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  • 1HQ brands Arden & Amici Italian bakery range

    Fri, 9 Sep 2011

    1HQ has created branding for a new range of Italian biscuit and bakery products, Arden & Amici, which is owned by distributor Arden Fine Foods.

  • 999 brands Mini Tennis initiative aimed at children

    Thu, 15 Sep 2011

    999 Design has created the visual identity for the Lawn Tennis Association’s Mini Tennis - an adapted version of the sport using smaller equipment and aimed for three-to-ten-year-olds.

  • Aesop brands Barcelona superyacht marina

    Fri, 23 Sep 2011

    Aesop has created the branding for Barcelona’s Marina Port Vell, which is set to reopen next year as a superyacht marina.

  • Aesop brands new hospitality venture Whitebridge

    Wed, 7 Sep 2011

    Aesop has created the branding for newly-launched Whitebridge Hospitality, which offers hotel, leisure and tourism advisory services to investors, operators and other stakeholders.

  • Alpha-ville

    Tue, 20 Sep 2011

    Running concurrently with London Design Festival and Digital Design Weekend at the V&A, this weekend Alpha-ville International Festival of Post Digital Culture will be hosted across multiple London venues.

  • Andy Warhol looks a scream…

    Fri, 23 Sep 2011

    The Warhol is Here exhibition opens this weekend at De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, East Sussex, with materials and the gallery magazine designed by Air Design. The consultancy’s design director Seàn O’Mara has written an account of how Warhol has fascinated and influenced him throughout his life and career.

  • Apfel creates graphics for V&A’s Postmodernism show

    Fri, 23 Sep 2011

    A Practice for Everyday Life has created the ‘supergraphics’-inspired exhibition graphics and publication for the Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990 exhibition, which opens and the Victoria & Albert Museum tomorrow.

  • Architectural Review redesigns with Simon Esterson

    Wed, 21 Sep 2011

    Simon Esterson has worked on a redesign of the Architectural Review, which is relaunching with its October issue.

  • ASHA rebrands National Star College

    Fri, 2 Sep 2011

    Arthur Steen Horne Adamson has rebranded the National Star College further education and training college, creating separate brands for the National Star Foundation and the college itself.

  • Auto Art

    Mon, 26 Sep 2011

    Tom Karen, the industrial designer behind the Bush Radio, Marble Run, Raleigh Chopper and the Bond Bug car discusses how vehicle design should be viewed as an art form.

  • BBC launches redesigned homepage

    Wed, 21 Sep 2011

    The BBC has redesigned its homepage, which is now based around a ‘carousel’ central feature.

  • Best of the Web

    Fri, 16 Sep 2011

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

  • Best of the Web

    Fri, 23 Sep 2011

    Our weekly round up of the best things we’ve seen on the internet.

  • Best of the Web

    Fri, 2 Sep 2011

    Our weekly round-up of things that caught our eye on the world wide web.

  • Best of the Web

    Fri, 9 Sep 2011

    Our weekly round up of our highlights from the world wide web.

  • Bike to the future

    Fri, 30 Sep 2011

    The Oregon Manifest Construction Design Challenge in the US charged designers with ‘redefining’ the bicycle - ideas that came back featured sound systems, motors and passenger seats.

  • Bloom rebrands Cockburn’s Port

    Mon, 19 Sep 2011

    Bloom has created new branding and packaging for port brand Cockburn’s, which is owned by Symington Family Estates.

  • Bloom repackages Horlicks

    Wed, 14 Sep 2011

    Bloom has created new packaging designs for hot milky drink Horlicks.

  • Blue Marlin works on J20 varient featuring edible gold

    Tue, 6 Sep 2011

    Blue Marlin has designed the packaging for soft drink J2O’s Glitter Berry variant, which will be a limited-edition flavour for the Christmas period and features edible gold glitter.

  • Brand Matters and Morning rebrand brewer Greene King

    Fri, 16 Sep 2011

    Consultancies Brand Matters and Morning have collaborated to create a new identity for brewer Greene King. 

  • Brand on Shelf creates QR-coded packaging for Mira Showers

    Wed, 28 Sep 2011

    Cheltenham-based consultancy Brand on Shelf has designed new packaging and on-shelf communications for Mira Showers, featuring on-pack QR codes.

