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August 2011 Online

  • A Good Vintage Festival

    Tue, 2 Aug 2011

    Over the weekend The Royal Festival Hall took on the cultural mantle of all things 1920s-1980s for Vintage festival, and design was very much at the fore.Source: John SnellingWayne Hemingway

  • Absolute Interiors Designs National Trust Restaurant

    Tue, 2 Aug 2011

    Cornwall based Absolute Interiors has designed a public restaurant space for listed National Trust property Killerton House.

  • Aedas brings in Ralph Courtenay to lead London interiors division

    Mon, 8 Aug 2011

    Ralph Courtenay, a former international corporate design director at architect HOK, is joining architect Aedas to lead its London interiors group.

  • Aesop brands Blur star Alex James’s cheese range

    Fri, 19 Aug 2011

    Aesop has created the branding and packaging designs for Alex James Presents a new range of cheese from the pop-star-turned-cheesemaker.

  • All Power to the People

    Wed, 3 Aug 2011

    One of the most powerful weapons possessed by civil rights movement the Black Panthers may well have been Emory Douglas.Emory Douglas, It’s all the Same, September 28, 1968 2011 Emory Douglas / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

  • Allofus bought by McCann

    Mon, 8 Aug 2011

    Digital consultancy Allofus has been acquired by McCann Worldgroup.

  • Allotment to rebrand The Donkey Sanctuary

    Fri, 5 Aug 2011

    The Allotment has been appointed to rebrand international charity The Donkey Sanctuary.

  • Angus Hyland creates designs for 100 Ideas That Changed the World series

    Thu, 18 Aug 2011

    Pentagram partner Angus Hyland has designed the look for a new series of books, 100 Ideas That Changed… for Laurence King Publishing.

  • Animate

    Wed, 24 Aug 2011

    Now in its eighth year, this weekend see the return of the London International Animation Festival, aiming to prove - though we never doubted it  -that animation is certainly not just for kids.divers still, part of ...

  • Applied Information Group reforms as Applied after administration

    Tue, 16 Aug 2011

    Applied Information Group has changed its trading name to Applied, after going into administration, and joined European group Edenspiekerman Alliance.

  • Artist launches Dutch store to promote life on the Moon

    Mon, 22 Aug 2011

    Artist Alicia Framis has designed the Moon Life store, set to open in Dutch capital Amsterdam, which will feature products for people who want to live on the Moon.

  • Ashmolean to open new gallery following Rick Mather refurbishment

    Wed, 10 Aug 2011

    The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is set to open a new series of galleries in November with design led by Rick Mather Architects, which also carried out a refurbishment and created an extension for the museum in 2009.

  • At Large creates East India Company exhibition for National Maritime Museum

    Wed, 24 Aug 2011

    Consultancy At Large has created the exhibition designs for the National Maritime Museum’s new gallery Traders, which focuses on the history of the East India Company.

  • Barber works on Robbie Williams retail space

    Tue, 30 Aug 2011

    Barber Design has created the store environment for Farrell, the menswear brand created by Robbie Williams, which will launch as a concession in ten House of Fraser branches.

  • BBC executive creative director Marcelo Marer joins Intel

    Tue, 9 Aug 2011

    Former BBC executive creative director Marcelo Marer is joining the Intel Digital Home Group as chief creative director.

  • BBC launches TV-focused iPlayer design

    Mon, 8 Aug 2011

    The BBC is launching a newly designed version of its iPlayer service which has been tailored for use on televisions.

  • Behind the curtain

    Mon, 8 Aug 2011

    In the course of just over half an hour, Design Week has been circled by an 18-metre tall naked man; surrounded by enormous disembodied hands playing a huge piano and trapped in an apocalyptic rainforest storm.

  • Best of the Web

    Fri, 12 Aug 2011

    Our weekly round up of interesting things we’ve seen on the web. This week’s themes: rioting and looting.

  • Best of the Web

    Fri, 26 Aug 2011

    This week’s selection of our favourite things on the the Internet features a look at Steve Jobs’s legacy, a debate on editorial design and Phil Collins’s meteorological advice.

  • Best of the Web

    Fri, 5 Aug 2011

    Our weekly round-up of interesting things we’ve seen on the web.

  • Best of the Web

    Fri, 19 Aug 2011

    This week’s round-up of interesting things we’ve seen on the web goes from riots to x-rated movies, via Tom Waits.

