4 April 1996

The British Museum expects to employ interior and graphic designers for a new Study Centre in London, which has just received 8.1m from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Design decisions will

The UK’s leading motorway services operator Granada Hospitality is rebranding its service areas. Its new logo was unveiled on Monday at a new site in Stafford. Both branding and interior

Hamleys toy store has spent 250 000 on the redesign of its fifth floor, unveiled this week. It is designed by Carte Blanche Design Consultants, formed by former Fitch director

A mooted boost in prestige for the advanced General National Vocational Qualification (GNVQ), will “create more opportunities for design students”, predicts Design Council education and training director Moira Fraser Steele.

State of the Art is to nveil two new corporate identities for Yorkshire companies. The Leeds group won a three-way unpaid creative pitch last year to design Shires Bathrooms’ new

Coca-Cola and IBM’s identities have topped a MORI survey into the world’s most successful corporate image for the fourth time. And British companies’ identities are lagging more in this survey

In part two of the 1996 consultancy survey, all 120 groups listed earned less than 1m in design fees, but confidence for growth in the coming year is high

British Bakeries is exploiting the growing market in speciality bread by repackaging the best-selling Floyd on Bread range and adding two new varieties. The latest packaging is by Heath Associates

The Filofax company is celebrating its 75th anniversary with a new identity, packaging and point-of-sale material to differentiate it in an aggressive marketplace. Design is by Brewer Riddiford. The name

The Konek chair (pictured) by Swiss designer Re Meili, which won the Royal Society of Arts’ 1996 student prize, will grace the RSA stand at Spectrum. Among the launches at

We read Fay Sweet’s article (Private View, DW 20 March) with surprise and disappointment. Fay takes a sweep at “most other sorts of exhibition” – other than art galleries –

Allen International has designed a new bottle, can, labelling and point-of-sale material for Kronenbourg 1664 to differentiate it as a premium drink from its sister lager Kronenbourg. “Clarity was lacking