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5 September 2002

  • A digital challenge

    5 September 2002

    Matthew Valentine finds Casio's new slim-line Exilim EX-S2 digital camera easy on the eye, but a lot harder to get a grip on

  • Bonadio leaves C21 position

    5 September 2002

    Franco Bonadio has left C21 where he was creative director, but will continue to work as a consultant for the group, says C21 managing director Rebecca Collings.Collings says the consultancy is not looking to replace Bonadio, but will reconsider its options 'when the market picks up'.Bonadio says he wants to diversify his experience and work 'with groups keen to expand into integrated communications'.

  • Books

    5 September 2002

  • C&P gallery flows into the Museum of London

    5 September 2002

    The Museum of London has this week begun work on its prehistoric gallery, designed in collaboration with Conran & Partners, which marks the latest stage in the attraction's £33m refit.

  • Claims denied by Wolff Olins

    5 September 2002

    Wolff Olins has refuted claims made by an unnamed senior employee that the group is under pressure from its owner Omnicom to shed up to 50 per cent of its workforce by the end of the year.

  • Comic strip postcards

    5 September 2002

    Comic strip postcards, by Simon Grennan and Christopher Sperandio, are encouraging Milton Keynes residents to take a fresh look at the city's disparate public art (Crescentia Low's story pictured). The cards are based on stories about local art - some fictional, others real. Available from the Milton Keynes Gallery, the cards range from childhood memories of playing round Eilis O'Connell's The Space Between to dressing up as a jockey and riding Elisabeth Frink's black horse.

  • Cussons floats Bubble bath range

    5 September 2002

  • Design credited for rise in visitors to attractions

    5 September 2002

  • Designer of the Year prize launched

    5 September 2002

    The design industry is to get its equivalent of the Turner Prize with the launch of a £25 000 Designer of the Year award by the Design Museum.

  • Digest

    5 September 2002

    Bulmers launches two new varieties of its Sidekick drink this month, with point-of-sale, trade material and merchandising designed by Proximity London.

  • Digest

    5 September 2002

    Word Of has created the branding for Mainline Digital Communications' dealer marketing programme, Blueprint.

  • Digest

    5 September 2002

    Sam Design has been appointed by Derby City Council to design the Derby Visitor's Guide, following a six-way pitch. The three-year contract starts with next year's guide.

  • Digest

    5 September 2002

    Taxi Studio has been appointed to design a range of induction and training materials for store managers at Clarkes, the shoe retailer.

  • Digest

    5 September 2002

    Scarlette has designed the identity for Granada Sky Broadcasting's flagship channel, Plus. The group was appointed after a six-way pitch.

  • Digest

    5 September 2002

    Bath-based consultancy Northbank has designed an identity for the Jerwood Artists Platform, a new arts programme at the Jerwood Space in London. The identity launches on 3 September to coincide with the first exhibition, which opens on 4 September.

  • Digest

    5 September 2002

    Dew Gibbons has designed the annual report and accounts for Sporting Bet, the on-line gambling company.

  • Digest

    5 September 2002

    To the Point has created the identity, literature and hoardings for a Land Securities retail space at 500 Oxford Street, London. The work launches this week and aims to promote the site to major retailers, says To the Point managing director Simon Hutton.

  • Digest

    5 September 2002

    Sun Stream Design has created a brand identity for Gemserv, the utilities regulatory company, which launched last week.

  • Digest

    5 September 2002

    TSI Design has created the title sequence for ITV's flagship magazine show This Morning. The revamped titles go on air from this week.

  • Digest

    5 September 2002

    NB Studio has designed posters, leaflets, banners, invitations, advertisements and an exhibition catalogue for this year's Jerwood Applied Arts Prize for textile designers. The work features photography by Thomas Haywood and launches from 16 September.

  • Digest

    5 September 2002

    Millini has revamped the identity for Britvic Soft Drink's trade management programme, Right Choice. The work also includes trade advertising and point-of-sale material.