  • Big Chill Courts Big Design Names

    Mon, 1 Aug 2011

    Art and Design heavyweights Ron Arad and Gavin Turk are among those being commissioned by The Big Chill festival this year to create visual elements for the event. Daniel Sims

  • Black

    Tue, 16 Aug 2011

    The Royal College of Art will collaborate with the African and African Caribbean Design Diaspora at the end of the month for a new show, Black, which will bring together 60 years work by alumni and students of African and African Caribbean descent.Chris Ofili – Untitled, 1992, oil on ...

  • Bloom creates Planet Lunch packaging for Pepsi Co

    Wed, 17 Aug 2011

    Bloom has created new packaging for Pepsi Co brand Planet Lunch.

  • Blue Marlin delivers Brains rebrand

    Wed, 3 Aug 2011

    Blue Marlin has rebranded Welsh brewer Brains, bringing the Welsh Dragon’s tail to the fore.

  • Brains trust

    Wed, 17 Aug 2011

    Artist Ania Dabrowska’s upcoming photography exhibition aims to demystify the process of brain donation and highlight the vital role it plays in research into dementia.

  • Branded at WMH offer brings together two Loewy agencies

    Fri, 26 Aug 2011

    Loewy Group consultancies Branded and Williams Murray Hamm have launched collaborative offer Branded at WMH, which will see the agencies work together on specific projects.

  • Brandopus announces new associate partners

    Fri, 5 Aug 2011

    Brandopus has appointed its finance director Ken Hommel and account director Leo Hadden as associated partners, joining the six other partners in the consultancy’s senior management team.

  • Break it up

    Mon, 15 Aug 2011

    Probably not a great first-date venue, the touring Museum of Broken Relationships is coming to London - bringing with it its cornucopia of oft-bizarre relationship detritus.One wedding dress - unworn

  • Brinkworth and Yellowdoor work on Mary Portas retail designs

    Thu, 18 Aug 2011

    Retail guru Mary Portas is launched a womenswear concession in the London branch of House of Fraser, with store design by Brinkworth and branding and other design by Portas’ consultancy Yellowdoor.

  • Bulletproof works up new Maynards brand and packaging

    Tue, 2 Aug 2011

    Bulletproof has redesigned the identity and packaging for the Maynards confectionary range, including Wine Gums, Wine Pastilles, Sours, Sports Mix and Midget Gems.

  • California Dreaming

    Fri, 26 Aug 2011

    ‘One thing about living in Canary Wharf I never could stomach, all the damn vampires.’

  • Charmed I'm sure

    Wed, 10 Aug 2011

    Touted as an exploration of the space between ‘faith morality and healing,’ the Wellcome Collection’s latest exhibition programme Miracles and Charms looks at what it calls ‘the human responses to chance and suffering.’

  • Chester Zoo rolls out hand-drawn Music branding

    Wed, 17 Aug 2011

    Manchester-based consultancy Music has rebranded Chester Zoo and is working to roll out the new identity to collateral including a new website.

  • Christopher Jenner Designs Concept for Penhaligon’s

    Mon, 1 Aug 2011

    Christopher Jenner has designed perfumery emporium Penhaligon’s first Singapore store.

  • Come and get it

    Mon, 15 Aug 2011

    Joy Division and Jesus are among the subjects of Paul Bower’s work, which is coming to the Sanderson hotel in London in an exhibition opening this week.Joy Division

  • Crank it up again

    Fri, 19 Aug 2011

    Following its UK debut last year (http://www.designweek.co.uk/home/blog/pedalling-posters/3018311.article), bicycle-themed poster show Artcrank is returning to London with a host of new work.Annie Rickard Strauss

  • Creative Councils shortlist announced

    Fri, 5 Aug 2011

    NESTA and the Local Government Group has announced the 17 councils on the shortlist for the Creative Councils programme, which aims to support councils to develop new approaches to meet the challenges facing communities and local services.

  • Cube 3 works on Hotel La Tour brand and marketing projects

    Wed, 31 Aug 2011

    Manchester-based consultancy Cube 3 is working on branding projects for new hotel chain Hotel La Tour, which is set to launch next year.

  • Cultural Innovations designs Wrest Park visitor attraction

    Wed, 3 Aug 2011

    Cultural Innovations has worked with English Heritage to create the visitor attraction for Wrest Park in Bedfordshire, as part of the site’s £1.14m restoration.

  • D Studio cooks up new fudge packaging

    Tue, 23 Aug 2011

    D Studio has created new packaging and on-pack graphics for fudge company Burnt Sugar, aiming to celebrate the product’s ‘irregular pieces of taste bud-tingling randomness’.

  • Dairy Box celebrates anniverary with new Epoch packaging

    Tue, 23 Aug 2011

    Epoch Design has created new packaging for Nestlé-owned chocolate assortment Dairy Box, which is marking its 75th anniversary.

