Design mission to drum up Japanese business
As British designers prepare to head to Japan on a Trade Partners UK mission, the organisation is counselling that groups need to work to convince Japanese clients of the value
As British designers prepare to head to Japan on a Trade Partners UK mission, the organisation is counselling that groups need to work to convince Japanese clients of the value
How are design consultancies weathering the current business climate and what is their outlook like? Phil Lawder asks some senior figures in the industry
In’nova is a new international trade fair for professional exhibitors and buyers of tableware, kitchenware, home textiles and housewares. The fair is launched by FIL/International Fair of Lisbon, Portugal, and
Iconic footwear brand Dr. Martens is in talks with design consultancies to create sub-brands aimed at widening its appeal beyond ‘the industrial sector’ and youth culture, Design Week has learned
Sometime Vox Pop contributor Stephen Bayley has really set the mink among the poodles with his Independent article that slams Restoration, the BBC’s Pop-Idol-for-architecture programme. ‘Stuff the National Trust’ was
The saga of Samsung Design Europe is interesting, throwing up a number of things of which the UK design community can be proud. It goes without saying that the small
John Simmons, Interbrand director of verbal identity, has left the group after 19 years to work as a consultant and writer. He plans to work with writers’ collective 26 and
A Cut Above the Rest, from 23 August to 26 October, features blades – from scissors to scythes, surgical saws to ice skates – taken from the Hawley Collection at
Vodafone has called in Corporate Edge and organisational change specialist Harkness Kennett to devise and implement a corporate social responsibility programme for its global workforce by March 2004. A research
Three Digit directors, including founding partner Simon Sankarayya, are leaving the group to set up a breakaway consultancy, All of Us, it has emerged this week. Sankarayya will be joined
The directory enquiries market rings in the changes on Sunday, with BT’s 192 no longer available, but designers believe very few of the 15 companies operating the new 118 numbers
Minale Tattersfield is presenting first concepts next month to Iran-based automotive oil company Caspian, following its appointment in June to redesign the company’s identity and develop a series of sub-brands.