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  • 100% Future Serbia

    Fri, 20 May 2011

    Belgrade Design Week, which is set to take place in the Serbian capital at the end of next week, has set itself quite a task by giving itself the ambitious title tagline of ‘The Greatest Creative Minds of the 21st Century’.

  • 20/20 rebrands Hobbycraft

    Tue, 31 May 2011

    20/20 has designed a new brand and store interior for arts and crafts company Hobbycraft, with a look that the consultancy is calling ‘bright, colourful, spacious and feminine’.

  • A collective of nouns

    Fri, 6 May 2011

    A pride of lions is child’s play. Pipe up with a parliament of owls, or a ostentation of peacocks and you might just impress your friends. But lay down an embarrassment of pandas or a charm of finches and you will surely be crowned the king of collective nouns - it’s a dynasty of kings, if you’re interested.A ...

  • A fairy tale of two halves

    Thu, 12 May 2011

    It’s two days before the FA Cup final and this has landed on our desk – the second in a series of collaborative publications from consultancy Fivefootsix.

  • A little 'pendurance' goes a long way

    Mon, 23 May 2011

    Forget Challenge Anneka, illustrator Lizzie Mary Cullen has got her cycling shoes and pen poised in preparation for a rather unusual marathon.Lizzie Mary Cullen

  • A matter of gravity

    Mon, 23 May 2011

    ‘And then I looked up at the sun and saw the sky, and the way that gravity pulls on you and I, on you and I’, crooned Danny McNamara, on Gravity, the 2004 number seven hit for post-Britpop dullards Embrace.

  • A new world

    Thu, 5 May 2011

    It’s not surprising that in a continent that has such a long-standing and strong heritage of cartooning as South America there is also a thriving street art scene.

  • A paper opera

    Wed, 11 May 2011

    Over the past few years the promotional materials paper companies have been mailing out to win the attention of designers have been largely uninspiring and rarely dramatic. But Fedrigoni UK has bucked this trend, commissioning Young Creative Network to produce a theatrical, photography-led portfolio. Design Week caught up with YCN’s Alex Ostrowski to chat about the project.

  • Aberdeen City Gardens calls for redesign proposals

    Fri, 6 May 2011

    The Aberdeen City Garden project is calling for designers and architects to submit proposals on redesigning a 6ha site in the centre of Aberdeen.

  • After hours

    Wed, 8 Jun 2011

    What do breakdancing and modelling have to do with design? Before you come up with a long-winded philosophical answer, let me put you out of your misery. Both are activities organised by two design studios to generate some good old extra-curricula bonding.

  • Allotment rebrands White Logistics haulage

    Fri, 6 May 2011

    The Allotment has rebranded haulage company White Logistics working to a proposition based around problem solving.

  • Almeida Theatre brochure given With Relish flavour

    Thu, 5 May 2011

    With Relish has created a new brochure for London’s Almeida Theatre to announce two forthcoming productions.

  • Always Coca-Cola

    Wed, 18 May 2011

    Did you know that pharmacist John Pemberton invented Coca-Cola as a medicine to cure headaches? Perhaps. Did you also know he only used to sell ten bottles a day? Maybe not. It’s certainly a different story 125 years later.A Coca-Cola Christmas

  • Animal magic

    Mon, 16 May 2011

    Animal Magic, the classic BBC television show broadcast from the 1960s to the 1980s, saw Johnny Morris wittingly apply jovial voiceovers to animals at Bristol Zoo. Fresian by Robert Clarke

  • Architectural musings

    Thu, 5 May 2011

    This Friday sees the launch of the third issue of the beautiful annual PEAR (Paper for Emerging Architectural Research) ‘zine, which draws together the best in current architectural musings.

  • Architecture as air

    Mon, 16 May 2011

    It’s perhaps not surprising that the work of an architect who describes the Barbican’s The Curve gallery as ‘melting endlessly into space’ is delicate and ethereally minimalist.

  • Art director's choice

    Fri, 27 May 2011

    Hearing news this week of a forthcoming exhibition by the multidisciplinary, D&AD-awarded, illustration and design studio Kai & Sunny has sparked some excitement around the Design Week office. Entitled ‘The Flower Show’, this is their third solo show at the Stolen Space gallery and looks set to impress.

