Virgin Atlantic Airways' staff-training facility, designed by Universal Design Studio and the airline's in-house team.At the awards ceremony in London last ...
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Ars longa, illustrata brevis
28 February 2008
This is a handy volume for designers and art directors, joining Taschen's many beautifully presented and affordable reference tomes, showcasing 150 illustrators from across the globe. With contributions from Seymour Chwast, Brian Cairns, Tokyo's Kacchi and Bangalore's Varshesh Joshi to name a few, you get the picture that this is a multicultural selection, and hence a book of very beautiful, diverse signatures. This new, second edition of Illustration Now follows rather hotly on the heels ...
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Beyond Communications
28 February 2008
Beyond Communications is revamping the Parque Miramar shopping centre and retail park in Fuengirola, Spain.
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Bottled water may have to learn to lose its bottle
28 February 2008
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British animator Suzie Templeton
28 February 2008
British animator Suzie Templeton has won an Oscar for best short animated film, for Peter and The Wolf.
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Camden revamp for Proud Galleries and Stables Market
28 February 2008
The Proud Galleries, based in Camden Town's Stables Market in north London, is poised to reopen next month, following a redesign by Russell Sage Studios and Proud creative director and Sunday Times style columnist Danielle Proud.The £750 000 development (pictured) will see the existing gallery space doubled to include a bar, two music rooms, a private terrace and individual converted 'stables' occupying 10 000m2 of space within the 200-year-old, Grade II-listed Horse Hospital building.The ...
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Collaboration is key to successful legible city schemes
28 February 2008
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Cosmeceuticals adopt 'clinical' look for premium status
28 February 2008
'Sexy, plump lips without injections', enthuses PureLogical's Lip Plumper blurb, summing up the excitement the skincare industry's expanding 'cosmeceuticals' niche wants to provoke in consumers.Two reports published by Datamonitor last month predict that, as cosmetic surgery continues to gain popularity, alternatives to surgery are 'the next step in this progression'.There are signs that the market is already growing quickly, as packaging and branding designers in the cosmeceuticals ...
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Creative Exchange event set to push China-UK design link-ups
28 February 2008
The Creative Exchange with China conference, a meeting point for creative industry companies from China and Britain, including design consultancies, takes place on Thursday 13 March.Key speakers on the day include Sir Michael Bichard, rector of University of the Arts London and chairman of the Design Council, alongside designer Sebastian Conran.The day will provide designers and others working in the creative sector with an insight into how China's creative industries are ...
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Design consultancy Airside
28 February 2008
Design consultancy Airside is premiering three animations for Fiat at the Geneva Motor Show, which opens tomorrow.
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Distell
28 February 2008
South African wine producer Distell is launching a new look for its flagship wine label Nederburg, created by local consultancy Just Design.
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Fiat 500 may be Car of the Year - but not just yet
28 February 2008
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Fig
28 February 2008
Fig, published by Steidl, features more than 80 images by photographers Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin. Designed by Victoria Forrest and Allon Kaye at Smith Design, the book features pictures of strange objects found at the Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton, such as a merman's body, a unicorn's horn and a dodo skeleton, and traces the link between photography, imperialism and the colonial impulse to acquire, map and collect.
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Furniture designer Terence Woodgate
28 February 2008
Furniture designer Terence Woodgate is collaborating with Formula One car designer John Barnard on a limited-edition table. The Surface Table, which is 2.6m-long and comes in two different finishes, is currently in production, and will launch at the Milan furniture fair in April. It is being produced for Established & Sons.
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Illustrator Dave McKean
28 February 2008
Kent-based illustrator Dave McKean has crafted the images for The Savage, author David Almond's latest book, which is part children's story, part graphic novel. Published by Walker Books, it is due for release on 7 April. McKean's distinctive illustration style has also featured on book covers for Neil Gaiman's World Fantasy Award-winning comic series The Sandman.
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Kreative Juice
28 February 2008
Kreative Juice is designing the marketing materials for the ‘Under and Over the Mersey’ walk through Queensway Tunnel, as part of Liverpool 08.
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London’s Blockbuster exhibitions road-tested
28 February 2008
Most museums have trouble coping with the crowds generated by blockbuster exhibitions. John Stones road tests three current shows and concludes that the signage could be much improved
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Lothar Bohm extends UK reach
28 February 2008
German branding and packaging consultancy Lothar Böhm plans to double the size of its British operation by the end of the year, after opening its first UK office in London's Soho last week.The group has just opened its doors in Denman Street, W1, with five staff, but already has ambitions to become ten-strong by December and to double in size again next year, says UK managing director Zoë Tuttle.A creative director for the office has not yet been appointed, but the group ...
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Martino Gamper reveals his dinner party designs
28 February 2008
Planning your ideal dinner party, fantasising about who might be invited and what might be on the menu, is a popular daydream. Few of us take the concept further than lazy musing, but not London-based, Italian-born designer Martino Gamper. His Total Trattoria exhibition, which launches at The Aram Gallery this week, sees Gamper construct an entire dining experience and also host a series of meals, inviting friends and industry luminaries to eat.'I've always been into food and having ...
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Modern marketing and blood, blood, glorious blood
28 February 2008
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News in Pictures
28 February 2008
Textile and wall coverings designer Annette Taylor-Anderson has created a range for Criterion Tiles using her signature urban, industrial style. The tiles will appear in stores later this month.
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News in pictures
28 February 2008
Nokia and the University of Cambridge have teamed up to create the Morph, a nano -technology concept. The device lets users transform mobiles into radically different shapes, and will be on show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
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NHS Connecting for Health
28 February 2008
NHS Connecting for Health is unveiling the Electronic Prescription Service symbol, designed by FHD. The service launches this summer.
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Profile
28 February 2008
It's all about play, engagement and entertainment, as far as interactive designer David Hoe is concerned, and he has recently been putting this into practice for the Wellcome Collection. His winning entry for its digital competition was a series of on-lin
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Rethinking regional airport branding
28 February 2008
As the UK’s regional airports begin an era of unprecedented expansion, Gina Lovett examines the changing ways they brand themselves
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Royal College of Art’s new Battersea campus
28 February 2008
Only the first phase of the Royal College of Art’s new Battersea campus, which, as reported (DW 28 February), will house its painting department, has been given the go-ahead by Wandsworth Council.
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Sainsbury's set to boost non-food in-house design capability
28 February 2008
Sainsbury's is to appoint dozens of product, branding and packaging designers to expand its non-food range.In all, about 150 new staff - buyers, technologists, merchandisers and planners, as well as designers - will be installed at Sainsbury's Coventry site over the coming months, says a company spokeswoman.Two teams, one focusing on branding and packaging, and the other on product design, will each be headed by senior design managers. These will report to the divisional ...
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Smith & Milton appoints creative director
28 February 2008
Smith & Milton has appointed Steven Anderson to the role of creative director, a post previously held by consultancy founder Howard Milton.
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Staying one step ahead
28 February 2008
Venturing into design, or even starting a design business, is something on the minds of several hundred students graduating from the UK's design schools over the next few months. As always, leaving college and earning a living is a big transition.
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The Designers Republic
28 February 2008
The Designers Republic has appointed graphic designer, Rob Brearley as its new creative director.
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The Natural History Museum
28 February 2008
The Natural History Museum has reappointed Dog Star to design its annual review, for the second year.
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Voxpop
28 February 2008
This week saw the sale of Getty Images to private equity firm Hellman & Friedman, as well as the launch of royalty-free, paywhat- you-want image service Moodboard. With traditional business models being challenged, what is the future for the image library
