Dutch group draws up Interpolis identity
Interpolis, the Netherlands’ third biggest insurance company has a new identity by Visser Bay Anders Toscani in Amsterdam. Interpolis is the insurance arm of the country’s largest retail agricultural bank,
A marriage of convenience
Design Clinic and FM Design have an unusual relationship, but it’s obviously working well, reports Beverley Cohen
Bare your soul for a good cause
The school offers students like Jack some hope, along with such trifles as dignity, independence and a better future. To publicise the 29 March event, Design Bridge’s David ‘Jocko’ Jenkins
Bradford film museum looks out for designers
Bradford’s National Museum of Photography Film & Television may seek at least 15 consultancies to work on Imaging Frontiers, a 13.
Design ‘complexes’ needed in city centres
All good shows beg a sequel, and so late next month the RIBA Architecture Centre will host Products of Desire 2, offering a second chance to see what architects do,
Unpaid pitching needs the Dutch treatment
With regard to your article entitled “DoH will not rule out unpaid creative pitching” (DW 15 March), I have a suggestion. In The Netherlands, companies that tender for government work
Winning ways to stop deaths
Industrial designers and architects are being invited to enter a competition to design ways of deterring would-be suicides from jumping off Clifton Suspension Bridge. Designed by Brunel, the bridge opened
Getty grant for design
Design Council chairman John Sorrell was today due to announce a 121 000 grant from the Getty Grant Program for the new Design Council archive at the University of Brighton.
Director going from Sonicon
London consultancy Sonicon’s creative director leaves next week to set up his own consultancy. His leaving comes as two other design staff also depart. The creative director, who uses the
Elmwood finds daydreams pay
Future brainstorms at Leeds- based Elmwood will take place on a shelf about the size of a child’s bunkbed. Heads will touch the ceiling, it’ll resemble a play pen and
Blue Marlin roots out Sara Lee’s old look
Sara Lee’s depilatory brand Louis Marcel goes on shelf next month with new packaging by Blue Marlin. The redesign spearheads a repositioning exercise to fend off competition from sector leaders
Brickwood goes to DTI
Industrial designer and educator Professor Alan Brickwood has been appointed as industrial adviser to the Department of Trade and Industry’s Innovation Unit. See News Analysis, page 8.
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