Design Week
February 2011 Online
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7Up launches new branding and packaging
Tue, 1 Feb 2011
Soft drink brand 7Up has launched a new logo and packaging design across its entire range, with designs by US consultancy Tracy Locke Partnership.
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A life in photographs
Wed, 9 Feb 2011
Photographer Eve Arnold operated in the golden age of photojournalism, when newspapers and magazines gave their photographers the freedom - and resources - to travel the world and document it.
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A man of letters
Fri, 4 Feb 2011
Launching this month is Liberty’s Paper Room stationery department - a space that, refreshingly for a luddite such as myself, celebrates the art of the handwritten note.
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A new space for spring
Tue, 1 Mar 2011
Spring is always time for a tidy and reshuffle, and it’s no different for London-based studio Tom Dixon.
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Alien nation
Wed, 23 Feb 2011
‘Continental people have sex lives: the English have hot water bottles’, claims George Mikes in his book How to Be an Alien.
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An unusual client
Tue, 22 Feb 2011
How would you feel if you received this message? ‘My name is Ernesto Bones and I write to you with an important request. I have a very serious problem that only you can help fix. You see, though I am writing to you now, I do not yet truly exist.’
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Art and letters
Thu, 24 Feb 2011
‘I don’t think I’m easy to talk about. I’ve got a very irregular head. And I’m not anything that you think I am anyway,’ Syd Barrett told Rolling Stone magazine in 1971.
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Art director's choice
Mon, 7 Feb 2011
Before the advent of Letraset and the Apple Computer, custom, hand-drawn lettering was a feature of headline type. Individualistic, dynamically stylised letterforms bursting with character appeared on everything from comic books to business cards.
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Art Fund Prize longlist unveiled
Fri, 4 Feb 2011
Ten museums have been longlisted for the £100 000 Art Fund Prize 2011, which recognises museum and gallery exhibition design and refurbishments.
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Art Hate Graphics
Tue, 1 Feb 2011
As can be expected from artist and musician Billy Childish, his latest project, the book Art Hate Graphics 1972 - 2010, is provocative, challenging and far from straightforward.
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At His Majesty's pleasure
Thu, 24 Feb 2011
The past year has seen its fair share of civil unrest, ranging from the student protests and UK Uncut’s occupation of Topshop’s flagship store over boss Sir Philip Green’s tax avoidance, to more recent clashes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.
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Atelier Works engages children for charity rebrand
Thu, 24 Feb 2011
Atelier Works has created a new identity for children’s charity The Transformation Trust with the help of pupils from schools in Cheshire and Bolton.
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Austin Elwood joins Brand Me as planning director
Tue, 1 Feb 2011
Austin Elwood has joined Brand Me as planning director and has merged his strategic business consultancy, Elwood Research, with the design group.
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Beard and wonderful
Fri, 4 Feb 2011
Never ones to turn down a project themed around beards, the Design Week team was pleased to hear of a particularly hirsute exhibition that launched at KK Outlet last night.
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Beyond the pages
Fri, 25 Feb 2011
This spring will see the inaugural Dazed Live festival, a two-day hip-fest which will see iconic magazine Dazed & Confused reaching beyond its achingly gorgeous pages and onto the streets of - you guessed it - east London.
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Big Fish designs Belvoir Fruit Farms website
Mon, 7 Feb 2011
Big Fish has designed a new website for Belvoir Fruit Farms soft drink brand, which aims to bring ‘loveliness’ to its customers.
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Brand New works on Dr Who shop
Thu, 10 Feb 2011
Brand New Corporation is creating the Tardis-themed retail concept for the BBC Worldwide’s Doctor Who Experience, which will be the first-ever shop devoted to the TV show.
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Bright young Brits
Tue, 1 Feb 2011
With all the Royal Wedding hoo-hah, the 60th Anniversary of the Festival of Britain and the run up to the Olympics, 2011 looks set to be a year for all things patriotic.
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Brit Insurance category award winners unveiled
Mon, 28 Feb 2011
The seven category winners of the Brit Insurance Design Awards have been announced. They include London’s Barclays Cycle Hire, winner in the Transport category, and personalised magazine app Flipboard, by Mike McCue and Evan Doll, which won in the Interactive category.
