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The work of Scottish glass artists will be on show in the Scottish Glass Society’s exhibition Migrate: 30 Years of Scottish Glass, which launches at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery
Yellow feast
When a brand such as Selfridges celebrates 100 years of existence, it’s a safe bet that the bells and whistles will come out. The department store will do just that
Why not share and share alike?
If the recession starts to bite and cost-cutting kicks in, you don’t have to watch your best people walk out the door never to return, says Mike Bennett As chief
Sebastian Conran calls for intelligent links with art schools
There is a place for link-ups between art schools and industry, whichcan be of mutual benefit for students and business, but Sebastian Conran takes issuewith those who treat colleges as
Creating type in three dimensions
In the e-book era, physical manifestations of type may be destined for the museum cabinet, but enthusiasts from across the globe still relish the challenges of crafting type in three
Profile: Gareth Williams
As a museum curator, Gareth Williams is an interesting choice for a design post at the Royal College of Art. As he oversees a new exhibition at the Victoria &
Voxpop
The New Deal of the Mind coalition is asking the design community to propose job-creation strategies for the creative sector. What would you suggest? The Government must help in four
Wally, brands are measurable financial assets these days
Wally Olins’ recent article (Futile figures, DW 19 February) ignored the business reasons for increasing the technical robustness of brand valuations. Brands regularly change hands, requiring brand valuations for accounting,
Let’s dump the concept of ambition vs lifestyle
It’s always good to see Design Week (West life feature, DW 26 March) re-exploding the frustratingly persistent myth that designers can’t combine ambition and lifestyle outside the capital (we even
Finch’s Liverpool identity is a lazy, uninspiring cocktail
You can’t imagine how depressing it is for me not to be able to congratulate Liverpool for conceiving and producing a courageous brand identity worthy of the creative energy, brilliant
Inspired, Nicolas Tye: Nicolas Tye Architects
The opportunity to design your own architectural office in the middle of a field is the kind of chance that does not come along very often, even for an architect,
Pepys show
These days, everyone’s a diarist. We leave a perpetual digital trail of our lives in blogs, social networking sites, text messages and tweets. Nothing’s too trivial or mundane to record
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