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6 February 2003

  • Art Deco hotel makes Urban Splash

    6 February 2003

    Urban Splash, the design-led property developer, is seeking creative input this week following its purchase of the Midland Hotel, Morecombe's abandoned Art Deco gem, now destined to be the focus of a wider seafront regeneration in the Lancashire town.

  • B&P to brand South Bank complex

    6 February 2003

    Bostock and Pollitt has been appointed to brand the 5ha More London development on the South Bank of the Thames, currently London's largest commercial property scheme.

  • Bite Creative Partners revamp MOA identity

    6 February 2003

    Bite Creative Partners has revamped the identity for the Mobile Operators Association, which launches this week.

  • Bloom researches yoghurt to update its pack-Shape

    6 February 2003

    Bloom has completed the research phase of its identity and packaging work for yoghurt brand Shape, as it seeks to reposition from a dieting brand to a healthy eating product.

  • Brand Frontier brings home brand

    6 February 2003

  • Call for entries

    6 February 2003

    This year's New York Festivals, for design, print and radio advertising, are open to UK design groups. The deadline for entry submissions is 1 March. The awards also include the Midas Awards, which recognise excellence in financial services communications worldwide. The closing date is 28 February, and the results are announced in June.Contact: www.newyorkfestivals. com for further details on both.

  • Can big boys cope with fewer big money jobs?

    6 February 2003

    Interbrand has been the latest group to feel the pinch, when last month it laid off 7 per cent of its staff. Bob Willott asks whether it's a bad time to be big player

  • Caulder Moore psyched by venture

    6 February 2003

    Caulder Moore is stepping out with north east-based retail entrepreneur Steve Cochrane on the design of a 3252m2 'über-boutique' opening in Middlesborough at the end of March.

  • Creative collaboration isn't just a shotgun wedding

    6 February 2003

  • D&AD chooses next president

    6 February 2003

    British Design & Art Direction members have chosen Nick Bell as president-elect. Bell (pictured) is currently executive creative director at ad agency Leo Burnett.

  • Design should take the lead on issues that build stature

    6 February 2003

    The design community has come under fire from two quarters this week for its apathy over issues it should be championing.

  • Designers' life/work mix not like Mintel's Britons

    6 February 2003

    Mintel's latest British Lifestyles survey, published last week, claims Britons are increasingly achieving a 'life/work balance' between their job and home lives, but Design Week interviews suggest people in the industry are bucking that trend.

  • Egelnick & Webb creates print campaign for Jimmy Choo

    6 February 2003

    Egelnick & Webb has created a global print campaign for luxury shoe brand Jimmy Choo. The work, which launches in the US and UK later this month, will be applied across show invitations, in-store point-of-sale, shop opening announcements and global advert

  • Exhibitions

    6 February 2003

  • Fashion retailer restyles its image

    6 February 2003

  • First Choice Coffee brand infuses tea-leaf Formation

    6 February 2003

    Formation Creative Consultants has created the logo and packaging for loose tea brand, Down to Earth, which is launched this week in cafés and restaurants nationwide.

  • Fitch London gives Wet look to Beefeater gin brand

    6 February 2003

  • Glass

    6 February 2003

    Contemporary glass designs show at Nine Colourways from 12 February until 27 April. The exhibition includes work by founder members of the Glasshouse, a revivalist glass group founded in London's Covent Garden in the 1970s.Venue: Blackwell, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, LA23 3JR.

  • Greif and Stephenson works for Waterstones

    6 February 2003

    Greig and Stephenson is creating the first brand guideline manual for book retailer Waterstone's, which is due to be published at the end of February.

  • Gyro appoints senior designer

    6 February 2003

    Gyro has appointed Paul Astbury as senior designer. Astbury, who has previously worked at 20/20, Minale Tattersfield and The Partners, joins from Turnbull Ripley where he was senior designer.

  • If this Sunday...

    6 February 2003

  • Kemistry creates branding for Channel 4 drama series

    6 February 2003

    Kemistry has created titles and programme branding for 20 things to do before you're 30, a Tiger Aspect-produced drama series which is broadcast on Channel 4 from tomorrow.

  • Local group clocks up positive Bolton coverage

    6 February 2003

    Bolton - land of [Channel 4 comedy drama] Phoenix Nights and mornings with [Radio 1 DJ] Sara Cox - was having a good run recently until business administrators claimed it was the most insolvent town in Britain. So, news that Bolton-based Clock Creative Co

  • Marketplace revamps identity for Oxford Brookes University

    6 February 2003

    Marketplace has revamped the identity and developed a brand positioning and communication design style for Oxford Brookes University.

  • National service

    6 February 2003

    As Nicholas Hytner waits in the wings to begin his tenure as National Theatre director, he talks to Hannah Booth about his plans to woo a wider audience

  • Olive creates for Dexter Montague & Partners

    6 February 2003

    Hungerford-based group Olive has created an identity, literature, advertising and website for Reading-based solicitor Dexter Montague & Partners.

  • OneMusic appoints De-construct

    6 February 2003

    De-construct has been appointed to revamp Radio 1's OneMusic website, www.bbc. co.uk/radio1/onemusic, following a four-way pitch.

