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
Some of the most beautiful and distinctive scripts from the 19th to mid-20th century have been collected for new book Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design’s Golden Age by American graphic designers Steven Heller and Louise Fili.
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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
Ever dreamed of toggling up in a protective suit and running with gay abandon through a rushing waterfall of molten chocolate? Now you can thanks to jellymongers Bompass & Parr - well, apart from the running bit, health and safety probably won’t like that.
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A picture worth a thousand words
Thu, 7 Apr 2011
One of my earliest memories of storytelling conjures up visions of the dark, twisted and beautiful illustrations from author Hans Christian Andersen’s Snow Queen tale.Nightshade
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A product odyssey
Tue, 12 Apr 2011
When a major exhibition takes root in a museum or gallery, its influence is instantly seen in the accompanying gift shop and soon makes ripples further afield.
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A right Royal round-up
Wed, 27 Apr 2011
In celebration of the forthcoming nuptials of the heir to the throne and Miss Kate Middleton, here’s a selection of some of the projects and products fashioned in the name of Royal Wedding.
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A step up
Mon, 18 Apr 2011
Pulse London product fair has announced that this year’s event will play host to an improved Launchpad section for burgeoning young designers, having promoted the area to take up a third of this year’s show.Dandelion Stool by Design K
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A tonic to the nation
Wed, 6 Apr 2011
Festival fever is gathering pace ahead of the Festival of Britain celebrations at London’s Southbank Centre, which start later this month.
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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
While the situation in Japan may have been overshadowed in the news recently by the nuptials of a certain thinning-on-top toff, unfortunately, the destruction in the wake of the recent Tsunami is still very much a reality.flyer
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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
The Southbank Centre’s 60th anniversary of the Festival of Britain celebrations will open to the public tomorrow, with the glorious weather of the past week set to make it a big success.
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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
It seems five, not three, is the magic number, for independent illustration magazines in any case. We’ve had reams of publications hit the Design Week mail sack over the last few weeks, and of our favourites, three stand out - Nobrow, Popshot and Ammo - each on their fifth issue.Nobrow 5, work by Micah Lidberg
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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
Has packaging ever got you hot under the collar? So furious and angry that you’d want to get it banned?
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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
Identity is the name of the game at this year’s Guernsey Photography Festival, held in June, with 20 exhibitions from some of the world’s most renowned photographers as well as top emerging talent.
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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
The cute critters and harrowing monsters of Berlin-based character culture festival Pictoplasma have, along with their creators, packed up their bags and headed to their respective universes.
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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
How do budding creatives find out about design? Lucky kids have family in the business, but until now for most the introduction has come through school. Art and design and technology classes will have drawn out any aptitude in visual communication or 3D thinking and making.
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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
London-based artist Hannah Westwood will open a solo show at the city’s Tenderpixel gallery next month, inspired by the fast pace of 21st century life, called Eye of the Storm.
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Fine type
Thu, 14 Apr 2011
Cool Britannia is alive and well, according to Wayne Hemingway. The designer is launching a new vintage-inspired typographic print collection in collaboration with East End Prints, due to launch on 19 April at Green and Fay furniture and design store.
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Firm foundations
Mon, 11 Apr 2011
‘You said I must eat so many lemons, cause I am so bitter’, lamented Kate Nash in her irritating pile of Mockney affectation and drivel, Foundations.
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Fooled
Fri, 1 Apr 2011
So we’ve plugged the right keyboard back into the right monitor, switched back the salt and sugar and peeled the cling film off, well, everything. It’s after midday and the April fool japes are now over - we’re not monsters after all.
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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
A number of heart-warming charity projects have launched this week, each aiming to raise money for good causes by harnessing the talent and creativity of designers and artists.
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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
Out of all the pieces of furniture, office chairs are probably the least sexy. Functional, often plastic creatures, the only redeeming thing about these praying mantis-type objects, is that they can be used as alternatives to go-carts on particularly dull days.Source: Studio ...
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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
So us Londoners may have noticed the odd refurbishment occurring on the London Underground. Hands up who gets stuck outside Oxford Circus on their commute home each evening?
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Into the fold
Wed, 20 Apr 2011
When someone says ‘paper folding’, cute origami cranes or jumping frogs are probably the first things that spring to mind. But such is the versatile nature of paper, it’s not just dinky animals you can create but tactile, architectural sculptures - with a little help anyway.
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Intoxicating vapour
Thu, 7 Apr 2011
Here at Design Week, we love design. Most of us here, also love gin. So, tying in neatly with the forthcoming nuptials of Kate Moss, it really is a marriage made in heaven to see the worlds of gin and design collide in a truly spectacular way.
