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March 2010 Online

  • A lesson in being prepared

    Mon, 8 Mar 2010

    An all-day power cut in Shoreditch is testing design groups’ resourcefulness. Moving Brands has two office spaces on opposite sides of Charlotte Road and has squashed everyone into its smaller mews space, which is unaffected by the power outage.

  • Acid steps up bid to foil copyright infringement at exhibitions

    Mon, 22 Mar 2010

    Anti Copying in Design has set up a new steering group that aims to provide on-site protection at exhibitions where intellectual property has been brought into question.

  • AKQA appointed to Royal Navy digital work

    Mon, 1 Mar 2010

    AKQA has been appointed to develop the Royal Navy’s digital strategy and redesign its website.

  • Alexander McQueen show among Brit Insurance winners

    Fri, 5 Mar 2010

    Alexander McQueen’s Spring/Summer 2010 catwalk presentation and Min-Kyu Choi’s folding plug are among the category winners in the 2010 Brit Insurance Design Awards – with the overall winner due to be unveiled on 16 March.

  • An alternative fashion week

    Mon, 8 Mar 2010

    London Fashion Week might be over, but wipe away your Swarovski-encrusted tears, preferably with a Hermès handkerchief, as the designers have just been announced for the Alternative Fashion Week.

  • Are you a big kid at heart?

    Wed, 10 Mar 2010

    These images of a giant Tetris cubed-filled room instantly made us want to reach for our Gameboys.

  • Art-felt sympathy for Haiti

    Tue, 23 Mar 2010

    It’s good to see that Haiti’s plight is not forgotten a couple of months on from the earthquake that devasted the Latin American country. Enterprising artist Suzanne Smith is keeping the memory alive in the Manchester area - and raising funds through art to help survivors in the process.

  • Arts institutions suffer in university budget cuts

    Thu, 18 Mar 2010

    University of the Arts London has had its central Government funding cut by 4.7 per cent and the Royal College of Art by 3.5 per cent in the latest round of grant allocations from the Higher Education Funding Council for England.

  • B&W Studio scoops Design Week Best of Show award

    Wed, 3 Mar 2010

    B&W Studio’s Annual Report and Six Accounts for St George’s Crypt has won the Best of Show prize in this year’s Design Week Awards.

  • Baigent Digital rebrands British Skin Foundation

    Wed, 10 Mar 2010

    The British Skin Foundation is preparing to launch a new website and refreshed brand identity designed by Baigent Digital.

  • Barry Seal leaves Anthem Worldwide

    Wed, 24 Mar 2010

    Anthem Worldwide managing director Barry Seal is leaving at the end of the month to set up a creative business mentoring consultancy called Vitamin B.

  • BBC approaches non-rostered consultancies in frameworks review

    Wed, 17 Mar 2010

    The BBC has been actively approaching non-rostered consultancies to appoint to its strategy and identity design services roster, ahead of a proposed roster review at the end of May.

  • BBC design rosters up for review

    Tue, 9 Mar 2010

    Two BBC design rosters will come up for review at the end of May as the broadcaster undergoes a public consultation, following director-general Mark Thompson’s strategy review.

  • Be Collective works on luxury Caribbean hotel

    Wed, 17 Mar 2010

    Be Collective has been appointed by Levera Resort Development to create the masterplan, design and branding for a sustainable boutique hotel in the Caribbean island of Grenada.

  • Bell Design to represent the industry at Shanghai Expo

    Wed, 24 Mar 2010

    UK Trade & Investment has selected Bell Design to represent UK design at Expo 2010 Shanghai China, ahead of the opening of the consultancy’s new office in Beijing.

  • Benjamin Tomlinson joins Poke as creative director

    Mon, 1 Mar 2010

    Poke has appointed Benjamin Tomlinson as creative director. Tomlinson joins from Ico Design, where he held the position of creative director.

  • Bitter wit

    Mon, 22 Mar 2010

    Noma Bar’s work is simple yet striking. His witty illustrations use the negative space of one image to form another, creating interlocking jigsaws of graphic forms.