  • Branding and design sector sees a rise in company incomes, report shows

    Tue, 20 Sep 2011

    The branding and design sector has seen a 4 per cent rise in company incomes over the last six months, according to a report from accountant Kingston Smith W1.

  • Bridging Brooklyn

    Wed, 7 Sep 2011

    This Friday sees the opening of an exhibition of new work from street artist EMA, celebrating a decade of work created on the streets of Brooklyn, New York.Source: all rights reserved Recoatstreet art

  • Butterfly Cannon works on new Blavod product

    Thu, 29 Sep 2011

    Consultancy Butterfly Cannon is creating an identity and packaging for a new product from Blavod Wines and Spirits.

  • Cada creates retail designs for Portugal’s Sonae Continente supermarket

    Fri, 9 Sep 2011

    Cada Design consultancy has created a new store concept for Portuguese supermarkets Sonae Continente Bom Dia, the ‘neighbourhood’ arm of the Sonae Continente supermarket chain.

  • Can creativity change the world?

    Wed, 21 Sep 2011

    Some of you may be aware that today is Peace Day, and marking the occasion last night was D&AD’s Shapr’ner event on  ‘how creativity makes people give a shit’.

  • Cardiff Design Festival

    Tue, 27 Sep 2011

    The Cardiff Design Festival kicks off this Friday with a launch at the Senedd (featuring former DW editor Lynda Relph-Knight as guest speaker), leading into two weeks of design activity across the Welsh capital.Air Guitar by FK Create

  • Choices

    Tue, 6 Sep 2011

    According to a 2010 Design Council report, just 7 per cent of UK designers are from an ethnic minority background. In order to raise the profile of black and ethnic minority designers, the African & African-Caribbean Design Diaspora was founded last year.Bevan Agyeman, The ...

  • Confessions of a Design Geek

    Mon, 19 Sep 2011

    ’I was in love with loving’, admitted Saint Augustine, in his Confessions.cover

  • Dalziel & Pow creates new Timberland retail designs

    Mon, 5 Sep 2011

    Dalziel & Pow is working on new retail designs for US-based outdoor company Timberland.

  • David Adjaye unveils Design Miami pavilion

    Mon, 12 Sep 2011

    Architect David Adjaye is to create a pavilion for this year’s Design Miami event, which starts in November.

  • Design Council challenge aims to keep older people connected

    Fri, 9 Sep 2011

    The Design Council and the Technology Strategy Board have launched a £495 000 challenge which is seeking designs to keep older people better connected.

  • Design LSM creates interiors for Indian street-food café

    Fri, 30 Sep 2011

    Design LSM has designed the interiors for new Indian street-food café Roti Chai, which is set to fully open in Marble Arch, London.

  • Design Museum seeks permission to transform interior of new home

    Thu, 29 Sep 2011

    The Design Museum is seeking permission to alter the interiors of the Grade II*-listed Commonwealth Institute ahead of its planned move to the Kensington building in 2014.

  • Designs revealed for pylons of the future

    Wed, 14 Sep 2011

    The pylon design of the future shortlist has been unveiled by competition organisers Royal Institute of British Architects, the National Grid and the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

  • Dragon Rouge creates new packaging for Red Lion Foods

    Mon, 5 Sep 2011

    Dragon Rouge has designed new packaging for Red Lion Foods, with a new positioning, Eat Well and Do Good.

  • Edge Architecture & Design refurbishes Harvey Nichols café

    Mon, 26 Sep 2011

    The fifth-floor café in Harvey Nichols’s London flagship store is set to reopen in November following refurbishment work by Edge Architecture & Design.

  • Fetch A Sketch

    Mon, 19 Sep 2011

    For Ink Illustration, the process of illustration is a candid and personal one which shared through sketch books can be more revealing than finished works.Boxer

  • Fish + Chocolate

    Mon, 12 Sep 2011

    Fish + Chocolate, comic-book author Kate Brown’s latest graphic novel is an often-disturbing three-part exploration of motherhood.Cover

  • Funny Laundering

    Wed, 21 Sep 2011

    Adulthood can be a challenging time filled with worries, responsibilities and, perhaps worst of all, household chores.

  • Glitz and pieces

    Mon, 26 Sep 2011

    While the Victoria & Albert Museum is busy reappraising Postmodernism, over at the Royal Institute of British Architects they’ve looked a bit further back into history for another much-maligned movement - Art Deco.