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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
Last Thursday saw the opening of the first UK solo show from painter Philip Taaffe, showcasing his intense, mesmerising abstract works.
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King of the hill
Thu, 14 Apr 2011
Trying to escape the monarchy this year has been a nigh on impossible task what with the Oscar wins of film The King’s Speech and Wills and Kate getting hitched.
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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
Having already produced kits immortalising Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum and Fallingwater, Lego has gone Bauhaus with its latest release - Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House.
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Liven up
Wed, 20 Apr 2011
Joining the likes of Lady Gaga and the pointy-eared blue folk of Avatar in the Design Week Hot 50, it’s clear there’s something rather special about ever-smiley illustrator, Lizzie Mary Cullen.
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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
Inspired by The Team’s new website for compilation album brand Now That’s What I Call Music, we tasked the design community with a particularly melodious Voxpop for this week’s issue.The new Now site designed by The Team
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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
Sony Ericsson launched its new phone-cum-game console gizmo Xperia Play last night, with an immersive warehouse experience intended to feel like walking into a series of high action games.
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Pub art
Fri, 8 Apr 2011
It appears April has got an identity crisis and mistaken itself for July. So what better way to bask in the glorious weather than to buff up the sunglasses, spark up the barbeque and crack open an ice cold beer – ahem – a Beck’s beer.
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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
Without fanfaring an already gloomy state of affairs, we’re all aware how tricky it is for young people to find work at the moment - particularly in the creative industries.
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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
Agonising decisions over the dress, organising the venue, minor squabbles over the guest list: even Kate and Wills’ big day has some of the hallmark pitfalls of the average wedding.
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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
While most of us were kicking back over the weekend, Agency Rush illustrator Billie Jean was working hard on a commission for the Glasgow branch of shoe retailer Schuh.
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SmArt
Wed, 27 Apr 2011
Think you’ve got a vision of a great greener future? Then it’s time to get Twitterarty.
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Stars, stripes and schwenkels
Mon, 18 Apr 2011
It’s not surprising that many graphic designers were flag geeks as children. Bold and graphic, a country’s flag is one of its most prominent visual symbols. It’s a strong identity that any subsequent logo would struggle to upstage.
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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
In an extremely timely exhibition considering the spring of anti-cuts protests here in the UK and civil unrest elsewhere in the world, the Flash Projects gallery in London will launch an exhibition dedicated to fifty years of youth protest later this month.
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Streetlife
Tue, 26 Apr 2011
Guest blog on street art from Coley Porter Bell creative director, Stephen BellShepard Fairey, Bastards print
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Take the stage
Fri, 15 Apr 2011
United Visual Artists designer Ben Kreukniet has just hit the pillow when we call. He’s been up all night putting the finishing touches to the main stage of Coachella, one of the biggest music festivals on the international circuit.Coachella
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Tales of the unexpected
Wed, 6 Apr 2011
Tales of the Unexpected is perhaps a fitting title for an exhibition, which at a lazy glance, looks not dissimilar to an Ann Summers window display.Ludvig Lofgren’ Candy Rabbits
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The horror
Fri, 1 Apr 2011
In a novel reaction to the fears and uncertainties of freelance work, illustrator and street artist The Pern (Fon to her chums) has turned ‘feeling the fear and doing it anyway’ into an adorably ghoulish proposition.
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The soil falling over my head...
Thu, 28 Apr 2011
If all this fun, merriment and sunshine is getting just a little bit grating, there’s nothing like the macabre to wipe the smiles off those smug faces adorning the streets like irritating strands of scraggy bunting.
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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
Hendrick’s Gin have found their perfect partner in a brand hook-up with Hackney-based shop of curiosities and purveyors of quirk The Last Tuesday.
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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
It is a well-known fact that the Design Week team devours more than a few cups of tea throughout the working day. Someone says ‘tea’, and several ears prick up. Followed by a chorus of desperate and gasping ‘yes pleases’.
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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
As I’m sure Coca-Cola will testify, teaching the world to sing in perfect harmony is a pretty tricky feat, as is creating the accompanying music video.
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Visualising taste
Tue, 19 Apr 2011
What does the taste of lime look like? Its colour association might be straightforward but what about it’s texture - is it spiky, round, transparent or opaque?
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What the flip
Wed, 13 Apr 2011
The print versus digital debate has been raging in publishing for some time now, with some vehement loyalists on both sides. Despite all the new products and technologies that have been evolving on the digital side, it is rare that the same can be said for those in the print camp.Cold Mountain by ...
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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.