  • Because

    Tue, 24 May 2011

    Sensibly forgoing awkward team-building days only made enjoyable in the most cringeworthy episodes of The Office, Wolff Olins brings its team together with a series of talks from inspiring experts in and around the design industry.

  • Behind the 'zines

    Wed, 4 May 2011

    When new book Behind the Zines: Self Publishing Culture arrived in the Design Week mail box in all its curling, canvas glory; we got rather excited. ‘This is it!’, screamed the inner 17-year-old, ‘this is your time to shine!’

  • Black, white and read all over

    Fri, 20 May 2011

    Bang on the trend for Victorian-inspired macabre quirk that the likes of Dan Hillier and Stuart Kolakovic have been championing for the past few years are two charming graphic novels, both published this month.

  • Breeze Creative designs whisky packaging

    Tue, 3 May 2011

    Breeze Creative has created packaging for a new blended malt Scotch whisky for Scottish whisky distributor AD Rattray.

  • Brewing creativity

    Mon, 16 May 2011

    A group of schoolchildren has been working with Seymour Powell and the Victoria & Albert Museum to redesign the way we make a cup of tea - the results of which are going on show at the V&A.

  • Brighten the Corners creates Anish Kapoor website

    Thu, 19 May 2011

    Brighten the Corners has created a new website for artist Anish Kapoor, which the consultancy describes as ‘plain but dense’.

  • British Airways seeks artist for Olympic livery

    Thu, 5 May 2011

    British Airways is seeking a candidate to work alongside artist Tracey Emin to create the livery for 12 British Airways aircraft that will fly in guests and teams for the London 2012 Olympics.

  • Channel Five iPad app to launch in autumn

    Tue, 10 May 2011

    Method has announced  the Channel Five iPad app which it is working on for the broadcaster’s Demand Five on-demand service is set to launch this autumn.

  • Cog brands Commonwealth People’s Forum

    Thu, 19 May 2011

    Cog Design has created a visual identity for this year’s Commonwealth People’s Forum, which will take place in Perth, Australia in October.

  • Coley Porter Bell gives new name and branding to HR software firm

    Thu, 12 May 2011

    Coley Porter Bell has rebranded human resources software company StepStone Solutions, renaming it Lumesse and creating a new tone of voice, website, and visual identity to be used across all collateral.

  • Collect works go to museums

    Mon, 9 May 2011

    Eight museums and galleries have been awarded £75 000 from the Art Fund Collect to purchase works from the Crafts Council’s Collect show.

  • Competition launched to redesign electricity pylons

    Mon, 23 May 2011

    The Royal Institute of British Architects, the National Grid and the Department of Energy and Climate Change are launching a competition to design the electricity pylon of the future.

  • Control over nature

    Mon, 23 May 2011

    Amon Adonai Santos de Araújo Tobin is not a name that trips off the tongue but you’ll have undoubtedly heard some of his music. Gamers will have tuned into his sample-laden pieces in Tom Clancy’ Splinter Cell, but Tobin’s music has also been used in films The Italian Job and 21, and frequently on BBC TV show Top Gear.

  • Cover story

    Fri, 27 May 2011

    The Guardian’s series of webchats with publishing industry insiders has moved into the design world, with Harper Collins creative director Ben North the latest to take the chat hot-seat.

  • Creative Choice consortium bags central Government contract

    Tue, 31 May 2011

    The Creative Choice consortium, which features design consultancies Bell, Bentley Holland and the Domarn Group alongside integrated groups Brass and Kindred, among others, has been appointed as the Department for Education’s creative services supplier.

  • CSD in final stage of register plan

    Mon, 23 May 2011

    The Chartered Society of Designers has held an extraordinary general meeting which it says marks the end of a period of consultation on its plans to set up a register of chartered designers.

  • Curious brands music agency Satellite

    Mon, 16 May 2011

    Curious has created new branding for music booking agency Satellite, which represents artists including Bananarama, Heaven 17 and Rick Astley.

  • Curtain call

    Fri, 13 May 2011

    Ever wanted to wander through an interactive curtain of crystal cells laced with the artwork of David Shrigley? Well, this slightly surreal proposition will become reality at London’s Roundhouse thanks to an installation due at the venue in the summer created by Ron Arad.

