Design Week
8 November 2007
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Wordily wise
8 November 2007
People are going ape for the Cadbury's gorilla commercial. A reported 500 000 watched it on YouTube the week after it was released, it's being tirelessly blogged about and gabbed about, and Phil Collins - Lord help us - is looking ripe for resurrection. Not so much the reassuring 'Hello, I Must be Going', as a rather worrying 'Hello, I'm Back'. Meanwhile, 90 seconds of creative brilliance from ad agency Fallon seems to have rescued Cadbury from all the negative publicity of last year's ...
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999 Design targets digital groups in five-year growth plan
8 November 2007
Branding consultancy 999 Design is in the process of acquiring a digital group, as part of its ambitious growth plans for the next five years.The consultancy aims to double its turnover to £7.5m by 2010. Directors Bill Gaughan and Richard Bissland are hoping the expansion plans will position 999 Design alongside groups such as Elmwood, Navyblue and SAS.The group is currently in talks with two 20-strong digital consultancies, one from Manchester and one from Glasgow, while ...
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A blank canvas
8 November 2007
Creativity is total freedom. It is unfettered imagination and endless wonder in the world. It is our natural curiosity, driven by boundless optimism. Above all, it is the simple pleasure of opening your mind up to the possibility of play - be it with an idea, a tradition ...
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Barnet Homes releases its annual report today
8 November 2007
Barnet Homes, the group responsible for managing and improving Barnet Council's estates and properties, releases its annual report today, designed by Dog Star.
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Bitten by the shutterbug
8 November 2007
Photography is finally being taken seriously as an art form in the UK, says Edward Barber, but at the same time digital technology is giving everyone – no matter what their experience – the opportunity to make a mark in the industry
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Brits abroad
8 November 2007
With skills shortages and increasing opportunities in emerging economies, it’s a good time to consider working abroad. Clare Dowdy talks to three employers and candidates about making such a move
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Cause and effect
8 November 2007
Would that life were always like this, with groups upheld as icons of creativity scoring high in the charts for commercially effective design as well.The message isn't quite as clear this year as it was last, when Williams Murray Hamm held pole position both for its DBA Design Effectiveness Award wins and its overall success in creative awards. But with it and the likes of Pearlfisher, Lewis Moberly and Elmwood ranking high in this chart, we can be sure that the Design Business ...
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Commercial work: An overview
8 November 2007
WHAT has changed recently in the world of photography? Every - thing, and nothing. Digital is now king. Good news for Adobe and the CCD chip-makers. Not so good news for the makers of processing chemicals and film. But, quite frankly, who cares? It is what is in front of the camera that is important. Not whatever datacapturing device is stuck on the back. Right?
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Convergence could make or break the design profession
8 November 2007
I just read your piece about the Dott 07 Urban Farming Project, which I produced (Comment, DW 25 October). As you point out, there is a convergence going on just now and disciplines are breaking down. It's everywhere. Fashion designers like Wayne Hemingway are becoming architects. Window dressers like Thomas Heatherwick are becoming product designers. TV presenters like Kevin McCloud are becoming house-builders. And I'm a television producer who works in both the media, ...
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Design to benefit from Commonwealth win
8 November 2007
Glasgow City Council will spend the next 100 days setting up an operating company to deliver the 2014 Commonwealth Games. A spokesman for the bid team, Glasgow 2014, anticipates that design tenders will be released once the new company is up and running.
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Digital Dog to design a website for Photoshop
8 November 2007
Adobe has appointed Digital Dog to design a website for the launch of its Photoshop Elements 6.0 software.
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Digital prototyping may bring big improvements
8 November 2007
I enjoyed reading Scott Billings's article about the increasing use of rapid manufacturing and prototyping and agree that there is a quiet revolution happening in the world of manufacturing design (DW 20 September). But I did feel he omitted a key aspect of this radical change - the growing use of digital prototyping. This has now been made possible by the increasing inclusion of testing, analysis and simulation tools in mainstream and affordable design software, enabling users ...
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Editorial work: an overview
8 November 2007
Where do I look for good editorial photography? When I can get to see them, I'm always inspired by The New York Times Sunday Magazine and its style magazine, T. Editorial photography comes in lots of forms - classic reportage, portraiture, fashion, still life and conceptual. The New York Times supplements, under creative director Janet Froelich and picture editor Kathy Ryan, cover the whole range in an intelligent and committed way. Budgets help, but it is really about art direction; the ...