  • Blood, Sweat and Fears magazine goes interactive

    Tue, 9 Mar 2010

    Although we’re not sporting ‘the end is nigh’ placards just quite yet, the future of print media has been debated to distraction over the last year. Although most are championing the Web as the trade’s future platform of choice, students from Central Saint Martins and London College of Fashion have come up with an altogether wackier proposition.

  • Bruce Munro works on two pieces for Salisbury Cathedral

    Mon, 15 Mar 2010

    Lighting designer Bruce Munro is working on two installations for Salisbury Cathedral, and is appealing for funding for the work.

  • Canteen: A recipe for fine design

    Tue, 2 Mar 2010

    At Design Week, we really like pie. So we were pleased - and wildly salivating - to hear about London restaurant Canteen’s first cookbook, which promises to train us in the art of whipping up traditional British grub.

  • Caroline Felton to head up Creative & Cultural Skills

    Thu, 11 Mar 2010

    Caroline Felton has been appointed as interim chief executive of Creative & Cultural Skills.

  • CDT Design creates dog and cat stamps for Royal Mail

    Thu, 11 Mar 2010

    CDT Design has designed a set of stamps for Royal Mail to mark the 150th anniversary of Battersea Dogs and Cats Home.

  • Cinimod creates new Snog branch

    Fri, 12 Mar 2010

    Frozen yoghurt retailer Snog will open its fourth outlet next week, in London’s Covent Garden, with interior design by Cinimod Studios.

  • Clerkenwell Design Week line-up unveiled

    Thu, 25 Mar 2010

    Tom Dixon and Hitch Mylius will be among the exhibitors at a new three-day design festival in London’s Clerkenwell.

  • Clinic’s Sage & Onions wins DBA Inclusive Design Challenge

    Fri, 5 Mar 2010

    Clinic’s Sage & Onions project, which will enable people of different age groups to exchange advice and experiences, has won the 2010 Design Business Association Inclusive Design Challenge.

  • Code Computerlove designs jeweller's e-commerce site

    Thu, 25 Mar 2010

    Code Computerlove has won a four-way pitch to design an e-commerce site for jeweller Beaverbrooks.

  • COI claims flexible procurement process addresses design concerns

    Wed, 31 Mar 2010

    The Central Office of Information says perceptions of it as a ’bullying’ state monopoly are wide of the mark, as it unveils a new flexible procurement process.

  • Conference proposals to link universities with industry and business

    Fri, 26 Mar 2010

    Three ideas to stimulate innovation in the design and creative industries will be considered at a conference hosted by the University of Brighton today.

  • Conran & Partners opens Delhi office

    Wed, 24 Mar 2010

    Conran & Partners is opening an office in Delhi to serve India’s hospitality and residential design markets.

  • Conran and Tom Dixon vie for Restaurant & Bar Design Awards

    Tue, 2 Mar 2010

    London restaurant Circus, designed by Tom Dixon, and Conran & Partners’ Boundary in Shoreditch have been shortlisted for this year’s Restaurant & Bar Design Awards.

  • Creative director Mark Porter leaves The Guardian

    Mon, 29 Mar 2010

    The Guardian’s creative director Mark Porter has announced that he is leaving the newspaper in April to focus on his private practice.

  • Crown prince of shops?

    Fri, 26 Mar 2010

    Nice to know that the hitherto best kept secret in design is finally out of the bag. After months of gagging the media, retail designer Callum Lumsden finally broke his own embargo this morning, telling anyone who cared to tune into a Design Council webcast that he has been working with ’Queen of Shops’ Mary Portas on a forthcoming series of her popular retail makeover programme.

  • D. I. Why?

    Mon, 15 Mar 2010

    Remember Changing Rooms? The team of squawking interior designers transformed neat, if a tad boring, middle-class homes into B-movie set monstrosities, while Carol Smillie narrated through gritted, grinning teeth.Day-time TV shleb Gordon Whistance (left) with ...

  • DBA to launch approved list of design suppliers

    Wed, 3 Mar 2010

    The Design Business Association is set to launch an approved list of design suppliers - the DBA Design Directory - which clients will be able to access for free.