  • D&AD to award slices of pencil

    Fri, 20 May 2011

    D&AD is set to award ‘slices’ of pencil as In-Book and Nominated awards, with the new prizes designed by Turner Duckworth.

  • Dave brands In-deed conveyancing service

    Tue, 24 May 2011

    Branding consultancy Dave has created the identity for new conveyancing service In-deed.net, which allows customers to track the transference of property titles online.

  • Dee Cooper leaves Virgin Atlantic

    Tue, 17 May 2011

    Dee Cooper, director of product service at airline Virgin Atlantic, has left the company.

  • Department store heads to address retail school

    Tue, 3 May 2011

    Representatives from Liberty, Fortnum & Mason and Peter Jones will address delegates at retail management course the Oxford Summer School in August.

  • Design bites

    Thu, 26 May 2011

    Continuing from yesterday’s Restaurants in Residence update, our hunger takes us further into design-led food ventures today.

  • Design LSM creates BBQ restaurant interiors

    Thu, 26 May 2011

    Design LSM has created the interiors for new BBQ and burger restaurant Red Dog Saloon, which opens in London’s Hoxton in June.

  • Design Management Institute appoints new president

    Mon, 23 May 2011

    Karen Reuther has been appointed as the next president of US-based industry body the Design Management Institute.

  • Design Museum names 2011 Designers in Residence

    Fri, 27 May 2011

    The Design Museum has named its four Designers in Residence for 2011, whose work will go on show at the museum from August 2011 until January 2012.

  • Designing against the clock

    Mon, 9 May 2011

    Could you make a record player in just 24 hours? ‘Easy peasy,’ you say. But what about if you could only use materials found in the streets and scrap yards of Peckham.

  • Digital artist sought for Ron Arad Roundhouse installation

    Fri, 27 May 2011

    A competition has been launched to find a digital artist to design and programme a series of interactive projections for Ron Arad’s Curtain Call installation at London’s Roundhouse.

  • Digital Shoreditch festival features £1m contest

    Tue, 3 May 2011

    The four-day Digital Shoreditch festival launches in London today and will culminate in a competition that will see £1m invested in Shoreditch-based digital companies.

  • Eating in the eighties

    Wed, 25 May 2011

    Celebrating the culinary and the incongruous, dining concept Restaurants in Residence will occupy a disused office block in Canary Wharf, which is being reimagined as a 1980s office.

  • Editor's blog

    Tue, 31 May 2011

    If you thought 2010 was Neville Brody’s year, prepare to see a repeat performance by the exhuberant graphics star as plans for 2011 continue to unfold.

  • Editor's blog

    Fri, 13 May 2011

    Lynda Relph-Knight’s perspective on the week.

  • Fairies and monsters

    Wed, 18 May 2011

    Hairy wolf-men, club-wielding ogres and mischievous imps inhabit a new paper cut by designer Damian O’Hara. It’s been created for arts festival Fairy Tales & Monsters, held at London’s Kings Place next month, which will also be populated by similar childhood imaginings.Damian ...

  • Fifty years of Private Eye

    Thu, 12 May 2011

    Frequently hard-hitting, occasionally scurrilous and almost always hilarious, satirical bible Private Eye has been delighting readers and upsetting the great and good since its inception in 1961.Source: © Private EyeP

  • Fighting fire with ice cream

    Tue, 21 Jun 2011

    Perhaps unsurprisingly, the new exhibition from Alex Chinneck, opening on Thursday, has (as far as our poor untrained, screen-wearied eyes can see) very little to do with the gelato-wasting, probably ineffectual idea of Fighting Fire with Ice Cream.

  • Five projects bag £52m Lottery windfall

    Tue, 10 May 2011

    The Heritage Lottery Fund has unveiled £52m of initial funding for five refurbishment and new-build projects around the UK.

  • Float creates Blackberry app for RBS

    Mon, 16 May 2011

    Float has designed an app for RBS which will launch on the new Blackberry Playbook tablet, set to be released in the UK next month.

  • Foody faces

    Thu, 5 May 2011

    Barcelona-based photographer and digital artist Olimax forms surreal portraiture, from a combination of faces and foodstuffs. Slimy octopus hats, sausage necklaces and fangs made of mini corn on the cob, are all featured in his latest exhibition, which opens in London next week.Ben Young by Olimax

  • Four museums in line for Art Fund Prize

    Fri, 20 May 2011

    Four museums have been shortlisted for the £100 000 Art Fund Prize 2011, which recognises excellence in museum and gallery exhibition design and refurbishment.

