Design Week
29 May 2008
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Access all areas
29 May 2008
While Design Prima addresses the mainstream market, the mixed-ability sector is showing bright ideas. However, that’s only if accessibility is treated as a creative challenge, not a costly obligation, Trish Lorenz reports
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All of Us to share the very latest knowledge with clients
29 May 2008
All of Us is to ramp up its client offer with the launch of a research and development unit that will provide clients with upto- the-minute knowledge about the most innovative technological design advances.
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Aram Store
29 May 2008
Aram Store, in partnership with Vitra, is creating a special-edition version of George Nelson's Pretzel chair to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the furniture designer. A total of 1000 chairs are being produced worldwide, with the limited editions each being individually numbered. Only 75 chairs will be available for sale in the UK.
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BBC news identity cuts through the television clutter
29 May 2008
Seeing your headline that the BBC TV news rebrand causes fits (News in Depth, DW 1 May) reminded me of the 'nanny state' element that is still alive and well - or would a better term be the 'mother grundies'? Sitting in the UK, your choice of news channels must be quite limited. As someone spending much time travelling around Africa and the Middle East, I rely on TV news to keep me in touch. And the whole bouquet is there, from BBC, CNN and Sky, to Al Jazeera and Bloomberg. Well ...
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blanknomore.com
29 May 2008
Website www.blanknomore.com, created by PepperDigital with art direction byOscar Pettersson, is aimingto promote emerging andestablished graphic and digitaldesigners.
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Blue Bark
29 May 2008
London consultancy Blue Bark has updated the logo, website and marketing materials for corporate wellbeing consultancy Pinnacle Proactive.
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Brand revivals: justifiably nostalgic or sentimental?
29 May 2008
Why do we hanker after the old days of Opal Fruits, Marathon, Jif and Immac (Voxpop, DW 22 May)? The products are still with us in all but name, so what's the difference? The nostalgia they conjure up is of long, hot sunny days when we could kick a ball around in the street until the sun went down. That's why I want to eat a Jublee, drink a Tab, watch Blake's Seven, drive a Ford Capri and slide over the bonnet like Bodie and Doyle in The Professionals. But my hero of ...
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Branding consultancy Curious
29 May 2008
Branding consultancyCurious has produced acampaign featuring posters,advertising, website designand direct mail and 64-page showguide for home accessories tradefair Pulse, which runs from 1-3June at London’s Earls Court.
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Channel 4 25th birthday
29 May 2008
Channel 4 this week celebrates its 25th birthday with a commemorative book, designed by consultancy Spin, and a supplementary website by digital consultancy Preloaded. The 425-page book is 'an eclectic collection of bite-size perspectives' setting out the channel's creative approach through essays, articles, interviews, photographs and visuals. Preloaded has interpreted the tome for an on-line platform at www.25by4.channel4.com.
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Dainty Doll
29 May 2008
Stitch Design has created alimited edition range ofcosmetics called Dainty Doll forJelly Pong Pong, designed forwomen with fair skin.
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Digital Boston
29 May 2008
WPP has appointed Digital Boston president Torrence Boone as chief executive of Project Da Vinci, its new global consultancy being assembled to meet the worldwide marketing needs of its first client, Dell.
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Edinburgh goes Green with biodiversity visitor attraction
29 May 2008
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is undergoing major brand development and structural work to establish the region's first major national biodiversity visitor attraction.A swathe of consultancies, including Bright 3D, the group born out of Navyblue 3D, Nevis Design and London architect Edward Cullinan, are working to create what could be Scotland's answer to the Eden Project, due to open in 2009.The aim of the £15.7m Gateway project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the ...
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Feel to take new condom brand to UK
29 May 2008
Consultancy Feel is refreshing the identity and packaging for one of Eastern Europe's leading condom brands, Cool.The consultancy is repositioning the brand to widen its appeal, making it more unisex and increasing its relevance to a younger audience.The branding, which includes a brighter colour palette and new illustrations, will be applied to advertising, communications and packaging later this month.The inspiration behind the new look is about 'bringing the ...
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Gallo rosé wine
29 May 2008
Gallo rosé wine White Grenache, designed by branding consultancy Davison Williams, scooped best design and packaging prize at the 2008 Drink Business awards last week. The 'clutch bag' design, with capacity for the equivalent of two 750ml bottles, aims to appeal to its female target audience and to brighten up the traditional rectangular bag-in-box market. The product is now being stocked exclusively in Tesco.
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Historic Covent Garden visuals
29 May 2008
Long unseen images by a young photographer learning his trade recall a commercial and social culture that has disappeared. Hugh Pearman is touched by their evocation of a time when London’s bustling streetscape could be a haven of tranquility
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Ignorance is bliss
29 May 2008
Placements benefit all involved, as there is no better way of learning than teaching. Inexperienced minds can throw up welcome surprises, says David Bernstein
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Inspired
29 May 2008
Paul Smith wrote a book called Anything Can Inspire You, and I like that approach. I also appreciate his sense of humour. An object that makes you smile with recognition has already started to grow on you.Frank Height, a former professor of product design at the Royal College of Art, said that if you could put yourself in the slippers of old Mrs Jones on Balham High Road and understand her needs, wants and aspirations, you were going some way to being a good designer. Empathy and ...
