Design Week
March 2011 Online
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A modern 'rime'
Mon, 21 Mar 2011
One of the most pleasing publications to come through the Design Week post bag as of late is The Rime of the Modern Mariner by Nick Hayes.
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Alienation Digital overhauls Bath University websites
Fri, 11 Mar 2011
Bath University has turned to Alienation Digital to overhaul its portfolio of websites following a tender involving more than 80 consultancies.
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Alphabet street
Thu, 3 Mar 2011
Graffiti artist Claudia Walde commissioned a collection of original lettering to show the world the unsung genius that exists on the street
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Amanda Levete to design V&A extension
Mon, 28 Mar 2011
The Victoria & Albert Museum has named Amanda Levete Architects as winner of its Exhibition Road development competition.
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Art at Latitude
Tue, 15 Mar 2011
Dolls’ hair sculptures; suspended internally lit spheres; spectral shapes in glass; spaces in which to reflect on witch-hunts of centuries gone by…..
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Artillery creates titles for chart music show
Fri, 18 Mar 2011
Artillery has designed a new title sequence for The Week’s Fresh Music Top 20, a chart show that will now be shown on Box Television and Channel 4.
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As One creates caring identity for Salvere
Mon, 21 Mar 2011
Cheshire-based design consultancy As One has created a new identity, website and print materials for Salvere Social Enterprise CIC, an organisation which provides care support solutions for elderly people with disabilities.
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Barber Osgerby to design London Olympic torch
Tue, 1 Mar 2011
Barber Osgerby has been appointed to design the London 2012 Olympic torch.
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BBC cuts creative services roster to four groups
Tue, 8 Mar 2011
The BBC has acted on its intention to slash its creative services roster, reducing the number of preferred groups from nine to four.
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Blacksheep creates interiors for restaurant and wine store
Thu, 3 Mar 2011
Blacksheep is working on interiors for Galoupet, a new restaurant and wine store for the owners of the Chateau du Galoupet French vineyard in London’s Knightsbridge.
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Blacksheep goes clubbing in India
Mon, 21 Mar 2011
Blacksheep has created the interiors for Indian nightclub Kismet, which is due to open within Hyderabad’s Park Hotel, designed by SOM architects.
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Blue Marlin brands new Sensodyne product
Thu, 10 Mar 2011
Blue Marlin has designed on-pack graphics and holographic packaging for a new GlaxoSmithKline product, Sensodyne Repair and Protect.
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Blue Marlin repackages So Be Pure Rush for UK launch
Tue, 1 Mar 2011
Blue Marlin has redesigned the packaging for Pepsi Co’s So Be Pure Rush energy drink for its UK launch.
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Bob Books
Fri, 4 Mar 2011
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Bound
Mon, 21 Mar 2011
Opening next week at the new All Visual Arts gallery in London’s Kings Cross is Bound, a show that looks to be as terrifying as it is beautiful.
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Budget promises economy-boosting measures
Thu, 24 Mar 2011
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has delivered the Budget 2011 with an emphasis on boosting the economy through reducing Corporation Tax, simplifying the tax system and exempting start-ups from domestic regulation.
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Carmody Groarke wins Frieze Art Fair task
Mon, 14 Mar 2011
Carmody Groarke has been appointed as the architect for this year’s Frieze Art Fair in London’s Regent’s Park.
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Changing faces
Tue, 1 Mar 2011
‘Powder Train means a combination of ideas - it’s all about collaboration,’ says Alisa Connan, one half of Ant & Co, who is behind the Powder Train exhibition opening this week.
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Civic Trust Awards recognise V&A and Norwich Cathedral
Mon, 7 Mar 2011
A total of seven Special Awards have been given out at the Civic Trust Awards, with winning projects including the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Medieval and Renaissance Galleries by Muma, and Norwich Cathedral Visitors Centre by Hopkins Architects.
