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October 2011

  • ‘Zine to be believed

    Wed, 5 Oct 2011

    Curator Elias Redstone has been displaying his collection of independently-published architecture magazines digitally on www.archizines.com and is now launching a physical exhibition of the ‘zines.Archizine

  • Advertising art

    Tue, 18 Oct 2011

    Public art organisation EC-Arts is aiming turn Birmingham into a massive art gallery by transforming 100 advertising billboards in the city into artists’ canvases.Ian Richards - What You Looking At

  • Alda round the world

    Wed, 26 Oct 2011

    London-born, Brighton illustration-educated Sophie Alda may only be a couple of years out of art college, but her distinctively heavy-browed illustrated figues have seen her receive commissions from as far afield as China, Iran, Portland and, yes, Birmingham.

  • All the world's a stage

    Tue, 18 Oct 2011

    While Shakespeare may be more associated with words than images, this Friday will see the opening of a display of visual responses to the man dubbed ‘really very good - in spite of all the people who say he is very good’ by poet Robert Graves.Source: © ...

  • AMA develops interior concept for Barrafina tapas restaurant

    Wed, 12 Oct 2011

    Andy Martin Associates is working on the design of Spanish tapas bar Barrafina’s new Drury Lane restaurant.

  • And now for the science bit…

    Wed, 19 Oct 2011

    The inaugural London Science Festival, which starts today, is aiming to take science out of the laboratory and on to the streets of the capital.

  • Apple makes record rise as Coca-Cola keeps Best Global Brands top spot

    Wed, 5 Oct 2011

    Apple has broken into the top ten as Coca-Cola retains top spot for the twelfth year running in Interbrand’s  Best Global Brands 2011 survey.

  • Applications for art and design courses drop by more than a quarter

    Tue, 25 Oct 2011

    The number of applications to creative arts and design university courses starting next September have dropped by 27.1 per cent.

  • Art London

    Wed, 5 Oct 2011

    Tattoos, LS Lowry and Jacob Epstien will be sharing space at the Art London fair, which opens this week in the Sloane-ranger patrolled wilds of west London’s Chelsea.

  • Asif Khan and Pernilla Ohrstedt use sand and ice in Singapore pavilion

    Mon, 17 Oct 2011

    Asif Khan and Pernilla Ohrstedt have created a temporary pavilion for the British Council in Singapore which uses contstantly changing installations of ice and sand.

  • BBC reviews design services roster

    Mon, 3 Oct 2011

    The BBC is reviewing its design marketing and communications roster, which is to be replaced by a new design services roster.

  • Beijing Design Week

    Tue, 4 Oct 2011

    Back in August, we spoke to Sir John Sorrell about the inuagural Beijing Design Week , which ended yesterday, and took London as its partner city.

  • Black and Ginger designs new site for architects Shedkm

    Thu, 13 Oct 2011

    Liverpool-based design consultancy Black and Ginger has redesigned the website for architect Shedkm, which is able to show over 200 of its projects spanning the last 14 years.

  • Blacksheep works on ‘Las Vegas-inspired’ club in Liverpool

    Wed, 19 Oct 2011

    Blacksheep has created the interiors for Playground, a Las Vegas-inspired Liverpool nightclub.

  • Bonfire of the Vanities

    Fri, 28 Oct 2011

    ‘Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions’, says the narrator of William Makepeace Thackeray’s 1848 novel Vanity Fair.

  • Brandopus creates ‘pared-back’ Country Life designs

    Mon, 31 Oct 2011

    Brandopus has created new packaging designs for Dairy Crest butter brand Country Life, which the consultancy says have been ‘pared back’.

  • Brandopus creates chocolate house and painting kit

    Thu, 27 Oct 2011

    Brandopus has created designs for a new chocolate house and chocolate painting kit for chocolate brand Choc on Choc.

  • Bugged Out

    Mon, 17 Oct 2011

    Missum, one half of artist duo Miss Bugs, is to put on her first solo show, moving away from the graphic collage style  which has defined the work of the collective, to instead explore watercolour, collograph and drypoint etching. 

  • Building a Socialist future

    Thu, 20 Oct 2011

    The Royal Academy’s upcoming exhibition Building the Revolution: Art and Architecture in Russia 1915-1935 examines the short period at the start of the last century when Russian and international architects worked on wildly innovative and ambitious buildings as they strove to create a Socialist utopia.Melnikov ...

