HGV designs identity for Comma
HGV has designed a visual identity for consulting firm Comma. The design places a discreet comma symbol inside the logotype.
Where next for 100% Design?
As 100% Design’s Ian Rudge launches breakaway consultancy, the design fair community faces an uncertain new chapter, says Sarah Balmond. It is now almost two weeks since the revelation that
NTL Telewest rebrands as Virgin Media
NTL Telewest has rebranded as Virgin Media, following its acquisition of Virgin Mobile. The corporate identity and print collateral have been designed by Start Creative.
Creative Survey 2006
There’s a famous quote much bandied about in advertising circles that goes something like this: ‘I know that half of my advertising is wasted, but I don’t know which half’.
News in Pictures
A glass pavilion and new public square designed by Bere Architects will be installed in the City of London in January
Designer Ilja Sallacz art directs Ernst Haeckel book
Designer Ilja Sallacz at Liquid Design Agency has art directed Visions of Nature: The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel, a book written by Olaf Breidbach and published by Prestel.
Review
EXHIBITIONS l Experimenta Under the Radar, until 3 December, features interactive installations and video artworks from the Australian new media arts group. Venue: ICA, The Mall, London SW1. Details: www.experimenta.org/undertheradar.
Creative créche
A new digital manufacturing centre in London will allow practitioners to get experimental and gain access to some of the latest technology and software around – time to relive those
Profile: Susanna Edwards
Susanna Edwards was told as a student that her natural eclecticism would render her unemployable, but luckily she refused to temper her diversity. Liz Farrelly talks to the determined multidisciplinarian
Sorrell Foundation is doing well to go out into schools
Respect to The Sorrell Foundation’s project, which is taking design students into schools (News, DW 14 September). It’s great to see young designers being exposed to genuinely valuable design approaches.
Foundation degrees in HE colleges are overdue for scrutiny
Recent coverage of craft and skill in design brings up the important question of training. I haven’t seen any coverage of the appalling system of ‘foundation degrees’, which dominate higher
It’s the employers who really need to change
The ‘Beyond time’ article (DW 2 November) spoke of how the design sector is ‘lagging behind’ in implementing Government legislation, following the introduction of the Employment Equality Act 2006. I
Latest articles
Design across five decades: from the editors who brought you Design Week
As the design industry propelled itself forward, we were always there to champion, inform, analyse and guide the way.
Design Week quiz: a look back through the ages
Have you been paying attention for the last four decades? Only one way to find out.
Design Week: 1986-2023
Design Week closes, having championed design excellence for the past 38 years.
What will retail and experience design look like in 2024?
As part of our series on design in 2024, WeWantMore creative director Ruud Belmans offers his view on what retail and experience design might look like next year.