  • Digest

    5 September 2002

    Redhouse Lane has revamped Aviation, the customer magazine for ExxonMobil. The publication targets international aviation fuel customers.

  • Digest

    5 September 2002

    Tom Christie-Miller is to join Design House as head of brand strategy on 21 October. Christie-Miller who previously worked at Enterprise IG has been hired to 'uplift' the brand strategy division at the consultancy, according to Design House managing director Lavinia Culverhouse.

  • Digest

    5 September 2002

    Hat Trick Design has created a Zoe Ball drive-time companion for Capital Radio, to promote the presenter's debut on XFM this week.

  • Direct method

    5 September 2002

    Clare Dowdy looks at improvements being made to London's South Bank's signage

  • Dynamic design trade body can ease fear of unknown

    5 September 2002

    Recent developments at the Design Business Association have, as your Comment suggested (DW 15 August), raised again the subject of a broadly representative designers' trade body. How novel. Sadly, I recall reading letters on the subject in Design magazine in my school library over 20 years ago.

  • Exhibitions

    5 September 2002

  • Genevieve

    5 September 2002

  • Great comfort

    5 September 2002

    Public seating needs to be both comfortable and durable. Hannah Booth reports

  • Groups brighten insurance brand

    5 September 2002

    Insurance group Royal London has this week unveiled Bright Grey as the brand name for its standalone 'new protection business'. The marque has been created by Navy Blue, while Zalpha - in concert with the client - is responsible for the naming (DW 27 June).

  • Industry is full of leaders, but it does lack leadership

    5 September 2002

    Design Council director of business Harry Rich is right in pointing out that leadership - or the lack of it - is not a new issue in design. But I'm sure Rich will agree that never has it been so crucial.

  • Job-seekers should try to improve communication

    5 September 2002

    The heartfelt plea for more job opportunities in design from Dan Cox (Letters, DW 22 August) was literate, but hardly persuasive. Sadly, in today's market there is a surplus of designers - especially young designers and more especially designers who, unlike Dan, cannot communicate effectively.

  • LDP retail format for Leeds chain

    5 September 2002

  • Live links to design festival will be for the capital good

    5 September 2002

    In response to your Comment (DW 18 July), the Design Festival is a great idea and it makes sense to have London as the hub for world design, but other parts of the world need to celebrate this festival too as a British celebration. In London we could have a debate - on, say, the future of design - with a live video link to Sydney, New York, Bombay and so on, with the virtual participation of other design capitals. This would showcase how technologies are changing social exchange while ...

  • Mind Game

    5 September 2002

    James Knight looks at creativity workshops and asks whether they are the key to unlocking your imagination

  • Newham to form design roster for Stratford rejig

    5 September 2002

    Newham Borough Council is looking to appoint a roster of consultancies to create detailed designs for the proposed multi-million pound regeneration of Stratford town centre.

  • NWYH 'goodie bag' for Ladbrokes

    5 September 2002

  • Paper supplier uses ad agency to roll out redesign

    5 September 2002

    Paper and graphics supplier Robert Horne Group will tomorrow launch a revamped identity designed by McCann Central, part of ad agency McCann Erickson.

  • Pearlfisher revamps skincare range

    5 September 2002

    Superdrug will this month roll out new packaging for its own-label Tea Tree skincare range, designed by Pearlfisher, in an effort to reposition the brand within the fickle 'teen' skincare market.

  • Photography

    5 September 2002

    Avant-garde British experimental film stills and photographs from filmmakers Roger Hammond, David Larcher and Gary Woods show at Film Framed from 6 September until 5 October. Venue: The Special Photographers Company, 236 Westbourne Park Road, London W11. Picture editor Bruce Bernard shows a personal selection of prints by infamous and anonymous photographers from films from the 1840s to the 1990s at 100 Photographs: A collection. From 5 September until 26 January 2003. Venue: Canon ...

