3 December 1998

Mr Turner mixes a cocktail of poor metaphors (DW 25 September). He compares groups demanding fee pitches with wise men who buy cars by first looking under the bonnet and

New accounting rules are set to drive branding issues up the corporate agenda, creating “significant” opportunities for graphic and new media designers, according to a Financial Times report. Brand Valuation:

The ITN in-house design team is to create new branding for ITV news programmes, following the approval of plans to move News At Ten to an earlier slot. Simon Jago

So, the Chartered Society of Designers is again faced with the mid-term resignation of its president (see News, page 3). Ironically, Adrianne LeMan, whose resignation was accepted at the recent

The Conran Foundation Collection 1998 runs until 31 January 1999. The collection’s remit is to present and document an archive of industrially designed products from the late twentieth century. Founding

Interactive London is a publicly funded survey into the size, scope and economic impact of the new media industry in London. The report will be published early next year to

Being PC is the way to be in the Nineties. But, as far as I am concerned, it is one of several reasons why I am unable to find employment

A new reference book on the major design icons of the Sixties impresses Janet Fitch with its extensive range and scholarly approach

Insurance company Eagle Star is believed to be dropping its re-branding programme, designed by The Partners, following its October merger with Zurich Financial Services. The identity was introduced earlier this

Remove the risk factor from education and what do you get? Learning with prescribed outcomes. This may be all well and good for some subjects, but art and design? Surely

ACID, the Anti Copying in Design Group, has recovered 70 000 from fashion retailer Next on behalf of designer Keith Munro, who claimed Next had copied one of his vase

The world of branding never ceases to amaze even the most cynical among us. Newly formed integrated communications consultancy Joshua has decided each of its 205 employees should adopt that