Tony Newton dies

Lackie Newton managing director Tony Newton died suddenly last week at the age of 52 at his home in Edinburgh. He founded the Edinburgh group in 1989. Under Newton’s guidance,

Rolls-Royce gives its subsidiaries new life

ROLLS-ROYCE this week unveiled the latest two corporate brand identities developed within its fast-evolving business – Derby Specialist Fabrications and Allen Gears. The engineering parent group appointed Midlands design consultancy

Springboard pushes itself

Springboard Design Partnership is not the first group to reassess the pushchair, but it is one of the few to get its product into manufacture. The product consultancy experienced the

Blow and peep show

After Coventry University won the Design Week award for ‘most innovative location for a university design show’, we have decided to give Bath Spa University College the award for ‘most

SCG lands German post office project

SCG London is creating the corporate identity and store interiors for a new retail sub-brand of Deutsche Post, the German postal service. The brand, which is yet to be named,

Small businesses can be good businesses

In reference to your Comment on business and creativity (DW 25 June), you’re making the same old mistake. You’re still equating big design consultancies with “good business” – why can’t

Digests

UK staff of Dutch bank ABN-AMRO will be given welcome packs created by Façade Design when they move to new London offices over the next few weeks.

Television

A series of half-hour training programmes, part of the BBC’s Learning Zone, begins with Working in Retail, screened on BBC2 on 5 July at 5am. Contact: 08700 100 611 to

Digests

Contemporary furniture and lighting at Viaduct will be on sale from 3-17 July. Venue: 1-10 Summers Street, London EC1.

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