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 media division of ad agency Abbot Mead Vickers. It will act as lead consultant on projects, working with clients on strategy and acting as an […]
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 completely different with their formats. The rest are opting to roll out existing formats, despite being given a brief to provide an innovative service, in […]
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 pension plan. The posters are intentionally confrontational and incorporate images by freelance photographers Gordon Rainsford and Chris Jepson. The product, named The Equality Plan, is […]
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 division of CLK.MPL and a sponsor for the team, had created the launch literature giving Walford the perfect opportunity to meet the model. ‘She was […]
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 – a lifestyle issue rather than a commercial force that can enhance business performance and quality of life. Look at the way the national media […]
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 and wait. And wait. And wait some more. This is it, you tell yourself. This is the day Gill/Fletcher/Peters/Brody/Dumbar/Carson (tailor the dream to match your […]
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 for up to ten awards to students across Europe. A Promosedia spokeswoman says entries will also be viewed by chair manufacturers, with a view to […]
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 May. Smith, Moss and Bowie have bestowed 1990s cool on the 1950s car, through striking but classically chic designs. The exhibition also features the winning […]
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 the Employers Organisation – have been created jointly by London consultancy HSAG Design and the in-house teams of the Local Government Association and the Local […]
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 last year and will see the newly-formed 30-strong group split into a corporate division and a consumer division (DW 31 July 1998). Kysen creative director […]
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 in Germany will host the exhibition until 25 April. It will then move to Glasgow from 14 May until 29 August. Contact: Vitra Design Museum […]
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 six real ale products in the Brains range – Brains Bitter, Brains Dark, Reverend James, Buckleys Best Bitter, Buckleys IPA and cult favourite Brains SA, […]
The new app offers customers home delivery within the hour, and enables people to order, track their delivery and pay through the online interface.
From a Shepherd Neame rebrand to a new Apple headquarters, we round up the important design news from the last seven days.
Apple will close its other London offices and move 1,400 employees from these sites to Battersea, where they will be part of a team of 3,000 staff.
The pilot bus shelter, backed by the Department for Transport, allows people to charge their phones, access wi-fi and view travel information.
Curzon Cinema Ident – In Cinema version from The Plant on Vimeo. Consultancy The Plant has created a new cinema ident for art house cinema Curzon, as part of its 40th anniversary. The ident is an extension of Curzon’s refreshed visual identity, which was unveiled in 2015 and also created by The Plant. The consultancy […]
Tom Dixon has launched a new range of bowls and trays, finished from soft silver. The Orbit trays are a series of circular trays of various sizes which can fit within each other, and are intended for “afternoon tea, canapes, or trinkets”, says the studio. They are made from solid brass and silver plated. The […]
Technology Will Save Us has launched the Synth Kit – a build-it-yourself musical instrument which teaches kids about both engineering and music. It aims to teach children the “basics of electronics and sound”, and show them “how a synth and how circuits work”, says the company. The DIY synth kit is suitable for children aged […]
Consultancy After Hours has created the branding for a hand-made candle company in New Zealand called The Treasury of Candles. The brand mark is a foil candelabra symbol, which creates the letter “T”. The packaging has “luxury” elements, says After Hours, including a silk clam-shell gift box, organza ribbons and watercolour print inserts. The candle […]
Architectural practice Moxon has designed the interiors of start-up shoe store Mov:el, bringing all the shop’s stock to the front of store. There is no storeroom, and all the shoes are out on display in cubby holes based in movable modular units. This layout aims to deliver quicker service, says the architect, and also create […]
DesignLSM has created the interiors for a new branch of restaurant Burger & Lobster, based in the W hotel at Leicester Square, London. The interiors include a hanging light chandelier at the centre, alongside lobster tanks and banquette seating, a central spiral staircase, timber flooring and a brass bar. The restaurant is spread over two […]
London hotel Hilton Bankside has commissioned a living art installation made of various types of foliage. Florist All for Love has created the typographic installation, which spells out Bankside using ferns, ivy and English herbs. Ruth Davis, founder at All for Love, says: “The concept is to create a modern yet living structure that reflects […]
Interabang has designed the branding for economic analytics company Enodo Economics. The design studio also named the company, with Enodo deriving from the Latin word for “make clear, untangle and explain”. This was used as a metaphor in the logo motif itself, the studio says, which is an “unravelling double ‘e’” shape. A colour palette […]
