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December 2010 Online

  • A curious collection

    Mon, 13 Dec 2010

    Has Mandeville wet himself? Is gender bending ok for brands?* Do we want to be delighted by a cash machine?The Blue Lady’s New Look and Other Curiosities

  • Airstream creates interiors for Qatar bank

    Fri, 3 Dec 2010

    Airstream Design has designed an interior concept for the QNB bank in Doha, which will open in the residential and shopping development Pearl.

  • Another nail in the coffin

    Thu, 2 Dec 2010

    Apologies for being morbid but here at Design Week, we’ve noticed that there seems to be a growing trend for coffin design long outliving its seasonal Halloween sell-by date.

  • Art director's choice

    Wed, 1 Dec 2010

    The humble barcode is an essential addition to any commercial design job, and have become emblems of our consumer civilisation - so much so that we barely notice them any more.

  • Bespoke bubbles

    Mon, 20 Dec 2010

    ‘Tis the season to be jolly, and usually pretty drunk too. So it was with great interest when we heard that Dutch communications consultancy They had a new collection of packaging for their own brand champagne Zarb.Zarb bottle by Zena Holloway

  • Caulder Moore creates flagship perfume store

    Tue, 7 Dec 2010

    Caulder Moore has designed the interiors for the flagship store of exclusive perfumer Ormonde Jayne in London’s Sloane Square.

  • Chartered Society of Designers approves charter change

    Mon, 20 Dec 2010

    The Chartered Society of Designers has approved plans to amend its Royal Charter to allow it to set up a register of chartered designers.

  • Civic works on Scottish Government website

    Fri, 10 Dec 2010

    Digital consultancy Civic has been appointed to redesign Scotland.gov.uk, the Scottish Government’s corporate website.

  • Clive Grinyer, David Archer and Zena Martin join RSA trustee board

    Tue, 7 Dec 2010

    Clive Grinyer, David Archer and Zena Martin have all been brought on to the trustee board of the Royal Society of Arts.

  • Conran works on D&D restaurants in Leeds

    Thu, 9 Dec 2010

    Conran & Partners has been appointed to design the interiors of two new D&D London restaurants in Land Securities’ Trinity Leeds shopping and leisure development.

  • Corporation Pop works on Creamfields campaign

    Wed, 22 Dec 2010

    Corporation Pop will design the online and offline campaign for festival Creamfields 2011 following its appointment from a three-way pitch.

  • D&AD and The One Club launch Pencil Rankings

    Tue, 14 Dec 2010

    D&AD has partnered with advertising and design organisation The One Club to launch a new Pencil Rankings system, aimed at ‘identifying the absolute leaders in creativity internationally’.

  • DBA launches packaging design course

    Wed, 22 Dec 2010

    The Design Business Association has launched a new packaging course, which will begin in February 2011.

  • Deep creates Macmillan cancer charity centenary calendar

    Thu, 16 Dec 2010

    Deep has designed a 2011 calendar for Macmillan Cancer Support to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the charity.

  • Design Council set to launch anti-bike theft initiative

    Wed, 22 Dec 2010

    The Design Council, on behalf of the Home Office, is set to launch an initiative to tackle residential bicycle theft.

  • Designed in Devon launches regional chapters

    Fri, 3 Dec 2010

    Designed in Devon, which is part of the South West Design Forum, has set up three local chapters and is seeking to establish more.

  • Digging deep

    Thu, 9 Dec 2010

    ‘I was having a glass of Chilean wine, just after the miners had been rescued when it struck me; someone’s missing a trick here,’ says Unreal designer Ryan Tym.

  • Dino-vision

    Thu, 2 Dec 2010

    The Natural History Museum has launched a new interactive film that allows visitors to walk, well sit, with dinosaurs using augmented reality.

  • Dreaming of you

    Tue, 7 Dec 2010

    Ahhh….Dreamboats. What springs to mind for you? A quick straw poll of the  Design Week office elicits responses ranging from Johnny Depp and Damon Albarn to a very unimaginative, ‘er…I’ll get back to you.’