  • Bystrup’s T-Pylon design wins competition

    Fri, 14 Oct 2011

    Bystrup’s T-Pylon has been announced as the winner of the national Pylon Design competition, and the architect will now work with the National Grid to develop the design.

  • Casson Mann creates ‘swirling’ designs for French wine centre

    Mon, 24 Oct 2011

    Casson Mann is working on exhibition designs for a 55 million euro (£48 million) new wine visitor centre, set to open in Bordeaux, France in 2014.

  • Casson Mann’s Making Modern Science gallery scrapped by Science Museum

    Wed, 26 Oct 2011

    Plans for the Making Modern Science Gallery, which were being developed by Casson Mann for the Science Museum in London, have been ditched by the museum.

  • Castles made of sand

    Thu, 20 Oct 2011

    Tucked away in a secluded beach idyll lurks a terrifying world of corpses, rapid aging, sexual deviance and death.

  • Celebrate good times

    Wed, 19 Oct 2011

    With temperatures rapidly plummeting and whinges a-plenty, its nice to see autumn being celebrated for the frolicking-in-the-leaves season of fun it truly is.

  • Chalk Architecture creates Small Batch Coffee branch

    Thu, 20 Oct 2011

    Chalk Architecture has designed a new concession for the Small Batch Coffee Company, which will sit within the My Hotel Brighton.

  • Chances, Choices, Chases

    Thu, 20 Oct 2011

    Based around the idea that we can’t find time to read any more, these alternative book covers by artist Jennie Ottinger paint a snap-shot of a scene within.Auction Scene from Vanity Fair

  • Coley Porter Bell hire new planning director John Clark

    Wed, 12 Oct 2011

    Coley Porter Bell has appointed John Clark as planning director, replacing Christian Barnett who has left to set up his own strategic planning consultancy.

  • Coley Porter Bell overhauls John West packaging

    Wed, 5 Oct 2011

    Coley Porter Bell has rebranded canned fish brand John West, repositioning it and designing packaging to better engage consumers.

  • Coley Porter Bell rebrands Morrisons own-brand range

    Fri, 21 Oct 2011

    Coley Porter Bell has created new branding for supermarket Morrisons’ own-label range, with the work rolling out from this week.

  • Conran Singh creates website for luxury phone brand Vertu

    Fri, 21 Oct 2011

    Conran Singh  has developed a website for luxury phone brand Vertu to launch with its new touch-screen Constellation handset.

  • Consultancy Aesop absorbs marketing agency Steam

    Mon, 10 Oct 2011

    Consultancy Aesop, which set up in May, has absorbed promotional marketing consultancy Steam.

  • Dalziel & Pow creates new design for German fashion brand Orsay

    Tue, 18 Oct 2011

    Dalziel & Pow has created a new store concept for German fashion retailer Orsay, which will roll out across many of the brand’s stores over 22 countries.

  • Dating for designers

    Thu, 27 Oct 2011

    A trio of design students from Kingston University have created a networking app for designers that allows you to share portfolio ideas, connect with others and use GPS to find design-related events around you.

  • DBA Design Effectiveness Award winners announced

    Tue, 25 Oct 2011

    The Design Business Association has announced the winners of this year’s Design Effectiveness Awards.

  • Design Council agrees partnership with Government of South Australia

    Fri, 14 Oct 2011

    The Design Council has announced an internationally endorsed Design Review partnership with the Government of South Australia’s main design body. 

  • Design industry pays tribute to Steve Jobs

    Thu, 6 Oct 2011

    The UK design industry has paid tribute to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who has died at the age of 56.

  • Designs sought for urban beehives

    Wed, 5 Oct 2011

    An international competition is being launched seeking designs for urban beehives, bird-boxes and planters.

  • Don’t believe the type

    Wed, 19 Oct 2011

    It is the eve before three day conference Typo London starts and with typography front of mind, we cast an eye over new book Type Navigator: The Independent Foundries Handbook. 1

  • Dunning Penney Jones to work on UK launch of broadcaster PBS

    Wed, 12 Oct 2011

    Dunning Penney Jones has been appointed to create the on-air identity for American television channel PBS’s UK launch.

  • Dyson loses vacuum cleaner ‘copycat’ court row

    Fri, 28 Oct 2011

    Dyson has been ordered to pay costs of up to £200 000 after a losing a court battle with vacuum cleaner company Vax over claims of design rights infringement.

