Design Week
April 2011 Online
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Editor’s blog
Thu, 7 Apr 2011
Lynda Relph-Knight’s perspective on the week
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Elegant letters
Tue, 19 Apr 2011
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‘Bold and brash’ is key for Now website
Mon, 11 Apr 2011
The Team has created a new website for compilation album brand Now That’s What I Call Music.
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2011 James Dyson Award open for entries
Tue, 5 Apr 2011
Entries are being sought for the 2011 James Dyson Award, which challenges young designers and engineers to develop problem-solving inventions.
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999 brands luxury jewellery store Mawi
Thu, 7 Apr 2011
999 Design has created the branding for the first standalone store of Mawi, an east London-based luxury jewellery brand.
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A flood of chocolate
Tue, 19 Apr 2011
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A picture worth a thousand words
Thu, 7 Apr 2011
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A product odyssey
Tue, 12 Apr 2011
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A right Royal round-up
Wed, 27 Apr 2011
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A step up
Mon, 18 Apr 2011
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A tonic to the nation
Wed, 6 Apr 2011
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Acid to launch digital intellectual property tracker
Tue, 19 Apr 2011
Organisation Anti Copying in Design is set to launch an intellectual property tracker, which it says will be a ‘simple, cost-effective digital method of tracking delivery of IP-led and confidential information’.
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Allen International designs branch for South African bank
Tue, 26 Apr 2011
Allen International has been hired by South African bank Absa to design a new branch, which the consultancy says will use state-of-the-art technology.
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All's fair in art and craft
Thu, 28 Apr 2011
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Amaze works on digital projects for Unilever
Mon, 4 Apr 2011
Amaze has been appointed as global digital partner to Unilever and given a portfolio of 68 websites to support.
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Best of British
Thu, 21 Apr 2011
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Beyond works on Kardex Group campaign
Fri, 8 Apr 2011
Berkshire-based consultancy Beyond is designing a campaign for the Kardex Group, a German storage solutions company.
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Brand 42 designs Daily Mail iPad app
Thu, 21 Apr 2011
London-based digital consultancy Brand 42 has created a new iPad app for the Daily Mail’s Mail Online, which launches today.
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Brand for London tender results in London & Partners identity
Fri, 1 Apr 2011
A version of the identity created by Saffron for the Brand for London competition has launched as the identity for new body London & Partners.
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Brand Union and Lambie-Nairn work on Cannes Also show
Fri, 8 Apr 2011
WPP consultancies The Brand Union and Lambie-Nairn are working on the selection and exhibition designs for the Cannes Also exhibition at this year’s Cannes Lions festival in June.
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Bulletproof creates anniversary Coca-Cola packaging
Tue, 19 Apr 2011
Bulletproof has created new packaging for Coca-Cola to celebrate the brand’s 125th anniversary.
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Bunch of fives
Tue, 5 Apr 2011
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Butterfly Cannon rebrands Swedish cosmetics range
Mon, 4 Apr 2011
Butterfly Cannon is working on the relaunch of a body care range for Swedish cosmetics and beauty company Oriflame.
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Causing a stir
Wed, 6 Apr 2011
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CBBC website launches new look
Tue, 12 Apr 2011
The BBC’s CBBC children’s website launches a new look today, following a phased restructure of the site that began in February.
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Channel vision
Wed, 13 Apr 2011
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Character count
Fri, 8 Apr 2011
Laura Snoad reports on the cute critters taking centrestage at the Pictoplasma character fest in Berlin.
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Characters continued
Mon, 11 Apr 2011
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Clearsilver creates dog welfare website for Battersea
Thu, 7 Apr 2011
Clearsilver has worked on a website for Battersea Dogs & Cats Home to create an online training and resource hub for dog welfare information.
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Creative & Cultural Skills launches Business Survival Toolkit
Thu, 7 Apr 2011
Creative & Cultural Skills has launched an online Business Survival Toolkit, which it says aims to ‘help people in the creative industries survive and prosper during the hard times ahead’.
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Design Council examines future of design review
Fri, 1 Apr 2011
The Design Council is launching a consultation on the future of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment’s design review, on the day the Design Council and Cabe officially merge and assume charitable status.
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Designs on art heritage
Tue, 12 Apr 2011
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Dragon Rouge acquires Fortune Street
Fri, 1 Apr 2011
Dragon Rouge has acquired branding consultancy Fortune Street, appointing founder Tony Allen as its group director of corporate branding and bringing in most of its staff.
