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, […]
A Kickstarter campaign has launched for a new children’s coding kit, which lets children build their own robots then animate them through coding sequences.
Turner, who is deputy director at London Design Festival and director at London Design Biennale, will take up the position of keeper of design, architecture and digital at the museum.
Last week, London Design Festival’s organisers revealed the details of a new exhibition exploring the art of the designer-client relationship. We ask designers about their most difficult experiences with clients, and how they overcame them.
French graphic artist Camille Walala is known for brightening up public spaces with her patterns. We visit her latest installation at London’s Now Gallery; an interactive, disorientating maze that encourages visitors to explore colour and pattern.
Furniture company Vitra is harking back to Charles and Ray Eames’ classic plastic chair with a new interactive exhibition set to take place during this year’s London Design Festival. The Eames Plastic Chair installation will showcase physical versions of the chair, and engage visitors through a digital experience allowing them to create their own versions […]
Illustrator Rose Blake, daughter of pop artist Peter Blake, has created a picture book for young children helping to prepare them for their first days at school. Going to School is published by Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, and is full of colourful illustrations that aim to be a “positive and encouraging” introduction to day-to-day life, […]
Consultancy Clinic has created the branding for new food brand Sano, which looks to represent the “nutritional science” behind food. Alongside launching a range of foods and a shop, Sano also provides online diploma courses teaching people about nutritional science. The logo features a grid which aims to reference a periodic table of elements, says […]
Brand consultancy Studiomade has launched an online graphic design and art shop featuring its design team’s own risograph prints alongside a collection of designs by individual designers. The studio will also be paying for all of the initial production costs such as frames, meaning that the individual designers will be able to sell their work […]
Art critics Zoë Lescaze and painter Walton Ford have released a new book showcasing examples of paleoart dating from the 1830s up until the 1990s. The artworks featured in the book are modern interpretations of prehistoric creatures such as dinosaurs and woolly mammoths, and come in the form of paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, mosaics and […]
Napp Studio has worked on the design for a recent exhibition exploring androgyny and gender fluidity in Hong Kong popular culture. Ambiguously Yours featured 90 exhibits looking at gender representation in everything from Cantopop and fashion to film and graphic design. Grey was chosen as the main colour in the exhibition space, with the aim […]
Brand consultancy Notable has created a new brand identity for women’s lingerie brand Wacoal, which aims to appeal to the “modern, female customer”. The company produces lingerie and swimwear for customers across a “complete spectrum”, says Notable, to provide for “fuller-busted” and “fuller-figured” women. Notable gave four lingerie sub-brands owned by the company a new […]
White Bear Studios has designed the branding for Swordfish Works, a laser-cutting company and workshop, which “cuts anything from plastic to lychee fruit” for use in exhibitions and for custom patterns. The studio designed a visual identity the positions the workshop as “the A to Z of laser cutting”, creating a bespoke patterned alphabet demonstrating […]