  • Echo works on Carling brand brief

    Tue, 21 Dec 2010

    Echo has been appointed by Molson Coors as strategic brand partner for Carling to drive the lager to a broader audience.

  • Editor's blog

    Mon, 6 Dec 2010

    Lynda Relph-Knight’s perspective on the week

  • Editor's blog

    Fri, 17 Dec 2010

    How do you sum up 2010? It’s been a year of thrills and spills for sure, but not without its high spots.

  • Figtree brands mobile phone protection device

    Fri, 17 Dec 2010

    Figtree has created the brand identity for Sticky, a device that protects, tracks and backs up data from mobile phones in case they are stolen or lost.

  • Finnair unveils new identity

    Tue, 21 Dec 2010

    Finnish airline Finnair has unveiled a new identity, developed by WPP consultancy Sek & Grey.

  • Floating cinema planned for east London

    Tue, 14 Dec 2010

    Artist group Somewhere and architect Studio Weave are developing a floating cinema that will take to the waterways of east London next year.

  • Gift wrapping

    Fri, 3 Dec 2010

    Last month, the Design Week blog thoughtfully brought you a guide to the best pop-up shops to peruse for that special gift for your loved ones.

  • Glocalisation

    Thu, 9 Dec 2010

    Chelsea College of Art and furniture manufacturer and retailer Made.com have announced the winners of its Glocalisation project, a trade-not-aid initiative that aims to raise money for victims of Aids and HIV in South Africa.Alice Munteanu’s panels

  • Go West!

    Fri, 3 Dec 2010

    For those of you in the frozen East, if you’re looking for a place to chill out in warmer climes then simply head South West. Trains out of London’s Paddington are running on time and there’s just a light dusting of snow to highlight salient features of the Cotswold landscape.

  • Goodbye until 2011

    Wed, 22 Dec 2010

    Design Week is retiring for Xmas at the end of the week, but today the last blogs will be posted until Wednesday 5 January.

  • Google’s ‘Brighton beach-themed’ office set to complete

    Fri, 10 Dec 2010

    Architect Scott Brownrigg is working on the new Google offices in London’s Victoria, which are being fitted out with a ‘Brighton beach’ theme.

  • Government sets out higher education and science budgets

    Tue, 21 Dec 2010

    The Government has set out its allocation to higher education and its ring-fenced funding for science and research.

  • Green Awards winners unveiled

    Mon, 6 Dec 2010

    The China Environmental Protection Foundation has won the Grand Prix and Sir David Attenborough has won the Lifetime Achievement Award for Communicating Sustainability in the 2010 Green Awards.

  • Hark the designers sing

    Tue, 14 Dec 2010

    Yesterday, the DW Blog brought you a selection of gorgeous and somewhat off-the-wall designers’ Christmas cards. Ranging from the hirsute to the cute to the Tweet-based, the selection proved that creativity comes alive with a little festive prompting.

  • Heads up

    Thu, 16 Dec 2010

    Apart from during the occasional rendition of Hamlet, it’s not often that you really get to admire a skull. 

  • Honeysuckle is colour of the year for 2011

    Thu, 9 Dec 2010

    Pantone has announced 18-2120 Honeysuckle, ‘a dynamic reddish pink’, as its colour of the year for 2011.

  • Ideas sought for Cornwall Big Design Challenge

    Fri, 17 Dec 2010

    Cornwall’s Big Design Challenge, run by Designs of the Time Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, is seeking local issues that can be tackled through design.

  • In fashion

    Fri, 17 Dec 2010

    London’s Design Museum will add a live element to its Drawing Fashion exhibition with the evening drawing sessions from two of the discipline’s top names Steven Stipelman and Howard Tangye.by Howard Tangye

  • Interbrand’s brand valuation method receives certification

    Tue, 7 Dec 2010

    The Interbrand Brand Valuation method for assessing the financial value of brands has become the first system of its kind to be certified by the International Standards Organisation, the consultancy says.

