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November 2011

  • £100,000 grants for projects to help older people live independently

    Fri, 11 Nov 2011

    The Design Council and the Technology Strategy Board have awarded £100,000 grants to three service design projects which will help older adults live independently for longer, by offering better approaches to nutrition.

  • 26 Stories of Christmas

    Tue, 29 Nov 2011

    Writers’ group 26 has collaborated with illustrators from the London College of Communication and Plymouth College of Art to create an online advent calendar for short story fans.26 Stories of Christmas

  • A dog print is for life, not just for Christmas

    Thu, 24 Nov 2011

    Consultancy With Relish has created a series of dog portrait prints as part of its Dog Bingo series, and is selling them to raise awareness of animal shelters as well as raising cash for the Mayhew Animal Home in north London.A Retriever, a Chihuahua and a Lurcher

  • Airside to close after 14 years

    Thu, 24 Nov 2011

    Airside is set to close after 14 years in business, with founders Fred Deakin, Alex Maclean and Nat Hunter set to go their separate ways.

  • All of Us and Dixon Baxi create branding for Russian news channel Kommersant

    Mon, 14 Nov 2011

  • Allies creates packaging and graphics for food store The Hungry Guest

    Tue, 22 Nov 2011

    Allies has created packaging and interior graphics for The Hungry Guest, an artisan food store based in Petworth, Sussex.

  • Amnesty International - Making The Invisible Visible

    Mon, 5 Dec 2011

    Lisa Jelliffe and Kirsten Rutherford from Wieden + Kennedy have come together with street artist collective Mentalgassi  for an Europe-wide Amnesty International project, Making The Invisible Visible.Video:

  • Amnesty International to launch first-ever shop

    Fri, 18 Nov 2011

    Human rights charity Amnesty International is launching its first-ever physical retail space this month in east London’s Boxpark development, with designs by consultancy Popstore.Amnes-tea and Biscuits plate, by ...

  • Annual report

    Thu, 3 Nov 2011

    Outgoing D&AD president Sanky carried out his final presidential duty last night by launching the 2011 D&AD annual. 

  • Architects Draw Up London Grid System

    Tue, 22 Nov 2011

    New York and Barcelona were built on grid plans – a city planning system which goes back to Roman and Hellenic times.10x10 Drawing in the City

  • Art against SAD

    Tue, 22 Nov 2011

    Smothered in Dickensian fog and deprived of daylight, it’s easy to feel pretty gloomy in the winter months.

  • Benefit cosmetics debuts new ‘boutique’ concession with designs by Umbrella

    Wed, 23 Nov 2011

    Umbrella Design has created a new retail concept for Benefit cosmetics, creating a boutique environment within a department store.

  • Best kept secret

    Mon, 7 Nov 2011

    This year’s RCA Secret anonymous postcard sale is back, with contributions from Grayson Perry, Sir James Dyson and Nick Park.pucker up

  • Black & Ginger creates designs for Titanic centenary street event

    Thu, 1 Dec 2011

    Black & Ginger has been appointed to design the branding and concept for The Sea Odyssey, a marionette street event commemorating the centenary of the voyage of the Titanic, taking place in Liverpool next year.

  • Blue Marlin creates new Vaseline lotions packaging

    Tue, 6 Dec 2011

    Blue Marlin has created new packaging designs for the global relaunch of Vaseline lotions.  

  • Bohemian Like You

    Wed, 2 Nov 2011

    Perhaps more associated with the once-omnipresent Vodafone adverts than a louche sense of freedom and general hipness, the Bohemian Like You concept has now inspired an exhibition of cutesy posters.

  • Boxpark pop-up mall founder aims to open second site

    Thu, 1 Dec 2011

    The founder of east London ‘pop-up mall’ Boxpark has announced plans to open another development, similar to the existing Boxpark next year.The Shoreditch Boxpark

  • Brand USA launches as country’s first-ever global consumer brand

    Mon, 7 Nov 2011

    US government organisation The Corporation for Travel Promotion has launched Brand USA, which it says is the country’s first-ever global consumer brand.

  • Branding group sought for new Manchester arts organisation

    Tue, 6 Dec 2011

    A branding consultancy is being sought to create a name and identity for a new arts organisation in Manchester, which is being formed from the merger between the Cornerhouse and the Library Theatre Company.

  • Brandwidth creates Dr Who iPad app

    Wed, 2 Nov 2011

    Brandwidth has created a Dr Who encyclopedia app for the iPad, which provides in-depth information on the world of Dr Who.

  • British Library to overhaul digital presence

    Mon, 5 Dec 2011

    The British Library is embarking on a project to redevelop its website with the aim, it says ‘to create an experience that matches the Library’s impressive physical presence in London’.

  • Butterfly Cannon creates ‘colour-changing’ Glenmorangie packaging

    Fri, 4 Nov 2011

    Butterfly Cannon has created limited-edition Christmas packaging for Glenmorangie Original whisky, which the consultancy says appears to change colour as you walk past.

  • Cambridge Design Partnership opens US office

    Tue, 22 Nov 2011

    Product design group the Cambridge Design Partnership has opened an office in the US, which it says aims to expand its medical technology business in the country.Dr Dominique Freeman

  • Campbell Hay brands The Long Table night market

    Tue, 29 Nov 2011

    Campbell Hay design consultancy has created the visual identity for The Long Table night food market, in east London’s Dalston.

