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August 2010 Online

  • 300 Million brands superyachts for Imperial

    Wed, 18 Aug 2010

    London consultancy 300 Million is creating brands for individual superyachts managed by yacht company Imperial, which the consultancy is rebranding for the Monaco Yacht Show.

  • 400 and Zim Zam Zimmy work on solar brand Engensa

    Wed, 11 Aug 2010

    Solar energy start-up Engensa is set to launch a website and marketing materials by 400, which recently branded the company.

  • A big issue

    Fri, 13 Aug 2010

    Next month New Designer One Year On 2009 winner Lizzie Mary Cullen will hold her first solo exhibition. Not only will it be an impressive first show from a talented illustrator and designer, but Cullen also aims to raise more than £10 000 for the Big Issue during the exhibition.Lizzie Mary Cullen

  • A family business

    Thu, 26 Aug 2010

    Clingfilm wraps the chairs to guard them from blood and ink, and skin-thin paper drawings rustle on the walls of tattoo parlour The Family Business. This shop’s Mafia-style name chimes with Italian owner Mo Copoletta’s slightly sinister personal style.Mo Copoletta

  • A grand opening

    Thu, 19 Aug 2010

    Last night saw the opening of a new branch of Thai restaurant chain Busaba Eathai at London’s Old Street.

  • A new comic craze

    Wed, 4 Aug 2010

    For all comic book geeks/lovers out there who are still living in your parents’ basement - it’s time to see the light.

  • Alienation designs website for Edinburgh’s Usher Hall

    Tue, 10 Aug 2010

    Alienation Digital is creating a new website for Edinburgh’s recently modernised Usher Hall to better engage customers and ease the ticket-buying process.

  • All of Us creates website for Earls Court redevelopment plan

    Thu, 19 Aug 2010

    All of Us has designed a new Earls Court website for property development company Capital & Counties Properties in a bid to engage the community on a redevelopment plan for the area.

  • American classics

    Tue, 3 Aug 2010

    We know the United States likes to do things bigger and better than anyone else. So it’s no surprise that US film event the 2010 Rolling Roadshow, run by the Alamo Drafthouse and Levi’s, trumps the Film4 Big Screen at London’s Somerset House - in the sense of scale at least.

  • Art and struggle

    Tue, 17 Aug 2010

    As part of their curious nature and critical eye, many creative people feel the need to question authority and become politically active. Russian collective Chto delat? (which translates as ’what is to be done?’) is no different.Installation at Van Abbe Museum

  • Art directors choice

    Mon, 2 Aug 2010

    My last blog post discussed the impact of minimal design in the realm of self-promotional material sent out by illustrators and designers alike. Having observed an influx of striking one-colour (and namely black) projects of late, this week I’d like to concentrate on the use of minimal colour palettes in design and show you a few of my favourites.

  • Art directors choice

    Mon, 9 Aug 2010

    During my annual flat clearout a couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across a box stacked to the brim with dusty TDK D90s, That’s VX90s, Sony FZ1s and Maxell XLII 90s. I am, of course, talking about the humble audio cassette.

  • Art shift

    Thu, 5 Aug 2010

    The space under the Westway on London’s Portobello road has long been a prime site for accomplished and amateur street artists alike. But starting next week, a new project will see the entire space transformed by some of graffiti’s big names.

  • Art stars contribute to Wellington club revamp

    Thu, 12 Aug 2010

    Private members’ club The Wellington has been redesigned for its ten-year anniversary to include commissioned work by artist Damien Hirst and sculptor Jonathan Wylder.

  • Artwork sought for Emirates frequent flyer cards

    Tue, 31 Aug 2010

    Emirates Airlines has launched a competition to find artwork for the membership cards of its frequent flyer programme Skywards.

  • BBC slashes creative roster by more than half

    Wed, 4 Aug 2010

    The BBC stands to slash its creative services roster to less than half of its original size.

  • BBC to appoint seven to creative services roster

    Fri, 6 Aug 2010

    The BBC has clarified that it currently has nine consultancies on its creative services roster and it will appoint up to seven under its new roster, which is currently at PQQ stage.

  • Beats and pieces

    Fri, 13 Aug 2010

    London-based independent record label Ninja Tune celebrates its twentieth birthday this year. Aside from a series of no doubt loud and sweaty birthday parties, the label will be toasting to 20 years at an exhibition of album artwork, posters and ephemera in London from 20 August.Flyer by Openmind

  • Blue Marlin creates retro-style Pukka Pies packs

    Fri, 13 Aug 2010

    Blue Marlin has designed packaging for Pukka Pies’ new microwaveable range, which is due to roll out next month.

