British Council backs a UK/Polish collaboration
Product designers and students in the UK and Poland are collaborating on a major new venture which has won backing from the British Council. Aimed at identifying opportunities and developing
BDP at helm of M&S growth
Building Design Partnership is to design the world’s biggest Marks & Spencer as part of a 250m-plus investment in upgrading and expanding UK stores.
Millennium Exhibition poised to be a flush affair
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Brooks made partner
Crabtree Hall/ Plan Créatif has appointed architect Massimo Brooks as a third partner in its London office. Brooks, who has worked with the group full- time and more recently as
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Bar and restaurant Goolies opens in London’s Kensington on Monday, with interiors and graphics designed by Rawls & Company.
Study finds pay rising for industrial designers
Industrial designers in the US are seeing significant salary increases, reflecting the nation’s improved economy, according to a study by the Industrial Designers Society of America. Project directors are now
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Novocom was inspired by Middle Eastern culture for Qatar’s new television channel. The Al-Jazeera satellite channel is a news and information service broadcasting to the Middle East region and Europe.
McDonalds identified as world’s number one
McDonalds has knocked the fizz out of Coca-Cola in brand supremacy, says The World’s Greatest Brands, a new book compiled by international branding group Interbrand. McDonalds is now the number
Labour puts design on tourism trail
Design plays a vital role in new initiatives to boost tourism and hospitality in the UK announced by Labour this week. Labour’s new strategy for tourism and hospitality calls for
Heavenly hoax receives no praise from above
Adrian Burton’s letter last week illustrating his eieio burgers device, although amusing, was surely a hoax, and as such mildly irritating. His illustration consists simply of our Church of England
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