  • Casson Mann to create new flagship National Maritime Museum gallery

    Tue, 15 Nov 2011

    Casson Mann is working on a new Naval ‘flagship’ gallery for the National Maritime Museum in London, which is due to open in summer 2013.

  • Cement Mixer winter graphics show

    Mon, 21 Nov 2011

    Internet based graphics art gallery Cement is curating a winter show, Cement Mixer, which it will bring from the online to the physical world this week.

  • Christmas design round-up

    Thu, 1 Dec 2011

    With Christmas drawing ever-closer (only 24 shopping days left…) we round up some of our favourite festive designs from this season.

  • Christmas is Coming

    Fri, 25 Nov 2011

    Today is - aside from being Friday - 25 November. So, yes, that means exactly one month before Christmas Day. Let the panic commence.

  • City Cypher

    Wed, 30 Nov 2011

    From the vast dyspopia of Paul Noble’s Newtown to the Drawing The City project, the urban environment is cropping up again and again as central theme in art and design.

  • Coutts rolls out new identity

    Tue, 1 Nov 2011

    Private bank Coutts is rolling out a new identity as it rebrands internationally from RBS Coutts to just be known as Coutts.

  • Create designs BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2011 Set

    Mon, 28 Nov 2011

    Create has been appointed to create the set design for BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2011.

  • Create your own Christmas jumpers with a hacked knitting machine

    Wed, 23 Nov 2011

    Artist Andew Salomone has hacked into the Brother KH930 knitting machine, creating an electronic fix that allows him to use it like a desktop printer.

  • Cross Over

    Tue, 15 Nov 2011

    Central St Martins has worked with ad group Lowe and Partners to develop the first exhibition to be held at the college’s new King’s Cross home.

  • CSD cleared to set up register of chartered designers

    Mon, 7 Nov 2011

    The Chartered Society of Designers has cleared the final hurdle in its plans to set up a register of chartered designers.

  • Cure Studio designs Clean Break charity website

    Mon, 5 Dec 2011

    Cure Studio is designing a new website for Clean Break, a theatre, education and new writing company that works with women whose lives have been affected by the criminal justice system.

  • Dalziel & Pow works on Danish department store

    Mon, 28 Nov 2011

    Dalziel & Pow has been appointed to work on a number of new design initiatives for Danish department store Magasin du Nord, which will initially launch in the Kongens Nytorv store in Copenhagen.

  • Dave renames as Calling Brands and moves into Asia

    Tue, 15 Nov 2011

    Engine branding group Dave is changing its name to Calling Brands, with the new consultancy extending into Asia with new offices in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

  • David Collins-designed Delaunay restaurant set to open

    Fri, 25 Nov 2011

    David Collins Studio has created the interiors for The Delaunay restaurant in London’s Covent Garden theatre district, with corporate identity and graphics designed by King Design and applied by consultancy Sands Thomas.

  • David Shrigley’s big Southbank show

    Mon, 28 Nov 2011

    Artist David Shrigley, whose recent activities have included tattooing his works on to the limbs of fans and animating an 18m-tall naked man, is to be the subject of a major retrospective at London’s Southbank next year.

  • Design Bugs Out products to go into use in hospitals

    Mon, 21 Nov 2011

    Products developed as part of the Design Council and the Department of Health’s Design Bugs Out initiative, which aims to reduce the number of infections in hospitals, are going on sale to the NHS.Bedside cabinet by Kinneir Dufort

  • Design Council Forum lobbies for government design strategy

    Fri, 2 Dec 2011

    The first Design Council Forum has narrowly decided by vote that the Government should form a design strategy.Ben Page

  • Design industry calls on Government to protect design education

    Wed, 9 Nov 2011

    A group of leading designers and education experts have appealed to Education Secretary Michael Gove to keep design and technology in the National Curriculum.

  • Designers enlist dogs and scent clocks in bid to tackle dementia

    Fri, 25 Nov 2011

    Five projects, including an initiative to train thinking dogs for dementia and an appetite-stimulating ‘scent clock’ are being developed as part the Design Council and the Department of Health’s £360 000 challenge to help people living with dementia.A million people in the UK will be living with dementia by 2021, the ...

  • Designers sought for graphics work at Olympic Park

    Thu, 17 Nov 2011

    The Olympic Park Legacy Company is setting up a framework to cover design work, including graphics, for the London 2012 Olympic Park.Olympic Park visualisation

  • Designwerk replaces liquidated Navyblue as Soccerex brand guardian

    Fri, 4 Nov 2011

    Designwerk have been appointed as brand guardian to Soccerex Football Festivals for the next three years.

  • Deutsche Börse Photography Prize shortlist unveiled

    Mon, 5 Dec 2011

    Photographers Pieter Hugo, Rinko Kawauchi, John Stezaker and Christopher Williams have been shortlisted for the 2012 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.Bergische Bauernscheune, Junkersholz, Leichlingen, by Christopher Williams

  • Digital Adventures in Contemporary Craft

    Mon, 28 Nov 2011

    While crafting may still - somewhat unfairly - have connotations of antiquity, homeliness and twee domesticity - the Lab Craft touring exhibition opening its Yorkshire leg this week  proves there’s more to crafting than doilies and crochet.