  • Government calls for evidence on design rights

    Wed, 21 Sep 2011

    The Government has today called on the UK design community to provide information on how well the current design rights intellectual property system is working.

  • GRDD creates National Maritime Museum interactive installation

    Wed, 28 Sep 2011

    GRDD has created an interactive installation for the National Maritime Museum’s new East India and Asia gallery, which opens today.

  • Greybox creates website for Mayfair members club

    Thu, 1 Sep 2011

    Greybox has redesigned the website for private members club Pasley Tyler in Mayfair, London.

  • Guiding light

    Mon, 5 Sep 2011

    The second edition of Max Fraser’s London Design Guide, which hits shelves next week, offers a handy guidebook to London for the design-conscious among you (which should hopefully be all of you…).Cover

  • Hackney Film Festival

    Wed, 14 Sep 2011

    This weekend see the opening of the second Hackney Film Festival, a not-for profit project that will showcase the work of local audio-visual artists and filmmakers and celebrate the talent of the borough.

  • Happy birthday Sir Terence

    Wed, 21 Sep 2011

    Sir Terence Conran is 80 this year. On 4 October to be precise. The occasion is being marked by a huge exhibition at the Design Museum - to which Conran has just gifted £18 million for its move to Kensington (and which, of course, he co-founded in the the 1980s with Stephen Bayley).Terence ...

  • Heavenly creates BBC Entertainment idents

    Fri, 23 Sep 2011

    Heavenly has designed a new set of idents for global channel BBC Entertainment, using a dance theme.

  • Heavenly rebrands online tourism firm Toprooms.com

    Fri, 9 Sep 2011

    Heavenly has created new branding for independent hotel and B&B aggregator Toprooms.com.

  • Hendzel & Hunt works on La Gelatiera ice-cream parlour

    Thu, 1 Sep 2011

    La Gelatiera ice-cream and coffee shop is set to open in London’s Covent Garden, with interiors created alongside furniture studio Hendzel & Hunt, a logo by designer Carl Koch and other branding by designer Mira Choi.

  • Hit the North

    Tue, 20 Sep 2011

    With many design-hungry eyes on London Design Festival at the moment, it’s easy to become a bit capital-focused this week.Staircase going up, 2011 by Eve Marguerite Allen

  • Hospital room divider wins UK James Dyson Award

    Tue, 6 Sep 2011

    A room divider for use in hospitals, developed by designer Michael Korn, has won the UK leg of the international James Dyson Award.

  • Interabang brands caffeinated water Just

    Fri, 30 Sep 2011

    Interabang has created the identity and packaging for new bottled water brand Just.

  • Interbrand rebrands Airmiles as Avios

    Thu, 1 Sep 2011

    Interbrand has rebranded Airmiles as Avios - with the new brand set to operate both as a travel rewards programme and as a collectible currency.

  • It's a small world

    Fri, 2 Sep 2011

    Ever wondered what the inside of Bacon, Freud or Giacometti’s studios looked like? Well, so has French artist Charles Matton, and over his artistic career he scrupulously created Borrower-size mock-ups so we need wonder no more.Alberto Giacometti’s Studio, 1987

  • James Dyson unveils new product - the fan heater

    Thu, 15 Sep 2011

    James Dyson has unveiled his first major new product since 2009’s bladeless fan - the Dyson Hot fan heater.

  • Jenner Studio uses historical influences for New York Diptyque store

    Tue, 27 Sep 2011

    UK consultancy Jenner Studio has created the interior designs for French perfumer Diptyque’s flagship New York store.

  • JHP works on mammoth Korean retail project

    Mon, 26 Sep 2011

    JHP has planned and designed the retail experience for D Cube City in Seoul, South Korea, a development featuring two 50-storey residential towers, a 40-storey office block, a hotel with heli-pad, a convention centre, theatres, cinemas, gyms, spas, parkland and retail.

  • Just the flip side of the wall

    Tue, 27 Sep 2011

    Back in July, we spoke to Post Works about their No Stop, Statue, Machine film - an exploration of dystopic  topics such as mind controlling infrastructure.still from No Stop, Statue, Machine

  • Kantar and McCandless launch data visualisation awards

    Mon, 12 Sep 2011

    WPP consumer insight consultancy Kantar and data visualistion guru David McCandless have teamed up to launch an international awards scheme for data visualisation.

