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Design Week
7 March 2002

  • Argos homes in on FutureBrand

    7 March 2002

    Argos is changing the way it sells and markets its home furnishings products, following research by FutureBrand, the fruits of which will be unveiled in spring 2003.It has not undertaken any brand identity work, a FutureBrand spokeswoman says.

  • Art director who takes Time Out to play with puppies

    7 March 2002

    You wouldn't normally associate London listings magazine Time Out with dogs, unless, of course, it's Crufts week, or a particularly bad restaurant review.

  • Arts Council set to unite branding

    7 March 2002

    The Arts Council of England is consolidating its 11 national and regional visual identities into a single name and brand, following recommendations by Wolff Olins.The organisation, in conjunction with Wolff Olins, is now deciding whether to redesign its existing corporate identity in line with the new structure.

  • AshleyCarter and Square Dot work on the Eoffice

    7 March 2002

  • BBC MediaArc designs title sequences for Wright Here, Wright Now

    7 March 2002

  • BCSC 'design checklists' for future urban projects

    7 March 2002

  • Building the product delivery to help homebuilders

    7 March 2002

    Having worked within the new homes industry for the past seven years I was interested to read News Analysis (DW 21 February).

  • Call for entries

    7 March 2002

    DesignersBlock Milan 2002, from 10-15 April, is one of the many satellite exhibitions at the Milan Furniture Fair. The organisers are inviting UK designers to submit applications to appear at the show.Contact: Piers Roberts on 020 8340 3941 or Rory Dodd on 020 8830 5668 for applications.

  • Camelot reaches for its Smith & Milton identity

    7 March 2002

    Camelot has launched an updated corporate identity designed by Smith & Milton, which is being used to overhaul the company's image after its new seven-year National Lottery licence came into effect in January.

  • Channel 4 sports XTV sequences

    7 March 2002

    XTV started work last weekend on title sequences for two Channel 4 sports programmes, which are scheduled to go live in early May.

  • Design concepts unveiled for architecture gallery at The Victoria & Albert Museum

    7 March 2002

    The Victoria & Albert Museum and the Royal Institute of British Architects last week unveiled design concepts for a permanent architecture gallery at the museum.

  • Design Works stabilises invention

    7 March 2002

  • Digest

    7 March 2002

    M Moser Associates has been appointed to design interiors, including reception area, meeting facilities and office fit-outs, for charity Shelter. The office, situated in east London, is scheduled to open in three months.

  • Digest

    7 March 2002

    The identity for the lighting company Lumino, originally created 15 years ago by Newell & Sorrell, has been revamped by Lumino's in-house designer Jonathan Bardsley.

  • Digest

    7 March 2002

    Iranian-born Shirana Shahbazi, whose work features images of everyday life in Tehran, has won this year's £15 000 Citigroup Private Bank Photography Prize. Previous winners include Boris Mikhailov, Andreas Gursky and Richard Billingham. The exhibition continues at the Photographers' Gallery in London until 31 March.

  • Digest

    7 March 2002

    Tableau has been appointed to work on the website for Cotton Bottoms, an environmentally friendly nappy and baby accessory manufacturer. The initial brief is to focus on developing an e-commerce capacity, but the design look and feel will be revamped over the next six months, incorporating interactive demonstrations to market to parents, says a Tableau spokeswoman.

  • Digest

    7 March 2002

    Randak has revamped 500-year-old Polish vodka brand, Luksusowa, which is scheduled to launch in the UK in the next month. It has redesigned the bottle, the label and presentation box.

  • Digest

    7 March 2002

    Tin Horse was responsible for the structural packaging design work and name generation for Kraft Foods (UK)'s dressing brand, Get Dressed, which is set to launch at the end of March (DW 28 February).

  • Digest

    7 March 2002

    M3 Architects launched an interior design division on Monday 4 March 2002, called M3 Interiors. It will concentrate on corporate and commercial interior design and will work initially with existing clients. The division will be led by Shiro Muchiri, who is associate director.

  • Digest

    7 March 2002

    Ethos Brand Design has created the brand identity and packaging for natural healthcare product range, O2Z, which is aimed at people with dry and sensitive skin. The brand identity has just been cleared and packaging is being signed off in the next few months, prior to a summer launch.

  • Digest

    7 March 2002

    Conran Design Group is not replacing 2D design director Sasha Vidakovic, who left over a week ago, it has emerged. Vidakovic has not made any decision yet about his future, says CDG creative director David Chaloner.

  • Digest

    7 March 2002

    E3 has been appointed to develop all new media for French Connection. Its work kicks off with a 'radical redesign' of the website, www.frenchconnection.com, which is scheduled to go live in six to eight weeks.

  • Digest

    7 March 2002

    Milk Design has created two on-line projects for Government learning incentive Learn Direct, which are scheduled to launch in the summer. The work is being tested now.

  • Do I detect a hint of ageism within design recruitment?

    7 March 2002

    Due to a change in circumstances, I've been considering returning to work in London.

  • English Heritage's 2002 visitor handbook is to be published this week

    7 March 2002

  • E-tail Therapy

    7 March 2002

    Pamela Buxton looks at how the Internet and interactive technology is evolving in the retail environment as it adapts to the new ways in which customers shop

  • EventS

    7 March 2002

    Interactions 2002; Lovebytes International Festival of Digital Arts

  • Exhibitions

    7 March 2002

    Jean Prouvé and Charles & Ray Eames; Material Light; Halfway House; Foretaste

  • Fuse puts together small business initiative logo

    7 March 2002

  • Future date

    7 March 2002

    Discussions, workshops and lectures on the future of the industry will take place in Miami at Design & Culture 02 from 15-17 April.

