The Book of Truths
‘We wanted to create something that was too precious to throw away,’ says Alan Ainsley, design director at Elmwood in Leeds. Ainsley was the project manager for GF Smith’s Book
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The economic situation for the global communications industry could get worse before it gets better, according to WPP Group chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell. Speaking at the British Design &
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A purple cow and a World Cup football match are just two of the images from the 2002 Redstone diary, designed by Julian Rothenstein, which launches at the end of
Designers benefit from European change in law
Designers should benefit from wider, more stringent copyright laws and find it easier to take action against plagiarism if a European law is implemented in the UK next month. The
Digest
Designers Richard Dawson and Dave Farey have created a family of 13 computer font designs of Times Classic as The Times newspaper gets set to change its typeface.
Hugh Pearman: New idiot-proof design
Why are all our domestic appliances getting bigger? Hugh Pearman asks if the need to build safe, foolproof products is overriding efficient product design
Royal palaces update on-line offer
London’s Historic Royal Palaces charitable trust has appointed Precedent to redesign its website in an effort to attract more visitors to its five London attractions. The HRP trust incorporates Hampton
Digest
Bristol consultancy 442 has produced animation and effects for BBC1’s Blue Planet series, which goes on air on Wednesday 12 September.
Lean times
How do you improve rail services if you are stuck with the same old rolling stock as all the other operators? Virgin commissioned a radical design that gives passengers what
Groups selected for Pringle store
Pringle is drawing up a list of ‘preferred’ design consultancies to create interiors for its flagship store in London. Pringle confirms it is in advanced-stage talks over securing a site
Digest
Luxury goods company Asprey & Garrard is working with Pentagram to create two separate brand identities for Asprey and Garrard, it emerges this week, following news that the company is
Resource takes CPS brief to create on-line system
Resource Design has been appointed to create the Crown Prosecution Service’s entire on-line presence, including its website and intranet, as the Government department seeks to centralise its communications. Resource will
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