Metropolis 88 gets sweet job
Metropolis 88 has redesigned a range of sweets packaging and created a new logo for Trebor Bassett brand Barker & Dobson.
Absolutely Prefabulous
It is one of our favourite national pastimes to stamp our mark on the properties we buy – just ask the manufacturers of reproduction, country-cottagey, wooden front doors. Going out
EDR shifts strategy and position
Client advisory group EDR is to change its name and rethink its direction following the departure of founder partner Patrick Smith to an unnamed design consultancy at the end of
20/20 treatment for Wallis stores
Retail specialist 20/20 Design and Strategy Consultants is reviewing the internal graphics strategy for Sears’ womenswear chain Wallis. And 20/20 is understood to have been shortlisted for a major rebranding
Gilbert and George too basic for Type Circle
As websites wise up, information is coming thick and fast in bite-size chunks. Are we in danger of information overload and loss of judgement? Peter Hall thinks not
Not too late for rethink on Olympic City logos
Are we really going to have to put up with one of those logos for the 2004 Olympic Games (DW 11 April)? On the bright side, whatever city wins will
Time to get to grips with genuine creativity
We have a crisis of creativity in design. We’ve cracked the notion of promoting best practice – we’ve had to survive as an industry over a period when so many
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Hurlston Design in Birmingham has created the identity for 350m construction, heating and domestic products group Newmond. Newmond is the result of a management buyout from Williams Holdings Group. Pack
Products exported to raise profile in Poland
Ideas for eight export products are destined for Poland as part of the Designing for a New Europe project. Funded by the British Council, the scheme involves Business Link design
Learning campaign hits the road
Met Studio and The Visual Connection have jointly won a free-pitch against four other consultancies to develop a touring exhibition for the National Campaign for Learning. The outcome of the
Quick identity for merging quarry giants
Cementing their union, quarrying companies Bardon and Camas have agreed on a 540m merger, with a new company name, Aggregate Industries. Radley Yeldar, which has established links with Bardon and
Briefs
Bostock and Pollitt has designed Orange’s first annual report as the consultancy’s initial project for the mobile telecommunications company. Designed by senior designer George Fountain, the report includes a gallery
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