  • Echo works up new Cobra look

    Tue, 11 Oct 2011

    Echo design consultancy has updated the brand identity and redesigned the packaging for Cobra beer, aiming to emphasise its premium qualities while retaining its Indian heritage.

  • Essence of Adolescence

    Mon, 10 Oct 2011

    Word To Mother – tattoo and graffiti artist turned artist - has produced a new show Essence of Adolescence, a series of wooden panel paintings.

  • Festival of the World

    Mon, 31 Oct 2011

    This morning, The Southbank centre announced its plans for the 2012 Festival of the World, which will take place alongside next year’s London Olympic Games.Festival of the World

  • Fielding notes

    Fri, 28 Oct 2011

    The Scribblings of a Madcap Shambleton, a book of artworks by Mighty Boosh star Noel Fielding, is probably quite an accurate title.

  • Fivefootsix creates new Hot Bikram Yoga identity

    Tue, 4 Oct 2011

    Fivefootsix has rebranded yoga brand Hot Bikram Yoga ahead of the launch of its latest studio, which opens in London Bridge on 5 November.

  • Form an orderly Q

    Wed, 26 Oct 2011

    Q - the name of James Bond’s armourer, the seventeenth letter of the alphabet and the inspiration for illustrator Katja Spitzer’s new book Quodlibet.Minka

  • Fright night

    Thu, 6 Oct 2011

    Halloween’s coming up and if you fancy something scary - but not too scary - then East End Prints’s Happy Halloween! show at Maiden ought to fit the bill.

  • Frink

    Thu, 6 Oct 2011

    Chances are, you’re probably more aware of the work of Elisabeth Frink than you might realise.Elisabeth Frink

  • Future prints

    Mon, 3 Oct 2011

    This week sees the opening of The Future - an exhibition of more than 35 works by former Professor of Printmaking at the Royal College of Art, Tim Mara.Flemish Glass and Rubber

  • Gardeners' Question Time

    Thu, 27 Oct 2011

    This confusingly titled show Your Garden is Looking a Mess Could You Please Tidy It Up has very little to do with scrappy shrubbery, but takes its inspiration as what the organisers view as the dying art of printed mass communications.Bruce McLean

  • Gidden Design creates look for new Innovator Scotland magazine

    Thu, 13 Oct 2011

    Edinburgh-based consultancy Glidden Design has designed Innovator Scotland, an independent bi-monthly magazine about the people behind Scottish innovations, which launches this week.

  • Government to commission design through ‘hubs’ as COI is wound down

    Thu, 20 Oct 2011

    The Government has unveiled plans for a series of cross-departmental hubs that will be involved in commissioning design, as it confirmed that the Central Office of Information is to be wound down by the end of next March.

  • GP Studios creates retail concept for Malaysian mall

    Tue, 11 Oct 2011

    GP studios is designing branding and a new retail concept for Avenue K, a high-end shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

  • Greg Vallance to join Holmes & Marchant as managing partner

    Mon, 3 Oct 2011

    Greg Vallance, co-founder of Embrace Brands, is set to join Holmes & Marchant in a new role as managing partner.

  • Hackney or not Hackney, that is the question

    Tue, 25 Oct 2011

    Tree surgeon to photographer isn’t, perhaps, the most usual career trajectory. Becoming a photographer who recreates Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in East London’s Hackney, perhaps even less so.

  • Hair apparent

    Mon, 3 Oct 2011

     

  • Handmade in Britain

    Tue, 25 Oct 2011

    Handmade in Britain is back this weekend with its annual pre-Christmas showcase, featuring work by around 70 designers.Carol Farrow

  • Harriman Steel uses optical illusions for BBC’s Disturbia Halloween concert

    Mon, 31 Oct 2011

    Harriman Steel has used optical illusions in its promotional material for the BBC Concert Orchestra’s Disturbia event, which is billed as ‘an alluring alternative to mainstream Halloween entertainment’.

  • Harry Pearce and Nat Hunter turn up the sustainability for D&AD annual

    Fri, 7 Oct 2011

    This year’s D&AD annual has been designed by Pentagram partner Harry Pearce and founding director of Airside Nat Hunter with a focus on sustainability.

  • HL Studio works on new store as Boxfresh returns to the High Street

    Wed, 19 Oct 2011

    HL Studio has created designs for a new London store for retailer Boxfresh, which will see the brand’s return to the High Street.

