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October 2010 Online

  • £600 000 awarded to ‘disruptive’ technologies

    Mon, 18 Oct 2010

    New technologies to develop solar glazing printed directly on glass, skin-safe conductive ink, a donor skin-cell spray and a new way of destroying organics in water have each been awarded a share of £600 000 by the Technology Strategy Board.

  • A month of Sundays

    Tue, 26 Oct 2010

    For illustrator Pete McKee, Sundays, especially during childhood, are always a mixed blessing.

  • Amanda Levete and Unit 9 work on Hayward show

    Mon, 4 Oct 2010

    Amanda Levete Architects and digital consultancy Unit 9 have worked on the Move: Choreographing You exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London.

  • An outsider's chance

    Tue, 12 Oct 2010

    The Folio Society and House of Illustration have launched a competition to find an illustrator to create covers for Albert Camus’ iconic novel The Outsider.

  • Anouska Hempel to redesign Blakes Hotel

    Mon, 4 Oct 2010

    Interior designer Anouska Hempel has bought back Blakes Hotel in west London, backed by investors, and will undertake a two-year refurbishment programme coinciding with its 25th anniversary this year.

  • Anthony Burrill works on oil spill poster

    Tue, 26 Oct 2010

    Graphic designer Anthony Burrill has designed a poster to raise funds for the clean-up operation following April’s BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

  • Art director's choice

    Mon, 25 Oct 2010

    In these uncertain times, print’s role is volatile in the publishing industry, with magazines having to work harder than ever before to continue to attract their target audiences. This is evident in a vast array of newsstand publications including Wired, Eye, Computer Arts and Idn magazine to name just a small selection – all of which are utilising Pantone inks, foil blocking and paper stocks in new and innovative ways to add value to their printed product.

  • Art director's choice

    Mon, 4 Oct 2010

    The sheer mention of the term ‘bevelled type’ strikes fear into the heart of many a designer, conjuring up horrific visions of the absolute misuse of Photoshop’s bevel and emboss filter. I don’t remember ever coming across a piece of design where it has been used tastefully, often being applied to cheap and unprofessional looking websites and publicity material.

  • Art in public

    Wed, 27 Oct 2010

    As the Christmas lights edge into London’s Oxford street ready to be switched on in a couple of weeks time, there’s a host of other public art works launching up and down the country, thankfully of a less festive nature.

  • Atlas air

    Tue, 19 Oct 2010

    Massive Attack has showcased the video for its new single Atlas Air on the website of moving image festival Onedotzero.

  • Audi named Red Dot client of the year

    Fri, 29 Oct 2010

    Audi has been awarded the Red Dot client of the year award, a new prize which recognises outstanding procurement of design.

  • Bauer Media pilots ‘Grazia for men’

    Tue, 26 Oct 2010

    Gazzetta, a new in-house-designed sister title to Grazia, has been published today in pilot form by Bauer Media, covering men’s news and style.

  • Bespoke

    Fri, 29 Oct 2010

    If your interests lie in the middle of a Venn diagram of design, cycling and puns, then you’ll be pleased to hear of the cleverly named Bespoke exhibition which opens at London’s Dray Walk Gallery tonight.

  • Bit of bovver

    Fri, 29 Oct 2010

    With the roaring success of Shane Meadows’ This is England 86 series, there’s a growing fascination with the gritty Thatcher years and the artforms spawned by the social unrest, poverty, and youth subcultures of the decade.

  • Briggs Hillier creates new Schuh concept store

    Mon, 18 Oct 2010

    Briggs Hillier has created a new concept store for shoe retailer Schuh at Sheffield shopping centre Meadowhall.

  • British Council awards young interactive entrepreneur

    Fri, 22 Oct 2010

    Anup Tapadia from India has been named as the British Council’s Interactive Young Entrepreneur 2010.

  • Cannes Lions launches effectiveness award

    Thu, 28 Oct 2010

    The Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival has announced the launch of the Cannes Creative Effectiveness Lions in 2011, a new award which merits design.

