Partnership set-up is the answer to Equation
A consultancy specialising in digital design, strategy, advertising and marketing launched last week under the name Equation. The five-strong group was set up by three directors from Traffic, the new
All the fun of the fare
Four of the ten food and beverage retailers appointed by The New Millennium Experience Company to operate in the Millennium Dome say they will use the project to try something
Digest
Essex group Piranha uses recent tabloid reaction to the lowering of the age of consent for gay men as its inspiration for a six-strong poster range advertising a new gay
Caprice in ‘no fool’ formula for CLK.MPL
CLK.MPL finance director Tony Walford had the pleasure of meeting celebrity beauty Caprice last week, at the launch of AM Racing’s new McLaren F1 GTR Long Tail. Look Interactive, a
We need champions to lead design forward
It’s ironic that an industry full of creative leaders should lack leadership and a public persona. In the public eye, design is the stuff of fashion, football and celebrity chefs
Showing restraint
OK, let’s dream a little. You put your work up at your degree show, stick the corners back down on a piece of curling foam board, then you sit there
Italian award widens field
Italian chair industry promotional body Promosedia has opened its annual design competition to non-Italian architecture and design students for the first time. Ideas for a European Chair Design will compete
Exhibitions
Paul Smith, Kate Moss and David Bowie help to celebrate four decades of the Mini with the exhibition Mini: 40 years of a design icon, from 8 February until 9
Logos shape local Government
The Government has unveiled the identities for two new agencies, formed to support and help reinvigorate local government. The identities for both agencies – the Improvement and Development Agency and
Kyzen and Sense in merger
Design and marketing group Sense formally merged with identity, branding and literature consultancy Kyzen on Monday, under the new name Kysen. The merger follows the acquisition of Kyzen by Sense
Future Dates
The exhibition Mies van der Rohe – architecture and design in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno brings all van der Rohe’s furniture designs together for the first time. The Vitra Design Museum
New look for Brains beers
Cardiff regional brewing group, SA Brain and Co, has introduced new branding to its range of beers. The branding, created by local consultancy Elf Design, is being applied to all
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BrandOpus creates “curious” identity for Craft Gin Club
The design consultancy has rebranded the alcohol subscription service, which sends its members a surprise bottle of gin plus other goodies every month.
Design being “squeezed out” of state schools, says V&A director Tristram Hunt
Hunt has set up a new initiative which will see 60 objects from the V&A’s collections travel to regional museums in the North of England, in a bid to inspire
How marchers used art and design to protest Trump’s visit to the UK
On 13 July, tens of thousands of protesters marched the streets of Central London imploring prime minister Theresa May to “Dump Trump”, as the US president made
New business Mathers & Wallsgrove focuses solely on rebranding charities
Ex-Design Council CEO John Mathers and creative director Bill Wallsgrove have co-founded a branding consultancy, which will look to improve the creative image and strategy of charities to help them
