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17 December 1998

  • A gap needs to be filled in the computer market

    17 December 1998

    Letters to the Editor should be sent to Design Week, 50 Poland Street, London W1V 4AX. Fax: 0171-970 6730. e-mail lyndark@centaur.co.uk

  • Allied Domecq to set up roster

    17 December 1998

    International drinks giant Allied Domecq is poised to appoint a new roster of packaging design and new product development groups.

  • Auction

    17 December 1998

    A Christmas exhibition and auction New Beginnings are in the Offing, displays 70 works by international artists. The exhibition will take place from 21-23 December and the auction will be on 23 December at 7pm.Contact: Ros Lambert on 0131-467 5050.Venue: Ingleby Gallery, 6 Carlton Terrace, Edinburgh EH7 6DD.

  • Awards

    17 December 1998

    The International Association of Lighting Designers is calling for entries to the 1999 IALD Lighting Design Awards. Projects submitted must be a permanent architectural lighting design solution for which construction was completed after 1 June 1996. The deadline for submissions is 1 February 1999.

  • Barcelona beckons

    17 December 1998

    Multimedia designers and producers keen to escape grey London skies could do worse than attend the upcoming CGIX 99 - European Computer Graphics And Imaging Event - conference and exhibition being held from 3-6 February in Barcelona. The four days each focus on different aspects of CGI work, including online (5 February) and games/Interactive (6 February). Speakers include SohoNet chairman Neil Harris, Macromedia's Tony Tucker and AntiRom's Luc Penrell. Get more info from the website ...

  • Books Etc launches new coffee format by Ergo

    17 December 1998

    Retailer Books Etc has introduced its own coffee shop format, Coffee Etc, to its Finchley Road store in North London. The concept was created and developed by design group Ergo (pictured).

  • Carte Blanche targets young at Whittard

    17 December 1998

    Whittard of Chelsea is continuing its drive to target the young, funky end of the tea market with T-zone, a new retail format by Carte Blanche Design.

  • Circle Design gets the Abbey habit

    17 December 1998

    Abbey National's finance house business, First National, has appointed Circle Design Consultants to create its new brand identity. The appointment follows Abbey National's acquisition last month of three businesses from Lombard North Central, part of the NatWest Group.

  • Clothes brand sports Bureaux identity

    17 December 1998

    UK clothes brand Protek has a new identity by integrated fashion design consultancy Bureaux. - Protek, a utility-style, sportswear collection is sold through independent retailers.

  • CSD gets caught by the World Wide Web

    17 December 1998

    Poor old Chartered Society of Designers. Having told everybody about the launch of its new official website, a spokesman has since had to admit that it doesn't actually work yet. A technical glitch has prevented any visitors from accessing the site.And here were we thinking it might help the CSD overcome some of its communication problems, such as taking a month to tell members the president has resigned. Hopefully, messages will start to travel faster in the future.

  • David Taylor dies

    17 December 1998

    David Taylor, founder of drink and tobacco branding specialist David Taylor and Company, has died after a short illness. - Taylor set up his consultancy in 1979.

  • DBA courses do exist

    17 December 1998

    Steve Wright (Letters, DW 30 October) makes important and welcome comments on the industry's grasp of design law, with which we entirely agree.

  • Design precedent set as appeal is upheld

    17 December 1998

    The first appeal judgement concerning unregistered design rights for a decade, made this month at the Royal Courts of Justice, has set an important precedent for designers who fear their work has been copied.

  • Digest

    17 December 1998

    - Enter a virtual world of polyurethanes at the new website designed by C2 Creative Communications for ICI. Featuring Superscape's VRT software used for the 3D modelling of the Millennium Dome, the site illustrates polyurethane applications including a

  • Digests

    17 December 1998

    - CDT Design uses a red-clad figure behind glass to give this Design Museum Annual Review 1998 cover a sense of accessibility and dynamism, according to a client spokesman.