  • Dementia care needs better design input

    Wed, 24 Mar 2010

    Mainstream designers are needed to create furniture, leisure activities and interiors for care homes for people with dementia, according to Kingston University’s Design Research Centre.

  • 'Democratic' pants are now in Vogue

    Thu, 11 Mar 2010

    Organic cotton underpants went down well at The Economist’s Redesigning Business Summit today. Speaking from the - large -assembled crowd of blue chip companies and design consultancies, sustainable designer Sophie Thomas called San Francisco underwear company Pact, with designs by Yves Behar, ‘compelling and wonderful’.

  • Design for Patient Dignity prototypes unveiled

    Tue, 23 Mar 2010

    The Design Council has unveiled prototypes of innovative hospital toilets, beds, wheelchairs and gowns, created for its Design for Patient Dignity scheme.

  • Design Museum seeks exhibition designer for new home

    Mon, 8 Mar 2010

    The Design Museum is seeking an exhibition designer to work on an installation for its new home at the former Commonwealth Institute.

  • Design Star to Popstar

    Mon, 15 Mar 2010

    Design Week is cheered by the news that Tahita Bulmer, singer in hotly-tipped band New Young Pony Club (whose latest album The Optimist is described by the Guardian as ‘adult, broody disco’ pop-pickers)  is a former employee of D&AD.Tahita Bulmer, New Young Pony Club

  • Design Week set to launch redesign and new blog

    Tue, 2 Mar 2010

    The redesigned Design Week is set to be released tomorrow. The new design has been led by art director Sam Freeman.

  • Digit founders leave the consultancy

    Tue, 16 Mar 2010

    Digit chief executive Andy Chambers and executive creative director Daljit Singh have left the consultancy they co-founded 15 years ago.

  • Digital textiles are the future in fashion

    Mon, 1 Mar 2010

    The machines have taken over, as ‘digital’ is the buzzword at this year’s London fashion week. The new digital schedule, which features live catwalk streaming and a screenings of fashion films, has allowed more than just dedicated followers of fashion front row seats at the hottest shows. 

  • Dragon Rouge rebrands mental health trust

    Mon, 29 Mar 2010

    Dragon Rouge is working on a new identity for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

  • Edinburgh seeks graphic designer for office development

    Tue, 9 Mar 2010

    The City of Edinburgh Council is seeking a graphic design group to help promote an office development in the Exchange area of the city.

  • Elmwood brands Cable & Wireless Communications

    Tue, 30 Mar 2010

    Elmwood has created a new identity for Cable & Wireless Communications, one of two groups created following the demerger of the 140-year-old Cable & Wireless plc.

  • Eye Writer wins inaugural Future Everything Award

    Fri, 12 Mar 2010

    The Eye Writer, a pair of low-cost eye-tracking glasses that allows artists and graffiti writers to draw using only their eyes, has won the inaugural £10 000 Future Everything prize.

  • Fitch Live set to close

    Mon, 1 Mar 2010

    Experiential, film and digital consultancy Fitch Live is set to close in June.

  • Flexible procurement could reduce COI involvement

    Tue, 30 Mar 2010

    Government design buyers will be able to bypass the Central Office of Information from certain aspects of procurement under a new arrangement that comes into force this week.

  • Four IV works on Turkish department store

    Thu, 18 Mar 2010

    Four IV has designed interiors and branding for a new department store in Istanbul owned by Turkish retailer Demsa Ic Ve Dis Ticart.

  • French design event targets UK designers

    Mon, 22 Mar 2010

    Interior designer Rabih Hage, Tom Dixon and design journalist Max Fraser will gather at the French ambassador’s residence in London tomorrow for an event showcasing French design.

  • Funnel Creative to create Mountain Rescue website

    Tue, 2 Mar 2010

    Funnel Creative is beginning work on a new website for Mountain Rescue.

  • Furniture show debut postponed for second year running

    Fri, 12 Mar 2010

    The London Furniture Show, a new exhibition due to launch in May, has been postponed due to a lack of exhibitors.

  • Glasgow City Council unveils plans for The Lighthouse

    Mon, 22 Mar 2010

    The future of Scotland’s troubled architecture and design centre The Lighthouse is looking more secure, as Glasgow City Council releases new plans for the building.