  • Home Creative develops new print collateral for rebranded Beaverbrooks jewellers

    Mon, 17 Oct 2011

    Home Creative has designed a suite of new brochures and print materials for jewellers Beaverbrooks which features a new positioning for the company.

  • Home is Where the Art is

    Tue, 1 Nov 2011

    The domestic space is, for most, a place of sanctity, homeliness and comfort. Subverting this idea is the artist Carol McNicoll, who uses domestic objects as a medium through which to ‘rant…about the issues that both annoy and amuse me.’Source: © Carol McNicoll courtesy of Marsden ...

  • Household works on Louboutin exhibition for Design Museum

    Tue, 4 Oct 2011

    Household has been appointed to design an exhibition exploring the life and work of shoe designer Christian Louboutin, which will open at the Design Museum next March.

  • How does your garden grow?

    Thu, 13 Oct 2011

    This year’s Serpentine Gallery art marathon, an annual event which sees a host of artists, designers and other creative types present their work over a period of two days, takes gardens as its central theme.Peter Saville, World of sex ultra blush

  • Ico designs digital wayfinding for Science Museum

    Mon, 10 Oct 2011

    Ico has designed a digital wayfinding system for The Science Museum which will be used in tandem with traditional wayfinding to draw visitors to live activity around the museum.

  • Illuminating York

    Thu, 27 Oct 2011

    Digital arts and lighting festival Illuminating York got under way last night with an architectural mapping projection over the Castle Museum.

  • Imperial War Museum rebrands with Hat-Trick and Jane Wentworth

    Tue, 4 Oct 2011

    The Imperial War Museum is launching a new identity - as Imperial War Museums - created by Hat-Trick Design following strategy work by Jane Wentworth Associates.

  • Internet Week

    Mon, 31 Oct 2011

    The internet, omniscient and omnipresent God of the modern age, normally existing in the ether and the minds of believers, will be coming to London next week.

  • Iris forms strategic alliance with US group Meredith

    Fri, 21 Oct 2011

    Consultancy Iris, which specialises in advertising, marketing and experiential work, is setting up a strategic alliance with US media and marketing group Meredith.

  • Jenner Studio creates Ketel One Vodka bar

    Thu, 27 Oct 2011

    Jenner Studio has designed the first Ketel One Vodka bar which will be built into London pan-Asian restaurant Gilgamesh.

  • JKR creates Christmas designs for Penhaligon’s

    Thu, 27 Oct 2011

    JKR has designed the Christmas Gift Collection packaging for perfume brand Penhaligon’s, based on a ‘hidden London’ theme.

  • JKR uses gin as inspiration for perfume packaging

    Mon, 3 Oct 2011

    JKR has designed the gin-inspired packaging for new Penhaligon’s fragrance, Juniper Sling.

  • Joe Orton's Malicious Damage

    Fri, 14 Oct 2011

    As big fans of libraries, collage and Joe Orton, Design Week was very excited to hear about the exhibition opening today at London’s Islington Museum, Malicious Damage: The life and crimes of Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell.

  • Jon Bailey joins Dragon Rouge as senior design director

    Mon, 31 Oct 2011

    Jon Bailey, formerly design director at Ziggurat Brands, is joining Dragon Rouge as senior design director.

  • JWT and The Brand Union work on ‘Brand USA’ - the country’s first global consumer brand

    Wed, 26 Oct 2011

    JWT and the Brand Union have created what they claim to be the United States’ first-ever global consumer brand, the Brand USA project, for US government organisation The Corporation for Travel Promotion.

  • Kiss my glass

    Mon, 10 Oct 2011

    Vessel Gallery and the Arts Council-supported Contemporary Glass Society have collaborated to present a collection of new works from glass artists, aiming to raise the profile of the craft.Evil Eyes 2011 by George Papadopoulos

  • Knock-out Nokia

    Mon, 24 Oct 2011

    To mark the 20th anniversary of the release of the classic Nokia 1011 phone, the Finnish phone brand is taking over the first floor of London’s Design Museum for a show which will look at the design of its handsets. 

  • Labour attacks Government for treating creative industries like ‘a second-rate sector’

    Thu, 27 Oct 2011

    New Shadow Culture Minister Dan Jarvis has attacked the Coalition Government for treating the creative industries like a ‘second-rate sector’ as he outlined plans for his new role.

