Design Week
30 April 2009
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An east London fun palace, 50 years before London 2012
30 April 2009
Last week, you posed the questions, 'What is your favourite design that never saw the light of day, and why?' (Voxpop, DW 23 April). My favourite would be the 1960-61 design for a fun palace in east London, by Cedric Price, a radical forward-thinking architect who proposed an innovative time-based piece of architecture that would be a laboratory of fun. He said that by using technology correctly, the public could have unprecedented control over their environment. It ...
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Brands urged to use digital approach
30 April 2009
Brands need to offer consumers increasingly innovative digital experiences when selling their products, according to a host of digital experts convening next week to discuss the state of the sector as digital advertising revenues drop.'People are not interested in marketing messages. Brands need to give out experiences as well as raise awareness,' says Petri Lattu, strategic planner at Finnish digital consultancy FWD Helsinki.Lattu wants to 'evangelise' the importance to ...
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Buddy brands Tate children's art sets
30 April 2009
Buddy Creative has branded a range of children’s art sets for Tate, launching next month.
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Buxton Festival
30 April 2009
Manchester group Glorious Creative has rebranded the Buxton Festival, which runs from 10-28 July. It created the brochure, programme and identity which, says director Scott McCubbin, was inspired by Buxton Opera House's mosaic flooring.
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Cleaning bug
30 April 2009
The Design Bugs Out scheme tackles priority areas in medical products and healthcare design. Lynda Relph-Knight takes the pulse of an initiative that may quite literally help preserve lives
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Darling endorsement boosts Public Services by Design
30 April 2009
Delivery of the Design Council and the Department for Innovation, Universities & Skills’ Public Services by Design initiative is being accelerated after Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling endorsed the use of design in public services.
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Don't throw away the creativity with the cow gum...
30 April 2009
I enjoyed Michael Peters' nostalgic article (A lost world, DW 26 March). I loved the feel and smell of cow gum, too, and all the paraphernalia that he remembers. For me, at that time in Wolff Olins, I remember three things particularly: the look of fresh proofs from precisely cut metal fonts; the joy of working with designers who were great artists and craftsmen; and the richness of thought, originality and conversation. In today's design studios, I don't think life is ...
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Going Wild
30 April 2009
London consultancy I Want has redeveloped the London Wildlife Trust's publication Going Wild, which raises awareness of free events and volunteering opportunities across the capital. I Want has created original illustrations using native London wild species.
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Google urges colleges to exploit digital design
30 April 2009
Google has urged universities to engage with digital design and social networking sites to market themselves more effectively.
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Graphic Impressions creates identity for Eastside Inn
30 April 2009
Graphic Impressions has created the identity for a new restaurant in London EC1, The Eastside Inn. The restaurant is owned by Bjorn van der Horst, the former chef-patron of Gordon Ramsay’s Michelin-starred restaurant La Noisette.The graphic and branding consultancy was appointed in October 2008 following a two-way creative pitch.The consultancy is also based in EC1, and its director Steve Croad believes its proximity to the restaurant may have contributed to ...
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Illustrator Sara Fanelli
30 April 2009
Illustrator Sara Fanelli has collaborated with art and design students from Kingston University in Surrey to create a 3D environment to reflect her work, as part of her Stanley Picker Fellowship. The installation, opening today, will form part of an exhibition - Six Characters in Search of an Author - at the Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University.
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Inspired, Kevin Gill: Judge Gill
30 April 2009
'A Day at El Bulli/ An Insight into the Ideas, Methods and Creativity of Ferran Adrià' allows unprecedented access to one of the world's most famous, sought-after and mysterious restaurants.But for me, Adrià has shown the way for all creatives and creative businesses to evolve through a defined process of constant evolution.His creative workshops put true creativity at the heart of his organisation and his openness pushes the evolution of the whole category, inspiring chefs ...
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Motivation is the real reward
30 April 2009
While I haven’t been manning the barricades to save our financial institutions from the crowd baying for bankers’ blood, I do think the bonus culture can be a good thing.
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News in Pictures
30 April 2009
Brighton consultancy Neo is working on a project to redesign charity Action Aid’s supporters’ magazine Action, set to relaunch next month.
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News in Pictures
30 April 2009
Daydream Network is to transform London’s Royal Albert Hall into a gallery of graffiti and street artwork on 22 June.The exhibition, Load, will feature works by the group that show the venue’s most memorable moments. Pictured here is a piece by Snik.
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Nigel Coates
30 April 2009
Designer and architect Nigel Coates has created three new ceiling light collections for Italian lighting company Slamp. The Creatures collection, inspired by sea urchins, is available in green, blue or orange. Circular pendant lamp Corona features curved diamond shapes around a core of nine lamps. The laurel wreath-inspired Pacis (pictured) fits magnetically over a light fitting and comes in white and gold finishes.
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Office politics
30 April 2009
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Refugee Week set to launch with 'simple acts' campaign
30 April 2009
London graphic design and branding consultancy Bravo Charlie Mike Hotel has created the identity and supporting marketing materials for Refugee Week, which kicks off in June. BCMH senior designer and partner Mark Hopkins explains that the brief was based around a concept devised by Refugee Week. The idea underpinning the campaign is ‘simple acts’, showing that we can all make a difference to the understanding between refugees and UK-born citizens.BCMH has produced supporting ...
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Taking stock of design art
30 April 2009
As the recent design-art phenomenon looks ever more out of step with the times, a victim of the downturn and changing attitudes to conspicuous consumption, John Stones checks out an attempt to take stock of this era of excess
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The budget proves disappointing for design
30 April 2009
The Chancellor’s latest Budget was a disappointment for many business experts in the industry. Emily Pacey reports on their concerns
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The Government is enlisting design to combat social ills
30 April 2009
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The humour of Sara De Bondt's work
30 April 2009
Belgian designer Sara De Bondt manages to imbue her work with humour while avoiding the vacuous. Anna Richardson talks to her about ideas-based design, her love of books and aversion to Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk
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The Photographers' Gallery settles in to its new building
30 April 2009
Juggling two separate spaces is a thing of the past as The Photographers’ Gallery is finally settling into its new gallery – an intriguing Edwardian warehouse building. Liz Farrelly looks at how the current show engages with these premises
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Unfair competition, yes, but design will survive
30 April 2009
I read with interest Sebastian Conran joining the 'universities are competing with designers' debate (Sounding off, DW 16 April). We came across this problem some time ago. I recall Jim Dawton and I quizzed friends from Cardiff PDR in late 2007 on whether their costs were commercially correct, their links to facilities appropriate and sought commercial advantage. But we were won over, and their raft of awards is testament to their quality. I concluded competition from universities ...
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Voxpop
30 April 2009
Jonathan Ive has blamed the rise of rapid prototyping for distancing designers from the physical process of design and creating 'a lot of lousy design'. What's your view, and why?Jonathan Ive is right, but only if you work where rapid prototyping ...
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Winging it
30 April 2009
Whoever had the idea of sending design duo Alistair McAuley and Paul Simmons of Timorous Beasties into the dusty corridors of Museums Sheffield to scour the Ruskin Collection deserves applause. Victorian artist and writer John Ruskin amassed a treasure trove of art and artefacts, including more than 6300 ornithological prints - a dream stomping ground for self-confessed ornithology fan Simmons. 'It was one of those projects that I wanted to go on forever,' he says. 'You're in such a privileged .
