Design Week
9 October 2008
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Agenda reveals Great North Museum identity
9 October 2008
Agenda Design Associates' £15 000 visual identity for Newcastle's new Great North Museum is unveiled this week.The logo references the north point of the compass and is intended to emulate the simplicity of iconic marques like those of Nike and Apple, according to the consultancy.Tyne & Wear Museums appointed Agenda in January, following a three-way unpaid creative pitch against Newcastle-based group Sumo and London studio Nick Bell Design. It briefed the consultancy ...
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Annual report design can boost bottom line, says Merchant
9 October 2008
Top FTSE 500-listed companies with strong annual report communications outperform those with weaker communications by 13 per cent, according to a new survey.The research - published by Merchant, itself a design consultancy specialising in annual report communications - looked at a hypothetical 'total shareholder return', comparing any given company to its position in the previous year's survey.Robert Moser, managing partner at Merchant, says the purpose of the exercise ...
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Bringing it all back home
9 October 2008
Bill Wallsgrove has worked on projects with big business and major galleries, but combining emerging talent and our rich art heritage gave him the most satisfaction
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Cardiff Design Festival awards link widens scope
9 October 2008
The fourth annual Cardiff Design Festival is experiencing a shift towards a more international outlook, according to its organisers and patrons, with a strong focus on exporting Welsh design as well as supporting it on the domestic front this year.Darragh Murphy, of Design Management Europe and the University of Wales Institute Cardiff, says the festival was moved from June to October to fall in line with the DME Award, which take place at the Wales Millennium Centre on 13 October.UWIC, ...
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Crossing absurdities
9 October 2008
Why do some pedestrian lights go so dangerously dark between red and green lights? Hugh Pearman calls for a complete rethink of the pelican crossing
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Crush designs marketing collateral for Take-over Day
9 October 2008
Brighton-based consultancy Crush has designed the marketing collateral for Take-over Day on 7 November. Organised by 11 Million, an agency otherwise known as the Children's Commissioner for England, the day invites children to have their say about how businesses, shops and organisations should be run. Crush won the contract following a six-way creative pitch in August.
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Cyber-Baroque universe
9 October 2008
Even architectural experts will take a while to take in the futuristic dare-devilry of Digital Architecture Now. The book features the work of 30-or-so practices and their electronic ideas will leave you fizzing at digital's ingenuity and newness. It's hard to know who to praise first - the software writers or the architectural thinkers. Perhaps they're morphing into each other. Either way, between them they've produced a mix of the virtual and natural worlds, the 'cyberspacial', as ...
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Design community remembers Kevin Thompson
9 October 2008
Members of the design community remembered Kevin Thompson last Friday at a service at Golders Green Crematorium, London NW11. Thompson spent 18 years as chief executive of Grey Matter before setting up Brandsmiths in 1999.
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Draught Associates creates new wesite for Kay Elliott
9 October 2008
Draught Associates has created a new visual identity and website for architect Kay Elliott.
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Folk designs new Conservative Party website
9 October 2008
Folk has designed the Conservative Party's new £250 000 website, having been appointed to the brief following a competitive pitch at the end of last year.
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Graphic circus
9 October 2008
Alan Aldridge’s nonconformist approach to graphic art has influenced 1960s visual culture and secured his place in 1960s folklore. As his work again goes on show, Adrian Shaughnessy introduces this ‘graphic entertainer’
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Hans Wegner's chair gets reissued
9 October 2008
Danish designer Hans Wegner's 1963 three-legged chair is being reissued as a limited-edition piece, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Danish furniture manufacturer Carl Hansen & Son.
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Inspired
9 October 2008
The artist, writer and sage John Ruskin said of his hero, the painter JMW Turner, that he had 'heartsight deep as eyesight'. I was inspired by this notion of 'heartsight' when approached by The Ruskin Foundation to work with it on its campaign for visual literacy earlier this year. The How to See campaign aims to develop young people's use of both their hearts and eyes in looking at the world around them.Of course, it is not just young people, but all of us who can forget to look ...
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Manchester trams refreshed by Hemisphere
9 October 2008
Manchester's Metrolink trams have been given a fresh new look, devised by branding consultancy Hemisphere.The brand overhaul is part of the Government's £600m investment programme, which will see the 16-year-old Metrolink system double in size over the next four years.Central to the new brand is the flexible 'speed graphic' device of graduated circles, fading out from the yellow nose into the sleek metallic body of the tram, to denote a sense of forward momentum.Hemisphere ...
