Design Week
6 May 2010
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Best of the Web
6 May 2010
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Causes and effects
6 May 2010
With the recession forcing charities to reconsider the impact their investment in design has on fundraising, Laura Snoad talks to consultancies about the budgetary challenges and creative benefits of working with Third Sector clients
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Clinic has rebranded Fashion Monitor
6 May 2010
Clinic has rebranded Fashion Monitor - which provides fashion contacts, news and events - to reflect the depth of its fashion and beauty expertise, says a spokesman for FM owner the Profile Group.
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Creativitea has created packaging for a new range of screen protectors
6 May 2010
Creativitea has created packaging for a new range of screen protectors, released by Phone Devil for the recently launched Apple iPad. The range is the start of a new sub-brand called Media Devil.
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Design groups work on Yorkshire museum refurbishment project
6 May 2010
Yorkshire Museum in York is undergoing a £2m overhaul with permanent exhibition design by Studio MB, Campbell & Co and The One Off. All the consultancies have been commissioned by York Museums Trust.
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Diary array
6 May 2010
Telegramme has designed a limited-edition diary to accompany an exhibition about journals called Dear Diary. Youth initiative Ctrl Alt Shift is organising the show and has commissioned the diary, for which TV presenter Alexa Chung has designed the cover.The diary will launch at the exhibition, which runs at Gallery Seven in Covent Garden, London WC2 from 11-23 May.
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Digital event is reborn as Future Everything 'living lab'
6 May 2010
The Future Everything Festival, to be held in Manchester this month, will act as a ’living lab, to prototype design for a new world’, according to founder Drew Hemment.
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Drop the logo and you risk confusing the consumer
6 May 2010
No need for a logo? So what is there left to distinguish the company name? I have to disagree with Simon Manchipp’s thoughts regarding the rise of the brand world (Insight, DW 1 April). After recently graduating from the University of Portsmouth I focused on semiotics for my major project, and therefore feel I am well rehearsed in the subject.
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EC launches paper on future of Europe's creative industries
6 May 2010
The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the development of Europe’s creative industries. It is asking designers and other creative professionals to comment on ways to improve funding, skills and clustering.
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For FCSD's sake...
6 May 2010
The Chartered Society of Designers’ push for an accreditation scheme is rather anachronistic, suggests Adrian Shaughnessy. Surely there are more relevant issues it should be looking into?
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Inspired: Mickey Stretton - Utile & Beau
6 May 2010
What’s not to love about Richard Buckminster Fuller? OK, his habit of wearing three watches may not have caught on, and his penchant for white suits may not be to everyone’s taste, but who can’t identify with someone who makes up words to describe exactly what he means?
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It's an ill wind that blows PRs no good
6 May 2010
Stuck in Milan, stranded by a volcanic eruption? Forget about asking a designer for help - just leave it to the PRs, says Henrietta Thompson
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Logomotion
6 May 2010
Clients increasingly have to consider the impact of their brand properties across a range of media platforms, so it makes economic sense to invest in animation at the early stages of any identity project. Anna Richardson talks to leading practitioners about the benefits of keeping things moving
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Make it Clear has created a new website for Imperial College London
6 May 2010
Make it Clear has created a new website for Imperial College London to support its study into the long-term effects on health of mobile phone use, part of a wider international study known as Cosmos.
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Manchester-based consultancy True North has created a new Late Shift brand identity
6 May 2010
Manchester-based consultancy True North has created a new Late Shift brand identity for the Thursday and Friday late-evening openings at London’s National Portrait Gallery.
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News in Pictures
6 May 2010
The book Puffin By Design, by Phil Baines, will be published by Puffin on 3 June. It showcases Puffin book covers - like the Swallows and Amazons cover shown here - to mark the publisher’s 70th anniversary.
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News in Pictures
6 May 2010
Two Sheds has redesigned Laurence King Publishing’s Portfolio series, an academic range aimed at visual arts students. The range will launch this month and new titles will roll out in the following months. The project was overseen by Pentagram partner Angus Hyland.
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News in Pictures
6 May 2010
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Nottingham-based Sketch Creative has rebranded Social Enterprise East Midlands
6 May 2010
Nottingham-based Sketch Creative has rebranded Social Enterprise East Midlands, with a new corporate identity, brand guidelines, stationery, exhibition graphics and brochures.
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Prints on the trail...
6 May 2010
Pieces by Nadia Taylor (whose Bear Watching is pictured), Lidia de Pedro and Jim Whittamore will be among work going on show in the ’A to B’ exhibition of contemporary printmaking and illustration at the Boxbird Gallery in Hove. The exhibition, which runs from 7-27 May, focuses on work inspired by travel and foreign adventures.
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Profile: Valerie Casey
6 May 2010
Fed up with media hype about Green issues and increasingly disillusioned with the ethics of product design, this former Ideo luminary is rallying creatives and other specialists around a global sustainability accord. Gina Lovett talks to her
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Rufus Leonard has created a Google map bus-route application for Transport for London
6 May 2010
Rufus Leonard has created a Google map bus-route application for Transport for London. The application takes bus-route data and displays it using Google maps on the TfL website.
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Silk Pearce designs exhibition on history of the UK postal service at Guildhall Art Gallery
6 May 2010
Silk Pearce is designing an exhibition to be held at the Guildhall Art Gallery in London about the history of the postal service, as part of the London 2010: Festival of Stamps programme.
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Skin deep
6 May 2010
Ever seen the beauty of acne, or the fine patterns painted on the body by psoriasis? John Stones looks forward to two exhibitions that explore skin, that most versatile of membranes, in its historical and medical - as well as artistic - context. There’s a lot more to body art than tattoos, it seems
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Studio Skype
6 May 2010
Imagine a Chinese whispers design brief, relayed from studio to studio, pinging back and forth between London and Berlin by way of Skype.
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The Design Solution has created a walk-through duty free shop at Bristol Airport
6 May 2010
The Design Solution has created a walk-through duty free shop at Bristol Airport for client WDF. It has already replanned the departure lounge and all aspects of the airport impacted by the shop.
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The main parties remain unclear on design - but the APDIG has just the agenda
6 May 2010
As we go to the polls it remains uncertain which party best favours design. Pundits have done what they can to whittle out nuggets of hope from the manifestos, but even the Associate Parliamentary Design & Innovation Group found slim pickings in its analysis.
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The Workroom has created the marketing materials for hairdressing event Salon International
6 May 2010
The Workroom has created the marketing materials for hairdressing event Salon International, which is being held in October in the phase two development of London’s Excel venue.
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Universal creates deep-sea show for NHM
6 May 2010
Universal Design Studio is creating an exhibition about deep-sea life for the Natural History Museum in London.
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University event proposes better links with industry
6 May 2010
The University of Huddersfield says it hopes its inaugural Brilliant Design event will lead to a more symbiotic relationship between Government, industry and education.
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Voxpop
6 May 2010
An Apple employee apparently left an in-development iPhone in a bar. What is the most embarrassing thing you’ve ever lost, and why?
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Wayfinding is about more than just signs
6 May 2010
As your recent article points out (Seamless Flow, DW 22 April), good wayfinding helps us to navigate in a way that is ’clear, visible and intuitive’. The transport sector, without question, has a particularly tough job to make this happen.
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We support the ideas behind this healthcare design body
6 May 2010
Although I was invited to the Young Foundation meeting about its plans to set up an Institute of Healthcare Design, I was unable to attend and have not been advising them, contrary to the report in Design Week (News, DW 22 April).
