Design Week
30 September 2010
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A world away from keyboard and screen
30 September 2010
Repetitive strain injury is a real hindrance, but Jenny Theolin argues that it also can be an opportunity to rediscover the essence of design
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Ale and arty
30 September 2010
French band Phoenix has worked with Inventory Studio and Valero Doval to create a series of limited-edition labels for bottles and cans for Beck’s beer.
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Best of the Web
30 September 2010
http://mothergrapevine.com/sftwSomething for the Weekend from Mother London is a site that aims to edit the five best things you’ve seen, read or done that week. Last week, the App Lounge was posted in the design category. It encourages the public to discover new mobile and tablet applications and other digital content.
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Bleak reflections
30 September 2010
Deserted industrial hinterlands can be eerie, thrilling places to the passer-by who stumbles upon the seamy side of civilisation, where all the workings show.
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Crush Design illustrations add a 'magic' ingredient to Macy's staff handbook
30 September 2010
Crush Design has created illustrations for the staff handbook of New York department store Macy’s.
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Design festivals provide great opportunities to connect and be inspired
30 September 2010
Our taste for festivals in design continues unabated, fuelled perhaps by the same urge to connect face to face in the age of social media and digital data that has spawned so many successful music-based events.
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Design is all about making things better
30 September 2010
I’ve been following your definition of design with some interest (News Analysis, DW 2 September). To me, it is very simple - design is about making things better.
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Editor's blog
Wed, 6 Oct 2010
The London Design Festival is well behind us now, but other creative celebrations continue. Cardiff is still in the throes of its annual designfest and the likes of Barcelona and Tokyo are set to kick off their ‘designers’ weeks’ later this month. Meanwhile, Beijing is preparing for its inaugural event next year, to be held in partnership with our own LDF.
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Female fit
30 September 2010
Many products are rethought with sustainability and ergonomics in mind, but designing for the specific needs of women all too rarely comes into the equation - and a touch of pink just won’t cut it any more. Clare Dowdy explores what might be ’the last untapped market’
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From the shadows
Wed, 6 Oct 2010
Next week, the Victoria & Albert Museum hosts the first exhibition of work by contemporary camera-less photographers in a UK museum.Floris Neussus Untitled, (Körperfotogramm), Berlin, ...
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Harp sharpens up
30 September 2010
Holmes & Marchant has redesigned the packaging for Northern Irish lager Harp.
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Identica to rebrand multiplex operating group Cinema City
30 September 2010
Identica has been appointed to redesign the visual identity of Cinema City International, a multiplex theatre group operating in Israel and across Central and Eastern Europe, following a nine-way pitch.
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Inspired - Katherine Skellon
30 September 2010
As a spatial designer working within the museum sector, my work has its own in-built inspiration in the objects and spaces museums bring to us.
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London symposium to tackle challenges of 'food design'
30 September 2010
A seminar being held in London in November will aim to tackle issues in the field of food design.
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News in Pictures
30 September 2010
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News in Pictures
30 September 2010
Large-scale outdoor sculptures by Anish Kapoor will be on show at the Turning the World Upside Down exhibition, which will be at Kensington Gardens ...
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News in Pictures
30 September 2010
Ded Associates has designed a travel journal for the National Geographic Channel’s high-definition TV show Great Migrations.
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Paper wisdom
30 September 2010
As paper merchants retreatto the Web for promotions, designers risk distancing themselves from the textures once central to their craft. Emily Pacey rediscovers the tactile pleasures of tracking down the perfect stock
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Peter & Paul brands BBC-backed village community project
30 September 2010
Peter & Paul has been appointed to develop the branding for Taste Tideswell, a community-led project supported by the Big Lottery Fund and the BBC.
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Predicted rise in passengers triggers retail revamp by JHP at Bordeaux-Merignac airport
30 September 2010
JHP is redeveloping the ’retail masterplan’ of Bordeaux-Merignac airport’s two original terminal buildings in France.
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Profile: The Noble Union
30 September 2010
Though it was set up by brothers Ryan and Adam Shelton, there’s no time for petulant fraternal arguing at this studio. Their mission to design great-looking iPhone and iPad apps keeps them very busy, as Garrick Webster discovers
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Subtlety would have made Boris' bikes more appealing
30 September 2010
I hate the new London bike scheme. Correction,I hate the new over-branded bike scheme by Barclays. I am not alone as I am now starting to see ’F*** Barclays’ stickers appear all over the bikes everywhere I go.
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Surreal set-ups
30 September 2010
Why do some feel the urge to adopt pompous job titles like ’Creative Director of the World’? David Bernstein calls for a bit of simplicity when it comes to defining what we do for a living
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The Yard Creative designs City pop-up space
30 September 2010
The Yard Creative has designed a pop-up retail space for Land Securities’ new City of London shopping development One New Change, which opens at the end of October.
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TV needs new systems as it moves away from passivity
30 September 2010
The television landscape is swiftly changing, and it is calling for brave new ways to look at the conventions of TV channels.
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Vote for change?
30 September 2010
With each of the three main UK political parties facing transformative change, would they gain by following the lead of the US Democratic Party, which has just rebranded? Tom Banks talks to the designers who worked on their current logos
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Voxpop
30 September 2010
Webb & Webb has rebranded classic toy Playplax. What was your favourite childhood toy and why?
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Web Stories
30 September 2010
Below are the top online news stories published by Design Week over the past week. Magazine subscribers can sign up for free e-mail alerts and access the archive at www.designweek.co.uk. You need to quote your subscription number for access
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What makes your day?
Thu, 28 Oct 2010
Adobe unveiled the winners of its tenth annual student prize Adobe Design Achievement Awards this week, with a UK student, Napatsawan Chirayukool, topping the animation category.A still from Napatsawan Chirayukool’s film What Makes Your Day?
