Design Week
5 February 2009
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3D illustration is hard to resist
5 February 2009
With its delight in the grotesque and its echoes of childish play, 3D illustration in the digital era offers a sense of heightened reality that artists and advertisers alike find hard to resist. Anna Richardson reports
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Agitpop
5 February 2009
Many designers consider themselves artists too, but Mauro Perucchetti went from running an international design and architectural practice to becoming a successful professional artist, conjuring work of candy-coloured, seductive aesthetic appeal with a m
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Brandhouse pushes chateau appeal for luxury tea collection
5 February 2009
Brandhouse has designed the branding and packaging for a tea collection from luxury start-up Chateau Rouge.Chateau Rouge founder Seán Farrell appointed Brandhouse after searching the Internet for consultancies and looking at the group's past work. He then visited the group 'to discuss the germ of his idea, which is bringing together a variety of luxury products under one brand, and making them credible', according to David Beard, creative director at Brandhouse.Brandhouse ...
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Brighton conference to look at future of education
5 February 2009
With controversy continuing to swirl around former Landor Europe and Fitch managing director Ian Cochrane's recommendation in Design Week that design students 'get out' of a sector that 'does not need' them,the University of Brighton is to address the iss
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Creative director Eric Scott leaves Saffron
5 February 2009
Saffron global creative director Eric Scott has left the branding group after a 'mutual agreement that the working relationship was incompatible', according to Saffron principal Ian Stephens.Scott arrived at Saffron about a year ago, after being fired as chief executive of Wolff Olins' US operation at the end of 2005, allegedly for refusing to make redundancies.His newly created role at Saffron involved overseeing projects at the consultancy's global locations, run by creative ...
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Dalziel & Pow...
5 February 2009
Dalziel & Pow has created the identity and retail environment for Mom & Me, an Indian mother-and-child retail brand, for Indian conglomerate Mahindra and Mahindra.
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Design can only go so far in redeeming irresponsible banks
5 February 2009
Do customers really see retail bank brands in Lego brick terms (Goodwill hunting, DW 15 January)?
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Design degrees open many doors - not just in the field
5 February 2009
It was only a matter of time before the number of graduates hoping to enter design each year was raised in the context of the economic downturn. It is not a new concern that colleges are issuing design degrees at a rate of knots, but the situation becomes even more acute in ...
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Design needs new blood, so don't put people off
5 February 2009
I have to pick Ian Cochrane up on his sweeping statement that we should discourage people from entering the design industry (News in Depth, DW 29 January). Of course, he's right that job opportunities are few, and times are bleaker than ever, but he misses the point that young talent is the very lifeblood of creative industries. It would be tragic to point someone with great potential towards an Aldi graduate programme. For many young people, design is a vocation, not an ...
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Digest
5 February 2009
The Arts Council says The Public gallery is 'not worth the entry price' as it refused further funding to the West Bromwich arts centre (29 January)
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Digest
5 February 2009
Rare Breed has created the identity for GSTS Pathology, a partnership between Serco Group and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation (2 February)
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Digest
5 February 2009
Corporate Edge is creating the branding for a new organisation which will result from the merger of charities Help the Aged and Age Concern (2 February)
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Digest
5 February 2009
Former Brand Union chief executive Dave Allen is one of the founders of new group Brand Pie (2
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Digest
5 February 2009
Pearlfisher has redesigned the packaging for Nivea for Men, for the brand's global relaunch(3 February)
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Digest
5 February 2009
Bath-based consultancy Northbank has designed The Green Book, which outlines the environmental credentials of the Chiswick Place development, for developer Stanhope.
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Digest
5 February 2009
3D production company Hothouse I Want Gets has launched a new design service.
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Digest
5 February 2009
Code Computerlove has appointed Wesley Hogg, formerly of McCann Erikson Manchester, as executive creative director.
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Digest
5 February 2009
MPAD has created a new identity for Cornish toiletries and chocolate company St Kitts Herbery.
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From contact to contract
5 February 2009
There’s one golden rule consultancies should know about pitches and credentials meetings: make each encounter count, says Shan Preddy
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Going skinny
5 February 2009
The pressure is on for websites to deliver the goods quickly, rather than divert or show off. Michael Johnson charts the current drift towards increasing simplicity and ease of navigation in Web design, creating sites that work on mobiles too
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Hgv Design cooks up Holy Cow identity
5 February 2009
London group HGV Design has created a new identity for organic dairy Holy Cow.HGV was commissioned to the work by independent branding consultant Tim Watson, who was working with client Geoff Sayers, owner of organic dairy farm Carswell Farm, to reposition Sayers' Holy Cow brand.Watson says, 'Geoff wanted someone to look at where Holy Cow fitted in the dairy market, which is dominated by a number of large brands.'From a design point of view it would have been very ...
