1 February 2001

Following speculation about BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey’s plans for the BBC’s balloon idents, do you think the idents should be dropped? If so why? If not, why not? ‘Conducting a

Like his WPP Group boss Sir Martin Sorrell, Enterprise IG head Dave Allen thinks big. Last year he spoke of building a £300m global brand experience business with Brian Shepherd,

Elmwood has created the website and identity for Halifax International, the offshore banking division of The Halifax. The site, www.halifax_international.com, gives customers access to account information. An interface allows cross

A significant cut in clients’ advertising spend has left designers cautious of a knock-on effect in the design industry.

The Inland Revenue is to conduct research into the way the organisation is perceived as part of its identity revamp. Inland Revenue head of design Ken Brown met with marketing

Nowika Stern has designed the interiors for two Basilico pizza restaurants, which open in London’s Hampstead and East Sheen in April.

Roundel is branding the watchdog set up to regulate the postal service, with design work to be launched in March, for a fee between £50 000 and £100 000. The

Oliver Peyton, the restaurant guru behind London venues Mash and Isola, is opening a unisex, members-only club in London’s Lothbury [Street] in November, with interiors created by designer Solange Azagury-Partridge.

Zurich Financial Services is to rename its 4700-strong force of Allied Dunbar advisers the Zurich Advice Network as part of a move to create a ‘Zurich masterbrand’ in the UK.

Designers need to take themselves more seriously, communicate what they do more effectively and argue the importance of design more stridently, according to British Design & Art Direction’s new president