  • Double G Studios creates Tate moving image identity

    Thu, 17 Nov 2011

    Double G Studios has designed a new moving identity for the Tate to use online and for its gallery film and video content.Video:

  • Durham illuminated by Lumiere festival

    Fri, 18 Nov 2011

    Durham’s Lumiere biennale  got under way last night with the promise that the city would be ‘bathed in light for four unforgettable nights’.Spirit by Compagnie Carabosse c. Matthew Andrews

  • East London Design Show

    Tue, 29 Nov 2011

    It seems like only yesterday we brought you news of the East London Design Show 2010 - and now it’s back, bringing a host of designers and designer-makers together to battle their way through the cast of The Only Way is Dalston to Shoreditch town hall.

  • eBay to open pop-up store in London

    Mon, 21 Nov 2011

    Online auction site eBay is opening a Christmas pop-up retail store in London’s Soho next week, with interiors and experiential elements designed by consultancy Push UK.

  • Electroboutique

    Mon, 21 Nov 2011

    Artist collective Electroboutique uses interactive technologies in its work to address questions around the mass media, art production, design aspiration and the capitalist system.

  • Encounters with Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi

    Thu, 10 Nov 2011

    Next week sees the opening of the 17th Bristol Encounters International Film Festival, celebrating everything that’s great about short and animated film.

  • Exhibition Road Show

    Thu, 17 Nov 2011

    Taking advantage of its boulevard of cultural beacons, the borough of Kensington and Chelsea has announced it will host a Road Show event over the course of the Olympics for a ‘street party’ on Exhibition Road.katie Paterson

  • Festival time

    Tue, 1 Nov 2011

    Already host to a celebrated literature festival, Cheltenham is set to take its place on the design circuit with the launch of the Cheltenham Design Festival next year.

  • Fiasco creates designs for Twitter-fuelled sandwich shop

    Wed, 30 Nov 2011

    Fiasco Design has created the branding, visual identity and screen interfaces for Nom Nom, a Bristol-based sandwich shop that uses social media to allow customers to pre-order food and drinks.

  • Field of Light

    Wed, 16 Nov 2011

    Bruce Munro is resurrecting his Field of Light installation and bringing it to the Holburne Museum in Bath from this month.Bulbs in the Field of Light

  • Figtree founder Simon Myers on generous organisations

    Wed, 30 Nov 2011

    Figtree founder Simon Myers and author Laurence Shorter have launched the Generous Organisation, which aims to highlight and showcase businesses that display ‘generous behaviours’ and are likely to be set for future success. Myers outlines the thinking behind the initiative.

  • First Thursday

    Thu, 3 Nov 2011

    First Thursdays, organised by Time Out, are East London’s monthly fiesta of late night gallery and studio openings, talks and events, seeing arty types get their mitts on as much culture/ free beer as they can handle in an ‘E’ postcode.The Mill Co. - Mint Jarukittikun, A - Z plants

  • Fitch executive creative director Stuart Wood on the health of the High Street

    Fri, 25 Nov 2011

    With retail boss Sir Philip Green announcing he could close more than 200 of his Arcadia Group’s shops, Fitch executive creative director Stuart Wood gives us his take on the health of the High Street.

  • Former HSBC design head Richard Newland leaves the company

    Mon, 14 Nov 2011

    Richard Newland, formerly global head of retail network development and design at HSBC, has left the group.

  • Foster + Partners and George Sexton Associates begin work on Sainsbury Centre revamp

    Thu, 17 Nov 2011

    Work has begun on the first phase of the revamp of the Lord Norman Foster-designed Sainsbury Centre in Norwich.

  • Found font

    Tue, 8 Nov 2011

    As part of exhibition The Department for Overlooked Histories, which looks at the way history is created and understood, consultancy An Endless Supply has created an updated version of the Curwen Sans font, originally drawn for the Curwen Press publishing house.

  • François Dallegret Beyond The Bubble

    Thu, 3 Nov 2011

    Sitting squarely between designer, architect, artist and engineer is Francois Dallegret who will be celebrated in a new Architectural Association exhibition.

  • Georgia and Verdana typefaces redrawn

    Wed, 9 Nov 2011

    Matthew Carter, who designed the Georgia and Verdana typefaces in the 1990s, has updated them to be better suited to mobile and tablet devices.

  • Get Your Rocks On at contemporary jewellery exhibition

    Wed, 23 Nov 2011

    Though we’re immediately wary of anything prefixed with ‘rock’ as a verb, the work at the Art Rocks contemporary jewellery show opening in London next week far surpasses the exhibition’s dubious title.

  • Good Press

    Tue, 1 Nov 2011

    Glasgow based Good Press is an independent gallery and bookshop, newly set up, just last month, in the back of a cafe.

  • H&M to launch standalone Cheap Monday and Monki stores in UK

    Wed, 9 Nov 2011

    H&M-owned Swedish fashion brands Cheap Monday and Monki are to launch their first stand-alone UK stores in London, with Cheap Monday’s interiors designed by Uglycute and Monki’s designed by its in-house team.

  • Harrison & Co brands writers charity English Pen

    Wed, 23 Nov 2011

    Harrison & Co has rebranded writers charity English Pen with a new identity that aims to communicate writing under duress but also a sense of independence and freedom.