  • Labour accuses Government of ‘damaging the foundations’ of UK’s creative industries

    Thu, 8 Sep 2011

    The Labour Party has launched a national Creative Industries Network of businesses, trade bodies and other organisations and attacked the Coalition Government for its ‘damaging’ education and arts policies.

  • Life of Riley

    Fri, 2 Sep 2011

    Kettle’s Yard’s retrospective of abstract artist Bridget Riley is sure to be one of this autumn’s exhibition highlights.Bridget Riley in front of Justinian

  • London 2012 paralympics medals unveiled

    Mon, 19 Sep 2011

    Jewellery designer Lin Cheung has created the designs for the London 2012 Paralympic Games medals.

  • London Design Festival Preview - Pimlico Road Design District

    Mon, 12 Sep 2011

    Pimlico Road is making its debut as a London Design Festival district this year, with Boned in England among the area’s highlights.

  • London Design Festival Preview - 100% Design

    Tue, 13 Sep 2011

    Trade show 100% Design, which is running from 22-25 September at Earls Court, is this year rolling out a new marketing campaign created by Peter & Paul and has also launched an app, to help you navigate the huge show.

  • London Design Festival Preview - Clerkenwell Design District

    Thu, 15 Sep 2011

    Clerkenwell is something of a design behemoth, making up one of the largest of the London Design Festival districts, and hosting its own independent Clerkenwell Design Week in the spring.

  • London Design Festival Preview - Covent Garden Design District

    Tue, 13 Sep 2011

    Covent Garden will play host to one of London Design Festival’s centrepiece installations, Lego Greenhouse by Sebastian Bergne.

  • London Design Festival Preview - Fitzrovia Now

    Wed, 14 Sep 2011

    Design district Fitzrovia Now is relaunching this year with new branding created by consultancy Together, which is based on Great Titchfield Street, in the heart of Fitzrovia.Fitzrovia Now Keys

  • London Design Festival preview - highlights outside the LDF districts

    Fri, 16 Sep 2011

    The all-pervasive nature of the London Design Festival means that there are plenty of highlights to be found outside the six design districts.

  • London Design Festival Preview - Shoreditch Design District

    Fri, 16 Sep 2011

    Boasting LDF big guns including Tent, Origin and Tramshed, as well as innumerable small exhibitions and events, Shoreditch is undoubtedly one of the festival’s go-to destinations.

  • London Design Festival Preview - The Southbank

    Wed, 14 Sep 2011

    The seemingly pervasive London Design Festival will be setting up another of its hotspots on the Southbank next week. 

  • London Design Festival Preview - The V&A and The Brompton Design District

    Mon, 12 Sep 2011

    For the third year running, the Victoria & Albert Museum is acting as the focal point for the London Design Festival.

  • London Design Festival: Noma Bar, Covent Garden and other wanders

    Mon, 19 Sep 2011

    In Design Week’s Monday morning adventure, we visit Covent Garden design district, and touch on Soho and Fitzrovia Now .

  • London Design Festival: Perspectives by John Pawson

    Tue, 20 Sep 2011

    It’s something of a peculiarity that of the four ‘landmark projects’ hyped in this year’s London Design Festival, three are by architects.

  • London Design Festival: Shoreditch

    Thu, 22 Sep 2011

    Reflecting the general Shoreditch aspirations to be forever one step ahead of the game, Design Week ventures to the district a whole day before many of its biggest boasts - Tent, Tramshed, and Origin - actually open.

  • London Design Festival: The V&A

    Thu, 22 Sep 2011

    For nine days London Design Festival takes residence at the V&A, saving its big name commissions for the venue.

  • Lounge Link

    Fri, 9 Sep 2011

    Back in July, we brought you the multimedia feast that was news of Priestman Goode’s Moving Platforms idea, and now they’re back with more futuristic musings in the form of Lounge Link.

  • M&S rolls out ‘segmented’ store designs at Westfield Stratford

    Tue, 13 Sep 2011

    Marks & Spencer has redesigned its High Street Kensington store as one of two pilots to debut a more ‘segmented’ offer, with the second opening in Stratford’s Westfield shopping centre today.

