Design Week
28 January 2010
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A position of influence
28 January 2010
Creatives deserve a much bigger say in the boardroom, but David Bernstein thinks making them directors might debase their most useful quality - detachment
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A tool for humanity
28 January 2010
This year’s Davos summit offers an unprecedented opportunity for design to influence events on the world stage. Angus Montgomery reports
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Artillery has created an ad for animation channel Boomerang
28 January 2010
Artillery has created an ad for Turner-owned animation channel Boomerang. The consultancy’s creative director Richard Tilley devised the helium balloon idea to achieve stand out, retain the brand’s colour palette and avoid being too cartoonish. The campaign airs on 30 January.
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Byting back
28 January 2010
Amid all the hype about Apple’s new baby, one influential digital pioneer has expressed deep misgivings about the dehumanising effects of computers in his new book. John Stones finds this dystopian vision of the future a little disturbing
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Creative Orchestra plays new look for eco-radio station
28 January 2010
Branding and advertising social enterprise Creative Orchestra is creating a new identity and website for Passion for the Planet, the UK’s largest eco-radio station with more than 100 000 listeners.
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Design Week subscribers pay just 50% of the ticket price
28 January 2010
THE Redesigning Business Summit The Big Rethink
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Dyson has launched its smallest-ever vacuum cleaner in the UK
28 January 2010
Dyson has launched its smallest-ever vacuum cleaner in the UK.The Dyson City DC26 has an A4-sized footprint and its creation involved miniaturising all 275 parts.
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Exhibition The Museum of Small Things
28 January 2010
Exhibition The Museum of Small Things, a collaboration between publishing company Pocko and designer Kit Glover, opens at Selfridges in central London on 5 February. The show, which runs until 7 March, will feature work by artist Bob & Roberta Smith, jewellery designer Shaun Leane (whose Bird’s Nest head-dress for Alexander McQueen is pictured), and Japanese artist Kinpro.
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Fudge has been commissioned to develop the front end for Your Guide’s network of online trade buyers’ guides
28 January 2010
Digital consultancy Fudge has been commissioned to develop the front end for Your Guide’s network of online trade buyers’ guides.
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Gendall Design has redesigned the 2010 guides for Visit Cornwall
28 January 2010
Gendall Design has redesigned the 2010 official destination guides for Visit Cornwall.
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Graduate survey - positive spin, or a shameful farce?
28 January 2010
What the Creative Graduates, Creative Futures survey (News, DW 21 January) has missed out is the fact that 10 000 new designers graduate every year, and at least 200 000 new designers have graduated in the UK in the past 20 years.
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Havering youth centre gets £4.7m Myplace green light
28 January 2010
A £4.7m youth centre has been given the go-ahead in the London Borough of Havering under the Big Lottery Fund’s Myplace scheme. It aims to become the first carbon-neutral building in the borough.
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Input Design rebrands Polish sports TV channel TVP Sport
28 January 2010
Input Design has rebranded the Polish sports television channel TVP Sport.
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Inspired - Martyn Cummins Alberto-Culver UK
28 January 2010
We work in an industry where people don’t really understand what we do, and so we aren’t always valued - sometimes that drains the life out of us. Once I said to my mum I used Photoshop and she thought I went to Boots everyday…
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James White is relaunching its vegetable juices
28 January 2010
James White is relaunching its vegetable juices with new packaging graphics created by Belgium-based US calligrapher Brody Neuenschwander. The new designs bring the collection of juices in line with the Beet It carton, which Neuenschwander reworked last March, inspired by Japanese brush-painting techniques. Norfolk-based Run 2 Design implemented Neuenschwander’s work.
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Look to the label to make your wine branding stick
28 January 2010
The crowded shelves of the wine sector are brimming with Old and New World products jostling for prominence.
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MA furniture design are holding their end-of-year exhibition at the Vitra showroom
28 January 2010
MA furniture design and technology students from Buckinghamshire New University are holding their end-of-year exhibition at the Vitra showroom in London.
