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29 February 1996

  • 1996 account awards given

    29 February 1996

    Warwick consultancy Design Principles and London firm CGI share honours in the 1996 Annual Awards for Published Accounts.

  • A case of bad workmen blaming their tools

    29 February 1996

    I found the arguments against new technology put forward by Janice Kirkpatrick (DW 16 February) very confusing. She laments the passing of wooden type and hot metal as if that in itself produced good typographical design.

  • Aer Lingus identity a 'betrayal' for Irish

    29 February 1996

    Furious Irish designers claim the decision by national airline Aer Lingus to use London-based Luxon Carr for its new corporate identity undermines the credibility of the Irish design industry. The new identity was unveiled last month (DW 16 February).

  • Best of show winner is a breath of fresh air

    29 February 1996

    Kinneir Dufort's outstanding success in the 1996 Design Week Awards is one in the eye for those begrudging folk who maintain that creative awards are just a back-patting trip for the London design mafia. Kinneir Dufort is Bristol-based and its best of show winner, the HandiHaler, is not merely an exercise in sexy styling. It is a good, honest example of the type of user-driven industrial design at which the British traditionally excel - and it deserves to win prizes.

  • Better late than never

    29 February 1996

    A fire at Design Week's printer has led to publication delays for the past two weeks. Things will be back to normal in a week or so, so please bear with us.

  • BP and Mobil reveal 'secret project' logo

    29 February 1996

    Sampson Tyrrell has created the new logo for BP and Mobil's joint petrol station venture. Subject to approval, the move will create a 2.244bn pan-European enterprise with operations in 43 countries.

  • Brief

    29 February 1996

    Next Friday sees the opening of a new exhibition exploring images of the human body at the Two10 Gallery, part of the Wellcome Centre for Medical Science on London's Euston Road. The images come from photographs, micrographs and scans, and though they may be produced by scientists, image manipulation techniques such as altering colours render the pictures as much design as biology. The exhibition is designed in-house, with all graphic design including panels, a hoarding, posters and ...

  • Brief

    29 February 1996

    Fine artist and photographer Ben Dray scoured the crafts quarter of Kumatuli in Calcutta to find the place where these statues were manufactured. 'They're religious icons of the goddess Kali. They're stuffed with straw, covered with clay, then painted,' he explains. The disposable icons may be burnt or sent down the river. Dray's picture costs 90 and will be on sale with sculptures, paintings and prints at the Battersea Contemporary Art Fair from 30 to 31 March.

  • Briefs

    29 February 1996

    Small-business satisfaction: Small businesses are more positive about their relationships with banks than at any time since the recession, according to the Bank of England. The bank's third report into the financing of small firms found that banks have concentrated on improving relationships, with many clearing banks differentiating and segmenting their small-business customers to provide them with the most appropriate service. Positive developments include small businesses no longer ...

  • Briefs

    29 February 1996

    Product consultancy Priestman Associates is changing its name to Priestman Goode. Founder Paul Priestman says the name change is to reflect his seven-year partnership with Nigel Goode.

  • Briefs

    29 February 1996

    A new report from the British Lung Foundation was launched yesterday. Designed by Zero 2 Design in London, the report calls for more research into the reasons for the increase in lung disease in the UK and for a ban on tobacco advertising. The 44-page report is led by a 'hard hitting' cover, says consultancy managing director Paul Price. It is an image of diseased lungs which has been manipulated using Adobe Photoshop.

  • Colour wheel spins a few yarns

    29 February 1996

    The designer's oh-so-familiar environment of high tech blacks, greys and brushed aluminium is out, and that's official. According to consumer psychologist Dr David Lewis, who has participated in a survey for office product manufacturer Avery Dennison, the

  • Conran takes on hotel

    29 February 1996

    The Great Eastern Hotel at London's Liverpool Street station is to get a 30m revamp by CD Partnership and architect Manser Associates after owner Railtrack sold the 260-room hotel to a consortium including Sir Terence Conran. Conran will design and operate three restaurants in the 140-year-old hotel.

  • Design lays stake on casino jobs

    29 February 1996

    Design will have a "considerable" role to play in the layout and branding of casinos if the Government's White Paper relaxing gambling regulations comes into being.

  • Designer's market targets the airheads

    29 February 1996

    I agree wholeheartedly with Janice Kirkpatrick in her Private View (DW 16 February) about the loss of traditional typographic and typesetting disciplines. And traditional graphic design is now under threat of irrevocable loss.

  • Do the right things to get the right job

    29 February 1996

    Looking for a job? Bhavna Mistry provides tips on how to blossom with confidence rather than break out in a cold sweat in that dreaded scenario, the job interview

  • Elmwood and Opera North strike a chord

    29 February 1996

    Elmwood has redesigned all Opera North's corporate and promotional material. The Leeds consultancy, which won a three-way paid creative pitch against undisclosed rivals, has applied the new look to the coming season's posters, leaflets and other promotion

  • Henrion archived on CD-ROM

    29 February 1996

    The final version of the CD-ROM immortalising the work of graphics giant FHK Henrion has now been completed and is being used to woo commercial publishers to back the Icograda design archive project.