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Burgermat
Mon, 6 Jun 2011
Blogger and burger-fiend Burgerac has brought together a whole host of red meat-obsessed artists and designers to create a one-night-only show dedicated to the art of the burger.
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Cada completes designs for food retailer Mori
Fri, 25 Feb 2011
Cada has designed the interiors, retail graphics and collateral for the third branch of Asian food outlet Mori on King’s Road, London.
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Candy Black works on fashion week event
Fri, 4 Feb 2011
Poole-based consultancy Candy Black has been appointed to create interiors for the Vauxhall Fashion Scout event during London Fashion Week.
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Car companies top Superbrands lists
Mon, 28 Feb 2011
Rolls-Royce has been ranked number one Business Superbrand and Mercedes-Benz number one Consumer Superbrand in the UK in this year’s annual Business and Consumer Superbrands surveys.
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Carolyn Parker creates James Martin restaurant
Tue, 8 Feb 2011
Carolyn Parker Interior Design is designing an interior concept for Leeds Kitchen, a new restaurant by TV chef James Martin at the Alea Casino in Leeds.
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Cast
Fri, 11 Feb 2011
At first glance, the photographs of Aidan McNeill look like misty glimpses of the outer reaches of the solar system, similar to those take by the Hubble Telescope.by Aidan McNeil
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Chain reaction
Wed, 23 Feb 2011
Last summer, we caught up with the organisers behind Papergirl Manchester, a philanthropic cyclist and designer mash-up that involved distributing rolled bundles of artwork to unsuspecting pedestrians.
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Coley Porter Bell packages $2000 whisky
Tue, 1 Feb 2011
Coley Porter Bell has created the packaging for Chivas Brothers’ Royal Salute 62 Gun Salute whisky, which will retail at more than $2200 (£1365) a bottle.
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Cool for cats
Fri, 11 Feb 2011
As a bit of Friday fun, we thought we’d briefly share with you one of the more unusual - and feline - pieces of furniture that launched at the Stockholm Furniture Fair this week.
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Cowan repackages Heinz Big Soup
Tue, 22 Feb 2011
Cowan has redesigned the branding and packaging of Heinz Big Soup, which will be rolled out in a new convenience format.
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Creatives in Cairo
Thu, 10 Feb 2011
On Tuesday 25 January, Jog creative director Robert Smith, accompanied by photographer Timothy Soar and another member of his consultancy, flew to Egypt to complete final snagging on their branding and exhibition design work for the Cairo International Book Fair.Sculpture by Jog for the Cairo International Book Fair. ...
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Crest showroom to host top design brands
Mon, 21 Feb 2011
International design brands including Thonet, Artifort and Pallucco will be brought together at Crest Living’s first showroom, which opens in London in April.
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Cutting edges
Wed, 16 Feb 2011
Whether splicing images and text in a newspaper’s art department or layering cut-outs in Photoshop, collage has long been an integral part of graphic design.
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David Kohn creates Designs of the Year show
Thu, 17 Feb 2011
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Design Council aims to tackle violence in A&E
Mon, 28 Feb 2011
The Design Council has launched a project which aims to reduce violence and aggression towards NHS staff in hospital accident and emergency departments.
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Design Council and Cabe confirm merger
Fri, 11 Feb 2011
The Design Council and the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment have confirmed that they are to merge from 1 April.
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Designers, academics and a monk
Wed, 2 Feb 2011
Design heavyweights Jaime Hayon and Neville Brody will share a stage with Zen Buddhist Master Sante Poromaa in a Stockholm based event which looks at the changing role of the designer.Boost show
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Doppelganger
Tue, 15 Feb 2011
Since humans decided to mix some dirt with water and daub it on the sides of their cave homes, the human body has been a pretty constant focus of artists’ attentions.
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Drawing fashion
Tue, 1 Feb 2011
Fashion illustration has been having something of a renaissance recently, with large scale exhibitions at the Design Museum and smaller projects focussing on the craft behind the genre.
