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  • 24-hour party people

    Thu, 28 Jul 2011

    The IAC Observatory sits nearly two-and-a-half kilometres up a remote mountainside on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, perched on a rim of volcanic rock, high above the clouds, tracking the stars.starry night

  • 53k brands online wine retailer

    Thu, 14 Jul 2011

    53k has branded and designed a website for online wine retailer Phillipe Alexander.

  • 53K works with artist on widows project

    Mon, 4 Jul 2011

    53K, the consultancy launched by former Applied Information Group senior staff Kasper de Graaf and Malcolm Garrett alongside others, has worked with British Indian artist Reeta Sarkar on an exhibition in New York.

  • A changing cast

    Mon, 18 Jul 2011

    The Aram Gallery in London is set to present the latest installment of its on-going Prototypes and Experiments exhibition series - Casts and Moulds.Barber Osgerby Stella Tile 2002

  • A Welcome Fashion Collection

    Tue, 26 Jul 2011

    Fashion takes its cues from some odd places - Harems, apparently; gladiator arenas, and in Gaga’s case, abattoirs. However, biology is something often overlooked in the sartorial stakes.

  • Absolutly Fabulous

    Thu, 14 Jul 2011

    Following in the footsteps of Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol and Spike Jonze, 18 artists have designed bottles for Absolut vodka, given only a huge blank bottle-shaped canvas as a brief.Eduardo Recife

  • Air and Project Simply work on Salford stadium website

    Fri, 29 Jul 2011

    Air Creative is working with digital agency Project Simply on a new website for the City of Salford Community Stadium.

  • Alex Kravetz works on Lancaster London refurbishment

    Wed, 27 Jul 2011

    The banqueting venues at London hotel the Lancaster London are being refurbished by hotel design specialist Alex Kravetz as part of a £10 million project.

  • Anthony Burrill works on Amnesty International TV channel

    Tue, 12 Jul 2011

    Amnesty International is set to launch an online television channel which aims to humanise activism through entertainment and has been developed by a creative team which includes Anthony Burrill.

  • Auditorium

    Thu, 7 Jul 2011

    For the artist responsible for the Pissing Women series, in which she urinated in Vauxhall wearing posh clothes, photographer Sophy Rickett’s latest show is a far more cultured affair.Untitled (Nature Study 2)

  • Baigent creates digital designs for Pancreatic Cancer UK

    Tue, 26 Jul 2011

    Baigent Digital has created a new website for charity Pancreatic Cancer UK, which features a redesign of the charity’s purple ribbon logo.

  • Beach sounds for the Wellcome Collection

    Fri, 1 Jul 2011

    You can’t touch me, you can’t smell me, you can’t taste me, you can’t see me, but you can hear me, and I fill Euston Road with the sound of waves breaking onto pebbles, what am I?

  • Best of the Web

    Fri, 1 Jul 2011

    Our weekly round-up of interesting things we’ve seen on the Web.

  • Best of the Web

    Fri, 8 Jul 2011

    Our weekly round up of interesting things we’ve seen on the web

  • Best of the Web

    Fri, 22 Jul 2011

    Our weekly round-up of interesting things we’ve seen on the web.

  • Best of the Web

    Fri, 15 Jul 2011

    Our weekly round-up of interesting things we’ve seen on the web.

  • Best of the Web

    Fri, 29 Jul 2011

    Our weekly round-up of interesting things we’ve seen on the web.

  • Blood sucking vampires and other new media stories

    Fri, 8 Jul 2011

    Guest blogger Kyle Van Blerk, creative partner at integrated consultancy Meteorite, reflects on new media.

  • Blue Marlin creates graphics for Tango 'foam'

    Mon, 4 Jul 2011

    Blue Marlin has developed the graphics and branding for Turbo Tango, which uses aerosol technology and is billed as ‘soft drink meets squirty cream’.

  • Bostock and Pollitt and The Neighbourhood ‘portable marketing suite’ property app

    Thu, 21 Jul 2011

    Bostock and Pollitt and Neighbourhood have created an iPad2 app for property developer Hammerson to showcase the London Wall Place scheme in the City of London.