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Click into action
Thu, 3 Mar 2011
Paul Frigout’s Green Book proposal, a platform for getting people to become actively involved in environmental causes, emerges as the winner of Sony’s Open Planet Ideas crowdsourcing challenge
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Conran to design M&S homeware range
Thu, 24 Mar 2011
Conran & Company has been appointed to design a range of contemporary homeware for Marks & Spencer, which will be available in store from September.
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Creative Portsmouth
Tue, 15 Mar 2011
University of Portsmouth lecturer Claire Sambrook has masterminded a book to raise the creative profile of Portsmouth and showcase talent in the city.
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CSD changes bylaws in bid to set up register
Tue, 8 Mar 2011
The Chartered Society of Designers says it is to amend its bylaws as part of its ambition to set up a register of chartered designers.
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CSD marks anniversary with new identity
Tue, 29 Mar 2011
The Chartered Society of Designers has unveiled a new visual identity to mark its 80th anniversary and a major strategic review.
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Cube 3 to rebrand Charterhouse property firm
Fri, 4 Mar 2011
Manchester-based consultancy Cube 3 has been appointed to rebrand London property developer Charterhouse.
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Cure Studios brands Greenwich Summer Sessions
Fri, 11 Mar 2011
Cure Studio has created new branding for Greenwich Summer Sessions, an open-air concert series based in London.
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D&AD launches Graduate Academy
Tue, 15 Mar 2011
D&AD is launching the Graduate Academy initiative, which aims to help design graduates find work and gain industry experience.
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David Jones cooks up Goud Heerlijk identity
Tue, 22 Mar 2011
David Jones Design has created the brand for a new Netherlands-based café, retail and deli concept Goud Heerlijk.
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Deborah Dawton takes over as president of Beda
Mon, 14 Mar 2011
Design Business Association chief executive Deborah Dawton has taken the helm as president of the Bureau of European Design Associations.
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Design Commission launches education investigation
Thu, 10 Mar 2011
The Design Commission is launching an investigation into design education, which will examine its importance to economic growth, public-service renewal and wellbeing.
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Design Council seeks new trustees following Cabe merger
Tue, 22 Mar 2011
The Design Council is looking to appoint five or six new trustees to join a ‘trust board’ following its merger with the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment that takes effect from 1 April.
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Design for monkeys
Wed, 30 Mar 2011
A black and white hippo layered on top of a Milky Way background, with a lime green laser grid on top. Does this space-age kook sound familiar?
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Design organisations hit by Arts Council cuts
Thu, 31 Mar 2011
The Crafts Council and the London Design Festival have both had their funding reduced following a review of Arts Council England grants.
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Design Week Awards winners set to be unveiled
Tue, 8 Mar 2011
The winners of the 2011 Design Week Awards are set to be announced tonight.
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Designing Demand continues with Government backing
Mon, 21 Mar 2011
The Government says it will continue to provide financial support for the Designing Demand programme, set up by the Design Council.
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Dragon Rouge rebrands Finnish paper company
Tue, 1 Mar 2011
Dragon Rouge has undertaken a full brand review and designed a new identity for Helsinki-based paper manufacturer Ahlstrom.
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DWHD creates collateral for City Year London charity
Tue, 29 Mar 2011
DWHD has designed an awareness brochure for new charity City Year London and created a website for a photography exhibition promoting the charity.
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EB and flow
Fri, 11 Mar 2011
Next month sees the opening of EB & Flow, a new gallery in London’s Shoreditch which will see two floors of a former print works (formerly the Vice offices, no less) converted into a showcase for emerging artists.
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Editor's blog
Mon, 7 Mar 2011
It’s very easy in these straitened times to just get your head down and do the work. It’s about winning projects and pulling out the stops to service clients.
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Editor's blog
Mon, 28 Mar 2011
Lynda Relph-Knight’s perspective on the week
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Entries open for Inclusive Design Challenge
Thu, 10 Mar 2011
This year’s Inclusive Design Challenge, organised by the Helen Hamlyn Centre at the Royal College of Art, is currently accepting entries for the 24-hour-challenge, which will take place on 18 April.