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Editor's blog
Wed, 2 Feb 2011
Lynda Relph-Knight’s perspective on the week
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Editor's blog
Mon, 28 Feb 2011
Lynda Relph-Knight reports back from South Africa’s Design Indaba.
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Editor's blog
Mon, 21 Feb 2011
Lynda Relph-Knight’s perspective on the week.
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Editor's blog
Fri, 18 Feb 2011
If a creative industries debate at the House of Commons this week is anything to go by, the Liberal Democrat element of the coalition Government is in denial about 40 per cent cuts to education in the design sector.
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Elmwood creates National Census identity
Tue, 22 Feb 2011
Elmwood has created the 2011 National Census identity, including developing brand guidelines, the colour scheme, an origami logotype and the tagline ‘Help tomorrow take shape’.
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Favourite apps
Wed, 23 Feb 2011
Continuing on from this week’s Publishing in focus feature, in which we ask digital luminaries to name their favourite apps, here David Curless of Precedent and Moving Brands’ Camilla Grey critique the app scene.
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Fit rebrands Beauty and the Bib baby company
Thu, 3 Feb 2011
Fit Creative has rebranded the Beauty and the Bib baby clothing company, creating a new logo, website, promotional materials and brand guidelines for the company.
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Fitch appoints Ed Bolton as design director
Tue, 8 Feb 2011
Ed Bolton has joined Fitch as one of its six design directors and will head up the consultancy’s London-based Dell global creative team.
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Fiver rebrands with Foreign Office idents
Fri, 4 Feb 2011
Channel Five’s digital sister channel, Fiver, is to rebrand to 5* next month, with a new logo and new branding designed in-house by the team at Northern & Shell, and refreshed idents by Foreign Office.
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Flatpack Festival
Tue, 8 Feb 2011
The trend for all things pop-up has spread to cinema this year, with a host of temporary and impromptu film screenings popping up all over the place.An audience from the first Flatpack Festival in 2006
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Font of knowledge
Mon, 28 Feb 2011
The streets of Paris were built on top of 170 miles of abandoned mines, now closed to the public but representing a rich source of hand-drawn typography carved into the walls over centuries by miners, engineers and trespassers.
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Full Pick Me Up line-up unveiled
Fri, 18 Feb 2011
Graphic art fair Pick Me Up has announced its 2011 line-up, which will see Anthony Burrill set up an ‘open studio’ as designer-in-residence. He will be joined by exhibitors including Rose Blake and Mr Bingo.
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Gensler pulls out the punches for Lord Mayor’s charity dinner
Fri, 11 Feb 2011
Architect Gensler has created the concept, interiors and branding for the Lord Mayor of the City of London’s Charity Appeal, Bear Necessities’ Gala Charity Dinner.
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Good times ahead
Mon, 21 Feb 2011
This morning, Transport for London unveiled a new artwork by Irish artist Eva Rothschild, which will adorn the Pocket Tube Map from March.
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Goosebumps to brand Danish city Aarhus
Tue, 22 Feb 2011
Branding consultancy Goosebumps has been appointed to create a global brand for Aarhus, Denmark’s second-largest city.
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Government to scrap PQQ stage in procurement
Fri, 11 Feb 2011
The Government is understood to be set to scrap pre-qualification questionnaires to make it easier for small and medium-sized companies to apply for Government contracts.
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Graven Images works on interiors for Kuwait Hotel Missoni
Thu, 17 Feb 2011
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Harrison creates Brighton Festival branding
Thu, 17 Feb 2011
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Heatherwick to forge Olympic cauldron
Mon, 21 Feb 2011
Heatherwick Studio has been appointed to work on the design of the Olympic cauldron at the London 2012 games.
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Heavenly brands new Sky Atlantic TV channel
Tue, 1 Feb 2011
Heavenly has created the name, branding, positioning and idents for new channel Sky Atlantic HD, which launches tonight.
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Home from home
Fri, 25 Feb 2011
What defines the British home - a battered armchair, an umbrella stand or perhaps a mug tree?
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Howdy rebrands The Queen’s Nursing Institute
Fri, 11 Feb 2011
Howdy has created a new identity for The Queen’s Nursing Institute, a charity dedicated to improving the nursing care of people in their own homes.
