Funding boost for museums
Culture Secretary Chris Smith is expected to announce more detailed plans tomorrow from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport in response to the Government’s comprehensive spending review, which was
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Jane Lewis talks to the clients and finds a growing tendency for product design to be recognised as a tool to promote a company’s brand quality
Design House in café bar launch
The latest café bar concept to compete for market share in London was created by Design House and Hone Edwards. The Reef’s first site is at Paddington Station.
It’s the views of the public that are important
With reference to Don Grant’s letter Are we in safe hands in the Millennium Dome? (DW 17 July), let me reassure him that: – – The actual body form that
JHP steps into Dolcis’ shoes
former British Shoe Corporation chain Dolcis is to get yet another makeover, this time under its new owner Alexon. – The retailer has appointed John Herbert Partnership, which created the
Hunting for heads
The current boom in senior design vacancies reflects a changing emphasis in the management of design consultancies. Tom Bawden looks into the reasons for this trend.
Go forth and multiply
Richard Murray mourns the decline in creative fertility in packaging design and suggests designers should take the initiative and get those creative juices flowing. Richard Murray is the “suit” at
DW trawl of printers
Design Week is trawling designers’ views of printing firms, with a view to ranking them in the 28 August issue according to the quality of their service and output. Call
Switchboard contest
London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard, which celebrates its 25th anniversary next March, has launched a free pitch competition for a new logo. First prize is a holiday for two in
Penhaligon’s gets new ‘liner’-style shop interior
Upmarket English perfumery Penhaligon’s opened a new shop on London’s Beauchamp Place last week, with interiors by architect Murray John. The format has references to a 1920s cruise liner, with
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Product design shows every sign of being on the brink of gaining a kind of celebrity status. Hugh Pearman looks at the sector’s trends, and Jane Lewis gets the lowdown
Earth Galleries show Dome how to do it
Back to the Greenwich Dome, where talk is still of bad communication and lack of co-ordination. Now we have a new model to compare it with – the Natural History
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