  • City University seeks consultancies for design roster

    Tue, 5 Oct 2010

    City University in London is seeking design groups for a roster that will cover print and digital work.

  • Code Computer Love to redesign Smooth Radio website

    Thu, 21 Oct 2010

    Code Computer Love has been appointed to redesign the website for Smooth Radio.

  • Cogapp creates digital work for Tate installation

    Mon, 11 Oct 2010

    Cogapp has designed a website and digital platform to accompany Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s Unilever series installation at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.

  • Cornwall Design Forum to launch design directory

    Tue, 19 Oct 2010

    The Cornwall Design Forum is to launch a new design directory, which will be marketed directly at businesses looking for design input.

  • Cycle hire romance

    Wed, 20 Oct 2010

    Love them or loathe them, Boris Bikes are now entwined in the fabric of our capital. Last month we reported on the new trend of customising the Barclays-sponsored cycles, and now London’s two-wheeled chariots have been used for another creative project - the winning film in Transport For London’s Cycle Revolution film competition.

  • Dalston open studios

    Wed, 13 Oct 2010

    Founded in 1977, Dalston-based Bootstrap Company is a development trust, social enterprise and charity that has worked to develop cultural and creative projects in its corner of London.

  • David Godber to leave Design Council

    Tue, 19 Oct 2010

    David Godber, deputy chief executive of the Design Council, is to leave the organisation in December.

  • DBA Design Effectiveness Awards shortlist unveiled

    Thu, 7 Oct 2010

    A total of 47 consultancies have won 2010 Design Business Association Design Effectiveness Awards.

  • Dear diary

    Mon, 18 Oct 2010

    Eleven illustrators have brought to life extracts from the diary of Oscar Kirk, a 14-year-old messenger boy working in London Docks nearly one hundred years ago, for an exhibition opening at the Museum of London Docklands this month.

  • Design Bridge shines at 2010 Pentawards

    Fri, 1 Oct 2010

    Design Bridge, Pearlfisher and Elmwood are among the UK winners at the 2010 Pentawards, an international competition which recognises excellence in packaging design.

  • Design companies named in Private Plums list

    Mon, 11 Oct 2010

    Several design consultancies have been named among the most successful privately owned marketing and communications groups in the UK.

  • Design Council prepares for new charity status

    Wed, 20 Oct 2010

    Design Council chief executive David Kester says the decision to turn the organisation into a charity means the way it carries out its functions will be ’very different’.

  • Design Council to lose public-body status and become a charity

    Thu, 14 Oct 2010

    The Design Council will lose its status as a Government-funded body and become an independent charity under plans to reform quangos.

  • Design criminals

    Mon, 18 Oct 2010

    As part of Vienna Design Week, the Design Criminals exhibition at the MAK Design Space is showing a bizarre and brilliant array of objects, images and gadgets, which its curators claim are ‘beyond the normal canon of design activity’.

  • Design diaries

    Fri, 15 Oct 2010

    Are you the sort of person that reads other people’s diaries? Irresistible, isn’t it, if you see one lingering on a table top or under a pillow? Although Design Diaries, a new book by Lucienne Roberts and Rebecca Wright, doesn’t quite offer the thrill of sneaking a look at the private scribblings of some of design’s top names, it’s a helpful tome allowing a view into the workings behind a number of graphics projects.

  • Design in Hackney

    Thu, 21 Oct 2010

    Thanks to The Guardian G2’s flagging up of the plethora of Hackney-hating blogs, smug Hackneyites have garnered a fair bit of attention of late. So, it was with much interest that news of the Hackney Design Awards plopped into the Design Week inbox. 

  • Design Symposium North programme unveiled

    Tue, 19 Oct 2010

    Design Symposium North in Liverpool has announced its programme, with speakers to include designer Adrian Shaughnessy and Moving Brands founder James Bull.

