News in pictures
Chris Leishman Design has created the Ration Book, a promotional device for fashion and lifestyle retailer White Stuff which features special offers. It launches later this month.
Pack mentality
Mail art – or correspondence art – is not new. The idea of decorating a postcard, envelope or package and sending it through the post was originally made popular by
Stay true to your values
Success in business is down to many factors, but a relentless sense of commitment and a constant striving for excellence are crucial, says Ajaz Ahmed It is often said that
Quirky approaches to designing exhibition catalogues
How do you design collectable exhibition catalogues, which will live on long beyond the shows themselves, while doing full justice to the work? Anna Richardson looks at some quirky approaches
West life
For whatever reason – a strong local economy, incomer graduates whocan’t bear to leave, or freedom from the stresses of life in the capital – the creative sector isthriving in
A lost world
Young designers accustomed to quiet, obstacle-free offices don’t know how lucky they are. Michael Peters recalls life before the Mac, when the senses were under constant assault and studios were
Profile: Media Molecule
A radical approach to user-creativity andinnovative working methods have madegame developer Media Molecule a major player. Iain Simons investigates the philosophy of the team behind Little Big Planet and Sackboy
Droog has no formal links with Design Academy Eindhoven
Droog Design didn’t quite emerge from Design Academy Eindhoven, as Hugh Pearman writes in his article (Private View, DW 12 March). Actually, in the early days of Droog Design, many
At last, someone sees light at the end of the tunnel
I read Sir Martin Sorrell’s comments on recession and the design industry (News, DW 12 March) with interest. Undoubtedly, this year is going to be a challenging one for the
Frayling’s campaign is a bit of diagonal thinking
I was interested to read your article about Professor Sir Christopher Frayling mounting a campaign to lobby Government on the status of design education, in the hope of persuading it
Voxpop
With an Olympics body admitting to appointing designers at random, what can Olympics organisers do to improve their relationship with the design industry? The Olympics will enlist the services of
Good design should be both usable and socially relevant
I totally agree with Lynda Relph-Knight (Comment, DW 12 March), regarding the importance of usability and social relevance when judging design. Having been involved in the practice of people-centred design
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