  • Icograda sets up big World Graphics Day

    29 February 1996

    Graphic design in the information age will be celebrated in up to 50 countries through Icograda's relaunched annual World Graphics Day. Icograda is aiming for much wider participation than last year's low-key event.

  • IGD code goes to OFT

    29 February 1996

    The Institute of Grocery Distribution's long-awaited code of conduct on copycat packaging has still to be cleared by the Office of Fair Trading before it can come into effect.The IGD's Dispute Resolution Procedure has been registered under the Restricted Trade Practices Act and must now be evaluated by the OFT.

  • Imagination will call on outsiders

    29 February 1996

    Designers from around the UK are likely to cash in on Imagination's Millennium Festival. For the first time since winning the role of festival planner, Imagination director Ralph Ardill reveals other design groups will contribute.

  • Kinneir Dufort heads awards

    29 February 1996

    Kinneir Dufort has won the best of show prize in the 1996 Design Week Awards for its Handi- Haler inhaler. The device, created for German pharmaceuticals company Boehringer Ingleheim, also won the product design prize.

  • Krystina deals with a variety of dicks in Malaysia

    29 February 1996

    Staff at Design Bridge in London eagerly await the return every few months of Krystina Lyon for a chance to see her snaps. Krystina, you see, goes off on these business trips to south east Asia for Design Bridge but always returns with a tale to tell.

  • Logo aired in Warsaw

    29 February 1996

    A 'refreshed' graphic identity for the British Council by Tayburn McIlroy Coates is being tested in the council's Warsaw premises.Amalgam designed signage for the building and architectural practice Denton Corker Marshall created the interiors.

  • London & Continental begins Eurostar work

    29 February 1996

    FM Design and Design Clinic have been given the go-ahead to start design work - which may include a new logo - for the Eurostar train. Initial work on redesigning the train interiors and items such as food packaging is now emerging.

  • Museum of graphics starts raising funds

    29 February 1996

    Organisers of the planned 6m International Museum of Graphic Design in Nottingham have brought in a specialist in European funding to help raise sufficient money for the project.

  • Nestlé groups jostle for work

    29 February 1996

    Nestlé's design suppliers are believed to be presenting to the company as part of its move to cut the number of consultancies regularly used from 26 to 5.

  • RNLI waves a clearer flag

    29 February 1996

    The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is launching a new identity to clarify its role as a volunteer service run entirely on charitable donations. MPL has revamped the RNLI's identity and created guidelines for its use.

  • Scots free-pitch row deepens

    29 February 1996

    Renfrewshire District Council in Scotland is following Fife Council in holding an open free-pitch for a new identity. Renfrewshire is offering a prize of 1000 to the winner, but will not pay for unsuccessful submissions.

  • Shipping in current views on politics

    29 February 1996

    Mr Sayer's comments on the article Has design found an ally in Labour? (Letters, DW 23 February) show a complete misunderstanding of the issues, and are both contradictory and ill-informed.

  • Smoke Signal

    29 February 1996

    No Smoking Day notwithstanding, the act of smoking has fired major style icons. Amanda Lake investigates

  • Spin doctors

    29 February 1996

    How do you design for a medium in which viewers select their own typeface and colours? Confirmed anoraknaphobic Fay Sweet spoke to three Web weavers about mastering design on the Internet

  • String-like status receives praise

    29 February 1996

    "Only Alan Fletcher would name something like a ball of string a design classic," a leading designer confided not that long ago, glowing with admiration for a presentation his graphics hero had made.

  • The best ideas hang in mid-air

    29 February 1996

    You won't be able to move this month in Bristol without seeing at least one computer-generated image by Adrian van de Plas. The ambitious graphic designer and illustrator has an exhibition at Internet café NetGates until 18 March and another at the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery from 31 March to 23 April. This image was designed for the Big Jeans shop in Bristol. 'The background is a champagne cork popping like an explosion. I wanted the jeans to look arty and exciting,' says van de ...

  • The Design Show Identity

    29 February 1996

    BY PENTAGRAM FOR Centaur exhibitions

  • TV debut leaves designer with at least one fan

    29 February 1996

    Hot air, malarkey and The Big Breakfast played essential parts in one designer's ploy to avoid making coffee for the studio.

  • Twelve Stars spices up Spanish meat identity

    29 February 1996

    Campofrio, Spain's largest meat company, is this week relaunching with a new corporate identity and packaging system designed by Twelve Stars Communications in London.

  • Twelve Stars: Lighting a torch for a united Europe

    29 February 1996

    Having made its mark in the Spanish market, Twelve Stars now has designs on the wider European community. Andy Gilgrist traces the group's success and looks at the De Santis pair behind it all

  • Unearthing new icons

    29 February 1996

    Beautiful objects have always been prized by collectors and the public alike, but in an age where fine art has gone beyond the realms of reality, will design prove to be the modern equivalent of the treasures found in Tutankhamen's tomb, wonders Gaynor Wi

  • Virgin names design team for cinemas

    29 February 1996

    Design Clinic and Leeds consultancy Watson Design have jointly beaten Rodney Fitch and Company and Fitch to design graphics and interiors for three major Virgin cinema projects.

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