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It’s been a hectic year for the Crafts Council, what with the closure of their renowned gallery in London’s Pentonville Road, the departure of a truly innovative director, Louise Taylor,
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Design Leicestershire, an initiative to bolster the creative industries across the Leicestershire region, is seeking to secure £250 000 from the East Midlands Development Agency to invest in the region’s
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As the London Design Festival comes to an end, what has inspired you, and do you think it should stay the same or change its shape in the future? For
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Microsoft’s Zune to go on sale in US
Microsoft is set to begin sales of its Zune digital media player in the US next month, in a bid to rival Apple Computer’s iPod and iTunes products. The 30GB
Grundy-Northedge partnership splits after 25 rich years
Next week sees the dissolution of a very special British design institution. After 25 years, Grundy and Northedge are going their separate ways. From the striking corporate literature for Shell
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It is timely for the design industry to be debating the merits of craft skills through Design Week’s pages at a time when Government-related agencies are addressing skills in the
Know logo
Heritage brands play with logo and packaging redesign at their peril. A light-handed approach can prolong and enhance iconic status but when, asks David Benady, is a more radical approach
Tory scribble harks back to 1960s Swiss design
No doubt most people will have seen the Conservative Party’s new symbol. Without discussing the merits of this new identity and whether it communicates the values the strategists are aiming
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Era heads Internet mobile brand project
Truphone, an innovative Internet telephone service for mobile users, is to launch with branding created by a collaborative group of designers. The project is being led by product and interiors
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I share Howard Milton’s plea for a craft revival (DW 31 August), albeit from a slightly different perspective, namely that of a pre-press house. Along with the decline in designers’
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