Design Week
7 February 2008
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Balancing tricks
7 February 2008
How far should type designers go to accommodate the needs of everchanging technologies? Scott Billings looks into the issue of type legibility as publishing platforms grow broader and more electronic
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Beware the 'D' word
7 February 2008
It seems everybody’s in the design business now, says Adrian Shaughnessy, although many of those who use the word have little to do with creativity
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Cover story
7 February 2008
What makes a good front cover? Fiona Sibley talks to top creatives and discovers that there are no golden rules. ...
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Customer magazines: An overview
7 February 2008
However you look at it, the contract publishing sector is in rude health. As other brand channels furiously jostle for position and advertising in an uncertain and rapidly evolving media landscape, customer magazines are sitting pretty. Canny publishers like John Brown, Redwood, Cedar and Ink Publishing have, in recent years, taken the medium to a new level, creating a vehicle for branding and the soft sell that's proving irresistible.The impressive figures speak for themselves. ...
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Design Council welcomes reclassification of the industry
7 February 2008
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Designs for George Rodger exhibition of war photos
7 February 2008
One hundred powerful photographs by wartime photojournalist George Rodger are to appear at a major exhibition of his work launching at the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester.The Contact: George Rodger's War Photographs exhibition, designed by Manchester-based consultancy Hemisphere, tells the story of how the challenges and changing nature of photojournalism in wartime shaped Rodger's work and experience. It also celebrates the centenary of his birth in Hale, Cheshire.Housed ...
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Do you need outside help?
7 February 2008
Non-executive directors are often perceived to have a role only in big businesses - custodians of governance in companies that have audit commissions, health and safety officers, pension packages, stock market listings and top-floor fitness centres with v
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Domotechnica under the spotlight
7 February 2008
How do you design products that will please today’s aspirational and demanding 50-plus audience – and make them part with their money? Scott Billings addresses the issue on the eve of household appliance fair Domotechnica in Cologne
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Greig & Stephenson
7 February 2008
Greig & Stephenson, the architect that worked on London's Borough Market, has transformed a 740m2 Bermondsey warehouse into a coffee roasting storeroom, office and training venue for Monmouth Coffee Company.
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Inspired - Alison Louise Brookes - Knitwear Creative
7 February 2008
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Kemistry
7 February 2008
Broadcast design group Kemistry has appointed Andrew Pearce as senior producer. He joins from Maverick Media.
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LBI International
7 February 2008
Digital consultancy LBI International has acquired Belgian interactive group OX2. Last month LBI promoted its UK chief executive and former Oyster Partners founder Luke Taylor to the position of overall chief executive.
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Learning & Skills Council names college architect roster
7 February 2008
The Learning & Skills Council has named the architects that will masterplan higher education building projects in the UK over the next five years.
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Lighting designer Jason Bruges
7 February 2008
Lighting designer Jason Bruges is collaborating with Make Architects to create a façade for an office building on London's Baker Street. The so-called 'art-façade' consists of a series of steel lattice masks that will function as a low-resolution screen for Bruges' light show. The projected lights will be updated continually to create a changing landscape of patterns and moods. The work will be unveiled in March.
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Mag power
7 February 2008
There’s plenty going on in the world of art direction at the moment. Yolanda Zappaterra meets up with three stars on the editorial design circuit, whose bold titles are making a strong visual impact
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Music and sound design company Radium
7 February 2008
Music and sound design company Radium launches this week with a brand identity designed by Elmwood. The consultancy has taken Radium's signature 'R' and restyled it using the idea of sound waves to convey the diversity of audio work created by the company.
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New identity for Gourmet Hotdog launch
7 February 2008
The restaurateurs behind restaurants The Real Greek and Livebait will tomorrow launch their latest food retail concept, visualised and branded with the help of R&D&Co.
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News in pictures
7 February 2008
Alpha Men, an exhibition of work by illustrator and graphic designer Dotan Bahat on the theme of masculinity, runs at the Macondo galleries in London’s Hoxton Square and Islington, until 2 March.
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News in Pictures
7 February 2008
UK design and engineering company Reaction Engines has hit the headlines this week with proposals for Lapcat, a hypersonic plane that could fly to Australia from Europe in less than five hours. According to Reaction technical director Richard Varvill, the project will undergo the second phase of feasibility studies later this year. With mooted speeds of up to 4800kph, Lapcat has a 25 per cent chance of entering commercial use, he says.
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Obesity creates challenge for pack designers
7 February 2008
Consumers are making active attempts to eat more healthily, but the threat of obesity is showing no sign of slowing down, according to a recent Datamonitor report.This contradiction persists despite efforts by food manufacturers, retailers and designers to highlight the nutritional content of their products using labelling systems on packaging. Supporters of these labels say that never has it been so easy to monitor how much of the bad stuff we are consuming.The report, ...
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On-line publishing: An Overview
7 February 2008
Just look at the advantages of on-line publishing: ad revenues are soaring; Internet publishing is Greener than print publishing; readers are more comfortable reading on screen than they once were; and devices like the new Apple iPod Touch allow readers to browse Web pages on the move. We've reached a point where it's hard to imagine why any publisher contemplating launching a new title would bother with a print version. On-line rules.But there's a problem, and as usual the problem ...
