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2 November 1995

  • Ackermans rolls out new Landor look

    2 November 1995

    Landor's new identity and signage programme for South African retail chain Ackermans is to be rolled out across all 160 stores.

  • Addison gives China Airlines floral look

    2 November 1995

    China Airlines has a new floral corporate logo designed by Addison in Singapore to bridge the gap between old and new. It's the airline's first identity change for 35 years.

  • Briefs

    2 November 1995

    Planet has designed a new can and fount for Holsten's premium draught lager. - - Tilney Lumsden Shane has promoted Roger Edey to be a board director after seven years with the consultancy.

  • CBS has 'wasted' 3m

    2 November 1995

    The Government's failed Consultancy Brokerage Service has been condemned as a huge waste of money after the Department of Trade and Industry revealed it cost nearly 3m to set up.

  • Channel 5 airs plans for identity package

    2 November 1995

    Channel 5 Broadcasting, the newly appointed licensee for Britain's latest terrestrial TV channel, will start to consider graphics, name and logo in the next few weeks, according to a company spokeswoman.

  • COMING UP

    2 November 1995

    Design, Industry and Government Initiatives: Past, Present and Future - Friday 10 November - A conference relating to the role of the state in relation to design and manufacture, including a debate on the economic and social climate since the Second World

  • CONTINUING

    2 November 1995

    Four Sumatran Villages and a Student - Exhibition of drawings and photographs by Tim Bradley, a recent graduate of Manchester University, from his trip to Sumatra.

  • Copycat packs risks 'reduced'

    2 November 1995

    Copycat packaging rows are less likely in the future because the issue has been widely discussed in the boardrooms of retailers and brand-owners, predicts Institute of Grocery Distribution chief executive Dr John Beaumont.

  • Correcting mistakes

    2 November 1995

    So, the education system is a mess, as students and educators alike keep reminding us. Sutherland Lyall is sick of hearing complaints from too many students with no talent, and teaching staff who are afraid of rocking the bureaucratic boat which they them

  • Could someone tell me what I graduated in?

    2 November 1995

    In June of this year I graduated with an HND as a Technical Graphic Illustrator from the Glasgow College of Building and Printing. On leaving college I had no pre-conceived ideas that finding a job would be easy. However, no one I have spoken to can help me in my quest for a job.

  • CPB research backs packs

    2 November 1995

    CPB research backs packsShoppers are unaware that packaging design is a marketing tool being deployed at them, suggests new research by Coley Porter Bell.Consumers in the study say they are not aware of being affected by packaging, but further questioning reveals a significant degree of influence on purchasing decisions.See News Analysis, page 7.

  • Crawlers creep into the lights

    2 November 1995

    Photographer Bruce Brown finds the construction of insects "so intricate and so bizarre - yet strangely elegant". - He collected them as a child, then got distracted en route to achieving an international reputation as a still-life photographer for client

  • Curious

    2 November 1995

    Curious? "It sums up the common denominator between all the staff," says managing director Phil Baker. "We are all very different, but we are all interesting and curious.

  • DENTAZYME TOOTHPASTE PACKAGING

    2 November 1995

    FOR M&M COSMETICS

  • DFEE unveils identity by COI

    2 November 1995

    The Department for Education and Employment has unveiled its controversial new logo, designed by Government agency the Central Office of Information.

  • Disco devil finds an ideal platform

    2 November 1995

    Is he a cutout or is he real? - Bewildered Virgin Megastore customers grouped around graphic designer Andy Billé on a recent Friday night - and gasped when he started strutting his stuff John Travolta-style.

  • Edinburgh builds on centre foundations

    2 November 1995

    Edinburgh's plans to create a 10m Architecture and Design Centre for the city are shaping up. Last week a Norwegian architect won a competition for the centre's design.

  • Fitting behaviour

    2 November 1995

    Fitting out a building involves many parties and a lot of legal grey areas. New construction regulations aim to clarify who should do what.

  • Health and beauty chain tries new face

    2 November 1995

    Health and beauty chain Superdrug is testing a new retail identity designed by Nucleus Design. It is believed Superdrug is planning to assault Boots' premier position with the new look.

  • Home Fixtures:MPL

    2 November 1995

    When consultancies make international alliances or go through management changes, how do they reposition themselves and their new identity? Design Week examines how three have recently coped with hitting their own goals

  • Impressive lecture by great inventor at CSD

    2 November 1995

    I was at one of the most stimulating talks I have ever been to last week at The Chartered Society of Designers. It was by James Dyson.

