Last list for the Millennium
A baker’s dozen of projects have been classified as new media Millennium products, in a list unveiled by Prime Minister Tony Blair this week.
New year sees new chairman
The new chairman of the Design Council will be announced in January. Outgoing chairman John Sorrell CBE will stay until the end of March, allowing a successor time to move
Green leaves Wagstaffs for Dorling Kindersley
Wagstaffs’ creative director Judi Green is leaving the consultancy to take up a new post in January, as group creative director of publishing company Dorling Kindersley.
Redesign for Hamley’s
Hamley’s has appointed two design groups for a £2m redesign of its London flagship store. Interiors group Watson Designs and communications consultancy Clinic were appointed after a three-way pitch. The
BT piper will march to tune of Enterprise IG
BT’s lead design consultancy, Enterprise IG, has overseen the concept and framework of the telecoms giant’s image update, which rolls out this week. BT is modernising its image across the
Class of the Century
Jeremy Myerson goes out on a limb and makes his selection of the top ten movers and shakers who shaped the century. Who would you have on your list?
Fishburn Hedges took
Fishburn Hedges took an alternative approach to the recent retirement of founding directors Dale Fishburn and Andrew Boys by beaming the words Goodbye Dale and Andrew and Fishburn Hedges on
Gnome from gnome
A mishearing has generated the most innovative way to spread the Christmas spirit and Millennium greetings, with Millennium Gnomes being distributed by one London design group. Real Time Studio managing
Razorfish ‘deepens its talent pool’
Razorfish has acquired two privately-owned US companies with design capabilities in deals worth £30m ($49m). The two groups are Boston product design and Internet strategy group TSDesign, and New York
Inside the magic circle
The annual bash at the Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry collected together the design world elite. Hugh Pearman sees virtue in the existence of this dining club
Digest
Forward Architecture designed the bar areas of night club Fabric, and not Alchemist, as stated in the feature And The Beat Goes On (DW 10 December).
Rebranding for British Midland and BWIA
Landor Associates is rebranding the UK’s second biggest scheduled airline, British Midland. The rebranding project, codenamed Bluebird, will see four potential new names presented to the client for consideration.
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