Design Week
30 November 2006
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Aricot Vert
30 November 2006
Aricot Vert is to produce two sets of recruitment material for pub group Greene King. The brief is to convey Greene King's values to attract high quality managers to the company.
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Ben Kelly Design freshens up Gymbox
30 November 2006
Ben Kelly Design has created the interior concept for Gymbox, a members' gym opening in the former Lumiere art house cinema adjacent to St Martins Lane Hotel in London.The 2300m2 venue is housed beneath the hotel, which features interiors designed by Phillipe Starck.Hotel customers will have access to the gym, so the design had to segue with the Starck-inspired environment, explains Gymbox managing director Richard Hilton.'We describe Gymbox as urban chic, but as ...
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BR&Me wins at DBA Awards as 'quality goes up'
30 November 2006
BR&Me's packaging design for lager brand Foster's has scooped the Grand Prix at this year's Design Business Association Design Effectiveness Awards.
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Coley Porter Bell helms major complex for Dubai
30 November 2006
Coley Porter Bell has designed the name, identity and marketing collateral for a $12bn (£6.2bn) residential and shopping complex in Dubai.The development, called Downtown Jebel Ali, will stretch 11km along Sheikh Zayed Road, incorporating parks, piazzas and retail pavilions into the 200ha site. CPB was appointed to the project in May and the project is the consultancy's first in Dubai.Downtown Jebel Ali will house about 235 000 residents and include 326 buildings. The development ...
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CSD set to give course recognition
30 November 2006
The Chartered Society of Designers is to stamp its seal of approval on design courses worldwide under a Course Recognition Programme. The recognition criteria are selected and arbitrated by the CSD itself. Graduates from recognised courses will gain automatic membership of the CSD.
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Digital surgery
30 November 2006
The Light Surgeons are something of a cultural phenomenon. A loose band of artists and designers, their happenings rarely disappoint. In recent times, their style has become more narrative, incorporating film-making, interviews and a particular take on social anthropology. Light Surgeons founder Chris Allen describes it as 'taking the spoken word and presenting it in a different way'. The theme of this show, Articulated, is psycho-geography, and it will explore our connected lives, ...
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Fresh signage for Liverpool's Albert Dock
30 November 2006
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Guardian website in design facelift
30 November 2006
Guardian Unlimited has unveiled the first phase of a design overhaul, with new-look travel pages launching at www.guardian.co.uk/travel.The site is created by Guardian News and Media creative director Mark Porter and the in-house design team. Neville Brody, whose redesign of The Times launched last week, left the Guardian project earlier this year.
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HGV rebrands Flocafé bars with bespoke typeface design
30 November 2006
Flocafé, an upmarket chain of café bars operating throughout Greece and Cyprus, is overhauling its estate following a rebrand by London-based consultancy HGV.
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Hudson Fuggle
30 November 2006
Hudson Fuggle has created a campaign for the Pool of London Partnership, a regeneration agency for the area between London Bridge and Tower Bridge, to promote the use of leisure amenities in the zone. The design is based on the card game Top Trumps.
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Inspired
30 November 2006
I must have a set of genes that craves order. Symmetry, purity, mathematical order and crystalline perfection. There must be a mystical satisfaction in this level of calm I crave.But, and this is a big but given the state of my desk, there is another innate instinct for the abstract, the complex and, particularly, for chance and the absurd.There is a constant tug of war between these two forces, and I try to find inspiration for design in the synergy between.A soap ...
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Josef Hoffmann: book
30 November 2006
Josef Hoffmann: Interiors, 1902-1913, published by Prestel, traces the early career of the Austrian architect and designer. It features colour photos of Hoffmann's masterpieces and is designed by William Loccisano of Pan Discio Company and edited by Christian Witt-Dörring.
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Lambie-Nairn
30 November 2006
Lambie-Nairn has shuffled its senior account director team following the promotion of Nicky Nicolls to the position of group account director. Andy Hayes has been poached from Corporate Edge and will become account director for all of Lambie-Nairn's television and corporate clients, bar O2. Mark Baxter joins from advertising agency Beechwood as UK account director for O2, reporting to Nicolls.
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Learning and Skills Council
30 November 2006
Reading Room has redesigned the website for the Learning and Skills Council (www.lsc.gov.uk), the education and training quango.
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Liquid Communications
30 November 2006
Liquid Communications has designed a corporate identity for the London headquarters of international retail and residential property group Lend Lease. Interiors are by architect Fletcher Priest.
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Major brands want slice of virtual world
30 November 2006
A host of high profile brands are turning to design consultancies to build profile and business opportunities in Second Life, the on-line virtual world.Clients including Universal Records and mobile operator 3 are taking an interest in the space, working behind closed doors with digital groups Splendid and Holler respectively. Alongside music and mobile phone companies, more mainstream brands, including the BBC, are also investing in Second Life.It is understood that a ...
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Moody blues
30 November 2006
There was a time when lighting was a last-minute addition to an interiors project, but those days are over. It's no longer considered enough to pick an off-the-peg lighting system. Now, architects and interior designers are commissioning bespoke products from lighting specialists, and they're involving them from the start.Lighting is, to excuse the pun, hot. This year's Light & Building show in Frankfurt had a 16 per cent growth in visitors, and predicts the sector is going ...