  • Brand On Shelf packages Westons flavoured cider

    Fri, 15 Jul 2011

    Cheltenham-based consultancy Brand On Shelf has created the packaging designs and names for Westons cider’s new Westons Twist range of flavoured ciders, aiming to create a ‘premium’ brand appealing to ‘discerning drinkers.’

  • Brandhouse repackages Jamaica Ginger Cake

    Fri, 8 Jul 2011

    McVitie’s Jamaica Ginger Cake has been given an identity and packaging overhaul by consultancy Brandhouse.

  • Branding webchat

    Tue, 19 Jul 2011

    The Guardian is set to host a Breaking into Brand Design webchat as part of a series looking at how to get into the design industry.

  • Brandopus packages new cheese snack Chedds

    Thu, 7 Jul 2011

    Brandopus has designed the packaging for Cathedral City cheese’s new children’s snack, Chedds.

  • Breaking the Mould

    Tue, 12 Jul 2011

    Self modeled ‘jelly-mongers’ Bompas and Parr are putting the finishing touches to an installation on Selfridges’ roof  which will see it turned into a boating lake.boating lake, presumably without infinity pool edge as shown

  • Brighton Digital Festival

    Tue, 26 Jul 2011

    Brighton Digital Festival has announced its full line-up – a vast month long programme set to run throughout September.

  • Brinley Clark wins New Designer of the Year Part Two award

    Thu, 7 Jul 2011

    Brinley Clark, from the University of Hertfordshire, has won the Business Design Centre New Designer of the Year 2011 award at Part Two of this year’s New Designers event, for his graphic design project Shit or Miss.

  • Buffalo Creative repackages XXX Extra Strong Mints

    Wed, 6 Jul 2011

    Buffalo Creative has redesigned the packaging for Fox’s Confectionery Limited’s XXX Extra Strong Mints, including creating packaging for the new Spearmint flavour.

  • Busaba Eathai and Smack named best-designed restaurant and bar

    Mon, 11 Jul 2011

    The winners of the 2011 Restaurant and Bar Design Awards have been announced, with David Archer Architects’ Busaba Eathai branch in Bicester named best restaurant and Smack, in Leamington Spa, designed by Steve Smith, scooping the best bar prize.

  • Call to bring design education on to Government’s Innovation Strategy

    Wed, 13 Jul 2011

    Design organisations have been urged to make sure design education is addressed in the Government’s Innovation Strategy, which is due to be released later this year.

  • Camping it Up

    Wed, 20 Jul 2011

    It’s nearly time for the annual Summer Camp at the Victoria & Albert Museum, with this year’s event spreading across July, August and September and taking in three key themes: Idea, Design and Make.Copyright Hendzel & Hunt

  • Can You Hack It

    Wed, 20 Jul 2011

    A new solo exhibition by artist,  programmer and self professed hacker Cory Arcangel - who is also a stand-up, musician and co-founder of record label/hacking collective Beige - comes to the Lisson Gallery in October to present works previously unseen before in the UK.Source: ...

  • Child's Play

    Fri, 22 Jul 2011

    The lovely people of The Design Conspiracy are collaborating with Earlham Primary School in East London to further their mission to teach children photography.happy snappers

  • Conran & Partners works on new City of London restaurant

    Wed, 13 Jul 2011

    Conran & Partners is developing the interior concept for a new D&D London restaurant which will occupy the 18th-century Old Bengal Warehouse in the City of London. 

  • Crafty politicians

    Fri, 22 Jul 2011

    When Prime Minister David Cameron shuts the door of 10 Downing Street, loosens his tie and puts his feet up after a hard day at the despatch box, he can now relax surrounded by some of the cream of contemporary UK craft pieces.Candelabra by Deborah Thomas

  • Create's Plates

    Fri, 15 Jul 2011

    New works by a raft of designers have been brought together by the East London Design Show as part of Create 11 - the annual arts and cultural programme.

  • Cure Studio brands DJ Sasha’s Last Night On Earth label

    Mon, 25 Jul 2011

    Cure Studio has designed the visual identity for the relaunch of DJ and record producer DJ Sasha’s record label Last Night on Earth, formerly called Emfire.

  • Design issues raised at Government’s Creative Industries Council

    Thu, 14 Jul 2011

    The Government’s Creative Industries Council, which includes design representatives from the Design Council and the Sorrell Foundation, has met for the first time to discuss issues to put to Government.

