Champneys
Spa group Champneys has overhauled its website, www. champneys.com, working with consultancy Interdirect.
Visitors to Kew Gardens get bird’s-eye view
The design team behind the London Eye has created the UK’s first walk-in viewing area illustrating ‘tree biology’. Opening at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, on 24 May, the Rhizotron
Mean machines
It’s impossible not to admire the design of the AK-47, even though just looking at this deadliest of weapons leaves you feeling morally queasy. The Russian assault rifle was created
Limit your offer to get ahead
Specialisation may seem like a route that would narrow your options, but there are sound economic reasons for it, says David Rivett Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations has always
Market trawl
High street restaurants too often feature anonymous, almost prefabricated design, but why shouldn’t they exude warmth, charm and a quirky humanity? Clare Dowdy describes a growing chain that combines fast
Sour apples
Despite great design and near-evangelising customers, Apple is missing a trick on interchangeability and environmental issues. In fact, its approach to cabling and other vital support systems is plug ugly,
Alien treatments
How was Blue Velvet marketed in Italy? Or The Birds promoted in Poland? Film may be an international language, but Yolanda Zappaterra enjoys a book of movie posters which shows
Cheap as chic
Supermarket value ranges aren’t only targeted at the less well-off these days – the trick is to woo consumers across all social strata with an ‘honest’ and straightforward product in
Profile
One look at a Wally silhouette was enough to convince leading car designer Adriana Monk her future was in sail yacht design. Jody Chapman talks to her about sensory elevation
Food labelling move is a huge disservice to the consumer
I’d like to respond to the Food Standards Agency’s failure to consult designers on a European Commission proposal about food labelling (News, DW 24 April). The role of packaging is
Brothers, come the revolution let’s not forget the people
Yeah, ‘Vive la revolution’. I’m fully behind Kenneth Grange’s charge on bad design (Voxpop, DW 8 May). I relish the day when a rabble of Howies-wearing designers brandishing the latest
‘Exclusively indigenous’? Just look at the facts…
Mark Rae said in your magazine (Business Insight, DW 24 April), ‘Look at any large US company and you’ll see an almost exclusively indigenous workforce.’ Is he referring to Native
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