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Meteorite adds flavour to Costa's Flat White launch
28 January 2010
Meteorite has developed an integrated campaign for the launch of Costa Coffee’s new Flat White product.
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Michon is creating a range of brand material
28 January 2010
Michon is creating a range of brand material to be used in BT’s contact centres.
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New World order
28 January 2010
If Piet Mondrian was the star of the De Stijl artistic movement - or the tree that hides the forest, as Tate Modern director Vincente Todolí said in a recent speech - Theo van Doesburg was the one hidden by the forest of an American vision of De Stijl which focused on Mondrian and Neoplasticism. Tate Modern’s forthcoming show Van Doesburg & the International Avant-Garde: Constructing a New World tries to re-evaluate the contribution of van Doesburg ‘as the loudspeaker, mouth-piece ...
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News in pictures
28 January 2010
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News in pictures
28 January 2010
Gallery Mauger Modern Art in Bath and illustrator Simon Spilsbury are collaborating on an exhibition of 20 pieces of work by five British illustrators, including McFaul Studio, Adrian Johnson, Paul Davis and Noma Bar (pictured). The show launches on 16 February. 4 Architect Laboratory for Visionary Architecture, ...
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News in pictures
28 January 2010
Seb Marling at Village Green has designed the cover for the Courteeners’ new album Falcon, which is released next month.
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Nightingale Associates is working on the Design for Patient Dignity scheme
28 January 2010
Nightingale Associates, not Grimshaw, is working on the Design for Patient Dignity scheme (DW 21 January).
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Orbit Group is seeking three consultancies for a design framework
28 January 2010
Housing organisation the Orbit Group is seeking three consultancies for a design framework.
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Pentagram repackages spirits range
28 January 2010
Pentagram partner Harry Pearce has repackaged own-brand whisky, gin and vodka bottles for Budgens and Londis stores.
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Pete McKee has designed graphics for a pair of SS10 Clarks Originals
28 January 2010
Sheffield-based illustrator and artist Pete McKee has designed graphics for a pair of SS10 Clarks Originals, due for launch in late February or March. McKee’s illustrations for the desert boot-style shoes depict 1960s Mod culture, inspired by desert boots’ status as the preferred footwear of the modernist.
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Post-recession, design could play a more important role
28 January 2010
So it’s official. With recession finally at an end, we can look forward to that other R-word, ‘recovery’.
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Profile - Tal Rosner
28 January 2010
Equally at home with high or low culture, Tal Rosner works across film, fine art and graphics to deliver pieces for concert halls and youth TV. Dominic Lutyens tracks down the London-based Israeli with a love of the abstract
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RDA support for design is key to economic success
28 January 2010
As both an experienced design professional, and senior design specialist for the regional development agency One North East, I was a guest speaker at the Design Council event Shape the Future of Design Networks in December (News Analysis, DW 7 January).
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Showcase stars
28 January 2010
Exhibitions attract people from all areas of design, and their demands for collaboration and creativity challenge veterans and emerging talent alike. Anna Richardson discovers some fresh approaches in museum and trade shows
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Small can be an advantage
28 January 2010
Start-ups can’t hope to match established consultancies, but the back-to-basics approach can pay off, says Naomi Turner
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The Liquid Way has created a new website
28 January 2010
The Liquid Way has created a new website for Hitachi Global Storage Technologies to promote its G-Technology external drives.
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Uninformed criticism of design is hard to rebuff
28 January 2010
I read with considerable amusement your piece on the comments of Conservative MP Greg Hands (pictured) about the outsourcing of creative work on the NHS 60th anniversary logo to design consultancies (News, DW 14 January).
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Voxpop
28 January 2010
What is your favourite computer game, and why?
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Wonderland WPA has designed the packaging for food brand Denny
28 January 2010
Wonderland WPA has designed the new identity and packaging for Irish food brand Denny, owned by Kerry Foods.