  • Hat-Trick creates logo to mark First World War centenary

    Fri, 11 Nov 2011

    Hat-Trick Design has created a logo which will be used to mark the 100-year anniversary of the First World War, from 2014-2018.

  • Heavenly brands mobile marketing company Lumata

    Wed, 2 Nov 2011

    Heavenly has designed the identity for business-to-business mobile marketing company Lumata.

  • Hellraisers

    Mon, 7 Nov 2011

    ‘The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom’, quipped Romantic poet William Blake, in his book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

  • Heretic's Prohibited Onions exhibition

    Fri, 2 Dec 2011

    ‘Prohibited onions’ is perhaps not the most conventional of titles for an art exhibition. But then Hackney-based printmaking collective Heretic aren’t, perhaps, the most conventional of artists.Forbidden Union

  • Hidden Heroes

    Wed, 9 Nov 2011

    Napoleon put out a tender which led to the design of the tin can (1809), as a challenge to preserve basic food provisions for troops over long periods.can

  • Hornall Anderson UK repackages Lea & Perrins sauce

    Thu, 3 Nov 2011

    Worcestershire sauce brand Lea & Perrins is set to launch new packaging designs developed by Hornall Anderson UK.

  • How to stop a brief taking over your agency, by Coley Porter Bell’s Vicky Bullen

    Thu, 17 Nov 2011

    Vicky Bullen, Coley Porter Bell chief executive, talks about the Morrisons redesign brief, and the lessons learnt in managing large design projects.

  • I’m dreaming of a self-generating Christmas

    Fri, 11 Nov 2011

    When Nativity scenes start popping up on streets around the country it’s a sure sign that the run-up to Christmas has truly begun.

  • Identified Flying Object

    Mon, 14 Nov 2011

    French artist Jacques Rival has created the IFO (Identified Flying Object) installation - a giant cage whose bars are illuminated in rainbow colours, which will be hoisted into the night sky above London’s King’s Cross over the next two years.

  • Ikonic artworks in Birmingham

    Thu, 17 Nov 2011

    Birmingham has been quietly simmering with creativity recently - from the  EC Arts commission that saw the city become a massive art gallery to the stunning Pointe Blank show at the Birmingham Royal Ballet.

  • Imagination and Marc Newson work on Sydney New Year’s Eve celebration

    Mon, 14 Nov 2011

  • Imperial War Museums launches new website following rebrand

    Tue, 8 Nov 2011

    Bureau for Visual Affairs has redesigned Imperial War Museums’ website, which now had a focus on the museum’s collections.

  • Innovare Design works on stores for royal lingerie supplier Rigby & Peller

    Mon, 28 Nov 2011

    Retail and interiors specialist Innovare is working on new interior designs for lingerie company Rigby & Peller’s stores stores in Knightsbridge and Mayfair, central London.The exterior of Rigby&Peller’s Knightsbridge store

  • Interpretations of Africa: football, art and design

    Tue, 8 Nov 2011

    Nine silhouettes are visible behind a translucent screen, which gives way to reveal some of Africa’s greatest football stars including Samuel Eto’o, Asamoya Ghan and Yaya Toure.

  • Irrigation system wins 2011 James Dyson Award

    Tue, 8 Nov 2011

    Australian industrial design student Edward Linacre has won the 2011 international James Dyson Award for his system to irrigate crops in arid areas.

  • Jack Morton opens Dubai office

    Wed, 9 Nov 2011

    Brand experience consultancy Jack Morton Worldwide is opening an office in the United Arab Emirates.

  • Jestico + Whiles designs Aloft Hotel in London

    Thu, 3 Nov 2011

    Jestico + Whiles has designed the interiors for new Aloft London Excel Hotel, as part of its overall project to design the site, which opens this week.

  • Kellogg's rebrands Nutri-Grain

    Mon, 5 Dec 2011

    Kellogg’s has repositioned its Nutri-Grain range with a new identity and on-pack graphics designed by its in-house team.Nutri-Grain

  • Landor redesigns British Airways Executive Club cards

    Wed, 16 Nov 2011

    Landor has redesigned British Airways’ suite of Executive Club cards working up identities and developing their application with digital consultancy Ogilvy One.

  • Lizzie Mary Cullen’s 48 hour drawing challenge

    Wed, 23 Nov 2011

    And she’s off. At precisely 1.00 today illustrator Lizzie Mary Cullen embarked on a 48-hour drawing marathon.Cullen in buoyant mood before sleep deprivation takes hold

  • London underground

    Wed, 2 Nov 2011

    Evan Hecox  has built his reputation by abstracting elemental parts of cities of the world, making them seem at first unfamiliar, using colour sparingly.Battersea

  • Look to the Future

    Tue, 22 Nov 2011

    Debating forum Intelligence Squared (IQ2) is set to launch what it calls its ‘inaugural flight into the future’, the two-day If conference in London.

  • Luxury jeweller Fabergé launches first London store since 1915

    Wed, 23 Nov 2011

    Luxury jewellery company Fabergé has opened its first London shop since 1915 in central London, with interiors designed in-house by managing and creative director Katharina Flohr.

  • Made in Clerkenwell

    Mon, 7 Nov 2011

    Craft Central’s Made in Clerkenwell open studios and selling event returns this month, with more than 100 UK designer-makers showing off their wares.

