Design Week
5 January 2006
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10 Gives Bundaberg a boost in youth market
5 January 2006
Australian ginger beer brewer Bundaberg has appointed Huddersfield-based consultancy 10 to create the identity and packaging designs for a raft of new products, as it prepares to step up its presence in the UK.
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An innovative take on a motor home
5 January 2006
General Motors West Coast Advanced Design Studio has created the Pad, an innovative take on a motor home. The Pad is GM's entry to the California Design Challenge at this week's LA Auto Show. It seeks to be an 'urban loft with mobility'. Features include a diesel-electric ...
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Boxer lets builders Avit in their own words
5 January 2006
Boxer has created the name, brand identity and packaging for a new range of value tools distributed by Carl Kammerling International.
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Cambridge brief comes back to haunt Gradwell
5 January 2006
Mad.co.uk recently emailed me an article. BBI360 managing director Simon Barbato says, ‘The key to creating the brand positioning was to understand the intrinsic attributes of Cambridge. Our theme for Grand Arcade was rooted in Cambridge’s academic history and this enabled us to provide a branding platform for both consumer and business communications.”
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Designjunction creates website for Nigel Atkinson
5 January 2006
Digital design consultancy Designjunction has created a website for artist and fabric designer Nigel Atkinson. It can be found at www.nigel-atkinson.co.uk, and marks the opening of his showroom at interior design store Contemporanea in Fulham, London.
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Eastern promise
5 January 2006
In the first of an occasional series looking at new retail concepts abroad, Clare Dowdy visits Istanbul to check out a lifestyle emporium with a modern slant on the traditional bazaar. The result is a one-stop-shop for modern design.
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Five to launch redesigned idents
5 January 2006
Five is to launch redesigned screen indents this month, created by the in-house creative services team, led by art director Dominic Sykes. The relaunch coincides with the unveiling of ITV's visual overhaul by Red Bee Media (DW 27 October 2005).
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Free-pitching has plagued the industry for 15 years
5 January 2006
This is spooky! Your news story about free-pitching being ruled out for Olympic identity selection (DW 1 December) brought feelings of dejá vu.
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Inspired
5 January 2006
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Iscon identity by JHP Design in full bloom
5 January 2006
JHP Design has unveiled a comprehensive design scheme for Iscon Mega Mall, a 46 000m2 shopping mall set to open in Ahmedabad in India late next year.
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It's time for creatives to get to grips with the dictionary
5 January 2006
Adrian Shaughnessy rightly points out an important issue (DW 1 December). Does anyone ever buy anything they see advertised? Someone must, or is it simply a case of filling blank spaces in magazines and hoardings?
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Ive honoured by New Year award
5 January 2006
Jonathan Ive has been awarded a CBE for services to the design industry in this year's New Year Honours list. Vivienne Westwood was awarded a DBE, while sculptor Rachel Whiteread was given a CBE. Alan Livingstone, principal of University College Falmouth, was awarded a CBE for services to education, and Wagamama founder Alan Yau an OBE for services to the hospitality industry.
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Ive's CBE should boost the standing of design in general
5 January 2006
The award of a CBE in the New Year's Honours List to Apple Computer head designer Jonathan Ive (see News, page 3) is great news. For, while Ive is undoubtedly worthy of the accolade - and has won just about every design gong in recent years, from the 2005
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Journalists should be more objective
5 January 2006
With regard to your recent Vox Pop (DW 15 December 2005), I would leave behind lazy journalism led by relentless PR people. There were an awful lot of pages in 2005 that displayed lazy, automatic writing in the design press.
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Land Design wins £3m Giant's Causeway project
5 January 2006
Land Design Studio is set to create the £2.7m interpretive design scheme for the Giant's Causeway Visitors' Centre in Northern Ireland.
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Mr Kipling pack redesign led to fall in turnover, says RHM
5 January 2006
Ian McMahon, chief executive officer of food giant RHM, has explicitly laid the blame for falling turnover at its Manor Bakeries division at design's door.
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News flash
5 January 2006
A great satire forces the original designer to question their work, and there is no easier target than news broadcasting, says Adrian Shaughnessy.
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News in Pictures...
5 January 2006
Design consultancy Fibre and British designer Sam Buxton have been commissioned by creative communications company Fish Can Sing to create a new media kit for Motorola's forthcoming SLVR mobile phone, which will be available before spring 2006. Buxton has designed the Mikroman ...
