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5 November 1998

  • 1m funding for RCA research

    5 November 1998

    The Royal College of Art has secured 1m funding to set up a research centre to look at design in the context of social and environmental developments.

  • A call for print and literature free pitching action

    5 November 1998

    I write to congratulate the group of brand identity consultants who have decided to take action with regard to free and "subsidised" pitching (DW 30 October).

  • Adidas factory outlet

    5 November 1998

    Sports brand Adidas is due to open its first UK factory outlet store in York on 12 November, designed by Corsie Naysmith.

  • Another think coming

    5 November 1998

    US agency Wieden & Kennedy is famed for its ads for Nike - and for its strong relationship with designers. Liz Farrelly traces it back to its source.

  • 'Art for all' in Welsh centre

    5 November 1998

    Wales's biggest venue for national and international exhibitions of new and historical art has input from Ben Kelly Design, BDP and Met Studio.

  • Awards

    5 November 1998

    Committed to promoting contemporary craft and design The Edward Marshall Trust is seeking entries for its 1999/2000 award. The award - up to 20 000 - is given towards funding progressive design for functional items, particularly furnishings. The deadline for nominations is 10 December.

  • Books

    5 November 1998

    Whereishere? by Lewis Blackwell is published by Laurence King on 9 November. The book seeks out designers who have challenged contemporary culture through a variety of means - from religion to pornography. Designed by P Scott Makela and Laurie Haycock Makela, the book retails at 25. Blackwell will be signing copies of the book on 11 November at 6.30pm.

  • Brief

    5 November 1998

    FAT combined with photographer Josh Pulman to create this five storey-high mural announcing the first of five new temporary museums at London's Oxo Tower Wharf. Images of 200 local people are incorporated into the mural, which runs up the side of The Bargehouse building. This will house The Museum Of, which opens next week with The Museum Of Collectors followed by The Museum Of Me, The Museum Of Emotions, The Museum Of the Unknown and finally The Museum Of the River Thames, which is ...

  • Briefs

    5 November 1998

    Interbrand Newell and Sorrell has created a new name and identity for SAFTA - Support Around Termination for Abnormality. The charity is now known as ARC, an acronym for Antenatal Results and Choices.

  • Briefs

    5 November 1998

    Christmas will arrive at Boots the Chemists this week, in the shape of in-store decorations by Michael Nash Associates. Holographic materials are used to enhance the effect. As many as 30 000 angels and 15 000 snowflakes will be used across the chain's 1364 stores.

  • Briefs

    5 November 1998

    Designer Lydia Thornley achieved this solarised fruit effect by directly scanning in slices of real fruits and manipulating the images in Photoshop. The results adorn the 1997-1998 annual report of The Renewal Programme, a charity co-ordinating social and training projects based in the London Borough of Newham. Thornley chose exotic fruits such as lychees, kumquats and kiwi fruit to reflect the cosmopolitan area.

  • Buoyant restaurant market follows a theme

    5 November 1998

    Recreations of a New York subway and stretches of Broadway are to be incorporated into a new themed restaurant planned for central London.

  • Call to arms by print designer

    5 November 1998

    Jan Hildebrand, managing director of five-strong Hildebrand Design, is trying to rally smaller print design consultancies to follow the example of the brand packaging groups and unite against free and "subsidised" pitching.

  • Cellnet calls on Clarke Hooper

    5 November 1998

    The identity and packaging for Cellnet's first pre-pay mobile phone aimed at the youth market is by Clarke Hooper Consulting.

  • Client education is key to ending free pitching

    5 November 1998

    It is great to see some of the more well known in the industry take action about pitching fees. Congratulations, they have the full support of everyone in our studio, where we have recently taken the decision to stop free pitching. We will shortly be circulating a paper to our clients and potential clients explaining the mutual benefits of paid pitching and the problems of free pitching. Client education is a critical part of the solution.

  • Creative mind games

    5 November 1998

    Matthew Valentine tries to get his head round the latest ideas in right brain and left brain thinking and finds out how design groups can find a balance and create better results.

  • Dazzle the client with a bit of fancy parking

    5 November 1998

    Siebert Head director Satkar Gidda is counting his lucky stars, after putting a client's car through an unorthodox and damaging parking manoeuvre.

  • Design Bridge aids lemonade

    5 November 1998

    Classic lemonade brand R Whites is to be relaunched next week, revamped by Design Bridge. - The Britvic brand remembered for its "Secret Lemonade Drinker" ads from the 1970s, will use a modern identity which hints at its heritage.

  • Design innovation is still alive and flourishing so don't panic yet

    5 November 1998

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

  • Design Show looks to relaunch next year

    5 November 1998

    The Design Show is to be relaunched next year with a restriction on stand size to stop the event being "dominated" by one or two extravagant stands.

  • Elmwood on board, when the boat comes in

    5 November 1998

    Board meetings are prone to making those attending just that - bored. To avoid this Elmwood took to the waves for its latest such meeting, or 'direction day' as the group terms it.

  • Enterprise IG gets 'provocative'

    5 November 1998

    Global publishing and exhibition group Miller Freeman is to introduce a new corporate identity designed by Enterprise IG.

  • Events

    5 November 1998

    Architecture Week runs from 12-19 November. More than 300 UK-wide events will include exhibitions, talks, open houses, films children's events and other projects which aim to change the way people think about architecture.

