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September 2008 Onlin

  • £1.5m update for Barclaycard

    Mon, 29 Sep 2008

    Barclaycard today launches a new £1.5m visual identity designed by The Brand Union.

  • Apple reseller opens flagship

    Thu, 11 Sep 2008

    Europe’s largest Apple reseller, Humac, today unveils its new flagship in Reykjavik, Iceland, by London retail design specialists M Worldwide.

  • Asics opens first UK store

    Tue, 23 Sep 2008

    Sports giant Asics is to open its first UK store, on London’s Argyll Street, W1, on 3 October as part of a global roll out of flagship stores.

  • Award schemes set up in honour of Peta Levy

    Thu, 25 Sep 2008

    Design promoter Design-Nation is inviting designers to apply for two new awards set up in honour of its late founder Peta Levy, who died in April.

  • BAA design director joins London 2012

    Wed, 17 Sep 2008

    BAA's design director David Bartlett is to join the London 2012 team as head of design for the Olympic Village. He is leaving BAA following the completion of his major project, Heathrow Terminal 5.In Design Week's Interaction Design supplement, published today, Bartlett reveals the planned interactive design elements for T5 yet to be realised. These include the Human Mosaic, an installation which allows passengers to send messages and pictures to people waiting in the arrivals ...

  • BAE Systems launches internal campaign

    Thu, 11 Sep 2008

  • BBC redesigns Focus magazine

    Thu, 4 Sep 2008

    The BBC is redesigning its science and technology magazine Focus.

  • Because creates Ramadan Festival posters

    Tue, 2 Sep 2008

    Dutch consultancy Because has designed four posters to promote inter-cultural event Ramadan Festival 2008.

  • Brandpool joins Loewy Group

    Thu, 4 Sep 2008

  • COI reviews £5m strategic consultancy roster

    Mon, 1 Sep 2008

    The Central Office of Information is reviewing the roster of consultancies supporting its strategic consultancy division.

  • Conran Design Group merges with 35 Communications

    Wed, 17 Sep 2008

    Conran Design Group is joining forces with independent public sector and corporate branding specialist 35 Communications in a ground-breaking deal.It is more usual for global marketing services groups, such as CDG parent Havas, to put consultancies within their stables together, than for one of their consultancies to court an independent partner.Under the deal, both CDG and 35 Communications will retain their names, but will operate as one company within Havas. A management ...

  • Creativity is our USP, says Mandelson

    Tue, 16 Sep 2008

    The role of design in creating a knowledge economy looks set to be a focus of this year’s London Design Festival, as set out in EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson’s inaugural address last night.

  • DBA Effectiveness Awards shortlist revealed

    Wed, 3 Sep 2008

    Elmwood heads the shortlist for the Design Effectiveness Awards this year, with five projects jostling for the top prize, Design Week can reveal.For the first time, the Design Business Association has announced the winners ahead of its official awards ceremony in November, when it will reveal whether the 38 projects on the shortlist have received bronze, silver or gold medals, as well as the winner of the Grand Prix.Design Partners chairman Andrew Summers, who headed up ...

  • Derby gets hi-tech arts centre

    Thu, 25 Sep 2008

    Derby will tomorrow open a brand new £11m arts and film centre, Quad, housing the first ever BFI film and television archive outside London.

  • Design Council calls in Dempsey as visual consultant

    Mon, 8 Sep 2008

    The Design Council is looking to engage with design buyers on a deeper level, and has consequently appointed Mike Dempsey to consult on its visual communications, branding and design strategy.

  • Design employment is still flourishing

    Wed, 24 Sep 2008

    Employment in the design sector is flourishing for the time being, despite falling general employment figures.Figures released last week by the Office for National Statistics estimate that general employment was down by 0.2 per cent for the three months to July, compared with the previous quarter.In stark contrast to the general employment picture, ONS reveals that the total number of working design professionals rose by 14 per cent to 165 000 during March to June 2008, ...