  • IP review calls for evidence

    Mon, 20 Dec 2010

    The Government-initiated independent review into intellectual property and growth has today issued a call for evidence.

  • J2 designs brochures for Knight Frank

    Mon, 13 Dec 2010

    Integrated creative consultancy J2 has created two publications for estate agent Knight Frank to showcase the company’s luxury properties in the UK and abroad.

  • Jack Morton Worldwide creates New Year’s Eve London fireworks

    Mon, 6 Dec 2010

    Jack Morton Worldwide is creating the fireworks display to mark midnight on New Year’s Eve in central London.

  • Jonathan Clark creates Tinderbox coffee shop

    Mon, 6 Dec 2010

    Jonathan Clark Architects has created London’s second Tinderbox espresso bar in the City area.

  • Labour calls for cross-Government creative industries group

    Thu, 16 Dec 2010

    Shadow Culture Secretary Ivan Lewis has called on the coalition Government to set up a cross-Government group of ministers and industry figures to produce a creative industries action plan.

  • Light up

    Wed, 8 Dec 2010

    The perfect Christmas design project should be engaging, feature an element of sharing and should be just a little bit magic.

  • Llowarch Llowarch creates Cob arts space

    Fri, 17 Dec 2010

    A new artistic space, Cob Studios and Gallery, will open in London’s Camden in February 2011, designed by Llowarch Llowarch Architects.

  • Lost in translation

    Tue, 21 Dec 2010

    For most of us, Pictionary is the height of our attempts to draw from verbal phrases and then translate those images back into words again. But an exhibition at new London space The Gopher Hole has explored how visual to verbal translation forms interesting outcomes from iconic designs.

  • M for music

    Wed, 15 Dec 2010

    Do you know your Spice Girls from your Stone Roses, your Radiohead from your Talking Heads? Aurally perhaps, but what about typographically?

  • Market Creative develops Home Form Group campaign

    Mon, 20 Dec 2010

    The Market Creative has developed a below-the-line campaign for home improvement company Home Form Group, which will include showroom promotions, window dressing and direct mail.

  • Mat Dolphin creates Callooh Callay website

    Fri, 17 Dec 2010

    Mat Dolphin has created a new website for Callooh Callay, a Lewis Carroll-inspired bar in London’s Shoreditch.

  • Matt Willey and Kuchar Swara work on Port magazine

    Mon, 13 Dec 2010

    New men’s magazine Port is set to launch next year, with editorial design by Matt Willey of Studio 8 and Kuchar Swara and an iPad app by Jeremy Leslie.

  • Merry Christmas: Design Week online to return on 5 January

    Wed, 22 Dec 2010

    This is the final Design Week newsletter for 2010.

  • Mind the gap

    Thu, 9 Dec 2010

    Students at London’s Orchard Hill College used an unusual form of wayfinding to navigate their school for the first time yesterday.

  • Mind Unit works on postal archive website

    Tue, 14 Dec 2010

    The British Postal Museum & Archive has appointed Mind Unit to create a new website, which will launch ahead of the organisation’s new £17m museum due to open in Swindon in 2013.

  • More than half of design employees want to change jobs next year, report shows

    Thu, 9 Dec 2010

    Nearly 56 per cent of employees in the design and digital industries intend to change jobs within a year, a new report shows, compared to 38 per cent in 2009.

  • Mulled wine and murder

    Fri, 10 Dec 2010

    East London design studio Cherry is mixing festive fun and frights with its Mulled Wine and Murder map project.

  • Never judge a book by its cover

    Wed, 8 Dec 2010

    Penguin Books and London gallery Stolen Space’s exhibition Never Judge… is an invitation to question the proverbial, casting an eye over reinterpretations of book cover art by selected illustrators and designers.

  • New Brand Vision creates Davis Cup website

    Fri, 3 Dec 2010

    New Brand Vision has created a new website for the Davis Cup tennis tournament.

