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3 November 2005

  • Alessi is launching...

    3 November 2005

    Alessi is launching two collections of wall clocks for autumn-winter. The stainless steel, black and white Momento is based on the company's watch of the same name, designed by the late architect Aldo Rossi. The playful Sole collection is created by designer, architect ...

  • Antidote sting for BBC Broadcast

    3 November 2005

    BBC Broadcast, the former creative wing of the BBC, acquired by Macquarie Capital Alliance Group this year, has relaunched as Red Bee Media, with an identity created by Antidote. Herron plots course for True North Manchester consultancy True North has poached The Chase Manchester joint creative director Alan Herron to take up the same role at the group.

  • Anti-smoking campaigns have to be more inventive

    3 November 2005

    The old model of advertising is dead, but the Government still insists on using it. Everyone in the ad industry knows that young people in particular don't respond any longer to billboards and TV advertising. They spend most of their time playing computer games, listening to music, chatting on e-mail, cruising the Net and getting involved with ethical movements. So why is it that the Government still advertises using the old model? In Scotland last year, after extensive Government advertising, .

  • Artist Michael Pinsky...

    3 November 2005

    Artist Michael Pinsky has constructed a video installation that will relay images of weather conditions from around the world to 30 screens suspended like a chandelier in an atrium at Clacton County High School. Entitled Weather Cluster, the work opens next week as part ...

  • Boots Chemist sees customer numbers fall

    3 November 2005

    The number of customers visiting Boots the Chemists stores fell by 2.9 per cent in the year to 30 September, despite a £45m investment in store improvement, featuring design work from its Creative Hub of consultancies. Profits fell by 10 per cent, although half-year profits were around £10m ahead of analyst expectations.

  • Brazilian street art

    3 November 2005

    Graffiti has become so ubiquitous and commercially harnessed that if, walking through central London, you encounter hooded youths with spray cans in their hands, they are as likely to be creating graphics for a brand wanting to seem edgy, as engaged in some illegal tagging. ...

  • Christian Aid reveals life after the tsunami

    3 November 2005

    A host of designers and artists will contribute to a Christian Aid exhibition documenting the rebuilding of lives and places in Sri Lanka, following the catastrophic tsunami of Christmas 2004.

  • Creative North London to boost local design economy

    3 November 2005

    Creative London is to launch the first of its physical hubs, dedicated to growing creative businesses in London's Wood Green, on 18 November.

  • Design for the real world

    3 November 2005

    As B&Q follows other DIY chains into the home furnishings market, what does the future hold? David Worthington puts his view

  • Design industry backs plan for UK design centre

    3 November 2005

    Soundings taken among senior design industry players suggest there would be little opposition to any Government plans to back the building of a UK design centre, Design Week can reveal.

  • Dunning Eley Jones...

    3 November 2005

    Dunning Eley Jones has completed an identity overhaul for Swiss public service broadcaster, Schweizer Fernsehen DRS, after winning a pitch against local and UK consultancies in June (DW 16 June). The identity - which drops DRS from the name - launches on 5 December and will be applied to literature, signage, merchandising, livery and the website at www.sfdrs.ch.

  • EU court upholds perfume ruling

    3 November 2005

    An EU court has upheld the ruling of the EU trademark agency to reject an application to trademark a smell, filed by a French perfume company.

  • Fitch misses big picture

    3 November 2005

    Rodney Fitch (Letters, DW 27 October) should thumb a few pages further forward if he thinks that Richard Eisermann's reference to design being about value was all about money. It wasn't. The point Eisermann was making is that design adds social and aesthetic value, as well as economic value. Eisermann was calling for designers to start talking in practical terms about how design can make things more useful and not just how much business can charge for them.

  • Geometry sparks up BAT sensory branding

    3 November 2005

    British American Tobacco is opening experimental interiors at its London head office, as the tobacco giant continues to seek ways to express its brand through 3D and sensory means.

  • Hot 50

    3 November 2005

    If there is a barometer measuring how design is faring in the wider world, it is surely Design Week's Hot 50. Compiled with input from readers and honed down by a panel of industry experts, the listing charts the people and organisations that have made the greatest contribution to design over the past 12 months - over and above the demands of their remit.

  • Inspired

    3 November 2005

    I've always been inspired by the craft of good typography. I was taught in Gutenberg's home town of Mainz, learning about Bauhaus typography, letterpress printing, grids and structures. I had a passion for black and red, as we Germans tend to.

  • Interbrand refresh for Camelot range

    3 November 2005

    Camelot is relaunching its National Lottery games, with a series of refreshed identities by Interbrand, in collaboration with its in-house design team.

  • Investment in the future is about more than just cash

    3 November 2005

    We have to thank Rodney Fitch and Oliver King for keeping the discussion about value in design going (see Letters, page 11). What better time for the industry to restate its terms of engagement than in the run-up to the publication of the Cox Review on 17

  • Jack Morton Worldwide redesigns Sky News studio

    3 November 2005

    Jack Morton Worldwide has redesigned the Sky News studio and newsroom. It features a purpose-built LED screen that mirrors images projected on to the news wall and a rotating, motorised presentation desk.