  • Fred Burt rejoins Interbrand from Siegel & Gale

    Tue, 24 May 2011

    Former Siegel & Gale co-managing director for Europe, Middle East and Africa Fred Burt has rejoined Interbrand as director of European clients.

  • Fresh faces

    Wed, 1 Jun 2011

    Young photographers keen on taking home a whole lot of glory should prick up their ears with the news that submissions for The Photographers’ Gallery’s Fresh Faced & Wild Eyed 2011 have now opened.

  • GJ Creative revamps Truly Irresistible Co-op range

    Thu, 26 May 2011

    Manchester-based consultancy GJ Creative has created the new identity, packaging and brand guidelines for the Co-operative’s premium Truly Irresistible range.

  • Gold

    Fri, 6 May 2011

    If for you (as, we’re not ashamed to say, for us) the musical connotations of ‘Gold’ are limited to the empowering advice to ‘always believe in your soul’, it’s time for a rethink.Todd DiCiurcio

  • GR/DD creates air show app for Imperial War Museum

    Tue, 17 May 2011

    GR/DD has designed a new app for the Imperial War Museum’s Duxford Airshows 2011, which provides real-time flying schedules and aircraft information.

  • Hargreaves review makes IP recommendations

    Thu, 19 May 2011

    A Government-initiated review into intellectual property has been delivered by Professor Ian Hargreaves, concluding that ten adjustments need to be made to current IP laws, which he sees as obstructive to innovation and economic growth.

  • Home from home

    Mon, 9 May 2011

    In February we reported on the New Architects: Portugal-UK exchange programme which saw three young UK consultancies go over to Lisbon and three Portuguese practices come to England to discover the differences in housing within the two countries.Home from Home

  • Illustrated London

    Wed, 4 May 2011

    Ahead of the publication of illustrated map book London Walks, Design Week caught up with illustrator and author Joanna Walsh, aka Badaude, to chat about her charming hand-drawn guide to the capital.London Walks by Badaude

  • Information is currency

    Wed, 1 Jun 2011

    Freedom of information, privacy and the internet are three things that we’ve been hearing a lot about in the last few weeks.

  • Interbrand works on AT&T Williams Formula One brand

    Mon, 9 May 2011

    Interbrand is working on branding projects for AT&T Williams as part of a partnership with the Formula One racing team.

  • Lambie-Nairn creates new Emmerdale identity

    Tue, 31 May 2011

    Lambie-Nairn has created new branding for ITV1 soap Emmerdale.

  • Lights, camera, action

    Thu, 2 Jun 2011

    Ever looked at the videos for, say Michel Jackson’s Thriller; or Bob Dylan’s litter-endorsing Subterranean Homesick Blues; or perhaps the Oz/KKK/foetal stylings of Nirvana’s Heart Shaped Box, and thought - ‘sheesh, I could do better’?

  • Loewy launches Loewy Unlimited collaborative offer

    Thu, 26 May 2011

    Group Loewy, which operates consultancies including Seymour Powell, Williams Murray Hamm and The Team, has formalised its cross-consultancy collaborative offer with the launch of new agency Loewy Unlimited.

  • London Design Festival unveils 2011 line-up

    Thu, 12 May 2011

    This year’s London Design Festival will feature key works from architects John Pawson and Amanda Levete and French design team the Bouroullec brothers.

  • Love is what you want

    Tue, 17 May 2011

    ‘It’s not about who I f*cked, it’s about who I slept with. With the Tent, people forget it’s about intimacy,’ says Emin at the launch of her new retrospective, Love is What You Want.

  • Macaulay Sinclair works on London steakhouse

    Tue, 31 May 2011

    Macaulay Sinclair has been appointed to design interiors for the Hawksmoor steakhouse restaurant in Guildhall, City of London.

  • Making a splash

    Thu, 12 May 2011

    Imagine a world in which marine life has almost disappeared. Imagine going scuba diving and not seeing live coral and tropical fish. Imagine having a childhood without eating tuna salad sandwiches!