  • British Heart Foundation launches design roster

    Wed, 25 Aug 2010

    The British Heart Foundation has announced its first roster, which it is describing as a ’support network’.

  • Busaba Eathai to open Old Street branch

    Fri, 6 Aug 2010

    Restaurant Busaba Eathai is set to open a new branch on London’s Old Street on 19 August, with interior design by Christian Liaigre and graphics work by North Design.

  • Butcher & Gundersen rebrands cider-maker Sheppy’s

    Thu, 26 Aug 2010

    Sheppy’s, a 200-year-old cider-maker, is to relaunch its brand following an identity and packaging overhaul by Butcher & Gundersen.

  • Car designers shift focus to mobility over vehicles, say experts

    Tue, 10 Aug 2010

    Car manufacturers will shift their focus from being carmakers to become ‘mobility providers’, automotive industry experts predict.

  • Cardiff college seeks design group for rebrand

    Mon, 2 Aug 2010

    The University of Wales Institute Cardiff is looking for a design group to help it rebrand as Cardiff Metropolitan University/Prifysgol Metropolitan Caerdydd.

  • Cartographers

    Mon, 9 Aug 2010

    After seeing the Magnificent Maps exhibition at the British Library earlier this year and receiving several commissions for feature-inspired maps, illustrator Adam Hayes decided to start a project. Getting in touch with friends, colleagues and his illustration heroes, Hayes invited other illustrators to create maps of places where they felt they belonged.

  • Casson Mann creates Lord Ashcroft Gallery for Imperial War Museum

    Thu, 26 Aug 2010

    The Imperial War Museum in London is set to open the new Lord Ashcroft Gallery, with interior and exhibition design by Casson Mann. Businessman Lord Ashcroft donated £5m to the museum to pay for the gallery and exhibition.

  • Chico and Rita

    Tue, 10 Aug 2010

    If you caught the Javier Mariscal retrospective at London’s Design Museum last year, the fact that this designer - best known for his iconic graphics and Cobi, the 1992 Barcelona Olympics mascot - also directs films will come as no surprise.Rita dances in a Havana courtyard

  • Clocking out

    Wed, 18 Aug 2010

    At the beginning of the month we gave you a sneak preview of the Shift-Work project which aimed to redevelop the space under Westway on London’s Portobello Road.Finn and Macay

  • Cowan London creates plastic tubs for Heinz beans

    Mon, 2 Aug 2010

    Heinz is launching a 1kg plastic jar of baked beans with packaging design by Cowan London.

  • Crafts Council supports furniture makers with new LDF show

    Fri, 20 Aug 2010

    The Crafts Council has announced a new exhibition it will deliver in partnership with designer Priscilla Carluccio at the London Design Festival.

  • Cross-continent collaboration

    Thu, 19 Aug 2010

    Walk into London’s Old Shoreditch Station at the moment and you’ll step through a portal into a bizarre world.Iwah Deck by Will Sweeney and Matt Furie

  • Crush brands Usher’s World Leadership Awards

    Fri, 6 Aug 2010

    Crush Design has created the identity for the first World Leadership Awards, an event designed to celebrate inspirational individuals and organisations run by pop star Usher’s New Look Foundation.

  • Cure Studio brands urban tea bar Pause

    Wed, 4 Aug 2010

    Cure Studio has created the identity for new urban tea bar Pause.

  • D&AD executive committee candidates stand for election

    Thu, 12 Aug 2010

    Voting on candidates for the D&AD executive committee closes at the end of the month.

  • Dalziel & Pow creates visual identity and interiors for Saudi retailer Aura

    Wed, 18 Aug 2010

    Dalziel & Pow has created a visual identity and interiors for a new Saudi Arabian furniture and homeware retailer called Aura.

  • Decades of fun

    Mon, 16 Aug 2010

    Being a Sussex lass myself, I was pretty excited when we first heard about Wayne Hemingway’s plans to start a retro-inspired festival about ten minutes from my hometown of Chichester.

  • Decked

    Mon, 2 Aug 2010

    With a far-from-auspicious skateboarding career that involved no small amount of scraped knees and embarrassing misuses of the word ‘gnarly’ I find myself both intrigued and slightly intimidated by the Decked exhibition, showing at London’s Conigsby Gallery from 16-28 August.

  • Decorate

    Wed, 25 Aug 2010

    Wallpaper designer Lizzie Allen will demonstrate the art of wallpaper design at one-day master classes held at this year’s London Design Festival.