  • Design Wales calls for cross-party group to promote design

    Fri, 8 Oct 2010

    Design Wales will launch its manifesto next week as part of the Cardiff Design Festival, calling for National Assembly for Wales members to establish a cross-party group to champion design and innovation.

  • Design Week Awards entry deadline extended

    Fri, 15 Oct 2010

    The deadline for entries to the 2011 Design Week Awards has been extended until Thursday 28 October.

  • Designers' identities

    Fri, 22 Oct 2010

    At Design Week we don’t often get the opportunity to showcase the identities that consultancies give themselves as it strays a little too far into self-promotion, no matter how nice the work.

  • Details of spending review cuts emerge

    Thu, 21 Oct 2010

    The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is to cut its resource budget by 25 per cent and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to cut its budget by 24 per cent over the next four years, following the Comprehensive Spending Review outlined by Chancellor George Osborne.

  • Diamonds are forever

    Thu, 7 Oct 2010

    If you live your life surrounded by icons of contemporary Scandinavian design, then you might be interested in spending your afterlife in one too.

  • Dowling Duncan wins dollar bill redesign competition

    Mon, 4 Oct 2010

    Dowling Duncan has won the competition to redesign the dollar bill organised by New York-based creative consultant Richard Smith.

  • Dragon Rouge brands ‘adult’ milk drink

    Thu, 7 Oct 2010

    Dragon Rouge has named, branded and created the packaging for Modern Milk, a new milk product aimed at the adult consumer.

  • Dragon Rouge brands sugar substitute Xivia

    Thu, 28 Oct 2010

    Dragon Rouge has rebranded sugar-substitute xylitol for Danish ingredients and enzymes company Danisco, creating the brand name Xivia and designing a new logo, positioning, identity and communications strategy.

  • Easy Tiger Creative designs research exhibition at British Library

    Thu, 14 Oct 2010

    Easy Tiger Creative design consultancy has developed the concept and design for the Growing Knowledge – the Evolution of Research exhibition at the British Library in London.

  • Editor's blog

    Fri, 15 Oct 2010

    Dare we hope that the worst of the recession is behind those of us in design?

  • Editor's blog

    Mon, 1 Nov 2010

    Lynda Relph-Knight’s perspective on the week.

  • Editor's blog

    Fri, 22 Oct 2010

    A week may, as former Prime Minister Harold Wilson said, be a long time in politics. But for design’s politicians the past few weeks surely constitute an eternity.

  • Elmwood appoints Colin Burns as 'director of stuff'

    Wed, 20 Oct 2010

    Elmwood has appointed Colin Burns, former director of Ideo’s London studio, to the newly created role of ’director of stuff’.

  • Factory Design to work on cabin interiors with Marshall Aerospace

    Mon, 11 Oct 2010

    Factory Design and Marshall Aerospace have agreed a memorandum of understanding which will see consultancy and company collaborate on the design of cabin interior programmes.

  • Faking it

    Mon, 25 Oct 2010

    Although we’re probably more accustomed to hearing ‘fake it ‘til you make it’ from the likes of Trinny and Susannah or Gok Wan, it seems the art world has taken on the mantra and run with it - with stunning results.Diamond Geezer by Broadhead

  • Festival fever comes to Cardiff

    Mon, 4 Oct 2010

    Cardiff has picked up the design festival baton from London, with the launch of the Cardiff Design Festival, which runs until 16 October and will see a host of design talent descend on the Welsh capital.

  • Fitch set to open second India outpost

    Wed, 27 Oct 2010

    WPP consultancy Fitch is set to open a new office in Delhi, alongside its existing Indian outpost in Mumbai.

  • Form Associates and Speirs & Major work on San Diego bridge

    Fri, 22 Oct 2010

    A team including members from Form Associates and Speirs & Major has won an international competition to light the 4km-long San Diego Coronado Bridge in California.

