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January 2011 Online

  • 999 opens Latvia office

    Mon, 24 Jan 2011

    999 Design has launched a new office in Latvia, to cater for Baltic companies seeking to develop products and services for the UK market.

  • A tasty brief

    Fri, 21 Jan 2011

    If the most creative thing you’ve ever done with a pizza is fashioning a rudimentary face from your fromage, it might be time for a rethink.

  • A&B Studio brands Love Live

    Wed, 5 Jan 2011

    A&B Studio has created a new identity for music curation and production company Love Live.

  • Ads to art

    Tue, 11 Jan 2011

    Famous orator, philosopher and all-round good guy Bill Cosby once said, ‘The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.’

  • Allies creates new Feng Sushi website

    Tue, 18 Jan 2011

    Allies has designed a new website for sushi restaurant Feng Sushi, incorporating online ordering and a community-based forum style, targeting its ‘niche following’ in a photo-heavy site.

  • Angry Birds, Boris bikes and iPad vie for Brit Insurance prize

    Mon, 17 Jan 2011

    The Apple iPad, the Angry Birds game and the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme in London are all on the shortlist for the 2011 Brit Insurance Design Awards.

  • Baroness Wilcox says Cabe announcement is ‘imminent’

    Thu, 27 Jan 2011

    Baroness Wilcox, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Business, Innovation and Skills, says an announcement on the future of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, which is expected to merge with the Design Council, is ‘imminent’.

  • BDI chief executive Maxine Horn to step down

    Fri, 7 Jan 2011

    Maxine Horn, the founder director of British Design Innovation, is to step down from her role as chief executive of the organisation.

  • Beautiful beats

    Tue, 25 Jan 2011

    Here at Design Week, we like a good infographic, and we’re quite partial to the odd VJ set too. So it was with great pleasure that we received word of Rehab Studio’s live motion graphics project for Last FM.Rehab Studio’s live data visuals

  • Best of British

    Wed, 19 Jan 2011

    The Southbank Centre has announced details of its 60th birthday celebrations, which will take the shape of a homage to the 1951 Festival of Britain.

  • Blackpool to get redesigned trams

    Tue, 11 Jan 2011

    Blackpool Council has revealed designs for the town’s new trams, which will begin service at Easter 2012.

  • Bricks and paper

    Wed, 12 Jan 2011

    Whether it’s appearances at London Fashion Week in the form of artworks by Wayne Hemingway or working with directors Blue Source on a film for the marvelous Lego Click website, the team at Lego can spot a good collaboration when they see one.The new Muji and Lego collaboration

  • Brothers in arms

    Tue, 25 Jan 2011

    Thankfully, the significance of the term ‘love that dare not speak its name’ has been somewhat watered down since its 19th century inception.

  • Caffeinated rebrand or misplaced froth?

    Thu, 13 Jan 2011

    After the dust has settled on the recent Starbucks rebrand, guest blogger Simon Manchipp, co-founder of Someone, gives a lengthy analysis of the move and argues that Starbucks may have missed a trick.

  • Cambridge Design Partnership creates oxygen generator for MoD

    Fri, 14 Jan 2011

    Cambridge Design Partnership has developed a prototype oxygen generator to administer oxygen to military casualties on the frontline.

  • Campaign Design creates Kirk Originals store

    Thu, 20 Jan 2011

    Glasses brand Kirk Originals is to open its flagship store in London with interior design by Campaign Design.

  • Centres for caring

    Fri, 21 Jan 2011

    The Victoria & Albert Museum and the Royal Institute of British Architects Architecture Gallery will host an exhibition next month dedicated to the design behind Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres. Design Week caught up with Maggie’s chief executive Laura Lee and exhibition co-curator Matthew Storey to talk about the design behind the centres.

  • Channel 4’s T4 in design overhaul

    Fri, 7 Jan 2011

    Channel 4’s youth programming series T4 will unveil a design overhaul tomorrow with a set of 20 new robot-themed idents and on-screen graphics by Double G Studios and set design by Rudi Thackray.

  • Chick flicks

    Wed, 19 Jan 2011

    As Sheila’s Wheels, Sex and the City and that hideous, snivelling Boots advert all amply demonstrate, even in 2011, women are still all-too often viewed as pink obsessed, shoe obsessed martyrs to their (barf) ‘other half’.

