Design Week
31 January 2008
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... and push the use of Green solutions while we're about it
31 January 2008
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A free-range life leads to free-range thinking, too
31 January 2008
Following up your feature on Nesta's Rural Innovation report (News in Depth, DW 10 January), I have an admission to make - I work in a barn. That's not meant to be an uncomplimentary observation on the habits of my work colleagues - I do, literally, work in a barn. I am part of a small design team based in the Cambridgeshire countryside. It's an idyllic place to work, but all of us here face - as do most small 'out of site [sic], out of mind' consultancies - a continuous ...
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Ariane Van de Ven
31 January 2008
Brandhouse has appointed Ariane Van de Ven, former strategist at ad agency 180 Amsterdam, to the same role.
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Bar and nightclub designed by Noble Russell.
31 January 2008
Pupils at independent boarding school Bryanston are patronising a newly refurbished bar and nightclub designed by Noble Russell. The school appointed the furniture and interiors consultancy in September, following a three-way creative pitch. The bar serves alcohol to over-18-year-olds on two club nights a week.
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Breaking news...
31 January 2008
Does the relaunch of ITV’s News at Ten in its old timeslot mark a return to traditional broadcast design values, or have podcasts and ‘rolling’ formats altered our expectations of TV news forever? Oliver Bennett investigates
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Broome Jenkins - bridging the North/South divide
31 January 2008
Broome Jenkins is fully committed to the regional design sector and the value of local talent. We started in Chichester, but opened a second office - Broome Jenkins North - to do work with a strong regional bias in the North West. So reading Matt Wardle's letter 'Why fly south for design and ignore local talent?' (Letters, DW 24 January), we feel obliged to agree with his sentiment, but also to correct a wrong assumption. It's true we made contact with John McFaul through ...
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Corporate Edge
31 January 2008
Corporate Edge-owner Photon has acquired Naked Communications for £16.5m. The media planner was a sister group to Poke and Household within the Mother consortium.
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Creative sector has been undervalued, says Nesta report
31 January 2008
Judging from the number of reports dedicated to it, the defining design issue of the Noughties is the creative industries' contribution to the UK economy. The seminal 2005 Cox Review and Will Hutton's Staying Ahead, to name but two, have now been joined by Nesta's Beyond the Creative Industries: Mapping the Creative Economy in the United Kingdom.Like its predecessors, this ambitious report claims a few firsts. Not only does it say it contains possibly the most finely grained analysis ...
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Flagship London Dunhill store details unveiled
31 January 2008
Alfred Dunhill's flagship London store is due to open this summer, with interiors by South African designer Graham Viney. It will include a private members' club, spa, private cinema, games room and restaurant.The menswear retailer is considering whether to stay in-house or brief consultancies to create a website and identities for the club and restaurant.The London Home of Alfred Dunhill, as the 2000m2 complex is to be called, will be housed in a Grade I-listed townhouse ...
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Hitachi has appointed The Liquid Way
31 January 2008
Hitachi has appointed The Liquid Way to design and produce Inspire Life, a corporate event in London and Paris this spring showcasing the future of its technology.
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In search of new horizons
31 January 2008
For many design consultancies of a certain size, overseas expansion can be a logical next step in building the business, says Tony Walford
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Inspired, Adrian Wheeler - Creator
31 January 2008
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Kerry Foods
31 January 2008
Kerry Foods is launching a new Wall's snacking product called Wall's Stroller, with name, packaging and brand identity by Path.
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KM Design
31 January 2008
Hertfordshire consultancy KM Design has created a logo for catering company Valeside.
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LCI heads north with Glasgow gaming venue
31 January 2008
London Clubs International, the company behind The Casino at The Empire in London's Leicester Square, is to unveil a new casino this month in Scotland.The company has revised the design team appointed to carry out the branding and interiors for its latest venture, following the launch of casinos in London, Manchester and Nottingham.The naming, branding and identity for the £15m Alea Glasgow venue has been devised by marketing consultancy Elvis Communications, taking over ...
