Design Week
9 April 2009
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A bit of a rumble
9 April 2009
How much space you get, and what kind of space, depends almost totally on decisions made by other people.
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Ah, those were the days - cold hands and sticky footwear
9 April 2009
What a brilliant article by Michael Peters (A lost world, DW 26 March).I started out in graphic design in the early 1970s during the three-day week - no rubbish collection, fewer jobs - and carried on through the excesses of the 1980s and 1990s.Somewhere along the line, I worked in a cow shed where we defrosted our hands in the morning in front of a Super Ser.When the type came back from the typesetters, we had to be careful and ingenious with the ...
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Authenticity to replace bling post-credit crunch
9 April 2009
They will eschew bling to dress like Dickensian street children, while visiting luxury stores decorated with muted tones, and buying unique, hand-crafted, ethical design products.
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B&W Studio
9 April 2009
B&W Studio has designed a campaign and brochure for Town Centre House, a 3000m2 commercial office development in Leeds.
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Beauty comes in many forms, even Gherkin-shaped
9 April 2009
It's hard to choose just one thing of beauty in Britain, as you asked last week (Voxpop, DW 2 April). But one thing I enjoy seeing on pretty much a daily basis, which never ceases to please my eye, is 30 St Mary Axe, also known as the Gherkin. My gallery is in east London, so I'm lucky to see it from many different angles and viewpoints. It also reminds me of a giant Fabergé egg. It is undoubtedly one of London's most striking buildings, and in a city awash with ...
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Big Lottery Fund
9 April 2009
Unreal has created the brand design for the Big Lottery Fund grant information packs, which are sent out to people and organisations awarded grants through the Government-run scheme. The consultancy commissioned illustrator Coleman Polhemus to create characters and scenes for the branding, which is to be rolled out across bags, mouse mats and other applications.
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Branding concepts in publishing
9 April 2009
We may not judge our books by their logos, but a distinctive marque can still make all the difference for emerging imprints. Anna Richardson unravels the branding concepts behind three new publishing ventures.
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Caulder Moore fashions HQ for New Look
9 April 2009
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Dance 4 Life goes global with Design Bridge identity
9 April 2009
Design Bridge has created the identity for international charity Dance 4 Life, which aims to tackle Aids and HIV.Dance 4 Life, the official youth campaign of the World Aids Campaign, was founded in the Netherlands in 2004. It takes elements of youth culture, such as music and dance, and uses them to educate young people and inspire them to take action.Design Bridge was appointed directly just over a year ago, according to group creative director Graham Shearsby. He says ...
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Don't let the tail wag the dog
9 April 2009
The board meeting that had just finished had been the best for nearly a year - it was as if spring had arrived early.
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Government considers New Deal of the Mind
9 April 2009
The New Deal of The Mind has a simple objective, but you could hardly accuse it of lacking ambition. Its aim is to boost employment in Britain’s creative sector - for the good of the entire nation.
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Green Web groups seek merger cash
9 April 2009
Sustainable design website Three Trees Don't Make a Forest is merging with online resource Lovely as a Tree, which was set up in 2007 to help graphic designers to source environmentally friendly paper and print suppliers.The two groups are seeking to raise £69 000 to rebuild a joint website offering both organisations' services and enhanced search facilities.'We are looking for funding from design groups, fostering a sense that the design industry owns the website,' says ...
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Icelandic designer Ingibjörg Hanna Bjarnadóttir profiled
9 April 2009
Icelandic politicians and business figures have been making headlines across the world since 'the crisis' - as it is known in Iceland - last October. What they might not have anticipated is becoming immortalised in a mirror.But that's what young designer Ingibjörg Hanna Bjarnadóttir has done/ recreated the physical profiles of some of the biggest names to emerge from Iceland's economic meltdown in the form of wall mirrors. These include the country's new prime minister, Jóhanna ...
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Inspired: Mark McArthur-Christie: Freeman Christie
9 April 2009
You find inspiration in the strangest places. This, though, is the first time I’ve found it in a car park in the middle of Oxford.Take a look at the original sign. More than 400 words in reversed-out, close-packed type, it is so confusing that it took more than half an hour to read and understand. At night the colour scheme made it almost impossible to decipher. It was so bad that local tramps were earning a few coins explaining to people how it all works.We ...