  • Dalziel & Pow works with South African retailer Mr Price

    Mon, 15 Aug 2011

    Dalziel & Pow is working on a new brand identity and store concepts for South African retail group Mr Price.

  • Dark communities

    Wed, 24 Aug 2011

    Community, so often a by-word for all things shared, collaborative and benevolent, will have its dark side explored at the 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale.

  • Design Council launches dementia challenge

    Tue, 16 Aug 2011

    The Design Council and the Department of Health have launched a £360 000 competition to develop designs to help improve the lives of people with dementia and their carers.

  • Distant Neighbours

    Wed, 31 Aug 2011

    ‘Borders are strange places, they’re no-man’s lands’, says artist Lucy Wood, explaining the exploration of immigration and migrant communities in her’forthcoming show, Vicini Lontani/Distant Neighbours.3: Lampedusa.Source: Lucy Wood: Vicini Lontanti/Distant Neighbours 3: Lampedusa, ...

  • Dorothy creates Magritte Your World app for Tate

    Tue, 23 Aug 2011

    Consultancy Dorothy has created the Magritte Your World iPhone app for Tate, to accompany Tate Liverpool’s current René Magritte exhibition.

  • Dragon Rouge brands Indian dairy range Savera

    Fri, 26 Aug 2011

    Dragon Rouge has created the branding for Arla Foods’ new range of Indian dairy products Savera, which means ‘new dawn’, or ‘morning’.

  • Duttons creates Ecotricity charging point graphics

    Tue, 2 Aug 2011

    Duttons design consultancy has created the graphics for green energy supplier Ecotricity’s new network of electric vehicle charging points.

  • Everything in its right place

    Thu, 25 Aug 2011

    Next week The Museum of Everything will open its fourth exhibition in London’s Selfridges, adorning its along Oxford Street and Orchard Street window displays and exhibition hall space with artworks inspired by the work of artists with developmental disabilities.Benoåt Monjoie, Untitled 2006

  • Failure is the new success

    Fri, 5 Aug 2011

    Guest blog from Kyle Van Blerk, creative partner at integrated agency Meteorite on how failure is the new success.We’re all brought up learning to fear failure. From formative school sports days, to exams, to the relative banality of washing the dishes, our parents have taught us that failure is, well, failure - and should be avoided at all costs. Especially since they’re covering the school fees.

  • Family and Friends repackages Allinson bread

    Mon, 22 Aug 2011

    Family and Friends has created new packaging for Allied Bakeries brand Allinson bread.

  • Fit creates Dying - Doing it Better report

    Tue, 30 Aug 2011

    Fit Creative has designed the Dying - Doing it Better report for the National Council for Palliative Care and the Dying Matters coalition.

  • Fitch works on Vodafone store format

    Mon, 15 Aug 2011

    Fitch is working on a new store format for Vodafone ‘where interactive will play a big part’ according to new digital strategy director for Fitch Worldwide Stephen Beasley.

  • Form brands fashion label Penelope Pond

    Wed, 10 Aug 2011

    Form has created the branding and visual identity for fashion brand Penelope Pond, including the logo, packaging and Autumn/Winter 2011 catalogue.

  • Form creates cover art for The Saturdays

    Fri, 12 Aug 2011

    Form has designed the cover for pop band The Saturdays’ forthcoming single, All Fired Up.

  • Found designs Kelaty Selfridges concept

    Fri, 5 Aug 2011

    Found Associates is designing a new concept for rug brand Kelaty in the Selfridges London store.

  • Go with the Flow

    Tue, 2 Aug 2011

    Northamptonshire has stepped up to the starting blocks to take London on in its monopoly of Olympic glory, with the Flow series of site- specific art installations taking to the area’s waterways this month.

  • Gray 318 creates new jacket designs for Roald Dahl books

    Wed, 17 Aug 2011

    Gray 318 has designed a new set of jackets for Roald Dahl’s stories for adults, which will be released by publisher Penguin in three stages.

  • Green Room works on Wembley Stadium shops

    Mon, 15 Aug 2011

    Birmingham-based consultancy Green Room is refurbishing retail elements at Wembley Stadium in London as part of a six-figure project.

  • Grimshaw creates portable retail space for John Lewis

    Mon, 22 Aug 2011

    Grimshaw Architects has created a portable retail environment for John Lewis, which will host designer collections at its Oxford Street London store, before touring other John Lewis branches across the country.

  • Hackney Wicked

    Mon, 1 Aug 2011

    Now in its fourth year, Hackney Wicked Festival, which took place over the past weekend, saw Hackney Wick once again open its doors to reveal its bizarre, industrial wilderness and showcase the mountains of creativity behind its rusted doors.

