19 June 1997

The ceremony to mark the handover of Hong Kong and the end of the colony’s UK administration is being managed by Caribiner International. A one-and-a-half-hour pageant on the evening of

The design industry is looking to its representative bodies to court clients as a top priority, according to a trawl of Design Week readers and Design Business Association members. It

Youth TV station Trouble is introducing its summer on-air identities and stings designed by its in-house team. Steph Neely, who is graphics manager at the cable and satellite channel, directed

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I am giving my support to a letter published in DW 30 May. The British design industry is committing suicide in its actions and attitudes towards design education. The current

So far this year 38 000 students have applied for art and design degree and national diploma courses, an increase of 13 000 on 1996 (DW 6 June). According to

The winning designs for the euro coins are the work of Belgian royal mint designer Luc Luycx and portray the European Union in a range of forms against a background

Selfridges has appointed Gregorio Cappa as furniture buyer. Formerly Habitat’s head of furniture design, Cappa follows in the footsteps of Vittorio Radice, who joined Selfridges from Habitat last year as

A newly merged South African bank has launched its name and identity by Sampson Associates in Johannesburg. – FBC Holdings is formed out of FutureBank, Bophuthatswana Building Society, Citizen Bank

Talks between leading website consultancies Online Magic and Agency.Com could lead to a partnership to service global clients both sides of the Atlantic. Discussions are underway for Agency.Com to buy

English and Pockett has scooped ten accolades at the Broadcast Design Association’s awards in Chicago. The London company picked up a gold and two silvers for its Carlton Food Network

Imagine the horror Body Shop design supremo Jon Turner felt on rising from scooping his dog’s poop to find himself staring into a Big Breakfast camera. He was outside Tony