  • Design Pirates of Penzance

    Fri, 5 Aug 2011

    The idyllic Trereife House & Country Park near Penzance in Cornwall will be hosting this year’s Cornwall Design Fair, bringing design very much of the 21st Century into a beautiful 18th Century setting.High and Dry Print by Amy Aardvark

  • Details emerge of London Design Festival commissions

    Fri, 1 Jul 2011

    Further details are emerging of commissions at the Victoria and Albert Museum for the London Design Festival.

  • Dinosaur brands this year’s Manchester Picnic

    Mon, 18 Jul 2011

    Manchester-based consultancy Dinosaur has created the branding for the Manchester Picnic, which runs in Piccadilly Gardens from 5-7 August.

  • Easy as ABC

    Thu, 21 Jul 2011

    Twords are, according to designer and illustrator Mr Gresty, words ‘that contain two others’, each with a different meaning to the original word.

  • Echo’s new Carling branding set to launch

    Tue, 19 Jul 2011

    Echo has created new branding, packaging and positioning for Carling, including launching the new Carling Chrome sub-brand.

  • Embroidering the Truth

    Wed, 6 Jul 2011

    ‘My embroideries,’ says artist Malcolm Poynter, ‘Are going where no embroideries have gone before… They are rough, tough and full of spunk!’ Art Is

  • Epitype rebrands Article 19 freedom of speech charity

    Thu, 7 Jul 2011

    Epitype has designed a new identity for freedom of expression and information charity Article 19, with a typographic identity featuring ‘a shaft of light’.

  • Everything We Miss

    Thu, 21 Jul 2011

    Sometimes dark, sometimes comic, but always well-observed, illustrator Luke Pearson’s new comic Everything We Miss tells the bleak tale of a disintegrating relationship.Pearson’s poster

  • Expresso Yourself

    Thu, 28 Jul 2011

    In a world swimming with cookie-cutter coffee stores and complicated things like soya-skinny-frappuccinos, it’s easy to forget coffee’s association with culture. However, from Blur’s Coffee and TV, to Van Gogh’s Woman Grinding Coffee, to Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes; the links between our caffeinated friend and the arts are intangible.

  • Extraordinary Heroes

    Wed, 13 Jul 2011

    E3 has designed a gallant little app to support the Extraordinary Heroes exhibition  at the Imperial War Museum.

  • Felt works on Pure Sports Medicine flagship site

    Tue, 26 Jul 2011

    Felt is working on a website and a flagship physical site in London’s Canary Wharf for sports injury clinic Pure Sports Medicine.

  • Fitch creates new local stores for Morrisons

    Mon, 11 Jul 2011

    Fitch has developed a brand and interior design for new Morrisons concept store M Local, which will do away with the traditional format of hanging signage over parallel aisles.

  • Forever 21 fashion brand launches flagship London store

    Wed, 27 Jul 2011

    The London flagship branch of US fashion brand Forever 21 is opening today, with designs by US-based architect JT Nakaoka and the store’s in-house team.

  • Gensler works on Facebook’s new London office

    Fri, 29 Jul 2011

    Facebook is set to open a new office in London’s Covent Garden, with architect and interiors consultancy Gensler working on office designs.

  • Giant car sculpture marks Festival of Speed

    Fri, 1 Jul 2011

    Sculptor Gerry Judah has worked with consultancy Capita Symonds to create a centrepiece sculpture for Goodwood Festival of Speed.

  • Glass and furniture designers collaborate for whisky project

    Fri, 8 Jul 2011

    Glassware designer Laurence Brabant and furniture designer Wouter Scheublin have created the limited-edition packaging for Glenmorangie Pride 1981 whisky, which is to be priced at £2 500 a bottle.

  • Going Swimmingly

    Thu, 14 Jul 2011

    You might not be the next Mark Foster or Rebecca Adlington, but thanks to a new art installation you could still swim at the Olympics - well, sort of.The colours!

  • Goosebumps and Dexter Moren work on Kensington Grosvenor hotel

    Fri, 22 Jul 2011

    Goosebumps is rebranding the Kensington Grosvenor hotel, working alongside architect Dexter Moren, which is refurbishing and redesigning the interiors.