  • Liverpool Design Festival

    Thu, 6 Oct 2011

    Liverpool Design Festival opens today, a four day conflation of all things design and fashion.

  • Lost and foundry

    Mon, 24 Oct 2011

    After eight months in the making, Cure Studio has finally launched its type foundry, showcasing the work of some brilliant illustrators and typographers.

  • M Worldwide works on Welsh historic attractions

    Thu, 6 Oct 2011

    M Worldwide is designing a series of retail and visitor centres for the Welsh Government’s historic environment service Cadw, which will first be trialled at World Heritage Site Conwy Castle.

  • Magpie defines Spirit of Adventure for Mamont vodka

    Fri, 14 Oct 2011

    Magpie Studio is working on the brand strategy of Siberian Vodka brand Mamont, positioning it as the ‘Spirit of Adventure’ through ads and new packaging.

  • Make It Digital app reveals the secrets of haunted London

    Fri, 21 Oct 2011

    Make It Digital has created an app that maps the haunted areas of London, including pubs, underground stations and buildings.

  • Making Great Illustration

    Tue, 18 Oct 2011

    Some of the world’s best known illustrators, studios and voices from the industry have been brought together in a new book, Making Great Illustration.Grandpeople

  • Mather & Co hire Sarah Clarke following new wins

    Tue, 11 Oct 2011

    Mather & Co has appointed a new special projects designer Sarah Clarke following a series of new business wins.

  • Mental States

    Mon, 17 Oct 2011

    What does the Queen have in common with Kanye West? Bling, of course, but also George Condo.Source: © George Condo. Image courtesy the lenderDreams and Nightmares of the Queen, 2006

  • Meteorite merges with McCann group MRM London

    Wed, 5 Oct 2011

    Integrated consultancy Meteorite is merging with McCann Worldgroup company MRM London.

  • Moniker Art Fair

    Thu, 13 Oct 2011

    Seen as an antithesis to the Frieze Art Fair, Pavilion of Art and Design, and anything else reasonably highbrow happening this week,  Moniker runs concurrently to promote urban inspired art.Cash for your Warhol, San Diego CA

  • Motor Skills

    Wed, 26 Oct 2011

    Royal College of Arts students have been asked to design posters for the RAC’s Future Car Challenge, imagined in the year 2021.Anthony O’Sullivan

  • Mr B and Friends rebrands cricket helmet brand Ayrtek

    Tue, 18 Oct 2011

    Bath-based consultancy Mr B and Friends has created new branding for Ayrtek, which produces cricket helmet designs aimed at reducing injury.

  • Museums Sheffield goes under the sea at Millennium Gallery

    Mon, 31 Oct 2011

    Museums Sheffield has designed and curated a new exhibition Under The Sea for its Millennium Gallery.

  • Newcastle Council pledges to keep Heatherwick’s Blue Carpet

    Tue, 18 Oct 2011

    Newcastle City Council says there are no plans to scrap Thomas Heatherwick’s Blue Carpet public artwork, which has come under fire from a Tory MEP.

  • News Analysis – British Design 1948-2012: Innovation in the Modern Age

    Thu, 13 Oct 2011

    The V&A has announced its British Design 1948-2012: Innovation in the Modern Age exhibition, which is being curated for a March 2012 opening, a period which today’s designers have been influenced by and one which they have been part of shaping. 

  • News analysis - Cape Town appointed World Design Capital 2014

    Wed, 26 Oct 2011

    South African city Cape Town has been announced as the next World Design Capital by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design.

  • News Analysis - Highlights from The British Invention Show

    Wed, 19 Oct 2011

    The British Invention Show, which kicks off today in London, is a beguiling mix of the serious, the potentially life-changing and the novelty.

  • News analysis - Steve Jobs’s impact on design

    Thu, 6 Oct 2011

    Steve Jobs probably had more impact on the way design is perceived than anyone else - and certainly more than any other non-designer.

  • News in pictures

    Tue, 4 Oct 2011

     Germ, the in-house design consultancy at Manchester-based ad agency Cheetham Bell JWT, has created an anti-ivory campaign ribbon for international animal charity IFAW.

  • News in pictures

    Tue, 4 Oct 2011

     Johnson Banks has created a campaign for Beijing Design Week entitled What Design Can Do. The campaign features huge banners which have been hung on a disused power station in the Chinese capital.

