Design Week
5 June 2008
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A taste of Design Show Liverpool
5 June 2008
While the jury remains out over whether Liverpool truly deserves its Capital of Culture crown, Dominic Lutyens finds the Design Show is banging the drum for a contemporary design scene that is gathering momentum
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Alice Tait
5 June 2008
Alice Tait has illustrated the front cover for The Acorn House Cookbook, by Arthur Potts Dawson. Tait worked alongside designer David Lane, who created the identity for the author's Acorn House restaurant in London WC1. The layout of the book includes specially designed borders which allow users to get it messy, and touch it with hands covered in food. Its look veers away from the glossy cookbook ideal, as it is intended to be a 'usable manual'. Published by Hodder, it is priced £20.
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Baltic Centre on hunt for artistic director and chief exec
5 June 2008
Gateshead’s Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art is on the hunt for a new chief executive and artistic director, since last year’s dramatic departure of director Peter Doroshenko.
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Dalziel & Pow
5 June 2008
Retail consultancy Dalziel & Pow is rebranding shoe retailer Barratts in a bid to move it more upmarket.
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Design to feature in Liverpool Capital of Culture
5 June 2008
D&AD and the Design Business Association are organising a design symposium in Liverpool this October, a late addition to the city’s European Capital of Culture celebrations, Design Week can reveal.
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Designers must take responsibility for Greenwash
5 June 2008
It is great that Design Week is bringing the Greenwash phenomenon to light (News in Depth, DW 24 April). I totally agree with Social Environmental Enterprise and Design Foundation co-director Clare Brass that designers need to take responsibility for Greenwash. I raised a related discussion on my blog, Crossed Wires, at http://futerra.typepad.com/crossedwires/2008/04/when-its-okay-t.html. ...
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Designing luxury retail for men
5 June 2008
How do you do luxury for young males, without alienating them? John Stones takes the measure of a tricky – but up and coming – part of the retail market
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Eva Jiricna's V&A jewellery gallery
5 June 2008
The sheer quantity of diamonds in this room is enough to make anyone woozy. The sponsors, William and Judith Bollinger of the champagne dynasty, are most likely used to having that effect on people, but you've got to feel for everyone else involved in the
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Form UK
5 June 2008
Form UK has designed the identity and a poster/leaflet (pictured) for PureGold, a music season created and performed at Goldsmiths - part of the University of London - which runs until 27 June. The consultancy has also created Colour Your Summer, a range of seasonal marketing literature, for Camden's Roundhouse, London NW1.
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Inspired, Matthew Dabbs - Lime Design
5 June 2008
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News in Pictures
5 June 2008
Graphic designer Paul Skerm has designed a book for fine art photographer Anderson & Low. The project features international circus performers and is set to be published on 17 July.
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News in Pictures
5 June 2008
Fine arts student Kenton Menown will be showcasing his work at the De Monfort University degree show in Leicester, LE1 9BH. The exhibition will run from 14-19 June.
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News in pictures
5 June 2008
MA Industrial Design graduate Paul Blegs from Central St Martins College of Art and Design created this large desk lamp to capture children's imaginations. His work will be exhibited at Southampton Row, London WC1 from 13-19 June.
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Nissan Design Europe to appoint Godber successor
5 June 2008
Nissan Design Europe is poisedto replace its general managerDavid Godber, who defected tothe Design Council last month.The carmaker is expected toname an internal candidate forthe post, possibly from itsPerceived Quality department.
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Postmodern art for shoegazers
5 June 2008
A pavement-bound, moving-image public art installation is set to welcome visitors to a new arts and design hub in central London, says Mike Exon
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Profile
5 June 2008
For the New York-based lighting artist Leni Schwendinger, working with local people is an integral part of the design process. Clare Dowdy asks her about the concept of ‘community outreach design’
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Red Bee rebrands Greek public service broadcaster
5 June 2008
Greece’s public service broadcaster Hellenic Radio and Television this week embarks on a radical relaunch with the help of Red Bee Media.
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Smart founder says big clients focus more on individual needs
5 June 2008
Big-name clients for designers including Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft are continually paying more attention to the personal needs and desires of users.This is a trend that Dan Formosa, the US design consultant and founder of Smart Design, predicts will have a huge impact on product and packaging design.Formosa's consultancy analyses trends that it sees in the industry as it completes work for clients such as Kellogg's, Starbucks and Johnson & Johnson. He says designers ...