  • Forster creates ‘holistic’ brand for Waste Watch charity

    Tue, 19 Oct 2010

    Forster has rebranded the charity Waste Watch, aiming to reposition the organisation away from its focus on recycling, and towards a more ‘holistic’ approach to reducing waste.

  • Four IV works on Harvey Nichols in Hong Kong

    Mon, 18 Oct 2010

    Interiors group Four IV has been appointed to work on a new Harvey Nichols flagship store at Pacific Place shopping centre in Hong Kong.

  • Fuff Stuff

    Mon, 18 Oct 2010

    Fuff is all about bringing bright and vibrant design to simple everyday items that make useful and unique gifts. Location inspires many of our illustrations and prints, which often feature the Fuff Pigeon and other brilliant Fuff Birds.

  • Further brands financial software company

    Fri, 22 Oct 2010

    Further has renamed and rebranded Luxembourg-based financial software company IGEFI to become Multifonds.

  • FutureBrand names two top appointments

    Fri, 1 Oct 2010

    FutureBrand London has appointed Nick Sykes as managing director and Tom Adams will take on the newly created role of chief digital officer.

  • GA Design works on St Pancras Hotel

    Mon, 25 Oct 2010

    The St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, with interiors created by GA Design, is set to open on 5 May 2011 – 138 years to the day since the original hotel’s grand opening in 1873.

  • Gary Lockton joins Fuse 8

    Tue, 12 Oct 2010

    Former Deepend founder Gary Lockton has joined digital consultancy Fuse 8 as group development director.

  • Get warm

    Tue, 12 Oct 2010

    With the nights drawing in and temperatures dipping, there are few better ways to (ahem) warm your cockles than at one of Warm’s world-renowned club nights.

  • Go ape

    Wed, 20 Oct 2010

    The Sumatran Orangutan Society has commissioned some top-notch design work in its time, with Hat-Trick Design winning Best in Show at the 2008 Design Week Benchmarks for its identity and scooping up a Design Week Award in the poster category the same year for a campaign for the charity.

  • Government plans return of guilds and new craft award

    Thu, 28 Oct 2010

    Skills Minister John Hayes has signalled a re-emergence of guilds to promote skills and announced plans for a new award for excellence in crafts.

  • Guggenheim and BMW launch travelling design labs

    Mon, 4 Oct 2010

    The Guggenheim Foundation and BMW Group have announced their partnership in a global design initiative which will see ‘travelling laboratories’ tour major cities over a six-year period.

  • Happiness at work

    Tue, 26 Oct 2010

    An exhibition of work from Wapping-based studio Happiness at Work will open at Dalston’s Print House Gallery on Friday.

  • Happy outcomes

    Thu, 7 Oct 2010

    Happiness abounded at Coley Porter Bell last night as team members toasted the success of their peers in the consultancy’s internal Blue Sky awards.

  • Hats off

    Thu, 14 Oct 2010

    Do you know what the urban streetwear cap of choice is? Well, rappers wear them, athletes and artists wear them and pretty much every cool kid on the planet should know how to wear them. Presenting the wide brim baseball cap - otherwise known as the New Era 59Fifty.

  • He’s behind you!

    Tue, 12 Oct 2010

    Interior designers will be treading the boards at London’s Garrick Theatre this week in a production of Snow White and the Seven Designers.Group rehearsal

  • Helloween

    Wed, 27 Oct 2010

    As the team here at Design Week struggle to come up with easily-assembled and non-naff fancy dress for the weekend (suggestions in the comments box please), graphics and digital consultancy Open Agency has put us to shame with their display of Halloween spirit.A head above the rest

  • Independent launches new I newspaper

    Tue, 26 Oct 2010

    The Independent has launched the I newspaper, which it describes as ‘a newspaper with quality, convenience and desirability’.

  • Internet Week Europe schedule unveiled

    Fri, 15 Oct 2010

    Adrian Shaughnessy will chair a panel to discuss the future of digital publishing and Creative Review will hold its Click London sessions as part of the first-ever Internet Week Europe, which will take place in London in November.

