Design must communicate with metaphors not clichés
With regard to the clichés debate (DW 21 March), symbols, idioms, clues, messages and concepts – is it not a case of how we design them that stops them becoming
Agenda Design has designed a book for this year’s Beck’s Futures
Agenda Design has created an 80-page magazine-style book featuring all ten shortlisted artists for this year’s Beck’s Futures. It has also created the invitations for private viewings and VIP events
Books
Art Deco Graphics; Nanoarchitecture
David Bernstein: But does it scare crows?
David Bernstein believes artists create aesthetic work that moves a viewer, but the real artists are the designers that create work that moves merchandise
Interactive service
A lot of interactive design that you find on the Internet tends to be bogged down by banal guidelines and low budgets. Neil Churcher believes that the most exciting and
Events
Past Pleasures; Earth and Fire
Exhibitions
Interrogating the Surface; Eco-Architecture/ Eco-Cities; Alsop at the Soane; Cutting Design
Smallfry cooks up barbecue range
US barbecue manufacturer Char-Broil International launched a range of gas-fired barbecues, designed by Smallfry, in the UK and across Europe last week. Smallfry, which created two models for the range,
Trees in Walthamstow better than the Bridge
You live in London. It’s noisy, dirty and it’s where Chelsea play football.
Mayor pledges funds for design
Mayor Ken Livingstone this week pledged his support for London’s creative industries and announced the launch of the London Regional Venture Capital Fund. The fund will invest up to £500
Yorkshire attitude can be adopted across the nation
I have to declare an interest here, having been born in Huddersfield, but you have to hand it to the Design Yorkshire activists for their perseverance against all odds, and
Digest
Emperor has designed the annual report and a brochure for Bradford & Bingley in a project worth in excess of £50 000.
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