  • Digests

    17 December 1998

    - Unbeknown to many in the industry, love has been blossoming at Landor Associates. David Redhill, formerly communications director at the London arm of the design group before moving to San Francisco, has just tied the knot with Amanda Evans, his forme

  • Digests

    17 December 1998

    - The Galapagos Conservation Trust, a charity for the islands, has appointed Paper White to design its corporate identity.

  • Do to others as you would be done to

    17 December 1998

    The free pitching debate has kept me amused for years. - In my previous life as commercial director of Wood and Wood Signs, I used to turn straight to your Letters page each week to see which of our graphic or interior design clients would be writing eloq

  • Drugs mergers promise work

    17 December 1998

    Identity groups could be in for a bonanza from drugs company mergers as the UK's third biggest pharmaceuticals business Zeneca announced its proposed 40bn-plus merger with Swedish rival Astra.

  • Exhibitions

    17 December 1998

    New photographic gallery, Focus exhibits the Focus Gallery Collection until 23 December. Vintage and modern prints by ten photographers including Sam Haskins and Erwin Blumenfeld will be on sale. The exhibition conveys a variety of styles and subject matter demonstrating different printing techniques.

  • Finding a cure

    17 December 1998

    Oxfordshire-based independent publisher of the award-winning History of the Universe, Ransom Publishing, has released a new CD-ROM entitled Mia, The Search for Grandma's Remedy. Aimed at four to nine-year-olds, the two-CD set developed and designed by Kutoka Interactive uses impressive 3D graphics and animation in a learning adventure which incorporates puzzles, literacy tests and problem-solving skills.

  • First class post

    17 December 1998

    Royal Mail's millennium stamp programme promises to be worth collecting. Fay Sweet gives it her stamp of approval. Fay Sweet has produced a radio programme, exploring the design process of special stamps; it is presented by Tony Benn who, as Postmaster Ge

  • Get switched on

    17 December 1998

    Of interest to anyone keen to learn more about digital TV is the two-day UK Digital TV conference being held in London on 28-30 April 1999. An impressive line-up of speakers includes Marc Sands, director of brand marketing at ONdigital, James Ackerman, chief executive of BiB, and Adam Singer, chairman and chief executive at Flextech. Information from Scott Forbes on 0171-453 5495, or on the website at www.ibctelecoms.com/ukdigital

  • Integration is key to a successful New Year

    17 December 1998

    A busy year draws to a close, but there's no sign of activity in design letting up, particularly on the merger front. - Of the many deals we've reported over recent weeks, few promise to have as great an impact on the future of design as the merger betwee

  • It takes two to Tango

    17 December 1998

    The Identica and Tango alliance is the latest indication of the blossoming relationship between advertising and design. Lynda Relph-Knight reports on the trend for greater unity.

  • King of groovy Christmas cards

    17 December 1998

    London's trendy design consultancies have already been bombarding DW's office with Christmas cards. But there's not much evidence of the creative juices really flowing, with a relatively poor standard of Yuletide jokes and puns so far, when compared to recent years. And there has been a preponderance of dull colours. In short, they're boring. Which makes it all the more embarrassing that the brightest card yet to hit the office is from an ad agency in Sutton Coldfield. All the staff ...

  • Morrison quits The Attik after 9 months

    17 December 1998

    Screen graphics specialist Richard Morrison has left The Attik only nine months after the global graphics group bought his former consultancy, Plume.

  • Opportunities from online report

    17 December 1998

    Bamber Forsyth has launched Activereporting, an online corporate reporting concept which it says could create new opportunities for multimedia designers.

  • Partnership with shopfitters will benefit design

    17 December 1998

    Lynda Relph-Knight rightly suggests that designers would be well advised to forge partnerships with good shopfitters (Comment, DW 13 November).

  • Payroll lands 'strong' logo

    17 December 1998

    Specialist media company Payroll Marketing has a new identity designed by Skidmore Turnbull. - Now known as PMM, which stands for Payroll Media & Marketing, the new marque is intended to appear both innovative and business-like.