  • Jail house stitch

    Mon, 25 Oct 2010

    When I think of inmates doing time, my mind casts back to old TV reruns of Porridge, watching Ronnie Barker’s character Fletcher come into some sort of conflict. So it’s hard to imagine a group of criminals sat round learning cross and chain stitches to create beautiful pieces of embroidery.

  • Join the club

    Fri, 1 Oct 2010

    The Hospital Club in London’s Covent Garden is now accepting applications for its Creatives in Residence programme for 2011.

  • Jones Knowles Ritchie takes animal theme for Penhaligon’s packaging

    Fri, 29 Oct 2010

    Jones Knowles Ritchie has created anthropomorphic animal-themed Christmas gift boxes for perfumer Penhaligon’s, with each range depicting a story, such as an afternoon tea party.

  • Kissmas lights

    Thu, 28 Oct 2010

    This Christmas, they’ll be a little bit of extra magic for London’s shoppers thanks to designer Paul Cocksedge.

  • Land Design creates interactive learning experience for children

    Wed, 27 Oct 2010

    Land Design Studio has created an experiential interactive facility for the London Borough of Sutton to educate children about the dangers of social problems.

  • Lee Broom works on Nightjar cabaret bar

    Tue, 5 Oct 2010

    Lee Broom has created the interior concept for new London cabaret bar The Nightjar.

  • Live WebTV chat about Open Planet Ideas

    Thu, 21 Oct 2010

    During a live webchat today at 3pm, TV presenter Kate Bellingham, WWF’s Dax Lovegrove and Sony’s Ben Moore will talk about how developments in technology could solve environmental problems as part of Open Planet Ideas.

  • Lydia Thornley rebrands numeracy software Mathbase

    Fri, 22 Oct 2010

    Lydia Thornley has created a new identity for Mathbase, a numeracy software product which helps children and students with special educational needs improve their maths skills.

  • Magpie Studio designs Winnie the Pooh stamps

    Tue, 12 Oct 2010

    Magpie Studio has designed a new set of Winnie the Pooh stamps for the Royal Mail using EH Shepard illustrations.

  • Marksmith Design brands payment service Geo

    Thu, 28 Oct 2010

    Marksmith Design has created the branding for Geo, an international payment service for financial installations from Travelex.

  • Marmite pop-up store to open in Selfridges

    Wed, 20 Oct 2010

    Sunhouse Creative has branded and created the interior of a Marmite pop-up shop for Selfridges based on an ’eccentric British kitchen’ theme.

  • McCann-Erickson Central unveils new look for Lotus

    Fri, 1 Oct 2010

    McCann-Erickson Central has created a new identity and website for sportscar manufacturer Lotus.

  • Mechanical couture

    Fri, 15 Oct 2010

    As Future Beauty, a celebration of 30 years of Japanese fashion, takes over the Barbican from today, the Design Museum Holon in Israel has taken classic Japanese label Issey Miyake in quite a different direction.Dai Fujiwara and James Dyson collaborate on APOC

  • Modern myths

    Wed, 27 Oct 2010

    Comic fans will be pleased to see a super-sized anthology dedicated to the history of genre giant DC Comics, which is released next month.

  • Moira Gemmill and Gwyn Miles among RIBA honorary fellows

    Fri, 8 Oct 2010

    Moira Gemmill, director of projects, design and estate at the Victoria & Albert Museum, and Gwyn Miles, director of Somerset House Trust, are among 12 recipients of honorary fellowships from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

  • Moniker

    Thu, 14 Oct 2010

    Street art show Moniker International Art Fair launches tonight, promising to be an urban alternative to much of the highbrow art on display at London’s Frieze Art Fair.

  • Naresh Ramchandani joins Pentagram’s London office as partner

    Fri, 8 Oct 2010

    Naresh Ramchandani has been appointed as the eighth partner in Pentagram’s London office, and is the first advertising and communications partner in the consultancy’s history.

