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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Alex Breuer: “Guardian readers are a visually literate bunch”
The Guardian Media Group’s Sunday paper, The Observer, has launched a biannual, print design magazine, which looks to bridge the gap between consumer and specialist publications.
Designers with learning disabilities create prints for charity
Online art shop RoomFifty has worked with studio Intoart, commissioning four disabled creatives to design prints that are being sold for £20 each.
Extinction Rebellion on designing “angry but peaceful” protest graphics
Protests against climate change and ecological destruction are currently taking place across the world – we speak to graphic designer, Clive Russell, about how the eco group has used creativity
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Samsung launches space saving monitor
Samsung says its Space Monitor has been designed to address the customer desire for more deskspace by offering an elegant solution, which allows the product to blend into its environment.