  • News in Pictures

    Tue, 11 Oct 2011

    Pearlfisher has redesigned Cutty Sark blended Scotch Whisky revising  the original clipper ship, drawn in 1923 and only updated once in 88 years. A yellow has been re-introduced to the label to increase visibility and the bottle has been embossed with brand messages. 

  • News in Pictures

    Tue, 11 Oct 2011

    Stefan Sagmeister has designed a limited edition monograph of artist Ashley  Bickerton’s work, which will launch on 12 October and comprise 412 pages with two die cuts, carved pages, and a fold-out poster. The hardback book is contained in a carved wooden slipcase and also includes a print from a run of 50.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 17 Oct 2011

    Silk Pearce has created an advertising campaign for the London Sperm Bank. The consultancy rebranded the LSB in 2010. (http://www.designweek.co.uk/a-seminal-design/3010639.article)

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 17 Oct 2011

    Designer Kerry Howley has created typography from human hair for a poster to advertise the Stefan Sagmeister show Another Show about Promotion and Advertising at the Les Art Decoratifs gallery in Paris. The hair comes from four Sagmeister Inc employees.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 24 Oct 2011

    Liverpool-based consultancy Uniform has created the annual report for charity Heart of Mersey, which aims to reduce the risk of cardio-vascular disease.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 24 Oct 2011

    Rankin is launching biannual fashion and lifestyle magazine The Hunger on 17 November. Designs are by the magazine’s in-house team Ben Jeffery and Calum Crease.

  • News in Pictures

    Tue, 1 Nov 2011

    Outline Editions in London is set to host of show of work by Icelandic-born artist Kristjana S Williams, who creates exotic creatures from fragments of Victorian prints. The Dyragardur exhibition will run from 10-17 November.

  • News in Pictures

    Tue, 1 Nov 2011

  • Nick Bell exhibition tells the story of the Wellington Arch

    Mon, 24 Oct 2011

    Nick Bell Design is working on an exhibition about the history of Wellington Arch, a 19th-century monument in London’s Hyde Park.

  • Number of art and design students grows by a quarter - report shows

    Mon, 17 Oct 2011

    The number of UK creative art and design students has grown by nearly a quarter since 2003/04, according to a new report.

  • Oh Fudge!

    Fri, 7 Oct 2011

    Yesterday D Studio took to London’s Borough Market to initiate an illustration competition for Fudge brand Burnt Sugar, which it hoped could capture the imagination of young designers.signage for Burnt Sugar Drawing Room

  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Park

    Tue, 4 Oct 2011

    French illustrator and artist Laetitia Devernay has seen her illustrated tale, The Conductor, translated into English, and published in the UK.

  • P&W creates packaging for This Morning Tesco dessert

    Mon, 24 Oct 2011

    P&W has designed the packaging for a new Tesco dessert, which is the result of a nationwide competition on ITV’s This Morning.

  • Paper Trail

    Fri, 21 Oct 2011

    Oddball film-maker David Lynch is turning into quite the Renaissance man. 

  • Party like it's 1911

    Tue, 4 Oct 2011

    Art and design collective Dorothy is hoping to capture the spirit of radicalism with its interactive artwork The Nineteen Hundred and Eleven Party.

  • Pavilion of Art & Design

    Tue, 11 Oct 2011

    Last month we revealed the line-up for this year’sPavilion of Art and Design, including news of the A Child’s Chair Project II, which will see designers including Zaha Hadid, Fredrikson Stallard and Oriel Harwood customising child’s-size Vitra editions of the Verner Pantone chair, sold in aid of the NSPCC.

  • Pentagram’s John Rushworth brands Canal & River Trust

    Fri, 7 Oct 2011

    Pentagram partner John Rushworth has created the branding for new organisation the Canal & River Trust, which tends to the 3500km of waterways across the country.

  • Perfect Ten

    Wed, 12 Oct 2011

    Interior designer and design gallerist Rabih Hage, who recently created Alice in Wonderland-inspired hotel interiors for the Radisson Guildford, has spent the past decade amassing a profusion of design delights.

  • Placemarque creates Oxford city wayfinding with smartphone access

    Thu, 20 Oct 2011

    Environmental design consultancy Placemarque has created a wayfinding system for Oxford City Council, which will allow users to access information using smart phones.