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It's irresponsible to lure too many on to design degrees
9 April 2009
Adrian Shaughnessy may be right when he says that design graduates are equipped for life in the modern world (Private View, DW 2 April), but his view is not widely shared, so his call to have more of them is irresponsible. It's a cruel fact that, outside of the design industry, little value is placed on a design degree and many employers will lump it in with media studies and sports science as something of little value. Too many young people are coming out of universities ...
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New products at the Milan Furniture Fair
9 April 2009
The Milan furniture fair never fails to deliver an exhilarating array of new products, and this year’s show is no exception. Design Week picks out some of the highlights from the pieces on offer.
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News in Pictures
9 April 2009
Mark Starbuck has created the branding for Yorkshire-based photographer John Hutchinson. A website will launch this month, and a promotional book will be released later in the year.3 Mark Starbuck has created the branding for Yorkshire-based photographer
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News in Pictures
9 April 2009
Dog Star has designed the interiors for Islington Council’s customer service centre, Contact Islington, on Upper Street, London N1. The centre was designed by architect LSI.
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Ravensbourne College
9 April 2009
Moving image and graphic design students at Ravensbourne College have asked designers to customise found objects, which will be auctioned off to raise money for their degree show. Designers taking part include Jonathan Barnbrook, Kate Moross, Kelly Roper, and Stefan Gandl of Neubau Berlin, whose work is pictured. The auction will be held at the Vibe Bar, Brick Lane, London E1, on 30 April.
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SCP launches sustainable range at Milan
9 April 2009
UK furniture manufacturer SCP will launch Substance, which it claims is a range of fully sustainable furniture, at the Milan furniture fair later this month.The thinking behind Substance follows a year of research into the replacement of petrochemical-based components, including foams and synthetic polyester fibres, with renewable natural ones such as coconut and wool. SCP founder Sheridan Coakley explains that such materials were used in the production of furniture in the past, ...
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Studio Output builds on Fallon work for BBC Blast graphics
9 April 2009
Studio Output has created the graphics for the BBC Blast's 2009 tour, working with brand guidelines created by Fallon.Blast is the BBC's network for creative teenagers, and the Blast tour travels around the UK, offering young people free creative workshops in art and design, dance, drama, film and fashion.The tour will start in Kidderminster on 20 April.Studio Output was appointed to create the tour graphics following an on-roster pitch just before Christmas, according ...
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The Experimental design of three new venues
9 April 2009
With consumption suffering in the downturn, providing experiences is what it’s all about – for both the leisure industry and stores trying to tempt people back. Clare Dowdy goes in search of music, cookery and sporting thrills at three new venues
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The industry is shaping up nicely for the next 20 years
9 April 2009
I had the huge pleasure last week of celebrating 20 years as Design Week editor with some 160 key people from the industry at the annual Podge Council lunch.Podge, brainchild of the ever resourceful Phil Jones of Real Time Consultancy, was held in London. But it wasn't ...
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Thomas Rollett
9 April 2009
Thomas Rollett, from Norwich University College of the Arts, has won the £1000 top prize in Cog Design's 2009 student awards scheme for his work Recognise Me (pictured). Runners-up Sonia Yekinni, from Kingston University, and Jacqueline Sharples, from East Lancashire Institute of Higher Education, both receive £500. The three winners and 13 other entrants will have their works published as postcards.
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Underestimating the regions is a big mistake
9 April 2009
After reading Lynda Relph-Knight's thoughts about the strength of design in the regions (Comment, DW 26 March), I reflected on the title of the piece and wondered who is underestimating the power of the regions. It certainly is not the regions themselves, which are aware of their potential and have established networking groups. Some of these groups - whether with inclusive or exclusive membership - provide more than simple networking opportunities. Design Leicestershire ...
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Worlds between the covers
9 April 2009
The credit crunch is not the ideal environment for high-end photography books, which is all the more reason to celebrate them at this year's And/or Book Awards. The awards were rebranded last year with a new logo drawn by David Hockney, and winners will be announced later this month. According to photography category judge David Chandler, director of Photoworks, we are still in a buoyant phase of photography books. 'The production standards and design quality is going up all the time. ...