  • Jumping Jasper

    2 November 1995

    Can a sofa designer create a tram? Tableware? A corporate identity? Jasper Morrison thinks so and, as if to prove it, he's currently working on all these projects. The next few years will be decisive in a career which up until now has been firmly focused on furniture design. His simple designs, sought after throughout Europe and the US, represent the perfect marriage between comfort and function.

  • London group labels optician and car service

    2 November 1995

    Debi Ani Design Associates has created identities for two new small businesses - an optician and a chauffeur service. - The optician, Whitby & Co, is opening in a Grade II listed former bank building on London's Fleet Street.

  • Lottery cards look like losers

    2 November 1995

    Could lottery cards become a design icon of the Nineties? - Will future generations go to stare at Scratch-n-Win cards, for example, on display in glass cases at museums?

  • Low unemployment due to boost in courses

    2 November 1995

    Student quality, not quantity, is the issue. - The Tories must have found it a fitting footnote to their conference that the unemployment figures in the UK are currently at their lowest for years.

  • Morrison sets trams on line

    2 November 1995

    Germany's Hanover transport authority stra is gearing up for the city's Expo 2000 with plans to boost its fleet of trams.

  • Museum prepares for next phase of revamp

    2 November 1995

    The Natural History Museum will be on the hunt for designers for the second phase of its 12m redevelopment plan after last week's unveiling of models and preliminary drawings of the first phase.

  • New world records site may use UK designers

    2 November 1995

    The owner of the Guinness World of Records Exhibition is planning a new 4m replacement exhibition following its decision to close the current museum at London's Trocadero Centre.

  • OPENING

    2 November 1995

    Doors of Perception Monday 6 November - Conference looking at issues relating to design and information technology and their relationship to improving the environment, focusing on the material changes needed for a sustainable future.

  • PI Design International

    2 November 1995

    It's been a big year for PI Design. First, in May, its founder Sheila Clarke relinquished her hands-on role, opting instead to become a consultant; then there was the management buy-out by current chairman Chris Griffin and his team. And finally last month it cemented a "handshake deal" with US consultancy Libby Perszyk Kathman (DW 6 October).

  • Precept puts travel agency in the picture

    2 November 1995

    Precept has created the identity for Odyssey Travel Direct, Premier Holidays' new direct selling division. - The new holiday service will sell off-the-page specialist holidays and is aimed at ABC1 consumers, specifically the retired.

  • Redland yes to buyout

    2 November 1995

    Building specialist Redland has approved the management buyout of its graphic design arm, headed up by design manager Chris Hamilton.Four of the existing 13-strong design arm put together the buyout scheme after Redland announced plans to disband its in-house team.The new group, Summerly Communications, includes Hamilton and designer Andrew Burr and started operating this week. A third designer, Martin West, is setting up his own consultancy, Thinking Fish Design.

  • Sked engineers union to add client appeal

    2 November 1995

    Gordon Sked Design Associates has formed an association with automotive and aerospace engineer Loades to enhance each company's appeal to clients (DW 22 September).

  • Slice off a wedge of Continental thinking

    2 November 1995

    Some three years ago a perceptive furniture dealer said to me: "Keep an eye on this one. He's one of the best around." That "one" was Jasper Morrison, an unlikely hero given his public reticence, but an undoubted talent. His talent has been recognised (see Profile, page 12), but, with very few exceptions, his patrons are on the other side of the Channel.

  • Spray of shower logos

    2 November 1995

    Checkland Kindleysides in Leicestershire has created a new corporate identity and is rolling out 11 sub-brand identities for bathroom shower company Caradon Mira.The group is also designing brochures, point-of sale material and packaging for the showers.

  • The silent salesman is still seducing them

    2 November 1995

    New research into how supermarket shoppers buy suggests packaging design can still evade their cynical bullshit detectors.

  • Two cities remain in battle for stadium

    2 November 1995

    DESIGN was "absolutely crucial" in the Sports Council's shortlisting on Tuesday of Manchester and Wembley as potential hosts for a national sports stadium.

  • WPP design groups see revenue surge

    2 November 1995

    WPP Group's specialist communications arm - which includes design consultancies Coley Porter Bell, Sampson Tyrrell and BDG/McColl - was the group's best performing service sector, reporting an 11 per cent surge in revenue in WPP's latest results.

  • Zambuni heads CLK

    2 November 1995

    CLK has promoted deputy managing director Richard Zambuni to managing director. Current md Chris Woods becomes joint chairman with CLK founder Creenagh Lodge.Woods also takes up the newly created post of managing director for parent company Princedale's marketing services division, which includes MPL.

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