  • Made it to the End

    Tue, 15 Nov 2011

    If you happen to be one of the organised few already mulling over what to buy people for Christmas, you could do much worse than heading to Brighton’s contemporary craft fair Made 11 this weekend.Aline Johnson

  • Magpie Studio Design Royal Mail Yearbook 2011

    Wed, 16 Nov 2011

    Magpie Studio has designed the Royal Mail Yearbook 2011, which features the year’s 14 stamp issues and explanations behind them.

  • Man vs Machine rebrands More 4

    Mon, 7 Nov 2011

    Man vs Machine is working on a full rebrand of Channel 4 digital channel More 4, covering the visual identity, idents and digital guidelines.

  • Mather & Co works on York Minster restoration

    Tue, 15 Nov 2011

    Mather & Co is working on interventions into York Minster cathedral as part of a five-year, £10.5m Heritage Lottery Fund project, York Minster Revealed.East Front of York Minster

  • McBess and The Mill's Carl Addy show the dark side of advertising

    Fri, 18 Nov 2011

    Adverts, as we all know, aren’t all about chivalrous Milk Tray men, improbably altruistic small boys and that Smiths B-side appropriation.

  • Meet the robots

    Mon, 28 Nov 2011

    The Science Museum in London has gathered together 20 robots from research labs around Europe and is giving them a home for four days so that they can ‘meet’ members of the public.Stand close to Charlie and he will eventually start to mimic your face. (We don’t think he’s started yet…)

  • Morey Smith designs Moët Hennessy UK HQ

    Fri, 25 Nov 2011

    Morey Smith is working on the interior design for wines and spirits brand Moët Hennessy UK’s new London office in Victoria.

  • Movement in Sleep installation in Union Chapel

    Thu, 24 Nov 2011

    While art-plus-bed currently equals Tracey Emin, Sarah Strang’s Movement in Sleep installation opening this week in London’s Union Chapel may go some way to severing that connection.

  • Moving matchstalk men

    Wed, 9 Nov 2011

    LS Lowry’s matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs are set to come to life at the weekend in an interactive installation in Salford.

  • Mystery designs Britain’s biggest restaurant

    Fri, 2 Dec 2011

    Consultancy Mystery has created the concept, branding, website and interiors for Za Za Bazaar, a new venue in Bristol which is reported to be Britain’s largest restaurant.

  • Neville Brody creates D&AD’s 50th anniversary identity

    Thu, 10 Nov 2011

    Neville Brody has created the 50th anniversary identity for D&AD, which is celebrating its half-century next year.

  • Neville Brody, Peter Saville and Michael Wolff among Royal Designers for Industry

    Mon, 14 Nov 2011

    Neville Brody, Peter Saville, and Michael Wolff are among six new Royal Designers for Industry, an honour awarded by the Royal Society for Arts.

  • New consultancy Keen and Able launches

    Tue, 1 Nov 2011

    New consultancy Keen and Able is launching.

  • New Gresty Word Up Exhibition

    Wed, 30 Nov 2011

    Designer Mr Gresty’s latest solo exhibition Word Up is a typographic catharsis into what he sees as his ‘ongoing struggle with language’.Gresty screen printing

  • New Masters

    Mon, 14 Nov 2011

    It goes without saying art world big guns such as Francis Bacon, Jackson Pollock and Rembrandt are always going to influence contemporary art and design, but in recent months their legacy has been celebrated in an increasingly candid way.

  • News analysis - Chancellor's Autumn Statement offers boost for design industry

    Wed, 30 Nov 2011

    Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne yesterday delivered his Autumn Statement, which appears to offer design businesses some opportunity for stabilisation and growth against the threat of possible recession in future years.Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne

  • News Analysis - Could a paper wine bottle design really work?

    Fri, 18 Nov 2011

    Design and sustainability experts say designs for a ready-for-production paper wine bottle, unveiled this week, are progressive and practical, although questions of aesthetics remain.Greenbottle’s paper wine bottle

  • News Analysis - Is design industry financial performance on the up?

    Thu, 24 Nov 2011

    Operating profits for the top 30 design consultancies rose by 85 per cent through 2010, while gross income was up by £27 million, according to a report from accountant Kingston Smith W1.

  • News analysis - The Boxpark retail development

    Fri, 11 Nov 2011

    The Boxpark development, which claims to be ‘the world’s first pop up mall’, is due to open at the end of this month in east London’s Shoreditch, comprising retail units created from recycled shipping containers.

  • News analysis - The design ambition of Foster + Partners Thames Hub proposals

    Thu, 3 Nov 2011

    Foster + Partners’ plans for the Thames Hub - a £50 billion proposal for a Thames linked to a utility and data spine running down the UK - has put the value of huge, design-led national infrastructure projects firmly in front of Government.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 7 Nov 2011

    Pearlfisher creative partner Karen Welman has designed Hare Styling, a hard-bound book which is being sold to raise money for John Frieda’s Hairraising appeal. The book features hare artworks created by celebrities including Cheryl Cole and Jamie Oliver, based on an original drawing by youngster Angelica Van Clarke.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 7 Nov 2011

    Coy Communications has created banknote-style business cards for animation studio Large Evil Corporation. Coy earlier created the branding for Large Evil Corporation.

  • News in pictures

    Mon, 14 Nov 2011

    Fitch has created material for pop-up cinema The Nomad, which is holding its winter event in a vacant book shop in Whiteleys Shopping Centre, west London. Fitch is working pro-bono on the project, which is run by Lexi Cinema.