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Profile
7 February 2008
Dutch design group KesselsKramer is opening a London office, but how will its idealistic approach fit in with the commercial realities of the UK market? Clare Dowdy speaks to co-founder Erik Kessels
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Random House redesigns Louis de Bernières
7 February 2008
Book publisher Random House is redesigning the entire back catalogue of Louis de Bernières' novels to coincide with the launch of his new book, The Partisan's Daughter.The design work is a collaboration between Random House creative director Suzanne Dean, illustrator Rob Ryan and designer Anna Crone, and aims to give the books a 'series' style.Dean says she wants to reflect that The Partisan's Daughter is a departure for de Bernières.Her aim is to hint at previous ...
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Searching for staying power
7 February 2008
Sweden having such an entrenched good reputation when it comes to design, visitors to the Stockholm Furniture Fair can be sure of seeing fabulous products, even if they are not the most innovative on the furniture fair circuit. This year, however, there was a fresh flavour and a few standout events, including the launch of the new Clarion Sign. With 558 rooms, the Clarion is now the biggest hotel in Stockholm and claims to provide guests with a wholly Scandinavian aesthetic experience. ...
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Skratch
7 February 2008
Skratch has designed the Architecture and Design Scotland annual review and accounts, called Building on the Foundations.
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Spiral Communications
7 February 2008
Digital and interactive marketing group Spiral Communications has launched a new consultancy division based in Leeds. S2 will cover branding for clients including HBOS, Minorplanet and the DVLA.
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Stuart Shave/Modern Art
7 February 2008
Scottish gallery Stuart Shave/Modern Art will open a new gallery and offices on Eastcastle Street, London W1, on 24 April. It is designed by architect David Kohn.
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Tank resists challenge from BAT
7 February 2008
Tank is standing its ground against British American Tobacco, which wants it to halt the manufacture of a miniature novel packaged in a cigarette box-style pack.BAT claims that the cover of Ernest Hemingway's The Snows of Kilimanjaro and The Undefeated too closely resembles its Lucky Strike cigarette packet design.The tobacco manufacturer has asked Tank to sign an agreement 'to stop all unauthorised use of the Lucky Strike trademark or any sign which is visually or colourably ...
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Techno-retailing reinforces the case for service design
7 February 2008
Vittorio Radice has likened current retail to the grand museums of yore. When at Habitat, and particularly as chief executive of department store Selfridges, Radice clearly saw his role as bringing culture to the masses and highlighting modern design classics as much as selling goods. ...
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The Church should use design to appeal to men
7 February 2008
Referring to your recent articles on Christian visual communications (Comment and News Analysis, DW 24 January), I think they are more highly developed than either suggests. A clear understanding of good design is reflected in the publications of evangelical publishers like Lion-Hudson, which has been very design-aware since the 1980s. Not to mention Scripture Union. Both articles cite Derek Birdsall's excellent design for Common Worship. This was preceded by the Alternative ...
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The Foreign & Commonwealth Office
7 February 2008
The Foreign & Commonwealth Office is to undergo a major £400 000 brand strategy review, and has appointed Rufus Leonard to the task.
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The International Institute for Environment and Development
7 February 2008
The International Institute for Environment and Development, part of the Greenhouse collaborative organisation, has released its annual report, designed by consultancy Mcgillaneves.
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The market leaders are best placed to make a difference
7 February 2008
Our Green and pleasant land, is it really going to happen? I agree with Jim Davies (Private View, DW 24 January), and fully support his view that it's up to us as designers to find new ways of expressing Greenness; to keep it fresh, exciting and invigorating so people don't feel tired, turn off and tune out. However, I'm beginning to question myself as my feelings of guilt, 'could do better' and the need to stop being so materialistic outweigh all the good work I'm doing as an individual. ...
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The Motor Neurone Disease Association
7 February 2008
The Motor Neurone Disease Association has appointed Spencer du Bois to review its brand positioning.
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There are thriving self-help networks in the North West
7 February 2008
Design Initiative is interested to note that Peter Spence did not discover any local self-help design networking groups in the North West (Letters, DW 31January). DI has been promoting good design and providing business support to designers in the North West for the past 15 years. Through networking activities, national and international projects and awards, it has raised the profile of local designers in the way Spence writes about. DI also operates Futures, a network for Merseyside-based ...
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Turner Prize-winner Mark Titchner
7 February 2008
Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Titchner has created the latest reinterpretation of Channel 4's giant 3D identity, outside its Horseferry Road headquarters in London SW1. The idea for the structure, which aims to bring the channel's brand to life, was conceived by Freestate. Titchner is the second of four artists to customise the 17m-high steel installation, following a design by photographer Nick Knight.
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Two-way street
7 February 2008
Web strategies used to be a real headache for glossy magazine publishers agonising over cannibalisation and revenue models. Oliver Bennett finds a complementary approach to the integration of on- and off-line products works best
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Voxpop
7 February 2008
Branding specialists have this week been eyeing the anticipated merger between Punch Taverns and Mitchells & Butlers for new business opportunities. What can design do for the UK's pub chains?
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Weird & Wonderful launches London movie museum attraction
7 February 2008
The events design group behind last year's Star Wars exhibition at County Hall in London's Westminster will next week launch what it hopes will be the UK's leading movie museum attraction.Film, theatre and production design group Weird & Wonderful is set to launch Movieum, a 'low-cost' visitor attraction aimed at children and families, located on the site of the former Saatchi Gallery in County Hall.The venture is Weird & Wonderful managing director Jonathan Sands' ...
