Design Week
26 November 2009
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Banks should bank on affordable luxury to instil confidence
26 November 2009
Two weeks ago you posed the question, ‘What can the new and devolved banking brands do to instil confidence in their customers?’ (Voxpop, DW 12 November). High street banks need genuine high street attitudes if they hope to attract consumer buy-in. They need to look at successes like the boom in affordable luxuries, and work out how they can draw a line from lipsticks and chocolate bars to mortgages, pensions and overdraft facilities. It might sound weird, but ...
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Building a future for the RCA
26 November 2009
Paul Thompson faces difficult challenges in his new role as rector of the Royal College of Art. Lynda Relph-Knight talks to him about his plans
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COI is not to blame for public-sector problems
26 November 2009
Recent news items and letters about design procurement in the public sector have raised some important issues regarding free-pitches, aborted tenders and Central Office of Information rosters (News, DW 24 September, and Letters, DW 22 October, 29 October and 5 November). Setting up a design framework that meets European Union regulations, allows you to judge submissions fairly and isn’t too time-consuming for consultancies is a difficult balancing act. For our ...
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Consultancy Music creates poster with illustrator Chris White
26 November 2009
Consultancy Music has created a poster along with illustrator Chris White to promote Manchester City Football Club’s Premier League match against Chelsea on 3 December. The poster features winger Shaun Wright-Phillips, who moved from Chelsea to Manchester City in 2008.
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Credits for The Museum of Everything
26 November 2009
The front cover image used on last week’s issue and some of the images in the profile of Bow Wow International were wrongly credited (DW 19 November).The cover image of Possum Trot figures by Calvin & Ruby Black copyright 1960/70 (USA) should have been credited copyright The Museum of Everything 2009. The photographer was Guy Archard and art direction was by Liana Braune.Image 2 in the profile (page 13) shows The Ticket Booth of Everything, designed by Eve ...
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Design is hope
26 November 2009
We must safeguard our creativity and take our craft seriously, because it can be a genuine agent of change. Rodney Fitch makes a plea for greater awareness of the potential of design to foster innovation and help shape a civil society
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Design trio work on Oxford 'fusion' restaurant Camera
26 November 2009
Noble Russell, Ryuu Design and Commun are working on a new Asian-inspired restaurant and bar in Oxford.Camera owner Oxford Leisure, which describes the restaurant’s menu and decor as ‘fusion’, is aiming its offer at the ‘over-21 sophisticated weekend crowd’, according to Oxford Leisure co-owner Jake Oppon.Oxford Leisure appointed the furniture and interior design group on the strength of its previous work for the company over the past eight years, including on ...
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Dodge those Russian mines
26 November 2009
As the boom fizzled out in Russia, where did that leave the country’s nascent design industry? Alexei Goncharenko offers his top survival tips
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Ethical design is about more than choice of materials
26 November 2009
It is sad to see the idea of good design being misrepresented by Starbucks with its new boutique design (www.designweek.co.uk, 6 November). I think the design world has moved far beyond the idea that using responsible building materials constitutes good design - this is something so fundamental in any design that, really, we should all stop talking about it and just do it. To use this idea to unveil a new design, and keep rolling it out as if it were ‘the next ...
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Faraday innovation report prompts pack designers to call for better collaboration
26 November 2009
Innovation within the packaging supply chain is being stifled by a lack of communication, collaboration and investment, according to a report commissioned by research consultancy Faraday. The report, ‘Understanding and promoting collaborative innovation across packaging supply chains of fast-moving consumer goods’, identified environmental concerns as presenting the greatest need to innovate.It concluded that, although businesses at all stages of the process were moderately ...
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Gilded promises
26 November 2009
‘Corporate dissonance’ or ‘second-item syndrome’, anyone? David Bernstein presents some nifty terms as he explores the use of ‘linguistic added value’
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Inspired - Jocelyn Bailey
26 November 2009
There is little that I don’t find interesting, and London is rich in material, so answering the question ‘what inspires me’ produced a rather long list. Here’s the shortlist:Books. Especially, but not only, fiction. To fuel my addiction I’ve started a book club with other secret bookworms where we can indulge our geekery without fear of persecution.My job, sometimes. Working for the Associate Parliamentary Group for Design and Innovation has opened up a world of ...