  • Not safe for work

    Mon, 13 Dec 2010

    There are a lot of ways to get attention for a debut exhibition, but packaging your invite up as porn is not one that we see everyday.

  • O’Connor Design rebrands ornithology organisation

    Tue, 14 Dec 2010

    O’Connor Design has created a new logo for the British Trust for Ornithology, a charity that oversees professional and citizen research into bird populations.

  • Off the wall

    Tue, 14 Dec 2010

    Just before London Design Festival earlier this year in September, we wrote about Supermarket Sarah, a stylish hybrid between a pop-up shop and e-commerce site that set up shop at Tom Dixon’s The Dock.

  • Outside In Planning rebrands Octopus Investments

    Tue, 21 Dec 2010

    Outside In Planning has rebranded Octopus Investments, using abstract tentacle imagery and the tag-line ‘making humans happy’.

  • P&W redesigns Tesco beauty packaging

    Mon, 6 Dec 2010

    P&W has redesigned the packaging for Tesco’s Essentials health and beauty range and created a new identity which draws together more than 40 products.

  • Paint job

    Fri, 17 Dec 2010

    Tube journeys are rarely a pleasurable experience. At best, they’re hot; at worst, someone’s sick on the floor and your nose is thrust underneath an onion-munching man’s armpit.

  • Plastic fantastic

    Mon, 20 Dec 2010

    My Plastic Idea has launched a competition aimed at creative students to design innovative packaging and products from polypropylene.

  • Precedent creates website for international schools

    Thu, 9 Dec 2010

    Precedent has designed a new website for ACS International Schools with an emphasis on interaction and exploration for prospective students and parents thinking of relocating to London.

  • Protests as Cardiff interiors course cut

    Mon, 13 Dec 2010

    Key figures in interior design and education are protesting at the decision by University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, to shut its undergraduate course in interior architecture.

  • Record breakers

    Thu, 16 Dec 2010

    Here at Design Week, like the rest of the nation, we’re intrigued by who’s the tallest, who’s the loudest, who has the biggest kidneys, who’s capable of eating an entire loaf of bread using only their toenails, and who’s managed to grow teeth out of their bellybutton.

  • Robinson & Associates creates housing group annual report

    Thu, 16 Dec 2010

    Robinson & Associates has designed Charnwood Neighbourhood Housing’s first annual report.

  • Rubbish fashion

    Fri, 3 Dec 2010

    Fashion - what is it? It can be uber cool, trendy, cutting-edge and oh so stylish, but sometimes a little slick for its own good. The newsstands, for example, are littered with glossy fashion magazines that are trying to out-style each other. So its refreshing to see Rubbish Ink - a fashion magazine - which landed on the Design Week editorial desk that doesn’t take itself too seriously.

  • Season's greetings

    Mon, 13 Dec 2010

    As the Christmas cards come piling in, we thought we’d share a few of our favourites so far.

  • Season's greetings II

    Wed, 22 Dec 2010

    Following our last blog about some of our favourite Christmas projects last week, more seasonal work came flooding in faster than Santa can down a brandy. So we thought we’d show you another final batch of festive creative to well and truly get you in mood.

  • Seven stories

    Mon, 20 Dec 2010

    The practical rucksack and the frequently not-so-practical world of art aren’t usually things that go hand in hand. However the Rare Kind London agency of artists looks set to change that.

  • Slow journalism

    Wed, 22 Dec 2010

    This year journalism has got faster, with tweeting and live minute-by-minute blogging becoming second nature to most newspapers. But next year a new quarterly title from the Slow Journalism Company, Delayed Gratification, aims to measure ‘news in months not minutes, returning to stories after the dust has settled’. Design Week caught up with Delayed Gratification art director Christian Tate to talk about the design behind the new magazine.

  • Southbank Centre to host Festival of Britain anniversary

    Mon, 20 Dec 2010

    The Southbank Centre in London is to host celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the 1951 Festival of Britain, which is due to take place between May and September next year.