  • Problem Solved

    5 September 2002

    Problem Solved, a book by Johnson Banks creative director Michael Johnson, will be published in October. The book analyses the issues and problems faced by designers when presented with a client's brief. Each chapter looks at an individual problem in detail and uses case studies of designers who have solved issues in innovative ways. The cover, designed by Johnson, is based on the printers' marque, an interrobang, which was researched by Harriet Devoy. The book will be published by ...

  • Pure philosophy

    5 September 2002

    Richard Reed and friends went back to basics to create Innocent smoothies. Their simple, ecological approach has certainly paid off, writes Chris Stevens

  • Shinola Awards makes monkey of brand names

    5 September 2002

    No doubt fretting about their status in the cage, branding copywriters are wont to describe themselves as 'naming monkeys'. Along the lines of see-no-evil, hear-no-evil, speak lots of trademark-registrable brand names.

  • Sorrell sounds dippy with his recession analogy

    5 September 2002

    Bollocks. Not what you want to imagine when you're tucking into your muesli or sipping your breakfast lemon-and-hot-water. But that's the title of the first piece to be exhibited at Her House - graphic designer Morag Myerscough's new gallery, located (intimately enough) in her own kitchen.

  • Sunderland Football Club

    5 September 2002

  • Superdrug refocus as roster reviewed

    5 September 2002

    Superdrug is reviewing its design consultancy roster following the takeover of its parent company Kruidvat by the ports-to-telecommunications giant Hutchison Whampoa last week.

  • Talk

    5 September 2002

    Charlie Leadbeater, senior associate of independent think tank Demos, joins Professor John Gray and writer and broadcaster Laurie Taylor to discuss pessimistic attitudes about business and globalisation at Poor little rich world on 5 September at 7pm. Contact: 020 7930 3647 for tickets. Venue: Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1.

  • The Fourth Room ceases trading

    5 September 2002

  • The Space Pod

    5 September 2002

    The Space Pod, designed by Mmetti director Lee McCormack, launches at 100esign in September. With a soft leather interior, climate control, adjustable lighting, plasma screen, DVD and Internet access, it was inspired by nature's protective systems, like t

  • The stamp of integrity

    5 September 2002

    Retired stamp programme director Barry Robinson may not be replaced, sparking fears of a threat to UK stamp design standards, writes Matt Barnard

  • Tim Rich: I'll give it a go - after you

    5 September 2002

    Although Tim Rich is suitably impressed with the functionality of the Segway HT human transporter, he cannot help but be amused by its unusual form

  • Time to rebrand the spade as a spade

    5 September 2002

    In a world awash with buzzwords, are designers justified in wanting to be 'brand consultants'? Robert Jones and Adrian Shaughnessy compare notes

  • Tokujin Yoshioka

    5 September 2002

    A range of 'simple, sculptural and inexpensive' plastic furniture designed by Tokujin Yoshioka for manufacturer Driade will launch at Selfridges in London at the end of this month. The furniture, called Tokyo Pop, is made from single-block plastic using rota

  • Uncertain future ahead for BGA?

    5 September 2002

    Basten Greenhill Andrews is refusing to comment on reports it is suffering trading difficulties.On Monday Basten Greenhill Andrews managing director Tim Greenhill said BGA had not gone into liquidation, but refused to comment on whether changes to its structure were planned.

  • Vox pop

    5 September 2002

    Conran & Partners is collaborating with Nigella Lawson on a kitchenware range (News, DW 29 August). Which celebrity would you like to work with and on what kind of project?

  • Young designers to meet up again

    5 September 2002

    Design Week is holding its next Meeting Point social event for young designers at a central London venue from 7pm on Wednesday 18 September.The event is ticket only and open to young designers working freelance, in consultancies or in-house.To get on the list for tickets e-mail natalie.adams@centaur.co.uk.

  • Zulver & Co is driving force behind brands

    5 September 2002

    Zulver & Co has revamped the visual identity for Motor Racing Legends and it's sister business Motoring Adventures, in a project designed to clarify the events in the congested classic car marketplace.

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