News in Pictures

Grolsch is rolling out a glass bottle design created by Dutch product design consultancy Flex and produced by UK company Rockware Glass. The design is introduced to all pack types this month, following earlier trials.

Royal College of Art graduate Roger Arquer has designed the Float water candle for Mathmos.

Lewis Moberly has designed the brand identity and structural packaging for Akvinta Vodka, a product from Adriatic Distillers rolling out to Eastern European markets this

month.

Mono Design has created the identity for Friar Gate Studios, a creative hub opening in Derby in September.

Pure-Equator has designed retro 1950s-inspired packaging for Chocochic, a new chocolate brand from Winterbotham Darby, which is launching in Waitrose from September.

Adelphi Distillery has launched a limited edition single malt Scotch whisky called The Old Fox, with a packaging design by Nevis Design Consultants. The design features a Hogarth illustration, first drawn in 1746.

Peckham Library’s plans for a Will Alsop-designed art gallery and ‘loo with a view’, from which you can see the sky, have been given the go-ahead by Southwark Council. The gallery space will be funded by grants obtained by Camberwell and Chelsea colleges of art.