Love to do it
The Commodity, Firmness and Delight exhibition in Glasgow pays homage to Japan’s ‘love hotels’. Nick Dastoor dons a disguise and checks in
Catala gives artists fast-track to fast-food gallery
Sick of the usual standard of art in your local burger joint? Guildhall fine art student Antoine Catala certainly is and decided, as his final-year gig, to curate an exhibition
New range of cutlery from David Mellor
David Mellor this month launches a new range of cutlery called Minimal. The five-piece set, which consists of knife, fork, soup or serving spoon, dessert spoon and teaspoon, has been
Smith gives us a ring with Consignia lookalike
Paul Martin has declared a silly season with regard to Consignia logo lookalikes (Letters, DW 4 July). Look at the Guinness Storehouse logo it really is very similar. Jasper Smith
Call for entries
The Association of Illustrators is inviting submissions for inclusion in the Images 27 Annual and Exhibition. The deadline for entries is 2 August. Contact: the website, www.the aoi.com, for an
TSI titles ask us to Swapheads
TSI Design has created titles and content graphics for Channel 5’s new quiz show Swapheads, which is due to go on air from 5 August. Client Endemol UK, which is
Digest
Tayburn Brands has been appointed to design 2003 packaging for Revlon’s Charlie fragrance for a five-figure fee. It is hoping for more Revlon cosmetics wins by the beginning of August,
Royal Mail will have a job filling Robinson’s shoes
Your news report of the retirement of Barry Robinson as design director of Royal Mail (News, DW 4 July), while acknowledging his team’s achievements and accolades, could have done more
Brand Laundry service for The Lakes Caribbean
London-based consultancy Underground the Brand Laundry has created the identity for Caribbean retirement community development The Lakes Caribbean. The identity goes live at the beginning of August. The consultancy has
Degree shows
Chelsea College of Art & Design exhibits work in the practice and theory of visual art until 22 July.
Reversing shift will not build value in our industry
Thank God that Vox Pop gave a ringing endorsement to a combination of thinking and creativity (DW 4 July). For those of us old enough to remember the last recession
‘Big D’ festival in need of a strong central component
So John Sorrell is to go ahead with the London Design Festival he mooted earlier in the year (DW4 April), having courted the support of the cognescenti of design, the
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