  • Plan B Studio brands patent attorney Secerna

    Thu, 6 Oct 2011

    Plan B Studio has designed the identity and website for Secerna, a new firm of patent attorneys.

  • Post Colonial

    Mon, 3 Oct 2011

    It’s Black History Month UK, and stamp dealer Stanley Gibbons  is putting on an exhibition curated by graphic designer Jon Daniel.Louis Armstrong

  • Raise the Alam

    Wed, 5 Oct 2011

    Documentary photographer Shahidul Alam is largely unknown in the UK but in his native Bangladesh he’s credited with helping to introduce email to the country and providing the artistic inspiration to ensure there are now more documentary photographers in Bangladesh than any other country.Ballakot ...

  • Red Bird Design overhauls Boyd’s Brasserie Bar and Lounge interiors

    Tue, 11 Oct 2011

    Boyd’s Brasserie Bar and Lounge restaurant has been redesigned by Red Bird Design with a look that references its 1920s heritage.

  • Remember remember

    Fri, 7 Oct 2011

    ‘Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us’, quipped Oscar Wilde.Andreas Blank

  • Sheridan & Co appoints new head of design

    Tue, 18 Oct 2011

    Retail design consultancy Sheridan & Co has appointed Steve Thomas to the newly-created role of head of design, following a number of recent appointments for brands including Elemis and Jane Iredale cosmetics brand.

  • Sherry brands book digitisation group Impact

    Tue, 25 Oct 2011

    Sherry has designed the branding and website for Impact, a not-for-profit organisation that acts as a ‘centre of competence’ for the digitisation of historical texts.

  • Small Back Room rebrands Herefordshire

    Mon, 10 Oct 2011

    Herefordshire has been rebranded by Small Back Room in a repositioning project which considers the county as a business and tourist destination, clarifies its geographical location and promotes it as an aspirational place to live.

  • Something old, something new

    Tue, 11 Oct 2011

    Francisca Prieto takes weathered, damaged old illustrated books, maps, catalogues and journals and reconfigures them into new and beautiful typographic-based works.German Atlas

  • Start Judge Gill works up new Virgin Media identity

    Thu, 13 Oct 2011

    Start Judge Gill has designed a new identity for Virgin Media incorporating the Union flag, which is set to launch at the weekend.

  • Studio DB works on post-riots We Love Brixton project

    Fri, 7 Oct 2011

    Studio DB has created a 3D installation as part of the We Love Brixton event, which aims to celebrate the south London area’s community spirit in the wake of the riots that hit English cities in August.

  • Stuff Bath

    Mon, 31 Oct 2011

    The brilliantly-monikered Stuff Bath festival is making its debut this autumn. As the title suggests, its being held in Bath and it’s about, well… stuff.

  • Tate Britain

    Wed, 26 Oct 2011

  • The Allotment creates new brand for agent Valerie Hoskins Associates

    Wed, 12 Oct 2011

    The Allotment has branded television and film writer agency Valerie Hoskins Associates, and designed its website around the proposition Words into Action. 

  • The Big Frieze

    Tue, 11 Oct 2011

    Tomorrow sees the opening of the ninth Frieze Art Fair, designed by architect Carmody Groarke, showcasing and selling artworks from over 170 galleries from around the world.

  • The Core becomes Hornall Anderson UK

    Mon, 24 Oct 2011

    Consultancy The Core is becoming Hornall Anderson UK, following a merger with the US-based design group.

  • The Incal

    Tue, 11 Oct 2011

    To describe Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius’ The Incal as a classic is something of an understatement, and its is now being released in a six-volume omnibus edition.

  • Theo Williams joins John Lewis from Habitat

    Mon, 17 Oct 2011

    John Lewis has appointed former Habitat creative director Theo Williams as design manager in its interior design team.

  • Things We Like

    Fri, 21 Oct 2011

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

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    Fri, 14 Oct 2011

     

  • Things We Like

    Fri, 7 Oct 2011

    We’re feeling especially positive on the Design Week news desk this week, so it’s a bumper edition of our round-up of things we like.

  • Things We Like

    Fri, 28 Oct 2011

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

  • Thomas Manss opens Italy office

    Wed, 26 Oct 2011

    Thomas Manss & Company has opened an office in Emilia Romagna, Italy, aiming to strengthen relationships with Italian clients such as paper manufacturers Fabriano and Fedrigoni and IT service provider Vem Sistemi.

