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26 October 1995

  • ...as Fitch cashes in on Nordic market

    26 October 1995

    Finland's largest non-food department store chain Anttila has brought in Fitch to design new retail interiors for its 31 department stores and stand-alone furnishing as well as its decoration outlets.

  • A lot more than mere puppetry

    26 October 1995

    If you're in London this weekend, catch the final curtain before it goes down on a magical world. - Fantasy in Action is a new touring exhibition from the Puppet Centre Trust tracing the history of this fascinating art.

  • A star is born - well, not quite

    26 October 1995

    It appears Nucleus Design managing director Peter Matthews must still wait for his 15 minutes of infamy. - Twice Peter has been on national TV.

  • A welcome return for corporate identity work

    26 October 1995

    So, corporate identity is back in the design arena. Wally Olins' decision to release a new book on the subject (see page 12) suggests that confidence is returning to the sector. More telling are the recent call from his consultancy, Wolff Olins, for telecoms businesses to use identity more effectively to differentiate themselves and Coley Porter Bell's survey with Mintel this week. Design groups are once more putting themselves forward as authorities in this contentious area.

  • Adamson withdraws

    26 October 1995

    Marksteen Adamson, of Newell and Sorrell Netherlands, has pulled out of the elections to British Design and Art Direction's executive committee.In a letter to Design Week, Adamson says the elections have turned into an 'ego battle' of campaigning. His withdrawal leaves five design candidates (DW 13 October). The results will be announced at D&AD's AGM in December or January.

  • All agree on unification of paper companies

    26 October 1995

    John O' Brien (Letters, DW 20 October) makes many valid points about my (implied) contest with Mr Placca (DW Paper Supplement, September).

  • BEMA design winner

    26 October 1995

    Trash or Treasure, a brochure designed by Tayburn McIlroy Coates, this week won the Design Week Graphic Design Award in this year's British Environment & Media Awards.

  • Brewer Riddiford gives flour power to Allinson

    26 October 1995

    Allinson flour has been rebranded and repackaged by Brewer Riddiford - the brand's first comprehensive redesign in its 100 year history. The new look will be rolled out this week.

  • Brief

    26 October 1995

    Art and Power: Europe under the dictators 1930-1945 is an exhibition starting today at the Hayward Gallery on London's South Bank. It focuses on Paris, Rome, Moscow and Berlin in an era when society was being fiercely contested by the competing ideologies of Communism and Fascism, and artists frequently lost their lives if they dared to question authority. The exhibition continues until 21 January 1996.

  • Briefs

    26 October 1995

    Fashion store Wallis is launching a Bath & Body collection on 16 November, with packaging by Jane Redfern of Inhouse Design.

  • Buying a gangway to heaven

    26 October 1995

    Say goodbye to stiff bones, popping ears, and swollen ankles; airline manufacturers are wising up to the idea of making air travel comfortable.

  • Channel 5 bids wait

    26 October 1995

    The Independent Television Commission failed to name an operator for Channel 5 at its meeting last week. The four bidders must now wait for a decision to be made at the ITC's next meeting, scheduled for late November (DW 20 October).

  • COMING UP

    26 October 1995

    Emigré Architects in Britain 1928-195Thursday 23 November - Exhibition focusing on immigrant architects, their backgrounds and the opportunities offered to them in the UK.

  • Companies to put emphasis on design use

    26 October 1995

    Market research group Mintel predicts companies will pay more attention to their corporate identity and communications in the future. Mintel this week unveiled research putting Boots top of the corporate pile in consumers' eyes.

  • Contestant withdraws from D&AD campaign

    26 October 1995

    Why has the contest for the British Design and Art Direction executive committee become a whirling morass of direct mailing?

  • CONTINUING

    26 October 1995

    Display and Modesty: North African Textiles - Exhibition of textiles and costumes from North Africa. Diverse cultural influences from Europe, the Middle East and India are evident.

  • Copycat code agreed by IGD

    26 October 1995

    The Institute of Grocery Distribution is believed to have come to an informal agreement over its code of practice on copycat packaging (DW 4 August). The code is expected to be announced imminently.

  • Council initiates new education schemes

    26 October 1995

    Design students should be better prepared for work, both in design and other professions, if initiatives revealed this week by the Design Council prove successful.

  • Creative industries to gain Net results

    26 October 1995

    A new Internet service is being launched for design and other creative and media industries. Graphic identity and on-screen design is by 4i.

  • DBA awards system needs to be rectified

    26 October 1995

    For completeness of reporting on the Design Business Association's Design Effectiveness Awards, your article "Corporate candidates fail to meet the mark" (DW 13 October), should have mentioned AEA Technology's submission in the Corporate Identity over 1m category.

  • DBA takes non-members to US

    26 October 1995

    The Design Business Association/Department of Trade and Industry stand at the Las Vegas consumer electronics show Comdex will include three non-DBA member consultancies.

  • Design gets call-up from new council

    26 October 1995

    New privately funded initiative The Marketing Council was unveiled on Tuesday - and is "very keen" to attract membership from the design industry, according to its chief executive John Stubbs.

  • Designers in 2000 bid

    26 October 1995

    Imagination - the only design group shortlisted by the Millennium Commission to operate its prestigious year 2000 exhibition - is working on a celebration to make the UK "the envy of the world", according to marketing director Ralph Ardill.

  • Energy group identity boost

    26 October 1995

    New company Mitsui Babcock Energy, one of the world's largest energy engineering firms, has appointed London-based Design for Print to create its identity.