  • Making future design

    Thu, 2 Jun 2011

    In lieu of hindsight, serendipity, or the ability to bend space-time, you might do well to attend Making Future Design.

  • Making things move

    Wed, 25 May 2011

    Ahead of the Barbican Art Gallery’s Watch Me Move animation exhibition next month, Red Bee Media has created some charming branding for the show inspired by some of the discipline’s most-loved characters.

  • Marcel Wanders in line for M&S homeware work

    Mon, 16 May 2011

    Dutch designer Marcel Wanders has been hired by Marks & Spencer to create a range of gifts and homeware, according to reports.

  • Mary Portas leads Government review into the high street

    Tue, 17 May 2011

    Retail expert Mary Portas has been appointed to lead an independent review into the future of British high street retail.

  • Media Square is back to revenue growth

    Tue, 24 May 2011

    Media Square has reported a 15 per cent rise in revenues from last year, compared with the 23 per cent year-on-year drop it experienced in 2010.

  • Message in a bottle

    Wed, 18 May 2011

    Jean genius Diesel is expanding its waistband far beyond the realms of denim and into the sphere of creativity with their Diesel Island programme, one of the highlights of which promises to be their Experimental Typography session taking place next week in East London’s Red Gallery.

  • Modern saints

    Wed, 1 Jun 2011

    Illustrator Neal Fox, founder of Le Gun magazine and chronicler of the seamier side of life, has created a series of stained-glass tributes to a dissolute collection of latter-day saints.

  • Nick Bell heads design team for exhibition at Sir Winston Churchill’s home

    Mon, 9 May 2011

    Nick Bell Design has been appointed by the National Trust to lead the exhibition design for an exhibition space at Chartwell, Kent, the former family home of Sir Winston Churchill.

  • Not: An Exhibition

    Mon, 9 May 2011

    ‘Ceci n’est pas une pipe.’ Not: An Exhibition. Yup, arty types just love denial.

  • On the Larkin trail

    Wed, 11 May 2011

    The Larkin Trail - a series of 25 typography-heavy signs scattered around the city of Hull - provides a fittingly literary tribute to one of the the city’s most famous adopted sons, poet Philip Larkin.

  • Orange and Barclaycard launch mobile payment app

    Fri, 20 May 2011

    Orange and Barclaycard have launched the first mobile phone payment service today – a Mobile Interactive Group-designed app which allows the purchase of goods that cost less than £15 using a contactless in-store reader.

  • Ordered decay

    Tue, 24 May 2011

    Taxidermy, voodoo and scavenging at the banks of the Thames may not sound particularly appealing; but young artist Katie Louise Surrdige manages to marry these rather dark threads into an arresting visual narrative.

  • Pancentric puts Kew Gardens in a game

    Thu, 26 May 2011

    Pancentric Digital has designed a multi-platform game for Kew Gardens, Tweet and Grow, which launches online today before rolling out as an app. 

  • Paper for the afterlife

    Wed, 4 May 2011

    Although carefully crafted paper artworks are more commonly associated with Japan, across the water in China there is also a custom for creating precious paper objects.

  • Paranoia

    Thu, 26 May 2011

    Where do you want to spend your bank holiday weekend? In the park? In the pub? Or standing in a disused cash-and-carry in London’s New Cross while a sound artist fires lasers and infrasonic sound waves at you in a wilful attempt to make you paranoid?

  • Radiant Studios to rebrand Uefa Champions League

    Mon, 23 May 2011

    Radiant Studios has been appointed to overhaul the Uefa Champions League brand, which will be redesigned for next year’s competition.

  • Redesigning graduate shows

    Tue, 24 May 2011

    It’s that time of year again when Design Week is inundated with invites to graduate shows. We do like perusing the show-stopping work produced, but it is also nice to see something a little different.

  • Remedy adds dynamism to Institute of Fundraising website

    Thu, 5 May 2011

    Kent-based consultancy Remedy Creative has created a new website for the Technology Special Interest Group of charity fundraisers’ professional body, the Institute of Fundraising.

  • RIBA installations go into Regent Street shops

    Mon, 9 May 2011

    The Royal Institute of British Architects has unveiled the finished window installations that have been designed in collaboration with architects for selected shops on London’s Regent Street.