  • Competition set to launch to brand Mumbai

    Mon, 24 Jan 2011

    Authorities in Mumbai, India, are set to launch a competition to brand the city, according to reports in the Indian press.

  • Criminal genius

    Wed, 12 Jan 2011

    It’s an advertiser’s wet dream: you mention something casually online, and by the end of the day it’s amassed 10 000 tweets, tens of thousands of Facebook likes and 90 000 unique visitors to your website.

  • David Carroll rebrands engineer Max Fordham

    Fri, 14 Jan 2011

    David Carroll & Co has created a new identity, website and print collateral for  engineering company Max Fordham.

  • David Collins creates interiors for new Marcus Wareing restaurant

    Mon, 24 Jan 2011

    David Collins studio is working on interiors for Marcus Wareing’s restaurant, The Gilbert Scott, which will be located within London’s St Pancras Renaissance Hotel.

  • Definition conditions

    Thu, 20 Jan 2011

    How would you describe the objects pictured below?

  • Design group Dave wins trademark tussle against TV channel

    Mon, 31 Jan 2011

    TV channel Dave may be forced to change its name after branding consultancy Dave prevented it from registering the title as a trademark.

  • Design House brands Ladbrokes snooker tournament

    Mon, 10 Jan 2011

    Design House has created the identity for the Ladbrokes Mobile Masters Snooker Tournament, which runs at Wembley Arena until 16 January.

  • Design Indaba: Inspiration

    Tue, 1 Mar 2011

    ‘Africa is not just a place, it’s a state of mind.’ So said Pentagram partner Michael Beirut last week as he kicked off a session at Cape Town’s Design Indaba, at which he was a mediator.

  • Design Week Top 100 open for entries

    Mon, 24 Jan 2011

    Applications are now open for the 2011 Design Week Top 100 Consultancy Survey.

  • Design Week Top 100 open for entries

    Thu, 20 Jan 2011

    Applications are now open for the 2011 Design Week Top 100 Consultancy Survey.

  • Digital signage use quadruples in three years, report shows

    Mon, 31 Jan 2011

    The number of shops using digital signage has quadrupled since 2007, according to a survey commissioned by LG Electronics.

  • Dressing Green

    Mon, 31 Jan 2011

    Perhaps unfairly, the idea of eco-fashion still conjures up images Levellers-loving crusty types sporting hemp shoes and earrings crafted of fairy dust, acid flashbacks and  Somerset dew.

  • Dubai Lynx launches design category

    Fri, 7 Jan 2011

    The Dubai Lynx international advertising festival is launching a design category this year, with the jury to be chaired by Rodney Fitch.

  • Editor's blog

    Thu, 27 Jan 2011

    What do you think about when you think of England? A thrusting creative force on the world stage? A dodgy football team? A cricket side that too often leaves fans with their hearts in their mouths? Or plain old jam and Jerusalem?

  • Electrolux launches ‘intelligent mobility’ design challenge

    Fri, 7 Jan 2011

    The Electrolux Design Lab 2011 competition is inviting industrial design students and recent industrial design graduates to submit ideas that consider intelligent mobility within home appliances.

  • Elmwood’s Jonathan Sands receives OBE

    Wed, 5 Jan 2011

    Elmwood chairman Jonathan Sands has received an OBE in the New Year’s Honours List.

  • Erasmus repackages Relentless energy drink

    Thu, 20 Jan 2011

    Erasmus Partners has revamped the packaging of Coca-Cola owned energy drink brand Relentless, accompanying the launch of the new Libertus sugar-free variety.

  • Face to face

    Wed, 19 Jan 2011

    Consultancy 85Four has taken a personal approach for an exhibition it has organised with homeless charity The Passage to mark the organisation’s 30th anniversary.Source: Charlotte DraycottAnthony Andrews by Charlotte ...

  • Faces behind the talent

    Tue, 18 Jan 2011

    Creative types really can be a mysterious bunch. If, like us, you’ve often pondered about the personality and the face behind the artwork, design or photograph, Porte Magazine is here to help.

