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4 June 1998

  • A charity reaping the reward of businesslike design strategy

    4 June 1998

    Letters to the Editor should be sent to Design Week, 50 Poland Street, London W1V 4AX. Fax: 0171-970 4165. e-mail Design-week@centaur.co.uk

  • A few hiccups for Callum's Italian job

    4 June 1998

    Car nut Callum Lumsden has taken notice of DW's coverage of Alfa Romeo's sporty new 156 saloon (DW 17 April), and placed an order for one.

  • A touch of glass

    4 June 1998

    The National Glass Centre is the UK's first permanent housing for glassmakers' work, and the building itself showcases the use of glass in architecture. Jessica Cargill Thompson pays a visit

  • Black's blue-eyed boys

    4 June 1998

    Glasgow consultancy Black has won The Drum magazine's Grand Prix award for its Tunnel Vision website. Tom Bawden profiles the growth of the group since it moved into multimedia.

  • Breaking up is hard to do

    4 June 1998

    With the expected departure of Siegel & Gale from Saatchi & Saatchi, Clare Dowdy asks what went wrong and looks at the relationship between design and ad groups.

  • Brief

    4 June 1998

    Themes of revolution, Rock 'n' Roll and South American writing echo in the flyer for this year's Cheltenham Festival of Literature. 'I wanted to create an image with impact, but which would look good to someone who didn't know anything about the festival,' says Waterside senior designer Joanna Ryland. The Cheltenham consultancy also designed a poster and 36-page brochure for the event, which runs from 9-18 October.

  • Briefs

    4 June 1998

    Emap Fashion's title Menswear hit the shelves as a monthly last week with a complete redesign by Atelier Works. Editor Sarah Woodhead wanted the magazine to be clear and inspirational. 'It was important to appeal to a broader readership and show the same degree of innovation through design as the retailers we want to reach,' she says. The consultancy, led by Quentin Newark, has given Menswear a bolder, brighter, younger image, and it's now developing templates, says Atelier designer ...

  • Briefs

    4 June 1998

    Lumsden Design Partnership, in association with Carrow Design, has created a new look for Yorkshire bakery chain Ainsleys. The revamped interior is being trialled at Ainsleys Sandwich Shop in Leeds. The new identity will immediately cover stationery, packaging and van livery, and further stores in the 29-strong chain will be converted in due course.

  • Cambridge is not the centre of the world

    4 June 1998

    Methinks Alan Murphy of Cambridge (Letters DW 22 May), is being ever so slightly cheeky by suggesting most rays of new-product design excellence emanate from the various, nay, specific environs of Cambridge.

  • Coombs' art school information mis-Leeds

    4 June 1998

    With reference to Students fuel forecourt ideas (DW 22 May) concerning the recent CDG/ - Amtico Retail Design awards, I would be pleased if you would correct your mistake in stating that Jo Coombs, the student who was "highly commended", is from Leeds Uni

  • Creative Action styles first of watch chain

    4 June 1998

    The first of a proposed watch chain opened in London's Covent Garden on Tuesday, designed by Creative Action Design Consultants.

  • CSD Medal for Days

    4 June 1998

    Robin and Lucienne Day were awarded the CSD Medal for lifetime achievement in design at the society's annual Minerva dinner on Wednesday.

  • DEGREE SHOWS

    4 June 1998

    Furniture and product design students from Nottingham Trent University exhibit their work from 10-13 June... - Venue: Waverley Street, Nottingham NG1 4BU.

  • Design that endures is millenium challenge

    4 June 1998

    The great thing about awards like the CSD Medal is that they remind us design has a history. It's easy to think of the design business as a contemporary invention, fuelled by marketingspeak about branding and the like. But the lifetime achievements of Robin and Lucienne Day, honoured this week (see News, page 3), show that British design had consumers' interests at heart and a potent international dimension long before the Tory regime of the Eighties identified it as a valuable export ...

  • Down to earth

    4 June 1998

    The name JCB is synonymous with the bright yellow excavators and lifters it manufactures. Chairman Sir Anthony Bamford tells Tim Rich a common sense approach to product design is vital to success

  • Drum awards Scots groups

    4 June 1998

    Glasgow consultancy Black picked up three awards and Edinburgh group Pure Design won two at The Drum magazine's inaugural Scottish Design Awards.