  • Government fund encourages private investment in art and culture

    Tue, 5 Jul 2011

    The Government has launched a new £55 million scheme which aims to encourage private investment in arts and culture.

  • Government launches Creative Choice procurement framework

    Wed, 6 Jul 2011

    A new framework which will supply creative services, including design, to all Government departments and public sector organisations, has been launched by the Department for Education.

  • Greybox brands Corbel financial recruitment group

    Tue, 19 Jul 2011

    Greybox has created branding for Corbel Group, a new financial recruitment company formed from the merger of firms Healy Hunt and Jared James.

  • Hackney Hoard

    Wed, 20 Jul 2011

    Tomorrow sees the opening of Galerie8, a new art gallery situated within the Arthaus building by the fag-butt strewn, American Apparel sponsored hipster’s Eden that is Hackney’s London Fields.

  • Halo Media works on Bath Abbey rebrand

    Tue, 26 Jul 2011

    Bath Abbey has appointed Bristol-based consultancy Halo Media to create a new identity and a website which will serve its congregation and tourists. 

  • Hat-Trick and Sennep create 50 years of BHF work

    Tue, 5 Jul 2011

    Hat-Trick Design and Sennep have developed projects to mark the British Heart Foundation’s 50th anniversary, which is today.

  • Hat-Trick brands Great British Chefs venture

    Fri, 15 Jul 2011

    Hat-Trick has created the branding for Great British Chefs, a new brand that brings together 12 chefs including Marcus Wareing and Tom Aikens to share their recipes.

  • Hot Gossip

    Tue, 5 Jul 2011

    The Moniker Art Fair is launching Gossip Well Told – a London-based exhibition featuring the work of street artists from around the world.

  • Household works on Cornish ‘not spa - spa’

    Wed, 20 Jul 2011

    Household is working on designs for a new spa at the Hotel and Extreme Academy in Cornwall, which is says will ‘challenge the traditional way of thinking’ in spa design.

  • I'm so xxited

    Wed, 27 Jul 2011

    Italian visual artist and film-maker Quayola is currently putting the finishing touches on a collaborative audio-visual spectacular due to hit London in the middle of next month.the ...

  • In Deptford

    Tue, 19 Jul 2011

    In the hope of reminding people about Deptford’s almost forgotten tidal creek, a solar powered light installation is being installed as a typographic beacon.

  • In Your Face

    Fri, 29 Jul 2011

    The face of Britain as seen through the eyes of its children might well be a sunny and optimistic one.

  • Jawbone creates health-monitoring wristband

    Fri, 15 Jul 2011

    US-based consutlancy Jawbone, whose chief creative officer is Fuseproject founder Yves Béhar, has created the Up health-monitoring wristband, which claims to track the wearer’s movements, nutrition and sleep patterns.

  • L&Co rebrands Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

    Thu, 14 Jul 2011

    L&Co has created a new visual identity for the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), the first time it has been revamped in 30 years.

  • Latitude 2011 Arts Round-Up

    Mon, 18 Jul 2011

    Unlike its peers, Latitude is a festival which focuses less on warm beer and music, and more  on a hugely ambitious spread of arts - including visual and performance art, dance, literature and theatre.

  • LBI works with Barrett Homes

    Mon, 18 Jul 2011

    LBI has been reappointed as lead digital agency for property developer Barratt Developments following a five way pitch.

  • Leeds City College creates new posters as part of brand overhaul

    Fri, 29 Jul 2011

    Leeds City College’s in-house design team has created a series of posters promoting courses for the next academic year, forming part of a wider strategy to overhaul the college’s visual identity.

  • Lloyd Northover and Holmes & Marchant brought together in new structure

    Fri, 22 Jul 2011

    Media Square is bringing together its design consultancies Lloyd Northover, Holmes & Marchant UK and Holmes & Marchant Asia Pacific to form the new Holmes & Marchant Group.

  • London 2012 Olympic medal designs unveiled

    Thu, 28 Jul 2011

    With just under a year to go until the London 2012 Olympic Games, the designs for the Olympic medals have been unveiled.

