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3 December 1998

  • All aboard for a party to raise the dead

    3 December 1998

    Design group Basten Greenhill Andrews threw a major party last week to celebrate founder Cliff Basten's 25th year in the business. The group boarded a boat for a waterborne bash on the Thames, visited the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, and saw Tower Bridge raised especially for them.

  • Another CSD president quits

    3 December 1998

    Adrianne LeMan has resigned from her position as president of the Chartered Society of Designers, becoming the second consecutive holder of the title to resign mid-term.

  • Any name will do as long as it's Joshua

    3 December 1998

    The world of branding never ceases to amaze even the most cynical among us. Newly formed integrated communications consultancy Joshua has decided each of its 205 employees should adopt that name during working hours.

  • Are you ready for Get Set

    3 December 1998

    A hard day in the studio and the prospect of that hot date looms, but are your personal hygiene and grooming up to it? It's a universal question vending company Stocking Up seeks to address by putting together vending packs containing useful items such as toothpaste and toothbrush or tights for sale through machines in office premises.

  • Awards

    3 December 1998

    The Liverpool Design Initiative is calling for entries to the Liverpool Design Awards 1998. The awards showcase the best design by Merseyside creatives. The deadline for entries is 15 January 1999. Categories include graphics, product, multimedia, furniture and interiors. A panel of judges includes Gillian Thorpe from The Partners and Rankin from Dazed & Confused.Contact: Ali Johnson at LDI on 0151-709 1566.

  • Barrow Parkhill sets the record straight

    3 December 1998

    I have just returned from a long trip to the Middle East and read about Barrow Parkhill Associates having been acquired by Expression Marketing and Design (DW 25 September).This is not so. We are, however, sharing the same nest and have several large eggs which we are hoping to hatch together.Robert ParkhillBarrow Parkhill AssociatesLondon W1

  • Bhs Millennium Concept causes some concern

    3 December 1998

    I am a little concerned about Bhs' so called Millennium Concept, (DW, 13 November). Since a visit to the new Ipswich store, I remain unsure as to whether they are trying to help or hinder customers.

  • Brief

    3 December 1998

    New York group Donovan and Green aims to create a female space where 7-12-year-old girls can learn about pioneering women and buy their favourite toys, with this new department store in Chicago. The 3500m2 space comprises a 150-seat theatre which stages plays about American women, a café and a retail area. 'The store is not just about selling, it's about uplifting and educating girls,' says Donovan and Green chairwoman Nancye Green. The shop, named The American Girl Place, opened last ...

  • Brief

    3 December 1998

    The Health Education Authority has launched a set of beer mats, created by Zero 2 Design, aimed at communicating a safe sex message to those hotbeds of drunkeness and lust known as student union bars. The six mats have been designed with a 'cultish feel which young people will identify with and want to collect', says a Zero 2 spokesman. But since when have the kind of students who collect beer mats ever managed to find anyone to have sex with?

  • Briefs

    3 December 1998

    Television branding specialist Lambie-Nairn won its first gold Medal at the Royal Television Society Awards, held last week, for its ident sequences for BBC1. Director Jason Keeley and his team from the consultancy accepted the honour. Judges especially liked the 'completely different idea' behind the idents, which transfer the traditional BBC globe symbol on to a hot air balloon.

  • Briefs

    3 December 1998

    Cable and satellite channel Nickelodeon has introduced a new viewers fanzine, designed by The Team. Renamed The Nickelodeon Splat, the publication follows a 12-page fold-out format.

  • Brown Inc to spell out new Scrabble identity

    3 December 1998

    Brown Inc has been appointed by games giant Mattel to redesign Scrabble, the world's best selling word game. The brand identity is also under review.

  • Clinic birthday party hits the right note

    3 December 1998

    Birthday celebrations to mark another year in the life of design group Clinic produced embarrassing situations for many of the staff present. Revellers even queued to get on stage at the Kensington Roof Gardens to sing a line of Lou Reed's song Perfect Day along with former members of pop group Squeeze.

  • CLK.MPL buys multimedia arm

    3 December 1998

    CLK.MPL has acquired ten-strong corporate design group ADC, together with its multimedia subsidiary, Look Interactive. - The deal went live last Friday and will see CLK.

  • Coffee giant stirs up website

    3 December 1998

    Hertfordshire group Tableau has designed a new website for coffee manufacturer Douwe Egberts, to educate consumers about coffee and strengthen the company's position in the stylish ABC1 market.