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Let there be light
31 January 2008
Past excesses have inevitably put light festivals in the doghouse with environmentalists, but an event in London this week turns the tables and suggests they can be showcases for sustainable and responsible urban illumination, says Oliver Bennett
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London club to open with Sieff interiors
31 January 2008
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News in Pictures
31 January 2008
Sega is to launch a new game called The Club, with imagery created by Sheffield-based consultancy Uber which will also feature on packaging and in the advertising material.
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Ode to cologne
31 January 2008
Henrietta Thompson rather enjoys the work on display at the Cologne furniture fair, but what impresses her most are the organiser’s neat touches. Meanwhile, Natasha Edwards samples what the rapidly evolving Paris fair scene has to offer
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Profile
31 January 2008
Former car designer Jeanne Marell is one of a new breed of multidisciplinary designers working at Nokia’s London studio. Guy Bird talks to her about her projects, the iPhone threat and where Nokia goes next
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Royal Academy hosts On Off London show
31 January 2008
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Royal Yacht Britannia Trust
31 January 2008
Royal Yacht Britannia Trust has appointed 442 Design as lead consultant on the design of the reinstatement of the Royal Deck on the Edinburgh-based ship.
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Sebastian Conran and Richard Seymour
31 January 2008
Designers Sebastian Conran and Richard Seymour are to appear as guest speakers at a 'think outside the box' event at Blackheath High School in south London on 3 March.
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Something for nothing
31 January 2008
Building brand loyalty means exploiting all that modern marketing has to offer – a lesson the National Blood Service would do well to learn, says Clare Dowdy
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Staying shipshape
31 January 2008
Having secured Lottery funding, can both the Mary Rose and the Cutty Sark turn their ambitious design plans into reality? asks Sarah Woods
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The battle for design at the British Council isn't over yet
31 January 2008
Though the tribulations of the Arts Council have attracted infinitely more media attention, there are similarities between recent wranglings there and the current situation at the British Council with regard to its arts strategy (see News, page 3). Both organisations appear to have stepped ...
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The future is now
31 January 2008
We can hardly imagine the world that created Aleksandr Mikhailovich Rodchenko. He was born into an almost medieval Russia, with donkey carts and carp fishing and serfs, and witnessed the super-violent birth of a modern country, with steel works and machine guns and mass death. This explosion of newness fuelled a new kind of radical politics that promised a better life for all. Rodchenko and his fellow artists sought a way of creating art that lived up to the irresistibly new world around ...
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Two groups win Scottish Natural Heritage review
31 January 2008
Scottish Natural Heritage, the body responsible for the conservation and maintenance of Scotland's national parks and natural resources, is to undergo a strategy and brand review.The organisation has appointed Edinburgh consultancy The Leith Agency to develop its strategy and brand proposition, while Glasgow-based group Third Eye Design is understood to have been appointed verbally to work on brand guidelines and implementation, though a contract has yet to be given official sign-off.The ...
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Vattenfall appoints The Brand Union
31 January 2008
Nordic and central European energy company Vattenfall has appointed The Brand Union as its branding consultancy, following an international public tender.
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Voxpop
31 January 2008
After a disappointing Christmas for several UK retailers, particularly in the footwear market, how can the use of design help to entice shoppers back to the high-street chains?Part of the problem for customers is being able to distinguish between their favourite shops. Mid-market Oxford Street ...
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We must find a way to promote the role of wayfinding...
31 January 2008
I was very interested in your piece on wayfinding (Comment, DW 17 January). As this is our speciality, I can wholly concur with your thoughts. I am always surprised at the low level of interest in wayfinding shown by other industries. At Inside Information, we are proud to be leaders in corporate/workplace design and wayfinding. It is surprising to see the common perception of wayfinding as merely a bolt-on of little benefit, something that needs to be completed to get ...