  • Look to China

    Mon, 4 Jul 2011

    Earlier this week I was having lunch at No 10 Downing Street with David Cameron and the Chinese premier Wen. An intimate lunch with a small group of business people had been organised to develop and strengthen the trade relationships between our two countries.

  • M Worldwide refurbishes Bath visitor centre

    Wed, 20 Jul 2011

    M Worldwide is redesigning the The Bath Visitor Information Centre, which is on the ground floor of the 18th-century Abbey Chambers in the city.

  • Mackenzie Wheeler plans shipping crate hotel

    Fri, 15 Jul 2011

    Architect and interior design consultancy Mackenzie Wheeler has unveiled its plans for a modular container hotel for a site in Somerset for brewer Hall and Woodhouse.

  • Make It Clear creates Kew Gardens app

    Mon, 4 Jul 2011

    Make It Clear has designed a new iPhone app for the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew to guide visitors through the attraction with features including GPS mapping.

  • Making Future Collaboration

    Wed, 6 Jul 2011

    Digital technologies, art, design and science are finding new ways to share knowledge and make opportunities.

  • Making the impossible possible

    Mon, 11 Jul 2011

    Finding a needle in a haystack and seeing a leopard change its spots are two things you probably thought you would never be able to experience. But now, thanks to illustrator Harriet Russell, you can.

  • Making Your Mind Up

    Thu, 7 Jul 2011

    The inaugural Jerwood Makers Open exhibition, which launches next week, shows just how far the boundaries of applied arts can be pushed.Heike Brachlow - Avis I

  • Mark Pinney works on flagship Austin Reed store in Regent Street overhaul

    Mon, 25 Jul 2011

    Austin Reed is set to open a new flagship store on London’s Regent Street with design by Mark Pinney Architects.

  • Martin Lambie-Nairn takes on TNS role

    Tue, 5 Jul 2011

    Martin Lambie-Nairn is taking on the role of creative director at custom research company TNS.

  • Master of Ceremony

    Fri, 15 Jul 2011

    Czech artist Jakub Hosek says his work is largely influenced by the post-punk music he listens to as he paints. It’s probably no coincidence then that his upcoming exhibition Ceremony shares a name with New Order’s debut single.Ceremony, 2008

  • Moments of Confusion

    Tue, 5 Jul 2011

    A series of paintings by artist Michael Chanarin, going on show at Eleven Spitalfields in London this week, have fused images from instruction manuals and text from daily horoscope readings to highlight ‘humour and displacement’.

  • Mr B & Friends brands Greenergy fuel company

    Fri, 1 Jul 2011

    Bath-based consultancy Mr B & Friends has rebranded fuel provider Greenergy.

  • Museum of London has great expectations for Dickens exhibition

    Wed, 20 Jul 2011

    The Museum of London is set to host a Dickens and London exhibition to mark next year’s bicentenary of the author’s birth, with exhibition design by the museum’s in-house team and a campaign by Cog Design.

  • National Railway Museum steams ahead with Thompson Brand Partners identity

    Thu, 21 Jul 2011

    Thompson Brand Partners has created a new identity the National Railway Museum in York which aims to ‘connect generations’ through the story of railways.

  • News analysis - The Big Brother logo

    Tue, 26 Jul 2011

  • News analysis: The Made in Britain logo

    Tue, 19 Jul 2011

    The Made in Britain identity project has certainly been a PR triumph for kitchen company Stoves, which is behind the initiative and has got its name into pretty much every local and national paper in the UK. Some observers, however, have questioned whether the resulting logo is a fitting marque for UK design and even whether such a logo is needed at all.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 18 Jul 2011

    French designer Thierry Dreyfus’s Wall Rupture light installation is set to be installed in Atrium’s showroom - at Centre Point in central London - from 19-23 September as part of this year’s London Design Festival.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 18 Jul 2011

    Curious has designed the look and feel and collateral for Electrolux’s Cube initiative. The Cube is pop-up restaurant, currently sited on the Cinqunatenaire in Brussels, Belgium, which is set to tour European cities. Curious will develop a new look and feel for each city the Cube visits.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 25 Jul 2011

    Hanna Francis Laikola is launching the Hanna Francis range of furniture and interior products. Laikola says the range features designs of trees, lakes, butterflies, roses and other flowers and takes inspiration from her Finnish background.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 25 Jul 2011

    Damian O’Hara, based in Versailles, France, has created the cover design for US group BLK w/BEAR’s latest release on UK label F&F. The sleeve features ceramic sculptures created by Robin VanValkenburgh.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 11 Jul 2011

    Jaime Hayon has created the Baccarat Zoo collection for crystal company Baccarat, which will go on sale in September. The collection features six animals including a monkey and a bear.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 11 Jul 2011

    Thomas Manss & Company has created the Hotel Collection book for Italian paper manufacturer Fedrigoni.

