Design Week
6 November 2008
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A report from the Orgatec fair
6 November 2008
Apart from a fondness for grained dark wood and a crop of beautiful chairs, this year’s Orgatec fair was dominated by two trends – a move to embrace the contract market and a Chinese presence, says Lynda Relph-Knight
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A true Commonwealth of design could become reality
6 November 2008
The maxim 'Put your money where your mouth is' might not be the most elegant phrase, but it sums up Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic's pursuit of the old Commonwealth Institute building in London's Kensington as a potential home for the museum (www.designweek.co.uk, 30 October).In ...
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Beating the graduate blues
6 November 2008
Don’t despair if it seems impossible to get that first break after leaving college – Jane Trustram got one, and she offers her best advice
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Cinnamon spices up fashion brand Saf for retail venture
6 November 2008
Designer Karen Cinnamon has created the complete brand identity for organic clothing brand Saf, an acronym for ‘socially aware fashion’.London-based Cinnamon was appointed directly at the end of June to develop new packaging, graphics, logos and a website for Saf, which is moving from the wholesale market into retail, and is officially launching on 14 November.Saf’s clothing is all produced in India, and Cinnamon says she wanted to produce designs that drew on ...
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Davies Hall brews up new look for the Rare Tea Company
6 November 2008
Davies Hall has designed a new brand identity and packaging for the Rare Tea Company, to help it break into new markets.The new design hits the shelves on 10 November, and is in direct response to the client wanting to get its product into Waitrose.The original design was created in 2004 and did not involve a professional design consultancy.Davies Hall was appointed in April, beating two other design groups, and has come up with a design that director Rob Hall refers ...
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Event reveals plans for Kuwait oil museum
6 November 2008
Exhibition design consultancy Event Communications is masterplanning and designing the interiors of Kuwait's first museum dedicated to oil and gas.The exhibition will include 4m-high spouts of real fire and smoke, intended to convey the devastation caused by oil-well fires during the 1991 Gulf War.Kuwait Oil Company gave the green light to Event's designs for the three-floor museum, including a 180-degree film projection and an oil-drilling platform, two weeks ago.'We ...
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Foscarini and Marc Sadler design lamp
6 November 2008
Venetian lighting company Foscarini continues its relationship with French designer Marc Sadler with the development of a flexible floor lamp that sways when touched. The prototype, which has the working title Tress, features a carbon fibre or glass fibre woven structure housing two light sources, providing ambient light and uplighting.
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Haberdashery London creates trophy
6 November 2008
Haberdashery London has created a trophy for the British Film Institute Fellowship award. Given to director Terence Davies at a screening of his new film Of Time and the City last weekend, the award comprises 25 layers of blue Norwegian glass, intended to reference a camera lens. A BFI spokeswoman says, 'The old award had become unsustainable, being made of silver taken from nitrate film that's no longer produced.'
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Harrison Fraser wins brief to create horseracing brand
6 November 2008
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Inspired
6 November 2008
Not wanting to appear clichéd, but seeing the movie Blade Runner back in the 1980s left a lasting impression on me - everything from the teenage aspirations of the unconventional hero and the ground-breaking sci-fi film-making, through to its futuristic architecture.The cult legacy of the film stayed with me at university, where I explored the storytelling of Ridley Scott's classic. The experiential nature of the film, which fuses together Vangelis' soundtrack, architecture and ...
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Isokon Plus rebuilds design presence with Skandium tie-up
6 November 2008
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Let's find a new role
6 November 2008
For too long, we’ve been designing the stuff of consumption – it’s high time that we put our creative energies to better use, says Adrian Shaughnessy
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Manchester's Love design Nando Chips
6 November 2008
Manchester's Love has designed a range of crisps for Nando's, Nando's Chips, to be sold in grocery outlets. The consultancy was appointed to create a look and feel for the products by The Grocery Company, which has the licence to sell and market products in the UK for the fast-food chain. The thick, matt-finished, waxy packaging features the Nando's logo, with colour-coding for the varying hotness levels of the peri-peri flavours, and have a premium positioning, targeting the market share ...
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News in Pictures
6 November 2008
Magpie Studio has designed the website, temporary signage and all visual communications for Portfolio Advice Day, an initiative being held on 3 December at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, to give students advice on gaining admission t
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News in Pictures
6 November 2008
Graphic design duo Brighten The Corners has designed Victor & Susie, ‘a children’s book for adults’. The book will be published on 10 November.
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Putting LEDs to spectacular use
6 November 2008
Designers have long known the potential of LED lighting – it’s a versatile, low-cost technology that’s also energy efficient. Scott Billings sings the praises of some recent innovative projects that use the cheap microchip-controlled LEDs to spectacular e
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Red Bee Media wins top Design Effectiveness Award
6 November 2008
Red Bee Media has won the Grand Prix prize at the Design Business Association's DBA Design Effectiveness Awards for its campaign for digital TV channel Dave.Joe Ferry, head of design at Virgin Atlantic and a member of the judging panel, describes the campaign, which saw the channel's name changed from UKTV G2, as 'pure genius'.Before Red Bee Media took on the rebrand, the channel was recording just 2 per cent spontaneous awareness. It also had the highest misattribution ...
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Same old story
6 November 2008
The Women's Library in east London's Aldgate is a fantastic source of historical and cultural information. For this show, it has drawn on its extensive magazine archive, starting with the first women's periodical, The Ladies' Mercury, which launched in 1693. Intriguingly, not much seems to change. Hairstyles and hemlines come and go, but the messages on the covers are similar. There's worthy and practical, like the 1929 cover of Woman and Home, where a husband sporting trench coat and ...
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Skuuma puts finalists into production
6 November 2008
Dutch furniture manufacturer Skuuma is putting the finalists in its Soft Surfaces design competition - including the Grand Prix winner, Elisabeth by Fons Schobbers (pictured) - into production. The runners-up - Jan & Dannie's Um chair; Foam Sweet Home by Boaz Cohen and Sayaka Yamamoto; Rococo chair by Tamara Abrar and Stefan Zinecker; and Soft Act by Naty Mosko - are also in development.
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V&A seeks lighting design groups for upcoming projects
6 November 2008
The Victoria & Albert Museum is seeking a lighting designer to work on projects over the next five to seven years, which may include the second phase of FuturePlan.
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Voxpop
6 November 2008
Actress Mae West, who died almost 30 years ago, has been revived in a branding exercise. Which star would you bring back to life and how would you use their brand?
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Wendy Ramshaw's large-scale projects
6 November 2008
Designer Wendy Ramshaw is best known for her jewellery, but large-scale projects take up increasing amounts of her time. Anna Richardson asks her about materials, imagination and the internal scale of her work
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Will new government cash make electric cars less hideous?
6 November 2008
The development of low-carbon vehicles is set to benefit from Government cash, but will it make the cars themselves less hideous? asks Gina Lovett