  • News in pictures

    Mon, 14 Nov 2011

    Minimalux has created a ballpoint pen, cased in solid brass. The pens are priced at £75 each.

  • News in pictures

    Mon, 21 Nov 2011

    Consultancy Kipikapopo  has rebranded online craft shop Folksy, developing an illustration-led look for the brand. This has informed a new website designed in house by Folksy.

  • News in pictures

    Mon, 21 Nov 2011

    Consultancy Kipikapopo  has rebranded online craft shop Folksy, developing an illustration-led look for the brand. This has informed a new website designed in house by Folksy.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 21 Nov 2011

    New Future Graphic has designed Thank Physics for That, a campaign for The Institute of Physics that poses technology-based quandaries on beermats, to engage pub-goers in thinking about gadgets which wouldn’t be possible without an understanding in physics. Answers are received via text or QR code, directing drinkers to a Thank Physics website

  • News in Pictures

    Thu, 1 Dec 2011

    Various Artists has created a new campaign for online accountancy firm Crunch. which features the line, ‘whatever your business, we make accounting a pleasure’.

  • News in Pictures

    Tue, 29 Nov 2011

    Stocks Taylor Benson has created an Olympics-inspired 2012 calendar for paper company Antalis McNaughton.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 28 Nov 2011

    Chilli UK has created the Christmas point-of-sale campaign for Waterford, Wedgwood and Royal Doulton.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 28 Nov 2011

    The in-house creative team at the Greater London Authority has designed the poster to promote the Mayor of London’s New Year’s Eve fireworks event.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 5 Dec 2011

    Cure Studio has designed the cover for release for the latest release from DJ Sasha’s Last Night on Earth record label, working with illustrator Susie Wright. The back cover, depicting a number of picnic buildings, can join with the back covers from other releases to create a huge landscape. 

  • Newtown

    Wed, 9 Nov 2011

    It all sounds rather Orwellian. The fictional metropolis of Nobson Newtown is an imaginary utopia created by British artist Paul Noble, in which its inhabitants are anything but happy. Or noble.Source: © 2011 Paul Noble. ...

  • Oddbins rolls out new campaign and point-of-sale material

    Fri, 4 Nov 2011

    Richard P Chapman Design Associates has designed a Christmas campaign for Oddbins.

  • Office Twelve creates Oliver Bonas store interiors

    Mon, 21 Nov 2011

    Leicestershire-based consultancy Office Twelve has designed a new interior concept for fashion and lifestyle retailer Oliver Bonas, which opens a new store in Bristol today.Shop front

  • Olympic posters

    Fri, 4 Nov 2011

    When the London 2012 Olympics organisers announced plans to commission 12 artists to design the official posters for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, questions were raised both here and over at Creative Review about why artists had been selected instead of designers.

  • Onedotzero Adventures in Motion Festival

    Thu, 24 Nov 2011

    Last night saw the start of the weird and wonderful Onedotzero Adventures in Motion Festival at London’s BFI - a five-day festival celebrating innovation in digital culture and moving image arts.

  • Paint a Vulgar Picture

    Mon, 14 Nov 2011

    ‘Oh Manchester, so much to answer for ’, quipped Morrissey in 1984 Moors murders-inspired song, Suffer Little Children.The Smiths, This Charming Man

  • Paper view

    Wed, 2 Nov 2011

    Manchester-based consultancy Eskimo Creative is set to play host to paper company GF Smith’s touring show 126 Years in Print.

  • Patrick Bell joins Sector Design as director

    Fri, 4 Nov 2011

    Patrick Bell, a former chief executive of Coutts Retail and one of the founders of Writtle Holdings, has joined Leicester-based retail design consultancy Sector Design as a director.

  • Pearson Lloyd's designs aim to prevent violence in A&E

    Wed, 16 Nov 2011

    A Pearson Lloyd-led team has created a series of prototype designs which aim to prevent violence against staff in hospital accident and emergency departments.Process Map

  • Pig Island

    Fri, 11 Nov 2011

    Angelina Jolie, George W Bush, Colonel Sanders, pirates and cowboys are among the peculiar cast of Paul McCarthy’s dystopian Pig Island installation.Source: © Paul McCarthy Courtesy the artist and Hauser&Wirth Photo: Mario De Scalzi Pig ...

  • Polaroid launches first UK website

    Tue, 29 Nov 2011

    Polaroid has launched its first UK website, which has been overseen by digital strategy consultant Richard Bone, who operates under the consultancy name Creacion.

  • Poundshop

    Mon, 5 Dec 2011

    While we’re rather tired of the idea of ‘pop-ups’, we’ll make an exception for Poundshop, opening for just three days this weekend.

  • Quentin Blake wins 2011 Prince Philip Designers Prize

    Tue, 29 Nov 2011

    Illustrator Quentin Blake has been awarded the 2011 Prince Philip Designers Prize.Quentin Blake

  • Redman Design works on galleries for The National Museum of the Royal Navy

    Tue, 6 Dec 2011

    Yorkshire-based consultancy Redman Design is working on exhibition design and interpretation for The National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth, which was awarded a £1.4m Heritage Lottery Fund grant at the end of last month.

