Design Week
12 December 1996
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A De Vil of a job for Archangel
12 December 1996
Imagine being commissioned to create a chair which must not only be puppy proof but also safe enough for screen star Glenn Close to recline upon.
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Betting on the outsiders
12 December 1996
Friday 13 December Still time to catch the Ceramic Exhibition at the Standpoint Gallery. On display is a range of work by Nicola Tassie, Abigail Simpson and David Biddulph.
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Betting on the outsiders
12 December 1996
Commissioning a broad international mix of architects to work on public buildings can give cities an exciting cosmopolitan feel, but there is a danger that 'international' could translate into 'bland' if the same old faces always make up the chosen few, a
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Boursin trio in Shining debut>
12 December 1996
Paris consultancy Shining has designed the identity and packaging for a three-strong pan-European brand extension of Unilever's soft cheese Boursin.
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Brief
12 December 1996
IBM will launch its new Aptiva S Series personal computer in the UK next March. The home-use system will be aimed at the top end of the market, with prices likely to start at around 2000. Created in-house at IBM, the design of the S Series is based on market research carried out to discover what people want from a home PC. This has resulted in a 'split system' arrangement, with all disc drives and controls located beneath the monitor in a pop-up compartment. When closed, the surface ...
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Brief
12 December 1996
Blimey! Anyone with excess cash to splash this Christmas is advised to blow 1500 on a short story. The books in question are not antiquarian, but they are rare. English novelist Julian Barnes and artist Howard Hodgkin have combined their talents in Evermore. Designed by Herman Lelie and bound by Rob Hadrill at Bookworks, Evermore is a Barnes short story interspersed with illustrations. Not your run-of-the-mill illustrations, mind. These are hand-coloured prints by Hodgkin and, as such, ...
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Brief
12 December 1996
The 10 000m2 Singapore Discovery Centre has opened. Lead designer of the 8.7m centre, which uses interactive exhibits to provide education about Singapore's achievements and historical milestones, was UK consultancy Neal Potter Design Associates. Other UK companies, including lighting designer Kevan Shaw and audiovisual specialist The Visual Connection, contributed to the project. Themed areas within the centre include the Tintoy Theatre, where military tacticians discuss methods with ...
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Brief
12 December 1996
'In particular, this year's entries in the areas of annual reports and corporate literature were outstanding, and would be the envy of any international award scheme' Donside Awards chairman of the judges David Stuart from The Partners.
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Briefs
12 December 1996
Rhodes Design has created the identity and graphics for Topshop's own-brand cosmetics range Topshop Colour, which is being tested in 30 stores.
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British Gas fires up new logos by London groups
12 December 1996
The 250 000 new identities for the demerged halves of British Gas feature contributions from three London consultancies and Michael Wolff.
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CDG wins BFI project
12 December 1996
Conran Design Group is to redesign the British Film Institute's identity and brand communications.The group won the work in a three-way credentials pitch drawn from a 16-strong initial list of consultancies.BFI head of press and corporate affairs Tony Slaughter says: 'We need to create a strong brand that will carry us forward well into the next century.'The identity is expected to be unveiled next April.
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Crafty stuff from Butcher & Gundersen
12 December 1996
Europe's biggest craft store has opened in Milton Keynes. Called Craft World, the 2300m2 store is likely to be followed by more openings and built into a national chain if successful.
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Cutting down working hours needs planning
12 December 1996
James Souttar (Letters, DW 29 November) and Jonathan Sands (News, DW 22 November) are both right in their own ways. The design profession has to be business-focused and customer oriented in making whatever effort is required to meet project deadlines. And no matter how well a project is planned there are times when long hours are required - often because the client or the design consultancy is disorganised, or the consultancy is afraid to say no and challenge unrealistic demands. However, ...
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Design ignorant of Disability Act
12 December 1996
The design industry is failing to meet its obligations to disabled designers, and is unlikely to change its ways despite the introduction last week of the Disability Discrimination Act.
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DoE prefers mustachioed look
12 December 1996
The Department of the Environment's new marque may not be the most imaginative answer to an identity crisis, but it has certainly inspired creativity from one unknown source.
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Don't allow morality to cripple originality
12 December 1996
Letters to the Editor should be sent to Design Week, 50 Poland Street, London W1V 4AX. Fax: 0171-734 1770. e-mail address:Design-week@centaur.co.uk
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EMI to reveal Euro winner
12 December 1996
The European Monetary Institute is due to reveal the winning design for the proposed European single currency tomorrow (Friday). The euro banknotes are to be unveiled after a competition process which has been veiled in secrecy. Four UK bodies and companies submitted design proposals to the EMI.See Futures, page 16.
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FCO tenders tent jobs
12 December 1996
The Foreign & Commonwealth Office is putting the design of two UK pavilions out to competitive tender. Between six and eight consultancies will be shortlisted on 10 January for the design of the UK's pavilions at Expo 98 Lisbon and Expo 2000 Hanover.
