Design Week
29 April 2010
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Bazaar tactics
29 April 2010
Now that prices can be checked online in a tick, how can stores avoid ending up as mere showrooms for Internet sales? Matthew Valentine rejoices in the return of haggling
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Best of the Web
29 April 2010
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Branding and design group Lawrence & Pierce has been brought into consultancy Diversity
29 April 2010
Branding and design group Lawrence & Pierce has been brought into consultancy Diversity. This follows Lawrence & Pierce founder Martin Lord’s move to join Diversity as creative director.
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Brochure work for London Sinfonietta signals preferred supplier status for Harrison & Co
29 April 2010
Brighton-based group Harrison & Co is to start work on the London Sinfonietta’s 2010-11 brochure, having been appointed as the orchestra’s preferred design supplier.
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Cardiff-based product design consultancy Draw has created the Drawcase
29 April 2010
Cardiff-based product design consultancy Draw has created the Drawcase, a protective portable casing designed for the Apple iPad. The product is due to launch to market imminently.
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CMI report puts management approaches in the spotlight
29 April 2010
Some 60 per cent of the workforce in the creative industries believe the prevailing management style is ’negative’, according to a new survey commissioned by the Chartered Management Institute.
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Comic custodians
29 April 2010
Self-published books, magazines and fanzines have to put up with a measure of derogation. Whether A5 and photocopied or informally stapled together, they are often seen as throw-away items, barely worth the paper they’re printed on. But illustrator Craig John Barr and designer Matthew Walkerdine (both also self-publishing artists) have other ideas.
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Consultancy Uniform has led the design of the Liverpool pavilion for Expo 2010 Shanghai China
29 April 2010
Consultancy Uniform has led the design of the Liverpool pavilion for Expo 2010 Shanghai China. Liverpool is the only UK city to have a dedicated pavilion at the international event.
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Crush Design & Art Direction has created the catalogue for publishing company Little Brown
29 April 2010
Crush Design & Art Direction has created the catalogue for publishing company Little Brown. The catalogue has been created purely as an online version and has no print run.
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Davies Leslie-Smith develops 'Sex and the City' effect for snacks start-up The Big Yum
29 April 2010
Buckinghamshire-based consultancy Davies Leslie-Smith has designed the branding, packaging and a website for snack food company The Big Yum.
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Dyson has created two limited-edition vacuum cleaners
29 April 2010
Dyson has created two limited-edition vacuum cleaners, the DC24 Drawing and DC25 Drawing. They are designed to mimic the look of Dyson prototypes and are annotated with engineering notes.
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Former JKR and JDO senior creatives launch PB Creative
29 April 2010
Two former senior creatives at Jones Knowles Ritchie and JDO have launched new consultancy PB Creative.
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Further has created the Co-operative Group's annual report
29 April 2010
Further has created the Co-operative Group’s annual report. The centrepiece of the annual report is an extended illustration that showcases the breadth of the group’s services.
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Good chemistry
29 April 2010
As several trade bodies are launching their own mentoring programmes, most recently Bristol Media with Bristol Media Mentors, Angus Montgomery considers the advantages of these schemes for both mentors and mentees
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Inspired: James Hurst - Higginson Hurst
29 April 2010
The thrill of living and working in a really big city: London. I really love it.
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Let them eat cheese
Fri, 30 Apr 2010
The notion of poor students eking out an existence and living on baked beans was dispelled last night by Nick Leon, director of the collaborative educator Design London - a joint venture between the Royal College of Art and neighbouring Imperial College.Source: Photo credit: Harriet Devoy
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Loaf Creative has created an advertising campaign for the Lancashire Teenage Pregnancy Partnership
29 April 2010
Loaf Creative has created an advertising campaign for the Lancashire Teenage Pregnancy Partnership that aims to prevent unwanted teenage pregnancies.
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Los Angeles of the 1950s is the golden era I'd go for
29 April 2010
Regarding your Voxpop on inspiring eras (DW 22 April), there are so many to choose from.
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Magpie Studios wins pitch for online-only Bafta annual review
29 April 2010
Magpie Studios has won a six-way pitch to design the Bafta online review of the year - the first year the review will be solely online, and not in print.
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Making a meal of it
29 April 2010
Robotfood has rebranded and created a new range of packaging for 14 Netto ready meal products, a process which will start to roll out nationally this week.
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Mugging up on art
29 April 2010
Designers Anonymous has created a bone china mug for the Tate’s gallery shops.
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News in Pictures
29 April 2010
Richard Hogg has created the identity for the Design Museum’s annual family day, on 22 May
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News in Pictures
29 April 2010
Studio Output has created artwork for a series of albums by resident DJs at Ministry of Sound. Pictured is work for Style of Eye
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News in Pictures
29 April 2010
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Pixel power
29 April 2010
Digital printing is rapidly coming of age, offering great flexibility and detail - as well as colour reproduction that is vivid enough even for fine art books. Anna Richardson talks to designer-makers who are using these processes to maximum effect
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Playing Romeo
29 April 2010
Sales of Alfa Romeo cars are being dramatically outpaced by its rivals and parent company Fiat has hinted at permanently parking the brand. With its latest Giulietta model due to be unleashed, John Stones considers if design has a role to play in reconnecting Alfa with its public
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Product design group 4D Products has developed the SLM 125 Selective Laser Melting Machine.
29 April 2010
Product design group 4D Products has worked with the MTT Technologies Group to develop the SLM 125 Selective Laser Melting Machine.The SLM 125 uses a laser to create parts from 3D CAD data.
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Profile: Thibaud Herem
29 April 2010
French-born illustrator Thibaud Herem draws insects, birds and buildings, and has just completed a book on rodents. Clare Dowdy meets up with a multi-talented creative who initiates his own projects and prefers to stay independent
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Supplement artwork revives ancient tradition of error
29 April 2010
In William Caxton’s day, text was often reversed by illiterate printers who knew no better.I am pleased to see that this noble tradition has been revived on the cover of the Design Week Photography & Image supplement (look at the camera in the bottom left corner).NB - The Yashica Mat 124G was a fine, medium-format, portrait camera which served me very well in the pre-digital age.Bob Battersby, Photographer, by e-mail
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The next Government must support SMEs
29 April 2010
Kate Sanderson, client services director at Bell Design, says the consultancy is part of a consortium applying to become the Department for Children, Schools and Families’ integrated service provider (News, DW 15 April). She’s certainly plucky: according to the Design Week 2009 Top 100, Bell Design has an annual turnover of £2m and this contract is worth £20-£30m a year.
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Think Public works with housing association residents on 'skill-sharing space' co-design project
29 April 2010
Consultancy Think Public is working with residents at a housing association block in Plymouth in a co-design project to create a ’skill-sharing space’ in the house.
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Voxpop
29 April 2010
Were you directly affected by the Icelandic volcano, and if so how?
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We must not become complacent about our achievements in design
29 April 2010
It’s natural for UK designers to feel superior, given our track record of ground-breaking ideas and the execution of complex projects. We’ll be playing those attributes at next month’s Shanghai Expo, where Thomas Heatherwick’s exquisite British pavilion will house innovative events. But how justified is that attitude today?
