28 March 1996

Measuring success by income, the 11th Design Week consultancy survey sees entries – and fortunes – up

Scottish furniture designer Rob Mulholland can hardly be described as middle of the road. He has teamed up with Morris Furniture of Glasgow to create the Mulholland Alba Café range.

US paper consumption is under scrutiny, but not by government or Greens. Peter Hall reports on the strange coalition of corporate giants – including McDonald’s and Time Warner – which

The Design Council has identified eight themes to steer its activities over the next three years in a corporate plan due to be published next month. The plan, now at

The Design Council is on the lookout for the UK’s most innovative and design-led small and medium-sized companies for this year’s European Design Prize. Both design consultancies and their clients

Madrid’s street furniture is set to take a fresh direction after a system designed by Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners helped Spanish company Cemusa win a renewal last week of its

A number of the groups at the top of the charts are part of bigger conglomerates. Jane Lewis sifts through the pros and cons of marrying into a family

Fee income and confidence in the market are growing as design groups are expanding their consultancy services and adopting a more strategic approach

London auction house Bonhams is pioneering the use of CD-ROMs to complement and potentially replace expensively produced, low print-run full-colour catalogues. London’s CCC Multimedia has designed Bonhams’ – and possibly

JJA has beaten Imagination, Brennan & Whalley and Event Communications in a paid creative pitch to design The Wine Experience.

Brighton’s Club Revenge is now ‘not only the premier gay club on the south coast, but also the most stylishly designed gay venue in the UK’, say the designers behind

Suppose you met Sir Norman Foster in a social situation. What would you call him? Norman? Sir Norman? Normibabe, if you were inebriated? His 250-strong staff are not permitted to