Design Week
8 June 2006
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A logo for all times
8 June 2006
The truly successful designs don't go away easily. Hugh Pearman marvels at the old British Rail logo, which is getting yet another lease of life
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Accreditation for creative businesses is a crazy concept
8 June 2006
The idea of an industry body controlled by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport handing out accreditation to successful businesses in the creative sector fills me with horror (DW 25 May).
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AFID Design founder to exhibit at Launch2006
8 June 2006
AFID Design founder Michael Armstrong will exhibit his +T2A table at the Launch2006 event for contemporary designers in the North East. The show kicks off a four-day run on 21 June at the decommissioned Central Fire Station in Newcastle. Launch, which was
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Alice Rawsthorn starts a column
8 June 2006
Alice Rawsthorn published her first weekly column for the International Herald Tribune on Monday. Called Design, the column aims to explore international developments in contemporary design. The column can be read at www.iht.com/culture.
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Brown to address New Designers
8 June 2006
Chancellor Gordon Brown will give an address to open this year's New Designers exhibition at the Business Design Centre in London on 28 June. Confirmation of Brown's address follows his speech opening last year's London Design Festival. New Designers is a two-week show offering graduates an opportunity to display their work to the industry.
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Brown's renewed show of support is most welcome
8 June 2006
Gordon Brown is putting his mouth where the money is and backing design once more. The Chancellor's decision to speak at this year's New Designers graduate show at London's Business Design Centre (see News, page 3) indicates that his faith in it as a gene
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Bubble appointed by architect website Arca
8 June 2006
Bubble has been appointed to design the website for architect Arca. The creative group has been briefed to create a modern, design-led site that will feature live RSS news feeds on the firm's projects.
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CGI London designs GlaxoSmithKline Annual Report
8 June 2006
CGI London has designed the print and on-line versions of GlaxoSmithKline's Annual Review and Annual Report, after winning a four-way pitch. The theme of Being Human will form the basis of all GSK's corporate communications.
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Chat room hotel
8 June 2006
Miss Sixty's new hotel, in an Italian seaside town, is set to blur the line between retail and resort as never before, targeting a young, clubby audience. Sara Manuelli talks to its founder, Wichy Hassan, about the ideas behind the project
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Dalziel & Pow helps Anotah expand
8 June 2006
Dalziel & Pow has created a six-figure global retail scheme for Anotah, a Kuwaiti fashion retailer with ambitions to become 'the first Middle East fashion house to establish a presence in the West'.
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Design bodies must have better things to spend time on
8 June 2006
Those of us of a certain age will recall that accreditation (DW 25 May) raises its head periodically, and particularly at a time when design bodies are casting around for something to justify their continuation.
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Design Week correction - Heals
8 June 2006
Last month's Design Week Top 100 supplement should have read that Heals, not Habitat, was redesigned by Lippa Pearce in August 2005.
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Dissolving the digital divide
8 June 2006
Digital media is now such an integral part of design that consultancies must embrace the constant change to survive, says Mike Curtis
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Elmwood to redesign writers' collective site
8 June 2006
Elmwood is redesigning the website - www.26.org.uk - for writers' collective 26, due for relaunch this month. Developed by Elmwood head of writing Jayne Workman, the rebuild is intended to offer greater functionality and will integrate a message board.
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Emap picks Odd to make Kiss cool again
8 June 2006
Emap is undertaking a rebrand of its Kiss dance music portfolio as part of a plan to update the image and output of the radio, television and on-line broadcaster.
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Esterson reworks New Statesman
8 June 2006
The New Statesman unveils its radically overhauled design tomorrow, as part of a relaunch intended to explode the left-wing weekly's worthy-but-dull image.
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Factory Records artwork to be showcased in book
8 June 2006
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Firstsite to pick team for £16.5m Colchester venue
8 June 2006
The Essex-based arts complex Firstsite is putting together a team of designers to undertake a raft of projects, as it prepares to move into a £16.5m venue designed by New York architect Rafael Viñoly.
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Five to develop channel brands in first digital drive
8 June 2006
Five is planning to launch two digital channels this autumn, with branding and on-screen identity created by its in-house design team and advertising agency VCCP.
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Freeman Christie treats water cycle
8 June 2006
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Hartley leaves Lippincott Mercer
8 June 2006
Kim Hartley has left brand consultancy Lippincott Mercer to join Construct. Hartley was senior associate at Lippincott Mercer for two years, and creative director of graphics at Four IV prior to that.