  • Happiness

    Wed, 3 Aug 2011

    Maybe there’s some truth in the bleatings that people up North are more cheerful than their soft Southern counterparts.  At least that’s what Design Event North East would have as believe, taking Happiness as their theme for this year’s Design Event Festival.Y U M K M H PPY

  • Hell for Leather

    Wed, 31 Aug 2011

    Spanish leather company Loewe is celebrating its craft in style with a new book, The Masters of Leather, illustrated by art director and illustrator Robert Clarke.this is a Loewe

  • Hella Jongerius works on KLM cabins

    Fri, 13 Apr 2012

    Dutch designer Hella Jongerius has been appointed to create new cabin interiors for airline KLM.

  • Hidden Art closes due to lack of funding

    Tue, 30 Aug 2011

    Organisation Hidden Art, which promotes the work of designers and designer-makers, is to close at the end of next month due to a lack of funding.

  • Images

    Wed, 10 Aug 2011

    Opening at the end of the month is the Association of Illustrators’ Images 35 exhibition, a collection of some of the best illustration in Britain from the past year.A Bed of Sea and Dead Men’s suits by Jonny Hannah

  • Images of war

    Mon, 8 Aug 2011

    Throughout his 50-year career, photographer Don McCullin has photographed conflicts in Vietnam, Cambodia, Germany and Iraq.

  • Imagination creates display for Jaguar and Coutts

    Mon, 15 Aug 2011

    Imagination has created an ‘Andy Warhol-inspired’ display for the headquarters of private bank Coutts & Co in London to mark 50 years of the Jaguar E-Type car.

  • Imagination creates Ford experiential space for Frankfurt Motor Show

    Thu, 25 Aug 2011

    Imagination has designed an experiential space for Ford for next month’s Frankfurt Motor Show, which will aim to express the brand values ‘quality, green, safe and smart’ through sight, sound smell and touch interactives.

  • Inside the Seed Cathedral

    Tue, 9 Aug 2011

    Thomas Heatherwick’s Seed Cathedral at the Shanghai World Expo last year was undoubtedly one of the design highlights of 2010.  Design: Marque Creative

  • It's hip to be square

    Fri, 12 Aug 2011

    ‘All my work starts as mistakes’, says Christian Zuzunaga. ‘I like to be able to be displaced.’

  • Jarman Award Shortlist

    Thu, 18 Aug 2011

    Last week the shortlist for the 2011 Film Jarman award was announced, comprising an extended list of ten artists working in film and video, aiming to offer a more comprehensive view of the practice.Claire Hooper

  • L&Co thinks up new brand for psychometric testing company

    Wed, 17 Aug 2011

    L&Co has rebranded psychometric testing company SHL, following its merger in January 2011 with US testing company PreVisor.

  • Lambie-Nairn creates new range for Glorious

    Wed, 10 Aug 2011

    Lambie-Nairn has created branding for a new range of dips from soup and sauce company Glorious.

  • Landor rebrands Caffrey’s and Worthington’s ales

    Thu, 25 Aug 2011

    Landor Associates has created new identities for Caffrey’s and Worthington’s ales, in separate projects for brewer Molson Coors.

  • Lock up

    Wed, 24 Aug 2011

    An artist, a composer, a poet and 40 young people from east London have created songs and artwork for a concept album about London’s canals.

  • London Loves

    Tue, 16 Aug 2011

    The city documented in Geoffrey Fletcher’s classic work The London Nobody Knows was already on its death-bed when the book was first published 50 years ago.cover

  • Lonely Planet

    Wed, 31 Aug 2011

  • Look again

    Wed, 10 Aug 2011

    It’s ten years since the publication of Alan Fletcher’s seminal work The Art of Looking Sideways - a grab-bag collection of images, essays, inspiration and quirkiness.pizza

  • Lumsden designs new comic book store

    Tue, 2 Aug 2011

    Lumsden Design has designed a retail concept for comic shop Gosh which moves to a new premises in London’s Soho.

  • Mark Design rebrands young musicians organisation

    Thu, 25 Aug 2011

    Brighton-based consultancy Mark Design has created a new identity for the Young Classical Artists Trust, a charity which represents classical artists from the UK.

  • Method creates new Radio Times website

    Fri, 19 Aug 2011

    Method has worked with BBC Magazines’ in-house digital team and broadcast design group Meta Broadcast to create a new website for the The Radio Times, which aims to target ‘hunter-gatherer’ viewers.