  • Gunners fans fire off on the new corporate crest.

    7 March 2002

  • Harvey Nash recruits for identity job

    7 March 2002

    Recruitment specialist Harvey Nash has appointed Corporate Edge to review its corporate and sub-brands following a two-stage pitch.

  • In homage to Barrys everywhere

    7 March 2002

    In homage to Barrys everywhere, and particularly those at EHS Realtime, which has named its recently opened bar Barry and got lookalikes to appear (DW 21 February), here are the two Barrys (Manilow and White if you couldn't guess) in all their, em, glory.

  • International refreshment

    7 March 2002

    As Gordon's gin and Schweppes tonic relaunch, Hannah Booth and Brandon Cheevers report on how international brands are straddling different markets

  • James Bond exhibition to open from 23 March

    7 March 2002

  • Landor confirms Sensations job

    7 March 2002

    Landor Associates has confirmed that it created the branding and packaging for Walkers' snack Sensations, as revealed last week by Design Week. (DW 28 February).

  • Looking to the future

    7 March 2002

    Yolanda Zappaterra is so jaded by contemporary art prizes that she welcomes Beck's Futures exhibition and endorsement of young artists

  • Lumsden Design Partnership lays down interiors for Stonell showroom

    7 March 2002

  • Mike Exon : Smile please, big cheese

    7 March 2002

    Mike Exon says it's time to stop the tacky images of chief executives that grace the broadsheets and think about how these pictures can better reflect a company

  • Museum refurbishment uncovers poster treasures

    7 March 2002

  • Nissan revs up for a London studio

    7 March 2002

    Work starts this month on car manufacturer Nissan's first London design studio, designed by architect Tate & Hindle in collaboration with Nissan's in-house team.

  • Print designers book into British Council exhibition

    7 March 2002

  • RFA designs African tourist village

    7 March 2002

  • Roundel branding for Poole complex

    7 March 2002

    Roundel has been appointed to brand a retail and residential development in Dorset as the site's previous occupier, Poole Pottery, confirms it is looking at its corporate identity.

  • Safeway snacks by Wren & Rowe

    7 March 2002

    Wren & Rowe is designing Safeway brand Eat Street's identity and packaging, details of which were unveiled yesterday (Thursday 7 March 2002).

  • Selfridges uses Good Technology

    7 March 2002

    Good Technology has been appointed to undertake a radical redesign of upmarket department store Selfridges' website and Intranet, as it seeks to better reflect its regional growth.

  • Shell website by DNA Consulting

    7 March 2002

  • Talk

    7 March 2002

    Chairman and chief executive of packaging company Jefferson Smurfit Group Michael Smurfit presents Building a Global Packaging Group at the annual Livery Lecture on 11 March from 6pm.Contact: The Stationers' Hall on 020 7248 2934 or e-mail admin@ stationers.org for tickets.Venue: The Stationers' Hall, Ave Maria Lane, London EC4.

  • The Two Dicks that can rise to every occasion

    7 March 2002

    Talk about omnipresent. Like those irritating candles that keep re-igniting when blown out by unsuspecting children at toddlers' birthday parties, Richard Seymour and Dick Powell just keep on popping up... and popping up. Oh look, there they are again.

  • The year of the cat

    7 March 2002

    As Jaguar launches its new X-Type 2-litre V6 model this week, Sara Manuelli rides up to the Coventry headquarters to meet the brains behind the hard work

  • There is more to branded offers than a boost to fees

    7 March 2002

    It may come as a surprise that clients respond favourably to the 'branded offers' a handful of the more thoughtful consultancies have created. They can so easily be dismissed by sceptics as just a way of boosting fees - a bit like adding the word 'strategic' to a consultancy's descriptor.

  • Thomas Manss builds on architect's identity

    7 March 2002

  • Thumbing through good and bad company names

    7 March 2002

  • Tools of the trade or pretty packaging?

    7 March 2002

    What clients want is quality thinking and rigorous processes. Do they really care how design consultancies brand their offers?

  • Trite-minded

    7 March 2002

    Pamela Buxton wonders why designers feel the need to resort to old visual clichés

  • Virgin Atlantic in design reshuffle

    7 March 2002

    Virgin Atlantic is not replacing directly Dee Cooper, who has been promoted from head of design to head of product and service.Industrial design manager Joe Ferry and interior design manager Hilary Clark have split day-to-day responsibility for design.

  • Vox pop

    7 March 2002

    Following last week's news that Gordon's gin has been redesigned for the first time in 60 years, which product in your opinion is crying out for a repack and why?

  • Watch out for...

    7 March 2002

    Britart on new digital channel BBC Four. See the first of a three-part series charting the past 15 years of Britain's rise to leading light of cutting edge modern art, this Friday, 8 March at 9pm.

  • Work of the French furniture designer, Jean Prouvé, to go on show at Vitra's London showroom

    7 March 2002

    The work of French furniture designer Jean Prouvé will be on show at German furniture manufacturer Vitra's London showroom from 6 to 8 March, alongside seating and tables by Charles and Ray Eames.

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