  • New knowledge

    Thu, 21 Oct 2010

    Research students from London’s Royal College of Art will unveil an exhibition of their work tomorrow at the institution.

  • New products launch at Orgatec

    Wed, 27 Oct 2010

    Biennial office design event Orgatec is running in Cologne, Germany, this week, featuring new launches from UK designers Pearson Lloyd, Jonathan Prestwich and Colebrook Bosson Saunders, among others.

  • New-look Dandy comic set to launch

    Tue, 26 Oct 2010

    A new-look Dandy comic will launch tomorrow, featuring 18 new characters and a new comic strip written by TV star Harry Hill, which will be illustrated by Dennis the Menace artist Nigel Parkinson.

  • Olympic Park renamed Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

    Thu, 7 Oct 2010

    Plans for the future of the London 2012 Olympic Park have been unveiled by Mayor Boris Johnson and Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, which include renaming the area Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

  • P&O Cruises to rebrand

    Fri, 29 Oct 2010

    P&O Cruises is to unveil a new brand identity, hoping to position the brand as ‘British’, ‘trusted’ and offering ‘the holiday of a lifetime’, it has been reported.

  • P&W packages Burnt Sugar

    Thu, 14 Oct 2010

    P&W Design Consultants has created new packaging for fudge brand Burnt Sugar, to help the company target national retailers.

  • Packaging webchat

    Mon, 18 Oct 2010

    Following on from its graphic design webchat, held last month, The Guardian is set to host a session looking at working as a packaging designer.

  • Pearlfisher designs Yeo Valley Big Pots

    Thu, 21 Oct 2010

    Pearlfisher has developed the identity and packaging for a new range of Yeo Valley Big Pots, following the consultancy’s rebrand of the dairy business.

  • Perfect job

    Thu, 7 Oct 2010

    When I was at high school, some probably well-meaning bod in the careers department had replaced targeted, human advice about what line of work to pursue with a steely cold computer quiz.

  • Pete Hamblin leaves Digit for Native role

    Wed, 20 Oct 2010

    Pete Hamblin has left Digit, where he was joint creative director, to join product design and user interaction consultancy Native.

  • Pininfarina reveals details of new Eurostar design

    Fri, 8 Oct 2010

    Italian design group Pininfarina has revealed details of the redesign of the exteriors and interiors of Eurostar’s trains and its plans for the ten new ‘320’ trains.

  • Play your cards right

    Fri, 1 Oct 2010

    It’s October - so of course we’re seeing the first glimpses of the festive season. However, before you get immersed in Christmas lights and shopping - why not spread a little yule-tide cheer yourself and enter Stranger Collective’s competition to design a Christmas card for charity.C

  • Pole position

    Wed, 13 Oct 2010

    Established and Sons will demonstrate the strength of its 2mm thick Surface Table with the aid of a carefully balanced 300kg F1 McLaren car.The Surface table complete with a McLaren car

  • Pretty pages

    Tue, 26 Oct 2010

    Bibliophiles and Aesthetes are in for a treat this week, with a double whammy of art book launches this Thursday.

  • Public-designed 50p coins unveiled

    Thu, 14 Oct 2010

    The Royal Mint has unveiled a series of 50p coins celebrating the Olympics – designed by the British public – which are to be put into circulation.

  • Redesigned Savoy hotel set to open

    Fri, 8 Oct 2010

    The Savoy hotel’s £100m redesign will be unveiled on Sunday, the culmination of a three-year project with design by Pierre-Yves Rochon and architect Reardon Smith.

  • Rosie Arnold is deputy president of D&AD

    Tue, 12 Oct 2010

    Rosie Arnold, deputy executive creative director at ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty, has been elected as deputy president of D&AD.

  • Science Museum could host LDF events

    Tue, 5 Oct 2010

    The Science Museum could be brought into the fold more directly at next year’s London Design Festival.