  • NB Studio creates pocket-sized annual review for British Heart Foundation

    Thu, 11 Aug 2011

    NB Studio has designed the 2011 annual review for the British Heart Foundation, creating a journey-themed report that fits inside a travel card wallet.

  • New London Design Festival Commissions Announced

    Mon, 1 Aug 2011

    Two major commissions have been announced by The London Design Festival which will see a John Pawson optical installation installed in St Paul’s Cathedral and a David Chipperfield Architects piece designed for the Southbank.

  • News analysis - hand-drawn branding

    Tue, 23 Aug 2011

    When Music delivered the design of Chester Zoo’s new brand (alphabet pictured), it opted for a hand-drawn approach, by illustrator Adam Hayes, to ensure maximum flexibility – in this case to appeal to families and to promote conservation messages.

  • News analysis – IP reforms accepted by government

    Wed, 3 Aug 2011

    A host of intellectual property reforms announced by government this morning appear to have been met with cautious acceptance by the design industry.

  • News analysis - mergers and acquisitions

    Tue, 9 Aug 2011

    After a long period of quiet, the past three weeks have brought about two huge acquisitions in the design sector, with experts predicting that more could follow.

  • News analysis - milk packaging

    Tue, 16 Aug 2011

    Last week, Dairy Crest announced that it is carrying out a large-scale trial of new milk bottle packaging, which uses 15 per cent less plastic and, it claims, is ‘easier for consumers’.

  • News in Pictures

    Tue, 2 Aug 2011

  • News in Pictures

    Tue, 2 Aug 2011

    Furniture designers Bram Geenan and Il Hoon Roh will exhibit a new Geenan + Hoon collection at the Aram Gallery, 110 Dury Lane, London WC2, from 17 September – 5 November. The show will look to explain the materials and processes used by the designers at each stage of development.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 8 Aug 2011

    Luke Jerram has designed Aeolus an acoustic sculpture which will resonate with the wind. The piece, which is starting a UK tour, has been designed with consultancy from partners including engineer Arup and The Institute of Sound and Vibration Research.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 8 Aug 2011

    Artist Julian Opie has completed a new portrait of Sir James Dyson, which is on display at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 22 Aug 2011

    Cure Studio has created an animated stop-motion video for clothing brand Whistles, for use at the company’s brand awareness day.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 15 Aug 2011

    Rob Ryan has created the 2m-high birch plywood Ruler for Measuring the Growth of Human Beings. The ruler, which will be available from SCP next month features a colourful screen-printed motif.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 15 Aug 2011

    Designers Anonymous has created a box of greetings cards for paper company Fedrigoni, which the company says ‘draws inpiration from the very Italian tendency to express themselves with their hands’.

  • News in Pictures

    Tue, 30 Aug 2011

    Max Hattler has created the RE:AX aka Peace Starts With Me film for Puma Peace and the World Peace Festival.

  • News in Pictures

    Tue, 30 Aug 2011

    Nick Foot Studio has created the housebag design for record label Bearfunk Records.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 22 Aug 2011

    New lighting designed by Lee Broom is set to launch at Westfield Stratford City on 13 September. The lighting was commissioned as part of Westfield’s Studio East concept, which aims to use east London-based creative talent.

  • Nicky Parr joins JDO as creative director

    Thu, 4 Aug 2011

    Consultancy JDO has appointed Nicky Parr, former creative director of Bloom, as design director as part of its wider plans to expand its team.

  • Night Shift

    Tue, 30 Aug 2011

    If the mesmerising, kaleidoscopic website for Night Shift is anything to go on, the show opening at Simon Oldfield gallery next week is set to be something of an assault on the senses.Simon Schafer, performance/video 2011

  • Nose and Publicis rebrand Swiss International Airlines

    Fri, 26 Aug 2011

    Swiss consultancy Nose Design has worked with international group Publicis to create a new identity for Swiss International Air Lines, which will roll out in October.

  • Olympic Park Legacy Call For Entries Announced

    Mon, 1 Aug 2011

    The Olympic Park Legacy Company has launched a competition to create a public space in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, East London, which it is hoped will reopen in 2013.

  • On your bike

    Thu, 11 Aug 2011

    Bikes designed by Ron Arad and singer Paloma Faith will be spinning around central London in a scheme from the W London hotel.Paloma Faith’s bike

  • ORM creates B2B site for Channel Four

    Wed, 24 Aug 2011

    ORM has designed a new business-to-business site for Channel Four Sales which will aim to better reflect the broadcaster’s brand and user expectations.

  • Pascal Anson to create British Airways Olympic livery

    Wed, 31 Aug 2011

    Pascal Anson is to create an artwork which will be painted on to 12 British Airways aircraft which will fly in guests and teams to the 2012 London Olympic Games.