  • Derry regeneration group seeks graphics framework

    Tue, 24 Aug 2010

    Derry urban regeneration company Ilex URC is setting up a framework for graphic design, artwork and print management services, and requires a maximum of three providers.

  • Design Archives gets higher education grant

    Fri, 13 Aug 2010

    The Design Archives at the University of Brighton has been awarded £180 000 of funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England.

  • Design Event North East unveils 2010 line-up

    Fri, 20 Aug 2010

    Design Event North East has announced plans for its sixth festival which will take place in October.

  • Design in the dark

    Fri, 20 Aug 2010

    Imagine the scene. You slouch out of bed, sleepy-eyed and a bit disorientated, to get a glass of water from the kitchen. Through the gloom comes a glowing vision - a poster visible despite the midnight darkness.

  • Designers sought for hospital children’s play space

    Mon, 9 Aug 2010

    An architect-led multidisciplinary design team is being sought to create an internal children’s play space and exterior roof garden for the new Royal London Hospital, set to open in 2012.

  • Designing in secret

    Fri, 27 Aug 2010

    Very rarely would you buy a ticket for an event without knowing what you were going to see or even where it would be. But cinema experience-cum-cult Secret Cinema asks film fans to do just that and, considering the popularity of the events, the team must be doing something right.

  • Dreams and ambitions

    Wed, 4 Aug 2010

    At the end of the month, 50 young designers and artists from more than 15 countries will come together to exhibit work inspired by dreams at London’s Shoreditch Town Hall Basement Galleries.Untitled by Dorcas Ng

  • Editor's blog

    Fri, 6 Aug 2010

    Lynda Relph-Knight’s perspective on the week.

  • Editor's blog

    Fri, 20 Aug 2010

    Lynda Relph-Knight’s perspective on the week.

  • Editor's blog

    Fri, 13 Aug 2010

    Lynda Relph-Knight’s perspective on the week.

  • Emerge announces line-up

    Mon, 16 Aug 2010

    Ten graduate graphic designers will have their work displayed at London Underground stations this September, as part of Emerge 2010.

  • Epitype and Fat Beehive work on Article 19 rebrand

    Wed, 4 Aug 2010

    Article 19 has appointed Epitype to undertake a review of its brand and digital strategy, and Fat Beehive to revamp its website.

  • Established & Sons to exhibit in Venice

    Mon, 9 Aug 2010

    Established & Sons will host an exhibition of its new and iconic products and graphic history during the Architecture Biennale and Venice International Film Festival.

  • European Hotel Design Awards shortlist announced

    Fri, 20 Aug 2010

    David Collins Studio and Rare Architecture are among the shortlisted groups competing in the 2010 European Hotel Design Awards.

  • Event Communications works on Bletchley Park exhibition

    Thu, 26 Aug 2010

    Event Communications has been appointed to create an exhibition strategy for Bletchley Park Museum in Milton Keynes.

  • Fear in 3D

    Mon, 23 Aug 2010

    People have given scant thought to 3D television’s potential to scare the living bejeezus out of viewers with phobias. But it’s suddenly become obvious that this will be its main aim. 

  • Felt creates identity for frozen yoghurt start-up Bee Me

    Wed, 11 Aug 2010

    Felt is working on the website for start-up frozen yoghurt, smoothie and juice company Bee Me, having already named and branded the company and worked on retail designs.

  • Fitch creates interiors for McLaren Automotive

    Fri, 6 Aug 2010

    McLaren Automotive will open its flagship store on the ground floor of residential complex One Hyde Park in London’s Knightsbridge next year, with an interior and branded environment designed by Fitch.

  • Fitzrovia Village to launch during LDF

    Mon, 2 Aug 2010

    The Fitzrovia Village initiative, which describes itself as ‘a loosely grouped organisation of design-led retail venues’, will launch during this year’s London Design Festival.

  • Five to rebrand under new boss Richard Desmond

    Tue, 3 Aug 2010

    TV station Five will ‘inevitably’ rebrand following its acquisition by Richard Desmond last month, according to Five head of strategic communications Andrew Sholl.

  • Former Fitch Live managing director Paul Cowan joins Logistik

    Tue, 24 Aug 2010

    Paul Cowan, former managing director of Fitch Live, is joining design and communications consultancy Logistik as content and creative strategy director.

  • Foruli packages Peter Hook autobiography box sets

    Mon, 16 Aug 2010

    Specialist publisher Foruli has created the packaging and graphics for limited-edition box sets of the autobiography of Joy Division and New Order bassist Peter Hook.