  • Science Museum seeks designers for two new galleries

    Mon, 11 Oct 2010

    The Science Museum in London is seeking a lead designer for two new permanent galleries as part of its Museum of the Future masterplan.

  • Scott Brownrigg redesigns KI interiors following flood

    Mon, 18 Oct 2010

    Scott Brownrigg Interiors has redesigned the interiors of furniture manufacturer KI, following a flood which caused extensive damage to its showroom.

  • Sean Thomas joins JKR

    Fri, 15 Oct 2010

    Sean Thomas had been appointed as design director of packaging design consultancy Jones Knowles Ritchie.

  • Seen and not heard

    Mon, 11 Oct 2010

    ‘Music + art = good,’ enlightens graphic designer and occasional artist Jamie Winder. Just one of the contributors to display their work at the next Seen and Not Heard night and exhibition, which commences end of November. 

  • Sellafield nuclear plant seeks consultancy for design work

    Fri, 15 Oct 2010

    Sellafield nuclear plant is seeking to appoint a consultancy to carry out marketing and advertising work, which will include website design and brand development.

  • Seymour Powell develops nappy of the future concept

    Wed, 20 Oct 2010

    Seymour Powell has created a design concept for Tesco for the ’nappy of the future’, focusing on improving comfort, performance and reducing the environmental footprint.

  • Sir David Chipperfield awarded RIBA Royal Gold Medal

    Thu, 7 Oct 2010

    Sir David Chipperfield has been named by the Royal Institute of British Architects as the winner of this year’s Royal Gold Medal.

  • Sir Philip Green recommends centralised Government procurement to cut spend

    Tue, 12 Oct 2010

    Arcadia boss Sir Philip Green has recommended that the Government centralises some procurement and ‘leverages its name, its credit rating and its buying power’ in his review of Government spending.

  • Speed creating

    Fri, 22 Oct 2010

    One of our favourite things from the London Design Festival this year was the abundance of fun and innovative ideas, especially at events off the beaten track such as at the Anti Design Festival. Although the products didn’t always look fantastically polished, it was exciting to see designers solving problems in an experimental and often humorous way.

  • Street life

    Mon, 4 Oct 2010

    As The Photographers’ Gallery moves out of its London home while it is closed for an £8.7m redevelopment project, the off-site programme is well underway.

  • Studio H works on National Trust own-brand packaging

    Wed, 27 Oct 2010

    Studio H has created packaging for the National Trust’s own-brand confectionery and biscuits, and is currently working on other products in the own-brand range.

  • Sustainable Sunday

    Wed, 20 Oct 2010

    For the last few months, Sunday afternoons have (mostly) been ripe for a stroll in the park or a pint in a beer garden. But with the bracing cold setting in, we need to find some new ways of whiling away those precious hours pre-Monday morning.

  • Table talk

    Tue, 19 Oct 2010

    It’s been a week for lists, what with the ‘bonfire of quangos’ and the Government spending review on its way. And if there wasn’t enough woe to go around the UK already, London has received a double blow in two other location-specific tables.

  • Tag creates hospital passports for people with diabetes

    Thu, 21 Oct 2010

    Cambridge-based consultancy Tag has created patient hospital passports for people with diabetes for the Insulin Dependent Diabetes Trust.

  • Tak co-founder Dom Murphy to join Wieden & Kennedy in US

    Mon, 25 Oct 2010

    Dom Murphy, co-founder of digital consultancy Tak, is to join Wieden & Kennedy in Portland in the US, where he will work with ex-Poke co-founder Iain Tait.

  • Tender age

    Fri, 8 Oct 2010

    Moshi Moshi is a record label always one (or 20) steps ahead of the game. So imagine our delight when the label revealed a new imprint, Tender Age, last month, accompanied by some utterly adorable illustrations.