  • Crabtree Hall retained by Hong Kong deli

    3 December 1998

    Crabtree Hall has been retained by Hong Kong-based multinational Dairy Farm Group, to review the retail presentation of Olivers, its Hong Kong delicatessen operation.

  • CSD members are owed an explanation

    3 December 1998

    So, the Chartered Society of Designers is again faced with the mid-term resignation of its president (see News, page 3). Ironically, Adrianne LeMan, whose resignation was accepted at the recent CSD Council meeting, stepped into the breach only 18 months ago after Nick Jenkins resigned over wranglings within the council and its then less than supportive stance over the Halifax Initiative.

  • Declaring the interest

    3 December 1998

    The value of brands could be thrust into the limelight with the introduction of a new accounting law. Tom Bawden looks into how and why brands should be evaluated.

  • Dolphin joins Mercier Gray

    3 December 1998

    Integrated marketing consultancy Mercier Gray has acquired music, leisure and retail design group Dolphin, for an undisclosed sum.

  • Double wins at the Donside Awards

    3 December 1998

    A number of design groups scored double category wins at the 1998 Donside Awards for Print, announced this week. - Trickett & Webb won both the calendar and corporate brochure categories with its design work for Augustus Martin and Touchstone Exhibitions

  • Eagle Star may drop its identity review

    3 December 1998

    Insurance company Eagle Star is believed to be dropping its re-branding programme, designed by The Partners, following its October merger with Zurich Financial Services.

  • Events

    3 December 1998

    The Conran Foundation Collection 1998 runs until 31 January 1999. The collection's remit is to present and document an archive of industrially designed products from the late twentieth century. Founding director of The Motivation Charitable Trust David Constantine has selected this year's collection.

  • Farrell joins London First

    3 December 1998

    Terry Farrell, principal of Terry Farrell & Partners, has been appointed to the board of London First, the business campaign group set up to improve and promote London.

  • Garry Blackburn enters The Fourth Room

    3 December 1998

    Former Interbrand Newell and Sorrell creative and associate director Garry Blackburn has joined The Fourth Room as creative director.

  • Glasgow 1999 clarifies architect of tower

    3 December 1998

    With reference to the feature on Glasgow 1999 (DW 20 November) it was implied that Caruso St John is the architect responsible for the design of the Mori Tower.Kohn Pedersen Fox (New York) is the design architect of this project, the correct name of which is the Shanghai World Financial Center not Mori Tower.Marjorie RodneyKohn Pedersen FoxLondon WC2

  • Grolsch font by Tutssels

    3 December 1998

    Tutssels has redesigned the font for the Grolsch draught lager brand, to better target 25-34 year-old ABC men. - The font is intended to convey the brand values of energy, excitement, warmth, youthfulness and quality as well as the heritage of the lager,

  • Horror scope for 1999

    3 December 1998

    Millennium angst has had a worrying effect on Tim Rich, provoking a prophetic dream of a design body with a name problem and typographic debate leading to violence.

  • In-house branding for ITN news

    3 December 1998

    The ITN in-house design team is to create new branding for ITV news programmes, following the approval of plans to move News At Ten to an earlier slot.

  • Lectures

    3 December 1998

    London - Filling the Gaps takes place on 8 December at 5.30pm. Architect and urban designer Richard Rogers explores the potential of recycled urban sites to create vibrant urban communities in London. The lecture is chaired by Richard Burdett.

  • LNC to solidify its bond with Frankfurt group

    3 December 1998

    Lloyd Northover Citigate is planning to establish stronger ties with Frankfurt design group the Alexander Demuth Agency, with which it has just collaborated on a corporate identity project for Europe's largest flight tourism company.

  • Mixed metaphors can signify muddled thinking

    3 December 1998

    Mr Turner mixes a cocktail of poor metaphors (DW 25 September). He compares groups demanding fee pitches with wise men who buy cars by first looking under the bonnet and kicking the tyres, rather than trusting the brand alone.

  • New accounting rules throw up opportunities

    3 December 1998

    New accounting rules are set to drive branding issues up the corporate agenda, creating "significant" opportunities for graphic and new media designers, according to a Financial Times report.