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Softroom
5 June 2008
Softroom's first bridge project, the 20m Leeds Liverpool Canal Pennington Road Footbridge, has been granted planning permission by Sefton Council. The bridge form follows a typology of canal bridges, with a sustainable timber structure, and will restore a safe pedestrian link between new housing and the town centre. The structure is conceived as a pair of deep rectangular glulam beams placed within the balustrade zone of the bridge, fixed at the straight ramp sides in order to keep the ...
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Storm clouds looming
5 June 2008
Will the current global economic crisis have the same repercussions for the design world as in previous downturns? asks Adrian Shaughnessy
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Studio LR to put Highland community back on the map
5 June 2008
A rural Highland community is looking forward to the benefits of an environmental renewal scheme after a revamp of its tourist amenities by Studio LR.The Scottish consultancy has created a fresh brand identity for Lairg's Ferrycroft visitor centre, along with exhibitions, interactive installations, a retail area and café, as well as simplifying signage and tourist information for the area's nature trails.The £250 000 development is expected to help restore visitor numbers ...
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Taking a wider perspective
5 June 2008
Who are we and what do we believe in? How can our group make the world a better place? Nicolas De Santis tackles some truly big questions
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Taking brands totalitarian
5 June 2008
In terms of graphics and brand identity, the 20th century’s totalitarian states are some of the best. A new book by Steven Heller analyses how they did it, while Quentin Newark says dictator iconography would be laughable if it weren’t rooted in misery
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The boating fraternity takes a narrow view
5 June 2008
I agree with Hugh Pearman's view about the boating industry being stuck in the past (DW 15 May). There are those who commission very individual boats, but such a step carries huge risks. Function is paramount. Canals are rough places for a boat and they must be extremely strong and fit in the 20m x 2m infrastructure. The ideal hull, therefore, has to be very similar to that perfected by our Victorian predecessors. Boats cost a shedload of cash and, as with houses, you always ...
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Time for Johnson to reveal his hand regarding design
5 June 2008
The only thing certain about the creative industries is that they are hard to classify as a sector. They may be enjoying Government attention, but are they as easily compartmentalised as, say, manufacturing or the service industry?We do know that they employ a lot of people and ...
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Time we celebrated the real unsung stars of design
5 June 2008
Stephen Bayley does not see a problem with Hollywood actors and pop stars posing as designers and architects (DW Interiors supplement, April). Pop stars and actors, I agree, do help to promote a product, but as for calling themselves designers, well, that's another matter. True designers are born, like my husband Peter Morris, who not only designs furniture, but is also involved in the engineering of the product. It is designers like him, who produce and manufacture ...
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Toodle-loo
5 June 2008
Restroom, smallest room, ladies, gents. If the language of lavatories skirts the issue, then so too does the design. Few loos get the treatment lavished on top-line interiors, while public loos fall further behind in design investment. BAA, then, can rightly be proud of its far from bog standard loos, or 'new concept in passengers' airport experiences', as the publicity puts it. Ease of installation, cleaning, and the avoidance of silicon sealant are understandable priorities for the airport ...
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Vibrandt to move into product and innovation
5 June 2008
Vibrandt is to make its first foray into product design and innovation, with the formation of a team headed by former senior PDD staff.
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Voxpop
5 June 2008
Recent reports suggest that Birds Eye, in conjunction with Waste & Resources Action Programme, is to target consumers worried about food waste by promoting the benefits of frozen food. What's the most opportune brand strategy/repositioning you've come acr
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Why Britain needs to reassert itself as a creative hub
5 June 2008
Further to your Voxpop asking what would you like to see prioritised for design by MPs (DW 29 May), would you agree that Britain, once a beacon of creativity and imagination, now needs to reassert itself as the pre-eminent hub for creativity? Some of the world's greatest designers, writers, artists, musicians and inventors originated from our great land. Yet with foreign governments legitimately using public money to support local businesses and their educational systems, our degree ...
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Yorkshire health job for Designers Republic
5 June 2008
The latest NHS initiative, Healthy Ambitions, aimed at improving healthcare in the Yorkshire region, is being realised with the help of The Designers Republic.Healthy Ambitions is the outcome of a national NHS review led by Lord Darzi last year. Each region within the NHS has had to find its own way of implementing the review, as well as laying out plans to address health challenges specific to its region.The consultancy won the tender in March, following a credentials ...
