17 April 1997

Scottish Television, the ITV company, is planning to change its name to Scottish Media Group, pending a proposal and formal vote at its AGM next month. As yet, no design

Last week we courted the wrath of the anti-chair brigade by previewing the Milan Fair, the furniture industry’s international showcase. Now we await the gripes of those blinkered souls, largely

All you train-spotters, head down to the Tom Blau Gallery to see The Last Star – India’s Last Steam Trains. Stephen Dupont documents life around the last Indian steam engines

Designers have been on their bikes again, this time raising money for Mencap. Katie Phillipson of Habitat, freelance Louise Yates and Thomas Hewitt of Liverpool multimedia company Amaze put in

Lloyd Ferguson Hawkins has designed packaging for the new Viennetta Biscuit Sensation brand extension to Unilever’s Viennetta, Europe’s biggest ice cream dessert brand. The design project is part of a

The next Women in Marketing & Design lecture takes place on the 7 May at Ove Arup and Partners. Amanda Levete, a partner at Future Systems, and Sarah Meldrum, an

Continuing at the Tram Depot Gallery is Solid State, paintings by Peter Burke. The paintings, through the use of strips, explore the relationship between opposites, stillness and movement. Until 2

I think it is a pity that you could not find space in your article on street furniture (DW 28 March) to mention the excellent Townplan 2000 range of bus

Reformed international shoplifters, the Retail Environment Conference, gave a few tips on how retail design can prevent shoplifting. One told of a caper which led to the liberation of three

In the style stakes, it’s the not the Italians, not the French, not even the Greeks, but the British that lead the way. Janice Kirkpatrick celebrates that elusive Brit cool

Who says design doesn’t pay? The Sunday Times Rich List features a number of Design Week regulars in its Top 500. Well, four at least. James Dyson, Sir Terence Conran,

Designers at the awards breakfast of the Retail Environment Conference at the Business Design Centre last week had trouble holding back their laughter at the choice of music. Admittedly not