  • Design salaries to remain flat

    Wed, 10 Sep 2008

    Design groups’ salaries will remain flat, at best, over the next six months, according to a Design Week straw poll of recruiters. Design recruiters are predicting static salaries or a slight downward dip in pay as concern over the economy continues. The poll comes six months after Design Week’s salary survey in March showed sustained optimism about the industry, prior to concern about the threat of recession. Despite this, jobs in digital and hotel design ...

  • Design Skills Alliance push launches

    Mon, 22 Sep 2008

    The Design Council today launches a marketing campaign for the UK Design Skills Alliance, which it set up earlier this year with Creative & Cultural Skills.

  • Designs for Royal Institution’s permanent exhibition unveiled

    Wed, 17 Sep 2008

    The newly refurbished Royal nstitution of Great Britain opens its permanent exhibition next month, designed by consultancy Event

  • Digital expert slams colleges over creative/technical split

    Thu, 18 Sep 2008

  • Dixon lined up for new fashion title

    Mon, 1 Sep 2008

    Tom Dixon is helping to compile a new bimonthly fashion digest magazine, Distill, which hits the newsstands today.

  • Dutch police coin it in Sagmeister raid

    Thu, 25 Sep 2008

    An installation created by graphic design guru Stefan Sagmeister for Droog has been confiscated by Dutch police as a ‘precautionary’ measure to safeguard the artwork from being stolen.

  • DW debates interaction design issues

    Tue, 16 Sep 2008

    How do clients make money when audiences expect everything that can be delivered on a Web page for free?

  • Escape Studios goes virtual

    Mon, 29 Sep 2008

    West London computer graphics college Escape Studios launches a virtual school today, designed in-house.

  • Explore London architecture this weekend

    Fri, 19 Sep 2008

    The capital is to allow the public into its closed and private buildings this weekend, as part of Open House London.

  • Figtree designs BFI campaign for London Film Festival

    Mon, 15 Sep 2008

    The British Film Institute today launches a multiplatform poster campaign for its London Film Festival, created by design consultancy Figtree.

  • Flamboyant’ London club opens next month

    Mon, 22 Sep 2008

    ‘Luxury, flamboyance and a touch of humour’ are to be the buzzwords at London’s latest luxury members’ club Molton House, when it opens its doors next month.

  • Fresh look for Coolbrands site

    Fri, 19 Sep 2008

  • Fudge wins University of the Arts digital task

    Fri, 19 Sep 2008

  • Get set for cultural Olympics

    Thu, 4 Sep 2008

  • Google mobile is coming soon

    Tue, 23 Sep 2008

    Google and T-Mobile will later today unveil the G1 handset, the first mobile device to run on the Internet giant’s Android open-platform system.

  • Hamm takes over at D&AD

    Thu, 18 Sep 2008

    D&AD today welcomes Garrick Hamm as its new president.

  • HOK Sport up for buyout

    Mon, 1 Sep 2008

  • Hulger carves world first with Skype wooden handset

    Mon, 15 Sep 2008

    Boutique phone design group Hulger has created what it claims is the world’s first wooden Skype handset, launching in shops this week.

  • ICAD celebrates jubilee with eco book

    Tue, 2 Sep 2008

    Ireland’s Institute of Creative Advertising and Design kicks off its golden jubilee year celebrations this Thursday with the launch of a showcase book of the best of Irish design talent from the past five years.

  • Ikea malls roll out Portland signage across Europe

    Wed, 3 Sep 2008

    Inter Ikea Centre Group is set to roll out wayfinding and signage by Portland Design across its 33 European mall sites.The Ikea-owned mall builder and operator installs anchor Ikea outlets in all of its developments in Austria, Germany, Poland, France, Spain, Portugal, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. The shopping mall identity features a red and orange 'smiling shopping bag' motif that Portland refers to the wayfinding scheme through the use of the colour red.IICG appointed ...

  • Industry calls for Olympic tendering guidance

    Wed, 24 Sep 2008

    Small design consultancies are calling for training to help boost their chances of winning Olympic contracts ahead of the 2012 games.Participants in a debate last week examining designers’ experiences of tendering for Olympic contracts complained that the system is bureaucratic and dehumanised. They are urging design bodies to put together an Olympics training programme. ‘I am as likely to run in the men’s 100m final as I am to do design work for London 2012,’ says Abrahams ...