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Hot 50 - Introduction
5 February 2009
Saying thank you for a job well done is a wonderful thing. It is therefore with great pleasure that we present Design Week’s latest Hot 50, a celebration of people, organisations and movements that have gone the extra mile for design over the past 12 months.
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Inspired
5 February 2009
It was 1979, and I loved Two-Tone. It wasn't just the sound, it was the pure simplicity of it all.At a time of racial tension and inner-city riots, Two-Tone offset with a fusion of post-punk and Jamaican Ska. The idea was straightforward, musicians and artists leading by example with large doses of pathos, self-deprecation and a certain amount of naivety. The label's identity was consistent and direct, and I guess I've always liked things to be black and white.This was ...
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Interbrand appoints Ward to push business opportunities
5 February 2009
Interbrand has appointed Simon Ward to the role of business development director, a new post on the board which will look at driving new business.Ward is former chief executive of Pleon UK, and was co-founder and managing director of consultancy Promodus.A spokeswoman for Interbrand said the move was not part of a restructure, but was an effort to focus on business opportunities from a board level. Interbrand London chief executive Rune Gustafson says, 'We see this as a ...
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It's an insurance job
5 February 2009
With its name change trumpeted in a slick TV campaign, Norwich Union has fallen prey to the worst excesses of the cult of branding, says Adrian Shaughnessy
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Lighting designer Mark Major sees a bright future
5 February 2009
Mark Major, co-founder of ‘lighting architecture’ group Speirs and Major Associates, sees a bright future. He tells Anna Richardson why there will always be a role for his profession, even in an economic downturn
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Mytton Williams has...
5 February 2009
Mytton Williams has designed the latest in the series of Footprint travel guides. The first four titles in the new Footprint Italy series will be launched at the London Book Fair in April. Mytton Williams has worked with the publisher since getting involved in the development of its guidebook brand in 1996.
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News in Pictures
5 February 2009
Poster Girl, illustrator Jasper Goodall's first solo show, opens at the Electric Blue Gallery, London E1 on 7 February.
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News in Pictures
5 February 2009
Paper-cut lampshades made from recycled paper and created by designer Yu Jordy Fu will form part of Hidden Art’s line-up at the Milan furniture fair, from 22-27 April.
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Page views
5 February 2009
Freesheets and free online content are slowly killing off the paid-for daily. Mike Dempsey suspects it’s only a matter of time before newspaper sales atrophy – though no cyber experience can equal the pleasure of quality weekend supplements
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Project Orange has...
5 February 2009
Project Orange has designed the five-star Fitzwilliam Hotel Belfast, which is set to open in March. The hotel will feature 130 guestrooms, six studio suites and a two-bedroom penthouse overlooking Belfast city centre.
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Red Bee Media...
5 February 2009
Red Bee Media has rebranded UKTV People ready for its relaunch as UKTV Blighty on 17 February. Carrying the strapline 'One nation under a channel', Blighty will address issues of British identity. Red Bee's four launch idents will celebrate the British seaside, as well as curry, rain and tea. They are intended to 'inject a factual channel with personality and humour', according to a UKTV spokesman.
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Review
5 February 2009
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Travelodge hotel in a container - it's not new, or bijou
5 February 2009
I think the Travelodge shipping container hotel concept (www.designweek.co.uk, 22 January), is fascinating, and certainly not new. There are many companies working with freight container developments - Lot-Ek, for example, has created a container store for Uniqlo that is clever, fun and mobile. It's progressive that Travelodge is working with freight containers and developing them into a mass-market proposition, but is this a missed opportunity? The Yotel model ...
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Uniform designs Aura sofa group branding
5 February 2009
Emerging furniture design group Aura is poised to launch its brand identity, designed by Liverpool-based consultancy Uniform Communications.The bespoke sofa manufacturer, also based in Liverpool, appointed Uniform last summer on the strength of a recommendation from artist Ceri Hand, for whom Uniform has also done branding work.Founded in 2007 by Paula Smith and Darren Connolly, Aura creates bespoke sofas and seating for businesses and individuals, ranging in price from ...
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Voxpop
5 February 2009
What advice would you give to students hoping to break into the industry in the current economic situation?
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What will Google's GDrive mean for computer design?
5 February 2009
Google Drive may end hardware-performance anxiety, but our libidinal tech desires will see the computer surviving in other forms, says Emily Pacey
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Working in retail abroad
5 February 2009
Foreign retailers are keen to exploit the globally admired expertise of UK designers. Maeve Hosea talks to creatives who have dealt with the challenges of working in four very different regions