  • Glasgow Commonwealth Games unveils Marque identity

    Mon, 8 Mar 2010

    Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games has unveiled its new visual identity, designed by Marque Creative.

  • Going down a Storm

    Wed, 10 Mar 2010

    The future of the music industry appears to be more reliant on MP3 downloads and iTunes right now, leaving album art as a rare but all-important legacy. In the middle of this gloomy outlook, however, the Idea Generation Gallery presents Right But Wrong - an exhibition in celebration of the influential and prolific album artist Storm Thorgerson. 

  • Hat-Trick and NB Studio work with British Heart Foundation

    Wed, 31 Mar 2010

    The British Heart Foundation is publishing a series of ten heart health booklets for the general public, created by Hat-Trick Design.

  • Heather Martin takes on interaction role at Smart Design

    Fri, 26 Mar 2010

    Smart Design has appointed Heather Martin as director of interaction design at its Barcelona office. She joins from the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, which she co-founded.

  • Hospital toilet design developed in dignity challenge

    Fri, 19 Mar 2010

    Azhar Architecture and washroom manufacturer Grant Westfield have developed the Modular Washroom System, as part of a programme for the Design Council and the Department of Health.

  • Huggies Pull-Ups get Anthem Worldwide makeover

    Mon, 29 Mar 2010

    Kimberly-Clark is poised to roll out new branding and packaging for Huggies Pull-Ups, designed by Anthem Worldwide.

  • Hugh Clarke-Williams dies

    Thu, 25 Mar 2010

    Hugh Clarke-Williams, co-founder of Manchester-based group Tucker Clarke-Williams Creative, died at the weekend at the age of 55.

  • I pity the fool

    Fri, 12 Mar 2010

    Simon Threadkell aka BA Baracus (left) Stephen Anderson aka Face (right)

  • I Wish I Worked There....

    Thu, 4 Mar 2010

    If the thought of sitting at your desk in a grey cubicle, with piles of work mounting in your inbox, leaves you uninspired, here’s an idea: strategically place I Wish I Worked There - a book by designer Kursty Groves and illustrator Will Knight - on your boss’ desk.

  • Interbrand splinter group forms The Clearing

    Wed, 17 Mar 2010

    An Interbrand breakaway consultancy has formed and started trading under the name The Clearing.

  • James Dyson calls for Design Council review in Tory party report

    Tue, 9 Mar 2010

    James Dyson has called for a review of the ‘funding, objectives and impact’ of the Design Council in a report commissioned by the Conservative Party.

  • James Dyson steps down as company chairman

    Mon, 15 Mar 2010

    Sir James Dyson, who founded the Dyson company, will step down from his role as chairman in the next few months.

  • Januzzi Smith shortlisted for Italian arts job

    Fri, 19 Mar 2010

    Januzzi Smith has made the shortlist to create the visual identity and branding for new Italian arts and culture centre Lugano Arti Contemporanee.

  • Jean Nouvel to design Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

    Tue, 23 Mar 2010

    French architect Jean Nouvel is designing the tenth Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, which will be completed in July.

  • Le Chien et Moi

    Thu, 11 Mar 2010

    Communicating the look and feel of antiquities shop Le Chien Et Moi is this dog-eared, sepia toned Victorian scrap book – part website and part artefact.

  • Leahy Brand Design recharges Energizer with new look

    Mon, 29 Mar 2010

    Leahy Brand Design has created a new global identity and packaging for Energizer using energy beams to represent technology and innovation.

  • Lin Dickens leaves Aricot Vert

    Thu, 4 Mar 2010

    Aricot Vert founder and managing director Lin Dickens is leaving the consultancy after more than 20 years at the helm. 

  • Made in Manchester

    Tue, 23 Mar 2010

    Co-design took a step closer to world domination today with the opening of the Manchester Fab Lab - the first US-style democratised ’factory’ to hit the UK.

  • Manor Creative rebrands printing charity

    Tue, 23 Mar 2010

    The Printers’ Charitable Corporation is relaunching today as The Printing Charity, with a new visual identity designed by Eastbourne-based Manor Creative

  • Matthew Fairweather works on NHS prison campaign

    Mon, 8 Mar 2010

    Bristol-based consultancy Matthew Fairweather has created a poster campaign for the NHS, targeting prisons in a bid to educate inmates on improvements to their health services within the prison system.

