Design Week
3 February 2011
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Architect gets the go-ahead to convert vaults beneath historic London bridge into restaurant
3 February 2011
A vault under London’s Putney Bridge is to be turned into a subterranean restaurant by architect Jean Oh.
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Best of the Web
3 February 2011
http://tiny.cc/ha5zbCrane.tv is an online video magazine for contemporary culture. It contains a range of gallery visits and interviews with artists, including this post featuring Rob Ryan. Crane visits Ryan in his studio in London’s Bethnal Green, where he showcases his paper-cut artworks and screenprints.
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Chefs on show
3 February 2011
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Children's show turns on the healing power of imagination
3 February 2011
Next week sees the opening of Imagine, the Southbank Centre’s fortnight-long children’s festival of art, design, literature and music, which celebrates its tenth birthday this year.
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Citizen snappers
3 February 2011
Given that front page-grabbing news photography is all about being in the right place at the right time, does the future belong to seasoned professionals or the army of amateurs out there, equipped with camera phones? Hannah Booth investigates
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Colour trip
3 February 2011
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DBA launches 'outward-facing' focus
Wed, 2 Feb 2011
The Design Business Association is launching a new strategy to focus on facing out to clients and business rather than facing inwards to design consultancies.
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Design and architecture should cross over
3 February 2011
In response to Lynda Relph-Knight’s Comment last week (DW 27 January), I too am delighted to see design and architecture coming closer together. The two are more or less divided at birth in the UK, whereas traditionally there is a healthier cross-overon the Continent, where the badge ’architect’ opens far more 3D design doors than purely relating to buildings as it does here.
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Golden thread ties themes together for Studio Dempsey
3 February 2011
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Good branding needs to support change on a larger scale
3 February 2011
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Hands on the wheel
3 February 2011
A ’hub and spoke’ approach is one way in which the UK’s design industry bodies could be looking to organise themselves in the future. Angus Montgomery looks at their changing structures and strategies
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Hidden Art survives funding crisis
Wed, 2 Feb 2011
Hidden Art, which promotes the work of designers and designer-makers, has developed a plan that will allow it to stay in business as it seeks a new source of long-term funding (www.designweek.co.uk, 30 November 2010).
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Inspired
3 February 2011
James Good
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Let the Beyond Entropy team loose on a new festival
3 February 2011
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Local firm Farrow Creative polishes national park's look
3 February 2011
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News in Pictures
3 February 2011
Work by Johannes Nagel will feature in the show Valentina Angeloni: Let Me See, which is at Gallery Fumi in London from 17 February to 16 April.
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News in Pictures
3 February 2011
Arthur Steen Horne Adamson created the new website for Jude’s ice cream, after rebranding the company last year.
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Peddling new ideas
3 February 2011
The bicycle industry needs to move away from unsuitable sporty racing bikes and focus on the needs of non-enthusiasts if cycling is to become a mode of transport used by the majority. Anna Norman looks at the latest developments in urban bicycles
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Profile: Yota
3 February 2011
The Russian telecoms company is leading the way with digital innovation, using top British designers to make its name synonymous with creativity and staging interactive events such as Yota Space. Mike Exon finds out more
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Rich Creative flies with wartime project
3 February 2011
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Romance is dead
3 February 2011
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Sea rebrands the Mental Health Foundation
Wed, 2 Feb 2011
Sea Design has rebranded the Mental Health Foundation, creating a new visual identity to be used across all of the organisation’s materials and website.
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Shifting gears
Thu, 3 Feb 2011
Best known for his Strida bike, British industrial designer Mark Sanders’ more recent If folding bike is due for UK release in April. With full-size wheels and Sanders’ patented ‘integrated folding’ system, the bikes can be wheeled along like a suitcase when folded.Video:
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Silver Worldwide stamps new identity on Countryfile TV presenter Adam Henson
3 February 2011
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Speirs & Major designs urban LED light
Wed, 2 Feb 2011
Speirs & Major has designed a new light-emitting diode urban lighting concept for US manufacturer Ruud Lighting, which Ruud aims to produce commercially for cities worldwide.
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The local design network scene is great, but it does need some co-ordination
3 February 2011
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Tilt rebrands BBC Knowledge channel
Wed, 2 Feb 2011
BBC Worldwide’s BBC Knowledge channel has been rebranded through a series of five idents designed by Tilt Design and filmed across global locations.
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Type cast
3 February 2011
Once the preserve of experts, typography has gone mainstream with everyone getting in on the act. Yet there is still a place for design professionals to do it better, says Adrian Shaughnessy
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Voxpop
3 February 2011
What do you think a merger with the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment will bring to the Design Council?
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We need to connect with social media
3 February 2011
Facebook and Twitter are becoming essential work tools for creating visibility and reachinga core audience, explains Steve Sponder
