12 March 1998

My thanks to Tim Rich for “coming out” (Private View, DW 6 March). I feel I must join him, being a similar age. I too do not remember being particularly

London Lesbian Line has adopted a new identity following a public competition. The winning image is the work of Sarah Cook, a designer at Design Consultants in Bristol. The charity

Interbrand Newell and Sorrell has secured an appearance by spoon-bender and future-gazer Uri Geller for its next Utopian Night lecture. Perhaps the group will benefit from his expertise with prediction.

Foreign Secretary Robin Cook was yesterday due to unveil a display of contemporary design at his office in Whitehall. The aim is to showcase UK design to his visitors. The

To mark the first of a regular multimedia section, Steve Bowbrick explains why designers are best placed to lead the digital revolution – semantics notwithstanding. Steve Bowbrick is chairman of

Richmond group PSD Associates is quite literally bursting at the seams. Passing through its reception area is a bit like stumbling upon an open day, intended to bring design’s many

London-based design group BDG McColl has opened a Hong Kong office to provide a base for projects for clients in the Asia Pacific region. The eight-strong team, which started operating

Lee Sillitoe’s argument (DW 6 March) is one that anyone in the design profession will have heard with tedious regularity. Strangely it is an opinion seldom espoused by those who

Packaging for French coffee brand Café Sati has been updated by Tutssels @The Brand Union. – The new branding is intended to reflect modernity, posterity and quality across the seven-strong

I would like to correct an omission in the Design Week Awards supplement. The Sainsbury’s Vin de Pays was designed by Two by Two, a company that has been on

The Steel Packaging Design Awards encourages design students to recognise the potential of steel as a packaging material. Winners will receive a yellow pencil award from British Design and Art

Matthew Valentine samples the delights of a new bar where the clientele pit their wit and dexterity against each other in a bout of computer gaming.