Rude creates ‘Christmas Credit Crunch’ cards
London-based consultancy Rude has created a set of ‘Christmas Credit Crunch’ cards, featuring designs printed in black on white card. The cards will be available from the Rude online shop
M Wordwide wins retail brief for Roman baths
M Worldwide has won a £12 000 contract to redesign the retail outlet at the Roman baths complex in Bath, which is currently undergoing a £5m redevelopment by Event Communications.Bath
Dalziel & Pow bags revamp brief for Danish stores
Dalziel & Pow is working on a programme of interior design and graphics for Danish department store Magasin du Nord, which the consultancy hopes will roll out across the chain.
Hat-Trick repeats Best of Show act in DW Benchmark awards
Hat-Trick Design celebrated its second Best of Show win at the fourth annual Design Week Benchmarks awards last night.The London design consultancy, which scooped Best of Show in 2005 for
The kid’s comics market is booming
Thought comics belonged to a bygone era? Think again. The kids’ magazine market is booming like seldom before, says Emily Pacey
Furniture wizard Stefan Diez enjoys the challenges of creating for manufacture
Furniture wizard Stefan Diez has little time for show-off design, preferring the challenges of creating for manufacture. Trish Lorenz tracks down the young Bavarian who values commitment from potential clients
A new book looks at how video games characters come to life
A new book describes how video game characters start life on the easels of illustrators and travel to the game console via a small army of models and texturisers. It’s
A look at power tools for the DIY market
Power tools are typically designed to reflect their ruggedness and flag up their functionality to professional users. But there’s also the DIY audience, and the drills, sanders and screwdrivers aimed
A study of the winning London on Tap carafe
Drinking tap water has never been so stylish – that’s the message Thames Water’s London on Tap campaign aims to send. Anna Richardson hails the winning carafe, which will entice
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Desks by Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Jeanneret and Jean Royère will be featured in an exhibition, 8 Desks, which takes place at the Sebastian & Barquet Gallery, London W1,
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