  • Ireland’s first opera house opens

    Fri, 5 Sep 2008

    Ireland’s newest multi-purpose arts centre opens today in County Wexford, designed by the Office of Public Works and Keith Williams Architects.

  • Jaeger takes over at Art Directors Club

    Tue, 30 Sep 2008

    The Art Directors Club has elected Doug Jaeger as its new president and announced a boardroom reshuffle.

  • Jam chosen to promote Blackpool

    Thu, 25 Sep 2008

    Blackpool is looking to design in a bid to achieve world heritage status.

  • July 7 survivor Hicks sells off Olympic treadmill

    Thu, 4 Sep 2008

  • Lake brands Man City

    Thu, 4 Sep 2008

    In a week where Manchester City has seldom been out of the headlines following its Abu Dhabi United Group takeover, Lake has created graphics and event branding for the football club and its sponsor HealthSure.

  • London Design Medal for Newson

    Thu, 18 Sep 2008

    Industrial designer Marc Newson is the winner of the London Design Festival’s second London Design Medal.

  • London hosts first Designers Saturday for 20 years

    Fri, 26 Sep 2008

    This weekend London will host the first Designers Saturday event for more than 20 years, with a specially commissioned poster by furniture and product design group Pearson Lloyd.

  • Lonely Planet download deal for Sony Ericsson

    Fri, 19 Sep 2008

  • Manchester creative wins Get Yourself Noticed award

    Fri, 26 Sep 2008

    Designer Martyn Mills has won first prize at the Konica Minolta Get Yourself Noticed graphic design awards.

  • Marlowe Theatre seeks design specialists

    Wed, 3 Sep 2008

    Canterbury's Marlowe Theatre is looking to design for the next stage of its £25.5m development, following planning approval for its reconstruction near a World Heritage Site.Canterbury City Council has this week granted Keith Williams Architects planning permission to rebuild the Marlowe Theatre, and it is now looking to design consultancies to help it realise the project.Built on the site of the present Marlowe Theatre - itself a conversion from a 1930s cinema - the 4850m2 ...

  • Mike Exon takes key role at Digit

    Mon, 1 Sep 2008

  • National look for Scotland’s railway

    Tue, 23 Sep 2008

    Scotland’s railway network has unveiled its first nationwide brand identity, devised by Edinburgh-based design consultancy Redpath.

  • Natural History Museum calls in Pentagram and At Large

    Wed, 3 Sep 2008

    The Natural History Museum has turned to design consultancies At Large and Pentagram to help put the final touches to its Darwin Centre.Unveiled earlier this week, The Cocoon will house plant and insect collections and show the visiting public scientists at work. It completes the second phase of a development - housing the museum's 22 million zoological specimens - that opened in September 2002. The project is being hailed as the NHM's most significant development ...

  • NCH relaunches as Action for Children

    Tue, 16 Sep 2008

    NCH, the largest UK children’s charity, this week relaunches as Action For Children, following a complete identity overhaul by Baby Creative.

  • Nestle reviews pack roster to bolster product development

    Wed, 10 Sep 2008

    Nestlé is thought to be reviewing its packaging design roster for the first time since 2003. The global food corporation is understood to be looking at rationalising a cross-divisional roster, which has grown from a strict list to a sprawling catalogue of consul tancies, based on the personal preferences of Nestlé marketers. Although, to date, there has been no formal communication between Nestlé and consultancies, groups were first contac - ted earlier this ...

  • Network Rail to unveil £600m Birmingham New Street design

    Wed, 17 Sep 2008

    Network Rail is to unveil detailed plans for the £600m redevelopment of Birmingham New Street station tomorrow.

  • New identity for Clerical Medical

    Mon, 8 Sep 2008

    A new identity for pensions and investments company Clerical Medical, created by Rufus Leonard, goes live today.

