Got a new motor?
The future of motoring appears to be in good hands, if the RCA Vehicle Design show is anything to go by. Matthew Valentine took a tour round the exhibition
Space centre gets millennium backing
York exhibition design group Ideas is to help prepare the National Space Science Centre in Leicester for take-off, following a 23m grant from the Millennium Commission. The consultancy, part of
New corporate image for Avis
Siegel & Gale has been handed the task of creating a new identity for Avis Rent A Car in readiness for its flotation on the US market and to help
Parkin leaves Rodney Fitch to join US group
Paul Parkin, creative director at Rodney Fitch Design Consultants, is to leave to head a new creative resource at Interbrand Schechter’s San Francisco office. Parkin will be creative director at
Briefs
The Millennium Exhibition in Greenwich is to go ahead after Prime Minister Tony Blair’s intervention. The contents of the dome, and who will design them, are yet to be decided.
FUTURE DATES
Make a note of the New Designers Exhibition. Again the event takes place over two weeks. The first week, starting on 10 July, will display graduate textile, fashion and graphics
PHOTOGRAPHY
To celebrate the handing over of Hong Kong to China, The Photographers Gallery is holding an exhibition of photographs by Patrick Zachmann. The French photographer captures the Chinese culture over
Neal Potter ditches Singapore project
Neal Potter Design Associates has pulled out of a 7m (Singapore$16m) project in South East Asia, weeks after beating Met Studio and 3D Concepts in a credentials pitch to win
Briefs
Pictured is LaChapelle Land, a book of the photography of David LaChapelle by creative director Nicholas Callaway and designer Toshiya Masuda, which has won a gold at New York’s 76th
New ministry from merger
The merging Departments of Transport and the Environment are to be renamed the Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR). The contract for the new corporate identity is to
Simpson set to take up 3D role
Minale Tattersfield & Partners has poached interior designer Simon Simpson from United Designers, appointing him as an associate director.
Worldly goods
Liz Farrelly selects a handful of student work from the RCA show that highlights how design can provide a solution to real life problems
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