Zip Design moving record sleeves
Album sleeve art could change forever following the introduction of animated covers, designed in anticipation of MP3 players capable of displaying the new files coming to market.London-based consultancy Zip Design
True North wins People’s History Museum rebrand
True North has been appointed to rebrand the People’s History Museum in Manchester, ahead of its reopening in 2009.The museum’s base, at the Pump House in Bridge Street, is being
RCA gains more space in campus expansion
Royal College of Art rector Sir Christopher Frayling says the college’s expansion to a new Battersea campus will give the design school ‘room to breathe’.The proposed £33m new campus (pictured)
Minnows pack a punch
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Excience creates Comet signage
Brand consultancy Exience has completed a nationwide signage overhaul for electrical retailer Comet, which will instruct store layouts.Appointed to the project in June following the completion of a departmental signage
News in Pictures
Design gallery Dreamspace, London EC1, is hosting an exhibition of illustrations, paintings, print and photography inspired by sci-fi movies and urban landscapes. Participating designers and illustrators Sarah Fotheringham, Hannah Waldron,
Simply red
However much you see of Italian design, and however many books you read on the subject, its ingenuity and optimism still take you by surprise. The post-war industrial and design
Believe in your brand essence
With tightening budgets and media-savvy consumers, consultancies must work harder than ever to create strong brands, says Giles Poyner
Fellow travellers
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Page-turners
Wherever there’s a need to impart detailed information, conformity usually wins out over creativity. Scott Billings talks to four designers who have avoided this trap, combining clarity and legibility with
Chris Orr interview
During his ten-year tenure as Professor of Printmaking at the Royal College of Art, Chris Orr morphed the traditional with the digital. Sarah Frater talks to the master of the
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Adrian Shaughnessy says that graphic design is being dictated by commercial pressure and that client-directed intervention means the ‘death of graphic design’ (Private View, DW 2 October). He cites the
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