Gatwick Express luxury fleet in line for rebrand
A change in name or identity for the Gatwick Express as part of the line’s plan to bring in high specification rolling stock is now “almost a certainty”, says Gatwick
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An uplifting experience will be available next month at Pentagram, which will be hosting an exhibition of specially created Wonderbras. Designed by the likes of Paul Smith, Mary Quant, Design
Jarvis White will bring Naafi into the Nineties
Naafi, which has supplied tea bags and foodstuffs to military personnel and their families since 1921, has updated its visual identity for the first time since 1989. Introduction of the
Leave ROMs alone and drop double standards
You seem to be deliberately courting controversy in a recent issue (Taking a ROM turn, DW 14 March) – prematurely celebrating the death of the CD-ROM when we all know
FUTURE DATES
Eternally Yours… yours forever is an international congress in The Hague on products which age with dignity. Speakers include Ezio Manzini, Domus Academy, Michael McCoy from the Cranbrook Academy, Chicago,
Andersen hives off design unit
Andersen Consulting’s design arm, Creative Design Services, is being separated from the business and technology consultancy and may be sold to Sampson Tyrrell Enterprise or another design group. Andersen Consulting
BBC’s classical CD-ROM is a team effort
Thank you for the article on women in new media (DW 7 March). It is inspiring to read about some of the interesting things that are happening in the design
Secret pavilion team
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is in final discussions with a consultancy to design the UK pavilions for Expo 98 Lisbon and Expo 2000 Hanover, after an eight-way paid creative
Redman wins museum revamp
Redman Design Associates has been selected to design new sections of Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery, the country’s oldest municipal museum outside London. The contract follows a 3.75m Heritage Lottery
Where’s Wally Olins?
BBC 2’s Money Programme is all design-aware this spring. First Brewer Riddiford waxed lyrical about the Penguin/Puffin copycat palaver, and now it’s Wolff Olins’ turn. In December 1995, Wally’s gang
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‘Either you pay more for some imported stuff or you risk going blind’ – Design Bridge’s Phil Lawder on the middle market gap for vodka in Eastern Europe
Increase the number of part-time tutors
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