Fijit bares its creative side for Big Arts Week
London design group Fijit has created the graphics for next year’s Big Arts Week, an initiative for professional creatives to volunteer their time to work with schoolchildren in the classroom.
Final Design Week for 2004
This is Design Week’s last issue of 2004. We will return in the new year on 6 January. In the meantime, letters for publication can be sent to the editor
BBC Broadcast’s future a voyage of Discovery
BBC Broadcast has this week been appointed to create on- air design for the US Discovery Channel, as speculation about its future ownership continues to mount. In last week’s announcement
Jetix, the children’s…
Jetix, the children’s TV station reborn from Fox Kids, is set to launch a series of six idents from the beginning of January. Created by Character Shop and art directed
Recollective wins pitch to create Institute of Physics website
Recollective has been appointed to redesign the website for the Institute of Physics, following a three-way pitch. The consultancy is collaborating with the Institute of Physics internal publications design team,
David Brend dies
Designer David Brend, former creative director of Adventis Group and founder of 1970s London consultancy Brend Design, has died aged 58. Brend was a graduate of Kingston College of Art
EU law to benefit UK consultancies
Recent European Union legislation could pave the way for a raft of in-house design teams to be relocated out-of-house. As design buyers such as the BBC, Marks & Spencer and
NHM shop revamp by M-worldwide
The Natural History Museum opens its M-worldwide-designed store this week, in a project believed to be worth more than £100 000 in fees to the group. The project sees the
Exhibitions
Slow, from 18 December until 30 January, is a project by third-year Product Design students from the School of Art in Glasgow, who examine the issue of speed in modern
DCMS reviews arts spending
The Government’s review of spending on the arts will see only modest increases in spending on museums, libraries and galleries over the next three years. The Department for Culture Media
Don’t let design suffer the same fate as industry
We heard a marvellous Dimbleby lecture from James Dyson last week, whose views on the folly of giving up our UK manufacturing base I totally support. We shall soon be
Mark design rolls out poster and booklets for ABN Amro
Mark Design has created a raft of posters and booklets for global banking group ABN Amro to increase awareness of the bank’s vulnerability to money laundering. The design concept is
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