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Editor's blog
Wed, 13 Apr 2011
Lynda Relph-Knight’s perspective on the week
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Electrolux showcases appliances of the future
Fri, 8 Apr 2011
Design competition Electrolux Design Lab is to present the results of its appliances of the future competition to the public.
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Eurosport launches new identity
Fri, 1 Apr 2011
Broadcaster Eurosport has launched a new on-air identity, created by Paris-based consultancy Les Télécréateurs.
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Eye of the storm
Wed, 20 Apr 2011
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Fine type
Thu, 14 Apr 2011
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Firm foundations
Mon, 11 Apr 2011
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Fooled
Fri, 1 Apr 2011
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Futurebrand creates 2015 Cricket World Cup identity
Mon, 4 Apr 2011
Futurebrand has created the logo for the International Cricket Council Cricket World Cup 2015, which will be hosted by Australia and New Zealand.
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Giving back
Mon, 4 Apr 2011
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Glasgow School of Art introduces digital art degree
Mon, 18 Apr 2011
The Glasgow School of Art is set to launch a new digital art undergraduate degree for September.
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Grab a seat
Fri, 15 Apr 2011
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Hat-Trick’s Shakespeare stamps in the limelight
Tue, 12 Apr 2011
Hat-Trick Design has created two sets of stamps for Royal Mail to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Heineken seeks designers for pop-up club
Thu, 14 Apr 2011
Heineken beer is initiating its ‘open design exploration’ programme by inviting young designers to help create a pop-up club in Milan for the 2012 Milan furniture fair.
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HMKM creates ‘beauty playground’ for Manchester Selfridges
Thu, 28 Apr 2011
HMKM has designed a ‘beauty playground’ for Selfridges city-centre Manchester store.
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How to Run a Successful Design Business
Thu, 7 Apr 2011
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Inclusive Design Challenge winners announced
Thu, 21 Apr 2011
A team led by Ben Mortimer of Nestlé has won the Judges Award in the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design’s 24-hour Inclusive Design Challenge to create a product, campaign or service to improve the lives of people with disabilities.
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Inside international interiors festival launches
Fri, 15 Apr 2011
The World Architecture Festival has launched a new festival and awards programme dedicated to interior design.
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Interactive underground
Thu, 14 Apr 2011
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Into the fold
Wed, 20 Apr 2011
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Intoxicating vapour
Thu, 7 Apr 2011
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Jannuzzi Smith creates Swiss election app
Mon, 11 Apr 2011
Digital communications consultancy Jannuzzi Smith and Cryms has designed an official smartphone website and iPhone application, which went live yesterday, covering the Swiss local elections in Ticino.
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Kinda kinaesthetic
Fri, 8 Apr 2011
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King of the hill
Thu, 14 Apr 2011
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Landor repackages Coors Light
Tue, 19 Apr 2011
Landor Associates has designed new packaging for Molson Coors brand Coors Light beer.
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Lego goes minimalist
Mon, 4 Apr 2011
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Liven up
Wed, 20 Apr 2011
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London Gift Fair postponed
Thu, 14 Apr 2011
This year’s London Gift Fair, which was due to be held at Olympia in September, has been postponed due to market conditions.
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Marketing spend down by 5%, report shows
Mon, 18 Apr 2011
Marketing spend fell by 5.1 per cent in the first quarter of 2011, according to the latest Bellwether survey compiled by the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising and BDO and authored by financial information group Markit.
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Mind Orchard works on ITV websites
Tue, 12 Apr 2011
ITV has appointed Mind Orchard as its interactive partner following a four-way pitch.
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New York design school launches festival
Mon, 18 Apr 2011
New York-based design institute Parsons The New School for Design has launched a festival that will take place in May.
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Nice Agency works on Channel 4 iPad design
Thu, 28 Apr 2011
Channel 4 has announced the release of the 4oD iPad application designed by Nice Agency.
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Now that's what I call designers' music
Thu, 21 Apr 2011
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Oakley store design based around metallic angel
Fri, 15 Apr 2011
Sunglasses brand Oakley has launched a new design for its store in London’s Covent Garden – basing the concept around a 3.5m-tall, 350kg metallic angel centrepiece.
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Patwa Design creates Streat food branding
Thu, 14 Apr 2011
Bristol-based studio Patwa Design has created the logo for the Streat food collective, inspired by graffiti artists.
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Pentagram ‘redefines’ the look of the RSA
Mon, 11 Apr 2011
The Royal Society of Arts is unveiling its new Pentagram-designed brand today, which is set to be rolled out over the next three to four months with the strapline ‘21st century enlightenment’.