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Large-format practicalities
29 May 2008
You’d think large-format work was just a matter of scale, but there are many practical issues to resolve before designers can realise their creative solutions. Design Week looks at three recent projects that overcame the obstacles
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News in Pictures
29 May 2008
1. The Nuts chair is designed by fourth-year integrated product design student Gary Hannah at Glasgow Caledonian University. It was shown at Milan furniture fair and can be seen at Caledonian Creates, from 17-22 June at the university, Glasgow G4.2. Bethan Williams of University of the Arts will be showing her wallpaper and surface design work at Free Range. Pictured here is We Are Haunted.3. The University of East London's School of Architecture and the Visual Arts show ...
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News in Pictures
29 May 2008
1. Free Range graduate art and design summer shows at Brick Lane's The Old Truman Brewery, London E1 will feature work by students from art and design schools including Central St Martins College of Art and Design, Loughborough University, the University of Brighton and London College of Communication. Build Me Up by Dominic Mylroie, from Central St Martins, is pictured.
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Out with the old, in with the new
29 May 2008
Rebranding your own branding consultancy is not as easy as it might sound. In fact, it’s probably the hardest task of all, says Paul Bean
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Palmer Johnson to staff up for UK yacht design operation
29 May 2008
US builder of bespoke yachts Palmer Johnson is recruiting interior designers to work at its first UK operation, producing what it hopes will be the largest leisure craft in the region.The manufacturer is massively expanding its nascent UK base to include construction sites at Woolston and Hythe in Hampshire. The new production facilities will create jobs for in-house interior designers, who will be working on the manufacturer's 100m super-yachts.For the past five years, ...
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Public art can make people think and raise awareness
29 May 2008
Entertain and amuse? My goodness, is this the best that Emma Germain thinks designers want from public art (News Analysis, DW 15 May)? Public art can be so much more. It has the opportunity to make people think, to raise awareness, to challenge and, above all, to encourage us all to grow. Come on designers, let's prove to Emma that we are better than she thinks we are. Jonathan Silver, Managing director, Silver International Design, London SE1
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Savile Row Bespoke to trademark logo
29 May 2008
Savile Row Bespoke, the consortium of tailoring businesses on the famous London street, is trademarking its logo (pictured) to extend its use as a mark of authenticity.The identity was created in 2004 by The Chip Factory. It has since been pressed into service by tailors to prove they follow certain rules of suit manufacture, as well as residing on Savile Row or neighbouring Conduit Street, Old or New Burlington Street and Sackville Street in London W1.'In the past three ...
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Slovenia's global industrial design show
29 May 2008
An exhibition of industrial design from 19 countries around the world will open in Slovenian capital Ljubljana in October, but just one British project will be among the works on show.Peter Crnokrak, the sole British designer shortlisted for Bio, Slovenia's well-established design biennial, believes that more British designers and students should enter what he views as a unique event.'Bio is distinguished from the myriad of other awards on the design scene by its conceptual ...
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Spanish retail is heading out of town, says report
29 May 2008
Design opportunities in the Spanish retail market will shift from DIY, homewares and white goods to pharmaceutical, out-of-town and multi-channel platforms in the long term, according to a Verdict Research report out this week.Previously booming sectors such as furniture, DIY, electricals and homewares will have to adjust to tougher conditions going forward, suggests the report. The recent decline in Spain's housing market has impacted on consumer confidence, borrowing and spending, ...
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The best design blogs
29 May 2008
As people’s thirst for information, gossip and opinion about design becomes almost insatiable, so more and more senior designers with voices worth listening to are dabbling in the art of personal blogs, says Hannah Booth
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The industry is shaping up well with key appointments
29 May 2008
Good things go in threes, they say, and recent weeks have seen three developments that could have a positive impact on design.Last week's news that Cheryl Giovannoni has succeeded Phil Duncan as president for Europe at Landor Associates, following Duncan's move to Procter & ...
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The Royal National Lifeboat Institution
29 May 2008
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has unveiled a new fundraising and awareness campaign to align its lifeboat and lifeguard services under a single identity, Life First.
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The trial trail
29 May 2008
Long before a design goes into production, long before the marketing and PR kick in, and long before it gets seen at a trade fair, it's just an idea in the head of a designer. They might sketch it and make a scale model, and even get so far as a prototype to see if the idea works as a full-size thing. Even at this stage, it's still a long way from production, and may only ever be an experiment, a trial-and-error piece to test the limits of an idea. Curator and Royal College of Art senior ...
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Thomas Pink
29 May 2008
Thomas Pink has opened its first White Shirt Bar, designed to help customers compare cut, collar and tailoring details. The format, conceived by retail consultancy Yellowdoor and implemented by architect Brand & Allen, sits within the brand’s flagship sto
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Tom Dixon
29 May 2008
Tom Dixon is set to launch his latest piece of lighting design, a bronze candelabra entitled Pivot. It will launch at the Design Miami Basel show on 2 June. Costing £4250, 350 pieces of the work are being produced and will afterwards be on show at the London Kensington showroom and gallery Willer, W8 from 12 June. The candelabra marks Dixon's love of metalwork, which he notably discovered while he was mending a motorbike.
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Voxpop
29 May 2008
Design consultancies are this week being encouraged to lobby Members of Parliament directly if they want business issues to be debated by the Government. What would you like to see prioritised for design by MPs?Parliamentarians think in ...
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We should embrace the challenge of reducing packaging
29 May 2008
In response to Jim Davies’ piece ‘It’s all in the packaging’ (DW 22 May), I agree that the drive for packaging reduction is challenging for our industry.