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Glasgow '99 designers must be paid for the job
12 December 1996
In reference to your article Glasgow hunts for new logo (DW 29 November), it's very rum of Janice Kirkpatrick to expect to be paid for the use of Graven Images' logo for the City of Architecture and Design year.
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Gold wins for The Partners at Donside
12 December 1996
The Partners led the design field in last week's Donside Graphic Design & Print Awards, securing two of the six design gold awards.
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Greenwich set for green light
12 December 1996
The fate of the Imagination-designed Greenwich exhibition was due to be decided yesterday (Wednesday) at a meeting of the Millennium Commission and the operating company Millennium Central.
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Health chain sees Eye II Eye with logo
12 December 1996
Eye II Eye Communications has created a 90 000 identity and brand development strategy for a proposed new national chain of health and fitness clubs to be launched by First Leisure.
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Hong Kong group woos clients at London office
12 December 1996
A Hong Kong design consultancy is opening a London office, turning the tables on UK groups and their efforts to monopolise Asian clients.
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Intro summons up a devil for production house
12 December 1996
Intro has created a "devilish" new identity for commercials production company Jane Fuller Associates. The pixie-style image, taken from a digital stock library, has been combined with "disciplined" type to reflect the serious and efficient side of the co
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London group forms Milan link
12 December 1996
Design and project management consultancy Cochrane McGregor & Associates has formed a collaborative link with Milan architecture and design practice Acropoli.
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Making necessary adjustments
12 December 1996
The Disability Discrimination Act came into being this month. It calls for companies with more than 20 staff to adjust working environments to cater for the disabled. Matthew Valentine assesses what implications this has for design groups
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Milk Business Links for all they're worth
12 December 1996
This week Design Council design director Sean Blair has been putting the final touches to a report evaluating design counsellors' role in the Business Links network which he'll present to Government on 16 December. So what, you say. What benefits has the venture so far yielded to design? With only 44 design counsellors in Business Links offices so far out of a possible 80, there's hardly been a constant flow of new work for consultancies. Even in London, where a group of designers has ...
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Movement at The Partners
12 December 1996
There are more staff changes at The Partners following its restructure and the departure of Steve Gibbons last month (DW 22 November). Helen Lindsay has been made an associate partner and Vivienne Huang has been recruited as head of new media.Lindsay has previously worked at Sampson Tyrrell Enterprise and joined The Partners four months ago. Huang joins from CIA Interactive after a nine-month search by The Partners.
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Northcross on a spending spree
12 December 1996
Acquisitive Scottish design consultancy Northcross was in the process of buying two further companies as Design Week went to press.
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Performance art gets punchy
12 December 1996
Designers and celebrities were shocked last week when what they had mistaken for a piece of live performance art at the opening of a London exhibition turned out to be a real live punch-up.
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Safeway's digital sell
12 December 1996
Supermarket group Safeway is testing a digital point-of-sale TV system developed by Sampson Tyrrell Enterprise. It is being trialled at the Milton Keynes store.The system uses flat-screen technology and can display messages, animated graphics and video sent by ISDN lines from the group's headquarters. Safeway will test the system for three months before deciding on expanding the initiative.
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Springpoint plots a route
12 December 1996
Realism is one of the guiding principles behind the first Clean Motor Show, which will be launched in Spring 1999 by the Ark Foundation. The organisation proposes practical solutions to environmental problems, which will not have an adverse effect on lifestyles.
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Swatch going down the tubes in NY store
12 December 1996
Swatch's new flagship store, called Timeship, opened in New York on Monday. It is designed by Pentagram's London and New York offices.
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Takeover speeds up LNC growth plans
12 December 1996
Lloyd Northover Citigate's international expansion plans will be speeded up through the reverse takeover by its holding group Citigate Communications of a listed company.
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Tenors get vocal with the lawyers
12 December 1996
When is a design rip-off not a design rip-off? It may be down to the courts to decide, now that the world's best known opera stars have taken offence at a CD sleeve released by some of the world's best known amateur golfers.
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Todd to leave BDG/McColl?
12 December 1996
Newsdesk: Andy Gilgrist:0171-439 4222
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Tour de force
12 December 1996
Practicality is the key to designing exhibitions scheduled to tour the world, but as José Manser discovers, practical doesn't necessarily mean utilitarian
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Why the euro won't be a design of note
12 December 1996
The EMI is due to reveal the identity of the euro tomorrow. And the only predictable outcome is that, due to endless regulations, its design will be far from radical, discovers Michael Evamy
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Writs issued over Asda packaging
12 December 1996
Supermarket chain Asda is embroiled in another copycat packaging row this week, following the issue of writs by Grand Metropolitan which allege passing off and copyright infringements by four of Asda's own-brand drinks products.