  • Saatchi Gallery hosts Collect 2011 craft show

    Thu, 5 May 2011

    The Crafts Council’s Collect 2011 contemporary craft show opens tomorrow at the Saatchi Gallery with a £75 000 curatorial competition and a new project space.

  • Saffron rebrands C&A

    Thu, 19 May 2011

    Saffron Brand Consultants has created new branding for clothing retailer C&A, which is marking its 170th anniversary this year.

  • Seeing things differently

    Fri, 13 May 2011

    Opening at Bristol’s Arnolfini gallery this week is an intriguing exhibition that promises to question the act of looking and challenge you to ’consider the possibility of seeing yourself seeing things differently’.

  • Seymour Powell creates devilish vibrator ring for Durex

    Fri, 13 May 2011

    Seymour Powell has created the Little Devil vibrator ring for the Durex Play range.

  • Sherry creates music industry yearbook

    Fri, 20 May 2011

    Sherry has designed the 2011 Yearbook for the British Recorded Music Industry, the trade body that represents the UK recorded music business to unions, Government and other parties, and organises the Brit Awards.

  • SHH creates Biggin Hill airport lounge

    Tue, 10 May 2011

    SHH has created an airport lounge for Rizon Jet aviation company, designing a waiting area for private jet owners and passengers at Biggin Hill airport near Bromley, Kent.

  • Shooting the street

    Wed, 8 Jun 2011

    A man on horseback riding through New York City, voyeuristic CCTV views of unsuspecting bus riders, and a bull on a zebra crossing are just some of the bizarre and fascinating subjects on show as part of the inaugural London Street Festival, which kicks off next month.

  • Small Back Room creates shops for National Museum of Scotland

    Thu, 12 May 2011

    Small Back Room is working on two new retail spaces for the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh as part of a wider redevelopment led by Gareth Hoskins Architects.

  • Somerset House to launch Earth-designed website

    Thu, 12 May 2011

    Historic arts and cultural events venue Somerset House is poised to launch a new website next week, designed by independent consultancy Earth Creative Strategies which is based in the Somerset House premises. 

  • Studio Output identity for Big Splash swimming initiative

    Fri, 13 May 2011

    Studio Output has created the identity for The Big Splash, a new initiative run by the BBC and British Swimming to encourage people to swim.

  • Taxing art

    Tue, 31 May 2011

    What if objects could memorise their history? How can you see with your skin? Post Bank Holiday weekend, it’s questions like these that make you gently whisper ‘Why?’, and abruptly adopt the foetal position.

  • Testbed

    Fri, 20 May 2011

    Twelve tonnes of gravel, shadow puppets, short film The Elephant Subway and an all-day doodle bar are just a few of the things that’ll be on show at the Taktal-curated experimental art space as part of the Wandsworth Arts Festival.

  • The beautiful and the damned

    Thu, 19 May 2011

    ‘Show me a hero, and I’ll write you a tragedy’, once quipped writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.

  • The doodle bug

    Tue, 3 May 2011

    Have you been dreaming since early childhood of how to be the best bubble writer in the world ever? Well Linda Scott’s new book, How to be the Best Bubble Writer in the World Ever, can teach you how to be just that.

  • The English vernacular

    Tue, 3 May 2011

    If the royal wedding has whet your appetite for all things English, then illustrator and print maker Chris Brown’s latest exhibition will keep your flag-waving, street partying spirit alive for a little bit longer.

  • The home of metal

    Wed, 11 May 2011

    Mephistophelian pacts, spandex onesies, pyrotechnics, poodle-perms, thrash- industrial- and death-, the gamut of metal runs wide and deep, but it’s rooted in the West Midlands.  The Home of Metal

  • The lost collection

    Fri, 27 May 2011

    As you might imagine, Design Week receives a heap of press releases, promotional packs and mail-outs every week keeping us informed of all of the goings-on in the design world. So it’s always refreshing when we receive something out of the ordinary.The Lost Collection mailout

  • The power of making

    Tue, 17 May 2011

    Boasting a life-sized crochet bear and a lion-shaped Ghanian coffin, the Power of Making exhibition, coming to the Victoria & Albert museum in September, may sound like eclectic throwaway fun, but curator Daniel Charny says he hopes the show will make a serious point.

