Design Week
28 September 2006
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Alan Fletcher memorial to take place next year
28 September 2006
The memorial event planned in honour of Alan Fletcher is not likely to take place before next year, after the Design Museum retrospective of his life and work that runs from 11 November to 18 February 2007.
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Audi 2006 Innovation Award won by Timothy Quigg
28 September 2006
The Audi 2006 Innovation Award has been won by Timothy Quigg, a 15-year-old schoolboy from Belfast, for his Orbit portable music player - a circular hand-held device operated by a micro-holographic array of 'virtual' buttons.
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BBC1 typeface by Fontsmith unveiled
28 September 2006
BBC One's new typeface, unveiled this week, has been designed by Fontsmith, with screen idents by Red Bee Media. The £1.2m rebrand, which pays homage to the BBC's globe design, replaces the existing idents designed by Lambie-Nairn in 2002.
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Bravo moves to lose 'laddish' brand image
28 September 2006
Flextech Television-owned men's channel Bravo launches a revamped on- and off-air identity, along with a new channel Bravo 2 tomorrow.
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Casting a digital-wide net
28 September 2006
As arts and design organisations rethink the Web, Sarah Balmond explores how they can exploit limitless on-line space to curate and create
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Computers kill creativity - bring back the pencil!
28 September 2006
Howard Milton's incisive views on the lack of craft skills in graphic design (Private View, DW 31 August) will find particular resonance with many experienced designers.
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Conchango opens office in Vadodara
28 September 2006
Interactive group Conchango has opened an office in Vadodara in north west India.The office opened with eight members of staff and the group hopes to double that number by the end of the year.
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Cubic produces website, identity and brochure for Format 06
28 September 2006
Nottingham design studio, Cubic has produced the website, identity and brochure for Format 06, a photography festival taking place in Derby between 22 September and 22 October, organised by Q Arts, Derby City Council and Derby University.
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Curative pleasures
28 September 2006
Pampering is in - for both men and women - and the spa sector is booming as never before. Hannah Booth bathes in the experiences on offer at some of the latest spa and well-being developments in the UK
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Dave to buff up global diamond brand
28 September 2006
Dave has been appointed to create a consumer-facing luxury goods brand for British diamond company Backes & Strauss.
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DBA to launch professional services providers database
28 September 2006
The Design Business Association is to launch the industry's first accredited list of professional services providers, it was announced this week, with specialists chosen for their design industry expertise.
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Design groups axed as Kraft Foods undertakes radical European design buying review
28 September 2006
Kraft Foods has slashed the number of design groups it works with from several hundred to six, it has emerged this week, and created its first pan-European packaging and consumer promotions rosters.
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Design Week's 2006 Hot 50
28 September 2006
The call for nominations has gone out for Design Week's 2006 Hot 50, which honours people who have gone the extra mile for design over the past 12 months. Contenders can include politicians, clients, educationalists, cultural figures, design activists and organisations and designers. Please e-mail nominations to lyndark@centaur.co.uk by Wednesday 4 October.
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Differentiate yourself
28 September 2006
The very best of luck to Traci Rochester, confronted with starting up a design company and not having any clients (Letters, DW 21 September).
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Exhibition of illustrations to celebrate Design Week's 20th birthday
28 September 2006
London's Coningsby Gallery hosts an exhibition of illustrations curated by Design Week art director Ivan Cottrell next week, to celebrate the magazine's 20th birthday. The illustrations have all featured on Design Week's 1000 covers of the past 20 years and represent some of the best illustrations commissioned, says Cottrell. 'This is a good way of measuring how styles have changed across the years,' he explains. The exhibition runs at 30 Tottenham Street, W1, from Wednesday 4 October ...
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Fletcher's work lives on to inspire a better future
28 September 2006
This has been one of the saddest weeks in the history of design. The untimely death of Alan Fletcher, one of our greatest stars and biggest characters, has left a gaping hole in the hearts of the many he touched during a long and prolific career. He was t
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Gaventa takes Cabe director's job
28 September 2006
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment has appointed Sarah Gaventa as director of Cabe Space. Gaventa will oversee the organisation's work in improving public spaces in England. She joins from Scarlet Projects, which she co-founded in 2000.
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Inspired
28 September 2006
The latest RG06-2 sofa for Christopher Wray has been a very intriguing project.
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Italian designer Magistretti dies in Milan
28 September 2006
Italian architect and industrial designer Vico Magistretti has died aged 85. Magistretti, who lived and died in Milan, is probably best known for his Eclisse table lamp and the Carimate chair. In the 1960s, he was among the first to design furniture made of plastic and helped define the playful and insouciant look of the era.
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J2 Design and Jestico & Whiles create hotel interiors
28 September 2006
InterContinental Hotels Group and Hilton International are poised to launch two London venues with bespoke multi-million pound interior schemes.
