A visible difference between consultants
Clare Fuller makes a number of valid points as to whether or not design consultants should position themselves in the same category as management consultants, and operate a similar fee
Books
Barcelona Centre de Disseny Selection 1997-98 is a directory of Spanish design work. The book shows how the BCD brings together design work produced by service companies and design employed
Fresh look for Our Price by DEDB
Diefenbach Elkins Davies Baron has created new interiors and identity for Our Price, to debut in Edinburgh next month. – The concept will roll out to the 229 Our Price
Overhead baggage
Last week’s launch of the Second Triennial for Design in Flanders was noisily interrupted. – The involvement of VIZO – Belgium’s Government-funded design institute – meant the launch was held
Office politics
Andrew Rabeneck examines changing trends in the workplace and Nicky Churchill rounds up the hottest new products at Orgatec. Andrew Rabeneck is divisional managing director for Europe at Interior.
Unscientific definitions
Design is suffering from an inferiority complex, says Janice Kirkpatrick. It’s time to drop pseudo-science and learn to speak confidently and in our own language
Assuming a missionary position
As the British Council’s plans shape for a trade mission to Brazil, Tom Bawden examines some of the benefits of participation.
Wales picks Rogers
Richard Rogers Partnership’s design has beaten five others to be chosen as the new National Assembly for Wales building.
Belgian initiative to boost design
A government-sponsored agency in Belgium has launched an industrial design exhibition in an effort to convince local companies of the value of designers. The crafts and design department of VIZO,
Briefs
London consultancy Ryan Art used this illustration by artist Peter Howson for the Beautiful South’s latest album because the band’s bass player saw the image in an art gallery in
Design Unity takes a step forward
The six design industry bodies constituting Design Unity, formerly the Halifax Initiative, are considering independent recommendations on how to communicate better among themselves and with their various audiences. They are
Events
Work by Gustav Metzger, Mitja Tusek exhibits from 25 October until 10 January 1999. Metzger will show an electronically controlled version of his 1960s liquid crystal light projections. Tusek will
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