  • Reinventing Screenprinting

    Thu, 1 Dec 2011

    This week sees the launch of Reinventing Screen-printing: a stunning book by London-based illustrator and screen-printer, Caspar Williamson, and designed by Stuart Tolley at Transmission.

  • Review of Shoreditch's Boxpark mall

    Thu, 1 Dec 2011

    ‘I believe I’ve connected the dots of my life’, announces Roger Wade, founder of Boxpark, at the launch of what he claims to be ‘the world’s first pop up mall’ in east London this morning.

  • RSA director of design Emily Campbell to join academies group

    Tue, 8 Nov 2011

    Emily Campbell, director of design at the Royal Society for Arts, is set to join the Creative Education Trust, a group which runs academies.

  • s[edition] website launches with Barnbrook designs

    Fri, 18 Nov 2011

    Barnbrook Design has created the branding and website for s[edition], a digital platform for collecting affordable, digital contemporary art.

  • SAS creates new Sainsbury’s corporate website

    Fri, 2 Dec 2011

    SAS has designed supermarket Sainsbury’s new corporate website.Site1

  • Science Museum to celebrate UK manufacturing with Make it in Great Britain show

    Wed, 16 Nov 2011

    The Science Museum is set to host an exhibition next summer as part of the Government-run Make it in Great Britain campaign to highlight British manufacturing.Make It In Great Britain Flag

  • Send to Print / Print to Send 3D Printing Exhibition

    Mon, 5 Dec 2011

    Coming up with a prototype quickly has never been easier. New technologies are making it faster than ever to print a product, tweak it and re-print it.

  • Shed designs Ireland’s largest shoe department

    Tue, 6 Dec 2011

    Interior consultancy Shed has developed the retail design for a Kurt Geiger concession in Dublin department store Arnotts, making what it claims will be the largest shoe department in Ireland.

  • Shop magazine covers at Kemistry Gallery

    Mon, 21 Nov 2011

    This week sees the opening of an exhibition of Shop magazine covers, with artwork from illustrators including Pietari Posti, The Heads Of State, Nathalie Lees and Adrian Johnson.

  • Sir Anthony Caro and Tom Phillips work on 1kg Olympic coins

    Thu, 10 Nov 2011

    The Royal Mint has commissioned sculptor Sir Anthony Caro and artist Tom Phillips to create commemorative London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic gold and silver coins, which will weigh 1kg each.

  • Smith & Milton creates new Business Link identity

    Thu, 24 Nov 2011

    Smith & Milton has rebranded Business Link, the Government’s resource to help small and medium sized business.

  • Solipsistic Pop

    Tue, 8 Nov 2011

    Flying the flag for print, journeying and the finest in alternative comic talent is periodical Solipsistic Pop, which launches its fourth edition today.

  • Someone designs Torch Tower Hotel brand

    Fri, 2 Dec 2011

    Someone has designed a branding system for the Torch Tower Hotel, Doha, Qatar, using the building’s form and a colour system drawn from sunsets and sunrises.

  • Someone eyes world-record bid in Burton’s biscuits rebrand

    Tue, 22 Nov 2011

    Consultancy Someone is rebranding Burton’s Foods in an overhaul which will see the company’s name change to the Burton’s Biscuit Company and a potential attempt made on the Guinness World Record for the biggest biscuit.  Burton’s Biscuit Company

  • Someone focuses on the eye for Chime Insight & Engagement branding

    Wed, 30 Nov 2011

    Someone has created the branding for market research firm Chime Insight & Engagement, based around images of eyes.

  • Special Delivery

    Thu, 10 Nov 2011

    Ex bassist of The Specials Horace Panter will present his first exhibition next week – Robots, Saints & (Extra) Ordinary People.Black History

  • Spencer Du Bois brands Together for Short Lives charity for terminally-ill children

    Mon, 7 Nov 2011

    Spencer Du Bois is working on the website and marketing materials for Together for Short Lives, a charity for terminally ill children, following its rebrand of the charity which launched last week.

  • Spring and Mercer creates ‘gem-like’ logo for LK Bennett

    Wed, 2 Nov 2011

    Spring and Mercer has created a new marque for fashion retailer LK Bennett which will be designed into clothes, starting with bags.

  • Stop! Police

    Wed, 16 Nov 2011

    This mysterious project - which purports to be a rebrand of the Russian police force - has been causing some debate on design blogs over the last couple of days.Politsiya car

  • Switch London creates Investec Test Cricket branding

    Tue, 29 Nov 2011

    Consultancy Switch London has created the sponsorship branding for Investec Test Cricket, which will be used following Investec’s announcement that it will sponsor English test cricket for the next 10 years.

  • Tangent Graphic applies pictograms to Glasgow Commonwealth Games HQ

    Tue, 1 Nov 2011

    Oversized versions of Tangent Graphic’s Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games pictograms have been applied to the Games’ headquarters in the city.

  • Tangerine redesigns Asiana aircraft interiors

    Wed, 2 Nov 2011

    Tangerine has been appointed by South Korean airline Asiana to review the offer and designs of its first class, business class and travel cabins for its new fleet of A380 aircraft.

  • The Design Trust support organisation set to relaunch

    Thu, 10 Nov 2011

    The Design Trust, which provides business training and support to designers and craftspeople, is relaunching as a privately-run social enterprise.