  • Fierce

    Fri, 7 Jan 2011

    For the uninitiated, Fierce Festival conjures images of, say, Lil’ Kim and Beyonce forming a super-group chastising men for not ‘putting a ring on it’; an achingly fabulous Pride after-party or perhaps some kind of blinged up, divatastic street dance spectacular.

  • Floating pontoon wins London planning awards

    Fri, 21 Jan 2011

    A mile-long floating pontoon concept for the River Thames, created by architect Gensler, has won the London Mayor’s annual London Planning Award.

  • Former Red Bee staffers launch Wonder

    Mon, 10 Jan 2011

    Two former senior creatives at Red Bee Media have launched new consultancy Wonder, which will specialise in on-screen branding.

  • From Tokyo with love

    Mon, 24 Jan 2011

    With its tantalising mixture of futuristic technology and Eastern tradition, Tokyo is a place that has often captured the imagination - and hearts - of creative people.

  • From Vegas with love

    Fri, 7 Jan 2011

    Fascinated by neon signs and old postcards, artists Rob and Nick Carter have created a body of work fusing their two passions for an exhibition opening at the FAS Contemporary at The Fine Art Society, London.by Rob and Nick Carter

  • Full of energy

    Mon, 10 Jan 2011

    In what could be the finest line-up of interactive exhibits of 2011, the Architectural Association is bringing a time machine, a giant self-balancing mechanism and an impossible pinball machine to London this month.

  • Future Map 10

    Fri, 14 Jan 2011

    Future Map, the annual survey show from the University of Arts London, opened yesterday at Zabludowicz Collection in London’s Chalk Farm.

  • Giving up

    Tue, 11 Jan 2011

    Following our blog about inspiring New Year’s resolutions yesterday, Ded Associates sent us this project that it has been working on for Dutch foundation Stivoro, which helps people give up smoking.

  • Graphic design history

    Fri, 28 Jan 2011

    ‘I Don’t Know Where I’m Going But I Want To Be There: The Expanding Field of Graphic Design 1900-2020,’ shouts the monochrome typographic cover of a new book in the discipline.The cover

  • Gregor Muir appointed as ICA executive director

    Tue, 11 Jan 2011

    The Institute of Contemporary Arts has appointed Gregor Muir as its executive director.

  • Holmes & Marchant and Hurricane redesign Vimto packs

    Tue, 11 Jan 2011

    Soft drink Vimto has started to roll out the first in a series of overhauled packaging, with the main redesign by Holmes & Marchant and a structural bottle design by Hurricane Design.

  • If brands rugby event

    Thu, 13 Jan 2011

    If has created branding for the Rugby at the Reebok Sale Sharks v London Irish match in April, including designing a logo and posters and creating a direct mail and online campaign.

  • In fashion

    Tue, 18 Jan 2011

    London’s Dover Street Market is a hub of innovative and unusual fashion, but just as the collections chang,e so do the interior spaces.

  • Jason Bruges creates digital water feature

    Fri, 28 Jan 2011

    Jason Bruges Studio has designed the world’s first digital water feature for the Westfield shopping centre in Stratford, east London.

  • JPA creates Oman Air lounges

    Fri, 28 Jan 2011

    Interior design consultancy JPA has worked on first-class and business-class lounges for Oman Air at Muscat International Airport.

  • Just a minute

    Thu, 27 Jan 2011

    It’s true that in today’s world, a minute really is often all we have. Multitasking and microblogging are the symptoms of an era where time is certainly a premium.

  • Kinetica fair to explore digital art

    Tue, 18 Jan 2011

    A percussive penguin; a dead bird attached to a light bulb; an enormous robotic bull-type figure and a performance artist constructing an extra ear on his forearm are just a few of the exhibits on show at next month’s Kinetica Art Fair.

  • Laura Cretara designs unified currency coin

    Thu, 27 Jan 2011

    A new coin struck by The Royal Mint will be unveiled at the World Money Fair in Berlin on Saturday.

  • Lee Broom to open first shop

    Thu, 20 Jan 2011

    Interior and product designer Lee Broom is to launch his first shop in London’s Chelsea next month.

