2 May 1996

Nestlé is expected to release its design roster tomorrow, drastically reducing its number of regular packaging suppliers from 26 to 5.

McVitie’s Cake Company has relaunched its Originals range of family cakes with new packs by Set Square Design. The Cheltenham consultancy was briefed to retain essential brand equities, and bring

After a decade of type jumble, piracy and quickly boring fads, the use of type in graphic design is beginning to show signs of stabilising. Liz Farrelly looks at the

As ever, the die-hard reactionaries are parading in front of the TV cameras, this time kicking up a fuss about the millennium Ferris wheel. Love it or hate it, if

LDV, the biggest UK-owned motor manufacturer by volume, has launched two new van ranges as part of a 30m development programme. Design and management input is by Ogle Design. The

Richard Saxon yesterday succeeded Kenneth Draper as chairman of Building Design Partnership. Draper is retiring after more than four years in the post. Saxon, already chairman of BDP London, is

Two Façade Design employees have left to set up their own consultancy, Emperor Design Consultants, located in London’s Clerkenwell.

Boa, the eight-month-old interior design and architecture practice set up by 1994 Royal College of Art graduates Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, has completed its first major project. The Crescent,

Minale Tattersfield & Acton will become the world leader in petrol station design, predicts group chairman Marcello Minale.

The Nottingham Partnership Forum, due to select a group last week to create the city’s corporate identity, has rejected all the designs presented. Participants in the paid creative pitch were

Rodney Fitch and Company and the FM Group are pitching to design an identity for Virgin Express, the new name for the European airline bought this week by the Virgin

Seagram 7 Crown, the very whisky glugged in Saturday Night Fever, has a limited edition label specially designed by US graphic guru David Carson. Carson’s creation can be seen until