  • Pavilion of Art & Design London announces 2011 lineup

    Wed, 31 Aug 2011

    A total of 57 galleries from 11 countries will display works at the 2011 Pavilion of Art and Design London, which takes place in October.

  • Peake practice

    Mon, 22 Aug 2011

    This year is the 100th anniversary of the birth of author Mervyn Peake, famous for his Gormenghast fantasy trilogy.Treasure Island

  • Pearlfisher creates brand for hairdresser Wood

    Thu, 4 Aug 2011

    Pearlfisher has created the brand identity for hairdresser Josh Wood ahead of the opening of his Atelier branch in London’s Notting Hill next month.

  • Penguin Inked

    Thu, 18 Aug 2011

    This month Penguin launches a redesigned series of six classic titles, called Penguin Ink. But the ‘ink’ is not printers ink, but that of a more visceral kind.Notes on a Scandal

  • Physical Graffiti

    Tue, 9 Aug 2011

    A coordinated and constructive international arts project will see the facades of ten buildings situated on Bristol’s Nelson Street turned into permanent canvases.Ben Slow

  • Poet in Love

    Thu, 11 Aug 2011

    Next month sees the opening of Poets in Love, the first solo show in Britan  from Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli since 1960.Hands of the Mountain Carver II 2007 , Parviz Tanavoli.

  • Pop or not

    Tue, 23 Aug 2011

    Despite its title, the Hayward Gallery’s new venture This is Not a Pop-Up is, well, a pop-up initiative which will see a series of designers take over the Hayward’s shop, on London’s Southbank.

  • Poster Roast

    Fri, 19 Aug 2011

    This Sunday screen printers  Poster Roast will be taking their gig poster collective to music festival Radfest, which is being held in Peckham, South London.

  • Postmodernism: Style and Subversion

    Thu, 8 Sep 2011

    Postmodernism is an ambiguous notion that’s notoriously difficult to define. Its slipperiness baffled even the V&A, which has reportedly struggled to pin down the Postmodernist essence for about six years for their much anticipated exhibition, Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990, which opens in a fortnight.

  • Prints Charming

    Wed, 17 Aug 2011

    Next week sees the opening of Bite, an exhibition of prints that will see emerging artists sharing wall space with the likes of Damien Hirst, Gary Hume and Sir Peter Blake.Bruce McLean - Pampas Grass

  • Projectile Motion

    Mon, 8 Aug 2011

    Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist will project a retrospective career of installations onto a range of canvases including a chandelier made of underpants when she comes to the Hayward Gallery next month.Source: Courtesy the ...

  • Put Pen to Paper

    Mon, 1 Aug 2011

    It’s easy to idealise the halcyon days of letter writing.

  • Q&A - Sir John Sorrell talks to Design Week ahead of the London Design Festival

    Wed, 31 Aug 2011

    This year’s London Design Festival is just over a fortnight away, and the 2011 event will be bigger than ever before. More than 300 events will take place, including what promises to be a spectacular installation in St Paul’s cathedral by architect John Pawson, and David Chipperfield’s laminated glass and metal-finished structures on the South Bank.

  • Rag and Bone

    Tue, 30 Aug 2011

    Glasgow-based product designer Martin J Campbell is displaying an admirable philosophy of make-do-and-mend through the series of Rag and Bone Workshops.bricks on legs

  • Record Makers

    Thu, 4 Aug 2011

    Many a Vinyl Factory release has graced the DW news in pics in recent times, with its remarkable limited edition record releases, acting as confirmation that even in the age of vanishing record shops and MP3 downloads, there’s often nothing better than a real life slab of vinyl.

  • Remains of Tomorrow

    Mon, 22 Aug 2011

    It’s hard to imagine how a ten-year-old would view such dramatic events as the disintegration of the USSR and the 1989 Romanian Revolution, but these memories form much of the subject matter explored by Romanian artist Marius Bercea in his forthcoming show Remains of Tomorrow.Marius Bercea at his studio ...

  • Return to the Cave

    Tue, 2 Aug 2011

    Jimp, known to his family as Jim Hollingworth, is certainly no ordinary illustrator. Indeed, as Deborah Curtis’ biography of him goes, he is ‘an unstoppable recorder of our times.’Join Us

  • Rinse

    Fri, 12 Aug 2011

    Just as with Jamie Reid’s DIY aesthetic for the Punk scene or Peter Saville’s understated minimalism for Joy Division, the work of one designer can define the visual identity of a band or genre, firmly stamping themselves in the music’s visual imprint.