  • The River Thames

    Tue, 10 May 2011

    From Jerome K. Jerome’s novel Three Men in a Boat to the opening credits of Eastenders, the Thames has long been part of the London’s creative output. This year’s The Serco Prize for Illustration is no different, focusing on pieces inspired by the capital’s river.

  • Tigerspike creates iPad app for Daily Telegraph

    Fri, 6 May 2011

    Digital consultancy Tigerspike has created an iPad app for newspaper The Daily Telegraph.

  • To boot

    Wed, 8 Jun 2011

    If car boot fairs conjure up images of mouldy books, abandoned - and chewed - childhood lego and knick-knacks that even you’re great-gran wouldn’t stomach, then it might be time for a rethink.

  • Top 100 survey shows design industry has returned to growth

    Tue, 24 May 2011

    The total fee-income from all Design Week Top 100 consultancies has risen by 14 per cent this year to stand at £411m.

  • Turner Duckworth repackages The Glenlivet

    Tue, 10 May 2011

    Turner Duckworth has created new packaging for whisky brand The Glenlivet.

  • Turquoise brands Eurovision Song Contest

    Fri, 13 May 2011

    Turquoise Branding has created the identity for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, which will be held on Saturday in Düsseldorf, Germany.

  • Twin seats

    Thu, 2 Jun 2011

    Earlier today we blogged about an opportunity to try your hand at creating surreal, weird film effects with a workshop at the Design Museum, held by Jotta and Intel. But what happens when the flow changes, and film directors try their hand at design?

  • Under the sea

    Tue, 10 May 2011

    Just as chefs Heston Blumenthal, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay raised awareness of endangered fish species by bringing Channel Four’s The Big Fish Fight to our television screens last year, department store Selfridges is about to embark on a similar task – turning from retailer to campaigner in its first initiative called Project Ocean.

  • US group works up London Disney store design

    Fri, 27 May 2011

    New York-based consultancy Pompei AD has designed a new Disney concept store for London’s Oxford Street.

  • Waiting room

    Tue, 17 May 2011

    An abandoned room, entirely coated in white paint, sits waiting to be destroyed. The location is the St Philip’s Building in London, which was signed off for demolition yesterday.

  • Weiden & Kennedy and James Joyce work on Guardian music campaign

    Fri, 13 May 2011

    Ad group Weiden & Kennedy has commissioned illustrator James Joyce to design the graphic execution of a new Music Loves Summer campaign it has created for The Guardian newspaper.

  • Window shopping

    Tue, 10 May 2011

    Opening this evening in London’s Bond street is Streetlights, a collaboration between sartorial bible Vogue, Bond Street’s fine jewellers and students that sees the traditional shop window given a glittering face lift.

  • Winning goal

    Wed, 25 May 2011

    The Blizzard magazine, brainchild of football journalist Jonathan Wilson and Peter Daykin, who runs Azure Graphic and Web Design, was born from a conversation between the two old school-friends in the Fitzgeralds pub in Sunderland.

  • Wonder Associates brands Manchester’s Victoria Baths

    Mon, 16 May 2011

    Cheshire-based consultancy Wonder Associates has created the identity for Manchester Grade II-listed building Victoria Baths, which won BBC Two’s first Restoration series.

  • Wonder Associates creates war correspondents campaign

    Fri, 27 May 2011

    Wonder Associates has created a promotional campaign for new exhibition War Correspondents: Reporting Under Fire Since 1914, which opens at The Imperial War Museum North in Manchester tomorrow.

  • Wonder brands online art magazine Cassone

    Tue, 17 May 2011

    Wonder Associates has created a new identity and website for online art magazine Cassone.

  • WPP consultancies attempt Guinness world record in Cannes

    Fri, 6 May 2011

    The Brand Union and Lambie-Nairn are attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the world’s biggest book and will make their attempt at this year’s Cannes Also.

  • You're my favourite

    Thu, 26 May 2011

    Ahead of their second show together at Falmouth’s Here and Now gallery next month, Design Week caught up with illustrators Murray Sommerville and Daisy Whitehouse, collectively known as Dazeray, to discuss their ‘sweet and twisted’ work.Dazeray

  • 'Zine in a day

    Tue, 31 May 2011

    Last weekend saw the first International Alternative Press Festival take place in London, bringing together a host of illustrators, independent publishers, ‘zine makers and comics fans.

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