Design Week
February 2010 Online
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1HQ appoints Tom Ellis to research and strategy role
Thu, 18 Feb 2010
Branding consultancy 1HQ has appointed Tom Ellis, the former managing director of Big Green Door, as client development director of research and strategy.
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All of Us co-founder Mickey Stretton leaves
Thu, 4 Feb 2010
All of Us design director Mickey Stretton has left the consultancy he co-founded, to pursue ‘other creative ambitions’.
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Andrew Pinkness joins LBI from Rufus Leonard
Tue, 16 Feb 2010
Andrew Pinkness, former board director, strategy director and client partner at Rufus Leonard, has joined LBI as client partner and director of strategic services.
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Andrew Tanner wins British Council design entrepreneur award
Wed, 24 Feb 2010
Ceramicist Andrew Tanner has been named as the British Council’s UK Young Design Entrepreneur of the Year 2009.
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Band Heaven 17 enlists designers for anniversary tour
Wed, 17 Feb 2010
Three-dimensional soundscape designer Martyn Ware, who co-founded bands Heaven 17 and The Human League, has invited a raft of designers, including Jason Bruges and Malcolm Garrett, to visually interpret Heaven 17 songs for the band’s 30-year anniversary tour.
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Ben Kelly designs new Factory club
Fri, 5 Feb 2010
Haçienda and Factory Records designer Ben Kelly has developed a new live venue – FAC251 The Factory – within the former Factory Records building in Manchester.
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Browns aims to help England bag 2018 football World Cup
Thu, 25 Feb 2010
Browns is designing England’s 2018 World Cup bid document, which it is hoped will help England win the bid to host the Fifa football World Cup in eight years’ time.
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Bruce Munro creates London Zoo light installation
Tue, 23 Feb 2010
The Zoological Society of London has commissioned lighting designer Bruce Munro to create a permanent installation for a new space at London Zoo.
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Campaign recreates Dunhill’s London home in New York
Thu, 11 Feb 2010
London consultancy Campaign has designed a temporary installation for New York Fashion Week that recreates luxury brand Dunhill’s London home in a Manhattan warehouse.
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Carbon Trust seeks design consultancies
Thu, 18 Feb 2010
The Carbon Trust is looking to establish a new framework of consultancies and appoint a lead group to address its branding, digital and print communications.
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Cog Design creates arts festival website
Fri, 26 Feb 2010
Cog Design has created a new website for Norfolk & Norwich Festival.
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Crafts Council develops portable exhibition space
Tue, 23 Feb 2010
The Light Surgeons, Millimetre Design and Houghton Kneale Design have worked on new walk-in, immersive exhibition space concepts for the Crafts Council.
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Danish design duo relocate to London
Fri, 5 Feb 2010
Danish furniture design duo Flemming Busk and Stephen Hertzog are relocating from Copenhagen to London’s Shoreditch, attracted by its ‘buzz and international ambience’.
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Design Bridge’s safer pint-glass prototypes unveiled
Thu, 4 Feb 2010
Design Bridge has developed two prototype pint glasses in a bid to crack the problem of glasses being used in violent assaults.
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Designer/scientist speed-dating results to go on show
Tue, 9 Feb 2010
The Science Museum’s Dana Centre hosts a two-day exhibition starting tomorrow, showing the results of a ‘speed-dating’ event that science organisation Nobelini organised last spring. The event matched 30 scientists with 30 designers.
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Designers sought for Northern Futures Awards
Tue, 23 Feb 2010
Designer Ben Kelly and Design Museum head of curatorial Donna Loveday are among the judges confirmed for the inaugural Northern Futures Awards.
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Dragon Rouge rebrands military charity
Mon, 1 Feb 2010
Dragon Rouge has created a new name and branding for The Army Benevolent Fund, which is now called ABF The Soldiers’ Charity.
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Dusted Design overhauls Zilli restaurants
Thu, 11 Feb 2010
Dusted Design is overhauling all of celebrity chef Aldo Zilli’s restaurants in a renaming, rebranding and interiors exercise which sees new venture Zilli Green open on Sunday.
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Entries sought for Northern Design Competition
Fri, 12 Feb 2010
Entries are being sought for the 2010 Northern Design Competition, which is open to students at universities, colleges and sixth forms across the North of England.
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Event works with Zaha Hadid on Glasgow museum
Wed, 10 Feb 2010
Event Communications’ interior and exhibition design plans for the Riverside Museum in Glasgow will incorporate ’art and textile’ exhibits and will avoid running along thematic zones, the consultancy says.
