Design Week
28 May 2009
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Bristol Design Festival unveils programme
28 May 2009
Kinneir Dufort and Sebastian Gronemeyer will be among 500 exhibitors showing at the Bristol Design Festival in June - more than twice as many as last year.
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D&P applies retail foundation for cosmetics brand Aromanice
28 May 2009
Retail design consultancy Dalziel & Pow is designing the first store for Chinese beauty and skincare brand Aromanice.
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Departures brands National Assembly for Wales
28 May 2009
Cardiff-based design group Departures is creating brand guidelines for the National Assembly for Wales.
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Folio Creative Communication
28 May 2009
Henley-on-Thamesbased consultancy Folio Creative Communication has designed a public safety campaign for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency to highlight the dangers of ‘tombstoning’ - the practice of jumping from cliffs and structures into dangerous waters. The campaign, using posters and stickers placed at danger spots, uses a barcode that connects mobile phones directly to a dedicated website.
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French group 5.5 Designers courts participation
28 May 2009
French group 5.5 Designers is creating a niche for itself by courting participation. Lynda Relph-Knight enjoys their playful, interactive approach to anything from furniture repairs to wallpaper and tennis tournaments
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Furniture design company Thonet
28 May 2009
Furniture design company Thonet is producing a special edition chair, the 214k, for the upcoming Bauhaus exhibition, which is touring Germany from July to October, before going to New York in November. This year sees the 190th anniversary of the company’s founding by Michael Thonet, the 150th anniversary of the 214 chair, and the 120th anniversary of the factory’s founding.
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Inspired, Patrick Volavka - Let My People Play
28 May 2009
The release of the film Beat Street (1984), featuring New York hip-hop culture, is what inspired me to be a graphic designer. Along with the earlier film Wild Style (1983), it was the beginning of a new counter-culture back in the late 1980s, which combined many artistic forms - from graffiti and DJing through to music and lifestyle - all of which are still very relevant and even mainstream in today’s culture.
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It's a shame that Nottingham can't promote local talent
28 May 2009
As a director of a Nottinghambased consultancy, I read with interest your article highlighting the work of the talented London-based Belgian graphic designer Sara De Bondt (Profile, DW 30 April).
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Liam's f**kerning happy with Pretty Green logo
28 May 2009
As much as I like the Pretty Green identity for the fashion label from Manchester’s very own cantankerous front man, Liam Gallagher, I’m sure the designers who created it were pleased to make the 30 or 40 tweaks to what is essentially a one-colour logo design (News, DW 14 May). I can just imagine the calls between designer and client - ‘Yeah man, what I’m saying is kern that fucking ‘e’ in a bit, our kid!’
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Management by empathy
28 May 2009
Running a business in a recession calls for a new set of skills. Honesty and trust are more relevant now than macho ambition, says Cheryl Giovannoni
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Mix and match
28 May 2009
‘Impact’ is the theme at the second instalment of the Jerwood Contemporary Makers annual exhibition, and the designers on showcertainly make an impression, through technological endeavour, collaborative practice or social engagement. The selected seven‘challenge our perceptions and ideas about contemporary ways of making and bring into question the relationship between thecreative processes of designing and making’, says designer and chairman of selectors Rebecca Earley. ...
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News in Pictures
28 May 2009
Work by Kirsty Wright, Simon Allen, and Helen Ashcroft will feature in Variety 09, an exhibition by students at the School of Art & Design at Blackpool & The Fylde College which tours Blackpool, Manchester and London in June and July.
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News in Pictures
28 May 2009
French graphic designer Damien Poulain has created 49 hand-painted totems made from reclaimed wood. Totem 49 is showing at the Kemistry Gallery, London EC2, from 5 June to 18 July.
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Picture This
28 May 2009
A photography exhibition, Picture This, commemorating 175 years of the Royal Institute of British Architects, will take place at Cube Gallery in Manchester from 10 July to 5 October. Competition-winning projects (including Sage Gateshead, by Foster & Partners, pictured) will be illustrated with 175 images which plot the organisation’s history, sitting alongside computer-generated images of yet-to-be-completed projects.
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Sadly missed car brands? Don't forget the E-Type
28 May 2009
In the light of General Motors’ announcement that it is to ditch its iconic Pontiac car brand, a few weeks ago you asked, ‘Which now-defunct brand do you miss most, and why?’ (Voxpop, DW 7 May).
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The department store is turning to own label
28 May 2009
The department store sector is turning to own-label to counter the effects of the downturn. Matthew Valentine looks at the background to this move away from concessions, and at the opportunities for consultancies looking for new work
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The thriving graphic resampling scene
28 May 2009
Ever thought of reworking your favourite video games and record sleeves in the style of old book covers? A chance encounter with a Flickr group leads Scott Billings into the thriving hinterlands of graphic sampling, distilling and reconceiving
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Top 100 shows the need for creativity and communication
28 May 2009
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Tradition's undoing
28 May 2009
Quaint customs and outmoded forms of address have had their day - they’re as passé as Parliamentary sleaze. Kasper de Graaf urges wholesale reform
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Voxpop
28 May 2009
Sustainability is being used increasingly to describe what were previously referred to as eco-friendly, environmental or Green initiatives. Is there a more elegant term that best sums up this important movement?
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YCN
28 May 2009
YCN, a group set up in 2001 to showcase emerging design talent, has moved into its new space in 72 Rivington Street, London EC2. The ground floor, which is open daily, exhibits the work of new designers and illustrators, and there is also a collection of items available to buy, as well as a lending library. The two upper floors provide studio space for the YCN team. The interiors were designed by the Klassnik Corporation.