  • Rip it up

    Tue, 16 Aug 2011

    Cliché, Death and Superdead are due to descend on east London this week: yes, it’s London’s turn to host Vans’ Downtown Showdown skateboarding event.what a load of waffle

  • Robert O’Dowd resigns as head of Welsh innovation project

    Tue, 30 Aug 2011

    Former Designs of the Time director Robert O’Dowd has left his post as chief executive of the £35 million Pontio arts and innovation centre in Bangor, north Wales.

  • Rockport

    Tue, 23 Aug 2011

  • Sage-Meister

    Mon, 15 Aug 2011

    Graphic designer and typographer Stefan Sagmeister has produced Another Book about Promotion and Sales Material.

  • Salvatore Adduci designs new Estrella look for UK market

    Thu, 4 Aug 2011

    Beer brand Estrella Damm will introduce a tweaked identity on a re-packaged product to the UK market next week designed by Spanish consultancy Salvatore Adduci.

  • SAS brings in former Sapient Nitro creative

    Fri, 12 Aug 2011

    SAS has appointed former Sapient Nitro associate creative director Chomoi Picho-Owiny as creative director.

  • Semple Minds

    Wed, 31 Aug 2011

    From Picasso to Dylan Thomas to Lord Byron, suggestions of the links between creativity and mental illness have long been mooted.

  • Seymour Powell director Nick Talbot joins Indian group Tata Elxsi

    Tue, 16 Aug 2011

    Nick Talbot, formerly design director and director of the board at Seymour Powell, is joining Indian company Tata Elxsi as global design head for the industrial design division.

  • Shaw & Skerm identity aims to popularise fencing

    Fri, 12 Aug 2011

    Shaw & Skerm has created the Go Fence branding for British Fencing, which aims to encourage people to take up the sport.

  • Silver overhauls La Tasca brand

    Wed, 3 Aug 2011

    Consultancy Silver has rebranded La Tasca Restaurants with a new identity it says reflects the passion of Spain.

  • Six works with watch brand Uniform Wares

    Wed, 10 Aug 2011

    Consultancy Six has just been appointed as brand and design consultancy for watch company Uniform Wares.

  • Skullduggery

    Tue, 23 Aug 2011

    Few icons can unite Byron, skate boarding, Damien Hirst and quilting. The skull, however, is not just any symbol, as shown in Faye Dowling’s ominous sounding new book, The Book of Skulls.Andres Guerrero Illustration

  • Spaced out

    Fri, 26 Aug 2011

    For the second time this week, Design Week heads to the final frontier to find evidence of space design.

  • Springetts creates designs for new Crusha range

    Thu, 18 Aug 2011

    Springetts has created the designs for a new range of desserts from the Crusha brand.

  • Suits You Sir

    Tue, 9 Aug 2011

    While we’re unsure if its possible to reinvent the wheel, students at London College of Fashion have proved that it is possible to reinvent another great pillar of modern civilisation - the tuxedo.Charley Willow

  • Supermen

    Wed, 3 Aug 2011

    Events as tragic as 9/11, Columbine and the Virginia Tech massacre are nearly impossible to document in a sensitive, appropriate manner.

  • Tent London set to launch new digital show

    Fri, 12 Aug 2011

    Tent London will return to the London Design Festival with a new digital show, led by Intel and Jotta. 

  • The Hand of the Graphic Designer

    Tue, 30 Aug 2011

    There’s something about a Moleskine book that screams - somehow unpretentiously - ‘I’m creative! I’m interesting!’, more than pretty much any other functional accessory.cover

  • The Mill launches design division

    Thu, 11 Aug 2011

    Creative studio The Mill is setting up a design division, which will work on print, branding, art direction and other design-related projects.

  • The Other Media works on Rug Company digital projects

    Mon, 8 Aug 2011

    Consultancy the Other Media has been appointed to create a website and develop the online strategy for the Rug Company.

  • The Plant designs new brand for The Affordable Art Fair

    Mon, 1 Aug 2011

    The Plant is creating a new visual identity and branding for The Affordable Art Fair, aiming to unite the various global locations which host the fair.

  • Things We Like

    Wed, 31 Aug 2011

     

  • Things We Like

    Thu, 4 Aug 2011

    Our weekly round-up of things we like on the Design Week newsdesk.

  • Things We Like

    Thu, 11 Aug 2011

    Our weekly round up of things we like on the Design Week news desk.

  • Things We Like

    Thu, 18 Aug 2011

    Our weekly round-up of things we like here on the Design Week newsdesk.

  • Things We Like

    Thu, 25 Aug 2011

    Boneshaker magazinebear in a trailer!

