Are Johnson Banks’ ideas really so unique?
In response to Michael Johnson bemoaning loss of work and plagiarism (Letters, DW 13 October), while I do sympathise with his sentiments I have to question whether the ideas he
Richard Murray : Dotcom… or dotcon?
In many cases the Internet can be an effective marketing medium and information resource, but Richard Murray thinks too many websites are just a waste of cyberspace
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Midlands digital media consultancy QiQ has designed www.sortit.org.uk, a website for the Royal National Institute for the Blind, which launches next week. It is aimed at blind and partially sighted
Design in Business
Design in Business Week; www.e-brand.com or con
Shh goes to work on noodle bar
Architectural and design consultancy Shh has created the identity and interiors for new central London noodle bar, Ichizen, which opened last week. ‘The clients wanted a young, happening place,’ says
Vox Pop
Boots the Chemists has said that its marketing services deal with WPP Group (DW 20 October) will not affect its arrangements for commissioning design. Is this a realistic position or
Joint honours at DBA Awards
A design collaboration including Design Triangle, Wolff Olins and Glazer has scooped the Grand Prix and Design Management awards for the Heathrow Express train at this year’s Design Business Association’s
Print Sale
Print Circle is the Photographers’ Gallery annual collection of original prints for sale to the public. The signed photographs, which are limited edition batches of 20, are priced at £250
Marketing budgets are down, says IPA report
Corporate marketing budgets have been revised downwards for the next few months, according to the latest Bellwether Report, published last week by the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising. While the
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Stay flexible to ride the cycle
Leaner, fitter design consultancies that can quickly reduce their overheads survive fluctuations in the economy.
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Retail, leisure and corporate design group Spring Creative Consultants has created the identity for new music video production company Vigilante. The bold pink identity contrasts a classical typeface with paint
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Studio Blackburn’s refreshed identity for the Canal and River Trust
The design studio has created an abstract logo of a bridge reflected on water to represent the charity, which looks to protect and maintain England and Wales’ waterways.
The Alphabet Museum: an exhibition exploring “humankind’s greatest invention”
A show at the Lettering Arts Centre in Suffolk will delve into the art of alphabets, tracing the history of communication design from ancient symbols to the sophisticated systems we
First look at London Design Festival 2018
This year’s week-long celebration of design will see installations by Kellenberger-White, Studio Frith and Waugh Thistleton Architects, plus a refined, “playful” visual identity by Pentagram’s Domenic Lippa.
Illustrations celebrating "weird and hilarious" moments from previous World Cups
Weird World Cup is a project that sees 20 illustrators create humorous artworks, which will be sold online to raise money for education charity Football Beyond Borders.
