Design Week
5 August 2010
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...Strengthen the economy and promote collaboration
5 August 2010
The economic value of UK investment in design is out of the scope of the Design Council review (Voxpop, DW 29 July), so it will need to be supported by streamlined and agile public and private partnerships.
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A future role for the Design Council? To champion risk...
5 August 2010
With the future of the Design Council now under review, you recently posed the question, ’What do you think its role should be?’ (Voxpop, DW 29 July).
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A new retail concept has launched at Harrods
5 August 2010
A new retail concept for Waterford Crystal, Wedgwood and Royal Doulton, part of WWRD, has launched at Harrods . The project has been developed by Judge Gill and WWRD.
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Acrobat Design has rebranded confectionery range Mr Stanley's
5 August 2010
Manchester-based consultancy Acrobat Design has rebranded confectionery range Mr Stanley’s for the Gourmet Candy Company. Acrobat took its inspiration from the circus big top stripes.
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Baigent Digital does its bit for Do Nation's new identity
5 August 2010
Baigent Digital has created the identity and website for environmental social enterprise start-up Do Nation.
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Best of the Web
5 August 2010
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Caught in flight
5 August 2010
Studio Space One has created a new identity for wildlife photographer Ben Hall. The logo uses the Estilo font and silhouettes of birds taken from Hall’s photography. Studio Space One director Sam Gray says the birds may be used on their own to provide branding and wayfinding at exhibitions. The brand will be used at the Visions of Nature exhibition in Oakham, Rutland, from 16-22 August.
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Class act
5 August 2010
Guildford-based consultancy Radius Brand Consultants has created a new identity for Willow Brook Primary School, in east London. Radius is also working on the school’s prospectus and website and has created wall graphics that will be used in communal parts of the school building. Radius says the identity supports the headteacher’s vision to refuse to ’conform to expectations of a school in Leyton’. The new identity will launch in September.
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CM Design creates 'industrial' Aberdeen venue for Brewdog
5 August 2010
Scottish brewery Brewdog is opening its first bar, in Aberdeen, with interiors by CM Design Consultants. Brewdog is responsible for new super-strength beer The End of History, packaged in stuffed dead animals.
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Cool again
5 August 2010
Ice cream is making a comeback. Forget Fab lollies and kitsch 1950s paraphernalia and say hello to a world of adult indulgence, bespoke flavours and retail drama. John Stones warms to this chilled reinvention
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Design details have been released of a planned £22.5m performance venue for Doncaster
5 August 2010
Design details have been released of a planned £22.5m performance venue for Doncaster. Architect Arts Team is working on all aspects of the project, including the interiors.
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Dinosaur has created a campaign for Cityco
5 August 2010
Dinosaur has created a campaign for Manchester’s city-centre management company Cityco, to promote it as a family-friendly destination. It follows its See What Manchester’s Made Of brand last year.
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Five rebrand brief likely after takeover by Richard Desmond
5 August 2010
TV station Five is to be renamed Channel Five under new owner Richard Desmond, precipitating an ’inevitable’ rebrand, says head of strategic communications Andrew Sholl.
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Handheld universe
5 August 2010
Mapping and GPS technology for mobile devices are rapidly coming of age, offering the scope to provide plenty of fun and information along with directions from A to B. Anna Richardson investigates this emerging scene - and wonders a little what will happen to our traditional map-reading skills
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HKR Architects has created the identity for the Escape Lounge at Manchester Airport
5 August 2010
HKR Architects has created the identity for the Escape Lounge at Manchester Airport. The graphic identity is broken down into a family of brand identities that can be used for each Escape location.
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If the content’s fun it’ll keep us interested
5 August 2010
There are some helpful observations in Anna Richardson’s feature Screen Literate (DW 29 July), but I challenge her assertion that attention spans are much shorter among online audiences.
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Inspired: Dean Johnson - Brandwidth
5 August 2010
Ask a bunch of students what interactive design is all about and more often than not, the answer will be ’digital, Web, mobile stuff’. However, bringing it back to basics, it is about creating moments to interact with the world around us, in its digital, human and physical form.
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Interaction reaches far beyond the Web - it is central to all our work
Thu, 5 Aug 2010
We don’t need to be told that the future is digital, not just for design, but also for ordinary folk. We are already living the digital life in just about everything we do.
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Keen as Mustard Marketing has created a new visual identity for Incite
5 August 2010
Keen as Mustard Marketing has created a new visual identity for market research agency Incite, intended to convey how ’multifaceted’ and ’colourful’ market research is.
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Let's teach our clients to invest in design
5 August 2010
4D Products’ James Bell shares his experience of working with a variety of clients, from one-man bands to multinational organisations
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Matt Bennett and Will Battersby have joined AKQA as a creative team
5 August 2010
Matt Bennett and Will Battersby have joined AKQA as a creative team. They previously worked together at 20:20, on campaigns for clients including Virgin 1 and the Central Office of Information.
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News in Pictures
5 August 2010
Cure Studio has created the promotional materials for Wajdi Mouwad’s play Scorched, which will be performed at the Old Vic Tunnels under London’s Waterloo Station.
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News in Pictures
5 August 2010
Here Design has created the branding and packaging for small-batch Icelandic vodka Reyka, for distiller William Grant & Sons
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News in Pictures
5 August 2010
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Olympian canvas
5 August 2010
London 2012 has so far emerged unscathed by Government cuts, with design briefs still being put out to tender and the concepts that have already made it past the commissioning stage approaching realisation. Tom Banks reports
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Profile: Simon Spilsbury
5 August 2010
Despite impressive work with digital and moving image, this illustrator’s skills are most spontaneous in simple pen and ink. Garrick Webster talks to the award-winning artist from Bath whose latest project is a Government-backed online archive
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Red Leader has created a new website for Art on the Underground
5 August 2010
Digital consultancy Red Leader has created a new website for Art on the Underground. The website features an interactive Tube map that shows current Art on the Underground projects.
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Shiny new addiction
5 August 2010
As an experiment reveals that frequent Internet use literally changes the structure of our brains, Adrian Shaughnessy considers his life as a specimen of Humanus Internetus
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Siemens Pavilion can 'unlock the potential' of Royal Docks
5 August 2010
London Mayor Boris Johnson says he hopes that projects including the planned Siemens Pavilion for London, with interiors by architect Pringle Brandon and exhibition design by Event Communications, will lead to a regeneration of the Royal Docks area of east London.
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Springetts introduces snakes and tigers to create arresting Wild snacks packs
5 August 2010
Springetts has created the branding and packaging for the Wild range, from Stream Foods.
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Studio Output hires Dave McDougal to head up digital arm
5 August 2010
Studio Output is continuing its digital expansion, naming Dave McDougal as head of digital, six weeks after appointing creative director Tom Muller (DW 10 June).
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Thomas Manss and Company has designed the Salon Magazine 2010
5 August 2010
Thomas Manss and Company has designed the Salon Magazine 2010. Salon is the annual magazine that is published as a companion to the events of the Salzburg Festival in Austria.
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Tracing the grain
5 August 2010
An exhibition of John Makepeace’s work is as much about the achievements and genius of ’the father of British furniture design’, as it is a celebration of wood in all its glory. Inspired by Danish designers in the 1960s, Makepeace built his own workshop and soon earned acclaim for retail products and in competitions. In the 1970s he was a founder trustee of the Crafts Council and set up Parnham College, which integrated the teaching of fine craftsmanship in wood with design and entrepreneurship.
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Voxpop
5 August 2010
What alternative name would you have given to the London bicycle hire scheme, which is currently called Barclays Cycle Hire?
