14 February 2008

Bombay Sapphire has, like many upmarket spirits and champagne brands, long since identified the creative industries as an important audience. Creatives love to party, and if they do so through

Controversy surrounds Gordon Brown’s Government as we go to press, but design still has much to thank the Prime Minister for. He made it into the Hot 50 two years

Sheridan Coakley has long been a champion of great design. Through his SCP stores he has promoted and commissioned largely British or UK-trained furniture and accessories designers, creating a number

One of the great legacies of the first Designs of the Time festival – Dott 07 – was that it has created local heroes, ordinary people in the North East

Last December, fashion brand Comme des Garçons delighted the Mayfair set with a guerrilla store in London’s Burlington Arcade to promote the launch of its Comme des Garçons 8 88

If Sir Michael Bichard’s inclusion in the Hot 50 anticipates the great things we expect of him in the name of design, Sir George Cox, his predecessor as Design Council

While he glories in the title of professor, Martin Darbyshire is a practising product designer and also chief executive of seminal London design consultancy Tangerine. His day job involves groundbreaking

It was new year, new start for Mike Dempsey. The eminent graphic designer quit CDT Design, the consultancy he founded in 1979 with Ken Carroll and Nick Thirkell, to go

If an overseas design aficionado was asked to put a face on British design, you can guarantee that Tom Dixon would be in the running. Certainly, he appeared to be

The team behind the first Designs of the Time event pulled off a spectacular feat last year, setting a benchmark for subsequent events to match up to. Dott 07 was