Design Week
3 June 2010
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Maxine Bergman is joining Holmes & Marchant as business development director
3 June 2010
Maxine Bergman is joining Holmes & Marchant as business development director. She was previously new business developer at Vibrant @1HQ. Guillaume Furminger is joining H&M as structural designer.
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Anoo Design has created the new greetings card swatch for Fedrigoni
3 June 2010
Anoo Design has created the new greetings card swatch for Fedrigoni. The collection features a range of papers suitable for different printing techniques and finishes in the greetings card sector.
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Anthony Lau has created a bicycle parking unit that resembles a car
3 June 2010
Designer and architect Anthony Lau has created a bicycle parking unit that resembles a car. The unit, which is yet to be unveiled, will be sited across London during the London Festival of Architecture in June.
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Best of the Web
3 June 2010
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Branch support
3 June 2010
Rufus Leonard has created an in-branch campaign for Lloyds TSB to promote National School Sports Week, which runs from 28 June to 2 July and is supported by the bank. Rufus Leonard, which is group brand development partner for Lloyds TSB, was appointed to the work at the end of last year. The consultancy has also designed a savings campaign, which also launches this week.
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Cloth-bound
3 June 2010
Werk No17 is a collaboration between Eley Kishimoto and publication Werk. The covers have been created using a bundle of four Kishimoto fabrics, with the fabrics on the back folded over the spine and secured to the front using staples and dressmaking spines. The book is being launched in mid-July.
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Curious has created a series of press ads and an exhibition catalogue for the Pulse trade show
3 June 2010
London branding consultancy Curious has created a series of press ads and an exhibition catalogue for the Pulse trade show, which runs at Earls Court in London from 6-8 June.
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Dawson Design has created the annual report for chemical company Croda
3 June 2010
Manchester-based consultancy Dawson Design has created the annual report and corporate social responsibility report for Yorkshire-based chemical company Croda.
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Departures takes illustrative route to Welsh assembly task
3 June 2010
Cardiff-based design consultancy Departures has worked with illustrator Gaku Nakagawa to create a mural and educational resources for the National Assembly for Wales.
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Dick Powell's appointment is an opportunity for D&AD to embrace all of design
3 June 2010
It is certainly a week for excellence, with creatives poised to hear about the latest D&AD Awards wins tomorrow evening.
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Funnel Creative works on identity for education initiative
3 June 2010
Funnel Creative has worked on an identity for education scheme New Creative Futures, which it hopes will appeal to 16-year-olds considering work in the creative, digital and media industries.
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Holmes Wood works on guidelines for Moscow arts centre
3 June 2010
Holmes Wood is creating the brand guidelines for Moscow’s Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, for which Peter Saville designed the visual identity.
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Inspired: Stuart Price - Thoughtful
3 June 2010
For me, the D&AD’s Black Pencil award simply radiates inspiration.
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It's time for a rethink on airport interiors
3 June 2010
Airports are stressful places, but is retail therapy the only way for travellers to relax? Adam White makes a plea for some healthier alternatives
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Joe Johnson has joined consultancy Further as head of client relationships
3 June 2010
Joe Johnson has joined consultancy Further as head of client relationships. He has previously led digital, identity and reporting programmes for clients including Barclays and Cable & Wireless.
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Learning environments set to ape office design trends
3 June 2010
’It’s often been said that what’s happening in learning environment design is what happened in office design 20 years ago.’ Fiona Duggan, founder of consultancy FID, which specialises in educational design, is referring to developing trends including open-plan space and breakout areas that, while well-known in an office context, are causing some excitement in education design.
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Let's use digital tools to get the voting system right
3 June 2010
We believe the most powerful way to design solutions is through collaboration with the end user, in this case the voting public (Voxpop, DW 20 May).
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Maddison founder David Maddison is to be designer-in-residence for Manchester University's IP commercialisation arm
3 June 2010
Maddison founder David Maddison is to be designer-in-residence for Manchester University’s IP commercialisation arm and Manchester Integrating Medicine and Innovative Technology. Spencer du Bois has created a new visual identity and website for Plantlife. Plantlife is a wild plant conservation charity with a goal to halt the loss of wild plant diversity in the UK.
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Nelson Associates works on website and catalogue for London luxury apartments
3 June 2010
Nelson Associates had created a website and catalogue for property developer Artesian to promote a new development of luxury apartments near London’s Regent’s Park.
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News in Pictures
3 June 2010
Noma Bar is among the finalists in the V&A Illustration Awards 2010. The winner will be announced on 21 June.
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News in Pictures
3 June 2010
David Humphries is among the finalists in the V&A Illustration Awards 2010. The winner will be announced on 21 June.
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News in Pictures
3 June 2010
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On the pulse
3 June 2010
The growing value of illustration and print is not lost on ceramist and designer Pacharapong Suntanaphan. Better known as Yod, or by studio name Visuallyod, he launched Curate 40 to support new talent and designers, as well as established but little-known consultancies.
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Patrick Kinmouth is designing an exhibition at the Jewish Museum London
3 June 2010
Patrick Kinmouth is designing an exhibition at the Jewish Museum London. Illumination: Hebrew Treasures from the Vatican and Major British Collections runs from 25 June to 10 October.
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Profile: Participle
3 June 2010
With a new Government fired up about reforming the welfare state, the zeitgeist-embracing ideas of this radical service design group could move centre stage. Gina Lovett talks to founding partner Hugo Manassei about social renaissance
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Sales moving online could affect marketing budgets
3 June 2010
Procter & Gamble’s decision to sell its brands direct to US consumers online, via its e-store site, is a clear sign that the traditional business model between retailers and suppliers continues to be shaken up.
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Spencer du Bois has created a new visual identity and website for Plantlife
3 June 2010
Spencer du Bois has created a new visual identity and website for Plantlife. Plantlife is a wild plant conservation charity with a goal to halt the loss of wild plant diversity in the UK.
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Stanton Williams and Cartlidge Levene collaborate on Nantes Musée des Beaux-Arts brief
3 June 2010
A €46m (£38.5m) project is under way to extend and renovate the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, France, led by architect Stanton Williams, with Cartlidge Levene designing graphics and wayfinding.
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The beautiful effect
3 June 2010
The upcoming football World Cup has accelerated urban development in South Africa and helped kick-start a range of local initiatives, despite Fifa’s tight grip on the official branding. Lynda Relph-Knight looks at how some of the cities that are hosting games are presenting themselves to visitors
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The new bus is stylish, but is it efficient?
3 June 2010
The ’Boris Bus’ is a very stylish piece of work and it is a brilliant idea to have windows by the front stairs (www.designweek.co.uk, 17 May). The window at the back is likely to be expensive.
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The ultimate result
3 June 2010
Redesigning a mere country? We must go further and design nature itself, if we are to avoid environmental disaster, argues Bruce Mau. Adrian Shaughnessy is spellbound by the master
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Value-added content
3 June 2010
Locking down their online content behind a paywall has released The Times and The Sunday Times from the constraints of news aggregation, and in the process freed them for an editorially led redesign. Tom Banks reports
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Varnished truths
3 June 2010
Excessive foiling and other over-the-top print processes have been out of favour recently, reflecting more austere economic times, perhaps. But applied with intelligence and consideration - and in moderation - such finishes can play an effective part in a range of projects, finds Anna Richardson
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Voxpop
3 June 2010
Dalton Maag has designed a font that will compete with ’over-hyped’ Helvetica. Which design icon would you like to design a challenger for, and why?
