Agencies play dirty in face of skills shortage
Recruitment must be one of the most lucrative areas of the design business. With consultancies crying out for senior creative staff as well as “suits”, particularly in identity and branding,
Hugin set loose by Blue Dog
Blue Dog Design has re-branded European investor relations company Hugin to consolidate the conflicting attitudes of its Europe-wide network and differentiate it in the “stuffy” financial sector. The new identity
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Laing & Carroll has developed pre-launch sales material, including brochures, advertising and a teaser campaign, for The Hoobs, the new pre-school TV show from The Jim Henson Company, creator of
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The UK’s ‘first ever’ make-up vending machine, Make-up Go Go, features graphics by Creative Action Design, designed in partnership with Imagetime UK. The in-store unit has launched in Top Shop
Newenglish dialect for Intuitive
Design consultancy Newenglish has created an identity for fledgling company Intuitive. The company was formed six months ago to provide process control services to the clients in the manufacturing industry.
Sweet charity from Wickens Tutt Southgate
New chocolate bar Dubble seeks to represent confectionery with a conscience. Made by The Day Chocolate Company in partnership with cocoa growers in Ghana, the bar communicates the message, directly
There’s nothing more to say about free pitches
This debate about free pitching has been droning on since I can remember. Nobody wants to do a free pitch, but as long as we are in a competitive marketplace
BE makes Stansted connection
Design consultancy Brand Environment, trading as BE, has developed a complete identity for Stansted Express, the rail link between London’s Liverpool Street station and the Essex airport. The new blue
No smoke without fire
If new proposals on passive smoking at work by the Health & Safety Executive are implemented, it could signal a big shake-up in the pubs and restaurants sector.
Designers use E-magination
Hewlett-Packard has joined forces with the British design industry in a new exhibition entitled E-magination, which aims to demonstrate the importance of information technology in pushing the boundaries of design.
Please look deeper before criticising the BP identity
I can’t help but be disappointed by the last series of comments around the ‘GCSE Art nonsense’ BP identity (Letters, DW 15 September). Sadly, this debate seems to have constantly
Lunn Poly
Lunn Poly is undergoing an integrated rebranding of its ‘clicks and mortar’ operations through Leicester design consultancy Checkland Kindleysides. The first stage, a number of new concept retail stores, is
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