  • New iPods to be launched today

    Tue, 9 Sep 2008

    Apple is anticipated to launch the latest version of its iPod player today, designed by its US in-house team.

  • Nokia launches music handsets

    Tue, 2 Sep 2008

    Today the battle lines have been drawn as mobile phone giant Nokia launches a new music service and range of mobile handsets to compete with the Apple iPhone in the UK.

  • Paul Lewis spruces up Long Tall Sally

    Tue, 23 Sep 2008

    Paul Lewis Design has devised a fresh identity for the Long Tall Sally brand and e-commerce site, in its first Web upgrade for eight years, launching at the end of next month.

  • Pearlfisher completes Jordans overhaul

    Mon, 29 Sep 2008

    Cereal brand Jordans will unveil a new packaging identity today created by design consultancy Pearlfisher.

  • Product design calls on universities to stop undermining them

    Wed, 10 Sep 2008

    The Design Council concurs with product designers that universities that offer commercial product design services must clearly define their offer if the reputation of design is not to suffer.In a letter published today in Design Week, product designers signal their growing impatience with higher education providers running consultancies.Signed by 19 designers from across the UK, the letter argues that some academic institutions are undercutting design professionals ...

  • Reality show branding takes to the air

    Tue, 2 Sep 2008

    ITVs latest reality TV experiment Celeb Air will screen tonight, with a look and feel devised by Component Graphics.

  • Research questions website design and usability

    Mon, 8 Sep 2008

    Almost a third of consumers say it is rare to find a well-designed, easy-to-use website, according to a new report.

  • Royal Mail seeks pack designers for ‘free gift’ concept

    Fri, 5 Sep 2008

    The Royal Mail is seeking designers to create packaging for its latest direct marketing concept, Matter.

  • Royal Warrants task for Navyblue

    Mon, 22 Sep 2008

    The Royal Warrant Holders Association is working with Navyblue on a Web project to clarify the role of the organisation and develop its outreach.

  • Sappi picks UK duo for Ideas that Matter programme

    Tue, 30 Sep 2008

    Two UK designers have been selected by Sappi for its prestigious Ideas that Matter 2008 programme, it was announced yesterday.

  • Saville and Adjaye collaborate on Kvadrat showroom

    Wed, 10 Sep 2008

    Design gurus Peter Saville and David Adjaye have collaborated to create Danish textile multinational Kvadrat’s showcase London showroom, expected to open in 2009.

  • Seymour Powell expands in fmcg

    Mon, 22 Sep 2008

    Seymour Powell is forging ahead with expansion plans within the fmcg sector, and has made a raft of senior appointments.

  • Siegel & Gale targets non-profit sector

    Thu, 11 Sep 2008

    Siegel & Gale claims that falls in public funding for universities on both sides of the Atlantic have prompted it to open a division dedicated to non-profit branding.

  • Sony launches products at IFA show

    Tue, 9 Sep 2008

    Communications consultancy Freestate has completed an exhibition project for Sony Europe spanning a 50 000m2 site in Berlin, Germany.

  • Southbank event explores future of digital

    Tue, 9 Sep 2008

    The possibility of smellyvision is to be explored at interactive digital design conference I-design, which takes place next Wednesday at London’s Southbank Centre, SE1.

  • Spencer du Bois rebrands The Guinness Partnership

    Tue, 16 Sep 2008

    One of the largest housing associations in England, The Guinness Partnership, has launched a fresh identity devised by Spencer du Bois branding consultants.

  • Stiff site for Manchester festival

    Mon, 29 Sep 2008

    Creative design agency Stiff Rowlands has created a fresh website for the 2009 Manchester International Festival, to be unveiled in early October.

  • Street art bonanza at Phillips de Pury auction

    Mon, 8 Sep 2008

    Despite a recession looming, contemporary design and art at auction continues to do well.

