18 February 1999

‘The buzz word is organic future,’ says Paul Daly of the new Soho bar and restaurant he has designed. Lab, which opens next month in a former strip joint on

The Skidmore Turnbull Group has just returned from a gruelling weekend away at a ski resort in Verbier, Switzerland, organised to celebrate its tenth anniversary. Group managing director Mark Turnbull

Religious symbolism has been in design for ages and is probably here to stay for far longer (Private View, DW 29 January). A vivid example is Daz packaging. Using the

BIRMINGHAM design consultancy The Design Advantage has won a two-way paid pitch against an unidentified local consultancy to create the new identity for the Birmingham Old Rep Theatre. Consultant Paul

DIEFENBACH ELKINS DAVIES BARON has created a new identity for building society Bradford & Bingley, to be launched later this month.

The letters from Jonathan Sands and C2 (DW 22 January), neatly illustrate different contributions to the on-going debate on how to strengthen design representation. Jonathan typically takes a positive attitude

Well done to Maxine Horn, for expressing her views on the need for a solid professional base in the design industry (DW 12 February). However, I think we should be

Janet Turner is a stalwart of the design world. I would rank her beside Richard Seymour and Madeleine Bennett as someone who not only looks, talks and acts like a

I am writing in response to Ian Silverstein regarding his experiences of the Design Business Association (DW 5 February). As an expanding marketing-led graphic design agency, Aricot Vert Design Communications

BBC Worldwide global marketing director Kevin Harrington has just become the envy of every self-respecting designer in the industry. He is the lucky recipient of a signed England jersey –

Ask a bunch of graphic designers and typographers what they think about artists who use type as their medium and how that work feeds back into the language of graphic

A county court summons has been issued against Edward Briscoe Design’s parent company, formerly known as Edward Briscoe International Group, for non-payment of fees allegedly owing to a reprographics house.