  • Gaea Todd wins British Glass Biennale Best in Show award

    Tue, 31 Aug 2010

    Contemporary glass exhibition the British Glass Biennale has announced the winner of its Best in Show award.

  • Gardiner Richardson grows with three appointments

    Thu, 19 Aug 2010

    Newcastle-based consultancy Gardiner Richardson has made three new appointments, including project director Mike Wood and senior designer Gino Di Meo.

  • Gatwick Airport launches architectural design framework

    Mon, 23 Aug 2010

    Gatwick Airport has announced two new supplier frameworks for architectural design and civil engineering, which could see public realm and retail environment tenders put out to the rostered practices. 

  • Green Hat creates South West Fairtrade website

    Tue, 3 Aug 2010

    Bristol-based consultancy Green Hat has created a website for South West Fairtrade, which claims to be the first ever regional Fairtrade website in the UK.

  • Hands on

    Wed, 25 Aug 2010

    The award for the creepiest exhibition at the forthcoming London Design Festival goes to Studio XAG for the Hands On show.A model of Studio XAG’s Hands On show

  • Helpful reading

    Tue, 24 Aug 2010

    For the swarm of graduates fresh out of university and keen to start work, there are two books released this month - one new, one a re-edition - that will be useful to have on the shelves.

  • Hemisphere works on Royal Ballet exhibition

    Wed, 1 Sep 2010

    The Royal Opera House and Manchester gallery The Lowry have jointly appointed Hemisphere to design an exhibition about the history of The Royal Ballet.

  • Higginson Hurst to exhibit at new south London gallery

    Thu, 26 Aug 2010

    Illustration agency Higginson Hurst will be among a number of designers and artists exhibiting at new art space The Vibe Gallery in London’s Bermondsey.

  • House away from home

    Tue, 31 Aug 2010

    Creative collective House is to take over 1 Berwick Street in London’s Soho to host its first-ever event Pop Up House during the London Design Festival.

  • I love Truth

    Mon, 16 Aug 2010

    At Design Week, we don’t normally cover consultancy’s birthdays (we’d be blowing candles out every week) but this one is special as American design legend Milton Glaser has created a limited-edition poster  in celebration of design group Truth’s fourth anniversary.

  • Ideo and Jamie Oliver team up for fresh food challenge

    Thu, 5 Aug 2010

    Design and innovation company Ideo and chef Jamie Oliver have launched a competition to raise awareness among young people of the benefits of fresh food.

  • In fashion

    Tue, 24 Aug 2010

    The work of twice-crowned British Designer of the Year Hussein Chalayan will be exhibited next month at a solo show at London’s Lisson Gallery. More than just an exhibit of his theatrical and innovative fashion design, the exhibition will feature a multi-discipline installation, which will include audio, film and sculpture.

  • Innovation Digital works on Sense Scotland website

    Tue, 31 Aug 2010

    Disability charity Sense Scotland has appointed Glasgow-based digital consultancy Innovation Digital to redesign and develop its website.

  • Inspired by tradition

    Wed, 4 Aug 2010

    It’s not often that designers feature pictures of rugged, bearded men in promotional material for their latest project, but that’s exactly what Hungarian duo A Plus Z Design have done for their latest furniture collection.A Plus Z Design’s new collection

  • iStockphoto creates cleaner look for its website

    Tue, 10 Aug 2010

    Online image library iStockphoto has unveiled its revamped website, which was designed in-house at the company’s Canadian headquarters.

  • It's a dogs life

    Thu, 12 Aug 2010

    Dogs in jumpers, dogs doing acrobatics and (rather bizarrely) dogs in giant teacups. As you may be able to gather from the book’s title, A Pack of Dogs - An Anthology, is not one for canine phobes.By Christopher Brown

  • Just my type

    Fri, 6 Aug 2010

    Do you want to walk past any billboard, shop sign or church fete poster and be able to identify and divulge the history of the fonts displayed thereon? And would you like to do that without haemorrhaging friends? If double yes, then Just My Type is for you.

  • Kent Lyons designs BBC site for Reading and Leeds festivals

    Fri, 27 Aug 2010

    The Reading and Leeds festivals kick off today with a dedicated BBC online presence designed by Kent Lyons.

  • Key industry figures attempt to define design

    Tue, 31 Aug 2010

    Leading industry figures will offer their definition of design in tomorrow’s issue of Design Week.

  • Lambart & Browne creates showroom for Talisman

    Thu, 12 Aug 2010

    Furniture and lighting design and manufacturing company Talisman is opening a second London showroom, in Pimlico. The interiors are being designed by Lambart & Browne and Talisman creative consultant Flora Soames.

