Design Week
29 March 2007
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Arts charity uses Johnson Banks for 'tactile' refresh
29 March 2007
Johnson Banks has rebranded arts charity The Living Paintings Trust with a fresh identity that launches this week.The Living Paintings Trust will now be known simply as Living Paintings.The charity helps the visually impaired to enjoy traditional art through specially created tactile and audio media, which are distributed across the UK to galleries, libraries, schools and hospitals.Johnson Banks was appointed to the project in May last year, through recommendation. ...
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Bisazza pizzazz
29 March 2007
It's a small, family-owned company, but Bisazza claims to have the perfect product, so why shouldn't it mix with upmarket global fashion names in posh LA showrooms? Clare Dowdy looks at a quintessential Italian brand
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Carbon copies create confusion
29 March 2007
Can consumers make informed decisions in the face of an abundance of carbon reduction schemes with different criteria?
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Chilly Billy
29 March 2007
Ripe Design has created packaging for Chilly Billy, a range of ice pops by juice company Bensons Apple Juice. The products target health-conscious parents, and packaging has been designed to communicate the high-fruit, low-sugar content. Chilly Billy will be sold through independent retailers, delicatessens and National Trust attractions.
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Conran lines up restaurant interiors jobs
29 March 2007
Conran & Partners is kicking off a raft of interiors projects for restaurant group D&D London, the company formed by the management buyout of Conran Restaurants last year.
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Graffiti keeps pushing the art and design envelopes
29 March 2007
In response to Roy Johnson's e-mail regarding boycotting graffiti (DW 22 March), it is absurd to be so prejudiced about an artform, especially for a Design Week reader. There is a huge difference between kids tagging in the street and graffiti artists. Graffiti still pushes the envelopes in design and typography to new levels, more so than any other design style. It is a true freeform style that doesn't have the usual rules and 'accepted' norms of design. You can see influences ...
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Heritage Motor Centre in £250 000 makeover
29 March 2007
Warwickshire's Heritage Motor Centre is to reopen in May, showcasing an exhibition designed by Haley Sharpe Design and a modernised site developed by Metz Architects.Leicester consultancy Haley Sharpe Design was appointed to the project last December, following a two-way pitch against an undisclosed London group. Work began in January, with about £250 000 of funding for exhibition design and build, and the same amount allocated to architectural construction.'With funding ...
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Hockney exit is a chance for D&AD to boost UK design
29 March 2007
The departure of D&AD chief executive Michael Hockney on the eve of the association's annual Congress has prompted speculation in certain quarters of the industry.
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Industry plays a critical role in design education
29 March 2007
In response to Jonathan Baldwin's letter (DW 1 March) and the recent reply by Tom Bewick at C&CS, I would like to know which utopian place Baldwin resides in, as my colleagues, friends and fellow tutors would certainly like to spend our time there.
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Inspired
29 March 2007
In the first week of my first proper job, as a junior 3D designer at the British Museum, I was encouraged by my boss, Margaret Hall, to wander around the museum snapping objects that inspired me. The wonderful Assyrian wall sculptures entranced me, and they still do (I often pop in to gaze at them).I met many famous photographers during my time at the Science Museum's outpost in Bradford. I was fascinated by their powers of composition: the ability to frame scenes in a way that ...
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Mark Tildesley
29 March 2007
Production designer Mark Tildesley has created spaceship interiors and exteriors for director Danny Boyle's latest film, Sunshine, released on 5 April. Boyle sought advice from scientist Dr Brian Cox and Seymour Powell director Richard Seymour, who has also worked with Virgin Galactic. They adopted a 'more Nasa than Star Wars' approach, says Seymour. Boyle briefed Tildesley to make the film's Icarus II craft an 'organic, living thing that could break down and need to be fixed'.
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Mediabox
29 March 2007
Form has designed the website for Mediabox - www.media-box.co.uk - a £6m Government-backed fund to enable 13- to 19-year-olds to learn media skills. The group also created the fund's identity in December 2006.