  • John leaves Ergo to pursue new directions

    3 November 2005

    Ergo-ID founding partner Simon John has left the brand consultancy to pursue his own business interests, leaving co-founder Stuart Mackay in control of the group.

  • Leeds Media appoints Thompson

    3 November 2005

    Leeds Media, an organisation promoting the city's media, communications and e-business sector, has appointed member consultancy Thompson to overhaul its brand identity.

  • Magpie branding?

    3 November 2005

    News Analysis (DW 13 October) prompted a sense of deja vu. The cover of the Unilever brochure bears a close resemblance to Hans Schleger's Edinburgh Festival identity programme of 1966-78. Marks for originality - zero. Patrick Argent, Scarborough, North Yorkshire YO11 2SH

  • Meagre pickings

    3 November 2005

    Despite optimistic predictions, design salaries have taken a downturn over the past year, particularly at the higher end of the scale. But the picture for juniors and freelances is looking far more rosy, says John Stones, with research by Michelle Reeve

  • Media Square acquires design groups from Huntsworth stable

    3 November 2005

    Media Square this week secured the £63m takeover of a clutch of marketing services groups from communications network Huntsworth, including design consultancies Lloyd Northover and Holmes & Marchant.

  • Medical packaging design

    3 November 2005

    An official report outlining good design practice for pharmaceutical packaging means more opportunities for designers, says Scott Billings

  • Minale Tattersfield launches Italian identity

    3 November 2005

    Minale Tattersfield will launch its identity for the Lake Garda region of Italy on 15 November (DW 4 August). The marque will be used by the Italian Tourist Board to promote the region, which was previously managed by three politically separate territories.

  • Motorola turns 'radical' with plans for London design studio

    3 November 2005

    Motorola's senior vice-president, Geoffrey Frost, has confirmed that the company will open a design centre in London, relocating its eight-strong UK design outfit from its current base in Basingstoke (DW 7 July).

  • News in Pictures

    3 November 2005

    1 Pentagram Design has produced retro-style packaging for Tick Tock Rooibos, a new product from tea producer Dragonfly.

  • Proctor & Gamble relaunches Ariel detergent

    3 November 2005

    Proctor & Gamble has relaunched its Ariel detergent brand, redesigned by Landor Associates.

  • Profile: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

    3 November 2005

    Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's interactive installations, using light and shadows, are designed to engage the public intimately. Richard Clayton talks to him about his plans to illuminate the East Midlands

  • Ravensworth designs corporate ID for XPAX

    3 November 2005

    Ravensworth has designed the corporate identity and marketing materials for start-up company XPAX, which will provide home information packs to independent estate agents nationwide.

  • Report reveals big brand groups suffered losses

    3 November 2005

    Delving into the minutiae of Willott Kingston Smith's latest report, The Financial Performance of Marketing Services Groups 2005, makes for some illuminating study.

  • Revenue up for staple WPP sectors

    3 November 2005

    WPP saw revenues at its branding, identity, healthcare and specialist communications division jump by 26.6 per cent year-on-year in its third quarter. Omnicom Group, parent of Interbrand, Wolff Olins and Siegel & Gale, has also posted its Q3 results repor

  • Review

    3 November 2005

    degree show • Future Map 05 has assembled highlights of this year's graduate shows, representing a wide variety of disciplines from painting, installation art, sound and photography to ceramics, fashion and animation from 7 November until 23 December. Venue: University of the Arts London, The Arts Gallery, 65 Davies Street, London W1K. events • Christie's Modern Design Auction on 8 November at 2pm. Venue: 85 Old Brompton Road, London SW7. Details: www.christies.com. talks •Jonathan ...

  • RIBA to throw open its doors to designs of all disciplines

    3 November 2005

    In response to this week's Voxpop, yes, it is time to have a new national centre for design and innovation, and I am tempted to say it should be at the Royal Institute of British Architects. I really want to throw open the doors of our old institute and invite more design disciplines in.

  • Selfridges replaces marketing director

    3 November 2005

    Following the resignation of Selfridges marketing director Beverley Churchill in June, the retailer has promoted Sally Scott to replace her.

  • Senior staff shake-up in branding and packaging sector

    3 November 2005

    The brand and packaging industry is being shaken up by a series of appointments that will see key players from rival consultancies changing roles.

  • Slice of life

    3 November 2005

    Andy Mueller's latest project - collating an eclectic range of photographs, by amateurs and professionals - is typical of his unconventional, collaborative approach to design. Liz Farrelly meets the man behind the Camera Club

  • Survey shows starting pay down

    3 November 2005

    Salaries for senior appointments in design have fallen over the past year amid signs that costs are being further reined in, according to Design Week's latest salary survey.

  • Voxpop

    3 November 2005

    Is it time for the UK to have a new national centre for design and innovation? If so, what should it include?

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