3 September 1998

Edward Briscoe Design has redesigned the graphics and bottle shape for Quilmes, an Argentinian beer which launches in Europe on Monday. The group also carried out strategic marketing work for

Merchant’s study of the annual report market makes interesting reading for the design community (see News Analysis, page 6). It isn’t just the extra workload created by more top companies

Television sometimes echoes the emotional rollercoaster of life, a theme which Ireland’s new independent channel, TV3, has taken to heart. London design consultancy Hobbins Sides based TV3’s on-screen idents on

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The work of 48 image-makers will feature in the 1999 series of stamps issued by the Royal Mail to celebrate the millennium. CDT Design came up with the concept for

A new chain of gift stores is due to launch in Manchester’s Trafford Centre this month, with interiors and branding created by Dalziel & Pow.

On 2-4 October the Brand Design Association (formerly the Package Design Council) will be hosting a conference on brand design and its role in corporate strategy. The event will be

Software manufacturer Quark is trying to buy a stake in Adobe Systems. Adobe has so far dismissed the proposal out of hand. Design Bridge has redesigned the brand identity for

Matthew Valentine’s article on young designers focusing on London-based consultancies (DW 14 August) addresses a problem that we, as a consultancy situated outside the M25, are familiar with. It is

Merchant’s latest handbook, which shows the impact design groups have on FTSE 250 companies, seems to substantiate design’s increasing status.

John Herbert Partnership, Lewis Moberly and Pentagram’s John McConnell have designed the first of what could be a new wave of in-store cafés for Boots The Chemists.

Food manufacturing group Campbells is to relaunch the Fray Bentos brand, with branding by design group Springpoint. – Fray Bentos is the leading canned hot meat brand in the UK.