  • Together brands Fitzrovia Now initiative

    Mon, 22 Aug 2011

    Together Design has created the identity for the Fitzrovia Now initiative, which is a collective of showrooms, galleries and cafés in the Fitzrovia neighbourhood of central London.

  • Toucan play that game

    Wed, 17 Aug 2011

    One time Guinness brand character, hero of children’s book Two Can Toucan, and real-life flamboyant from the Ramphastidae bird family, the toucan is many things to many people.classic toucans

  • Traces of space

    Wed, 31 Aug 2011

     

  • Turn On Tune In

    Mon, 22 Aug 2011

    ‘We worked hard and played hard. We were young’, says Nigel Waymouth, one half of Hapshash & the Coloured Coat, the British design duo that fundamentally shaped today’s view of the 1960s psychedelic, free-spirited aesthetic.CIA v UFO (c) Hapshash&the Coloured Coat

  • Untitled creates new Guinness World Records website

    Thu, 11 Aug 2011

    Digital consultancy Untitled is designing a new Guinness World Records website which launches next week with an equal focus on young readers and adult record breakers.

  • V&A Futureplan continues with new European galleries

    Fri, 19 Aug 2011

    The Victoria & Albert Museum in London has appointed architect ZMMA to work on its new Europe 1600-1800 Galleries as part of the second phase of its Futureplan refurbishment project.

  • Viktoriana

    Thu, 4 Aug 2011

    Montage maestro Viktor Koen is heading to London for his first solo exhibition which explores photography, illustration and other mixed media across collage.scary toy

  • Vintage Books launches 21 anniversary editions

    Tue, 9 Aug 2011

    Vintage Books, an imprint of the Random House publishers, has launched 21 new editions to celebrate its 21st Anniversary.

  • Visual aids

    Tue, 23 Aug 2011

    MTV: Redefine will exhibit and auction work by an international crop of creatives to mark 30 years of AIDS awareness.Damien Hirst - Beautiful Magnificent Gossipmonger Rumour Mill Painting with Diamonds and Butterflies

  • Voxpop - what is your favourite design from the Space Race?

    Thu, 25 Aug 2011

    New store Moon Life is launching in Amsterdam, selling conceptual products for people who want to live on the moon. What is your favourite design to have emerged from the Space Race?

  • Voxpop - Which designer would you pair with a material or process?

    Thu, 4 Aug 2011

    London Design Festival has selected David Chipperfield Architects for its Size and Matter commission – an installation in a metal coated fabric. Every year Size and Matter pairs a designer with a material or a process. Who would you chose and how would you have them work?

  • Voxpop - Which overseas retail brand would you like to see come to the UK?

    Thu, 11 Aug 2011

    US fashion brand Forever 21 has opened its first British stores. Which overseas retail brand would you like to see brought to the UK?

  • Voxpop - which sport would you like to see rebranded ahead of the Olympics?

    Thu, 18 Aug 2011

    Shaw & Skerm has created a new identity to promote fencing in the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics. Which sport would you like to see rebranded ahead of the Games?

  • We Are Pure works for Chinese brand Wally Bath

    Tue, 9 Aug 2011

    We Are Pure design consultancy is creating the packaging and identity for this year’s range of products for Wally Bath, the Chinese health and beauty manufacturer.

  • Webb & Webb packages Patrick Rylands toys

    Fri, 19 Aug 2011

    Webb & Webb has created packaging for toys Joupii and Bird & Fish, which were originally created by toy designer Patrick Rylands.

  • Webb & Webb uses insect wings and shells in Mervyn Peake book designs

    Wed, 24 Aug 2011

    Webb & Webb is designing limited-edition book covers for a series of Mervyn Peake books, including the Gormenghast trilogy, marking the 100th anniversary of the author and illustrator’s birth.

  • What’s the big idea?

    Thu, 1 Sep 2011

    Photographer John Ingledew’s forthcoming book the A-Z of Visual Ideas carries the rather ambitious subheading How to Solve Any Creative Brief.building a bigger picture

  • Why why killed what and who

    Thu, 25 Aug 2011

    A guest blog from Kyle van Blerk, creative partner at creative agency Meteorite, on using an emotional approach in creative processes.

  • Windermere Steamboat Museum shortlist announced

    Fri, 26 Aug 2011

    Eight design teams have been shortlisted in the competition to redevelop the Windermere Steamboat Museum in Cumbria.

  • WPP profits up by 37 per cent

    Wed, 24 Aug 2011

    WPP has reported a 37 per cent rise in pre-tax profits for the first half of the year, compared with the first half of 2010.

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