Design Week
28 June 2007
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… or is informed criticism vital for a healthy industry?
28 June 2007
The controversy over the Olympic symbol is great for our business. You may think it looks like somebody else's monkey logotype or a damaged swastika. You may believe a child could have done a better job, or that it cost as much as a garage in London's Bloomsbury. Or you may feel, as I do, that the thinking behind it is sound and that it's a vigorous and imaginative scheme that will help achieve fame for the London Olympics. It's either a disaster or a creative high point. Either way, thank ...
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Audi Design Foundation offers £10k prize
28 June 2007
The Audi Design Foundation has announced it will offer a one-off £10 000 grant this month to an outstanding graduate designer whose work embodies sustainability and inclusive design themes.It will also host a series of inclusive and sustainable design workshops, as well as a tutors' networking lunch to discuss how it can support higher education on these issues.Audi Design Foundation development manager Rebecca Edge says the grant is intended to aid the professional ...
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Boutique health club Pure
28 June 2007
Boutique health club Pure, which opens in Leamington Spa this week, offers fitness facilities, a juice bar, a pool suite and sauna, with interiors by Lief Design. The consultancy was briefed to create a scheme that would set the tone for contemporary health clubs, using hard-surface floors, porcelain stone tiles and sheer curtains, as well as smoked glass in the sauna and a 'sculpted' steam room.
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Brandopus
28 June 2007
Brandopus has appointed John Ramskill, former senior designer at Jones Knowles Ritchie, to the newly created position of creative partner.
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Breathing life into the dome
28 June 2007
The O2 promises an unprecedented experience for visitors, but will the all-pervasive branding be a crowd-pleaser? Gina Lovett finds out
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British Design Innovation
28 June 2007
UK Trade & Investment has selected British Design Innovation to organise its international business partnering for the London Design Festival 2007.
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Bums on courts
28 June 2007
Milan-based Paulo Araldi has been going to the Wimbledon Championships for the past seven years. During that time, he's been multi-skilling, as a tennis correspondent for the Italian daily La Repubblica and as a photographer. His exhibition Time, Please: History and Mood of Wimbledon, charts the crowds, the grounds, the officials and the players, mainly in reportage-style black and white. He also presents a few pictures of that natural, but somehow hilarious phenomenon: rain. He's quite ...
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Credibility gap
28 June 2007
Regional bodies love to use logos and straplines, but they also risk being accused of artificiality when these branding devices fail to reflect the realities of local cultures. As Manchester opts to drop them entirely, David Benady examines their relevanc
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Design Business Association
28 June 2007
Nick Ramshaw, director of Elmwood Leeds Media, will today take over as president of the Design Business Association from John Mathers, UK chief executive of Enterprise IG, at the DBA's annual general meeting. Ramshaw will serve a two-year term as president, while Mathers will continue to sit on the DBA's board of directors.
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Design Council funding in question as Cabinet reshuffles
28 June 2007
Gordon Brown's Government reshuffle held a few surprises for the design world last week.The expected revamp of the Department of Trade and Industry was duly confirmed, and it was subsequently announced that its replacement - the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform - will be headed by John Hutton.It is still not yet known however, if DBERR will take over the role of funding the Design Council from the DTI. The council's other possible paymaster might ...
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Digital and animation artist Han Hoogerbrugge
28 June 2007
Dutch digital and animation artist Han Hoogerbrugge has created a visual identity for London electronica band The Young Punx's debut album. As part of an ongoing collaboration, Hoogerbrugge will deliver end-to-end multi-media design, including Web design and animated videos, for the DJ production duo. Your Music is Killing Me will be released on MofoHifi Records in August.
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Green Dott 07 set to challenge design industry philosophy
28 June 2007
There was an incendiary moment at the preview of the Designs of The Time festival last week. A clash of ideologies, you could say.Last Tuesday, at the Design Council's headquarters on London's Bow Street, the scene was set for an armchair question and answer discussion between Dott 07 programme director John Thackara and Design Council chief executive David Kester.Kester opened proceedings with a sweeping introduction to the North East design festival and its germination ...
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Inspired
28 June 2007
Inspiration for me comes from working with a diverse range of talent in multidisciplinary areas, collaborating, contradicting, complementing, improving projects, with function as the thread - for organisations and places that require purposeful, programmatic, integrated design with longevity, rather than isolated, short-term projects.It is also rewarding to work with individuals who have an experimental attitude, an informed 'international' style, who have gone a long way to further ...