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Martin Lore has created an advent calendar for Beyond
26 November 2009
Surrey-based consultancy Martin Lore has created an advent calendar for Brighton-based organisation Beyond, which aims to explore Christian spirituality through creativity. The photoshoot saw 25 hut owners open their huts for a designated day, and decorate or create a tableau inside.
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News in Pictures
26 November 2009
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News in Pictures
26 November 2009
An exhibition of Pentagram co-founder Alan Fletcher’s work will be held at the Cube gallery in Manchester from 21 January to 3 April.
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News in Pictures
26 November 2009
Bill Gentle and Fanny Boström (whose work is pictured), Liselotte Watkins and James Jarvis have created Christmas cards for clothing brand Happy Socks.
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Open brief
26 November 2009
It’s a transitional time for font design, with the need to make lettering work across a range of media shaping the discipline and opening up new possibilities. Anna Richardson hears how a new generation of type designers views the craft
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Police forces come clean with sanitiser branded by Tentrees
26 November 2009
Wiltshire-based consultancy Tentrees has branded Clean Force, a new hand sanitiser to be issued to police forces in the UK from next week. The consultancy was appointed by manufacturer Hygenica Solutions in October on the strength of previous work with the company, including designing a corporate identity and a website. The client wanted a ‘business-like’ brand, to reflect the convenience of the delivery system and conform to its existing identity.
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Pop-up art
26 November 2009
Paddy Barstow is not one for the constraints of traditional art galleries - he wants to discover and nurture emerging talent from the art world and break down barriers between different media. Barstow is the curator of Art Mosh, a series of exclusive pop-up events that bring artists together with contemporary music and DJs in unconventional venues. The first official event takes place in Paris this week, with one scheduled for the UK in March next year. It features an eclectic roster ...
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Profile - Woodrow Phoenix
26 November 2009
Graphic artist Woodrow Phoenix packs a very Postmodern punch in his work, with message-driven illustrations offering up an incongruous mix of the cute and the sinister. Dominic Lutyens catches up with him
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Rams retrospective proves the value of in-house design
26 November 2009
All praise to your item on in-house design (Comment, DW 22 October). Indeed, in-house design is often viewed as the poor relation, but you can now see the results of 50 years of in-house design, because Dieter Rams’s work for Braun and Vitsoe is being exhibited at London’s Design Museum. Rams often speaks of his internal battles with the marketing departments of Braun and its then US owner, Gillette. However, good design is often the product of a single-minded ...
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Rodney is leaving Fitch, but he won't leave the industry
26 November 2009
News that Rodney Fitch is leaving Fitch will come as no real surprise to those who know him (see www.designweek.co.uk, 23 November). He is an enterprising soul who has seen more than one successful career in design and we await with great interest full details of his next venture.
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Silver Worldwide brands Christian youth organisation The Rock
26 November 2009
Cheltenham-based consultancy Silver Worldwide has created the brand for youth organisation The Rock, which is converting a church building in the town into a skate park and a recording studio.The Rock will be established at St Peter’s Church in Cheltenham, which closed last year. It will aim to provide opportunities including extreme sports and life skills for young people.Silver Worldwide was appointed following a credentials pitch around six months ago, according ...
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Technology is driving design of new packs, says Mintel
26 November 2009
Nostalgia buffs, hold on to your pogo sticks - scratch’n’sniff is making a comeback, but this time in the world of packaging. According to research company Mintel’s predictions, smelliness is set to be one of next year’s most exciting packaging trends, along with colour-coded ranges and domestic cleaning products for young adults.These and other global predictions were ‘brainstormed’ by Mintel employees from around the world, including its director of trends and innovation ...
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Voxpop
26 November 2009
Sir John Sorrell recently asked architects to name features of the built environment that delight them. What would your answer have been, and why?
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Wren & Rowe designs Meister lager brand for Romanian European Breweries
26 November 2009
Wren & Rowe has designed the Meister lager brand for Romanian European Breweries. Paul Foulkes-Arellano, managing director of Wren & Rowe, says, ‘Meister is brewed in Transylvania… we’ve endeavoured to create a refreshing contemporary brand, but with due reference to the history of the region.’
