28 March 1996

Leeds consultancy Elmwood is giving a gladiatorial edge to England’s ice hockey premier league champions The Sheffield Steelers. Elmwood design director and Steelers fan Mike Owen conceived of creating a

Bastard child of Ray Gun, PR puff or the hippest mag in town? Liz Farrelly looks at Blah blah blah and sorts out the hype from the harder stuff

Designers showing their work as part of a UK design exhibition launching in Prague tomorrow are confident of the venture’s success. Some 41 UK design, architecture and fashion groups are

Sid Vicious isn’t the only gap in the Sex Pistols’ revival line-up. Photographer Trevor Key, concocter of much of their artwork, died last December of a brain tumour, aged only

Channel 5 Broadcasting will now press on with developing its identity, following the appointment of Richard Brook as marketing director. A spokeswoman confirms ‘branding will be one of [Brook’s] tasks’.

Fay Sweet is absolutely right (Private View, DW 22 March), but then she was not around when a number of us at the Central Office of Information rebelled at the

Glasgow consultancy The Edge has been ordered to pay nearly 7000 in compensation to a former employee who an industrial tribunal found was unfairly dismissed. Gavin Douglas joined the consultancy

Business is on the up again, according to our latest Top 100 trawl. Earnings, staff, efficiency – however you measure it, the picture is brighter than it’s been for some

British retail designers are experiencing something of a renaissance at home and abroad, as Bhavna Mistry reports

Fishburn Hedges parent Abbott Mead Vickers launched a 1-for-8 rights issue last week to raise 18.4m to cover acquisitions. Funds will be used to pay for recent purchases, such as

Somerfield, the 600-strong supermarket chain, is believed to be piloting redesigned interiors schemes in a new flagship store opened in Newark this week. Adam Rawls Associates is known to be

BY YELLOW M FOR NEWCASTLE