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Face rebrands Paris House restaurant
Mon, 8 Feb 2010
West Yorkshire-based Face has created a new brand for the Paris House restaurant, which reopens today.
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Factory Design creates wine pourer and stopper for Screwpull
Wed, 3 Feb 2010
Factory Design has spent three years developing a product for Le Creuset-owned brand Screwpull which promises to act as a wine pourer, stopper and aerator.
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Fallon brands Prince Charles' sustainability initiative
Wed, 3 Feb 2010
Fallon has created the branding for Start, a new sustainability initiative from the Prince of Wales’ charity alliance, The Prince’s Charities. The initiative is understood to be launching tomorrow with the unveiling of a website.
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Fitch unveils premium brand for HSBC
Fri, 19 Feb 2010
Fitch has worked on the branding and strategy for HSBC Advance, a new paid-for banking service from HSBC targeted at what the client calls the ‘emerging mass affluent’ sector.
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Form brands live events group Face Time
Fri, 19 Feb 2010
Form has named and branded Face Time, a new live events company set up by marketing and events trade body the Association of Event Organisers.
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Former 1HQ team sets up new consultancy
Tue, 9 Feb 2010
A group of former 1HQ staffers has set up new consultancy Brand Potential.
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Former Syzygy creative Aaron Martin joins BD Network
Thu, 11 Feb 2010
Digital and marketing group BD Network has appointed Aaron Martin, formerly of Syzygy, as its executive creative director.
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Forster creates Plings brand to encourage positive activities
Tue, 2 Feb 2010
Forster has created a new brand for the Plings initiative – ‘places to go and things to do’ – which is an information service for teenagers to find positive activities.
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Four vie to be UK City of Culture
Thu, 25 Feb 2010
Birmingham, Derry, Norwich and Sheffield will compete to become the UK’s first City of Culture in 2013.
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Freeview to launch HD brand with 999 design
Wed, 24 Feb 2010
Digital television provider Freeview is poised to launch its new high-definition TV brand, with design by 999 Design.
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Futurebrand works on Shanghai Olympics exhibition
Wed, 17 Feb 2010
Futurebrand is designing an exhibition about the Olympics for the Shanghai Expo UK pavilion, as part of its role as branding consultant for the 2012 games.
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Glasgow students win Audi Sustain Our Nation contest
Thu, 18 Feb 2010
Students from The Glasgow School of Art have won top prize in the Sustain Our Nation contest with a project to connect residents on Glasgow’s Wyndford estate by helping them to create interest groups across generations.
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GRDD designs art debate forum
Fri, 12 Feb 2010
GRDD has won a three-way pitch to design a website for the Great British Art Debate, a four-year collaboration between Tate Britain and three other institutions.
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Guildhall Library to reopen after Bisset Adams revamp
Fri, 19 Feb 2010
The City of London’s Guildhall Library, redesigned by Bisset Adams, is set to reopen next month.
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Guy Smith appointed head of design for Arcadia Group
Mon, 22 Feb 2010
Former Dalziel & Pow associate director Guy Smith is joining Arcadia Group as head of design, Design Week understands.
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Havas Worldwide launches design network
Mon, 1 Feb 2010
Havas Worldwide, part of communications group Havas, has launched design and brand network Havas Design Plus.
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Hugo Eccles replaces Sebastian Conran at Studio Conran
Mon, 22 Feb 2010
Conran Group has appointed Hugo Eccles as managing and creative director of Studio Conran.
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Ico Design creates Heron Tower website
Mon, 8 Feb 2010
Ico Design has created a website for central London office development Heron Tower, following its branding of the block last year.
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Identica turns Heritage Link into The Heritage Alliance
Mon, 1 Feb 2010
Identica has rebranded Heritage Link as The Heritage Alliance, following the appointment of chef Loyd Grossman as the group’s chairman in December.
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Ilse Crawford works on French woodland spa
Wed, 10 Feb 2010
Ilse Crawford’s consultancy Studioilse is creating a woodland spa near the Loire region of France.
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Ilse Crawford works on Hong Kong apartment
Wed, 17 Feb 2010
Studioilse is designing the interiors and exterior of a six-storey apartment block in Hong Kong, aimed at what founder Ilse Crawford calls ’the cultured buyer’.
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Imagination creates Winter Olympics pavilion
Fri, 12 Feb 2010
Imagination has designed the Samsung pavilion at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, which starts today.
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Industrial Design Consultancy works on next-generation motorbike helmet
Mon, 15 Feb 2010
Industrial Design Consultancy has helped to develop a new motorbike helmet, which it is hoped will reduce head injuries.