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Hyphen Design and anthropology professor work on ‘hunter’ man-bag
Fri, 25 Feb 2011
Hyphen Design and Geoffrey Beattie, professor of anthropology at Manchester University, have worked on the design of the ‘hunter’ man-bag concept, for shopping comparison site Kelkoo.
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I heart Milton Glaser
Thu, 10 Feb 2011
Art critic Alastair Sooke crossed the Atlantic to discover the story behind Milton Glaser’s iconic I love New York logo, for a programme that aired on BBC Radio 4 this morning.
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Ice House brands Tyntesfield National Trust property
Fri, 25 Feb 2011
Bath-based consultancy Ice House Design has created a new identity for National Trust property Tyntesfield, near Bristol, to coincide with renovations on the Victorian Gothic Revival house.
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If you're appy and you know it
Mon, 7 Feb 2011
Who says expensive technology is just for adults? Designer Matt Booth has created new app Crayate to allow creative children to get involved in the iPad phenomenon.
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Illustration totem
Wed, 16 Feb 2011
In the run up to character design festival Pictoplasma, which will be held in Berlin in April, illustration promoters Inkygoodness will be holding a live draw-off in three UK cities.
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Industrial Design Day to explore how design improves life
Thu, 3 Feb 2011
The fourth World Industrial Design Day - to be held on 29 June - will take the theme of Industrial Design: How Does it Improve Your Life?
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Innocent launches packaging by Family and Friends
Mon, 7 Feb 2011
Family and Friends has created carafe-style packaging for Innocent Drinks’ new not-from-concentrate juices.
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Inside architects' sketchbooks
Thu, 17 Feb 2011
Sketchbooks seem to be in vogue at the moment. After designers’ pads were thrown open for Steven Heller’s book Graphic last year, now architects are to have their working drawings exposed for a new book from Thames & Hudson.
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Inside Eden
Thu, 24 Feb 2011
Hardy delegates to next week’s Intersections conference in Cornwall will be spending the night under canvas in aid of charity Shelterbox, which provides emergency shelter and disaster relief.
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Irma Boom’s new Rijksmuseum identity
Tue, 28 Aug 2012
The new identity replaces Studio Dumbar’s 32-year-old logo.
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Island paradise
Mon, 6 Jun 2011
With the delusional hopes that summer was well and truly here abruptly dashed, words like ‘tropical’, ‘island’ and ‘paradise’ are all it takes to set off imaginary Daiquiri-fuelled reveries of escaping to a tropical paradise.
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James Greenfield joins Airside as creative director
Tue, 1 Feb 2011
Airside has appointed James Greenfield as its new creative director.
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JKR rebrands Standard Life
Mon, 7 Feb 2011
JKR has refreshed the visual identity for Standard Life savings, investment and pensions company, creating a new logo, a ‘holistic design system’ and repositioning the brand.
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Jon Barraclough redesigns Liverpool networking site
Mon, 21 Feb 2011
Jon Barraclough has worked on the redesign of Kin2Kin, a networking website for Liverpool’s creative community.
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KSS on target with new Brighton & Hove Albion identity
Tue, 15 Feb 2011
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Light festival seeks North East creatives
Fri, 11 Feb 2011
This year’s Lumiere festival of light in Durham has added a new commissioning programme - Brilliant - with a call for entries announced targeting creatives ‘originally form the North East of England’.
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Lightscapes
Tue, 8 Feb 2011
In a confusing couple of weeks for the DW blog, we’ve looked at a minibar for the mind; a mind (almost) literally full of silver; the ‘virtually real’ and the shape of language.
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Little black dress
Thu, 17 Feb 2011
It seems timely with London Fashion Week in full swing, that we heard about an exhibition dedicated to the staple item in any savvy woman’s wardrobe - the little black dress.
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Love blossoms
Tue, 8 Feb 2011
As shop fronts are adorned with red roses and hearts, commercial declarations of love are bought in the form of cards and chocolate – it can only mean the day of love is just around the corner.