  • English & Pockett to rebrand ITV network

    4 June 1998

    English & Pockett has been appointed to rebrand the ITV network, following a credentials and pricing pitch against Ortmans Young and Red Pepper.

  • Exhibitions

    4 June 1998

    Random in Reverse will display photographs by Dutch-born Otto Jasper Stuurman. His work has been shown in a number of exhibitions in Holland, including the group exhibition De Illusie in Rotterdam. From 8 June until 17 July.

  • Festival image makes Sense

    4 June 1998

    The British Medical Association is to run The Millennium Festival of Medicine throughout the year 2000, with an identity by London design and marketing consultancy Sense.

  • Fitch fashions Oasis brand

    4 June 1998

    Fitch is working on a branding concept for 160-strong fashion chain Oasis, in its bid to be ahead of competition in the cut-throat high street fashion market.

  • FUTURE DATES

    4 June 1998

    The International Design Forum East/West: The New Millennium will focus on the development of design and communication in the age of networking and emphasise the role designers will play in meeting global business needs. Speakers come from Canada,

  • Government roster

    4 June 1998

    Government body English Heritage has received 163 applications from groups wanting to be on its first design roster. - The line-up is likely to include between 15 and 20 groups.

  • Hear Lyons roar over sound of baby crying

    4 June 1998

    I should like to correct a story (News, DW 22 May) which accompanied an illustration of the Johnson & Johnson In Touch Baby Reassurance Monitor.

  • Heathrow Express being tested

    4 June 1998

    TRAINS ran from Paddington station in London direct to Heathrow Airport last week as the Heathrow Express service was tested ready for the full launch on 23 June.

  • HyperMedia enlivens brand on CD-ROM

    4 June 1998

    The Coleman Group Worldwide's new multimedia operation has created a CD-ROM version of the identity standard manual for pharmaceuticals giant Novartis.

  • INS figures out merger identity

    4 June 1998

    Interbrand Newell and Sorrell has created the identity for PricewaterhouseCoopers, the group to be formed when accountancy firms Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand formally merge on 1 July.

  • JHP revamps drugstore chain

    4 June 1998

    John Herbert Partnership has created a new identity and interiors for Hong Kong drugstore chain Mannings. The concept is currently being introduced on a trial basis, with a view to being rolled out across the chain.

  • Landor replaces Bruno Toulin

    4 June 1998

    Landor Associates has replaced Bruno Toulin, recently departed executive director for branded environment, with VB Concepts Worldwide international business development director Mickie Holden, who joins on 15 June.

  • LECTURE

    4 June 1998

    Martin Lambie-Nairn continues the British Design and Art Direction President's Lectures. Lambie-Nairn has produced screen identities for Channel 4 and restyled the BBC identity.Contact: D&AD on 0171 -840 1111 for tickets.Venue: The Royal Geographic Society, Exhibition Road, London SW7.

  • LNC plans growth into New York and Europe

    4 June 1998

    Lloyd Northover Citigate parent company Incepta Group is to set up a design presence in New York by the end of the year. - The office will either be formed through organic growth or an acquisition, says LNC vice-chairman Jim Northover.

  • Midlands piss-up

    4 June 1998

    The spectacle of a bar full of designers meeting up for a night of loosely work-related debauchery has been pretty much a London phenomenon.

  • Minale Tattersfield updates Greek oil identity

    4 June 1998

    Greek petrol retailer Elinoil is introducing a new identity designed by Minale Tattersfield. It is being rolled out across its 350-strong petrol station network.

  • MLH creates B&Q report

    4 June 1998

    DIY chain B&Q has appointed Cirencester consultancy Martin Lock Hilton to work up an environmental report to launch at its suppliers' conference in October.

  • Pretty as a picture

    4 June 1998

    Melanie Holman is slightly disappointed by a book that is visually stunning but doesn't tell much about either of its subjects, photography and dance

  • Ready steady cook kids

    4 June 1998

    A budget of next to nothing to raise awareness of food and cooking among children, coupled with a high-speed development programme, has resulted in a bright and simple scheme from Interbrand Newell and Sorrell.

  • Refraction heroes

    4 June 1998

    Designers are using glass in buildings to stunning effect: manipulating it with colour and texture, opening up spaces, reflecting and playing with light. Emma O Kelly profiles the work and the approaches of three glass designers.

