Scope report criticises designers
Designers are being targeted by a new report from charity Scope, which claims that nearly three quarters of all businesses throughout the UK are still failing to provide suitable access
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Former Saatchi & Saatchi Design staff account directors Natasha Anslow and Sara Wood and assistant creative director Frances Herrod have launched a London design consultancy called Philosophy.
New structural packaging for Dove and Sure
Elida Fabergé brands Dove and Sure have been given new structural packaging for their stick deodorant variants, created by Tin Horse.
My job defies truly meaningful description
Further to my own letter (DW 26 May) and David Bernstein’s article (DW 23 June), I wonder how many of today’s designers could seriously sit down and write a job
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Viaduct; SCP
AMXStudios
AMXstudios has designed three interactive exhibits for Who am I and 32 audio visual installations for the Pattern Pod, Who Am I and Digitopolis galleries. Its brief was to work
Event celebrates Irish culture
London museum and exhibition specialist Event Communications has been commissioned to create the interiors for a new venue in Manchester, which presents a history of Irish emigrants. The Irish World
Green leaves Dorling Kindersley
Judi Green has resigned from her post as group creative director of publishing group Dorling Kindersley. She leaves at the end of July after seven months in the position. Her
Voxpop
This week Landor’s owner Young & Rubicam – itself part of WPP Group – bought The Partners. Which consultancies do you think are ripe for future takeovers, and which groups
Digest
Design and architecture group Morey Smith has been appointed to develop office design concepts for 500 staff of pharmaceuticals group AstraZeneca. The group will be moving into a new-build office
Out of the blue
Sara Manuelli visits The Science Museum’s Wellcome Wing, which uses digital and interactive exhibits to make contemporary science both fun and accessible
Design Net creates a Really Useful website
Really Useful Group, the production company set up by Andrew Lloyd Webber, has appointed digital media specialist Design Net to create a new double-edged website, following a ten-way pitch. With
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