Design Week
4 January 2007
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Aesthetic horrors
4 January 2007
Trying to steer clear of hideous Christmas designs, Adrian Shaughnessy comes across another woeful piece of work - the provisional driving licence
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Architect Rafael Viñoly
4 January 2007
Architect Rafael Viñoly's design for 20 Fenchurch Street in the City of London has provided inspiration for the development's branding, created by Radford Wallis. Print materials reference Viñoly's inverted structure, where larger floorplates are positioned higher up in the building. Radford Wallis has also designed the website www.20fenchurchstreet.co.uk, programmed by Bounce Digital.
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Aricot Vert
4 January 2007
Aricot Vert has appointed Samantha Bell to the newly created position of senior account director. She joins from Corporate Edge, where she held the role of account director and head of resourcing for six years.
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Cover appeal
4 January 2007
Books are looking better than ever as publishers go out of their way to make their titles stand out. Yolanda Zappaterra checks out Hodder Stoughton's latest initiative - commissioning a range of artists to create covers for modern classics
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D&AD Annual's Italian job
4 January 2007
This year's D&AD Annual will be designed outside of the UK for the first time, with the work awarded to Benetton's communication research centre, Fabrica.
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Dearth of design honours a sign we need champions
4 January 2007
Design owes a lot to James Dyson. He has shown that designers can be successful businessmen on the global stage and has fought hard to protect copyright in design, setting legal precedents along the way.He is entrepreneurial and committed to quality. He is a great ambassador for design, despite the public spat when he quit as chairman of the Design Museum over differences with the then director Alice Rawsthorn.It is only fitting, then, that he should join the ...
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Dott 07 creates sustainable design plan for North East
4 January 2007
It could be the second coming of the Industrial Revolution - only a sustainable version this time - which is perhaps why Designs of The Time 07 is focusing its attentions on the North East for its first project.Dott 07, led by programme director John Thackara and executive producer Robert O'Dowd, is a year-long project and a collaboration between the Design Council and the regional development agency One North East.It will be looking at how design can make a positive contribution ...
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Dyson recognised in honours list
4 January 2007
Inventor James Dyson has been awarded a knighthood for 40 years' service to the design and engineering industry in this year's New Year Honours List.The knighthood recognises Dyson as 'one of the greatest inventors of the modern era'. He was previously awarded a CBE (DW 9 January 1998).Famous for vacuum cleaners, Dyson's company most recently designed a new form of high-speed hand dryer, called the Dyson Airblade. He is also hoping to launch a £22m design and engineering ...
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Essar aims to crack India’s consumer market with identity revamp by Start Creative
4 January 2007
Essar, the £10bn heavy industries conglomerate based in India, is preparing to unveil an overhauled corporate identity designed by Start Creative in London.
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Fitch director takes on global remit
4 January 2007
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Giannunzio Guzzini
4 January 2007
Giannunzio Guzzini, chairman of architectural lighting manufacturer iGuzzini Illuminazione, died on 20 December 2006, aged 68. Although vice-chairman of Guzzini Group, since 1966 he has focused his time on iGuzzini, drawing on innovations in technology and manufacturing to develop the company's products.
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Glidden Design has created a brand identity for Spotless Commercial Cleaning.
4 January 2007
The identity features a stylised blue S created in spots on a blue background.
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Graphic Thought Facility
4 January 2007
Graphic Thought Facility has created a neon artwork depicting proteins related to deadly diseases for the home of medical charity the Wellcome Trust, in London's Euston Road. The consultancy worked with the charity to understand the nature of the proteins. This is the first time Graphic has experimented with neon on this scale.
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Graphical House cultivates an identity for the Scottish Show
4 January 2007
Graphical House has designed an unusual 'evolving' identity for this year's Scottish Show. The event is scheduled to take place in the summer at The Lighthouse, Scotland's national architecture and design centre, as part of the Six Cities Design Festival 2007, which is running throughout Scotland.The core identity, featuring a typeface based on Lubalin, will be overlaid with different abstract graphic marks when it is applied across the exhibition and its marketing materials.'Representing ...
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Hanging on
4 January 2007
He won an Oscar in 2003 for his production designs for the film Chicago. He scooped another one last year for his period creations for Memoirs Of A Geisha. Now production designer John Myhre is wowing us again with Hollywood musical Dreamgirls, which tells the story of a Diana Ross-like singer elbowing her way to pole position in her Supremes-like harmonising girl trio. Based on the 1981 Broadway stage hit, and already the subject of fevered awards speculation, the film stars R&B ...