  • Media Square sells off Lloyd Northover Marlow operations

    Mon, 8 Mar 2010

    Media Square has sold the Marlow outpost of its branding consultancy Lloyd Northover to the existing management.

  • Mellor & Scott launches eyewear brand

    Thu, 4 Mar 2010

    Multidisciplinary consultancy Mellor & Scott is introducing its own eyewear brand called Originals.

  • Modern Art Oxford to relaunch with new website and exhibition space

    Wed, 31 Mar 2010

    The Modern Art Oxford gallery is set to relaunch this month with new marketing materials, a new website and a new exhibition space.

  • My name’s … and I’m a chocoholic

    Wed, 17 Mar 2010

    With a few avid chocoholics on the Design Week team, (ahem - my reason for living) it is no surprise that we can hardly contain our excitement and salivating thoughts after hearing about The Chocolate Library- a home for chocolate with something to say.Message Bars

  • Name check

    Fri, 26 Mar 2010

    Oh, the joy of simple graphic representations. When they involve an effortless play on words, quirky typography and a dollop of humour,  they are pure pleasure.

  • National Media Museum seeks designers for London outpost

    Mon, 1 Mar 2010

    The National Media Museum is set to launch a search for a team to provide integrated design services, including architecture and engineering, for its London Galleries Project.

  • Nelson Associates designs celebrity florist website

    Thu, 4 Mar 2010

    Nelson Associates has designed a website for celebrity florist Robbie Honey.

  • Neville Brody gets RCA job

    Mon, 22 Mar 2010

    Neville Brody has been named as the new head of the communication art and design course at the Royal College of Art.

  • Nicolas Mamier joins Appetite as MD

    Fri, 19 Mar 2010

    Appetite has appointed former Elmwood managing director Europe and Middle East Nicolas Mamier as its new managing director.

  • Nigel Coates and Doug Branson work on Midlands Arts Centre

    Tue, 9 Mar 2010

    The Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham will reopen on 1 May following a £15m expansion and refurbishment by Nigel Coates and Doug Branson.

  • One-click heels

    Mon, 22 Mar 2010

    Jimmy Choo beware, you may soon be redundant. That’s if digital agency Art Science has its way.

  • Pentagram's Domenic Lippa creates freehand identity for London Design Festival

    Wed, 17 Mar 2010

    Domenic Lippa at Pentagram has created the identity and graphic work for this year’s London Design Festival.

  • Pitch due for hotel in The Shard tower

    Wed, 3 Mar 2010

    Leisure operator Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts is set to launch a pitch to find an interior design group to work on its upcoming hotel in The Shard, at London Bridge.

  • Plans emerge for multiple design embassies at LDF

    Wed, 10 Mar 2010

    The London Design Embassy may be renamed the British Design Embassy and appear at several locations across London in this year’s London Design Festival, Design Week understands.

  • Please email, don't call

    Thu, 1 Apr 2010

    The Design Week team has been thrown into turmoil - our phone lines are down. If you have any urgent enquiries please email. And despite it being the 1 April this is not an April Fools joke.

  • Pop Store works on temporary stores for Whiteleys

    Wed, 10 Mar 2010

    Whiteleys shopping centre in west London has appointed temporary retailer and consultancy Pop Store to work on wayfinding, marketing and interiors projects, as it seeks to reposition itself as a historic, yet edgy retail destination.

  • Precedent creates Political Animal website for RSPCA

    Wed, 10 Mar 2010

    Precedent has created a microsite for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to promote animal welfare policy before the General Election later this year.

  • Project for a rainy day

    Thu, 1 Apr 2010

    Everyone loves receiving post. Unfortunately, the dull thud of letters landing on the door mat is often followed by a disheartening sigh as yet more bills arrive through the letterbox.I-love-post post stamp

  • Reach Brands revamps Wickes own-label packaging

    Tue, 16 Mar 2010

    Reach Brands is redesigning packaging for DIY retailer Wickes’ range of 6000 own-label products, starting with paint, which goes on shelf this week.