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Eurostar launches sculpted new branding by Someone
Tue, 29 Mar 2011
Eurostar has unveiled its new branding, created by Someone, which is based around a brand sculpture that can be applied to different touchpoints.
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Feilden Fowles redesigns art gallery Calvert 22
Thu, 24 Mar 2011
Feilden Fowles has redesigned the Calvert 22 contemporary Eastern European and Russian art gallery in east London.
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Form to open Design Events department
Fri, 25 Mar 2011
London-based consultancy Form is to open a new department specialising in design projects for the events industry.
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Foxall designs new fashion title Ponystep
Mon, 7 Mar 2011
Fashion industry blog Ponystep has launched as a print magazine with design by Foxall.
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Fun at the fair
Thu, 17 Mar 2011
London graphic art fair Pick Me Up opened last night at London’s Somerset House. Here’s a peek at what you can expect from the show if you pop down over the next fortnight.
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Future Brand creates ‘export icon’ for Peru
Tue, 15 Mar 2011
Future Brand has created a new brand for South American country Peru, designing an identity that will be principally used as a trade icon on exported goods.
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Geffrye Museum seeks architect for new building
Fri, 18 Mar 2011
The Geffrye Museum in London is looking for an architect to work on the development of a new building as part of its The Museum of the Home project.
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Government Communications Centre to replace COI
Fri, 18 Mar 2011
A new Government Communications Centre that would replace the Central Office of Information has been proposed.
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Hand-drawn maps
Wed, 2 Mar 2011
Would-be cartographers have produced 11 hand-drawn maps for a new Museum of London exhibition charting their own perceptions of London.Source: Anika MottershawMap of London
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Heroes
Tue, 29 Mar 2011
Who would you name as a modern day hero? Aung San Suu Kyi perhaps, or maybe your nan?
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Holmes & Marchant cooks up ‘vintage’ look for Pork Farms
Tue, 8 Mar 2011
Holmes & Marchant has created a new identity for Pork Farms, which will roll out across the brand’s range of pork pies, sausage rolls and snacks.
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Home of the future
Thu, 17 Mar 2011
Is this what the home of the future is going to look like?Inside the dome
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Howell Penny in ABC rebrand
Tue, 22 Mar 2011
Howell Penny has created a new identity for the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
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Imagination works on Olympics brief for Asics
Fri, 11 Mar 2011
Imagination has been appointed to create a London 2012 Olympics hospitality and brand showcase venue for sports brand Asics, aiming to convey the brand’s message and its design innovations.
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It's not me...
Thu, 3 Mar 2011
Guest blogger Steve Price, of Plan B Studio, reflects on making the difficult decision to sack a client.
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Jack Morton opens Singapore office
Tue, 15 Mar 2011
Branding consultancy Jack Morton Worldwide has opened an office in Singapore to meet demand from clients in the country and the rest of Asia.
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Jane Geraghty to join Landor as London MD
Fri, 11 Mar 2011
Jane Geraghty, managing director of Naked Communications, is set to join Landor Associates as managing director of the WPP consultancy’s London office.
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Landor brands Manchester city-centre quarter Noma
Thu, 10 Mar 2011
Landor has created the name and identity for Noma, an 8ha development in Manchester city centre led by The Co-operative Group.
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Lib Dem rebrand mooted
Mon, 28 Mar 2011
The Liberal Democrats are planning to rebrand following waning public support, reports suggest.
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Margate gets a new identity
Mon, 28 Mar 2011
The final identity for Kent seaside town Margate has been unveiled, following an online public vote held earlier this year to decide on its appearance.
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Mazda launches brand-led campaign with WPP groups
Mon, 7 Mar 2011
WPP digital consultancy Syzygy has created a website for car company Mazda as part of a brand campaign worked up with other WPP groups.
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MPs say public spending cuts could be ‘disastrous’ for the arts
Mon, 28 Mar 2011
A ‘double-whammy’ of local authority cutbacks and spending reductions from the Arts Council could force arts organisations across the country to close, MPs have warned.