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Mark Design creates Cabaret collateral
Thu, 10 Feb 2011
Mark Design has created the marketing materials for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art production of Cabaret at London’s Wilton’s Music Hall, tying in with Lamda’s 150-year anniversary.
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Memories
Fri, 11 Feb 2011
Cancer directly affects one in three people in the UK, so its not surprising that those who have been touched by the disease and its survivors are keen to use their skills to raise money for charities that work to fight it.
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Mentor team put together for Design Ventura
Fri, 4 Feb 2011
A mentoring team has been put in place to work with Year 10 pupils from Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham College in London, who have won the Design Museum’s Design Ventura initiative.
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Mindful of silver
Thu, 3 Feb 2011
Mindful of Silver, is a new exhibition by The Goldsmiths Company showcasing twelve silver vessels by leading British silversmiths.
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Narrative develops children’s homeware brand for John Lewis
Tue, 22 Feb 2011
London-based Narrative Studio has worked with John Lewis’ in-house design team to develop the company’s new children’s homeware brand Little Home.
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Nature Punk
Mon, 21 Feb 2011
Edwyn Collins’ illustration is all the more remarkable for being a skill re-learnt in just over five years, following a double brain hemorrhage sustained in 2005.
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New director for Cologne furniture fair
Thu, 3 Feb 2011
Frank Haubold has been appointed as director of the furniture fair IMM Cologne, which is run alongside trade fair Living Kitchen by Koelnmesse GMBH.
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New worlds
Tue, 15 Feb 2011
At a casual glance, Andrew Brooks’ arrestingly vivid, vibrant photographs appear to be simply beautifully shot scenes in very bold colours.
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Nikki Austen joins 300 Million as creative strategist
Mon, 28 Feb 2011
Former Body Shop global creative director Nikki Austen has joined consultancy 300 Million as creative strategist.
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Nowhere
Thu, 17 Feb 2011
The relationship between graphic art and music is typified by the work and career of Trevor Jackson – at once art director, graphic designer, moving image maker and music producer.
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Omer Arbel's Olympic project
Wed, 23 Feb 2011
Despite continuous commercial and critical success, the commission that brought Omer Arbel to global attention was the medals for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.
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On the record
Wed, 16 Feb 2011
Although we’re frankly sick to death of hearing about pop-up stores, popping up decidedly un-spontaneously at every available opportunity, we’ll make an exception for The Vinyl Factory.
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Ottolenghi to launch ‘glamorous’ Soho restaurant
Tue, 15 Feb 2011
Israel-based architect Alex Meitlis has created the ‘glamorous’ design for the interiors of chef Yotam Ottolenghi’s new restaurant, Nopi, which is set to open in London’s Soho.
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Over the pond
Fri, 4 Feb 2011
If you’re looking for a Trans-Atlantic perspective on branding and design, you could do worse than tune in to the new season of Design Matters podcasts from New York’s School of Visual Arts.
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Paper trail
Thu, 3 Feb 2011
We’ve had some interesting publications in the post bag over the last few days here at Design Week, so we thought we’d share with you some of our favourites.
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Pearlfisher creates ‘childlike’ sweet packaging
Thu, 24 Feb 2011
Pearlfisher has created new packaging for The Natural Confectionery Company, which aims to reflect a ‘childlike and inhibition-free curiosity in the world’.
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Pearlfisher repackages Heinz baby food
Tue, 8 Feb 2011
Pearlfisher has redesigned the packaging for the entire Heinz Infant Feeding portfolio of baby foods and has created a new packaging format for the new Taste of Home range.
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Plans for Free Range
Fri, 18 Feb 2011
Details are emerging on graduate show Free Range, which covers all design disciplines and returns to London’s The Old Truman Brewery this summer with a new moving image category and over forty-five participating UK universities exhibiting final project work.
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Port Magazine set to launch
Thu, 24 Feb 2011
New men’s magazine Port, designed by Matt Willey of Studio 8 and Kuchar Swara, is set to go on shelf next month.
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Posters by Saul Bass
Wed, 9 Feb 2011
The work of one of the last century’s most iconic designers, Saul Bass, will be exhibited at London’s Kemistry Gallery from next week.
