I was disappointed to find the Imperial War Museum identified as a less worthy cause for Government support than “other facilities bent on stimulating change in perception about the future” (Comment, DW 7 November). By all means lump some heritage venues in this category, but not the Imperial War Museum. Despite our non-pc title, the […]
Wolff Olins is working on the branding of British Airways’ cut-price airline, to launch next year. – Developed under the project name Operation Blue Sky, the airline will operate out of Stansted Airport as a separate business and will initially fly to Fra
The implementation of British Airway’s infamous new identity doesn’t seem to be getting through at grass roots level. And it is the youngest BA travellers who are suffering the consequences. Toy jumbos on sale at Heathrow still bear the old livery, Union flag intact, so respected by design gurus Baroness Thatcher and Marcello Minale. Design […]
A “Dyson Free” edition of Design Week has been requested by Graham Barton of Benchmark Industrial Modelmaking. “We all love him,” says Barton, but he evidently fears that too much exposure to Dyson could lead to a Spice-like overload. Barton’s tactics have failed, however. Try as we might, there is just no way to respond […]
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Virgin Megastore will be the first part of the Virgin empire to go fully on-line in January, when its entire catalogue of music, books and videos will become available for purchase on the Internet. Websites for the service will be developed in-house by Virgin Net. Chairman Richard Branson this week revealed plans for all Virgin […]
Jane Lewis investigates what clients want from product designers and discovers that they are not as highly thought of overseas as they like to imagine. Personality and economy are also major concerns.
As the discussion over branding Britain continues, Janice Kirkpatrick says we must get involved and forget profit margins if anything positive is to come out of it. As the discussion over branding Britain continues, Janice Kirkpatrick says we must get inv
Lyons Associates, formerly Lyons Ames, has been capitalising on the growth in the cosmetics and toiletries sector, providing structural packaging and product design for projects ranging from Boots’ new brand Kyusu to the new-born Virgin Vie. According to Lyons Associates director Kerrin Lyons, product designers are in a prime position to meet the rise in […]
Even the best laid plans can be upset by outside factors, as Italian chair manufacturer Segis discovered last weekend. – A visit to the company’s factory in Tuscany by a host of international guests was planned with military precision.
Falmouth College of Arts is planning to introduce a three-year BA (Hons) course in 3D Design, starting next September. – Its structure will be broadly based with the emphasis on innovation and issues rather than on niches such as crafts or products, says
Reuters has come top of an annual report survey, achieving the highest points for design and layout. Its Internet-style report (pictured) was designed by CGI, and is the consultancy’s ninth consecutive report for Reuters. The Company Report report, issued by Peter Prowse Associates, surveyed those annual reports of the Continent’s top 100 companies which had […]
Slant, which has been branded by Edit_, is a new series of arts and culture events that aim to make the Northern county stand out from neighbouring cities such as Liverpool and Manchester.
“We want to bring together countries to look at design’s important role in the big emotive issues of our time,” says festival director.
US creative studio Loyalkaspar has created a new logo, typeface and on-screen designs for Syfy.
From a rebrand for the Southbank Centre to a visit to Dundee, the UK’s latest cultural hotspot, we round-up the news from the last seven days.
Leo Porto, a designer at New York agency Collins, has worked with Felipe Rocha on the branding and orchestration of Bonde, a new Brazilian design conference launching next month in New York. The designs use a simple typography led approach and a yellow and black colour palette. The Maar Sans typeface by foundry Commercial Type […]
Leeds-based studio Brass has created 40 animations for new CBBC show The Pets Factor, a children’s documentary series that goes behind the scenes of UK veterinary practices. Brass was brought in to work on the project by production company True North, and created animations of each of the animals, the four vets featured in the show […]
Mexican studio Menta Picante has created the branding for Leap, a Guadalajara-based school teaching web development and programming. The branding uses an illustration-led approach, with various elements appearing across the identity’s applications for different courses being taught at the school. According to Menta Picante, it aims to create a “fresh” look to attract young people, and […]
So Design Consultants has teamed up with fine art photographer Charles Emerson to create a selection of images for this year’s Ilford Opera Festival. As the event is set in the Peto Garden at Ilford Manor, the focus of every image is flowers. Each chosen to symbolise the musical performance they represent, the flowers were […]
Solipsism is the philosophical idea that only the direct mental experience is certain, as things external to one’s own mind cannot be known. In other words: you are the only thing that definitely exists and everything else in the world, from family to forests, might just be your hallucinations. Four years ago, London-based designer Genis […]
For the last 11 years, Penguin Random House UK has put on the Student Design Award, an opportunity for young designers to take an imaginative pop at some of the most timeless book covers ever published. This year, the gauntlet was set across three categories: Adult Fiction Cover Award was To Kill a Mockingbird by […]
Director Layla Atkinson has worked with illustrator Anna Kövecses and animation studio Trunk to create a new advert for home renting and buying company Rightmove. The advert is aimed at renters, and follows the story of a young couple as they go house-hunting, and chancing upon many properties before finding the “perfect” one, says Trunk. […]
Print company Saxoprint is holding a postcard competition that asks creatives to summarise their view of Britain in 2017 through design and illustration. The competition is being judged by a panel led by ex-Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon, and shortlisted entries and winners will be revealed in an exhibition on 23 September. The venue is yet […]