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Neri & Hu to put ‘low key-luxury’ on the menu
Fri, 25 Mar 2011
Shanghai-based design consultancy Neri & Hu is creating the ‘low-key luxury’ interiors of Jason Atherton’s new restaurant, Pollen Street Social, in London’s Mayfair.
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New Ideo consultancy to use design to tackle poverty
Tue, 8 Mar 2011
Ideo has launched a new social innovation consultancy which aims to address poverty through design projects.
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Notes from Russia
Thu, 31 Mar 2011
Branding a city or country can be a particularly tricky challenge, especially when it’s an area with a name as catchy as Nenets Autonomous Region.
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Notes from the archive
Tue, 29 Mar 2011
Next week, Tate Britain launches an exhibition dedicated to James Stirling, the architect behind Tate Liverpool on the Albert Dock and the Clore Gallery at Tate Britain.
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Number ten
Mon, 14 Mar 2011
There’s not a balloon or celebration cake in sight as print company Team Impressions marks its tenth birthday with a more aptly creative and charitable project called Team Ten.
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On the wire
Thu, 3 Mar 2011
London-based artist Benedict Radcliffe’s wire frame Range Rover Evoque blurs the lines of sculpture and 3D modelling.
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On your marques
Mon, 28 Mar 2011
Those training for the Bath Half Marathon will feel an extra rush of inspiration when they see the event’s new identity created by Bath-based consultancy Northbank.Northbank’s logo for the 2012 Bath Half Marathon
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One for all
Tue, 15 Mar 2011
If you’re keen to get stuck in and join the burgeoning ranks of designers working for the common good, there is still time for you to sign up for this year’s Inclusive Design Challenge.
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Oranges and lemons
Mon, 28 Mar 2011
Street artist Ben Eine is to reveal a largescale mural in London this afternoon, inspired by the children’s nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons.
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Pick Me Up
Thu, 3 Mar 2011
With graphic art fair Pick Me Up just around the corner, we can offer you an exclusive peak at some of the artists’ work set to feature.Hammer and Thread 2001, Polly Becker
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Pixel 8 rebrands Crowne Plaza hotels
Thu, 3 Mar 2011
Pixel 8 is rebranding the Crowne Plaza hotel brand to bring it in line with three ‘hallmark’ offers that make up the brand.
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PLB brings Norwich Castle’s history to life
Tue, 1 Mar 2011
PLB is working on the design of a new Norwich Castle exhibition to reimagine its keep, with the use of borrowed medieval artifacts from the British Museum.
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Press and bleed
Thu, 31 Mar 2011
While Press & Bleed may sound like that Slipknot tribute band your awkward cousin almost formed, it is, in fact a far less sinister prospect.
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Print box
Tue, 29 Mar 2011
This Thursday, the Hotshoe Gallery in London is playing host to the Royal College of Art MA Photography’s Print Box Sale, a fundraising event to help students to stage five exhibitions during the 2011 Folkestone Triennial this summer.
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Print Futures Awards open to graphic designers
Fri, 4 Mar 2011
The Print Futures Awards are calling for entries, targeting the printing, publishing and graphic arts industries.
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Prints for Japan
Fri, 18 Mar 2011
Illustrator Ciara Phelan has set up Print Okushon, an auction of stunning prints to raise money for the Japan relief fund, following the tragic earthquake that shook the country last week.Ciara Phelan
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Punch paper
Wed, 9 Mar 2011
To accompany the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Cult of Beauty exhibition, illustrator Matt Blease has created a wallpaper made from cartoons of design greats and celebrities, which will form a backdrop at Liberty’s V&A Cult of Beauty windows at its store in London.
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Q&A and Four-letter Word work on Vertigo Lounge
Thu, 31 Mar 2011
Q&A Interior Design has created the identity for new Hornchurch café and bar Vertigo Lounge, with branding by Four-letter Word.