  • Robert Lush

    4 June 1998

    Robert Lush, the founder of Richmond Design Group and a prominent figure in international hotel design for more than 30 years, has passed away peacefully and unexpectedly after a brief illness, aged 67.

  • Ron Arad lands second RCA role

    4 June 1998

    Ron Arad has been appointed professor of industrial design at the Royal College of Art, bringing together under one head the schools of industrial design and furniture.

  • Saatchi & Saatchi report goes on and on

    4 June 1998

    Saatchi & Saatchi's latest annual report uses technology familiar from annoying greetings cards to give readers an audio introduction from Dr Kevin Roberts when they open the document.

  • Siegel & Gale may fly nest

    4 June 1998

    US-based identity consultancy Siegel & Gale is believed to be preparing to pull out of advertising network Saatchi & Saatchi.

  • SLH is full of beans

    4 June 1998

    Scott Libby Heming created the name and branding for Bean and Olive, a coffee and pizza chain set to replace 35 town centre Deep Pan Pizza outlets. Interiors are by Dick Morgan, who is working with SLH.

  • Small businesses not ready

    4 June 1998

    The Federation of Small Business is worried about some small businesses. A survey it recently commissioned concludes that many small businesses believe the single currency will have a damaging effect on business and are unprepared for its introduction. A third believe joining a single currency will have a negative effect on them and less than one in five have seriously considered preparing for the introduction of the euro. Just one fifth of the 4000 respondents believe the single currency ...

  • Snap! Designs have heads in the clouds

    4 June 1998

    There are only a finite number of good ideas, or so it seems. Turner Duckworth and Hobbins Sides have both come up with a 'face in the clouds' solution for two very different projects.

  • Software library launch

    4 June 1998

    IMSI, publisher and developer of productivity software for business and home markets, has released a collection of clip art, photos, fonts, Web art, animation and video clips, entitled Masterclips 303,000. This is available from software retailers, mail-order organisations and directly from IMSI for 59.99. For more information, visit www.imsiuk.co.uk and www.imsisoft.com

  • Solid performance

    4 June 1998

    Congratulations to London group Solid Design Consultants for winning the Enterprise Award for Small Business, organised by Bromley Enterprise Agency Trust. The NatWest-sponsored award was made in recognition of the consultancy's marketing prowess. 'Solid stood out among the rest of the competition for its business acumen,' says NatWest small business advisor Malcolm Martindale. Solid was set up in 1996 by two London College of Printing graduates and has a wide range of design capabilities.

  • Spencer Landor logo

    4 June 1998

    Sadler's Wells, the London theatre due to reopen in October, has unveiled its new identity, created by Spencer Landor.

  • Spring clean

    4 June 1998

    Informal alliances between design, advertising and management consultancies can work more successfully than set-in-stone mergers.

  • Strong pound, weak exports

    4 June 1998

    The strength of sterling continues to hit small businesses, which are experiencing the lowest level of export orders in the last five years, according to the Confederation of British Industry's latest report on trends among small to medium-sized enterprises. In the last four months, 37 per cent of SME's reported a fall in export orders compared with 26 per cent in the previous four months. Over the next four months, export orders are expected to fall and expectations are the weakest ...

  • SW Water renamed as Pennon

    4 June 1998

    South West Water is rebranding its operation to more accurately reflect the company's evolved business portfolio. - The company will be renamed Pennon Group and its business activities will be separated into two subsidiary operations.

  • The best creatives dare to seem foolish

    4 June 1998

    "Creativity" (Comment, DW 29 May) can be anything that is not "normal". "Normal" can be anything that we do not find shocking, or anything that doesn't make us stop and think.

  • The honeymoon period

    4 June 1998

    Tim Rich finds weddings are a fertile ground for a bit of consumer research, but is glad the heightened design sensibilities on show don't last longer than the afternoon.

  • The mystery of the anonymous spuds

    4 June 1998

    The potato mystery has been solved. A regular supply of the vegetables has been arriving by post at DW's offices. - No explanation.

  • There's no need to rush into marriage

    4 June 1998

    As the traditional distinctions between design, advertising and management consultancy continue to blur, clients are demanding that consultancies manage increasingly broad chunks of their marketing strategies.

  • Virgin unveils Silver Lady

    4 June 1998

    Virgin Trains has unveiled its Silver Lady logo, to appear alongside the existing identity when its new trains are launched next millennium. London consultancy Start created the new marque.

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