  • Lambie-Nairn rebrands Middle Eastern TV network

    Thu, 19 Aug 2010

    Lambie-Nairn is rebranding Sharjah TV. The state-owned Middle Eastern television network appointed Lambie-Nairn in June following a creative and strategic pitch against three other consultancies.

  • Lights, camera, action

    Fri, 20 Aug 2010

    Polaroid has had a somewhat tricky few years. After announcing that all instant film production would cease and filing for bankruptcy in 2008, it looked like curtains before Gordon Brothers, Hilco and Summit Global acquired all of Polaroid’s assets in 2009.

  • London in a new light

    Thu, 12 Aug 2010

    Wanting to learn how to work with a digital camera after a career in 35mm and medium-format film, photographer Sandra Lousada decided to embark on a postgraduate course at Central St Martins College of Art and Design.St Paul’s Cathedral and the Millennium ...

  • Longest bench in Britain installed

    Mon, 2 Aug 2010

    The longest bench in Britain has been opened to the public in Littlehampton, West Sussex.

  • Making magic

    Fri, 6 Aug 2010

    For tonight’s Late at the Tate Britain, puppeteers and artists will be putting on a whimsical musical journey inspired by the galleries collections, as well as dinosaurs, rainbows, mountains and rivers.

  • Mammal mock-up beauty range promotes Cadogan retail premises

    Wed, 1 Sep 2010

    A series of retail premises in London’s Chelsea is to be promoted using quirky, large-scale graphics and a mock-up beauty range, conceived by Mammal Design.

  • Marksteen Adamson questions ‘creative director’ tag

    Tue, 17 Aug 2010

    Arthur Steen Horne Adamson’s creative director Marksteen Adamson questions his own job title in Design Week’s upcoming Insight feature.

  • Martin Brudnizki designs latest Pho restaurant

    Tue, 24 Aug 2010

    Vietnamese restaurant Pho has just opened its latest branch, in London’s Soho, with interiors by Martin Brudnizki Design Studio.

  • Michael Grade and Wayne Hemingway to speak at Bristol Media event

    Fri, 13 Aug 2010

    Design luminaries Wayne Hemingway and Nicolas Roope will join business development consultant Blair Enns and broadcast executive Michael Grade as keynote speakers for design network Bristol Media’s conference Vision.

  • More public sector suppliers going bust

    Mon, 23 Aug 2010

    The number of businesses supplying goods and services to the public sector going bust has risen by nearly half in the past year, according to research.

  • Movie Star

    Tue, 3 Aug 2010

    If like me you’re an ardent fan of Radio 4’s Today programme, you may have caught the clip this morning about one-time Czech Republic president and acclaimed playwright Vaclav Havel’s, who, aged 73, is fulfilling a lifetime’s ambition and directing his own movie. Titled Leaving and due for release next spring, the much-vaunted movie is about a former political leader coping with the diminishing of his power. Cathartic? Maybe.

  • NB Studio and Michael Wolff work on Oxford University fundraising drive

    Wed, 25 Aug 2010

    NB Studio and Michael Wolff have relaunched the University of Oxford’s fundraising campaign, Oxford Thinking, with a new report.

  • New Apple flagship set to open in Covent Garden

    Thu, 5 Aug 2010

    Apple has unveiled its new flagship UK store, in London’s Covent Garden Piazza.

  • New Mind works on Fort William and Lochaber website

    Tue, 10 Aug 2010

    Liverpool-based new media consultancy New Mind had been appointed to create a new website to promote Fort William and Lochaber in the Highlands of Scotland.

  • New UK passport design unveiled

    Wed, 25 Aug 2010

    The redesigned UK passport has been unveiled, which will see the holder’s personal details moved to the second page, and double-page images of well-known UK scenes such as the White Cliffs of Dover used throughout.

  • Nucleus creates ‘seductive’ website for The Goring hotel

    Fri, 27 Aug 2010

    London’s only family-owned five-star hotel, The Goring, is relaunching its website this week to compete in the capital’s ‘booming’ luxury hotel market.

  • Number of empty shops in the UK at its lowest for 18 months

    Mon, 23 Aug 2010

    The number of empty shops on UK high streets has fallen to its lowest level for 18 months, according to a new survey by property agent Cushman & Wakefield.

  • Old media

    Wed, 18 Aug 2010

    Contemporary arts centre Arnolfini will present three exhibitions as part of its Old Media season, exploring the history of software art and the impact of technology set against progress, consumerism and globalisation.Coal Fired Computers by YoHa in collaboration ...

