Design Week
3 March 2011
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Enamel magnetism
3 March 2011
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Best of the Web
3 March 2011
http://tinyurl.com/5rn7llcThe London Undergound map has had several incarnations, but have you ever wondered what it would look like as The Grid from the film Tron Legacy? Well, look no further. The 3D blockbuster film from 2010 has inspired a new, neon version of the Underground map, created by Iamclu.
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Brands new
3 March 2011
As the economic downturn bit, price-conscious shoppers turned to supermarket retailers’ own-label lines. But brands are fighting back by restating their core values. Both sides in this battle for market share offer opportunities for packaging designers, notes David Benady
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Dalziel & Pow to overhaul Chinese menswear brand
3 March 2011
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Design over substance gives us food for thought
3 March 2011
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Editor's blog
Mon, 14 Mar 2011
If proof were needed that design can make life better it is there in spades in a host of initiatives from the likes of the Design Council and social enterprises bent on fostering co-creation. But it is good to see pure design also getting recognition, often in unlikely places.
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Fairtrade package
3 March 2011
The Design Group has created new packaging for Traidcraft’s Fair Break range of biscuits. The consultancy says the new design has been timed to coincide with Fairtrade Fortnight, which runs until 13 March. The design will also be applied to future new biscuit and confectionery products.
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Holmes Wood rolls out new Virgin Atlantic identity on signage
Wed, 2 Mar 2011
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Inspired
3 March 2011
Johnathan Collins - The Grid
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It's Nice That devises 'stamp of approval' for University of the Arts London graduate market
3 March 2011
It’s Nice That has created the identity for University of the Arts London’s graduate market, Artsmart, which the university says is the first-ever alumni art and design market in the UK.
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Let's learn from Design Indaba's success and bring back the masterclass
3 March 2011
Last week I was lucky to attend the legendary Design Indaba in Cape Town. I wasn’t the only Brit there - UK speakers included Michael Wolff, Hat-Trick Design and Bibliotheque on the consultancy side, along with Design Council chief executive David Kester and Pearson Lloyd co-founder Luke Pearson, both of whom had spoken there before, and Deborah Szebeko of Think Public, with Pearlfisher’s Karen Welman in the audience.
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Love Creative works up V Festival visuals
Wed, 2 Mar 2011
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News in Pictures
3 March 2011
Films and drawings from architect Cedric Price’s personal notebooks will be on show at the Wish We Were Here exhibition at the Architectural Association in London from 5-26 March.
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News in Pictures
3 March 2011
Tracy Emin is among the Royal Academicians creating wine-bottle labels for the Tom Dixon-designed Royal Academy of Arts restaurant. The wines will be sold from this month.
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Populous shows changing signs of the times in Stratford
3 March 2011
Artists’ visualisations of signage for Westfield Stratford City
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Profile: Rok Predin
3 March 2011
Director Rok Predin brings a different visual dialect and new style of film-making to Trunk Animation Studio. Filled with magic, folklore and rich imagery, his new short Winter Poem has just come out. Garrick Webster finds out more
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Radley Yeldar to turn a new page with Dorling Kindersley rebrand
Wed, 2 Mar 2011
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Stocks Taylor Benson in global Speedo packaging work
Wed, 2 Mar 2011
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Studio LR brands Tudor warship Mary Rose
Wed, 2 Mar 2011
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Studio Parris Wakefield is on the pulse with Citizen refresh
3 March 2011
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Thank you for the Days
3 March 2011
Robin and Lucienne Day are arguably post-war Britain’s most influential design partnership, a husband and wife team who led the fields of furniture and pattern design from their shared studio in London’s Chelsea for 50 years.
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The Forest identity reconnects football to its grass roots
3 March 2011
The Forest has developed an identity and full set of brand communications for football show and exhibition Grass Roots Football, to be held at the NEC in Birmingham in June.
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The shopper journey is in-store and online
3 March 2011
Design for retail must integrate seamlessly shoppers’ experience of a store’s online and bricks-and-mortar offer, says Julie Oxberry
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Time to take stock and be more efficient
3 March 2011
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Together Design styles teen cash contest
3 March 2011
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Virtual reality bites
3 March 2011
The use of computer simulations at the product development stage provides designers with a valuable and flexible tool. Emily Pacey looks at the benefits of creating digital models to visualise designs
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Voxpop
3 March 2011
I would feature the renowned conductor Daniel Barenboim. Last month he won the Dresden Peace Prize in recognition of attempts at preventing or defusing conflicts between states or peoples, recognising his work with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. He is a living legend who has demonstrated time and again ’the transformative power of music’.Alex Wood, Co-founder, Holmes Wood
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Web trends
3 March 2011
The world of online fashion retailing is changing and innovating at a rapid pace. Emily Gosling looks at how etailers are successfully using design to harness these developments in order to increase their Web presence
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Where is the verve?
3 March 2011
Is it possible to combine design flair with technical nous? asks Adrian Shaughnessy. Even the media-savvy Swedes struggle to pull it off, he finds, on a visit to Stockholm’s Hyper Island