  • Reactions to the Budget

    Thu, 25 Mar 2010

    The design industry is broadly welcoming the help for small businesses unveiled in the Budget yesterday.

  • Recessions, networking and training feature in Design Council debate

    Fri, 26 Mar 2010

    Tom Dixon, Studio Dempsey’s Mike Dempsey and Shan Preddy of Preddy & Co were among the panelists at the Design Council’s debate this morning, discussing the merits of recessions, training and networking.

  • Red Balloon

    Wed, 17 Mar 2010

    Last November Czech artist Hana Vojácková was allowed a rare glimpse into the Chernobyl exclusion zone, which has remained hauntingly untouched since the radioactive explosion at the plant in 1986. There she found the town of Pripyat frozen post-disaster and set about documenting the landscape for Red Balloon 86, her first UK exhibition.

  • Royal College of Art plans Milan exhibition

    Fri, 12 Mar 2010

    London’s Royal College of Art will have a presence at the Milan furniture fair’s Salone satellite exhibition this year, taking residence in a disused factory to present Hotel RCA, a collection of work by 90 students and graduates.

  • Royal Mail seeks consultancies for frameworks

    Thu, 18 Mar 2010

    The Royal Mail Group is seeking design consultancies for a number of frameworks.

  • Rufus Leonard appoints new director of technology

    Tue, 16 Mar 2010

    Rufus Leonard has appointed Peter Barker to a new position as director of technology, promoting him internally from head of development.

  • Scientists and designers work on RCA show

    Tue, 16 Mar 2010

    Designers from the Royal College of Art in London have collaborated with leading scientists to develop work for a new exhibition at the RCA, which opens today.

  • Shortlist unveiled to replace Dan Fern at Royal College of Art

    Thu, 11 Mar 2010

    A shortlist of candidates is being interviewed today to replace Dan Fern as head of the communication art and design course at London’s Royal College of Art.

  • Social UK creates identity for Heart radio charity

    Mon, 15 Mar 2010

    Social UK has created an identity for charity Have a Heart – set up by Global Radio’s Heart network – and a campaign identity.

  • Something From Us creates Cornish brand for Dott

    Wed, 3 Mar 2010

    Designs of the Time Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly has appointed London consultancy Something From Us as senior design producer for branding project From Cornwall with Love.

  • Sophie Ristelhueber wins Deutsche Börse Photography Prize

    Thu, 18 Mar 2010

    French photographer Sophie Ristelhueber has won the 2010 Deutsche Börse  Photography Prize.

  • Sounds in harmony

    Wed, 24 Mar 2010

    London consultancy Someone has named and designed the certification mark for Music Matters, a music industry collective which will look to safeguard the value of music and identify legal music services through the trustmark.

  • Southern Water calls in designers to help reduce water consumption

    Mon, 22 Mar 2010

    Southern Water is asking designers and engineers to work with its customers on a water-saving scheme that will see 600 water meters installed each week across the supplier’s catchment area from June onwards.

  • Steve Lidbury joins Imagination

    Thu, 4 Mar 2010

    Steve Lidbury, former design director at TP Bennett, has joined Imagination as creative director of automotive.

  • Stiff & Trevillion works on The Arts Club refurbishment

    Wed, 31 Mar 2010

    Architect Stiff & Trevillion is working on a refurbishment of The Arts Club in London, as Lambie-Nairn prepares to launch a new identity for the Mayfair-based club.

  • Street art curated by Cure Studio

    Thu, 4 Mar 2010

    Brightening up the corner of Old Street and Rufus Street this week is a temporary exhibition curated by graphic designers Cure Studio. The colourful hoarding wraps around design-loving entrepreneur Alan Yau’s new baby, a Busaba Eathai restaurant due to open in May.

  • Studio DB's Fenwick refurbishment set to complete

    Wed, 10 Mar 2010

    Studio DB’s large-scale refurbishment of Fenwick’s Bond Street branch in central London is set to complete at the end of April.

  • Sumo creates identity for Wordsworth Trust

    Fri, 19 Mar 2010

    Newcastle-based design consultancy Sumo has created a new identity, promotional material and signage for the Wordsworth Trust.

