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7 November 2002

  • ...while Pink Grease's schlock-horror is mere dribble

    7 November 2002

    During our more idle moments, we dream of being music industry PRs. Then we could go to record launch parties every night and write the sort of wank that heralds the debut single by Pink Grease, with cover design by Sam Oakley (pictured).

  • 40-fied body

    7 November 2002

    As British Design & Art Direction celebrates its 40th birthday, we ask designers how design bodies, from the DBA to the CSD, fare in comparison. We also chart D&AD's history and show a selection of award-winning work from previous years

  • A Lucid account of Itchy Feet's London flagship

    7 November 2002

    Lucid has designed a 325m2 London flagship store for travel clothing and equipment retailer Itchy Feet, which aims to bring the personal touch and a dash of humour to the outdoors industry.

  • Add NWYH to a PC? and you're a Record Breaker

    7 November 2002

    Famed for its cartoon-robot-porno promo Metal Fingers In My Body, 'avant-hard' electronica outfit Add N to (X) must be a great client to work for.

  • Alloy Total Product...

    7 November 2002

    Alloy Total Product Design has created the product styling for US-based technology start-up Bluesocket's range of wireless network security products. Alloy was briefed to devise a point-of-sale presence that would communicate Bluesocket's stated aims: advanced technology coupled with dependability. According to an Alloy Total Product spokesman, the task revolved around the creation of design elements strong enough to be translated into future products as a consistent look.

  • And Finally...

    7 November 2002

    Diarmuid Gavin eat your shrubs out. Self-styled creative services company BeBrand has taken its branding secateurs to the topiary, cutting the consultancy logo - based on the map symbol for a bridge - into an unsuspecting bit of box hedging. According to BeBrand's press release, 'The idea of manipulating nature to reflect one's craftsmanship and identity is not novel - bonsai artisans have been doing so for over 1000 years. In the spirit of this ancient tradition, [our] innovation allows ...

  • Boxer revamps Lunchtogo identity

    7 November 2002

    Midlands-based creative consultancy Boxer has revamped the identity for Marks & Spencer's business food service, Lunchtogo, as the retailer looks to build its market share in the sector.

  • Bristol kids using their Imagination

    7 November 2002

    Imagination has created an interactive learning environment for Bristol's family-oriented science centre At-Bristol, which opens later this month.

  • Broadcast design and...

    7 November 2002

    Broadcast design and branding consultancy Kemistry has created the identity, opening titles, idents and styling for the second series of the National Geographic's quiz show, National Geo-Genius. The channel's head of on-air Guy Slattery says it is increasingly imperative, as a specialist channel, to convey a strong brand. 'In this crowded marketplace, we must ensure viewers can find us and remember us,' he adds. The consultancy was appointed in May following a creative pitch against ...

  • Call for entries

    7 November 2002

    Entry forms are now available for the National Business Calendar Awards 2003. The closing date for entries is 6 December.

  • Checkland Kindleysides dresses Henri-Lloyd store

    7 November 2002

    High performance clothing-tofashion brand Henri-Lloyd will open a 279m2 concept store in London's Carnaby Street next March, designed by Leicester-based Checkland Kindleysides.

  • Conference

    7 November 2002

    The next Packaging Solutions Advice Group event takes place on 13 November from 7.15pm. The Pack to the Future series scales Brand New Heights as Gillette assistant patent counsel Chet Cekala, Innocent marketing director Richard Reed and MFI Group director of research and brand strategy Felicity Norrie offer insights into their approach to brand protection.Contact: Adam Fennelow on 020 7247 6116 or adam.fennelow@ designevents.co.uk for bookings.

  • Creative ties with ethnicity

    7 November 2002

    As the BBC launches its Asian Network radio channel, Guy Woodward looks at other areas where cultural influences are reflecting Britain's ethnic minorities

  • D&AD's energy helps it to avoid the ageing process

    7 November 2002

    Does life really begin at 40 or is 40 just the new 30? Which cliché would you apply as British Design & Art Direction - that bastion of creativity - enters into its fifth decade with a celebratory bang?