  • Legends

    Fri, 14 Jan 2011

    The word ‘legend’ has been irritatingly appropriated of late. Make someone a cup of tea? You’re a legend.  Mrs Doubtfire? Legendary. Make that noise where it sounds like a fart coming out of your armpit? Yup, in today’s (mostly teenage) vernacular, you’re a legend.

  • LFH patents ink-saving production process

    Tue, 11 Jan 2011

    Design consultancy LFH has received a European Technical Patent for Chapter 1, a production process that can reduce the number of ink colours needed to print brand packaging.

  • Light and shadows

    Mon, 17 Jan 2011

    Cameraless photography seems to be having a renaissance this year, with the Shadown Catchers exhibtion becoming a hit at the Victoria & Albert Museum and numerous pinhole photography projects popping up across the country.

  • Light graffiti

    Thu, 20 Jan 2011

    Whether you’re a graffiti enthusiast (or even artist); a Banksy book for the coffee-table type or  ‘exasperated by wall-scribbles of Godalming’, there’s no doubt of the merits of the Light Tag project.

  • Maison and Objet

    Wed, 5 Jan 2011

    The post-Christmas period can be a very depressing time indeed. To accompany the Turkey bloat and hangovers, there are all those well-intentioned resolutions taunting you to break them before the first week of January is over.

  • Margate puts new identity to the public vote

    Mon, 31 Jan 2011

    Margate is launching a new identity ahead of the opening of the Turner Contemporary gallery in April. The identity’s final appearance is to be decided by an online public vote.

  • Mark Elwood to join Fallon breakaway 101

    Thu, 20 Jan 2011

    Fallon partner and head of art Mark Elwood is set to join new consultancy 101, alongside former colleagues from Fallon.

  • Minibar for the mind

    Wed, 26 Jan 2011

    Imagine it: a minibar for the mind, somewhere to quench epistemological thirst, binge on intellect, inspiration and ideas and then settle a bill for it.

  • Misfit

    Mon, 31 Jan 2011

    Dutch designer Hella Jongerius publishes a new monograph this month, designed by fellow Dutch designer Irma Boom.

  • Northumbria University in RSA design tie-up

    Mon, 24 Jan 2011

    Northumbria University’s School of Design is launching a partnership with the North East Regional Network of the Royal Society of Arts that will aim to set up projects to tackle social issues.

  • Number one record

    Wed, 5 Jan 2011

    Album art is still a coveted canvas for many graphic designers despite the decline of record sales, and the annual Art Vinyl competition is one of its biggest champions.

  • Office for Subversive Architecture to transform Cube Gallery with installation

    Tue, 18 Jan 2011

    Office for Subversive Architecture is working on an installation for the Cube, Centre for the Urban Built Environment gallery in Manchester, which will organically grow until it extends out of the gallery and on to the street.

  • On a bowl

    Wed, 26 Jan 2011

    The dude - Jeff Bridges’ character in the 1998 Coen brothers’ film The Big Lebowski - would be all over the next exhibition at London’s Barbican Art Gallery.

  • Open Planet Ideas evaluation

    Fri, 14 Jan 2011

    Over the past few months, we’ve been sharing with you the progress of Open Planet Ideas, a crowdsourcing concept from WWF and Sony based on the broad question, ‘How can today’s technology help us make the most of our planet’s resources?’.

  • Origin Creative works on Foo-Go rebrand

    Fri, 7 Jan 2011

    Origin Creative has been appointed to refresh the branding for sandwich and convenience food company Foo-Go.

  • Parliamentary Design Commission set up

    Fri, 21 Jan 2011

    The Associate Parliamentary Design and Innovation Group has set up a Design Commission to promote design to Government.

  • Path redesigns Campbell’s soup

    Mon, 17 Jan 2011

    Path Design has re-branded Campbell’s products ahead of a UK relaunch this week.

  • Photography's new directions

    Wed, 5 Jan 2011

    With digital techniques for manipulating photographs becoming more and more advanced in recent years, how and why photography is used by artists is rapidly changing.  

  • Positive works on digital projects for Saïd Business School

    Fri, 21 Jan 2011

    Bristol-based digital consultancy Positive has been appointed by the University of Oxford as the official digital partner for the Saïd Business School.

