The Partners brings botany to the park
The Partners has designed the identity for GreenPark, a 700 000m2 business park to be built outside Reading. – The brief was to “illustrate the beauty and architecture of GreenPark,
Brief
Some of us were seeing not only double but quadruple last week, it seems. First a letter from Marcello Minale appears in Design Week slagging off the British Airways identity.
Brighton Pier scheme
Restaurateur Oliver Peyton is looking to bring in interior designers to work on his scheme for the 25m restoration of Brighton’s West Pier. Damond Lock, Grabowski & Partners is the
The fabric of education
Education has been targeted by the current Government as one of the principle causes needing attention. Mike Evamy finds that a school’s environment has a surprisingly big effect on children
More changes at Edward Briscoe
The managing director of Edward Briscoe Design has left the group in the same week that a new non-executive director and client services director joined. Phil Jones left last Friday,
Thatcher’s disapproval is a good sign for a modern identity
In the year that curry overtook fish and chips as Britain’s most popular food, isn’t it wonderfully appropriate that Margaret Thatcher should have so enthusiastically endorsed the new British Airways
Thomson desk aims for holiday appeal
Rawls & Company has created a new ticket desk for Thomson Tour Operations, intended to create a welcoming alternative to the traditional ranks of airport desks.
Right to express an opinion
Marcello Minale’s chain letter about the British Airways identity has drawn blood (see Letters, opposite). Few appear to share his opinions of Newell and Sorrell’s efforts and I, for one,
LeMan correction
I have only one very small comment about the feature on me last week (DW 31 October): C&FD was founded in July 1992 and so is five years old, not
Design Show plans to go global
Organisers of last week’s Design Show plan to make an international push for next year’s event. – The show, in its second year, attracted more than 4300 visitors to Islington’s
ARCHITECTURE
Architects Communicating Architecture offers an opportunity to explore the interface between architects and the public. The exhibition illustrates how architects can make their ideas accessible through a large variety of
A Ruud explanation
An apology is owed for the accusations made in the Diary a couple of weeks ago. It was suggested that Fishburn Hedges’ Michael Slater slunk off early from his consultancy’s
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