  • The Mechanical Bride

    Fri, 4 Nov 2011

    ‘Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind…in order to manipulate, exploit, control…’

  • The Partners opens Singapore office

    Mon, 21 Nov 2011

    The Partners is opening an office in Singapore to service the Asian market.Anant Deboor

  • The Poppy Appeal – The Most Valuable Brand in the World

    Thu, 10 Nov 2011

    Guest blog from Paul Mellor, design director of Mellor & Scott design on the value of the Poppy Appeal.

  • Things We Like

    Fri, 11 Nov 2011

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

  • Things We Like

    Fri, 4 Nov 2011

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

  • Things We Like

    Fri, 18 Nov 2011

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

  • Things We Like

    Fri, 25 Nov 2011

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

  • Things we like

    Fri, 2 Dec 2011

    Jan Švankmajer’s Surviving LifeJan Švankmajer’s Surviving Life

  • This week’s news in brief round-up

    Fri, 11 Nov 2011

    Goosebumps has branded new restaurant chain Cabana, which opens a Westfield Stratford restaurant this week.

  • This week's news in brief round-up

    Fri, 25 Nov 2011

    ITV’s Text Santa campaign, which launches next week, has been created by Lambie-Nairn and Aardman Animations. It aims to raise awareness and money for those most vulnerable during the festive period by inviting the public to donate money via text message.

  • This week's news in brief round-up

    Fri, 18 Nov 2011

    Liverpool-based consultancy Black and Ginger has been appointed to create an integrated campaign for the John Moores Painting Prize, for the 2012 and future prizes. The work will launch next year, shown on posters, banners, merchandise and online formats.

  • This week's news in brief round-up

    Fri, 2 Dec 2011

  • Thompson Brand Partners uses children’s artwork for Young Epilepsy identity

    Thu, 10 Nov 2011

    Thompson Brand Partners has created the branding for national charity Young Epilepsy, which has changed its name from the National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy.

  • Tiny Dancers

    Wed, 16 Nov 2011

    It seems vodka, creativity and choreography go hand in hand - and we’re not just talking interpretive dancing.

  • To The Point brands private equity product Pevara

    Tue, 1 Nov 2011

    To The Point has named and branded a new private equity financial product Pevara and also designed the look of its interface.

  • To The Point refreshes Physiological Society branding

    Thu, 1 Dec 2011

    To The Point has completed a brand refresh project for the Physiological Society, developing its visual identity and applying it across all touchpoints.

  • Together creates Royal Mail Christmas stamps

    Tue, 8 Nov 2011

    Together has designed the Royal Mail Christmas stamps for 2011, celebrating the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible.

  • Together Design develops new Phoenix comic for children

    Tue, 15 Nov 2011

    Together Design has worked with an in-house team to create a design approach, masthead and style guide for a new children’s weekly comic.

  • Totality designs Seabrook Bread Crisps Packaging

    Tue, 29 Nov 2011

    Leeds-based design consultancy Totality has designed the packaging for Seabrook Bread Crisps, a new product launched in collaboration with Symington’s Foods.

  • Turning the Tables

    Tue, 29 Nov 2011

    The Turning The Tables exhibition will see the aforementioned tables turned on 13 architecture practices, who have taken on the role of designers and makers by creating their own furniture pieces.

  • Voxpop - do you think a design degree is worth £9000 a year?

    Thu, 3 Nov 2011

    With university fees set to hit up to £9000 a year next year, new figures show that applications to art and design courses for 2012 have dropped by more than a quarter.

  • Voxpop - If you could create a robot to do anything, what would it do?

    Thu, 1 Dec 2011

    This week is European Robotics Week. If you could create a robot to perrform any one task, what would that task be and why?

  • Voxpop - What is Sir Terence Conran’s single biggest contribution to the design industry?

    Thu, 10 Nov 2011

    The Design Museum is set to host an exhibition marking Sir Terence Conran’s 80th birthday. What do you think is Conran’s single biggest contribution to the design industry and why?

  • Voxpop - What is your favourite design story of an everyday object?

    Thu, 17 Nov 2011

    The Science Museum’s exhibition Hidden Heroes: The Genius of Everyday Things, looks to highlight simple, effective and unsung design. What is your favourite design story of an everyday object?

  • Voxpop - What is your favourite example of a Great British product?

    Thu, 24 Nov 2011

    The Science Museum is hosting the Make it in Great Britain exhibition next summer, which aims to highlight British manufacturing. Which example of a Great British product, made in the UK, do you think should be in the show?

  • Whitestone brands World Equestrian Games

    Mon, 28 Nov 2011

    Whitestone International has created the branding for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, which will be held in 2014 in Normandy, France.

  • Why enter awards? By Vince Frost

    Tue, 15 Nov 2011

    In this guest blog, Vince Frost of Frost Design makes the case for entering design awards schemes.

  • Williams Murray Hamm and Branded work on care home identity

    Wed, 23 Nov 2011

    Williams Murray Hamm and sister group Branded have worked on the identity for care home operator HC-One, which has taken over the running of more than 200 care homes formerly run by collapsed group Southern Cross.

  • Wolff Olins brands NBC Universal environmental initiative

    Tue, 22 Nov 2011

    Wolff Olins has created the branding and supporting graphics for Green is Universal, the environmental initiative from US broadcasting giant NBC Universal.Icon group

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