  • Map reading

    Thu, 8 Sep 2011

    You Are the Map Maker, the new book by Australia-based designer and branding expert Bernadette Jiwa, is heavy on the motivational speak - ‘This is the start of a journey. One where you will be challenged to take your self-doubt, bundle it up and chuck it overboard.’go for it

  • Marcel Wanders designs M&S Christmas range

    Wed, 21 Sep 2011

    Dutch designer Marcel Wanders has created a Christmas product range for Marks & Spencer, in the store’s first collaboration with a designer across more than one product range.

  • Mather & Co works on new National Football Museum

    Thu, 22 Sep 2011

    Interiors and exhibition design specialist Mather & co is working on the interiors of the National Football Museum, which is set to open next year after moving to Manchester’s Urbis building.

  • Met Studio creates ‘emotive’ War Horse exhibition

    Wed, 7 Sep 2011

    Met studio has designed the War Horse: Fact & Fiction exhibition, which opens next month at the National Army Museum in Chelsea, London.

  • Method bought by software R&D group Global Logic

    Tue, 27 Sep 2011

    San Francisco-based consultancy Method, which has offices in London and New York, has been acquired by software research and development group Global Logic.

  • More than a third of art and design graduates are out of work, report shows

    Fri, 2 Sep 2011

    More than a third of art and design graduates are still without a full-time job more than three years after graduation, according to a new report.

  • Mother creates Great Britain brand campaign for UK Government

    Thu, 22 Sep 2011

    Ad agency Mother has created the Great Britain brand campaign for the UK Government, which has been launched by Prime Minister David Cameron.

  • Navyblue goes into liquidation

    Tue, 13 Sep 2011

    Navyblue, which has UK offices in Edinburgh and London, has gone into liquidation.

  • Neville Brody announced as D&AD president in waiting

    Thu, 22 Sep 2011

    Neville Brody has been announced as the incoming deputy president of D&AD, which means he will take over as president of the organisation in a year’s time.

  • New D&AD executive committee appointed

    Wed, 7 Sep 2011

    Someone founder Simon Manchipp and Airside director Nat Hunter have been elected to the design seats on the D&AD executive committee.

  • News analysis - a design preview of Westfield Stratford City

    Tue, 6 Sep 2011

    When it opens next week, Westfield Stratford City in London will be Europe’s biggest urban shopping centre, according to its operator Westfield. Design Week takes a look at the retail design highlights at the centre, including a number of flagship stores.

  • News analysis - How to design a medal

    Tue, 20 Sep 2011

    Yesterday the London 2012 Paralympic medals were unveiled – the culmination of a design by competition winner and jewellery designer Lin Cheung,  selection and steering from an advisory panel, a passive contribution from a Greek Goddess, and forging and striking by The Royal Mint.

  • News analysis - opportunities in Russia

    Tue, 13 Sep 2011

    Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday went a on-day flying visit to Russia with the aim of forging closer ties, both politically and on a business level.

  • News analysis - Using new technologies on stamps

    Tue, 27 Sep 2011

    The Croatian postal service has issued a stamp with a QR code on it, which allows the recipient to confirm receipt of their package and trace its journey. Design Week looks at this and other recent examples of using technology on postage stamps.

  • News in pictures

    Mon, 26 Sep 2011

    Devilfish has created the branding for Handmade in Britain, a collaboration between the BBC and the Victoria & Albert Museum, which will see programmes aired on the BBC and exhibitions hosted at the V&A.

  • News in pictures

    Mon, 26 Sep 2011

    Cogapp has created the new website for the Barnes Foundation, a collection of impressionist, post-impressionist and early-modern paintings in Philadelphia. The website uses the new Barnes Foundation branding, which has been created by Pentagram partner Abbott Miller.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 19 Sep 2011

    The Forest has designed a series of posters for football film festival Kicking and Screening.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 19 Sep 2011

    Pentagram partner Dominic Lippa has designed the branding and collateral for this year’s London Design Festival, including this T-shirt.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 12 Sep 2011

    Devilfish has created a cinema ident for Studio Canal as part of its rebrand of the company.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 12 Sep 2011

    La Boca has created the official poster for Nike to accompany the release of the Nike MAG trainers, which were featured in Back To The Future 2.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 5 Sep 2011

    Artist Michael Landy has created work All My Lines in the Palm of Your Hand for the front cover of the Pocket Tube Map. The work is the latest artist commission from the Art on the Underground programme.

