Packaging design and branding consultancies are this week in the process of presenting to Sainsbury’s ahead of final appointments to the supermarket giant’s design roster, Design Week can reveal.Sainsbury’s confirms it is ‘in the middle of the process’ of putting together a new design roster and will ‘appoint consultancies by the end of December’.It is […]
It Was So Quiet I Could Hear a Pin Drop, a new children’s book about the sounds we hear around the house, has been designed and written by Fivebargate creative director Andy Goodman. It will be published next month by Edizioni Corraini.
High street retailers are in the credit crunch front line, but it’s not all doom and gloom, says Julie Oxberry.
Adding value to the shopping experience will keep tills ringing
Harry Beck it ain’t, but maps created over the years of the Paris Metro system have a beauty and interest all their own. Here is a selection from a book that looks back to the first few
I can’t comment on the ‘experience’ per se, because I have not yet visited Westfield London (www.designweek. co.uk, 31 October). What I can say, however, is that whoever chose that god-awful italic script for the signage should be shot. Dated, clumsy and cheap. It looks as if someone in the back office knocked it up. […]
It is the morning after D&AD’s ‘How the hell did that get in?’ event, and I can’t figure out if my head is spinning from drinking too much Guinness or from the sheer passion that the evening’s debates aroused.
When the Government first passed the London 2012 Olympic bill, which was partly aimed at protecting official sponsors of the event, there was a whole debate as to whether the bill stopped any organisation that was not an official sponsor of the games from using certain words – such as ‘games’, ‘olympics’ and ‘2012’ – […]
London lights the way with its cutting-edge creative sector, but it is so easily snuffed out in times of recession. Boris Johnson should use us, not lose us. He should support us to trailblaze good design thinking through these up-and-coming bleak times by employing our creative minds to help his team tackle the big city […]
US President-elect Barack Obama owes much of his success to his command of the Internet as a fundraising and organising tool. Both Obama and Republican rival John McCain relied on the Net to bolster their campaigns, but Obama’s online success dwarfed his opponent’s and proved key to his winning the presidency.Volunteers used Obama’s website to […]
The economic downturn is really an opportunity,
argues Jim Davies – it could free us from some of
our burdens and give us a chance to take stock
Finnish illustrator Kustaa Saksi will present his new book of retrospective work, and show a new series of war-hero characters and large-scale, never-before-seen prints as part of The Heroes exhibition at the Boudisque gallery in Amsterdam, The Netherla
A lack of co-ordination across projects and initiatives to support the creative industries is hampering growth in the Coventry region, according to a report produced by Coventry University for Coventry City Council.The document, Creative Industries in Coventry and Warwickshire, pinpoints a lack of co-ordination between public agencies working across the Coventry Local Enterprise Growth Area […]
“We want to bring together countries to look at design’s important role in the big emotive issues of our time,” says festival director.
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.
Mather & Co has designed the exhibition, which is set to take a world tour, and incorporated holographic and audio visual technology to create an interactive visitor experience.
The London-based culture and art hub, which is composed of four venues, has been given a new visual identity by studio North, dropping the Wolff Olins branding designed in 2007.
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 […]
Visual Communication students at The Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design have designed a new book of critical and creative writing. Anthology features the writing of the university’s English Literature and Creative Writing students, alongside illustrations and design by Visual Communication students. It aims to be a collection of the school’s “best fiction, poetry, […]
Japanese design consultancy Nendo has created the interiors for a new shop aimed at those with a sweet tooth. A Tes Souhaits! Glace et Chocolat is based in Tokyo, and is the sister shop to patisserie A Tes Souhaits!. The shop features a curved wall made out of various soils, which mimic the effect of […]
Mother Design has completed its first project since joining the BBC’s roster, the branding and campaign for a new BBC Three show. Sorry Not Sorry For Being Me aims to explore the personal identities and “uniqueness” of young people, and enable young viewers to feel comfortable in themselves. The campaign includes print advertising, social media […]