  • Design spend remains healthy

    7 November 2002

    Spending on design by UK companies is holding up well despite the economic conditions, a Design Council report claims this week.According to the report, three-quarters of medium-sized firms say design is 'integral' or 'significant' to their businesses. Among small firms with 20-49 staff, 72 per cent of managers share this view compared to 48 per cent in a trawl conducted six months previously.

  • Digest

    7 November 2002

    Citigate Lloyd Northover has created the name and identity for Fountain Capital Partners, the start-up investment management subsidiary of Swedish property group Catella.

  • Digest

    7 November 2002

    Hoop Associates has created a brochure in the form of a fold-out map for the Institute of Public Policy Research. The work was first shown at the Government's urban renewal summit in Birmingham this week.

  • Digest

    7 November 2002

    Winners of the European Hotel Design Awards, announced last week, include awards for the Sheraton Grand Edinburgh in the Best New Hotel (interior design) category for its interiors by the Syntax Group and Terry Farrell & Partners and Best Hotel Graphic

  • Digest

    7 November 2002

    Blast has created an identity for the musical celebrations surrounding the BBC's 80th birthday. The marque will be applied across invitations, programmes and event literature.

  • Digest

    7 November 2002

    Dew Gibbons has redesigned the packaging of Diet Fanta, as brand owner Coca-Cola relaunches the product in the UK as Fanta Light.

  • Digest

    7 November 2002

    Elmwood's Edinburgh office has designed the Scottish Ambulance annual report. It is the third year the group has worked on the project.

  • Digest

    7 November 2002

    Blumedia has designed a website, www.rawlinson-hunter.com, for international chartered accountant Rawlinson & Hunter.

  • Digest

    7 November 2002

    The Field has created two 30-second films for Virgin Experience. The films will be used in the company's pre-Christmas on-line viral marketing campaign.

  • Digest

    7 November 2002

    CGI BrandSense has been appointed to design British American Tobacco's Social Report. The consultancy already creates the company's annual report and other corporate literature.

  • Digest

    7 November 2002

    The SMC Group has acquired Warwick-based architectural practice Corstorphine & Wright. SMC Group business development director Gordon Watson says the company, which is currently architecture-based, is also planning 'interior, graphic and product design

  • Digest

    7 November 2002

    NetInfo has created a website for DTV Services, the joint venture between the BBC, BskyB and Crown Castle International.

  • Digest

    7 November 2002

    BBC MediaArc has created the visual identity for the BBC's new children's television series Tikkabilla. Aimed at pre-school children, the daily programme will launch on Cbeebies on 11 November.

  • Digest

    7 November 2002

    Radius has created own-label packaging for Safeway's eight-strong range of family jams, which completes its roll-out over the next couple of weeks. The 'lush imagery' was taken by photographer Michael Michaels.

  • Digest

    7 November 2002

    Women's fashion brand Artigiano opens its first high street outlet in Bournemouth this week, with interiors by MRA Architects. Interiors employ 'clean lines… and authentic materials', says MRA Architects director Anshu Srivastava.

  • Don't sit on the fence

    7 November 2002

    The explosive follow up to No Logo, Fences and Windows, saw its recent soft launch; Mike Exon outlines the book's hard-hitting message

  • Ethos identity to bear out 're-energising' of Hamleys

    7 November 2002

    Long-established toy retailer Hamleys unveils its revamped identity and own-brand packaging today as its Regent Street flagship gears up for the Christmas season.

  • Exhibitions

    7 November 2002

    Artist Tracey Emin goes solo for her new show, This is Another Place, from 10 November until 19 January 2003. Venue: Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BP.

  • Fat Frog gives movement to RTC

    7 November 2002

    Newcastle-based group Fat Frog Design has created an identity for technology transfer company RTC North, in a project worth more than £20 000 in fees to the group.