  • Speed up Santa

    Fri, 10 Dec 2010

    Italian design company Skitsch has thought up a novel way of herding customers into its London store ahead of Christmas.

  • Start brands British Inspiration Trust

    Tue, 7 Dec 2010

    Start Creative has designed an identity for the British Inspiration Trust, a new charitable foundation set up by Phil Packer, winner of the 2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award.

  • Students create fort models for visually impaired visitors

    Mon, 13 Dec 2010

    Architecture students from the University of Portsmouth have worked with the National Trust to create tactile models of Bembridge Fort on the Isle of Wight for blind and visually impaired people.

  • Tangent Graphic works up Glasgow Commonwealth Games designs

    Thu, 16 Dec 2010

    Glasgow-based consultancy Tangent Graphic has been appointed to work on art direction, design for print and brand evolution for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.

  • Technology Strategy Board to launch innovation competition

    Fri, 10 Dec 2010

    The Technology Strategy Board will launch a competition in the New Year to invest up to £2m into feasibility studies across a range of areas.

  • The Black Country

    Tue, 14 Dec 2010

    Magnum photographer Martin Parr has spent the last year documenting the Black Country.  An exhibition of the results will run at The Public in West Bromwich until the end of next month.

  • The Hungoevr Cookbook

    Mon, 6 Dec 2010

    Christmas party season is well and truly underway so there is a good chance you are hung-over right now.

  • The shape of the city

    Thu, 2 Dec 2010

    Sometimes, bigger really is better - as Japanese photographer Sohei Nishino’s new show Diorama Maps proves.

  • The witching hour

    Tue, 21 Dec 2010

    As the festive period reaches its apex, we bring you good tidings and news of The Witching Hour, an ‘unsettling’ and ‘intimidating’ exhibition exploring the power of the built environment to frighten and forebode.Richard Billingham - Untitled, from ...

  • Tweetmas

    Wed, 15 Dec 2010

    Digit is looking to find how the meaning of Christmas changes over the course of the festive period in a ‘reverse advent’ concept where data will be captured everyday and presented in the new year in a tangible form.

  • Type tips

    Wed, 15 Dec 2010

    ‘(S)pace Yourself. Know Your Audience. The Client is Always Right.’ These little maxims could really apply to many different situations in life - from work, to spouting nonsense on your local, to well, drinking in your local (see first point).

  • Universal Design Studio works on Mulberry store

    Fri, 10 Dec 2010

    Universal Design Studio has created the interiors for fashion brand Mulberry’s new flagship store in London’s Bond Street.

  • Vive la France

    Mon, 6 Dec 2010

    Here at Design Week, we love London. The hustle and bustle, the diversity and the hubbub are constantly intoxicating -  if, on occasion, somewhat stressful.

  • Webb & Webb brands furniture business

    Fri, 3 Dec 2010

    Webb & Webb Design has created the name and branding for Aegistra, a service for professional furniture buyers.

  • Webcam wonder

    Fri, 10 Dec 2010

    Within moments of reading this blog post, I suspect most of you will be gesticulating at your screens and wildly whirling your arms around, to the distress of anyone else in the room around you.

  • Whittle while you work

    Wed, 1 Dec 2010

    Whittling. Not a concept many of us have probably given much thought to, but it’s something that can apply to time, self-esteem, general well-being and, on a more practical note, wood.

  • Wonder wall

    Tue, 21 Dec 2010

    Illustrator Gemma Correll has created her largest mural yet, for the Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff, to celebrate the venue’s 40th birthday.

  • Woodland retreat

    Wed, 1 Dec 2010

    Being outside at the moment is the last thing you want to do. But if you’re missing the flora and fauna but don’t want to get frostbite, a new café at London department store Harrods, with graphics from Severn Studios, might offer the solution.by Bex Glover

  • Yes is more

    Thu, 16 Dec 2010

    Copenhagen-based architectural practice Bjarke Ingels Group have created an unusual monograph, casting aside the usual convention of large pictures and white art book borders for a graphic novel format.

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