  • Presents of mind

    17 December 1998

    What do you give a designer for Christmas? Matthew Valentine unwraps their secret desires and discovers that a coal scuttle could be the perfect gift

  • Rejection doesn't have to mean failure

    17 December 1998

    Design groups with interesting, but rejected, creative work for ad campaigns languishing in cupboards now have an outlet for their frustrations.Berlin Press and Absolut Vodka are, for the second time, running a competition to choose the best rejected ad campaigns from around the world and publish the selection. Which all goes to prove that a cowardly client need not mean the end of a great idea.

  • Rockwell in London

    17 December 1998

    US restaurant designer David Rockwell is creating the interior of Café Milan, to open this month on London's King's Road.

  • Second Shoeless Joe's venue

    17 December 1998

    Sports-themed bar Shoeless Joe's has opened a second venue above London's Temple Tube station, with interiors by Hugh Owen Architects.Interiors for the original Shoeless Joe's were by Din Associates.This latest site is nearly 2000m2 including a roof area overlooking the Thames. Further venues are planned, in Glasgow, Manchester and Leeds.Hugh Owen Architects may be retained for the other sites, says Shoeless Joe's marketing manager Kevin Bone.

  • Shiny happy Christmas

    17 December 1998

    For Janice Kirkpatrick the element of Christmas is chrome, that shiny, glittering substance that promises so much, but in truth is usually just a thin polished veneer.

  • Shops

    17 December 1998

    Designer furniture emporium Viaduct has revamped its store adding 100m2. The shop now has room for a home set and exhibitions, an extended library and an all-new lighting department as well as an even greater choice of sale furniture. The sale will take place from 9-23 January 1999.Venue: Viaduct, 1-10 Summers Street, London EC1.

  • South Bank seeks designers

    17 December 1998

    Designers and architects are to be sought next year for the third attempt to redevelop London's South Bank Centre. - An ambitious 170m scheme by Richard Rogers Partnership was ditched earlier this year after failing to win Lottery funding, paving the way

  • Super Troopers

    17 December 1998

    London group Foresight New Media, designer of websites for Trainspotting and Paul Smith, has a major hit on its hands with its site promoting the video release of Starship Troopers. Taking the form of an online strategy game comprising four missions, the site has proved so popular that registration was closed last week, but was due to re-open on 11 December. Players are e-mailed weekly intelligence and performance reports and are given tips on team members. Try to get in at www.starshiptroopers.

  • Switching on to the new TV guide

    17 December 1998

    Yolanda Zappaterra explains the opportunities digital TV will offer designers, and takes a closer look at the design of ONdigital's electronic programme guidE.

  • Teapot firm looks to design

    17 December 1998

    One of the UK's top teapot manufacturers is hoping to improve consumer awareness with design input from Four IV, The Branding Iron, and product designers Robin Levien and Nick Holland.

  • Time travelling

    17 December 1998

    As the clock ticks onwards towards the year 2000, the design industry is picking up pace. Here are the highlights of this year's journey.

  • Wagstaffs boosts new business offer

    17 December 1998

    Wagstaffs has brought in Mike Jessop, previously with structural packaging consultancy Innovators as new business director. He replaces Michael Graham, who left to join Landor in the autumn (DW 30 October).

  • Water on the Web

    17 December 1998

    Yorkshire Water launched its inaugural website on Tuesday, designed by Leeds consultancy Elmwood. - Freelance illustrator Jon Stuart worked up the site's 3D visuals, and Planet On-Line developed its technical side.

  • Well brands K-Swiss shoes

    17 December 1998

    US sports shoe brand K-Swiss is repositioning itself with a new identity, created by Well Strategic Design in The Netherlands.

  • Wordsearch acquisition

    17 December 1998

    Wordsearch Communications has bought the Ampersand Partnership. The 21-strong merged group, called Wordsearch Communications, specialises in property marketing material and architectural information.

  • Xmas greetings foiled by the Prints of Peace

    17 December 1998

    There were printing problems of an unusual kind for Rose Associates, a recruitment consultancy, when it decided on a corporate Christmas card created by design group O Ltd.

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