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Quietly strange
Tue, 8 Mar 2011
Wim Wenders’s films are justly hailed for their evocation of place - be it the dusty desert landscapes of Paris, Texas or the angel’s-eye-view of a divided Berlin in Wings of Desire.Ferris Wheel Reverse Angle, Armenia, ...
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RCA and Kvadrat pitch together in Milan
Tue, 22 Mar 2011
The Royal College of Art Design Products department has collaborated with Danish textiles company Kvadrat to create camping-based concept RCA Intent at the Milan furniture fair.
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Reading Room designs Royal Wedding website
Thu, 3 Mar 2011
Reading Room has designed the website to celebrate the royal wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton.
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Remastered
Thu, 10 Mar 2011
Young designers and artists have been tasked with re-imagining what iconic masterpieces, such as Picasso’s Guernica and the Venus de Milo, would look like if combined with the latest technology for Intel’s exhibition Remastered.
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Renew, refresh and re-imagine
Mon, 7 Mar 2011
Ikea has invited design students from Middlesex University to transform battered and broken pieces of furniture into cutting-edge pieces as part of its Renew, Refresh and Re-Imagine campaign.Elsa Sandy, before
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Ripples sculpture to be installed in south London
Thu, 31 Mar 2011
Kazuya Tsuji’s sculpture Ripples has won the inaugural Grange Garden Sculpture competition, a prize that aims to help regenerate the Bermondsey area of south London.
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RMS develops campaign to tackle Somali piracy
Thu, 3 Mar 2011
Cheshire-based consultancy RMS has created a campaign that aims to raise awareness of the plight of seafarers taken hostage by Somali pirates.
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Rockwell Group creates food truck for Jamie Oliver
Fri, 4 Mar 2011
US-based consultancy the Rockwell Group has designed a Food Revolution truck for TV chef Jamie Oliver.
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Roger that!
Mon, 21 Mar 2011
Type lovers and CB Radio fans will welcome an exhibition that opens at London’s Kemistry gallery this week dedicated to the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s Phonetic Spelling Alphabet.
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SAS creates GSK’s annual report
Thu, 24 Mar 2011
SAS Design has designed the print and digital editions of pharmaceuticals company GlaxoSmithKline’s 2010 annual report.
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She said...
Thu, 10 Mar 2011
Our blog highlighting the gender inequalities still apparent in the design industry has seemingly caused a bit of a stir in the DW bloggosphere.
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Significant rise in design salaries outside London, survey shows
Tue, 15 Mar 2011
Creative director salaries outside London have risen by an average of 16 per cent, according to the 2011 Design Week Salary Survey.
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Small Back Room redesigns Southbank Centre shop
Mon, 14 Mar 2011
Small Back Room has worked on designs for the London Southbank Centre’s Festival Terrace shop, which is being expanded and will reopen next month.
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Sonic Boom
Thu, 10 Mar 2011
Developments in technology and music innovation have always gone hand in hand, whether that’s stretching a skin to create a drum or Elisha Gray’s first synthesizer in 1876.
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South London sculpture shortlist unveiled
Mon, 7 Mar 2011
The shortlist has been announced for the Grange Gardens Sculpture Project competition. The project will see the winning artist create a permanent installation in Grange Gardens in Bermondsey, London
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Table 19 to work Jamie Oliver’s Wood Fired Ovens materials
Fri, 18 Mar 2011
Table 19 is working on a project to design and market Jamie Oliver’s Wood Fired Ovens brand.
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The airbrush
Wed, 9 Mar 2011
Guest blogger Charlotte Newbold, from Coley Porter Bell, discusses the similarities, and differences, between airbrushing fashion photographs and manipulating imagery for food packaging.
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The art of food
Mon, 7 Mar 2011
The humble mushroom. It’s perhaps not the first thing - unless you’re of a certain Camden-centric persuasion - that you’d think of as inspiring art, literature and dinner party conversation.
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The cut
Fri, 4 Mar 2011
Bill Woodrow’s metal sculptures baffle the mind. The British artist cleverly cuts out nets from discarded objects, such as car doors and oil drums, and then assembles them into the likes of guitars, walkie-talkies and even a beaver. The sculptures contain both parts, often joined together and the origin of the new object still visible.
