14 January 1999

The first in a planned chain of consumer electronics stores has opened in Dubai using a new interiors format created by London design group Portland. Plug-Ins is owned by Dubai

There’s something fishy about Purple Circle’s latest project – the bottle and packaging design for a new perfume named Trout. The scent is the brainchild of Paris-company The House of

It’s good to see Nokia chief designer Frank Nuovo has unbridled faith in the 8810 silver-bombshell model (pictured) he helped create. At a recent meeting with Design Week, Nuovo attempted,

London print design group RWD will relaunch as Litmus Design on 25 January as it prepares to add new media to its service portfolio. ‘We are looking to take on

Stora Enso, the 7bn paper manufacturing group, has lifted the lid on a new corporate identity created jointly by Diefenbach Elkins Davies Baron and ad agency Hasan & Partners of

I bet Neil Walker believes all dog owners look like their pets (DW 8 January). His letter identifying similarities between a 1994 Design Museum piece and a current brochure from

Software managers would like to see companies which pirate software, including design groups, dealt with more strictly, according to a new survey from the Business Software Alliance. UK managers who

Eurostar (UK) has appointed on-line business consultancy Clarity to provide strategic advice on the use of new media to develop additional revenue streams. Clarity is conducting a detailed communications and

If the theory that interests formed in our youth are often the strongest holds water, an educational initiative launched last week by the BBC could do much to recruit the