  • New site by Helium 3

    3 December 1998

    Multimedia group Helium 3 has created hq3.net, a magazine website which went live on Tuesday. The site includes music, live-action movies, games, comedy, reviews and fashion. It was funded by Helium 3.A Helium 3 spokeswoman says the site aims to exploit the opportunities offered by audio-visual technology. For example, fashion photographer Chris Moore will appear on the site reporting a number of international catwalk events, she says.

  • Next pays out over copied vase design

    3 December 1998

    ACID, the Anti Copying in Design Group, has recovered 70 000 from fashion retailer Next on behalf of designer Keith Munro, who claimed Next had copied one of his vase designs.

  • Nucleus gap at Superdrug

    3 December 1998

    Superdrug says it will not decide until the new year whether to replace Nucleus Design, the group which resigned from its packaging roster last month.

  • 'Picking up on cues' could be called copying

    3 December 1998

    I felt obliged to write after reading A new Co-operative culture (News Analysis, DW 20 November). - The public surely cannot doubt that the intent behind producing own-brand labels that so closely mimic the packaging, colours and designs of other brands i

  • Productionline

    3 December 1998

    The time has now come for product design groups to shape up for the future, says Clive Grinyer.

  • Sales

    3 December 1998

    Eight illustrators and printmaker graduates of Central St Martins, Chelsea and the Royal College of Art come together for the first time in a public sale of their work. Off the Wall runs from 6-13 December.Venue: Spitalfields Market, Lamb Street, London E1.

  • Sorrel wins RSA medal

    3 December 1998

    The 1998 Royal Society of Arts BIcentenary Medal was presented, at the Royal Designers for Industry dinner last week, to Design Council and Interbrand Newell and Sorrell chairman John Sorrell.Sorrell's work to revitalise the Design Council was cited as a particular reason for the award.Meanwhile, Julian Brown, Jenny Frean, Christopher Wise and Wim Crowel, were inaugurated to the RDI.

  • Special offers

    3 December 1998

    The growth of Internet shopping means retailers are having to find new ways to entice people back into the shops. A total shopping 'experience' is required, says Pamela Buxton.

  • Stick to our mission

    3 December 1998

    I agree with Janice Kirkpatrick (Private View, DW 23 October) - about designers needing to follow scientists in speaking our own language confidently.

  • Strategy and design should collaborate

    3 December 1998

    The points you raised in your comment (DW 20 November) are both necessary and timely. It is true that a great strategy can be wrecked by a lousy design execution, and it is equally true that an apparently great design can fail for lack of a clear and differentiating strategy.

  • Students need to take risks in order to learn

    3 December 1998

    Remove the risk factor from education and what do you get? Learning with prescribed outcomes. This may be all well and good for some subjects, but art and design?

  • Surveys

    3 December 1998

    Interactive London is a publicly funded survey into the size, scope and economic impact of the new media industry in London. The report will be published early next year to increase awareness into the interactive market. A questionnaire invites the industry to tender questions and opinions.Contact: www.interactive-london.co.uk or tel: 0181-900 5607.

  • Thumb wins new group's identity job

    3 December 1998

    Design group Thumb has been appointed to develop the corporate identity for planned new information and publishing group Informa.

  • Toca ad by Mercier Gray

    3 December 1998

    An integrated promotional campaign for computer game Toca 2, has been designed by Mercier Gray and BBC Resources. - Mercier Gray created posters and beer mats, bringing in BBC Resources to develop a 20 second TV commercial.

  • Trouble goes to a party

    3 December 1998

    Trouble, the youth cable and satellite channel, has created a series of branded winter stings, to go on air from 19 December.The idents are set at a teenage party, culminating in Trouble's trademark smashed screen. Production was managed by Kate Shepherd and they were shot on 35mm at 3 Mills Studio by Katie Swain.

  • Two Scottish groups merge

    3 December 1998

    Two Scottish design companies are to merge in the New Year to form a specialist graphic design services group. - From January l999, Millhouse Design Consultants and George Studios will trade as Millhouse Design Consultants, Edinburgh, to create a multiski

  • When is PC not PC?

    3 December 1998

    Being PC is the way to be in the Nineties. But, as far as I am concerned, it is one of several reasons why I am unable to find employment within the design industry.

  • Youth are going to pot

    3 December 1998

    Twentysomething designers worn down by their Dazed & Confused lifestyle - as espoused by the eponymous magazine - now have a new place to chill out.

  • You've got the look

    3 December 1998

    A new reference book on the major design icons of the Sixties impresses Janet Fitch with its extensive range and scholarly approach

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