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JHP designs first retail store for Twisted
28 September 2006
JHP has designed the first retail store from youth jeans brand Twisted, opening in Dubai next month. Twisted parent company Saha Group plans to expand across the Middle East, the Indian sub-continent and Australia.
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JKR wins finance gong in industry first
28 September 2006
Jones Knowles Ritchie has topped a marketing services industry poll for the best financial credentials among privately owned companies, the first time a design consultancy has outperformed other disciplines.
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Johnson Banks gives BFI's identity an alternative take
28 September 2006
The British Film Institute will launch its complete set of revised brand guidelines, created by Johnson Banks, this autumn. The guidelines will support the full roll-out of the new-look BFI identity, as it is applied across the organisation and its long-a
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Keeping the Faith
28 September 2006
Mad Agency has designed Keeping the Faith - Voices of Manchester, for Manchester City Football Club. The book features quotes from the club's fans and a bespoke design for each quote.
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LBI to relaunch Design Council website
28 September 2006
The Design Council has confirmed it will relaunch its website in December with an overhauled design by LBI, formally known as Framfab. The digital consultancy is rebranding following a merger between Wheel, LB Icon and Framfab.
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Leaving a trace
28 September 2006
Like buses, books on graphic design history tend to come along in batches. But what lies behind the current proliferation of books on graphic design? Rick Poyner analyses the state of play in the discipline while Yolanda Zappaterra looks at the tricky iss
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Mathmos launches Candle Lights
28 September 2006
Mathmos launched Candle Lights last week, by three young designers. Thaw, by Central St Martins College of Art and Design's Mathew Jackson, is an ice candle kit that freezes then thaws back into its own mould; Melt (pictured), by Two Create, are tea light
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New West End set to regenerate capital
28 September 2006
Designers look set to benefit from the long mooted regeneration of London's West End as the organisation driving the project presents its short term plans for council approval later this year.
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News in Pictures
28 September 2006
The London Transport Museum is auctioning a limited number of linocut prints designed by Paul Catherall, along with other Underground memorabilia. Catherall's prints will also be available as posters from November and will appear on the London Underground network in December.
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Organic concerns forget benefits of Green packaging
28 September 2006
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Paula Dib wins International Young Design Entrepreneur of the Year award
28 September 2006
Brazilian designer Paula Dib has won the British Council's 2006 International Young Design Entrepreneur of the Year award. Dib's São Paulo-based company Trans.forma provides consultancy on sustainable design and undertakes development work with communities of craft workers.
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Pearson Matthews and Sadler disclose merger plans
28 September 2006
Product design groups Pearson Matthews and Sadler Associates are to merge on 1 October, it was announced this week, and will form the Pearson Matthews Group.
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Peculiar creates branding and title sequences for CBeebies' Autumnwatch
28 September 2006
Peculiar has created branding and title sequences for the CBeebies' Autumnwatch.
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Plensa picks up Bombay Sapphire glass design prize
28 September 2006
This year's £20 000 Bombay Sapphire prize has been won by Spanish designer Jaume Plensa for his public art piece the Crown Fountain in Chicago.
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Private jet owners always know best, til they meet designers
28 September 2006
Following on from some observations in the Cabin Fever feature (DW 14 September), there is an additional challenge that meets us when developing aircraft interiors for VIP customers.
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Profile - Fernando Gutiérrez
28 September 2006
Artistic integrity forced designer Fernando Gutiérrez to leave Pentagram's financially pressured London office. In a fresh start with a studio of his own, Gutiérrez hopes to concentrate on producing beautiful work, says Paula Carson
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R/GA promotes Nick Law
28 September 2006
New York digital media group R/GA has promoted Nick Law to chief creative office. Law will report to chairman and chief executive Bob Greenberg.
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Revisiting Rembrandt
28 September 2006
By putting personality and realism before rhetoric, modern corporate communication can take inspiration from the Dutch master, says David Bernstein
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Royalties may be the answer
28 September 2006
Relax, share the risk with your client and don't be afraid to offer alternative business models to maintain the focus on the design itself, says Julian Sanders
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Sensuous settings
28 September 2006
The Armani/Casa store, located on London's New Bond Street, is Giorgio Armani's first home furnishings flagship to launch in the UK. With its open-plan layout and mocked up living areas, the store is designed to feel like the perfect home environment, so why did I feel so out of place?
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Tribute to design pioneer Fletcher
28 September 2006
The international design world is paying tribute this week to one of its great figureheads, Alan Fletcher, who died last Thursday at the age of 74.
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Winners of the inaugural Y Design Awards...
28 September 2006
Winners of the inaugural Y Design Awards for creativity in digital technology include Rufus Leonard for Best Use of Flash for its work on Their Past Your Future for the Imperial War Museum, and Best Video for Mook, for its work for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's Gangs of London.
