Conran Design Group domesticates Hygena stores
Conran Design Group has redesigned the logo and interiors for domestic furniture store chain, Hygena, which is the European sister of British store, MFI. The new look will be unveiled
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Redpath Design is one of four consultancies to have bought itself out of the Faulds Group. Faulds Advertising, Navigator Response Advertising, The Glasgow Agency and Redpath are now independent groups.
Glass-House website gets Tonic
Tonic is creating the website for the Glass-House, a recently established service that aims to raise the role of design in regeneration projects. The consultancy has just had initial designs
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Habitat has unveiled concepts for its flagship store in Hamburg, designed by Gerard Taylor. It is scheduled to open in January. The store features white concrete floors and ‘blood red
Rufus Leonard attempts to give QinetiQ energy
Rufus Leonard will present creative concepts next week for a website to support the world record balloon altitude attempt. The attempt, which could see a manned balloon attempt to hit
Alloy Total Product Design
Working closely with a range of users, Alloy Total Product Design went back to first principles to design a kettle to make the act of boiling water safer, more convenient,
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The Department of Health this week launched the Chief Medical Officer’s annual report, designed by CDT Design. It features colour photography to make it more accessible. Issues covered in the
New wave of identities for estate agents as Thirteen creates Ocean’s
Thirteen has created a corporate identity for the Ocean group of estate agents that it hopes will make estate agents around the UK look twice at their logos. It appears
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Identica has designed a range of premium own-brand products, called Sapori e Mintorni (Flavours and their Origins), for Italian supermarket Conad. It launches in Italy in January.
BamberForsyth Fitch screens Magnetic job
BamberForsyth Fitch has designed a website, brochure and channel identity for digital entertainment network Translucis. The website and brochure launch this week to advertisers, ad agencies and on-trade licensees. The
Call for entrieS
The New York Festivals, the international print and radio advertising awards, has put out its call for entries. Categories include magazine, newspaper, websites, packaging and poster design. The deadline for
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Cole Creative Communications has created a promotional brochure and CD-ROM for British Airways world cargo centre Ascentis. Both the brochure and the CD-ROM, which incorporates a virtual tour of the
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