  • News in Pictures

    Mon, 5 Sep 2011

    Chiara Onida has designed the Incalmi set of ‘musical’ glassware, which comprises a carafe, a water glass and a wine glass. Developed for Contermporary Lab, the glassware is produced using a Venetian technique called incalmo, in which two differently coloured elements are blown to fuse together.

  • Night Sun

    Fri, 30 Sep 2011

    When you receive news of an art installation accompanied with the aside - ‘ the civil aviation authority has been notified’ - you know it’s going to be something pretty special.Source: Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UKThe Opposite ...

  • North East of North

    Thu, 29 Sep 2011

    This year’s Neon Digital Arts Festival will be themed around collaboration and legacy promising ‘a distinct Nordic flavour.’Neon

  • Olympic Metals

    Wed, 28 Sep 2011

    Next year’s London Olympics has already been a catalyst for change, regeneration and a massive splitting of  opinion.

  • on the outside looking in

    Tue, 6 Sep 2011

    With LDF excitement gathering apace, it’s easy to forget that another similarly acronymed event - London Fashion Week - will be running concurrently.

  • Open for Business

    Thu, 15 Sep 2011

    This weekend London will unlock its best kept architectural secrets as the annual Open House project gifts the public access to over 700 private buildings across the capital, for free.

  • Ottolenghi’s Islington restaurant is redesigned

    Mon, 12 Sep 2011

    Israel-based architect Alex Meitlis has redesigned chef Yotam Ottolenghi’s restaurant in Islington, London.

  • Overlapping

    Wed, 28 Sep 2011

    The people behind Liverpool-based design consultancy and creative collective Mercy are a bunch relentlessly in pursuit of connecting the gamut of  digital art, installations, experimental poetry, avant-garde music and performance art.

  • Passementalists

    Tue, 6 Sep 2011

    Most of us haven’t given too much thought to the tassel. However, design duo Spina - also known as Robbie Spina and Joe Zito -  aren’t like most of us.

  • Pearlfisher brands Westons Organic cider as Wyld Wood

    Tue, 27 Sep 2011

    Pearlfisher has rebranded Westons Organic cider, renaming it Wyld Wood Premium Organic Cider and creating a new visual identity for the brand.

  • Pearlfisher creates new packaging for anti-spot range Oxy

    Tue, 20 Sep 2011

    Pearlfisher has created new packaging for Oxy anti-spot skincare range, focusing on its ‘active seaweed’ ingredients.

  • Pentagram’s DJ Stout redesigns Times Educational Supplement

    Fri, 16 Sep 2011

    Texas-based Pentagram partner DJ Stout has redesigned the Times Educational Supplement, which is moving from a newspaper to a magazine format.

  • Philip Watts creates interiors for new Greggs coffee shop offer

    Fri, 30 Sep 2011

    Bakery chain Greggs is moving into the coffee shop market with its new Greggs Moment offer, developed as an interior concept by Philip Watts Design.

  • Picture this

    Tue, 27 Sep 2011

    Contemporary photography as photographer Bill Jackson sees it, is moving closer to other artforms, particularly sculpture.accordian

  • Plant and Stiff & Trevillion work on Army and Navy Club bar

    Fri, 16 Sep 2011

    The Plant and Stiff & Trevillion have redesigned the interiors the bar at the Army and Navy Club in London’s Mayfair.

  • Praline creates student recruitment campaign for Goldsmiths

    Mon, 5 Sep 2011

    Praline has created a campaign for Goldsmiths College, part of the University of London, as part of its student recruitment campaign.

  • Prince Philip Designers Prize shortlist announced

    Fri, 23 Sep 2011

    Ideo chief executive Tim Brown, exhibition designer Dinah Casson and Onedotzero co-founder Shane Walter have all been shortlisted for the 2011 Prince Philip Designers Prize.

  • Printed company annual reports to continue as digital bid is dropped

    Fri, 2 Sep 2011

    A proposal which would have allowed companies to stop printing annual reports and go online-only has been dropped due to opposition from investors.

  • Pull up a chair

    Wed, 7 Sep 2011

    Mother-and-daughter artistic duo Caroline and Maisie Broadhead have combined their craft and image-making skills for an upcoming furniture-based photography show.Head to Head

  • Rabih Hage is inspired by Alice in Wonderland for new hotel

    Mon, 19 Sep 2011

    Architect Rabih Hage has designed the interiors for a new Radisson hotel in Guildford, Surrey, with an Alice in Wonderland and ‘performance’ theme which reference the fact that the town was author Lewis Carroll’s Birthplace.