  • EXHIBITIONS

    5 November 1998

    Events of 1997 are captured in award-winning images at World Press Photo. The exhibition, which runs until 29 November, documents news, sport, technology and the arts. Shown above is Python Hunters, Cameroon by Gilles Nicolet for National Geographic Magazine.

  • Highlander fling

    5 November 1998

    The latest in the Highlander series brings together a former Miss America and the Diet Coke ad man. Matthew Valentine is not caught up in the romance

  • How can you stand out from the crowd?

    5 November 1998

    Last week's Design Show revived the issue of how design groups present themselves. Rarely do we have the chance to compare groups in such an impartial setting.

  • Jimmy Choo invades US with Association of Ideas

    5 November 1998

    Shoe designer Jimmy Choo is breaking into the US with a retail chain designed by London group Association of Ideas. - The first shop opened this week in New York.

  • Landor sets up in parent office

    5 November 1998

    Landor Europe has established a presence in the London office of parent company Young & Rubicam as part of a move to integrate services within the global media group.

  • Launches

    5 November 1998

    Gitta Gschwendtner and Angel Monzon have redesigned the Becks Artbar at the Royal College of Art. The interior is dark and moody with the bar area painted a deep red, highlighted with lime green accessories, such as the Becks light, shown left.Venue: The Becks Artbar, RCA, Kensington Gore, London SW7.

  • Love at first pogo

    5 November 1998

    The founding directors of Manchester design consultancy DesignStorm came together in unusual fashion. - The pair, husband and wife team Fritz and Cathy Fitton, collided during a poorly controlled pogo at a Sex Pistols gig in Huddersfield.

  • Mars in pack review

    5 November 1998

    Mars is carrying out a review of its packaging design groups across Europe. At least one new consultancy is known to have joined the fold.'Until it's finished, it's not sensible to discuss it,' says a Mars spokeswoman of the review.

  • Michael Peters' family firm diversifies

    5 November 1998

    London's black cab drivers are renowned for their jovial banter and, it would now seem, for their inside contacts in the design industry.One DW reader, obviously betrayed by his standard designer-issue black suit, was recently asked 'You in architecture or design?' by his affable driver.Upon replying that interior design was his chosen career, the driver claimed his brother-in-law was 'big in design'.And who would that be? 'He's called Michael Peters.'

  • Millennium Products selected

    5 November 1998

    Computer games Tomb Raider I & II with Lara Croft, motorway signs designed by Foster & Partners and a toddler's training cup are among the 231 eclectic products in the second batch of Millennium Products.

  • New software crackdown

    5 November 1998

    The Business Software Alliance is continuing its campaign against illegal computer software use with a new campaign. - BSA Crackdown 98 launches today with a mailing to 20 000 medium-sized companies, including design groups, which use between 50 and 500 c

  • Partners' brain study

    5 November 1998

    The Partners has carried out a survey into how staff think, in response to increased client requests for help with the creative process.See News Analysis, page 8

  • PI Design on the defensive

    5 November 1998

    Crookes Healthcare, maker of Strepsils, has introduced a new product to help the immune system fight the common cold. Brand identity for Zinc Defence was by PI Design International.PI Design was tasked with retaining the Strepsils' healthcare heritage and credibility.

  • Relocation trepidation

    5 November 1998

    Looking for commercial premises can be frustrating. Tim Rich's foray into the property game raises some tricky questions and takes him on a voyage of discovery.

  • Revolution for Virgin Vie

    5 November 1998

    Newsdesk: Clare Dowdy 0171-970 4000

  • Ritchie joins Arthesia

    5 November 1998

    As predicted in Design Week, former Imagination group creative head Alex Ritchie has joined Berlin-based entertainments and events group Arthesia to set up Arthesia Pacific in Los Angeles (DW 23 October).Clients of the group, which opened Arthesia West in London last month, include Volkswagen and Audi.

  • Rumpus in The Attik?

    5 November 1998

    The departure of The Attik founder Simon Needham for Australia has raised some speculation as to a creative fall-out between staff at the New York to London to Huddersfield design group (DW 30 October).London managing director Tim Watson has moved quickly to scotch the rumours. 'I hate him to bits and I'm glad he's leaving,' he says.The choice of Sydney for the next portion of Needham's career is popular with Watson: 'It's the furthest place we could send him, obviously.'

  • S&S Design kits out Linklaters & Alliance

    5 November 1998

    Saatchi & Saatchi Design had just six weeks to design and produce ten tonnes of stationery for Linklaters & Alliance, the new alliance of five European law firms led by Linklaters & Paines.

  • Salaries enjoy a healthy hike

    5 November 1998

    Designers are commanding huge wage rises as they reap the dividends of a skills shortage across the industry. - Salaries are up on average by a massive 26 per cent nationally and 27 per cent in London, according to Design Week's latest annual salary surve

  • TAG Aviation takes to the skies with Fitch

    5 November 1998

    Fitch has created the identity for TAG Aviation Holding, a new venture from the rapidly expanding TAG Group. - Formed by acquisitions over the last year, TAG Aviation will handle aircraft management, sales and charters.

  • Wage scales

    5 November 1998

    Design Week's annual salary survey shows evidence of some encouraging trends. With rates increasing across the board, there is real reason for celebration.

  • Workhouse milks it for Boots

    5 November 1998

    Boots The Chemists is introducing a milk-based range under its Natural Collection brand with pack design by Workhouse. - The seven-strong Milk range is aimed at the teenage market.

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