  • Sustainability key concern for Chinese consumers

    Thu, 18 Sep 2008

  • Tesco task for R Design and Rocket

    Wed, 24 Sep 2008

    R Design and Rocket are among several design groups responsible for branding and packaging of the new 'Discount Brands at Tesco' range.The supermarket has created the low-cost range - which it claims represents price cuts worth £100m - in response to the soaring popularity of discount retailers such as Aldi.Tesco head of design Alyson Jakes, who led the project with help from external design groups, declines to credit any of the designers involved in the creation of the ...

  • TfL unveils Tube carriages with air-conditioning

    Fri, 26 Sep 2008

    Transport for London today unveils a mock-up of its new air-conditioned Tube trains, which go on show to the public at London’s Euston Station until 2 October.

  • Thames Water unveils On Tap carafe design shortlist

    Mon, 15 Sep 2008

    Thames Water today reveals ten water carafe designs that have been shortlisted for its London On Tap competition.

  • The Climate Group repositions

    Wed, 24 Sep 2008

    The Climate Group is looking to evolve its brand communications and has appointed True North ahead of incumbent group Browns Design for the project.The not-for-profit organisation, which has offices across the globe in China, India and the US, is looking to steer its communications away from the established visual language and tone of voice associated with climate change issues, in a bid to avoid Greenwash.The Climate Group communications director Alison Lucas, who is heading ...

  • To The Point brands Olympic Lottery body

    Tue, 9 Sep 2008

    The Olympic Lottery Distributor has a complete brand identity and guidelines, following work by To The Point.

  • Transport for London launches furniture range

    Wed, 17 Sep 2008

    Transport for London today launches a range of furniture upholstered in its iconic public transport fabrics, what it claims is a first for a museum.Mopping up waste from the Tramlink and Overground projects was a main driver to the range's creation, says TfL head of trading Michael Walton.He expects the products, which employ TfL fabric used for seating on buses, tubes, trains and trams, will do well in the home and hotel markets.Fabric left over from the furniture ...

  • Unilever unveils Seymour Powell branding

    Wed, 3 Sep 2008

    Unilever is launching a new line of whitening toothpaste, designed by Seymour Powell, in a bid to counter consumer perception that dental whitening products can be abrasive.White Now is marketed as 'instant make-up for teeth'. Seymour Powell has created packaging and branding for the new toothpaste, which will roll out internationally across Unilever brands including Signal, Pepsodent and Mentadent this month.Seymour Powell account director Bob Scott says the brief was ...

  • V&A opens arts education centre

    Tue, 30 Sep 2008

    London’s Victoria & Albert Museum today opens a groundbreaking centre for arts education

  • Venice biennale explores UK housing

    Thu, 11 Sep 2008

  • Wall St Journal launches lifestyle mag

    Fri, 5 Sep 2008

    The Wall Street Journal publishes its new WSJ lifestyle magazine today, a glossy title designed by former art editor of The Times, Tomaso Capuano.

  • Wall’s sausages relaunch with new Ziggurat packs

    Mon, 15 Sep 2008

    Classic British sausage brand Wall’s relaunches today, with a fresh emphasis on authenticity and provenance in packaging devised by Ziggurat Brands.

  • Wellcome Collection kicks off The Big Draw

    Fri, 26 Sep 2008

    The Big Draw 2008, a national month-long celebration of drawing, kicks off today with an exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London.

  • Westfield shifts focus to London Stratford development

    Wed, 10 Sep 2008

    As Westfield prepares to throw open the doors of its White City shopping centre in west London next month, eyes are already turning to the developer’s next mall project on the other side of the capital.Stratford City, due for completion in 2011, is being called ‘the gateway’ to east London’s Olympic Park. But Westfield admits it will not mirror the west London site, which has attracted a phalanx of luxury retailers including Louis Vuitton, Dior, Gucci and Prada.

  • William & Son unveils new luxury look

    Tue, 30 Sep 2008

    Luxury goods retailer William & Son has undergone a modern makeover, courtesy of interiors specialist Shed Design, to be unveiled on 13 October.

  • YouGov panellist wins car

    Fri, 5 Sep 2008

    Research specialist YouGovCentaur LLP has named creative panel member Rob Spicer as the winner of its latest prize draw.

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