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Observer gets Berliner treatment
5 January 2006
The Observer will become the first full-colour Sunday newspaper this weekend, relaunching in the Berliner format under a redesign by Garcia Media founder Mario Garcia. Working alongside Observer art director Carolyn Roberts, Garcia has created a look distinct from The Observer's sister paper, The Guardian, says a Guardian Newspapers spokeswoman.
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Panasonic's in-house design...
5 January 2006
Panasonic's in-house design team has created an eco-friendly show house in Tokyo. The house opened this month and uses its innovative interiors to showcase Panasonic products. Its design aims to protect the wider environment - with solar power generation systems and a Green ...
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Profile: Simon Halfon
5 January 2006
Simon Halfon has been living a dream, designing album sleeves for a host of rock and pop stars, and managing the image of Paul Weller. But success has not turned his head, says Richard Clayton
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Proud Heritage tribute to gay history
5 January 2006
Designers are soon to be appointed to draw up plans for a virtual museum of gay history.
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Ranch rebrands London lighting equipment company
5 January 2006
Ranch has rebranded London lighting equipment company Direct Lighting as Direct, creating a typographic logo which highlights the range of cameras and consumables also available from the company. Direct is owned by Metro Imaging.
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RDC Foley Cooke softens Fiorelli brand to broaden appeal
5 January 2006
Fiorelli, the luxury fashion accessories business owned by Lunan Group, is set to relaunch its branding with RDC Foley Cooke, as it seeks to update and broaden the brand's appeal.
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Redesigned idents for BBC London News
5 January 2006
Red Bee Media has redesigned the idents for BBC London News, intending to give the programme a fresh look. The idents will feature a different image every day - some of which will have been sent in by viewers - to reflect the headlines. The intention is to create a strong ...
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Review
5 January 2006
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Royal Mail head of design role uncertain after redundancy
5 January 2006
The role of design at Royal Mail has been thrown into question after the departure of its head of design for stamps, Jane Ryan, who leaves without a replacement.
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Royal Mail puts animal magic into stamp design
5 January 2006
Royal Mail is launching a set of stamps, called Animal Tales, featuring artwork by some of the world's leading children's illustrators, later this month.
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Sir Martin Sorrell warns 2006 will be testing year
5 January 2006
WPP chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell has warned that 2006 will be a testing year for the marketing services sector, though there are 'no signs of baths or showers yet', but that the US market could be at risk of a shower, according to The Times.
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Stock option
5 January 2006
Using stock photography presents designers with a myriad of creative and legal challenges, including copyright issues, lack of originality and how to make them your own. Gareth Gardner suggests a path through the maze.
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Take some time to reflect
5 January 2006
Design consultancies spend so much time on their clients' identities, they have little time to devote to their own, says Colin Gifford.
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The Cox Review revisited
5 January 2006
Sir George Cox's recommendations, and their feasibility in practice, are considered by influential figures from the design world
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Thresher to rebrand 200 Unwins stores
5 January 2006
The 200 stores acquired by Thresher Group from collapsed off-licence chain Unwins last month will be rebranded with Thresher Group brand names - Threshers, The Local or Wine Rack. A spokesman says it has not yet been decided which brands will be adopted. Wine Rack relaunched last summer under a design by Lumsden Design Partnership (DW 24 March 2005).
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Turning Japanese
5 January 2006
When Rob Marshall agreed to direct Memoirs of a Geisha, Hollywood's adaptation of the 1997 Arthur Golden bestseller about the rise of a penniless Japanese girl who became her profession's brightest star, his creative team from the film Chicago jumped to follow him. It's ...
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Universal Design Studio to lead retail design of Battersea Power Station
5 January 2006
Universal Design Studio is leading the retail design of Turbine Hall A in Battersea Power Station, not HMKM as stated in DW (8 December 2005). HMKM is working on Turbine Hall B.
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Voxpop
5 January 2006
A well-known digital media designer is launching the new year with his own brand of sizzling Indian sausages. What extra-curricular activities would you like to do, to kick-start 2006?
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Westgate Design creates identity for Kyoto Fuel Technologies
5 January 2006
Westgate Design has created an identity for Kyoto Fuel Technologies, a UK company distributing fuel and lubricant additive products of US group International Fuel Technology to the UK and Ireland.
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Wolff Olins fires US chief executive
5 January 2006
Wolff Olins has fired its US chief executive Eric Scott, after a shake up of its US offices.
