Design Week
9 September 2010
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A capital investment
9 September 2010
The wave of luxury hotel refurbishments in London has little to do with the weak pound and London 2012, those behind them tell Angus Montgomery. It’s more about investing in the economic recovery and seeing off competition from rivals
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B&B Studio bakes new look for Vogel's bread packaging
9 September 2010
B&B Studio has created new packaging for Vogel’s, a healthy-eating bread from baker Nicholas & Harris.
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Best of the Web
9 September 2010
http///tinyurl.com/35ltuakOkay, so what is your answer to that dreaded dinner-party question? As the Design Council goes under the Government microscope, with results of Martin Temple’s review due shortly, Design Week asks designers to define what they do. There’s no one answer to this, it seems. How would you describe it?
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Costume jewels
9 September 2010
Costume design is about creating a fantasy, a new reality, be it on the pages of Italian Vogue, in a David Lynch film or walking through Kilburn dressed as a Punk - this is how costume designer Kate Forbes describes her craft.
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Dark horse
9 September 2010
If the Norwegian industry is the least known quantity in Scandinavian design, the country’s pavilion at UK trade show 100% Design has been doing much to promote it over the past few years. John Stones looks at this year’s offer - and grapples with the issue of national identity in an ever more globalised world
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Drawing conclusions
9 September 2010
Painfully aware of his artistic limitations, Hugh Pearman took part in a sketching event only to rediscover the obvious - he can’t draw. It did, however, make him look at things differently
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Getting the finances right is always a good place to start
9 September 2010
I read with interest your feature on start-ups (On Your Marks, DW 26 August). As an accountant with clients in the design industry, I concur with the advice that the finance team should be in place as soon as possible.
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Inspired - Mark Gabbertas
9 September 2010
It can be pertinent for designers to put into perspective all our huffings and puffings in the earnest striving to do something better than what has gone before, and be reminded that nature has already been there.
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It may be organic, but brown waste will never be Green
9 September 2010
So, the Greenfuel Company has designed a car that runs on human waste (www.designweek.co. uk, 9 August).
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LDY Eco Graphics unveils directory and signage work for Shian housing association
9 September 2010
Consultancy LDY Eco Graphics has created a directory for housing association Shian and is working on signage for the company’s office in London.
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News in Pictures
9 September 2010
The Bardot sofa by Jaime Hayon and Corvo chair by Noe Duchaufour Lawrance will be on show at Levy House in London from 22-23 September in Bernhardt ...
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News in Pictures
9 September 2010
Artists and designers including Jonathan Wilkinson (work pictured,) ...
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News in Pictures
9 September 2010
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Odd one out
9 September 2010
Making an impact in print doesn’t have to mean high cost - the simplest of concepts mixed with a dash of creative lateral thinking can outshine expensive conventional effects. Anna Richardson looks at recent examples
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Our innovation can shape the future
9 September 2010
As new technology transforms the way we live, Christopher Exeter pleads for the industry to engage with the big questions facing society
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Playing fare
9 September 2010
The best adventure playground design focuses on the use of natural materials and is driven by how children actually behave in such environments. Dominic Lutyens investigates current thinking, and discovers some intriguing examples of co-design
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Profile: Neville Brody
9 September 2010
Uncomfortable with the self-referential and business-friendly world of modern design, this industry maverick - and future departmental head at the Royal College of Art - has decided it’s high time to ruffle a few feathers. Jim Davies talks to him
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Sankarayya's challenge is to broaden the appeal of D&AD and reach out
9 September 2010
With D&AD poised to inaugurate its new president, All of Us co-founder Simon ’Sanky’ Sankarayya, on Tuesday and to sign up to central London premises, it is clearly back from the brink it was teetering on a couple of years ago.
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SCDF restructures to cope with cutbacks
9 September 2010
The South Coast Design Forum is introducing a new business model and seeking new premises as it aims to move from being reliant on funding to providing its own revenue.
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SEGD symposium to explore transatlantic philosophy gap
9 September 2010
Leading environmental graphic designers from the US and Europe will meet next month in London at the first international symposium of the US-based Society of Environmental Graphic Design.
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Seymour Powell links with V&A for Design Lab student events
9 September 2010
Seymour Powell has helped to create the Design Lab series of workshops and events for students in a new partnership with London’s Victoria & Albert Museum (pictured).
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Stocks Taylor Benson rebrands paper group Antalis McNaughton
9 September 2010
Leicestershire-based consultancy Stocks Taylor Benson has rebranded paper company Antalis McNaughton, following the merger of the sales operations of Antalis and the James McNaughton Group.
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This festival is anything but revolutionary
9 September 2010
Nobody likes to shoot down good intentions, but I can’t stand by and read about Neville Brody’s Anti Design Festival without thinking how last century the concepts are (News, DW 19 August). If anything shows Brody’s thinking, it’s this enterprise.
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Too many students, and too little creative director input
9 September 2010
Last week you asked what can be done to raise the standard of design education in the UK (Voxpop, DW 2 September).
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Voxpop
9 September 2010
What would you donate to the Things exhibition at the Wellcome Trust?
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Youth movement
9 September 2010
Crush Design has created a brochure - Young People’s Dance: A Ten Year Vision - for Youth Dance England, a national organisation that promotes dance for young people. The brochure will exist in both print and online formats, and launches on 25 September.