  • To The Point brands post-conflict engagement group Intercultures

    Mon, 3 Oct 2011

    To The Point has created the branding for Intercultures, a company set up to engage with people in post-conflict environments such as Libya.

  • Together brands academies for Dragons' Den’s Peter Jones

    Tue, 4 Oct 2011

    Together has created the branding for the Peter Jones Enterprise Academy, which has been founded by the Dragons’ Den star.

  • Tongue-twisting Typography

    Mon, 17 Oct 2011

    Word games and type design are brought together for Text Gallery’s Imaginary Menagerie show, which launches in London this week.Nod Young

  • Tunnel Vision

    Wed, 12 Oct 2011

    Dining experiences and design keep coming together at the moment, in increasingly ambitious spaces.

  • Typo London - Michael Bierut

    Fri, 21 Oct 2011

    Philip Larkin’s This Be The Verse (yes, the one about your parents ‘fucking you up’) may seem an odd opener for a talk on typography by one of the world’s most respected graphic designers, but it works for Pentagram partner Michael Bierut.

  • United Visual Artists creates this year’s Onedotzero identity

    Tue, 25 Oct 2011

    United Visual Artists has designed this year’s identity for moving image festival Onedotzero, using laser technology to make a moving typographic sequence.

  • University of Strathclyde seeks consultancies for design framework

    Wed, 19 Oct 2011

    The University of Strathclyde is seeking to appoint up to four consultancies to a graphic and digital design framework.

  • Urban illustrations

    Tue, 25 Oct 2011

    Greater Manchester’s finest illustrators have created works inspired by Manchester and Salford as part of an exhibition to raise money for local charity the Wood Street Mission.

  • V&A brings in Ben Kelly to work on British Design exhibition

    Mon, 10 Oct 2011

    Ben Kelly Design, Graphic Thought Facility and Barnbrook are among the design consultancies working on the V&A’s British Design 1948 - 2012: Innovation in the Modern Age exhibition, which will open in March 2012.

  • Voxpop - What snack food keeps your studio going?

    Fri, 7 Oct 2011

    Greggs the baker, purveyor of pasties and sausage rolls, is launching a new coffee shop offer. What is the favourite snack food in your studio?

  • Voxpop - which country do you think has the best-designed flag?

    Thu, 20 Oct 2011

    Virgin Media is using the UK’s Union Flag in its new identity. Which country do you think has the best national flag design?

  • Voxpop – Which regions could benefit from community focussed design?

    Fri, 14 Oct 2011

    Studio DB recently created a 3D installation as part of the We Love Brixton scheme. Which regions do you know of that could do with some community focussed design?

  • Voxpop - who is the most inspirational public speaker you have seen?

    Fri, 28 Oct 2011

    Last week’s Typo London event brought design stars including Michael Bierut, Chip Kidd and Ghana’s King Bansah to the capital. Who is the most inspirational public speaker you have seen and what was so special about them?

  • Warhol again

    Mon, 10 Oct 2011

    Last month, design director of Air Design Seán O’Mara explained to us the impact Warhol has had on him, delineating the iconic status of the artist ahead of the opening of the Warhol Is here exhibition currently on show at the De La Warr pavilion in Bexhill.

  • Wish you were here

    Fri, 14 Oct 2011

    Tonight illustrator Gresty unveils the results of his Wish You Were Here exhibition.

  • WPP like-for-like revenue growth slows

    Fri, 28 Oct 2011

    WPP has reported a like-for-like revenue growth of 4.7 per cent in the third quarter of 2011, down from 6.7 per cent in the first quarter and 5.6 per cent in the second quarter.

  • Yell appoints Landor to brand review as it seeks a consistent message

    Fri, 28 Oct 2011

    Landor has been appointed to review Yell’s global portfolio of brands, offering strategic advice as the company looks to coordinate a consistent international message.

  • Yes Wei

    Thu, 13 Oct 2011

    An artist whose oeuvre includes a cityscape made of dog chews; a photo composite landscape formed from images of buttocks and a two-metre model poo is bound to cause some controversy.

  • Zebra Face

    Mon, 24 Oct 2011

    Illustrator, hip-hop musician and all-round nice guy Kid Acne has been speaking to Design Week about the ten year anniversary and re-release of his Zebra Face comic book, which is about to be turned into an animated pilot for terrestrial  TV.ZebraFace poster

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