  • No Business Like Show-Business

    Tue, 12 Jul 2011

    ‘Never look back’ is perhaps a somewhat incongruous statement from an artist about to launch a retrospective documenting his last half-century in the art world: 50 Years of Show Business.Angel 1960

  • No Stop, Statue, Machine

    Wed, 27 Jul 2011

    Mind controlling infrastructure; buildings that mourn bad weather and staircases that become ‘machines for endless exercise’ are among the dystopic-sounding features of No Stop, Statue, Machine, a film collaboration between design and architecture collective Post Works and artist Edwin Burdis.No Stop, ...

  • Nolympic Games

    Wed, 27 Jul 2011

    It’s one year to the day until the Olympics, and the London Olympic Organizing Committee of The Olympic and Paralympics Games is  busying itself with what some might see as polemic.rings of disappointment

  • North works on Photographers’ Gallery identity

    Wed, 13 Jul 2011

    North is developing a new visual identity for the Photographers’ Gallery, which is set to open its new central London home later this year.

  • On the menu

    Fri, 1 Jul 2011

    Zizzi Ristorante has reinforced its already strong design credentials with the results of its menu design competition for graduates.

  • Palestine ‘country brand’ plan mooted

    Tue, 19 Jul 2011

    Palestinian business leaders are looking to develop a ‘country brand’ for Palestine, which it will use for global promotion.

  • Path brands Naked Noodle

    Thu, 28 Jul 2011

    Path has created the visual identity and packaging design for the new Symington’s-owned Naked Noodle brand, aiming to represent premium Asian food.

  • Pearlfisher presents the solution for Guzzle Puzzle

    Tue, 12 Jul 2011

    Pearlfisher has created the identity, graphics and packaging for Guzzle Puzzle, a new product from The Natural Confectionary Company which is designed so that sweets can fit together like a puzzle before being eaten.

  • Pearlfisher rebrands Lebanese food retailer

    Thu, 21 Jul 2011

    Pearlfisher has created a new visual identity for Lebanese food retail chain Zaatar W Zeit, aiming to create a ‘bolder, more contemporary’ look and feel.

  • Pearlfisher rebrands Maldon Salt

    Wed, 6 Jul 2011

    Pearlfisher has created the new brand identity and packaging for Maldon Salt, celebrating the ‘natural elements’ of the seasoning.

  • Play Pharaoh

    Wed, 13 Jul 2011

    This weekend, Newcastle will be treated to the first stop of British Museum’s touring exhibition Pharaoh: King of Egypt, a hugely ambitious show that will see the Great North Museum, Hancock, host the largest UK loan of Egyptian artefacts ever undertaken by the British Museum.

  • Poke works on visual elements of Huffington Post site

    Wed, 6 Jul 2011

    News website The Huffington Post launches in the UK today with data visualisations designed by Poke set to support editorial content.

  • Positive works on website for new Bristol and Bath Science Park

    Mon, 25 Jul 2011

    Bristol-based digital consultancy Positive is working on a website and other digital projects for the new Bristol and Bath Science Park, which is set to open in September.

  • Psychic Dancehall

    Tue, 5 Jul 2011

    Tarot Cards - a source of artistic inspiration for luminaries including TS Eliot, Sylvia Plath and Genesis P - Orridge -  are being reworked once again for the Outrageous Fortune exhibition, which opens this week in Southend before touring nationally.

  • Robot Food creates interiors for sunglasses retailer

    Mon, 11 Jul 2011

    Harrogate-based consultancy Robot Food is designing the interiors for the Leeds flagship store of sunglasses and accessories retailer Shade Station.

