Percentage Points
Sara Manuelli rounds up the latest designs that will feature at 100esign and also encourages you to see the satellite of events that are 100 Guaranteed
EU funding for future research
The Design Council is finalising funding from the European Union for a research project looking at design’s role in shaping the future. Design for Future Needs will bring designers together
Digest
Design Week’s annual salary survey and employment trends is to be published on 15 November. The results will be based on responses to two questionnaires, which are being sent to
Brains and Braun
Lynda Relph-Knight speaks to design head Peter Schneider about the future of Braun and the emerging talent taking part in the BraunPrize 2001
Book
Leading figures, genres, studios and movements from 1900 to the end of the 1990s are profiled in A Century of Graphic Design, by Jeremy Aynsley. Chronologically ordered sections on modernism,
Kester’s defence prompts imperative action
David Kester makes a sloppy defence of the SuperHumanism conference (DW 6 September). The event did not ‘start a debate on the role of the individual in society, corporate and
LDA develops first design roster
The London Development Agency has shortlisted 15 groups for its roster and the separate appointment of a Web design group. Appointments will be made at the end of September or
Exhibitions
To celebrate Terence Conran’s 70th birthday next month, The Conran Shop is showing over 100 recent designs. Plain, Simple and Useful, from 26 September until 19 October, focuses on the
Rough and Daly team up for The Antidote
Graffiti artist Rough and photographer Tim Daly have collaborated on artwork for the first 12″ single from dance group, Stanton Warriors, which has been ‘heralded as the new [dance act]
SuperHumanism event should pay heed to DMI
I am writing in response to the recent exchanges of letters on SuperHumanism (DW 23 August and DW 6 September). Although there have been many misgivings expressed about the event,
Obscure Desire
Gayle Markovitz sheds some light on the design and content of the forthcoming Tate Modern exhibition Surrealism: Desire Unbound
Mania makes the most of his bigfoot prospects
You may know by now that the stylishly-monikered Andrew Mania has scooped the £10 000 Pizza Express Prospects prize (DW 30 August). But I bet you didn’t know Mania’s winning
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