  • RCA appoints architecture and fine art deans in school structure overhaul

    Tue, 13 Sep 2011

    The Royal College of Art has appointed Alex de Rijke as its dean of architecture and Ute Mata Bauer as its dean of fine art as it prepares to implement its new academic structure.

  • RCKa works on Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool

    Thu, 1 Sep 2011

    Liverpool’s Open Eye Gallery is set to reopen in November in a new space designed by architect RCKa.

  • Reach rebrands Mr Sheen polish

    Wed, 14 Sep 2011

    Bristol-based consultancy Reach has rebranded Mr Sheen polishes, repositioning the brand and creating new packaging for the four products in the range, including floor products, aerosol’s, wipes and Mr Sheen Express Mist, which launched last month.

  • Rem’s progress

    Wed, 28 Sep 2011

    Dutch architecture practice OMA, led by Rem Koolhaas, has made its mark around the globe with headline projects such as the impossible-seeming CCTV building in Beijing - which looks like four skyscrapers merged into one.

  • Robot Food brands Jenson Button-backed restaurant

    Tue, 6 Sep 2011

    Harrogate-based consultancy Robot Food has created the branding for new restaurant brand Victus, which has opened its first branch in the town and is backed by Formula One star Jenson Button.

  • Ron Arad awarded London Design Medal

    Tue, 20 Sep 2011

    Ron Arad has been awared the 2011 London Design Medal.

  • Sane & Able brands Blue Dot project, which rewards people’s charity

    Thu, 8 Sep 2011

    Sane & Able has created branding and the website for Blue Dot, an initiative which rewards people for charitable activities and giving, using a new Blue Dots online currency.

  • SB Studio creates National Centre for Craft & Design branding

    Thu, 15 Sep 2011

    SB Studio has created the branding for the new The National Centre for Craft & Design in Sleaford, Lincolnshire.

  • Schawk buys Brandimage - Desgrippes & Laga

    Wed, 28 Sep 2011

    International brand and marketing group Schawk has acquired consultancy Brandimage - Desgrippes & Laga, which has offices around the world and a turnover of £20.5 million.

  • Secret Sensory Suppers

    Fri, 23 Sep 2011

    The prospect of Secret Sensory Suppers was beguiling and terrifying, inviting diners to reassess the way they eat, helped by ‘masked assistants’ who would ‘lead guests through a ritualistic supper.’

  • Silk Pearce presentation pack marks Airmail centenary

    Mon, 12 Sep 2011

    Colchester-based consultancy Silk Pearce has designed a special-issue presentation pack to mark the 100th anniversary of the UK’s first Airmail flight.

  • Someone works on Spurs branding overhaul

    Mon, 26 Sep 2011

    Consultancy Someone is working on a strategic brand overhaul for Premiership football club Tottenham Hotspur.

  • Squid’s in

    Wed, 7 Sep 2011

    Irish international art exhibition Dublin Contemporary will celebrate its inauguration  by pooling the work of global artists and showing ‘the resourcefulness that can be squeezed out of tough times,’ say curators.Source: Courtesy of the artist. Photo credit: Renato ...

  • Stella for star

    Mon, 26 Sep 2011

    Frank Stella’s Connections show opening this week marks the first time in 25 years that the groundbreaking artist’s work has been shown in depth in London, and we’re understandably rather excited about it.Source: © Hollis Frampton Estate

  • Stocks Taylor Benson brands wild bird-food range

    Mon, 19 Sep 2011

    Stocks Taylor Benson has created the branding and packaging for A Little Bird Told Me…, a new range of wild bird-food for retailer Pets At Home.

  • Stoked about ceramics

    Thu, 29 Sep 2011

    This weekend sees the opening of the British Ceramics Biennial, celebrating Blighty’s finest contemporary ceramics.

  • Strip show

    Fri, 9 Sep 2011

    The inaugural BD & Comics Passion long weekend, which will be held next month, appears to have accomplished a tricky balancing act by managing to appeal to both the graphic novel geek squad and those who don’t know their Hergés from their Incredible Hulks.from Bastien Vivès The ...

  • Supafrank creates illustrated packaging for RNLI sweets

    Fri, 16 Sep 2011

    Supafrank has created new packaging for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s range of confectionery, which now features illustrations of sailing boats, buckets and lighthouses.

