5 November 1998

London’s black cab drivers are renowned for their jovial banter and, it would now seem, for their inside contacts in the design industry. One DW reader, obviously betrayed by his

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Mars is carrying out a review of its packaging design groups across Europe. At least one new consultancy is known to have joined the fold. ‘Until it’s finished, it’s not

As predicted in Design Week, former Imagination group creative head Alex Ritchie has joined Berlin-based entertainments and events group Arthesia to set up Arthesia Pacific in Los Angeles (DW 23

Sports brand Adidas is due to open its first UK factory outlet store in York on 12 November, designed by Corsie Naysmith.

The Design Show is to be relaunched next year with a restriction on stand size to stop the event being “dominated” by one or two extravagant stands. A booking service

Shoe designer Jimmy Choo is breaking into the US with a retail chain designed by London group Association of Ideas. – The first shop opened this week in New York.

Designer Lydia Thornley achieved this solarised fruit effect by directly scanning in slices of real fruits and manipulating the images in Photoshop. The results adorn the 1997-1998 annual report of

Matthew Valentine tries to get his head round the latest ideas in right brain and left brain thinking and finds out how design groups can find a balance and create

The founding directors of Manchester design consultancy DesignStorm came together in unusual fashion. – The pair, husband and wife team Fritz and Cathy Fitton, collided during a poorly controlled pogo

The departure of The Attik founder Simon Needham for Australia has raised some speculation as to a creative fall-out between staff at the New York to London to Huddersfield design

Gitta Gschwendtner and Angel Monzon have redesigned the Becks Artbar at the Royal College of Art. The interior is dark and moody with the bar area painted a deep red,