Newcastle Brown Ale beer fount
Edinburgh-based Tayburn has designed a beer fount for brewer Scottish & Newcastle’s premium brand Newcastle Brown Ale.
Fletcher legacy proves that success can equal creativity
What more can be written about Alan Fletcher? This was the challenge facing Mike Dempsey when he set off, at Fletcher’s behest, to interview the Pentagram co-founder who is arguably
First Direct banks on updated look
First Direct, the HSBC-owned telephone and Internet bank, will unveil a First Point redesigned website next week, as the original direct banking operator signals its intention to dominate the growing
Honda car finance offer gets in gear
Marketplace has created a name, identity and retail presence for Honda Finance, as the car group’s customer finance arm overhauls its service proposition and considers a possible drive into broader
Book your place at Meeting Point
Tickets are still available for the Meeting Point London social event for young designers, which takes place on 27 November. Please e-mail your name and postal address to design-week@ centaur.co.uk
It’s worth appearing of good report
Are annual reports able to attract investors while City confidence is at rock-bottom? asks Guy Woodward
Corporate Edge and C21 merge
Corporate Edge has acquired the eight-strong consultancy C21. The C21 name will be retained ‘for the foreseeable future’, but the two organisations are ‘essentially one company’, says Corporate Edge director
Call for entries
The deadline for the D&AD Student Awards is 28 March 2003. The call for entries pack, designed by Browns, contains 26 briefs covering disciplines including direct mail, TV graphics, poster
Winter of discontent
With a winter of discontent looming, shops swimming in corduroy, Scalextric on your Xmas list and life’s been feeling a bit 1978 lately. Now the guys and gals at Onetwone
Digest
Simons Design has completed a refurbishment and 1858m2 extension of Browns of Chester, Debenhams (Café Venue in the stone-vaulted crypt pictured).
Digest
Random Media has created the website promoting Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s latest PlayStation 2 game, Formula One 2002, which launches this week.
Type species
Mike Dempsey spends an evening with Britain’s most celebrated graphic designer, Alan Fletcher, along with a menagerie of small, highly coloured creatures
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