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Pentagram works on British Waterways branding
Tue, 26 Apr 2011
Pentagram is working on the branding of British Waterways as the organisation prepares to rename and become a charity next year.
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Play
Fri, 1 Apr 2011
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Pub art
Fri, 8 Apr 2011
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Public Zone brands happiness campaign
Tue, 12 Apr 2011
Public Zone has created the branding, website and campaign materials for Action for Happiness, which describes itself as ‘a new mass movement to build a happier society’.
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Queen’s University Belfast seeks design groups
Thu, 7 Apr 2011
Queen’s University Belfast is looking to appoint up to six consultancies to a four-year graphic design framework.
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Raising the bar
Tue, 5 Apr 2011
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Rebuilding British Airways' brand
Tue, 3 May 2011
Guest blogger Sam Jordan, managing director at branding consultancy Dave, reflects on British Airway’s plans to relaunch its brand.
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Red Bee brands children’s channel Megamax
Thu, 14 Apr 2011
Red Bee Media has created branding and idents for new Hungarian children’s channel Megamax.
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Red Bee Media brands Italian TV channel La 7
Tue, 5 Apr 2011
Red Bee Media has created an on-screen identity for Italian television channel La 7.
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Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists rebrands
Tue, 26 Apr 2011
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has launched new branding, which aims to emphasise the organisation’s role in ‘providing the best in women’s health care’.
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Scenes from an impending marriage
Fri, 15 Apr 2011
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Science Museum brief for Casson Mann and Universal Design Studio
Tue, 5 Apr 2011
The Science Museum has appointed Casson Mann and Universal Design Studio to work on its two Treasury galleries, as part of its Museum of the Future masterplan.
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Shoe celebration
Mon, 4 Apr 2011
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SmArt
Wed, 27 Apr 2011
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Stars, stripes and schwenkels
Mon, 18 Apr 2011
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Start rebrands One range for Global Ethics
Tue, 5 Apr 2011
Start Creative has rebranded Global Ethics’ product range One with a new simplified aesthetic designed to distance it from a charity look and feel.
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Street fighting man
Tue, 12 Apr 2011
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Streetlife
Tue, 26 Apr 2011
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Take the stage
Fri, 15 Apr 2011
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Tales of the unexpected
Wed, 6 Apr 2011
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The horror
Fri, 1 Apr 2011
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The soil falling over my head...
Thu, 28 Apr 2011
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The Yard Creative develops new Clinton Cards format
Fri, 15 Apr 2011
The Yard Creative has created a new store format for Clinton Cards as part of a rebrand of the company led by Branded.
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Thinking and drinking
Mon, 18 Apr 2011
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TP Bennett appoints Pernille Stafford as design director
Tue, 19 Apr 2011
TP Bennett has appointed Pernille Stafford as a design director to help expand the consultancy’s interior design studio.
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UK show Design Junction to debut in Milan
Fri, 8 Apr 2011
New work by Pearson Lloyd, Michael Sodeau and Kirsty Whyte will be on show at the Milan furniture fair’s first-ever Design Junction show, which will focus on UK brands.
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Urban fog
Tue, 26 Apr 2011
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V&A appoints new director and head for Dundee project
Thu, 21 Apr 2011
Professor Martin Roth, director general of the Dresden State Art Collections, has been named as the new director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, replacing current director Sir Mark Jones.
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Virtual choir
Mon, 11 Apr 2011
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Visualising taste
Tue, 19 Apr 2011
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What the flip
Wed, 13 Apr 2011
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Winners announced in portable ashtray competition
Fri, 15 Apr 2011
The winners have been announced in the Japan Tobacco International Clean City Lab design contest to create the ‘portable ashtray of the future’ that combines ‘creativity, aesthetic and eco responsibility’.
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Woods Bagot works on Eccleston Square Hotel interiors
Mon, 18 Apr 2011
Woods Bagot is taking the lead in designing the interior of London’s Eccleston Square Hotel, which will open in June and be based around a ‘boutique’ image.
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Woods Creative sets the theme for Haven Holidays
Mon, 11 Apr 2011
Preston-based consultancy Woods Creative is designing the 2012 Haven Holidays brochure, having been retained by owner Bourne Leisure.
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WPP reports revenue rise
Thu, 28 Apr 2011
WPP says its reported revenues were up by 7 per cent in the first quarter of 2011 from the last quarter of 2010, to stand at £2.223bn.
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Yorkshire police seek design consultancy
Mon, 4 Apr 2011
The four police forces that serve the Yorkshire and Humberside region are seeking to appoint a design consultancy to a marketing services framework.