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Intangible assets
28 June 2007
What's the worth of an insightful thought? Deciding what to charge is often an inexact science, but some high fees are justified, says David Bernstein
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Local colour
28 June 2007
Business travellers are a discerning bunch. Many hotels targeting this market are updating their offer to woo a travel-weary audience that increasingly craves something more local and authentic than just anonymous luxury, says Trish Lorenz
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Mixed signals
28 June 2007
The Lost O, a public art project to commemorate the replacement of a ring road with quality public space in Ashford, coincides with the arrival of the Tour de France. But will the peloton be able to find its way through the chaos, wonders Fiona Sibley
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New landscape represents major opportunity for design
28 June 2007
Things are looking good for design as the new Government settles in. With design stalwart Gordon Brown as Prime Minister it is likely to gain momentum, especially now the creative industries are deemed as important to the UK's GDP as the financial services sector.The demise of the Department of Trade and Industry - traditionally the source of official design funding - had been anticipated. We don't yet know who the Design Council's new paymaster will be, but the creation of ...
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News in Pictures
28 June 2007
The London College of Fashion will launch its 144-page Graduate Yearbook for the BA (hons) Fashion Photography course at a special month-long exhibition at the Great Eastern Hotel, London £1, running until 20 July. Sampson May Design was commissioned to c
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Profile: Hideki Inaba
28 June 2007
The enigmatic Hideki Inaba is winning more and more prestigious client work and critical recognition. His refusal to reveal the method behind his trademark style makes it all the more beguiling
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Sharp acts
28 June 2007
Pocketing a Yellow Pencil could kick-start a career. Fiona Sibley reports on the winners of the D&AD Global Student Awards - and is impressed by the enthusiasm and quality of work on display, especially, this year, from UK entrants
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Shell Exploration and Production
28 June 2007
Shell Exploration and Production has launched an internal communications campaign, created by Rufus Leonard, to help its 30 000 employees around the globe change how they use energy.
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Should designers stand by each other's work…
28 June 2007
What a sad reflection on our industry that we can whine on for years about the lack of morality surrounding free pitching and yet when one of the most important moments arises to show our collective value, London 2012, numerous 'experts' surface to declare that they could have easily done a better ...
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Step into your client's shoes
28 June 2007
If you own a brand you have an edge over designers who don't - you truly understand what it feels like to be a client, says Adrian Whitefoord
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The Haçienda
28 June 2007
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The O2
28 June 2007
The O2, the reincarnated Millennium Dome, opens this week, following a £350m makeover by design groups and architects, including JDPA, HOK London and Lambie-Nairn.
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To The Point adds colour to Newsprinters branding
28 June 2007
Newsprinters, News International's £650m manufacturing operation, will open the first of its three print factories in September, with branding, interior graphics and signage by To The Point.Newsprinters will print the four NI titles, The Sun, The Times, The Sunday Times and the News of the World, as well as The Daily Telegraph, following the Telegraph Group's recent printing deal with Rupert Murdoch's group.With factories in Broxbourne in Hertfordshire - which will be the ...
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Top names among 2007 RCA honours
28 June 2007
Sebastian Conran, director of Conran & Partners, former Royal Society of the Arts executive director Penny Egan and Design Week editor Lynda Relph-Knight are among this year's Royal College of Art honorary fellows.
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University lecturing: do it for the love, not the money
28 June 2007
Adrian Shaughnessy's kvetching about university bureaucracy deserves a dismissive riposte; it's a soft target. Welcome to the world of academic teaching pay. You mention 'miniscule fees' once too often. What do you pay junior designers? Does your group offer unpaid placements? How often have you made a free business pitch? These are all issues that are probably not our business, because it's your small, private business. Universities are large and publicly accountable. ...
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Voxpop
28 June 2007
Would keeping the eagle on its 300-year-old corporate identity be a bad move for the Barclays brand if it enters the Dutch market? If so, should it create a new identity just for The Netherlands, or create a new global marque? It's not as straightforward as it sounds. Barclays needs to agree with ABN Amro (itself a merger of two banks) how ...
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With Relish puts North Wall Arts Centre on cultural map
28 June 2007
Hailed as 'the most exciting arts project to come out of Oxford', the £3.9m venue The North Wall Arts Centre this week opens its doors to the public.Designed and developed by architect Haworth Tompkins from a Victorian swimming pool and ancillary buildings, the site comprises a 250-seat theatre, art gallery and dance/ drama studios that will host a three-week summer festival of music, film and theatre.Graphics group With Relish has developed an identity and brand for both the ...
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WPP Digital
28 June 2007
WPP Digital has bought Singapore-based digital marketing agency Blue. Founded in 1999, Blue employs 131 people and has offices in Shanghai, Tokyo, London, Beijing and California.
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Yamaha Electronics
28 June 2007
Yamaha Electronics has launched an interactive website for its Yamaha YSP Digital Sound Projector. Created by digital consultancies The Tin and Bite Communications, www.digitalsoundprojectors.co.uk displays information about the YSP, which has been created by Yamaha Electronics' in-house team.