  • Royal Mail releases final set of 2012 Olympic stamps

    Fri, 22 Jul 2011

    The final set of the Royal Mail’s series of London 2012 Olympic stamps is set to be issued, featuring work by 10 different artists art-directed by Studio David Hillman.

  • RSA takes spinal cord injury programme to the next step

    Mon, 18 Jul 2011

    The Royal Society of Arts has received funding to take forward its Design & Rehabilitation initiative, which aims to educate people with spinal cord injuries in design principles to increase their resourcefulness and self-reliance.

  • SB Studio rebrands National Centre for Craft and Design

    Wed, 27 Jul 2011

    SB Studio is working on the rebrand of the Lincolnshire-based National Centre for Craft and Design, which promotes and exhibits craft and design work from around the world.

  • Set the date

    Tue, 12 Jul 2011

    Choosing the right work, pulling together submissions, writing testimonials and remembering to pick up your black tie from the drycleaners… applying for industry awards is practically a full-time job.

  • Shooting Stars

    Fri, 8 Jul 2011

    As the late Brian Duffy became increasingly ill from a degenerative lung disease his son, Chris Duffy, also a photographer,  began to piece together what would become the most comprehensive collection of his work.David Bowie, Aladdin Sane, 1973

  • Someone rebrands National Maritime Museum

    Tue, 12 Jul 2011

    Someone has rebranded the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich and its sub-brands, with the work being unveiled today alongside the opening of the new Sammy Ofer wing.

  • Spring brands cloud computing service

    Wed, 13 Jul 2011

    Suffolk-based consultancy Spring has branded Active Web Solutions’ new cloud computing service two10degrees.

  • Springetts rebrands Saga

    Fri, 1 Jul 2011

    Springetts has designed a new identity for Saga, which is updating its brand for the first time in 35 years.

  • Stiff & Trevillion and The Plant work on Jamie’s restaurant in Cheltenham

    Wed, 20 Jul 2011

    Architect Stiff & Trevillion and The Plant design consultancy have created the interiors for the new Jamie’s Italian restaurant in Cheltenham’s Grade II-listed former high court building.

  • Studio Hansa in bold Star Trek work

    Fri, 8 Jul 2011

    Studio Hansa has designed and art directed a campaign to support Star Trek The Next Generation re-runs for broadcaster CBS with the expression ‘Live Boldly. Love Your Fan Side.’

  • Studio Output knits Ministry of Sound campaign

    Tue, 5 Jul 2011

    Studio Output is creating this summer’s flyer and poster artwork for London nightclub Ministry of Sound’s Saturday Sessions, with the August work launching in mid-July.

  • Studio Space One brands life-coaching service

    Mon, 18 Jul 2011

    Studio Space One has created a new visual identity for The Life Detectives, a Cornwall-based life-coaching service.

  • Summer Loving

    Wed, 6 Jul 2011

    Here at Design Week, we’re so street that sometimes, we don’t wear matching socks. On occasion, we say ‘is it’, when we already know it is. Once, we took literally twice the recommended daily allowance of Zirtek.

  • Take a good look at yourself

    Mon, 25 Jul 2011

    Graphic artist Luke Embden’s upcoming London show boasts the rather self-concious title ‘An Introspective’.

  • Tangent Graphic's Glasgow Commonwealth Games pictograms unveiled

    Fri, 22 Jul 2011

    Tangent Graphic has created a suite of pictograms for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, which aim to capture the ‘defining moment’ of each sport.

  • Textile designer Fanny Aronsen dies aged 55

    Fri, 8 Jul 2011

    Swedish textile designer Fanny Aronsen, who worked in partnership with Kvadrat, has died at the age of 55.

  • The House works on First Utility brand strategy

    Tue, 12 Jul 2011

    Bath-based consultancy The House is working on a brand strategy project for energy provider First Utility.

  • The Man Who Would Be King

    Mon, 25 Jul 2011

    Known as, variously, a modernist exponent of interior design, sceneography, graphic design and illustration, this exhibition will see Edward McKnight Kauffer lauded The Poster King, and rightly so. Taking in Japanese art, Fauvism, constructivism and surrealism, Kauffer (1890-1954) developed an adaptable style and applied it to commercial poster art.

