UK finds gold at US awards
Lewis Moberly and Pearlfisher picked up the UK’s share of the 1996 Gold Awards Package Design Competition run by the US Package Design Council International. Last week’s ceremony saw Lewis
It’s a D-ream for Doreen Doreen
Bristol consultancy Bi-design has an original marketing policy. Creative director Carol Whitworth and senior designer Kevin Clutterbuck garb themselves in fake dalmation and leopardskin and trill their own versions of
LDP lights on new Sydney base
Lighting Design Partnership is setting up an office in Sydney to service its Australasian and Pacific Rim projects. Tim Downey, who was LDP’s senior designer on Brisbane International Airport, is
McConnell in Lisbon pitch
Pentagram’s John McConnell is in a paid creative pitch to design signage for Expo ’98 in Lisbon. He faces Italy’s Italo Lupi, Japan’s Shigeo Fukud, Michael Bierut in the US,
Dalziel and Pow aims to polish up jeweller
The 300-strong H Samuel chain of jewellery shops is undergoing a complete design revamp by London’s Dalziel and Pow. Signet, H Samuel’s parent company, appointed the consultancy in April after
Festival meeting held
Imagination is hoping the Millennium Festival will get the green light as the result of yesterday’s emergency finance meeting called by Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine. Imagination was at the
First small cruiser in UK set to lift anchor
Minerva – billed as the UK’s first small cruise ship – sets sail on Sunday, designed by Winch Projects and RPW Architects and Designers. The 12 000 ton, 128m-long Minerva
PRODUCT CATEGORY
Your chance to vote The season of the BBC Design Awards is upon us, with design for once ousting snooker and cricket out of a prime viewing slot on BBC2
Survey reveals widening gap
The gap between design consultancies offering strategic input and those selling the art and craft of design is widening, according to the Design Business Association’s latest quarterly survey. “Consultancies which
Board room in Bournemouth
Bournemouth and Poole College of Art & Design is hoping to “refresh” its governing board by inviting design consultants to become members.
CSD and BEDA urge EC to raise status of design
The European Commission must elevate design as a vital factor in its efforts to promote innovation, according to evidence submitted to the EC by the Chartered Society of Designers and
Xenophobes keep quiet
Like it or loathe it, but let’s just build it, appears to be the philosophy behind the V&A’s Boilerhouse project. Sutherland Lyall wonders if this is a defeatist attitude from
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