  • Out of site

    6 February 2003

    Artist Julian Opie explains to Sara Manuelli how nothing inspires his work

  • Packaging design is not friendly to environment

    6 February 2003

    Designers have come under fire from within the industry for not doing enough to promote the cause of recycling in packaging.

  • Park Studio creates identity for Investland Group

    6 February 2003

    Park Studio has created an identity for property developer Investland Group. The identity launches next month. Park Studio was appointed in November 2002.

  • Photography

    6 February 2003

    Photographer Etienne Clément shows the empty shells of the Holly Street housing estate in Hackney, east London, at Gutted, from 11 February until 25 May.

  • Red Alert Design revamps Tektura Wallcoverings

    6 February 2003

    Red Alert Design has revamped the identity for Tektura Wallcoverings, the first time in ten years the brand has been refreshed.

  • Repositioned RPA returns to London

    6 February 2003

    Retail specialist RPA is setting up in London two years after it left, with a repositioned offering and revamped corporate identity to be unveiled next week.

  • S&M loses two at senior level

    6 February 2003

    Smith & Milton has made two senior level redundancies. Managing director David Haseler and creative director Stuart Redfern have both left the business.

  • Self-support

    6 February 2003

    It may not seem like the best time to go freelance, as stories of consultancies cutting costs by making staff redundant circulate, but Mike Exon thinks otherwise

  • Small Japanese Soldier creates identity for Channel U

    6 February 2003

  • Social UK creates support material for Heaven & Hell collections

    6 February 2003

    Social UK has created support material, including an invitation and T-shirts, for the Heaven & Hell collections by Scott Henshall, which will be shown at London Fashion Week later this month.

  • South London posse should put D&AD in its place

    6 February 2003

    One of our sister magazines - the one that comes out monthly and also deals with advertising - suggests in its current edition that British Design & Art Direction might decamp from its Vauxhall headquarters to some more fashionable part of London town.

  • Stopgap appoints Rufus Leonard

    6 February 2003

    Stopgap, the marketing recruitment company, has appointed Rufus Leonard to revamp its website, www.stopgap.co.uk. The site is scheduled to relaunch in early March and it will be the first time the company has advertised vacancies on-line.

  • Strategy for AMP Oval on Agenda

    6 February 2003

    Agenda opens its innings next week on the design stage of a brand strategy project for the AMP Oval, home of Surrey Country Cricket Club and an international Test arena.

  • Subtlety spices up palette

    6 February 2003

    As fast-food brand Tiffinbites takes on Pret A Manger, Hannah Booth finds out what changes are afoot in the traditional heartland of Indian cuisine - the curry house

  • Talks

    6 February 2003

    Julia Whitney of Boston-based television production company WGBH presents a focus on Commanding Heights, a Bafta-winning Web project, which concentrates on interaction design and mass communications. The AIGA Experience Design London lecture takes place on 12 February from 6.30-8.30pm. Admission is free.

  • Team Saatchi creates identity for Logo 1

    6 February 2003

    Team Saatchi has created the name and logo for Platform 1, a community learning centre at London's Kings Cross. The centre aims to help local people reach their educational aspirations and the name embodies this and the centre's proximity to Kings Cross

  • The 'b' in design's bonnet

    6 February 2003

    Although he has since left the pub, Colum Lowe continues to argue the case for 'branding', maintaining that it's the ideal way for him to communicate with clients

  • The designer's favourite comes up Top Trumps

    6 February 2003

    Regular readers of this column will know how obsessed we are with your obsession with Top Trumps. But it seems there are more of us aficionados out there who share the passion.The British Association of Toy Retailers has just voted our beloved Top Trumps 'game of the year'. It reckons last year's World Cup edition was one of the best ever - 'My Hasan Sas beats your El-Hadj Diouf any day.' Skill.

  • The spraying in Spain is mainly work of inane [kids]

    6 February 2003

    How can anyone be surprised, in this day and age, at a company like Volkswagen using something like graffiti as a promotional tool, let alone be appalled (Letters, DW 5 December 2002). That would be just too naive.

  • The Team design TTA recruitment pack

    6 February 2003

    The Team has designed the Teacher Training Agency recruitment pack. The pack, which is made up of three brochures, launches this week.

  • The Workroom creates identity for DNA anniversary

    6 February 2003

    The Workroom has created an identity to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.

  • Themed party spiced up in aid of good design

    6 February 2003

  • Therefore designs digital radio for Ministry of Sound Audio

    6 February 2003

  • Tin Horse packs Dulux container

    6 February 2003

  • Top 100 extends entry deadline

    6 February 2003

    The closing date for entry to the Design Week Top 100 Consultancy Survey has been extended to Friday 7 February. Survey forms are available from www.

  • Toys are back in town

    6 February 2003

    At the recent Toy Fair in London, Pamela Buxton saw relaunches of old classics, a host of TV spin-offs and the usual riot of pink, girlie stuff

  • Trickett & Webb launches 2003 calendar

    6 February 2003

    Trickett & Webb launches its 2003 calendar next week, featuring illustrations by Peter Blake, George Hardie and Peter Grundy, among others.

  • Vitra launches product ranges

    6 February 2003

  • Vox pop

    6 February 2003

    As the House of Lords debates the value of design in modernising the public sector, what do you make of Clive Grinyer's view that the average Briton now appreciates and understands design?

  • Welsh college given dose of CLN medicine

    6 February 2003

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