19 October 1995

It won’t be long before design consultants will be striding around our streets with microphones, graciously bestowing stickers, scarves and lacy garters bearing their personal images. This appears to be

Amsterdam consultancy Visser Bay Anders Toscani is designing a new identity for the Bureau of European Designers Associations, to be unveiled next month. BEDA comprises design bodies from the European

Thank you to all of you who have given me their stories for my book on marketing design consultancy services. Our leading and most successful UK design consultancies have been

A Government initiative to aid small businesses will benefit design groups, according to a Government spokesman – but will not send shock waves through the design community, says the Design

At last a properly priced Mac PCI accelerator board from Anglo-British card designer Serpico. The Serpico Graphics 1600 card gives 1152 x 870 res in 24-bit colour and 1600 x

Toy giant Hasbro is looking to expand its in-house graphic design team – which will have a long-term impact on the outside consultancies it works with, according to a spokesman.

John Makepeace is not just one of the UK’s leading craftsmen, he’s a visionary educator, as Parnham and Hooke Park demonstrate. José Manser investigates

Design will be in demand to create the new logo, on-screen identities and other graphics for the winning bid to operate Channel 5, the UK’s newest terrestrial television station. The

When do you say no at work? – Cambridge illustrator Mark Oliver knows when, and has interpreted that gruesome moment we’ve all experienced in his When To Say No At

Findus brand Lean Cuisine is being relaunched with new packaging and brand identity by Planet. – The new packs feature large product shots on a “warm, Mediterranean” background, says creative

NEWS – Europe’s larger and more successful design consultancies should take a lead in refusing to free-pitch, says Rowland Heming, president of Belgian consultancy Pineapple Design and secretary of the

The party conferences over, it’s back to work for MPs and time to get the measure of the latest Government line-up. – We have yet to get to know the