  • Onedotzero festival programme unveiled

    Tue, 3 Aug 2010

    Festival Onedotzero returns in November with a series of new commissions looking at moving image and digital innovation.

  • Open City

    Tue, 31 Aug 2010

    London is certainly not short of beautiful architecture, attracting swarms of tourists every day to visit. And while the exteriors of these impressive buildings range from breathtaking to down-right unusual, the question on most people’s lips is - what do they look like on the inside?

  • Open City searches for Jane Priestman successor

    Fri, 20 Aug 2010

    Following Jane Priestman’s decision to step down as chairwoman of Open City after 18 years, the architecture organisation is now looking to appoint her successor.

  • Own a gust of wind

    Fri, 27 Aug 2010

    Some 300 lucky visitors to the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Friday Late evening during the London Design Festival will be able to walk away with their own piece of a specially created Paul Cocksedge sculpture.Paul Cocksedge’s Gust of Wind sculpture

  • Paul Thurston to head up Welsh service design project

    Fri, 6 Aug 2010

    Think Public’s head of design Paul Thurston has left the consultancy to run a project to build the service design sector in Wales.

  • Pearlfisher works on London debut for US restaurant chain

    Tue, 17 Aug 2010

    Pearlfisher has designed the on-pack graphics and menus for sustainable restaurant chain Otarian, which is opening two branches in London tomorrow – on Wardour Street and Shaftesbury Avenue.

  • Pemberton & Whitefoord duo launch breakaway

    Mon, 16 Aug 2010

    Pemberton & Whitefoord creative managers Phil Curl and Wes Anson are leaving to set up a branding consultancy called Departure Studio.

  • Piero Lissoni revamps Benetton’s flagship London store

    Thu, 5 Aug 2010

    Benetton’s flagship store on London’s Oxford Circus is to reopen on 19 August, with an interior revamp by Italian architect Piero Lissoni’s practice Lissoni Associati.

  • Ping-pong ding dong!

    Wed, 11 Aug 2010

    Whether you’re an advocate of the penhold grip or favour the shakehand option, or like to favour the loop drive or the kill spin defence, you’re now able to deploy your table tennis skills on the streets of London as part of the Ping initiative, which has seen 100 ping-pong tables set up across the capital for the public to play on.

  • Play dates

    Thu, 26 Aug 2010

    As September looms, the bad weather continues and that back to school feeling is starting to haunt everyone - why not head down to the Inkygoodness’ debut London exhibition ‘Play’  in London’s East Gallery next week.

  • Poster perfect

    Tue, 24 Aug 2010

    How many times have you taken a photo and thought it could make a great poster? Or maybe you’ve designed an illustration that would look better blown up into a bigger design?

  • Prospect works on Design Business Association online directory

    Wed, 11 Aug 2010

    The Design Business Association is preparing to launch its online database of design groups on a website designed by Prospect, which will also revamp the DBA’s main website.

  • Public Works Office to create V&A paper exhibition

    Wed, 25 Aug 2010

    The Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood in London has appointed Public Works Office to design its autumn exhibition Cut it, Fold it, Build it with Paper.

  • Rankin’s Sky Arts poster ads ‘blanket’ six UK cities

    Mon, 16 Aug 2010

    Sky Arts will today unveil a poster campaign with photography by Rankin which will cover every advertising space on major streets in six UK cities.

  • Red Bee Media head of design Jeff Conrad leaves

    Wed, 25 Aug 2010

    Jeff Conrad has left Red Bee Media, where he was head of design, as the consultancy prepares for reorganisation and expansion.

  • Ringside seats

    Tue, 10 Aug 2010

    If you fancy a ringside seat at some design fisticuffs, you should watch yesterday’s Newsnight. In the blue corner, David McCandless, journalist, graphic designer and author of blog and book Information is Beautiful, defended his assertion that presenting information in a beautiful way can bring clarity and focus - quality graphics can increase the likelihood ...

  • Room with a view

    Tue, 17 Aug 2010

    I want to wake up in room four at Penzance’s new art hotel. Jo Peel’s illustrated street-scene would soothe me after a night of grappling with my disturbed subconscious, I just know it.

  • RSA relaunches Student Design Awards

    Wed, 1 Sep 2010

    The Royal Society of Arts is relaunching its Design Directions awards under its former title of the RSA Student Design Awards.

  • SCP set to launch new collection

    Fri, 27 Aug 2010

    Terence Woodgate and Donna Wilson will exhibit new products as part of the launch of SCP’s autumn/winter collection at Maison & Objet next month.