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Precedent designs website for Newmarket
Thu, 24 Feb 2011
Precedent has created a new website for Newmarket Racecourses as the company looks to reposition itself as a destination for conferences, parties and events – as well as racing.
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Profile: Kelley Cheng
Wed, 9 Feb 2011
Kelley Cheng has been described by her peers as a ‘tour de force of Singaporean creativity’. A three-time Society of Publishers Asia award-winning editor and creative director, Kelley is also a published author whose coffee table books have appeared in ten languages. In addition she is a self-proclaimed pop culture junkie, who abandoned her architecture degree to become a full-time writer and photographer for ID magazine. Her subsequent 12 years in the industry has seen her publish ...
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Profile: Seam Lam
Wed, 9 Feb 2011
Sean Lam has been making digital waves in Singapore’s creative industry for more than 12 years. This is quite a feat in a country that has only truly begun to embrace art and design in the past five years. Lam’s childhood love of electronic games sparked his passion for the pixel, and when interaction design was offered as a course at Tamasek Polytechnic, Sean embraced the opportunity with both hands. When he graduated in 1998, the CD Rom market was on its way out, while the Internet ...
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Pro-logo versus no logo
Wed, 9 Feb 2011
Guest blogger Lloyd Northover co-founder John Lloyd joins the logo debate and argues that it still has a central role in brand building.
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Rebrand and new website for Scottish accountants
Tue, 8 Feb 2011
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland’s website is being redesigned by Realise Digital in a bid to increase user engagement as consultancy 17-7 works on a rebrand.
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SAVE 25% on the new Phaidon monograph, Hella Jongerius: Misfit
Fri, 25 Feb 2011
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Sheridan & Co’s pop-up shop for Clarins
Mon, 14 Feb 2011
Sheridan & Co design consultancy has created a pop-up shop for Clarins cosmetics brand, which opens this week in London’s West End.
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Shooting Rock
Thu, 10 Feb 2011
For many creative teenagers, being a music photographer is the dream job. Not only do you get to spend most of your time taking pictures but you get to follow your Rock idols around on tour just waiting for something exciting to kick off.
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Sixty seconds with La Boca
Fri, 25 Feb 2011
To coincide with La Boca’s exhibition at London’s Concrete Hermit Kingly Court, which opened last night, we caught up with La Boca co-founder Scot Bendall to talk about the company’s beginnings and last year’s sucesses.
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Spencer du Bois rebrands Alzheimer’s charity
Thu, 10 Feb 2011
Spencer du Bois has created a new name, strapline and visual identity for the Alzheimer’s Research Trust, which is becoming Alzheimer’s Research UK.
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Spinning a yarn
Mon, 14 Feb 2011
Opening this weekend, Yarnfest is a celebration of all things story related: a festival of film, theatre, music and literature where the imagination can run wild in a kaleidoscope of narrative fun.The Yarnfest poster
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Springetts brings ‘attitude and mischief’ to Crusha packs
Fri, 18 Feb 2011
Springetts has created new packaging designs for Crusha milk shake mix brand, adding more ‘attitude and mischief’ to the brand’s cat icon.
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Suisse brands IT company Tinder
Mon, 14 Feb 2011
Glasgow-based consultancy Suisse has created an identity for independent information technology company Tinder IT.
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Susan Hiller at Tate Britain
Tue, 8 Feb 2011
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The doodle bug
Wed, 2 Feb 2011
We’ve all been there: you look down at the end of a long phone call, dull meeting or bus journey and lo and behold, there’s an indecipherable biro scrawl of dots, love hearts, stars and whatever else happens to be lurking in depths of your psyche.A collection of doodles by Stina ...
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The end of an era
Fri, 18 Feb 2011
In a tough Friday morning on the Design Week newsdesk, we’ve been ludicrously busy watching small, endearing, enduring figurines - sheep on skateboards, a slim-legged cyclist gentleman and a volatile pirate.
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The future's Orange
Tue, 22 Feb 2011
Most people are well-versed in the recent history of Dutch design, with its lineage running from current stars including Tord Boontje and Droog, through to Koeweiden Postma from the ’80s onwards and Wim Crouwel, Ben Bos et al and their Total Design vision in the 1960s.