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Nesta report sets alarm bells ringing for design sector
29 March 2007
The challenges for the design sector to achieve growth are greater than for other creative industries, after a marked decline in work output and exports. This is according to a policy briefing by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts.The report comes as a number of creative entrepreneurs had the success of their start-up businesses recognised by Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell at a recent Nesta event. However, the study, published at the same time, outlines ...
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Outlawing graffiti only increases its cult appeal
29 March 2007
I think it was the recently deceased French philosopher Jean Baudrillard who once said he found graffiti depressing because all the writer can find to say is their name. Having said that, I'm sure I am not the only Design Week reader who flirted with 'graf' in their youth (although, growing up in rural Lincolnshire with a distinct lack of trains to 'tag', most of my pieces were found on my maths textbooks). The drive to reduce the use of graffiti in marketing is playing into the ...
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Patent Office
29 March 2007
The Minister for Science and Innovation Malcolm Wicks has appointed Ian Fletcher as chief executive of the Patent Office.
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Perfect sheen
29 March 2007
Creating new papers is often a matter of making subtle changes to impove visual and tactile qualities and achieve standout. Gina Lovett checks out the innovative strategies of some of the key European paper manufacturers
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'Powwow' talks added to D&AD graduate show
29 March 2007
D&AD is to incorporate a student-led symposium into its New Blood graduate exhibition, which runs from 25 to 27 June in Old Billingsgate, London.
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Profile: Arik Levy
29 March 2007
Fond of fanciful and philosophical justifications for his work, Arik Levy is nevertheless hands-on and capable of producing challenging work for demanding clients
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Profile: Nancy Honey
29 March 2007
For many of her photo commissions, Nancy Honey documents the carefree years of youth, but she also works on personal projects which offer deper, complet results
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Profiting from a process review
29 March 2007
Looking at how your company can improve its management systems can yield significant benefits, from lower insurance costs to carbon neutrality
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Reality check
29 March 2007
Have designers actually been getting through to consumers? Has tasteful, contemporary styling really had its day? Judging by a couple of new books, this is the case. Designers, beware, the Ugly Betty design effect could be taking hold. Living Normally comes with the strapline (or should that be the health warning?) 'where life comes before style'. Life in most of the 15 UK dwellings photographed is untidy, untasteful and bordering on the unhygienic. Contrary to what we are led to believe ...
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RNIB publishes guidelines for accessible design
29 March 2007
The Royal National Institute of the Blind is launching a set of guidelines specifically for the design industry, aiming to encourage designers to produce material that is legible by people with sight problems.See it Right is being published as a book, CD-ROM and DVD and will be targeted at people working across the design process - from consultancies and commissioners to teachers and public relations agencies.The RNIB claims that businesses potentially exclude about two ...
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Sing London
29 March 2007
Digital design consultancy The Tin has designed a website to promote Sing London
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Slow down a little
29 March 2007
Whether it's starting a family or becoming a designer, Italians like to take their time. Our profession might be a lot healthier if we did the samd
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Southern Co-op
29 March 2007
Honey has redesigned the Southern Co-op funeral business website at www.funeralcare.co.uk.
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Thames & Hudson
29 March 2007
Thames & Hudson is to relaunch its Photofile series on 16 April, with four new titles (Bill Brandt, Elliott Erwitt, Josef Koudelka and Sebastião Salgado) alongside three previously published titles - Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Helmut Newton.
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Thirsty Planet
29 March 2007
Harrogate Spa Water is launching Thirsty Planet, produced in collaboration with charity Pump Aid, with branding and packaging by Elmwood.
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Voxpop
29 March 2007
Design Partners advisor Christine Losecaat says there is a 'complete lack of awareness of British design' among the Chinese, and UK Trade & Investment is launching an initiative to change this.
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Wild & Wolf
29 March 2007
Product design consultancy Wild & Wolf has collaborated with the Victoria & Albert Museum to create a collection of tools for the home and garden.