  • Screen scene

    Thu, 26 Aug 2010

    The London International Animation Festival gets underway tomorrow at several cinemas and venues across the capital. It’s the seventh time the festival has been held and it’s the largest one of its kind in the UK, screening more than 250 films by animators from across the globe.

  • Search for Olympic torch designer launches

    Wed, 4 Aug 2010

    A competition is being initiated today to find an Olympic and Paralympic torch designer for the London 2012 games.

  • Shortlist in Spitfire memorial competition set to be unveiled

    Mon, 23 Aug 2010

    The shortlist of a competition to design a Battle of Britain Spitfire fighter plane monument in Southampton will be revealed next month.

  • Shush!

    Thu, 19 Aug 2010

    Silent Cinema is teaming up with The Deptford Project to create an outdoor cinema in south east London this September.

  • Sir Philip Green to examine procurement in Government spending review

    Fri, 13 Aug 2010

    Arcadia boss Sir Philip Green says he will examine cross-Government procurement as part of his review of Government spending.

  • Six finalists named in The Earth Awards

    Thu, 19 Aug 2010

    International design competition The Earth Awards has announced its six finalists, who will now compete to put their ideas into production.

  • Six hopefuls chosen for Trafalgar Square fourth plinth

    Thu, 19 Aug 2010

    The Fourth Plinth Programme today unveiled six designs which will compete for the coveted public art space in London’s Trafalgar Square.

  • Sleepover at the Serpentine

    Mon, 2 Aug 2010

    When you’re little, the magic of a sleepover is that all the normally forbidden activities - staying up until dawn, gorging on sweets and telling scary stories - are suddenly allowed. Once you’re an adult however, the thrill of saccharin-induced insomnia is not quite as appealing.

  • Small but perfectly formed

    Mon, 9 Aug 2010

    Inspired by seeing a coffee mug decorated with an illustration of a cowboy familiar from childhood, Pentagram’s Angus Hyland hit upon what it is about illustration that he thinks is so important. According to Hyland, it is the childlike freedom to dream and the ability to recreate those dreams for others that lies at the heart of picture-making.

  • Snap to it

    Tue, 31 Aug 2010

    Dinky Bristol art space Snap Gallery will be hosting an exhibition by illustrator Jonny Hannah from 7 September.Duke of Ellington by Jonny Hannah

  • Someone designs wayfinding and environmental graphics for O2 HQ in Slough

    Wed, 18 Aug 2010

    Branding consultancy Someone is designing the wayfinding and environmental graphics for O2’s headquarters in Slough. Architect TP Bennett is designing the interiors.

  • Someone develops brand for solar energy company Homesun

    Wed, 11 Aug 2010

    Solar energy start-up company Homesun will launch a marketing campaign designed by Someone later this year.

  • Something for the weekend

    Thu, 5 Aug 2010

    The Big Chill extravaganza has finally arrived and to be honest, what better way is there to spend an August weekend brimming with music and creativity.

  • St Bartholomew's and Royal London hospitals seek art and design commissions

    Wed, 18 Aug 2010

    The £1bn redevelopment of St Bartholomew’s and Royal London hospitals in east London could lead to further work for designers under an arts commissioning programme.

  • Stereotypes

    Fri, 27 Aug 2010

    The beauty of living in a large city (especially London) is the vast array of eccentric characters you can come across. From the Cockney cabby to the Shoreditch design student to name a couple, they can epitomise the wonderful English stereotype we recognise each day.

  • Studio Mad to design Wright Brothers Soho outpost

    Wed, 4 Aug 2010

    Seafood specialist Wright Brothers is to open a restaurant in London’s Soho in November with interiors designed by Studio Mad and branding, graphics and website by Someone.

  • Surreal tree

    Tue, 10 Aug 2010

    Ikea has attempted to ‘depict a surreal vision of the future, when environmental concerns will be ever more at the core of the kitchen,’ it says.

  • Talking treasures

    Tue, 3 Aug 2010

    What would the Victoria & Albert Museum’s precious artefacts say if they could speak? Perhaps they’d express their pleasure at being admired all day long or maybe they’d complain at their cramped glass cases.

  • That's a wrap

    Wed, 11 Aug 2010

    New graphic design and illustration magazine Wrap will launch in October and showcase work as pull-out wrapping paper. 

  • The art of plastic

    Wed, 25 Aug 2010

    How would you like to step out of a shower on to a bath mat made to allow lush green grass tickle your toes? Yeah, I wasn’t too sure about that one either. But the Nature Step bath mat is just one product that a collaboration between Italian design company Fratelli Guzzini and Royal College of Art students yielded after a week-long workshop.