  • The Core creates Christmas Pot Noodle

    Mon, 25 Oct 2010

    The Core has designed the packaging for a Christmas flavour of Pot Noodle, called Pot Noeldle.

  • The Gate’s Poppy Appeal campaign launches

    Mon, 25 Oct 2010

    The Gate has created this year’s Poppy Appeal campaign for the Royal British Legion.

  • The long river

    Mon, 11 Oct 2010

    Tappin Gofton has designed a book to accompany an exhibition of photography by Nadav Kander, which focuses on the landscape surrounding China’s Yangtze River.

  • The lovers

    Wed, 13 Oct 2010

    It’s astonishing, considering the strength of Noemie Goudal’s work, that the show that opens at the Hotshoe Gallery this Friday, is the photographer’s first solo exhibition.Promenade by Noemie Goudal

  • The modern art of conversation

    Thu, 14 Oct 2010

    As part of Design Event North East which launches next week, a handful of graphic designers will be inviting visitors to undertake a graphics treasure hunt around the streets of Newcastle.

  • Threads

    Fri, 1 Oct 2010

    T-shirts have been getting a lot of attention recently, namely in a book that celebrates this personal, and often overlooked, canvas for graphic design, from online community Threadless.

  • Through the pinhole

    Fri, 8 Oct 2010

    Using photographic paper and an Adsa’s worth of empty beer cans, pinhole photographer Justin Quinnell has been capturing images of Bristol in a host of three month-duration exposures.

  • Trespassing

    Tue, 5 Oct 2010

    When the hefty tome Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art dropped through the Design Week letterbox, it was almost impossible to prize ourselves away from leafing through it long enough to actually blog about it.

  • Under the hammer

    Tue, 5 Oct 2010

    The new Royal College of Art campus in London’s Battersea is well underway - with phase one, The Sackler Building, complete. The Dyson Building is now in progress, as part of phase two, and to ensure there is enough money in the pot for the third and final phase, money is being raised via a special one-off RCA auction at Christie’s in London.

  • Uniform brands Corby arts centre The Core

    Fri, 1 Oct 2010

    Uniform has created the brand for new Corby arts centre The Core at Corby Cube, which is due to open in November.

  • Up for auction

    Fri, 29 Oct 2010

    If you’re looking to own the ultimate in design-art talking points, it would be hard to beat a rod from Thomas Heatherwick’s acclaimed UK Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo.

  • Vintage Classics introduces 3D sci-fi book covers

    Tue, 5 Oct 2010

    Random House publishing imprint Vintage Classics is to publish a series of five science fiction novels with illustrated 3D covers next April.

  • Viva Italia

    Tue, 5 Oct 2010

    What do you picture when you think of Italy? Pasta, Vespa, the Umbrian countryside or perhaps Berlusconi’s frequent gaffes? It’s the question Antonio Benincasa from the Free University of Bozen Bolzano posed to 20 Italian graphic designers for an exhibition, called Spaghetti Vespa Typography, that opens at Budapest Design Week today.

  • Wall of fame

    Fri, 8 Oct 2010

    It’s always good to end your Friday with a heart-warming community project, especially if it involves a time-lapse video of a prison-grey wall being transformed into something beautiful.

  • Wednesday London designs new Pringle of Scotland website

    Thu, 7 Oct 2010

    Wednesday London has created a new website for clothing brand Pringle of Scotland.

  • WPP quarterly results show 12 per cent revenue growth

    Fri, 29 Oct 2010

    WPP has announced third quarter results showing like-for-like revenue growth has risen by 7.5 per cent and its reported revenues by over 12 per cent.

  • WWF rebranded by Arthur Steen Horne Adamson

    Wed, 27 Oct 2010

    Arthur Steen Horne Adamson has worked on a brand refresh for conservation organisation WWF, creating a new visual identity and full brand guidelines.

  • You are in control

    Wed, 6 Oct 2010

    Iceland is a strange, beautiful and complex country with a thriving digital industry and a rapidly expanding creative sector.

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