Design Week
9 August 2007
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Acid demands tougher measures against IP theft
9 August 2007
Describing an object or someone's taste as 'cheap' used to be an insult, but bragging about budget store bargains now counts as status-raising small talk. The less it cost, the more savvy a consumer you are.But cheap could soon mean nasty once again. A recent spate of high-profile design theft cases has tarnished the image of cheap chic. Last month, Philip Green paid out £12 000 to Chloe for a ripped-off dress design, and in September last year, New Look paid £80 000 damages to ...
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Call for greater involvement in school design
9 August 2007
Head teachers and pupils should be given greater support and inclusion from the Government to develop an understanding of the design process of the Building Schools for the Future programme, according to leading industry figures.Design Council chief executive David Kester, Hilary Cottam of Participle, and John Sorrell of the Sorrell Foundation, were among those giving evidence for the House of Commons Education and Skills Committee report 'Sustainable Schools: Are we building schools ...
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Challenging artistic values
9 August 2007
The growing market for limited edition and collectors' pieces is blurring the distinction between the art and design worlds
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Collectables aren't created by making products dearer
9 August 2007
The surge at the high end to align design more closely with art is not a new phenomenon. Design has long been a 'collectable', as more than one auction house has identified - think furniture by Charles Rennie Macintosh or the drawings and artefacts of Raymond Loewy, designer of the Coca-Cola bottle and Lucky Strike pack, among other things.Also of long standing is the affinity of art with, say, architecture. Architectural models have long formed an important part of the Royal ...
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Design management to get Skills Panel support
9 August 2007
I fully sympathise with Caroline Norman, who feels that her MA Design Management course is not well known among UK and European Union students. During our research we came across several innovative programmes, including her MA course. The fact that these courses have such a low profile in the UK and the EU is something that we on the Design Skills Advisory Panel - backed by Creative & Cultural Skills - recognise. Indeed, as Norman points out, it is paradoxical ...
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Designers need an ambassador to raise our public profile
9 August 2007
When I meet someone new, the first thing they ask me is, what am I studying? Product design, I say. But that isn't a good enough description - they look puzzled, and some time later they make the point to ask me about it again because they are actually intrigued about what it is. If they remember ten years back, I say 'like those guys on TV (Richard and Dick) who designed toilets and bras'. And most people say, 'Oh, yeah'. So, why do we now have Saira Khan, business people ...
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Farmers' Market
9 August 2007
Heinz is set to launch three premium soup ranges, with packaging by Cowan Design. Farmers' Market offers a variety of flavours, with packs using photography to 'reinforce the message of fresh local vegetables'. Soups of the World uses recipes from around the world, featuring a black label with silhouetted iconic skylines, while Taste of Home is packaged in microwaveable pots.
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Fat chance
9 August 2007
Fat faces are moving out of 19th-century textbooks and into the 21st century, taking a stand against the monotony of modern typography, says Simon Loxley. We also ask three designers if sans serifs have dominated for too long
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Free Tibet
9 August 2007
Designed to be bold, eye-catching and direct, this leaflet was created by London-based consultancy Creative Brew to recruit new supporters for the Free Tibet Campaign. The eight-page leaflet was inspired by the forthcoming 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and will be distributed following the one-off screening of Tibet/ Cry of the Snow Lion at the BFI in London later this week. It will also be circulated through NGO and charity publications.
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Hatch your firm in an incubator
9 August 2007
Business incubator units can be the ideal place to get your start-up off the ground in an affordable and supportive environment, says Charles Hadcock
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Identity parade
9 August 2007
The 2010 Shanghai World Expo is an opportunity for countries to represent their character on a global stage. But what do the shortlisted pavilion designs say about Britain the brand? Fiona Sibley took Wally Olins to the V&A to find out
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In praise of dissent
9 August 2007
The 2012 logo debate highlighted the way designers close ranks when faced with honest criticism. Adrian Shaughnessy is amazed they still get away with it
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Inspired
9 August 2007
We were invited to submit designs for an entrance gateway to a new public park, the size of London's Hyde Park, at the heart of the new Pudong business district in Shanghai, China.Having no written brief, job architect Nic Sampson and I cast around for appropriate imagery. We wanted something that was evocative of the new capitalist China, yet was distinctly Chinese. Modern chinoiserie, I suppose.Chinese dragons and traditional Chinese New Year celebrations came to mind, ...
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Jones the Bootmaker
9 August 2007
Jones the Bootmaker will celebrate its 150th anniversary this September with a commemorative identity created by Dalziel & Pow.
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News in Pictures
9 August 2007
Giorgio Armani has designed the new Armani Lounge at Chelsea Football Club's Stamford Bridge stadium in London, which features furnishings from his Armani/Casa home interiors collection.
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Notting Hill
9 August 2007
Notting Hill is the subject of photographer Derry Moore's new book, due to be published in November by Frances Lincoln. Designed in-house by Becky Clarke, in collaboration with Moore, it contains 120 colour photographs, some of which are arranged in sequence to lead the reader down Portobello Road and the Carnival route.
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O2 Cocoon
9 August 2007
O2 has this week rolled out its latest handset, the O2 Cocoon, with packaging design featuring an existing letter-box friendly shape, by Lambie-Nairn.
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Profile: Kate Astbury
9 August 2007
She is the third generation of her family to become a photographer. Kate Astbury's speciality is wide-angle photomontages of the epic and the domestic. Paula Carson finds the only thing holding her back is print size
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Proud Creative to brand 2007 Promax event
9 August 2007
This year's Promax UK conference and awards are to be branded by nascent broadcast branding group Proud Creative (see Profile, page 13).Under the strapline 'Beyond the box', the rethink is a nod to the blurring of media boundaries and the rise of interdisciplinary approaches, says Promax chairman Martin Delamere.Proud Creative was appointed to create the identity and branding for the annual event, having won a three-way pitch against consultancies Bunch and Practise, at ...
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Retail designs have shorter shelf life in Internet age
9 August 2007
Theories on the rise of Internet trading versus retail stores have often focused on how the virtual could cause the demise of the physical, along with the need for specialist design.However, according to a recent Mintel report, Retail Store Design, the impact of Internet trading is, in fact, creating a marketplace in which retailers are growing and revamping their stores with increasing regularity.Generally, retail design appears to be thriving. Intensifying competition ...
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Showing off
9 August 2007
A new showcase for up-and-coming designers launches this month, backed by a cheeky creative competition to design a customisable identity for the event and a live illustration project
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Tennent's Lager
9 August 2007
Glasgow-based Stand has created a brand identity for a Tennent's Lager scheme to educate bar owners and their staff on how to maintain and build product quality standards. The consultancy has also created marketing materials.
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The Dupliquick Zebra Award
9 August 2007
The Dupliquick Zebra Award for poster of the year 2007 has gone to Richard Chapman for his work for magician Chris Cox's show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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Travelodge
9 August 2007
Travelodge has unveiled a new room design by The One Off Company, just four years after a Conran Design Group 'refresh'. The hotel chain has also shortlisted Agency.com, Soup and Twentysix London to redesign its website.
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Voxpop
9 August 2007
Last week's global brand survey by Interbrand saw surges from Google and Burberry at the expense of the majors like Coca-Cola, Gap and Ford. What do these big mainstream brands need to learn from the upstarts if they are to reverse their fortunes?Branding is changing, ...
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Watermark
9 August 2007
Watermark has won a five-way pitch to design literature for a marketing campaign by City College in Coventry.