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Inventive & Co stitches together Paul Smith Jeans website
Tue, 9 Feb 2010
Inventive & Co has created a new website to showcase Paul Smith Jeans’ spring/summer 2010 range.
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iPhone app lets MPs communicate with constituents
Mon, 8 Feb 2010
Public Zone has created the first iPhone app for Members of Parliament, allowing constituents and MPs to communicate.
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Italian design brand Skitsch to open in UK
Mon, 22 Feb 2010
Italian contemporary design brand Skitsch is opening a UK store in March, with interior design by Italian architect Studio Blast Architetti.
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Jam develops plans for 'art-oriented' 100% Design
Wed, 10 Feb 2010
This year’s 100% Design will be ’multinational’, ’noncorporate’, ’interactive’ and ’art-oriented’, according to Jam Design senior show designer Gemma Lewis.
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Jason Bruges and Daniel Hirschmann unveil new works at Kinetica
Thu, 4 Feb 2010
Jason Bruges Studio and Daniel Hirschmann are among designers unveiling work at the Kinetica Art Fair.
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Jeremy Leslie’s redesigned FHM set to hit the shelves
Thu, 4 Feb 2010
The redesigned FHM, which is Jeremy Leslie’s first completed project under the Magculture banner, hits shelves today.
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Kit Grover works on Tate Britain retail offer
Wed, 24 Feb 2010
Tate Britain in London has appointed Kit Grover to redesign its retail offer, as part of its overarching £25m plan to remodel the art gallery over the next three years.
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London 2012 Olympics appoints ceramic and crystal firm
Thu, 11 Feb 2010
WWRD, owner of Waterford Crystal, Wedgwood and Royal Doulton, has been appointed to produce ceramic and crystal products for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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Magmatic creates 'Mothership'
Wed, 24 Feb 2010
Design company Magmatic, creators of Trunki - the ride-on suitcase for children, is designing its own office space, which it has dubbed the Magmatic Mothership.
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Martin Brudnizki works on Vietnamese restaurant
Tue, 16 Feb 2010
Martin Brudnizki has been appointed to design the interiors for Vietnamese restaurant Pho’s first branch outside of London, which will open in Brighton in May.
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Maynard Malone cooks up Tate & Lyle cake-making website
Fri, 12 Feb 2010
Tate & Lyle is launching a new virtual cake-making competition website designed by digital consultancy Maynard Malone.
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Met Office unveils creative services roster
Wed, 10 Feb 2010
The Met Office has appointed five consultancies to its creative design services framework.
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Michael Peters rebrands gambling websites
Fri, 26 Feb 2010
Michael Peters & Partners has rebranded gambling website Intercasino and its sub-brand Interpoker to give the sites a ‘boutique’ feel.
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More secure mobile phones unveiled
Wed, 10 Feb 2010
Three prototypes have been developed as part of an initiative from the Home Office, the Design Council and the Technology Strategy Board to develop new ways to secure mobile phones against thieves and fraudsters.
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Moving Brands founder to head up San Francisco offshoot
Wed, 3 Feb 2010
Moving Brands chief executive and founder Ben Wolstenholme will head up the consultancy’s San Francisco office (DW 16 September), which opens on 15 February. Wolstenholme moved from London to San Francisco with his family in late December.
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New products launch at World Mobile Congress
Mon, 15 Feb 2010
The GSMA Mobile World Congress opened in Barcelona this morning. Samsung and Sony Ericsson unveiled new smart phones, plans for a global mobile phone operating system were announced, and a platform to create and share mobile content from handsets revealed.
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New whisky website showcases illustrators
Tue, 9 Feb 2010
Form, Devilfish and Rehab Studio have collaborated to create a new website for Berry Bros & Rudd-owned whisky brand Cutty Sark, which will showcase the work of illustrators.
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Odd Design creates Vivienne Westwood charity pop-up
Fri, 19 Feb 2010
Odd Design has created a pop-up store for Vivienne Westwood at London’s Westfield shopping centre. The Fashion for Relief shop will sell Westwood-designed T-shirts in aid of childbirth charity The White Ribbon Alliance.
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Ofcom seeks graphics groups
Mon, 22 Feb 2010
The broadcasting regulator Ofcom is searching for graphic designers to work on new visuals for the company.
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Paul King leaves Vivid Brand
Wed, 3 Feb 2010
Paul King, retail director of Vivid Brand, is leaving the consultancy. King, who has worked at Vivid Brand for three years, and was consultant at the group for 18 months prior to that, has taken voluntary redundancy.
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Peter and Paul rebrands interior design organisation
Wed, 24 Feb 2010
Peter & Paul has rebranded the British Institute of Interior Design. The new logo will launch this week.
