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Team Saatchi’s corporate identity for PayPoint goes live next month in London retail outlets. It denotes points where utilities bills can be paid. Evolution Design in Edinburgh is to merge
Contests for Government logos
Consultancies have been shortlisted to work up identities for two newly named Government departments. – The Department of Culture, Media and Sport has established a 13-strong shortlist of design groups
Staniford gets partnership at Lewis Kahn
Lewis Kahn creative director Mike Staniford has become a partner in the Australian graphics consultancy, renamed Lewis Kahn Staniford. Staniford ran Hutton Staniford in the UK for 12 years until
Mother of all parties
James Glancy looks forward to this weekend’s Notting Hill Carnival where an incredible amount of preparation and ingenuity add up to one hell of a party. James Glancy is director
German initiative aims to promote design industry
German business is putting its weight behind design with the launch of an initiative to promote design awareness at the world’s biggest consumer goods fair. The initiative, the first of
RSA management shake up
The Royal Society of Arts design director Helen Auty is taking on a new role to raise the society’s profile, as one of two top level management promotions. Auty, who
…while Millennium Products logo launches
Johnson Banks has created the identity for the Design Council’s Millennium Products scheme. The project will be launched by Prime Minister Tony Blair on 17 September. The Design Council’s initiative
Foreign accents
Building a huge dome is only one way of marking the dawn of the third millennium, says Sharon Marshall. Things may be in the early stages but around the world
SALES
The Vitra summer sale ends today so why not nip down and find that last minute bargain? Furniture by Philippe Starck and Eames tables are included in the sale. There
Profits could plummet as salary levels spiral
Accelerating wage inflation caused by skills shortages in the design industry is set to hit profits as design companies struggle to pass on spiralling wage bills to their clients. Tracking
Tidy Graphics’ ethnic look for Komodo label
Tidy Graphics has completed a labelling redesign for international ethnic “streetwear” label Komodo, as worn by Jay from top UK funk band Jamiroquai. The project has included developing an ethnically
Barefaced steeling
Someone has it in for British Steel it seems, judging by the poor timing with which rumours of the company’s corporate revamp found their way into the national press. Or
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