25 January 1996

It was interesting to hear IDEO founder Bill Moggridge making the case for in-house design last week. Speaking at a Confederation of British Industry seminar on innovation and design, the

The Department of Trade and Industry expects to continue the Business Links voucher incentive scheme it set up in April 1995 beyond its year-long pilot. The voucher scheme, which was

The corridors of Imagination are hushed and silent, all meeting rooms are occupied, heads are down and the joyful sound of champagne corks popping is a faraway dream. Staff at

Yorkshire exhibitions consultancy Richard Fowler Associates is designing the flagship exhibition of a 500 000 Leeds campaign to celebrate the Euro ’96 football championships. Leeds will host several of the

MPL has made four designers redundant in an effort to trim the consultancy’s “surplus” of junior design staff, says deputy chairman Peter Sampson. The four – three juniors and a

Yes, I must admit, it was a great surprise to see two tubes with a sexual connotation and the title “Sex on sale” on the cover of Design Week (20

Door handles may not spring to mind as hot design items, but architects and designers have a field day knocking them out, as Nicky Churchill discovers

Lippa Pearce is to create the packaging for a new range of teas by gourmet coffee company Torz & Macatonia. Last year the group produced packaging for the company’s coffees

The last bastion of controversial criticism among architects has died a recent death. With Progressive Architecture magazine gone, Peter Hall asks who is left to keep this easily-offended profession in

Fitch is designing interiors and graphics for a Trevor Gulliver restaurant in Putney, London. Gulliver, who owns London restaurants St John’s, The Fire Station and The French House, has formed

Austrian Airlines has launched its new identity and is preparing new lounges and travel shops, signalling a boom in high-flying corporate work. The airline is currently rolling out its new

Established players heading out of recession along with emerging start-ups and the deregulation of state airlines are all offering plenty of activity in the airlines identity sector.