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Mandelson's appointment should benefit the industry
9 October 2008
Did London Design Festival director Ben Evans foresee the Cabinet reshuffle when he lined up Peter Mandelson to give the LDF opening address last month? Given Evans' Labour pedigree, you might think he'd been tipped the wink, but knowledge of Mandelson's impending return to ...
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Meet Vincent Connare
9 October 2008
Type designer Vincent Connare’s font Comic Sans has taken the world by storm – and is now as loathed as it is loved. Simon Loxley meets the ‘typographic engineer’ who left Microsoft for Brixton’s Dalton Maag
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Moscow F1 track gets Big Idea branding
9 October 2008
Big Idea Design is branding what could become Russia's first Formula One Grand Prix motor racing track, the Moscow Raceway.
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News in Pictures
9 October 2008
Together has designed a set of stamps for the Royal Mail honouring six important historical female figures. Women of Distinction stamps are available from 14 October.
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News in Pictures
9 October 2008
Carey Jones has created the interiors for hair brand GHD’s international headquarters in Leeds’s Bridgewater development, which features a catwalk and salon.
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Patriotic meanderings? No, the 2012 challenge
9 October 2008
Wouldn't it be nice… • If the marketing communications community collectively embraced London 2012 as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. • If the Olympics were treated as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to demonstrate the value of corporate design and communications. • If they were seen as a peerless opportunity, a once-and-for-all, to solidify, restate and inculcate the brand values of Great Britain - and I don't mean Morris-dancing. • If they were regarded as an extremely ...
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Philippe Starck designs Taschen's first UK store
9 October 2008
Philippe Starck has designed publisher Taschen's first UK store, which opened on Monday. The outlet is next door to the newly opened Saatchi Gallery in Duke of York Square, London SW3.
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Purpose designs branding for credit crunch chocolate
9 October 2008
Purpose has designed the branding and packaging for restaurateur Laura Santin's Credit Crunch chocolate. It will go on sale at Selfridges in time for National Chocolate Week, which runs from 13-19 October. Santin engaged Purpose four months ago to design her new cookbook and to work on her Guerrilla Gourmet food label.
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Rapid prototyping
9 October 2008
With rapid prototyping you can model your ideas instantly and see your sketches take shape before your eyes – no wonder in-house RP is catching on. Pamela Buxton looks at how it is being us ed in many different design disciplines
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The Dutch set up show
9 October 2008
Design from The Netherlands has just got its own trade showcase. Clare Dowdy looks at what newcomer Freedesigndom has to offer
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The London Transport Museum to host poster exhibition
9 October 2008
The London Transport Museum is to host an exhibition of posters from the past 100 years of Tube and bus travel, including Clifford and Rosemary Ellis' 1937 poster, Travels in Space.
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The Partners opens in New York
9 October 2008
London branding consultancy The Partners has opened an office in New York, which will be headed up by Steven Gilliatt, former president and creative director of G2.
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Unsung winners
9 October 2008
Booker Prize-winning authors are catapulted to fame, but what about the cover designer who creates the first impression of a novel’s content? Anna Richardson tracks the history of classic jackets and takes the pulse of present design trends
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Voxpop
9 October 2008
Nesta is recommending that fine artists collaborate with client businesses to stimulate innovation. If you could work with an artist, who would it be and why?I think it's a great idea. ...
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Watch out, geeks are taking control of knowledge
9 October 2008
It was refreshing to read the Business Insight article 'Welcome to a brand new day' (DW 4 September). It is a timely snapshot of the convergence of creativity and technology and its power to influence brand communications. As Nick Law and Marc Shillum discuss, the critical aspect for designers is the emphasis placed upon the customer and the engaging interface, and also how the technology and build of a website is essential for creating an effective sales and marketing outcome. ...
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Webb & Webb Design designs works of Ian Fleming
9 October 2008
Webb & Webb Design has designed the bindings, in leather, for the complete works of Ian Fleming - comprising 15 James Bond novels, three non-fiction titles and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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West End retail schemes face tough future, says Farrell
9 October 2008
Central London's West End shopping streets will face 'the toughest challenge of their lives' once the Westfield White City retail centre opens at the end of the month, says architect Sir Terry Farrell.Farrell was speaking last Thursday at the launch of his new plan for the West End's St Giles area, which runs from Tottenham Court Road Tube station to Covent Garden in the south and Berners Street in the west. Farrell adds that West End shopping areas are also under threat from the ...
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Why can't we cope with the idea of successful design?
9 October 2008
It was great to see us mentioned again in the context of the Design Effectiveness Awards: 'BR&Me's award-winning work for Foster's ... caused uproar among the design community when it won the Grand Prix in the Design Business Association's Design Effectiv