  • The Sound of Silence

    Mon, 25 Jul 2011

    Though probably best known for his 1952 composition 4’33”, the three movements of which are performed without a single note being played, throughout John Cage’s career he forged strong connections with some  of the 20th century’s most famous artists, such as Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.Sour

  • Things We Like

    Thu, 28 Jul 2011

    Our weekly round-up of things we like on the Design Week news desk.

  • Things We Like

    Thu, 21 Jul 2011

    Our weekly round-up of things we like here on the DW news-desk.

  • Things We Like

    Thu, 14 Jul 2011

    Our weekly round-up of things we like here on the DW news-desk.

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    Thu, 7 Jul 2011

     

  • Time for school

    Wed, 13 Jul 2011

    Design education - we are told - is in grave danger in the UK.

  • Time for tea

    Tue, 26 Jul 2011

    It’s hard to think of a book that could possibly appeal to Design Week more than Tea & Cake London.

  • To The Point brands Worcester retail development

    Mon, 11 Jul 2011

    To The Point has created the naming and branding for St Martin’s Quarter, a retail-led development in the centre of Worcester.

  • Transmitter/Receiver

    Tue, 19 Jul 2011

    Though it’s perhaps a little unfair to have favourites, collage has to be among DW’s top artistic mediums.

  • V&A to open new Photographs Gallery as Futureplan rolls on

    Thu, 28 Jul 2011

    A new, permanent Photographs Gallery is set to open at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum in October,  designed in-house,  but with consultancy from English Heritage, chronicling the history of photography from 1839-1960.

  • Voxpop - what is your favourite piece of data visualisation?

    Thu, 14 Jul 2011

    Poke is developing dynamic graphics for the Huffington Post’s new UK website,  which will be based on live data such as Twitter feeds and pollresults. What is your favourite example of online data visualisation and why?

  • Voxpop - What was your most enjoyable client consultation process

    Thu, 28 Jul 2011

    Tangent Graphic consulted with professional athletes when developing its pictograms for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. Which client consultation process have you found most enjoyable and why?

  • Voxpop - which design issues would you put before Government?

    Thu, 21 Jul 2011

    The Creative Industries Council has been set up by Government to examine issues in the creative sector. What design-related issues would you like to see it tackle?

  • Water Lovely Photograph

    Mon, 11 Jul 2011

    From Coleridge’s ‘Water, water, everywhere’ to The Who’s Water, to Monet, water is a well-plundered fount of inspiration for artists, poets and musicians alike.

  • Water pump and manoeuverable shopping trolley up for Dyson award

    Wed, 27 Jul 2011

    Entries so far for this year’s international James Dyson Award include a pipe pump designed for the developing world and a shopping trolley designed to be easy to manoeuvre.

  • Wearing out

    Mon, 4 Jul 2011

    The Kemistry gallery in London has announced its latest exhibition, Out Of My Head, by illustrator Paul Wearing.

  • What’s in the box?

    Fri, 29 Jul 2011

    Beer brand Beck’s has an illustrious history of working in the arts but its latest initiative is so ambitious it took Design Week a little while to get our heads around it.

  • Will Nice joins Goosebumps as head of design

    Thu, 7 Jul 2011

    Will Nice is set to join branding consultancy Goosebumps as head of design in a move the consultancy says will ‘complete [our] senior-level recruitment drive’.

  • Women’s Institute looks to retail brand launch

    Mon, 4 Jul 2011

    A spokeswoman for the Women’s Institute says the group ‘would like to use’ the brand name WI Foods, after reports suggested the WI is looking to launch its own retail brand.

  • Writing's on The Wall

    Mon, 18 Jul 2011

    ‘As old, sun stained posters cling for life from mailboxes, telephone poles and storefront windows you quickly begin to wonder whatever happened to the glory days of self promotion. Is the art of concert posters really dead?’Wilco by Mikey Burton

  • Writtle Holdings acquires Loewy Group

    Tue, 19 Jul 2011

    Media sector investment company Writtle Holdings has acquired the Loewy Group, which operates consultancies including Seymour Powell, Epoch Design,  The Team and Williams Murray Hamm.

  • Yay for neighs

    Mon, 11 Jul 2011

    Photographer Mark Brumell has just completed a very unusual job for a very unusual client.

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