  • Poster girl

    Mon, 31 Jan 2011

    For those that haven’t been to Bristol, Broadmead is the somewhat run-down city centre shopping district which inspired Matt Lucas to write the Vicky Pollard sketch in TV comedy Little Britain.

  • Private investment in culture drops by 3 per cent, research shows

    Thu, 27 Jan 2011

    New figures from organisation Arts & Business show that private investment in culture in the UK has fallen by 3 per cent year-on-year, to stand at £658m in 2009-10.

  • Pupils awarded Design Museum prize

    Fri, 28 Jan 2011

    Year 10 pupils from Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham College in London have won the Design Museum’s Design Ventura initiative – and will see the bunting they designed sold in the Design Museum shop.

  • Puzzle time

    Tue, 25 Jan 2011

    A lot can happen in a year, especially when the Internet is involved. It’s with this in mind that digital agency Syzygy UK teamed up with illustrator McBess to create this puzzle.

  • Restaurant residency

    Fri, 28 Jan 2011

    While Mexican food is probably more associated with Britney Spears’ infamously dark Taco Bell days than art, El Paso in east London is set to change that.

  • Rocking horse and blue cockerel to grace Fourth Plinth

    Fri, 14 Jan 2011

    Mayor of London Boris Johnson has unveiled a rocking horse and a blue cockerel as the winning Fourth Plinth designs for Trafalgar Square, London, in 2012 and 2013. 

  • Saffron brands West Bengal

    Fri, 28 Jan 2011

    Saffron has designed an identity system for the West Bengal regional government in India, with variants for a range of government initiatives and community stakeholders in what the consultancy has considered to be ‘a place-branding project’.

  • Sapient Nitro works on AA and Saga websites

    Wed, 5 Jan 2011

    Sapient Nitro will redesign websites for the AA and Saga after being retained by Acromas Holdings, which owns both brands.

  • Shape my language

    Wed, 26 Jan 2011

    Type geeks will be particularly pleased with the latest installation at London’s Design Museum café and atrium.

  • Shaw & Skerm works on Mind charity event materials

    Fri, 21 Jan 2011

    Consultancy Shaw & Skerm is working on events promotional material for mental health charity Mind and has developed the tagline Move Your Mind, for fundraising events.

  • Silver brands eco-friendly phone network

    Thu, 13 Jan 2011

    Cheltenham-based consultancy Silver Worldwide has created the branding for green mobile network operator C Mobile.

  • Small but perfectly formed

    Mon, 24 Jan 2011

    They say the best things come in small packages. While there may be a few exceptions, new book Very Small Cafés and Restaurants, by John Stones, demonstrates just how outstanding even the teeniest establishments can become with clever design. Almost all of the 40 projects featured measure less than 150 square metres.

  • Snapping the streets

    Thu, 27 Jan 2011

    Next month, the Museum of London launches the first exhibition of its kind dedicated to photography which captures the streets of London.

  • Start creates interactive shoe wall for Adidas

    Mon, 17 Jan 2011

    Start Creative has designed a 3D interactive touchscreen shoe wall for Adidas operated on new Intel hardware, which may be showcased in UK Adidas stores next year.

  • Still waters run deep

    Mon, 17 Jan 2011

    Dutch rising star Pieke Bergmans will hold an exhibition of quirky and fluid glass pieces, called Still Waters Run Deep, at Amsterdam’s Art Affairs Gallery.

  • Tandem wins Dunluce Castle exhibition contract

    Mon, 10 Jan 2011

    Tandem Design has won an exhibition design and wayfinding contract for the ruins of 14th-century Dunluce Castle and its outbuildings in Northern Ireland.

  • Tayburn works on website for Daisy telecoms group

    Mon, 10 Jan 2011

    Tayburn has been appointed to develop and redesign the website for telecoms company Daisy.

  • The best intentions

    Mon, 10 Jan 2011

    For many, the positive aspirations of the first week of January have dissolved, just like the snow. But for those who are still going, we thought we’d share two projects to inspire and hopefully keep you on the straight and narrow.

  • The boy in the oak

    Thu, 13 Jan 2011

    Jessica Albarn, illustrator and author of children’s book The Boy In The Oak, is adapting her novel into a short film narrated by Jude Law with a soundtrack by brother Damon Albarn.A still from The Boy in the Oak

  • The culture of ideas

    Fri, 21 Jan 2011

    Graphic designer Rian Hughes has stepped away from the more visual subject of two of his previous publications, Custom Lettering of the 60s and 70s and Lifestyle Illustration of the 60s, for a new book addressing the relationship between culture and ideas.