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The joys of spring
Mon, 14 Feb 2011
Some seasonal levity will be brought to London’s Berwick Street in Soho when Outline Editions unveils a series of spring themed graphic art commissions at its temporary gallery HQ.Landscape with Sunlight by Anthony Burrill
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The One Off styles Everything Everywhere stores
Thu, 10 Feb 2011
Communications company Everything Everywhere, which owns the T-Mobile and Orange brands, has announced it will trial a new branded store designed by The One Off, selling products from both brands.
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Tom Dixon to create Blackberry installation in Milan
Tue, 15 Feb 2011
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Tom Karen: a life in design
Mon, 7 Feb 2011
As one who spent his formative years careering down hills on a metallic-blue Raleigh Chopper, with quieter moments devoted to trying to construct a marble run that stretched from one side of the living room to the other, I can attest that the exhibition of work by Tom Karen opening in Cambridge this week seems to perfectly encapsulate an early-‘80s childhood.
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Trade bodies demand VAT clarification over direct mail
Mon, 7 Feb 2011
The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, the Direct Marketing Association and the British Printing Industries Federation are lobbying HM Revenue & Customs to seek clarification on VAT on printed marketing material - such as direct mail and mail inserts.
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Travelling through space
Wed, 23 Feb 2011
Hidden away near London’s Earl’s Court there’s a black vortex leading to other worlds. On entering it, you are sucked into a crack in time, before being flung into a living alien spacecraft and tasked with rescuing a man in tweed.
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Umbrella creates interactive radio exhibition
Thu, 3 Feb 2011
Umbrella Design is working on an interactive experience at Bletchley Park for the Radio Society of Great Britain, which aims to inspire a new generation of radio enthusiasts.
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University researchers develop ‘pedestrian-friendly’ car bonnet
Mon, 14 Feb 2011
Researchers at Anglia Ruskin University have worked with specialists from energy-absorption company Cellbond to develop a car bonnet design which they claim could cut the number of pedestrian deaths in car accidents.
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V&A seeks designer for flagship Futureplan project
Thu, 17 Feb 2011
The Victoria & Albert Museum in London is seeking a designer or architect to lead the refurbishment of its 17th- and 18th-century European galleries – a project it describes as a ‘flagship’ in its Futureplan programme.
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Values
Tue, 22 Feb 2011
You leave your hometown for five minutes and by the time you’re back, a superstore of mammoth proportions has sprung up at its heart, slowly but surely putting other local independents out of business.
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Virtually real
Thu, 3 Feb 2011
In an age of Facebook ‘friends’, airbrushing and CGI, the boundaries between the real and the virtual are becoming increasingly blurred.
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Waitrose picks up DBA Grand Prix award
Fri, 18 Feb 2011
The Waitrose graphic design and packaging team has picked up the Grand Prix at the Design Business Association 2011 Design Effectiveness Awards.
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Waitrose to roll out home delivery website
Fri, 25 Feb 2011
Waitrose is set to unveil a new home delivery online platform - designed by Grand Union - which the retailer says it has invested more than £10m in.
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Wednesday London designs Mr Porter website
Mon, 21 Feb 2011
Wednesday London has created Mr Porter, the men’s sister site to luxury clothing e-commerce and editorial fashion content site Net-A-Porter.
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Win eternal life
Tue, 15 Feb 2011
If (like certain members of my close family who shall remain anonymous) you find the rules of Monopoly and Cluedo a little too intellectually challenging, then it’s probably best to stay away from the British Museum on Thursday night.
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With Relish composes new look for Philharmonia Orchestra
Mon, 14 Feb 2011
With Relish has designed a new communications theme which will lead the Philharmonia Orchestra’s 2011/2012 season and shape the visual direction of future seasons.
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Wolff Olins works on Henleys Clothing rebrand
Fri, 18 Feb 2011
Wolff Olins has been appointed to rebrand Manchester-based fashion company Henleys Clothing, as the brand plans to open a further 20 stores.