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Inspired
8 June 2006
When I was studying architecture in the late 1970s, there was one building that completely caught my imagination - the chapel at Ronchamp by Le Corbusier.
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Lippa Pearce to move to Pentagram?
8 June 2006
Packaging design consultancy Lippa Pearce is set to merge into Pentagram, according to industry sources. An announcement and further details are expected to follow Pentagram's annual International Partners Conference, which is taking place this week in France. Neither consultancy was available to comment as Design Week went to press.
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MFI reviews flagship kitchen brands
8 June 2006
It has emerged this week that furniture retailer MFI is undertaking a strategic review of its flagship kitchen brands, Hygena and Schreiber.
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Nationwide discussions to be held on Creative and Media Diploma
8 June 2006
Creative and Cultural Skills has begun nationwide consultation with employers on the new Creative and Media Diploma for 14- to 19-year-olds in England. The diploma aims to provide young people with an alternative route into higher education or the option to go straight into work. Designers are invited to get involved in the consultation by visiting www. creativeandmediadiploma.org.
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Navyblue targets growth despite loss of directors
8 June 2006
Navyblue Design Group is to lose three board directors over the coming weeks, including its chairman Jim Faulds, who will not be replaced. But joint group managing director Geoff Nicol maintains that the consultancy is in a strong position and is looking
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News in Pictures
8 June 2006
Designers have re-interpreted the football for the Design Museum Tank's latest timely extravaganza, Football Fever, which runs the length of the World Cup at Shad Thames, London SE1. Featured are balls by 30 design heroes, including Peter Saville, Barber
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Olympics 2012 kicks off design roster hunt
8 June 2006
London 2012 is in the throes of compiling two dedicated design rosters to handle the vast amount of work in the run-up to the capital's Olympic Games, Design Week can exclusively reveal.
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Open to interpretation
8 June 2006
Interactivity can greatly enhance art exhibitions, but only if it is integrated imaginatively into the overall experience, says Scott Billings
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Paradise lost
8 June 2006
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Profile: Walking-Chair
8 June 2006
Walking-Chair has made its name with unlikely designs, such as a chandelier for a bare light bulb, and composes a song for each product. Hannah Booth talks to Fidel Peugeot, one half of the quirky duo
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Redesign on the cards for Ragu packs
8 June 2006
It is understood that Ragu, the Unilever Bestfoods-owned pasta sauce, is looking to overhaul its packaging design. Roster consultancy Design Bridge last revamped Ragu's packaging in 2004.
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Review
8 June 2006
Forthcoming exhbitions, talks and events...
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Scottish Design Awards winners span wide spectrum
8 June 2006
This year's Scottish Design Awards offered an eclectic mix of design work, but entries in the packaging sector were particularly weak, say jurors on the panel.
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Scrupulously ordinary
8 June 2006
By Richard Clayton
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Stickland Coombe designed Beauty and the Beast
8 June 2006
We would like to clarify that Stickland Coombe were the exhibition designers for Beauty and the Beast: New Swedish Design at the Crafts Council 2004-2005 (DW 25 May). Kerr Noble designed the graphics. Josephine Gaffikin, Press and marketing officer, Crafts Council, London N1
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Surveys should reflect a changing industry scene
8 June 2006
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There is more than omissions to worry about in The Top 100
8 June 2006
That eagerly awaited time of year has arrived again - The Top 100 Consultancy Survey.
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Use your intuition
8 June 2006
Nintendo is aiming to win over a fresh generation of players with its new, more user-friendly consoles and controllers. Alex Wiltshire speaks to Toshio Iwai, designer of one of the new breed of computer games
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Vodafone and Orange square up for mobile future
8 June 2006
Glimpses of long-awaited revamps for both Orange and Vodafone were seen for the first time this week.
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Voxpop
8 June 2006
If the design industry in Wales is 'growing up' with the launch of its first Design Forum, how essential is the creation of a Welsh design centre right now?
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Wolff Olins in global brand for London
8 June 2006
Wolff Olins has been appointed by Visit London body London Unlimited to develop a brand for the city. The consultancy fought off several other groups in a pitch and will spend two months on the project, which aims to distil the pre-Olympic excitement of London into a global brand. London Unlimited was launched last autumn by Mayor Ken Livingstone to develop the capital's branding overseas.