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Holmes & Marchant cleans up Domestos
4 January 2007
Unilever has appointed Holmes & Marchant to its roster to work on household cleaning product Domestos’s graphics, following the consultancy’s continued service for the brand.
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Inspired
4 January 2007
I am most inspired when I get out of the studio into the real world and observe the everyday interplay between people, spaces and objects.This is when I put myself in other people's shoes to find out what they see and do, and how they think and feel.I gain valuable insights into people and situations, and this allows me to empathise with people's experiences. It is this empathy that enables me to design something better or different, something that is genuinely useful, ...
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Mesh Design
4 January 2007
Dublin consultancy Mesh Design has created a brand identity and packaging for Hogan's Farm, a farmer and supplier of turkeys.
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News in Pictures
4 January 2007
The stained glass pictorial works of Mark Angus can be seen alongside the glass sculptures of Erwin Eisch at the Glass Art Gallery
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Organic dairy brand Yeo Valley is launching a range of organic yoghurt sticks
4 January 2007
Called Yeo's and designed by Blue Marlin Brand Design, the packs feature bug characters and use speech bubbles to 'talk' to kids.
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Playtex
4 January 2007
Lingerie brand Playtex has appointed integrated creative consultancy Together to redesign its UK website, www.playtex.co.uk. Together won the work following a three-way creative pitch.
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Porsche Design Studio
4 January 2007
Porsche Design Studio has joined forces with luxury boat manufacturer Fearless Yachts to design and build a collection of high-speed boats. The brands claim to have combined the style and performance of the marine and automotive disciplines to establish a luxury brand for the boating industry.
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Portland Design leads the way for London mall
4 January 2007
Portland Design is to create a wayfinding and signage scheme for Westfield London, the giant £1.6bn shopping centre development opening next year in west London.
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Pouncing back
4 January 2007
In dire straits, luxury car maker Jaguar is hoping for a design-led renaissance. Jaguar design director Ian Callum speaks to John Stones about a new direction for the venerable marque
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Procter & Gamble
4 January 2007
Procter & Gamble has won a community design battle in the High Court against rival Reckitt Benckiser.
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Profile
4 January 2007
After reeling in Williams Murray Hamm, Charlie Hoult is stepping up his acquisitive strategy. The Loewy chief executive may describe himself as 'chief rainmaker', but how does he differ from other entrepeneurs?
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Pushdesign
4 January 2007
London consultancy Pushdesign has been appointed by Latvian Sky Supermarkets to redesign the branding and interiors of the company's flagship out-of-town store in Riga.
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Regional networks can help local talent develop and grow
4 January 2007
The year 2007 is about designers in the South West stepping up to the mark and expanding the opportunity for themselves. Regional networks play a very important part in enabling designers to achieve this goal. In the South West, 85 per cent of designers work on their own. By getting together with their peers they can exchange ideas, share knowledge and get help with issues others have already faced. I am afraid that most of the central organisations that are supposed ...
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Smith & Milton Original Limited in administration
4 January 2007
The new directors of Smith & Milton have put its 15-year-old business into administration, it has emerged this week.
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SomeOne builds up Jade Jagger brand
4 January 2007
Designer Jade Jagger is building her position as creative director of property development firm Yoo, with a fresh brand identity by SomeOne.
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Take a fresh perspective
4 January 2007
An evaluation by an independent group will reveal how to streamline your consultancy, says Anita Brightly Hodges
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The Brass Rail goes back to the future
4 January 2007
Selfridges has relaunched its Oxford Street store's salt beef restaurant The Brass Rail, with a fresh identity and packaging by in-house creative director Alannah Weston and her team and interiors by architect Michaelis Boyd.The restaurant will move from the men's accessories and wine department to the food hall as part of a £10m revamp of the store's ground floor, understood to be designed by Tokyo-based architect Klein Dytham Architecture.The Brass Rail will feature a ...
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Voxpop: The regions
4 January 2007
As the regions exert greater strength in the design world, what are the issues that will affect designers in your area in 2007, and what would you like to see happen to promote regional design initiatives this year? The big issue is for South West consultancies to climb the value chain - ...
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What's the next big thing?
4 January 2007
As 2007 starts with a bang, Design Week asks some leading lights what the year has in store for the design industry
