Design Week
6 September 2007
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Aiming for an emerald planet
6 September 2007
Martin Nixon always assumed that his design business was environmentally right on, but an audit revealed that his carbon footprint was much bigger than he thought
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Andy Knowles
6 September 2007
Andy Knowles is chief executive officer of Jones Knowles Ritchie, not creative director as stated in last week's News in Depth piece.
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Brandhouse client services head poached by Albion
6 September 2007
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Circular logos are just the thing in The Netherlands too
6 September 2007
I recently noticed an article on page 3 of Design Week (DW 16 August) about De-construct rebuilding the Crafts Council website. I couldn't help but notice that the new Crafts Council logo resembles the logo of our platform Creating Brands in the Netherlands, which is part of the Association of Dutch Designers. Jean-Louis Goossens, Public relations, Association of Dutch Designers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, by e-mail
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Cred Jewellery
6 September 2007
Radley Yeldar has devised the branding for ethical jewellery business Cred Jewellery. The idea for the brand is meant to sum up the two sides of the company - the ethical nature of the materials and the creation of designer jewellery. The new logo is a jewel-like 'C'.
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Design consultancy Sheridan...
6 September 2007
Design consultancy Sheridan & Company has created a megastore for Portsmouth FC at its Fratton Park home.
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Design industry poised at 'a threshold moment'
6 September 2007
The tide is turning for design as it starts to gain more credence with clients vis-à-vis advertising as a way of not just promoting, but of creating businesses and products. We hear of clients, particularly in fmcg, making design groups brand guardians and even diverting advertising budgets towards ...
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Design sector eyes Asian boom
6 September 2007
There are rich pickings for the creative industries in China and India - provided you understand their way of business, says Gaynor Aaltonen
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Emphemera for ever
6 September 2007
Designers should rush to Yorkshire Sculpture Park, urges Hugh Pearman. The show by wilderness artist Andy Goldsworthy is an enduring lesson in transience
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Festival perspective
6 September 2007
The scale and scope of the London Design Festival means you need to steer a well-planned route through the mammoth event that covers every discipline as well as multiple sites across the capital. Max Fraser provides a guide
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I wasn't aspiring to be Hemingway in six words
6 September 2007
Much as I enjoyed Quentin Newark's critique of the 26 posters project (DW 6 September), he is missing the point. We weren't 'encouraged to take a site as [our] starting point', the brief was categorical - to create a poster that made a pithy, six-word comment or observation about the location in which it appeared. We were being asked to take a mass medium and make it unusually local and specific. So inevitably, when these posters are removed from their context, they become ...
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Industry report predicts boom for contract furnishers
6 September 2007
School desk and hospital bed designers are poised to benefit from dramatic growth in public spending over the next decade, according to a new study by the British Contract Furnishing and Design Association.
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Inspired
6 September 2007
Ever since I was a child the future has fascinated me: what will life be like in 100 years' time? How will people interact with the things around them? From the moment I saw Ridley Scott's electrifying cityscape, with its gigantic free-floating flat screens, I was hooked. Films, books, comics, even video games set in the future have done it for me ever since.What I love most is the freedom of form and function, from talking computers with minds of their own to instant teleportation. ...
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Kid appeal
6 September 2007
Obvious colours and predictable shapes have long dominated design for children, says Pamela Buxton, but recent research, the subject of a London Design Festival conference, finds that there's no sound reason for this
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Land Design captures couture allure for V&A show
6 September 2007
The Victoria & Albert Museum's autumn exhibition, The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-1957 opens this week, created by Land Design Studio.
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Last week's Design Week cover
6 September 2007
Last week's Design Week cover featured the poster design of Rachael Dinnis of Dinnis Design and writer Ben Afia, not that of Jason Lowings and Verity Evans of Venture Three.
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News in pictures
6 September 2007
Thomas Heatherwick has transformed the entrance to Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital in London, as part of a £2m project to improve the area. Heatherwick’s first commission for the NHS, the works include better pedestrian access and improved signage and lighting. Pictured is the Boiler Suit, a façade designed to encase the boiler house that powers the hospital.
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P&G outsources innovation to find new product ideas
6 September 2007
Procter & Gamble is throwing open its doors to UK design consultancies in its biggest ever search for new product ideas.
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Photon pays £6.4m for Corporate Edge
6 September 2007
Corporate Edge's acquisition by Photon Group UK, part of Australian specialist marketing services group Photon Group, marks the first purchase of a branding consultancy by the UK arm of the Australian network.The consultancy will receive an upfront payment of AUD15.65m (£6.4m), with an undisclosed remainder disbursed following performance markers through to 2010. Corporate Edge reported an operating profit of £272 000 for the year ending 2006, as well as an annual turnover of £8.9m. ...
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Premier Foods' marmalade...
6 September 2007
Premier Foods' marmalade brands Golden Shred and Silver Shred have been redesigned by Brandopus. The new look aims to 'restore the brand's iconic status' and draws upon earlier brand manifestations. 'The design expresses the brand's real character,' says general manager spreads at Premier Foods David Atkinson.
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Print into art
6 September 2007
If printmaking seems to be always about work, work, work, then why not call a halt for a moment and consider its myriad possibilities as a thread of artistic practice? Four designers who use printing techniques heavily in their conceptual work join together for a new exhibition at London Printworks. The results are pleasingly diverse. Fiona Zobole's large-scale prints are beautiful arrangements of typography, freed from the tyrannical task of delivering loaded statements. In fact, they're ...
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Red Bee Media creates Orange IPTV indents
6 September 2007
Orange is poised to make its first foray into the Internet Protocol Television market, with Red Bee Media.The IPTV service, which will go under the name of 'digital TV from Orange', is due to launch at the end of the year with an identity designed by the digital creative consultancy.Red Bee Media won a paid creative pitch in March this year against four unnamed groups to create a series of idents for the service, which will offer TV-on-demand.'Moving into the TV ...
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Students don't tend to care enough about business
6 September 2007
With regards to business teaching on design courses, sadly students are often not interested and there are too many different models to address all business issues while in a creative environment.
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Studio Output
6 September 2007
Studio Output has redesigned the website of photographic agent Morgan Lockyer. Launching this week, the new site coincides with the company's fifth birthday (www.morganlockyer.com).
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The 2008 D&AD president
6 September 2007
The 2008 D&AD president will be the second, not the third, in a row from the design industry.
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The Chertsey Bookshop
6 September 2007
Paul Cartwright Branding has created the identity and branding for south coast independent book retailer The Chertsey Bookshop, working alongside former Molton Brown head of design Yasuda Avery.
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There's no excuse for being rude to your candidates
6 September 2007
I'd like to sound a note of caution to all graduates - after the interview, get used to being left in the dark, for there seems to be a lack of etiquette in informing candidates in our industry. A sudden influx of work or a pitch opportunity can draw the attention of the creative director away from making a decision, but how long does it take in a quick e-mail to inform someone they are not right for the role? The pity is we begin to accept this as the norm. I've even been ...
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Times Cheltenham Literature Festival
6 September 2007
Design commentators Charles Jencks and Stephen Bayley will be speaking at the Times Cheltenham Literature Festival, which opens on 5 October. For details see www.cheltenhamfestivals.com.
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Voxpop
6 September 2007
Nesta chief executive Jonathan Kestenbaum is calling for a more rigorous integration of business teaching into design courses. Are academics out of touch with the creative industries, and should business teaching be integral to courses?