  • The BBC denies Red Bee favouritism

    Wed, 18 Aug 2010

    Following the re-tendering of the BBC’s marketing and communications roster and its creative services roster, the broadcaster says Red Bee Media will remain on an off-roster exclusive contract.

  • The Brand Union chairman Dave Brown in education drive

    Wed, 25 Aug 2010

    The Brand Union’s UK chairman Dave Brown is launching an initiative to raise the standard of design education in UK schools, with support from Seymour Powell co-founder Richard Seymour.

  • The Greenfuel Company creates car powered by human waste

    Mon, 9 Aug 2010

    A car that runs on a byproduct of human waste has been designed by The Greenfuel Company for Geneco, which serves the Wessex Water Group by finding sustainable solutions to organic waste.

  • The Remarkable Group creates Swag brochure

    Fri, 27 Aug 2010

    Jewellery retailer Swag launches its 2011 brochure this autumn, with design by The Remarkable Group.

  • The Tramshed announces brands line-up for festival

    Tue, 17 Aug 2010

    New London exhibition space The Tramshed has announced the international design brands that will exhibit at the venue during the London Design Festival.

  • The Yard Creative works on Clinton Cards retail designs

    Wed, 1 Sep 2010

    The Yard Creative is working on retail designs for Clinton Cards while Branded is working on new branding for the company.

  • Tim O’Kennedy and Javier Mariscal to speak at Design Yatra

    Thu, 12 Aug 2010

    India’s largest design conference Design Yatra has announced the speakers at its event, which will be held on 3-4 September in Mumbai.

  • 'Tis not the season

    Mon, 16 Aug 2010

    With the sun still beating down (if intermittently) and school summer holidays in full throttle, Christmas is the last thing on most people’s minds. However, the hard-toiling retailers are busily launching their Christmas ranges, ready to put into stores in the autumn. Here are some of our favourites.Gisela ...

  • Tom Dixon to launch his first shop

    Tue, 17 Aug 2010

    Tom Dixon will launch his first shop at London’s Portobello Dock during the London Design Festival.

  • Top of the league

    Thu, 5 Aug 2010

    The Design Bridge team has topped the Design Week football league for Spring 2010, seeing off strong challenges from the Winkreative and JKR selections.

  • Two in one

    Wed, 11 Aug 2010

    Here is the latest collaboration between design consultancy Browns and Paul Davis, drawings editor of independent quarterly The Drawbridge. Launched by Browns Editions next week, What Happens Is Good & The Twinkling of an Eye is a limited edition newspaper, made up of two publications within one - Davis’ drawings are printed onto a full Berliner format, with a half Berliner insert featuring photography.

  • Vintage weekend

    Thu, 12 Aug 2010

    Starting tomorrow is Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway’s Vintage at Goodwood festival, a celebration of art, music, fashion and design from the 1940s to the 1980s.Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway

  • Virgin 1 to become Channel 1 under BSkyB

    Thu, 5 Aug 2010

    BSkyB is rebranding Virgin 1 as Channel 1 and has unveiled a new identity for the channel it acquired in the £160m buyout of Virgin Media Television. 

  • Vonsung designs pop-up restaurant for Tent London

    Tue, 3 Aug 2010

    London-based design consultancy Vonsung has designed a pop-up restaurant and bar pavilion for Tent London.

  • Wellcome Collection to exhibit everyday objects in Things show

    Wed, 1 Sep 2010

    The Wellcome Collection will exhibit iconic design and everyday objects contributed by members of the public as part of new exhibition Things, devised and designed by artist Keith Wilson.

  • WPP pre-tax profits up 36 per cent

    Tue, 24 Aug 2010

    WPP has seen a 36 per cent increase in pre-tax profits in the first half of this year, compared with the first half of 2009.

  • Yardley and Woods of Windsor unveil rebrands

    Wed, 11 Aug 2010

    Heritage beauty brands Woods of Windsor and Yardley London are relaunching with new branding and packaging by Fresh Trends Design and Yardley’s in-house team respectively.

  • Zizzi’s Glasgow branch to be decorated by graduates

    Mon, 9 Aug 2010

    Italian restaurant Zizzi is opening a new branch in Glasgow that will be decorated by graduates from Glasgow School of Art and Edinburgh College of Art.

  • Zombie village

    Wed, 18 Aug 2010

    As part of the recent push to fill vacant shops and spaces in London’s Brixton, Zombie Collective will be holding a pop-up shop-cum-exhibition at Brixton village this weekend.Work by Alice Lickens

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