  • Hannah Starkey has...

    7 November 2002

    Hannah Starkey has won the inaugural St James Group Photography Prize, worth £20 000, ahead of 32 leading photographers including Martin Parr and Jem Southam. The theme for the competition was contemporary urban landscape. Starkey's images (pictured) are 'uncanny, mysterious and complex' and 'an extraordinary English vision of urban space', say the judges. An exhibition of the shortlisted work called Urban Visions runs until 9 November at Flowers East, 82 Kingsland Road, London E2.

  • Intro has designed...

    7 November 2002

    Intro has designed the cinema poster for acclaimed Scottish director Lynne Ramsey's latest film Morvern Callar, as well as creating the cover for the soundtrack CD. Intro senior designers Julian House and Mat Cook cite New York filmmaker John Cassavetes and classic Polish movie posters from the 1960s among the visual influences. Their stark, two-colour design focuses on a large and radically treated close-up image of the film's star, Samantha Morton, shot by photographer Gautier Deblonde. ...

  • Judging format for 2003 DW Awards announced

    7 November 2002

    The Design Week Awards judging will follow a different format this year, with a group of 'minichairmen' overseeing specialist categories.

  • Kitchen roll out of PSD Fitch look

    7 November 2002

    Georgia-Pacific is rolling out revamped packaging designed by PSD Fitch for two of its household tissue brands, in what is the first phase of a six-month relaunch campaign.

  • Material gain

    7 November 2002

    New technologies and artistic experimentation are providing interior designers with a whole new palette of innovative, tough and attractive materials. David Littlefield takes a look at what's available

  • Motor Show publicity that drives away target market

    7 November 2002

    There has been a lot of publicity surrounding the promotion of the Motor Show 2002 at Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre with regard to the age-old use of sexy women and sexist comment to attract attention.

  • Nike revamps Heathrow stores

    7 November 2002

    Enterprise IG has been appointed to overhaul Nike's retail presence at Heathrow airport. The sportsand leisurewear giant has two stores at the London airport, and is keen to position itself at the forefront of the current refurbishments of Terminals 3 and 4.Enterprise IG will deliver conceptual designs for the Terminal 3 store by the end of January.

  • Optical stores eye up brand revamps

    7 November 2002

    The optical retail market is gearing up for renewed competition, with both Dollond & Aitchison and David Clulow revamping interiors concepts and focusing more strongly on sub-branded offers.

  • OYI branding for Emap's The Hits music channel

    7 November 2002

    The Hits, the Emap Performance music television channel available on Freeview, launches a suite of on-screen idents this week, designed by Ortmans Young International.

  • Paul King quits M&K Design

    7 November 2002

    Paul King has stepped down as chairman of M&K Design, the retail design consultancy he founded, to pursue other interests.There are no plans to replace him at the Hertford consultancy following an amicable split.'We've had 12 or 13 really good years at M&K,' says King, '[but] there are other things I would like to do.'King says he does not intend to set up another consultancy.

  • PGL treks with Point One identity

    7 November 2002

    Point One has revamped the identity for youth adventure and educational holiday operator PGL, in a project worth up to £80 000 in fees to the group.

  • Poulter Partners lands Jet2 work

    7 November 2002

    Poulter Partners has landed the interiors-to-identity brief for budget airline start-up Jet2, which begins flying to eight leisure and business destinations across Europe from Leeds/ Bradford airport in February 2003.

  • PSAG event gives Rodber food (and drink) for thought

    7 November 2002

    I was at the Packaging Solutions Advice Group meeting that Philip Lawder was complaining about (DW 24 October). I have a different feeling about the event.

  • Qualified for the job

    7 November 2002

    After success as head of brand at CGU, Joanna Causon is now assessing the results of her role in bringing City & Guilds up to date. Hannah Booth meets her

  • Rennie campaign giving rivals runs for their money?