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English & Pockett
8 November 2007
English & Pockett has created the branding and animated visual identities for two new Indian TV channels.
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Estonian beer brand is to be launched in the UK
8 November 2007
Estonian beer brand Viru is to be launched in the UK this month by Global Brands, with branding and packaging designed by Haines McGregor. The eight-sided bottle features a marque incorporating Estonian capital Tallin's Oleviste Church. Haines McGregor was appointed in March, following a credentials pitch.
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Foreword - Photography & image supplement
8 November 2007
Welcome to Design Week's photography supplement. It's no secret that this industry has been through several twists and turns, many of which are explored here. Yet all change has both pros and cons, and there remain as many opportunities for photographers in these image-led times as there are new hurdles to overcome. As ever in creative disciplines, good talent shines through and continues to be sought by commercial and artistic buyers alike. Whether you are a photographer, someone tasked ...
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Form has created the brand identity for events at Earls Court
8 November 2007
Form has created the brand identity for three events at Earls Court in 2008. Ecobuild, Cityscape and Futurecity are organised by International Business Events.
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Four IV has designed the identity for The Landau
8 November 2007
Four IV has designed the identity for luxury restaurant The Landau, based at the Langham hotel, in London W1.
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Graphical House
8 November 2007
Graphical House has completed a set of four animated channel promos for Scottish Television, commissioned by Lucid Productions and The Union.
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HMV and Virgin are wise to be jazzing up their stores
8 November 2007
The fact that HMV has introduced a new store concept to encourage customers back into its shops comes as no surprise (DW 11 October). We have been championing the idea that an appealing in-store experience will help entice customers into stores for a good while now. Dwindling sales for high street music retailers was clearly the incentive needed to update the tired supermarket-style layouts. Stores such as HMV and Virgin Megastores lacked personality and failed to espouse the entertainment ...
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Inspired
8 November 2007
What inspires me? It's seeing and appreciating the perfect solution to a problem.Growing up in Cornwall, Cornish pasties were a regular treat, and, at the time, I didn't really see them as much more than that, until I learnt that they did, of course, originate as the answer to the problem of providing tin miners with a nutritious meal to last them throughout the day.It's true they were small, portable, very filling, and could stay warm for eight to ten hours, meat in one ...
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iPhone put to the design test
8 November 2007
The Apple iPhone really is as good as it is made out to be – it has certainly seduced our critic, at least. After a few weeks’ trial, lcolm Garrett is thoroughly in love with his little shiny-surfaced hand-held computer
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Just rewards
8 November 2007
Design is going through happier times financially than it has for many a year.Government, both central and local (through regional development agencies), is backing design as a key to boosting the UK economically and to regenerating local communities. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has long been a fan since his days as Chancellor, but London mayor Ken Livingstone also paid tribute to the creative industries in the capital at the opening of the London Design Festival last month, ...
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Let's give more credence to the emotional sides of design
8 November 2007
Earlier this week music legend Martyn Ware wowed a design audience by making the case for sound design. Branding groups already recognise the potential of sound, though more through jingles than through literally setting the tone. Ware maintains though that it should be key to experiential ...
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Linbury Stage prize contenders on show
8 November 2007
The winner of the Linbury Biennial Prize for Stage Design is to be announced at the National Theatre in London this week and 12 finalists have been placed at four top drama companies to work alongside directors on a live brief. Nick Smurthwaite looks at w
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Michael wolff
8 November 2007
'Congratulations' is the first thing I want to say to anyone whose work is honoured by being in this supplement.It's an achievement to win recognition for the quality of your work from juries or judges made up of people whose work you admire. People with whom you may normally compete.I was always excited to have my work and my name included with respect, and sometimes envy, in any selection of excellence by my peers. It always felt like having climbed to some sort of summit ...
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Mutual respect
8 November 2007
It is axiomatic that great work comes from a great relationship - externally, in procuring the commission and, internally, in fulfilling the opportunity. But, in today's ferociously competitive world of branded packaging, how can we promote such worthwhile collaboration? Procurement has become vital to many of our clients who must respond faster to ever-changing markets, but the negative repercussions of short-term thinking affect a brand's ability to last in the long term. How - when ...