  • Terence Conran launches health and beauty range

    Wed, 14 Sep 2011

    Terence Conran is launching new health and beauty brand Conran Bath and Body with branding and packaging designs by Studio Conran.

  • The Other Media works on Ben Sherman website in brand overhaul

    Wed, 7 Sep 2011

    The Other Media is working on a new digital presence for fashion label Ben Sherman, which is revamping all elements of its branding.

  • The Space Creative brands Pukka Herbs skincare range

    Mon, 26 Sep 2011

    Somerset-based consultancy The Space Creative has created the branding for Pukka Herbs’s new range of skincare products, Pukka Ayurveda.

  • Things We Like

    Thu, 22 Sep 2011

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

  • Things We Like

    Thu, 29 Sep 2011

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

  • Things We Like

    Thu, 15 Sep 2011

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

  • Things We Like

    Thu, 8 Sep 2011

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

  • Tom Dixon redesigns Chelsea restaurant The Collection

    Mon, 5 Sep 2011

    The Collection restaurant and bar in Chelsea, west London, is set to reopen at the end of the month following a redesign by Tom Dixon.

  • UK consultancies bag Pentawards

    Fri, 30 Sep 2011

    UK consultancies Cowan and Stocks Taylor Benson have each picked up a platinum Pentaward in the international packaging design awards scheme.

  • Vending the Rules

    Mon, 5 Sep 2011

    Normally a prison of carbonated saccharine dreams, the vending machine is liberating its contents to instead dispense design classics through a tie-up between The Design Museum and The St Martins Lane hotel.1

  • Voxpop - What can be done about the high unemployment rate for graduate designers?

    Thu, 8 Sep 2011

    A new report shows that more than a third of art and design graduates have failed to find full-time employment, three years after leaving their courses. What do you think can be done to address this?

  • Voxpop - What is your favourite real-life story behind a brand?

    Thu, 22 Sep 2011

    Brand Matters and Morning have created a new identity for brewer Greene King, based around the story of Christian martyr St Edmund. What is your favourite example of a real-life story behind a brand?

  • Voxpop - Which 1970s brand would you like to revitalise?

    Thu, 29 Sep 2011

    Bloom has rebranded Cockburn’s port, aiming to bring back the character that made it a success in the 1970s. Which ’70s brand would you like to revitalise and why?

  • Voxpop - Which book has inspired you most as a designer?

    Fri, 2 Sep 2011

    An exhibition at the Kemistry Gallery is marking 10 years since the publication of Alan Fletcher’s book the Art of Looking Sideways. Which book has inspired you most as a designer?

  • Voxpop - Which sporting star would you like to work with?

    Thu, 15 Sep 2011

    Robot Food has created the branding for a new restaurant, backed by Formula One star Jenson Button. Which sporting star would you like to work with and why?

  • Waitrose launches Food, Fashion & Home offer

    Thu, 8 Sep 2011

    Waitrose has opened its first-ever Waitrose Food, Fashion & Home store, with design work led by an in-house team working with Interstore and Schweitzer for interiors and Household for wayfinding and signage.

  • We Made That and Free Play work on Olympic legacy playground

    Wed, 28 Sep 2011

    Consultancies We Made That and Free Play have won a competition to design the new Three Mills Green Playspace in East London as part of Olympic legacy proposals, with a design which promises to be a ‘wild kingdom’.

  • Welcome to the Jungle

    Mon, 5 Sep 2011

    Elephants, tigers and crocodiles aren’t the first things you’d except to see roaming the streets of Edinburgh.it’s a jungle out there

  • Westfield Stratford City Opening

    Tue, 13 Sep 2011

    News of projects relating the Westfield Stratford City has been trickling in to Design Week for what feels like a retail filled eternity.

  • Whitton Wisdom

    Fri, 30 Sep 2011

    Stuart Whitton picks the phone up, having just done ‘two all-nighters’ finishing off work, and now 40 pieces have gone off to the framers, giving him a few days grace before his exhibition Origin starts. Origin

  • Wolff Olins rebrands Asian Art Museum with upside-down ‘A’

    Thu, 29 Sep 2011

    Wolff Olins has created a new brand for the Asian Art Museum of San Franciso, in the USA, which uses an inverted ‘A’.

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