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Stand by for the latest in furniture design at the Cologne exhibition, which is being held next week. Nicky Churchill finds out what’s in store

If the annual catch of calendars is a business barometer of sorts, 1995 looks like being a tough year for design. Bar some notable exceptions, the quality and, indeed, quantity

Saturday 28 January – Symposium on urban ambitions. Speakers will include John R Hume, chief inspector of historic buildings for Historic Scotland, and Deyan Sudjic, Professor at the University of

This weekend’s Sunday Express magazine will have a “totally new look” which will “radically define it from all other Sunday magazines”, according to its designer. Art director and associate editor

Queen Mary and Westfield College has a new student bar interior, created by Paragon Design Group . – The ú250 000 London college bar has a new floor plan with

British designers scored well in the 24th annual Mobius Advertising awards in the US, with UK consultancies scooping six of the 16 prizes in the packaging section and securing a

Lambie-Nairn creative director Martin Lambie-Nairn decided on an alternative approach to “computer gimmicks”. “BBC World takes flags as its theme. The imagery is far removed from the usual language of

The design of pubs has again been blamed as a contributor to violence among customers. The criticism came at an occupational psychology conference at Warwick University. Dr Phil Leather and

Wednesday 18 January – Contemporary art fair. Until 22 January. – Venue: Business Design Centre, Upper Street, Islington Green, London N1.

The Millennium Commission is poised to yield opportunities for designers and architects as proposals for an estimated ú1.

Elements of defunct London interiors show IDI will be resurrected at Interbuild, the construction industry show to be held at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre on 19-24 November. Apicella Associates will

Apart from the economical lunacy of working for nothing on projects, the gamble is not worth it. – I have never known a free-pitch lead to a design consultancy obtaining,