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Netherlands Foundation For Visual Arts award
8 November 2007
Netherlands Foundation For Visual Arts has awarded the Benno Premsela prize to the founders of Droog, Remy Ramakers and Gijis Bakker. The Dutch design group was founded in 1993.
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News in pictures
8 November 2007
Zagreb-based consultancy Bruketa & Zinic has taken an unusual approach with its brief to design the annual report of Podravka, the largest food, beverage and pharmaceutical producer in southern Europe. The report has to be baked at 100°C for 25 minutes be
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Parker Williams appoints Saker
8 November 2007
Parker Williams has appointed Jo Saker (pictured), currently executive design director at Blue Marlin, to the position of creative director. Saker leaves Blue Marlin this week and will take up her new role in January.
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Picture perfect
8 November 2007
Looking to discover emerging work, new directions and the best in international fine art photography? Yolanda Zappaterra provides a guide – for entrants as well as visitors – to the best galleries, fairs and prizes
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Profile - Mohsin Hamid
8 November 2007
Mohsin Hamid combines a consultancy post at Wolff Olins with a writing career that has just seen him shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize. Fiona Sibley is impressed by this bright business mind meets novelist
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Put a check on the cheques
8 November 2007
When the euro was launched, it heralded the dawn of a new, paperless monetary system. Alan Tierney is still waiting for that dawn, more than five years later.
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Signposting the future
8 November 2007
Complementing the architectural splendour of London’s St Pancras station is a state-of-the-art model for retail transport signage, says Gina Lovett
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Start and Judge Gill call up MTS
8 November 2007
Start Creative and Judge Gill have won a joint contract to redesign the stores of Russia’s largest mobile operator, MTS.
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Start right
8 November 2007
Design industry perceived wisdom dictates that, to be really creative, you're much better off being small and independent. Certainly, that's how consultancies tend to start life, and what start-up wouldn't also at least consider itself creative?After all, last year's Creative Survey chart topper Williams Murray Hamm was once small and independent, as were Turner Duckworth, Lewis Moberly, Johnson Banks and The Partners. It helps in these matters if, like Johnson Banks, you have ...
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Taking stock
8 November 2007
Things can be tough for professionals these days, since digitisation and the rise of the Web changed the ground rules of the commissioning game. Oliver Bennett looks at how photographers are adapting to the challenge of a shifting market
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The original PowerBook
8 November 2007
Why, with digital media so central to our lives, is a 600-year-old reading format – based on paper, ink, thread and glue – still with us? asks Jim Davies
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The Reading Agency
8 November 2007
Design supremo Derek Birdsall has created a new visual identity for literacy charity The Reading Agency. Birdsall says, 'It took me rather too long to see the initials "r" and "a" in the word "reading". Abbreviating this to "read" with "e" and "d" in a 40 per cent tint produces an irreducible and seemingly inevitable logo.' The new marque was launched last week at the charity's fifth birthday party, at London's Royal Festival Hall.
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Think big
8 November 2007
During the founding years of design, designers created brands and strategies only to see them handed over to advertising agencies. And the ad agencies certainly knew what they were doing. They took the beautifully crafted designs to the masses. Great copy, knock-out visuals and a commercial knack of getting inside that Holy Grail - the consumer subconscious. Undoubtedly, the lines have blurred. Nowadays, client budgets are stretched and every media discipline has seen its remit remastered, ...
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Three to watch
8 November 2007
Who are the current stars on the professional photography scene? We present three of the top names in fashion and portraiture, reportage and commercial work – Diana Scheunemann, John Angerson and Jason Tozer
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Venture Three is expanding
8 November 2007
Branding consultancy Venture Three is expanding its team, with the appointment of former Attik lead creative Grant Dickson, who takes the same title.
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Voxpop
8 November 2007
Following news that Coca-Cola is holding a pitch for its first pan-European design roster, is it beneficial for consultancies to partake in the lengthy pitch process for a place on a big brand's roster when work is never guaranteed?Big brands are like planets - they possess ...
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Waterloo design plans move ahead
8 November 2007
The recent makeover proposals for south London’s Waterloo station and the surrounding streets have kick-started a hunt for a design team to create a vision for part of the area.
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Winning Work
8 November 2007
From Apple’s iPod Shuffle to GBH’s charity tram with DJ and table football, a wealth of great design has been created over the past year by brave and innovative consultancies. Emma Germain presents some of the work