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Pixel DNA creates Masterchef titles
Thu, 18 Feb 2010
Pixel DNA has designed the title sequence for the new series of Masterchef, which starts tonight on BBC One.
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Precedent creates charity website for free
Tue, 2 Feb 2010
Precedent will ‘give away’ its services to charity Children’s Hospice UK, in a project worth at least £30 000.
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Real Studios works on Greenwich Naval College
Thu, 25 Feb 2010
Real Studios has designed the interiors and a permanent exhibition for a new £6m visitor attraction at Greenwich’s Old Royal Naval College.
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Redesign for Boots No 7 make-up range
Wed, 24 Feb 2010
Boots is working with three consultancies to rebrand and repackage its No 7 make-up range.
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Rodney Fitch in retail design education move
Wed, 17 Feb 2010
Fitch founder Rodney Fitch has been appointed professor of retail design at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands in a move that promises to create a new model for the study of retail and retailing, not least in developing countries.
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Rufus Leonard rebrands Bank of Scotland
Mon, 1 Feb 2010
The Bank of Scotland is launching a refreshed identity and new retail designs for its branches, created by Rufus Leonard.
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Saffron signs Dubai partnership
Wed, 3 Feb 2010
Saffron Brand Consultants has set up a partnership with Dubai-based Madison Advertising. Principal Ian Stephens will lead the venture initially, spending about ten days a month at Madison’s office in Dubai. The consultancy aims to set up its own office there later this year.
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SCP, Dare Studio and Redesign among Hidden Art Award winners
Fri, 5 Feb 2010
Furniture company SCP has picked up the prize for more influential or inspiring British company or designer at this year’s Hidden Art Awards.
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Sebastian Bergne creates Enjoy utensils for Tefal
Mon, 15 Feb 2010
Sebastian Bergne has designed a new range of kitchen utensils using recycled materials for Tefal.
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Seymour Powell's airship plans take flight with Samsung
Wed, 3 Feb 2010
Seymour Powell has developed concept plans for a giant luxury airship - the Aircruise - in a scheme funded by Samsung Construction & Trading.
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Sir Martin Sorrell outlines new opportunities for branding
Thu, 25 Feb 2010
WPP chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell has highlighted new branding opportunities and spelled out why brands are so important at an event at WPP branding consultancy The Brand Union in London.
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Slice Design tucks into Fry’s Cream work
Fri, 26 Feb 2010
Cadbury is rolling out new packaging created by Slice Design for its Fry’s Cream range.
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Someone works on Bethnal Green town hall restaurant
Wed, 24 Feb 2010
As the Bethnal Green Town Hall redevelopment in London approaches completion, a new restaurant, Viajante, is being developed in the space, with branding by Someone.
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Start launches experiential and events consultancy
Fri, 5 Feb 2010
Start has launched brand experiences and events consultancy Start Live
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Stone Creative creates Geeks digital identity
Mon, 15 Feb 2010
Stone Creative Design has created a new brand identity, website and guidelines for online review site www.geeks.co.uk.
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Studio 8 rebrands Central School of Speech and Drama
Wed, 17 Feb 2010
Studio 8 has rebranded the Central School of Speech & Drama, which will launch its new identity on 22 February.
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The Team rebrands Parkinson’s charity
Tue, 23 Feb 2010
The Team has rebranded the Parkinson’s Disease Society as Parkinson’s UK.
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Timorous Beasties works on Glasgow venue The Arches
Fri, 26 Feb 2010
Timorous Beasties has redesigned the bar area at Glasgow arts venue The Arches, which is due to reopen on 1 March.
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Together designs Royal Mail girlguiding stamps
Tue, 2 Feb 2010
Together has designed a set of stamps for Royal Mail to celebrate the centenary of the Girlguiding movement.
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Uber Agency rebrands Phoenix Dance Theatre
Tue, 2 Feb 2010
Sheffield-based Uber Agency is rebranding and designing a new website for Phoenix Dance Theatre.
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Uxus works on Tate Modern shops
Tue, 16 Feb 2010
Netherlands- and US-based consultancy Uxus is redesigning the retail offer at Tate Modern, including the store in the upcoming Herzog and de Meuron-designed extension.
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Ware Anthony Rust works on biomedical website
Tue, 16 Feb 2010
Cambridge-based consultancy Ware Anthony Rust is branding and designing a new website for Biomedical Research Centres, based around a ‘molecular structure metaphor’.
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Youngsters explore British Museum with GRDD game
Mon, 8 Feb 2010
Graphics and interactive consultancy GRDD has created an online computer game for the British Museum.
