18 April 1996

The five groups shortlisted to create an identity to promote the city of Nottingham submitted their paid creative work this week. A date for announcing the winner is yet to

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One of South Africa’s oldest regional banks has appointed Allen International in London to give its corporate image and branch interiors a facelift. The consultancy won the proposals pitch to

With regard to the article on the Department of Trade and Industry’s innovation unit and its new industrial advisor Alan Brickwood (DW 22 March), if design is regarded as a

Circle Design Consultants has created a brand identity for new Internet service provider Zoo Internet. Creating an identity which works equally well on- and off-screen is vital, says Circle partner

Switzerland’s Art Center College of Design (Europe) closed last week. The privately funded college’s 500 design students have been given the option of completing their studies at the college’s parent

Version 5 of Macromedia’s Director is imminent. We’re reviewing it. The interesting thing is that it uses Xtras, third party plug-ins, like Quark’s Xtensions and the new PageMaker things. There’s

Remember BS5750? A so-called quality standard that proved to be a potential money-spinner for accreditation houses, it was a way of setting up checking systems. Who in a consultancy signed

WPP has formally launched Enterprise Identity Group, a global identity consultancy made up of five WPP design consultancies led by Sampson Tyrrell and Anspach Grossman Portugal. A full merger could

Choosing ten top chairs of the decade proved too much for Jeremy Myerson. He eventually managed to narrow a huge array of contenders down to eleven

And HP is bringing out its new generation of continuous tone colour laser printers for workgroups the LaserJet 5 and 5M. They cost 5850 and 7180 respectively. Claimed advantages for

This year’s Milan Furniture Fair will have its own version of the Betty Ford Clinic. A group of artists and designers based at the Royal College of Art are opening