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The friends of Tony Romanoff
Wed, 30 Mar 2011
When a ‘teaser image’ of an exhibition arrives in the form of a man’s pallid legs segued onto a large Spongebob Squarepants, you realise all is not as it seems.
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The inventor of the album cover
Fri, 11 Mar 2011
The story of how album cover art came into existence is a classic design case study in how considered graphics meet the hard-nosed world of commerce.
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The shaman
Thu, 24 Mar 2011
Psychedelia, tribal culture and ancient mythologies are heady subjects to inspire an exhibition. But it’s on these themes that illustrators Jake Blanchard and Scott Balmer have based their latest exhibition Hylozoism, which opens tonight.by Scott Balmer
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The Yard Creative works up Panopolis sandwich bars
Mon, 14 Mar 2011
The Yard Creative has been appointed to design two shops for high-end sandwich retailer Panopolis at London City Airport.
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This is music
Fri, 4 Mar 2011
‘I met Richard Ashcroft at six in the morning buying a pint of milk in a petrol station,’ says designer Brian Cannon speaking from the British Music Experience last night.
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Top 100 Consultancy Survey: DEADLINE EXTENSION
Wed, 2 Mar 2011
Here at Design Week towers, we’ve had a flurry of phone calls in the last few days from design consultancy’s begging, pleading and bribing us for an extension on their Top 100 form.Top 100
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Totem tour
Fri, 11 Mar 2011
The next step on the Inkygoodness Character Totem tour stops at Manchester where the group will be teaming up with The Publishers Club to make a collaborative ‘zine, featuring specially commissioned works from some of their favourite illustrators. Design Week caught up with Ammo magazine creative director Dave Hughes to talk about the publication and get a sneak preview of the illustrations it will include.
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Trocadero names DNA its digital partner
Mon, 21 Mar 2011
DNA Advertising has been appointed as the digital partner of shopping and entertainment complex the London Trocadero Centre by real estate firm Criterion Capital.
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True North delivers Holker Group identity
Fri, 25 Mar 2011
True North has delivered the identity for Holker Group, a collection of businesses owned by the Holker Estate in Cumbria.
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Under a fiver
Thu, 31 Mar 2011
The best things come in small packages, or so the old idiom goes.
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Urban Salon designs British Library exhibition
Fri, 25 Mar 2011
Urban Salon is designing the British Library’s Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination exhibition and will work with graphic designer John Morgan Studio to realise the project.
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V&A launches furniture acquisition fund
Tue, 29 Mar 2011
The Victoria & Albert Museum and Outset Contemporary Art Fund have launched a new annual acquisition fund to focus on contemporary furniture.
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Victorian disguise
Mon, 14 Mar 2011
Walking into Wilton’s Music Hall, the first thing we see is a man with two taxidermy foxes attached to his shoulders at an impossible angle.
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Virtual monsters
Fri, 4 Mar 2011
A mix of infinite mirrors, audio-visual environments, dancers in wind tunnels and giant evolving monsters sounds like some sort of phantasmagoria, but is set to tantalise digital design lovers and the like, this April at La Gaîté Lyrique - a new venue dedicated to digital arts in Paris.
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We Made That creates National Trust drawing room
Thu, 31 Mar 2011
We Made That has designed an alternative space for the drawing room of National Trust property Croome Court in Worcestershire.
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Working girls
Fri, 18 Mar 2011
Reading Room founder Margaret Manning has turned mentor for the BBC’s Working Girls programme, in an episode which airs next week.
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WPP reports ‘remarkable’ recovery as profits jump
Fri, 4 Mar 2011
WPP has reported a 28.5 per cent rise in profits before tax in 2010, which it describes as ‘a year of significant recovery’.
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You should be in charge
Wed, 30 Mar 2011
New London gallery Work opens its doors on Friday with an exhibition of work by Bob and Roberta Smith, called You Should Be in Charge.