  • The days ahead

    Fri, 7 Jan 2011

    In a similar vein to our Christmas creative posts last year, we bring you some of our favourite 2011 calendars that design consultancies have created both for clients and themselves.

  • The joy of living

    Mon, 24 Jan 2011

    London Design Guide editor Max Fraser has challenged more than 100 established and new UK-based designers to create a piece of artwork from a single sheet of A4 graph paper to raise money for Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres.

  • The ride of your life

    Wed, 12 Jan 2011

    At best a journey on London Underground can be an efficient way of getting from A to B, at worst, it can be a not-so-private hell, full of delays, cramped conditions and body odour.

  • Think Public works on Barnet prototyping system

    Thu, 13 Jan 2011

    Think Public has been working with Barnet Council to develop a new prototyping system that can be used to build new public services.

  • Through the keyhole

    Thu, 6 Jan 2011

    Curiosity may have killed the cat but it certainly made an interesting book in the shape of Francesca Gavin’s Creative Space.

  • Tokens of affection

    Thu, 20 Jan 2011

    Condom machines are not exactly the most romantic objects in the world. Reminiscent of furtive glances to see who’s looking, or, perhaps, furtive rendezvous where you’re not too fussed who’s looking; they may not provide the ideal symbol for Valentine’s Day gifts.Fraser Hamilton’s ring

  • Tom Dixon designs new restaurant for Royal Academy

    Wed, 5 Jan 2011

    Tom Dixon has led the team at Design Research Studio to design the new restaurant for the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

  • Translucency in clay

    Thu, 13 Jan 2011

    Contemporary Applied Arts is exhibiting work by talented ceramicists Margaret O’Rourke and Andrea Walsh as part of exhibition Translucency in Clay at Circus in London’s Marylebone.

  • Under the hammer

    Mon, 10 Jan 2011

    The Photographers’ Gallery is to hold a charity auction at Christie’s South Kensington site in mid February.

  • University of Worcester seeks design groups

    Fri, 14 Jan 2011

    The University of Worcester is launching a graphic design tender for two projects starting this July and spanning two years.

  • Vaughan Oliver nominated for Grammy Award

    Tue, 18 Jan 2011

    Graphic designer Vaughan Oliver has been nominated for a Grammy Award for the artwork he has produced for the Pixies’ Minotaur Deluxe Edition box set.

  • We want to be modern

    Fri, 28 Jan 2011

    The National Museum in Warsaw launches a fascinating exhibition next week that will cover the country’s design history during the ‘post-thaw’ period of 1955 to 1968.

  • What happens in Vegas

    Thu, 6 Jan 2011

    Just like everything else in Las Vegas, the International Consumer Electronics Show is colossally proportioned.

  • Which craft

    Tue, 11 Jan 2011

    Guest blogger Steve Price, of Plan B Studio, reflects on the need for basic design skills and craft know-how despite developments in technology

  • Will you top the list?

    Mon, 17 Jan 2011

    It’s that time of year to pull out your financial figures and prepare them for the annual Top 100 consultancy survey.

  • Wiltshire Design Network launches

    Mon, 31 Jan 2011

    The Wiltshire Design Network is looking to put a management and organisational structure in place following its launch.

  • Window of opportunity

    Mon, 28 Feb 2011

    If you’ve ever wondered what really goes on inside an artist’s studio, The Hoxton Window project gives you the perfect excuse to unashamedly unleash your inner peeping Tom.

  • Yellowdoor takes on Clarks Originals rebrand

    Thu, 27 Jan 2011

    Yellowdoor has been appointed to rebrand Clarks Originals for the spring/summer 2011 range, creating a campaign aiming to emphasise the brand’s ‘individuality’ and collaboration with music.

  • Zip creates Aston Martin app

    Thu, 13 Jan 2011

    Zip Design has designed an Aston Martin Experience app for the luxury car manufacturer, which consultancy creative director Neil Bowen says will use phone technology in a completely new way.

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