  • Take a seat...

    Fri, 5 Mar 2010

    Does classic chair design make you think of Parisian cafes and pert bottoms? Er… me neither, but it will now that Thonet have unveiled the winners of the 214x214 photography competition.

  • The Big Rethink

    Fri, 12 Mar 2010

    Citing nostalgia and humour as potent antidotes in recession-time branding, Elmwood Chairman Jonathan Sands addressed business leaders and designers today on the second morning of The Economist’s Redesigning Business Summit.

  • The logo is dead, says Someone’s Simon Manchipp

    Tue, 30 Mar 2010

    Someone founder and creative director Simon Manchipp has declared that the logo is dead.

  • The One Off works on Best Buy retail designs

    Wed, 3 Mar 2010

    The One Off is working on retail designs for Best Buy’s UK debut.

  • Through the looking-glass

    Fri, 12 Mar 2010

    A derelict space in London’s Brompton Quarter has captured our attention this week. A part gallery, part open studio has emerged from Anonymous Artists, themed on the 1865 Lewis Carroll novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - interest has been renewed after last week’s release of Tim Burton’s film Alice in Wonderland.Illus

  • Tibbatts Kirk Abel interiors for Soho nightclub

    Fri, 5 Mar 2010

    Tibbatts Kirk Abel has designed the interiors of new nightclub Diu in London’s Soho.

  • Together Design rebrands The Health Foundation

    Wed, 24 Mar 2010

    Together Design has created a new identity for The Health Foundation, which campaigns to improve healthcare in the UK.

  • Traidcraft calls in Family and Friends for sweets launch

    Fri, 26 Mar 2010

    Branding and packaging design consultancy Family and Friends has created packs for a new range of luxury fair trade sweets for Traidcraft.

  • Tributes paid to Sam Sampson

    Tue, 2 Mar 2010

    Tributes are being paid to Sampson Tyrrell founder Martin ’Sam’ Sampson, who died at the weekend.

  • Tynan D’Arcy rebrands Sellotape

    Thu, 11 Mar 2010

    Sellotape relaunches today with new branding, packaging and product design by Tynan D’Arcy.

  • UK designers' combined fee-income reaches £15bn

    Wed, 17 Mar 2010

    The combined fee-income of UK design consultancies, in-house teams and freelances came to an estimated £15bn in 2009, according to the forthcoming Design Industry Research survey, from the Design Council.

  • UK Space Agency takes off with Folio Creative logo

    Tue, 23 Mar 2010

    Folio Creative has created a visual identity for the UK Space Agency, which launched today.

  • Uniform brands Liverpool's Ropewalks area

    Wed, 31 Mar 2010

    Uniform has created a visual identity for Liverpool’s Ropewalks area, which encompasses the city’s Chinatown.

  • University of Reading aims to make tax forms easier to read

    Mon, 15 Mar 2010

    The University of Reading has won funding for a two-year research project that aims to make tax and mortgage forms easier to understand.

  • Vital statistics

    Wed, 31 Mar 2010

    It’s amazing how fickle design groups can be. When times are good, they want to crow about their success. But when the chips are down, while they may draw together for warm - especially if it involves a bar - they are loath to share their misfortunes in any formal manner.

  • Webb & Webb works its magic on Harry Potter books

    Tue, 30 Mar 2010

    Webb & Webb Design has created a new look for the Harry Potter ‘signature’ series of books, which will launch in November.

  • Women to Watch

    Thu, 11 Mar 2010

    Congratulations to Sophie Thomas, co-founder of sustainable design consultancy Thomas Matthews, and Siobhán Bales, managing director of Bgroup. They are both ‘Women to Watch’, as chosen by the Cultural Leadership Programme for the first time this year and announced last night. The list features 50 female leaders from across the UK and encompasses the fields of design, music, dance, digital media, theatre, literature, museums ...

  • WPP profits down after ‘brutal’ year

    Fri, 5 Mar 2010

    WPP’s profits before tax fell by 16.1 per cent to £812m following what the group describes as a ‘brutal’ 2009.