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NMPFT rebrand creates National Media Museum
30 November 2006
The National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford is set to launch its new name and brand identity this week, following a rebranding process by Leeds consultancy Thompson.Relaunching as the National Media Museum, the institution is changing its name because of an increased remit, expanded to include radio and the Internet alongside television, photography and film.Thompson was appointed without a pitch to design the identity and name, on the back of the ...
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O2 scoops Green Grand Prix
30 November 2006
Mobile phone giant O2 has won the top Grand Prix award at the inaugural Green Awards for its eco-friendly packaging redesign, undertaken in-house in conjunction with Nokia.
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Olympics needs design vision to avoid Dome-style fiasco
30 November 2006
It's been quiet in Downing Street of late on the subject of creativity. But on Monday night, Creative Industries Minister Shaun Woodward reaffirmed the Government's commitment to design.Speaking at the DBA Design Effectiveness Awards, Woodward said the creative industries are one of three areas identified as vital to the economy, manufacturing and financial services being the other two.Describing Government as an 'enabler' rather than bent on a regulatory regime to boost ...
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Pop promo
30 November 2006
UK street artist Dave the Chimp has designed and directed a pop promo video for the band Robots In Disguise, working with design consultancy Fold7. 'The Chimp' has previously designed the band's logo, album cover and various stage props. The designs for the video to the song Girl use a primary coloured environment made from cardboard. Girl is released on President Records on 11 December.
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Profile: Sara Fanelli
30 November 2006
Sara Fanelli’s energetic and characterful illustrations have led to her becoming the first female illustrator to be made an Honorary Royal Designer. She talks to Paula Carson about inspiration, success and surprises
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Push the envelope
30 November 2006
When Design Week celebrated its 20th birthday in September, we decided to mark that milestone, and also the magazine's 21st year, with a series of activities. Inevitably, some initiatives traced design's history over that action-packed 20-year period, but we also wanted to embrace the future.To that end, Glenn Tutssel, executive creative director at Enterprise IG, briefed a group of students on paid placement at the consultancy to create a Design Week Christmas card. The students, ...
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Salt of the earth
30 November 2006
It is usual for Western brands to set up shop in developing countries. However, now the tables are turned, as an Israeli business takes space simultaneously in London's Covent Garden and Berlin.The brand is Ahava, a skin care business of two decades standing. Its USP is its factory on the Dead Sea, from where its products are sourced. It's all about special minerals, hence products such as its Low Sodium Dead Sea Mineral Mud Enriched with Aloe Vera, its Facial Calming Moisturizer, ...
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The big freeze
30 November 2006
Clients complain that graphic design is 'too cold' - but can it ever authentically be warm and fuzzy?
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The Plant works with an Indian Empress
30 November 2006
The team behind London gastropub pioneer The Gun is launching The Empress of India, a restaurant in Victoria Park, east London, with brand identity by The Plant and a 3D scheme by Concorde Interiors.The restaurant is due to open next month on 130 Lauriston Road. 'We wanted to create an identity that suggested the Victorian roots of the building but still felt modern and elegant,' says Matt Utber, creative director at The Plant.Interiors include hand-painted wallpaper, a ...
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The silence of the brands
30 November 2006
US designer Michael Ian Kaye deserves special mention this week. Not only is Kaye senior creative director of the boutique New York ad agency AR, but some of his former roles - US creative director of publisher Little, Brown & Company, US art director of
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Treat groups with respect
30 November 2006
What makes for a fair pitch process that doesn't alienate designers?
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True North
30 November 2006
True North has completed branding and signage for National Museums Liverpool's National Conservation Centre. The design uses pictures of the conservators interacting with - and 'conserving' - the signs.
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Tyrrell takes on global role at Enterprise
30 November 2006
Enterprise IG has promoted Terry Tyrrell, European chairman and consultancy co-founder, to the role of worldwide chairman. Tyrrell will develop existing and new client relationships across the consultancy's global networks.Tyrrell co-founded Sampson Tyrrell 30 years ago. It was acquired by WPP in 1986 and became Enterprise IG in 1996.
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Voxpop: 2012 Olympics Design Guru
30 November 2006
It has been suggested that the London 2012 Olympics organisers need a design guru to oversee architects and designers for the games. What are the benefits of this type of role and who would you suggest takes it?
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We all need to do our bit to curb excess packaging
30 November 2006
With regard to last week's Voxpop about excess packaging (DW 23 November), no consumer in their right mind will spend a second more than they need to in a supermarket, let alone an extra five minutes removing the wrapping from a multi-value four-pack of apple juice. People are lazy.The Government needs to start making it easier for us all to do our bit. For starters, concentrate on providing efficient national weekly recycling collection facilities for all waste materials. Also ...
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WSJ switches to smaller format
30 November 2006
The Wall Street Journal will become the latest newspaper to move to a smaller format, with a redesign by editorial designer Mario Garcia.
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www.partners-in-adoption.co.uk
30 November 2006
Havering, Thurrock and Southend councils have launched www.partners-in-adoption.co.uk. The site, designed by Emperor Design Consultants, is aimed at prospective adoptive parents.