  • Enough said - Sadler's Wells is really boring

    26 October 1995

    The word watering hole has double entendres for nouveau riche git theatre Sadler's Wells. - The famous London site has just received 30m worth of Lottery smackeroonies for a massive renovation by Renton Howard Wood Levine and Nicholas Hare Associates (DW

  • Fashion first for UK bobbies

    26 October 1995

    THE UK's police forces plans a radical redesign of their uniforms in anticipation of the 21st century, and one has approached the BBC's Clothes Show for advice.

  • II By IV puts style on new restaurant menu

    26 October 1995

    Toronto group II By IV has created the interiors for an upmarket restaurant with a nautical theme in the Canadian countryside.

  • IIDEX revamp goes on show

    26 October 1995

    Toronto's International Interior Design Exposition has been revamped this year. IIDEX '95, which takes place from 16 to 18 November, has a new layout and product gallery and features lighting, office furniture and seating.

  • Japan

    26 October 1995

    The Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organisation awarded its Good Design Grand Prize last month to Super Computer by NEC Corporation. Design for the computer was by Keigo Kawasaki and Muneyoshi Mikuni at NEC. The pentagonal pillar was created to keep the layout fixed and the distance between each processor as small as possible, says a JIDPO spokesman. A further 73 designs out of the 2566 competition entries received special prizes.International News: Clare Dowdy +44 171-439 4222

  • NEA faces huge cuts in funding and staff level

    26 October 1995

    The National Endowment for the Arts - home of the US Design Programme - is to have its funding and staff slashed following the government's decision to drastically reduce the NEA's powers (DW 21 July).

  • New chocs box for Thorntons

    26 October 1995

    Chocolates retailer Thorntons is launching new packs for its core brand Continental, and is poised to unveil Premier, a new range.

  • No Title

    26 October 1995

    Boom Boom - a new bar aiming to be the most fashionable of its kind in London - has opened with interiors by Tony Weller and graphics by The Green House.

  • OPENING

    26 October 1995

    Terry Farrell - - Retrospective & Current Projects - Tuesday 31 October - Terry Farrell and Partners has a reputation for progressive urban design.

  • Optical chain sees Scottish openings

    26 October 1995

    A new optical retail chain is emerging in Scotland. Two Opto Total Eyecare stores opened this month with more on the way. Naming and brand identity is by Tayburn McIlroy Coates, while interiors are by Skakel & Skakel.

  • Oral test for students

    26 October 1995

    Product design students at the Pasadena Art Center have created the college's first totally computer-generated project. - Personal hygiene company Bausch and Lomb asked students to create a futuristic oral care product in the shape of a power toothbrush,

  • Pharmacy group in search for identity

    26 October 1995

    More than ten unnamed consultancies are being interviewed to create the corporate identity for the newly merged global pharmaceuticals company Pharmacia et Upjohn.

  • Plucky chaps perform abroad

    26 October 1995

    When Yorkshire designer Michael Wright was a little boy his brother John taught him to hold a small metal item between his teeth and pluck it with one finger.

  • Product designs call

    26 October 1995

    New product design entries are invited for the International Design Resource Awards Competition in Washington, which focuses on recycled material. Call 001 212 789 0949 for details.

  • Product group assets

    26 October 1995

    Seymour Powell has made Adam White and Adrian Berry, both at the product design group for eight years, share-holding partners alongside founders Richard Seymour and Dick Powell.White and Berry, who both worked at Pentagram before joining Seymour Powell, are described as 'two of our most valuable assets' by Seymour and Powell.

  • Putting the surveyors under surveillance

    26 October 1995

    Why are more and more design consultancies doing research? And what do they do with the results?

  • Samsung lines up fourth design centre

    26 October 1995

    Korean electrical goods group Samsung is setting up an Innovative Design Lab in Seoul at a cost of 26m. The facility is intended to benefit 2000 designers by 1997.

  • SEGD aims to raise profile with new head

    26 October 1995

    The Society for Environmental Graphic Design in Massachusetts has appointed Elizabeth Jackson as executive director. She replaces Paula Rees.

  • SPECTRUM IDENTITY

    26 October 1995

    BY GRUNDY & NORTHEDGE

  • Stand and deliver

    26 October 1995

    If you want your exhibition stand to have maximum impact, you need to choose the right display system. José Manser rounds up the range of available options

  • Supermarket chain promotes healthy option

    26 October 1995

    Health food shopping gets the supermarket touch next month when Planet Organic opens its first outlet. Name development, retail identity, facia and interior signage is by Coley Porter Bell.

  • Tax-payer foots bill for the DFEE free-pitch

    26 October 1995

    I was interested to read the comment from the creative head of one of the Central Office of Information's graphic design arms regarding the free-pitch they took part in for the Department for Education and Employment (DW 6 October).

  • The identity parade

    26 October 1995

    Since the furore over the BT logo, corporate identity has kept a fairly low profile. Jeremy Myerson heralds its return to the public arena through two new books. International Corporate Identity, edited by Wally Olins, is published by Laurence King Publis

  • The unoriginal sin

    26 October 1995

    As we know, all good things which exist are the fruits of originality. Peter Hall claims that this is an outdated premise. After all, it doesn't appear to matter that everything creative is merely a copy of what went before. The art of plagiarism, he conc

  • V&A plans revamp for art and design spaces

    26 October 1995

    The Victoria & Albert Museum is planning a 16m redesign of its 16 British Art and Design galleries. - Manchester group Robert Letts Associates has designed initial concepts for sponsorship purposes.

  • Wolff Olins completes Finnish bank identity...

    26 October 1995

    Wolff Olins' corporate identity for Finland's newly merged bank Merita has been unveiled with a logo design drawing on classic Finnish elements.

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