The Victoria & Albert Museum in London commissioned Garudio Studiage and others to create hats for its Easter Bonnet Parade, which took place last Friday as part of a series of events surrounding its exhibition Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones.
The world’s a very strange place at the moment. As a consultancy we’re fortunate not to have suffered too much, but horror stories abound – and a frightening chat with a prospective client the other day has brought home to me how badly the recession’s beginning to bite in some places. A large, household-name company […]
When Motorola asked its design studios to consider communications of the future, they imagined a world where ambient technology frees human interaction from hardware tyranny. We look at the resultsFuture gazing is something that the folks in the mobile phone industry are quite used to. In such a competitive, aggressive and fast-moving market, companies cannot […]
The intricacy and artistry of paper illustration continues to appeal in the digital era, its suggestion of craft skills finding favour with private and commercial clients alike. Anna Richardson enjoys the stunning effects of the disciplineLast year, Phaidon’s Sonya Dyakova wooed the design industry with her paper alphabet cover design for Sculpture Today. The success […]
A pioneer of digital design, Ross Sleightenjoys being one step ahead of the game.The multi-tasker talks to Lynda Relph-Knight about the early days of no rules, making mistakesand why he still likes a good argument ‘He’s Gandalf,’ says Simon Waterfall of Poke. This is how the flamboyant former president of D&AD reverently introduces Ross Sleight. […]
A recent debate at the Royal Geographical Society saw the motion ‘Britain is indifferent to beauty’ defeated. What do you think is the most beautiful thing in Britain today, and why? To me, the most beautiful thing in Britain – if you can call it a ‘thing’ – is the diversity and multicultural richness of […]
What would I do if I had an hour on top of Antony Gormley’s fourth plinth installation in Trafalgar Square (Voxpop, DW 12 March)?
Last week, you asked the question, ‘With an Olympics body admitting to appointing designers at random, what can Olympics organisers do to improve their relationship with the design industry? (Voxpop, DW 26 March). I would say that selecting anything at random from quantitative data carries a degree of risk. If a surplus of consultancies are […]
I want to reply to Stephen Knowles’ letter in which he argues that the bedroom is no place for product development (DW 19 March). Knowles feels that this business model, mentioned by Jim Dawton (DW 26 February), is ‘at odds with reality’. It isn’t – it is reality. Controversially, Dawton also said, ‘UK consultancy is […]
With regard to your story on Dott Cornwall (News, DW 19 February), we’re lucky to have offices in Cornwall and Bristol, so can view this issue from a local and a national level. Sadly, good design isn’t as obvious in Cornwall’s private and public sectors as in the rest of the UK. Maybe, being a […]
In my youth I was entranced with W Heath Robinson’s fantastic gadgets – not only with the absurdity and complexity of his devices, but with the compelling nature of his illustrations which forced my mind to follow and delight in their workings. Powered by bald, bespectacled gentlemen, forces were ingeniously transmitted through complex pulley arrangements […]
Does the world really need more creatives? Adrian Shaughnessy weighs into the education debate by suggesting designers are well-equipped for any career The education of designers is a perennially hot topic. Among design’s chatterati it’s an issue that’s guaranteed to raise blood pressure as well as hackles. Two unlikely bedfellows have recently chucked petrol on […]
C&G Partners has given the New York-based biomedical research institution a new visual identity that uses “vibrant” watercolour imagery.
As a new crowdfunder launches to reissue the Humanscale manual from the 1970s, we speak to the team behind the campaign about why keeping historic designs such as standards manuals alive is so important.
Burgerman is among artists commissioned by charity Artfelt to transform communal spaces in the hospital’s new wing, after Morag Myerscough redesigned its bedrooms in February.
Sea Design has led the rebrand, which looks to position the data company as “reliable” but also “contemporary and vibrant”.
Brand consultancy Studiomade has launched an online graphic design and art shop featuring its design team’s own risograph prints alongside a collection of designs by individual designers. The studio will also be paying for all of the initial production costs such as frames, meaning that the individual designers will be able to sell their work […]
Art critics Zoë Lescaze and painter Walton Ford have released a new book showcasing examples of paleoart dating from the 1830s up until the 1990s. The artworks featured in the book are modern interpretations of prehistoric creatures such as dinosaurs and woolly mammoths, and come in the form of paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, mosaics and […]
Napp Studio has worked on the design for a recent exhibition exploring androgyny and gender fluidity in Hong Kong popular culture. Ambiguously Yours featured 90 exhibits looking at gender representation in everything from Cantopop and fashion to film and graphic design. Grey was chosen as the main colour in the exhibition space, with the aim […]
Brand consultancy Notable has created a new brand identity for women’s lingerie brand Wacoal, which aims to appeal to the “modern, female customer”. The company produces lingerie and swimwear for customers across a “complete spectrum”, says Notable, to provide for “fuller-busted” and “fuller-figured” women. Notable gave four lingerie sub-brands owned by the company a new […]
White Bear Studios has designed the branding for Swordfish Works, a laser-cutting company and workshop, which “cuts anything from plastic to lychee fruit” for use in exhibitions and for custom patterns. The studio designed a visual identity the positions the workshop as “the A to Z of laser cutting”, creating a bespoke patterned alphabet demonstrating […]
Publisher Laurence King is set to release a colourful new card game, which tests the player’s knowledge of the art world. Guess the Artist is an art trivia game that asks players to identify famous artists from three visual clues. The illustrations have been created by Craig & Karl. Each card presents three images on […]
Department store Selfridges has launched a new campaign to support London’s nightlife scene, as an estimated 40% of music venues in the capital have closed over the last 10 years. Selfridges has opened the doors of its Ultralounge venue on the lower ground floor of the store for three months as a new space for […]
Tourism Ireland has launched a new tapestry-based campaign to highlight Northern Ireland’s role as a filming location for cult TV series Game of Thrones. Advertising agency Publicis London has created the campaign in collaboration with Tourism Ireland and HBO. Various artists from Jelly Kitchen have worked on illustrations for the 66-metre-long tapestry, which depicts key […]
