24 April 1997

Kate Irving is believed to be preparing to leave Rodney Fitch Design Consultants after less than a year. – The departure of the joint chief executive would come as further

The Rank Group will next month launch Oasis Forest Holiday Villages – its competitor to Center Parcs – using an identity by TMC Design and graphics and signage by Marketplace

British Telecom will retain its name and identity in the UK even if its proposed merger with US telecommunications group MCI goes ahead. BT shareholders approved the deal last week.

The UK’s leading cider brand Strongbow is introducing new packaging designed by PI Design. – As part of the packaging overhaul, PI Design has recreated the Strongbow archer and introduced

With regard to your article on the Design Business Association’s offer of a recruitment service (DW 4 April), what would design consultancies think of the idea of us recruitment consultants

Japanese toy group Bandai has taken an unusual approach in its attempt to stop UK cowboys from infringing its copyright. Worried by counterfeit copies of its Tamagotchi virtual pet, the

The Partners has created the identity and packaging for a new “traditional” shoe manufacturing and retail brand, called Tim Little, which launched last weekend. Created by former advertising executive Tim

With retail, restaurant and residential space the Oxo Tower is a truly mixed development but unified by a strong flavour of design. Nicky Churchill gives us a taster and Box

If, as Fitch would have it, the Nineties has spawned a new breed of international jetsetters, then some aspects of airport design need a major rethink. As we all cease

Between heaven and hell lies Blue, says Elmwood, which has designed an identity and brochure for Europe’s leading parachute fabric manufacturer, Lancashire-based Perseverance Mills. The Blue identity captures the exhilaration

“Ours is a brand new world of all-atonceness,” wrote the Canadian sociologist Marshall McLuhan (after reading too much James Joyce). The world of television and mass media, he said, wreaks

WPP Group has halved its net debt to just 78m, its latest quarterly trading update reveals. The first quarter of 1997 saw the group’s revenue slightly down at 387m compared