    7 November 2002

    Now we've seen it all. Indigestion, it seems, is a lifestyle choice. Brandhouse WTS has repackaged Rennie (News, DW 31 October) and brand owner Roche is marketing it to 'da yoof' as 'the badge of a full life'. In other words, a rumbley tummy is proof that you've been largin' it - 'for real'. Whatever happened to granny's flatulence? Quite frankly, this is more branding guff than we can stomach.

  • Saatchi Design seasons TfL card

    7 November 2002

    Transport for London has begun testing a smartcard with more than 70 000 staff this week, ahead of an expected rollout to the capital's commuters next year. Called Oyster, the ticketing system has been named and branded by Saatchi Design for TranSys, the consortium behind the project.

  • Superdrug ends roster review

    7 November 2002

    Superdrug has finalised the review of its design roster, with Radius and The Core joining as new appointments, according to industry sources.It's understood that Turner Duckworth, Creative Leap, Pearlfisher and Brandhouse WTS have been retained. Williams Murray Hamm declined to repitch.

  • TalkS

    7 November 2002

    Lou Rosenfeld, co-author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, will be speak at the American Institute of Graphic Arts Experience Design London event on 13 November.

  • Taxi cooks up packaging range for Somerfield

    7 November 2002

    Bristol-based Taxi Studio has designed packaging for Somerfield's own-brand range of microwaveable meats. The work is part of the retailers broader revamp of its own-brand packaging and the products have been introduced in response to a gap in the market

  • The Design Museum...

    7 November 2002

    The Design Museum has published a series of Christmas cards with designs by product designer Marc Newson, graphic designers M/M and Stefan Sagmeister, and fashion photographer Nick Knight. Paris-based M/M has created a photographic collage, Knight chose one of his flower photographs, Newson's image shows 'an electrocardiogram hitting a festive high' and Sagmeister's creation (pictured) can be cut up to make a fire of paper logs. The cards - £9.95 for a pack of six - are available at ...

  • The Fact is the centre is still generating interest

    7 November 2002

    It was good to see our work for the new Fact Centre in Liverpool featured in Design Week. Alas, your headline was a tad misleading.The Fact Centre is not an hotel. In fact (no pun intended), it is a purpose-built building devoted to film, art and creative technology. Our client is happy though: it has been receiving calls from DW readers asking if they can book rooms.Adrian ShaughnessyCreative directorIntroadrian@intro-uk.com

  • The way of the crossover

    7 November 2002

    True creativity is ultimately stifled by the constraints of designers' modus operandi, argues Tim Rich. He believes using a broader mix of people is less inhibiting

  • Tried and tested recruitment procedures are ignored

    7 November 2002

    I have read with interest recent Design Week articles concerning the travails of recruitment agencies and the slow pace of recruitment turnover within the design industry. From my experience, I believe recruitment agencies may be part of the problem in matching the right candidate to the corresponding design group.

  • True constructs 'do-tank' identity

    7 November 2002

    True has created the name and identity for Be, otherwise known as Collaborating for the Built Environment, a professional membership organisation that aims to raise best practice in the property and construction industries.

  • Vox pop

    7 November 2002

    Clerkenwell-based Bisset Adams has 'reinvented' the public library, launching the £2m pilot Idea Store in Bow in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets with Government blessing (News, DW 31 October). What areas of municipal life would you like to revisit, how and why?

  • ZF Interiors has...

    7 November 2002

    ZF Interiors has designed interiors for Ottoman-influenced restaurant Chintamani, which opens later this month on London's Jermyn Street. Billed as 'sumptuous', interiors feature rich colours, low tables, Ottoman sofas and felted 'Bedouin' tented ceilings. Walls are rough finished and inset with glass discs to reflect colours around the room and suspended glass beads, ornate ironwork and handcrafted screens complete the look. Bathrooms feature traditional Turkish marble sinks. ZF Interiors ...

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