Airside merchandise set to bring Fringe benefits
The über-trendy noodlings of Airside and its resident pop starlet Fred Deakin’s Lemon Jelly project will be on show at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Design Week has gay old time playing BBC game
It’s not often that we get our pick of Village Peeps, Disco Bunnies, Bikers or Poofs of the Past here at Design Week. No, we haven’t started cruising after hours,
Doves and Lowgold
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A ‘type foundry’ website – www.flaretype.com – will be launched next month by identical twin typographers Taiwo and Kehinde Adeniji. The initial collection will feature 12 fonts grouped under the
Future Visions designs for Peter Georgiou
Energy-fuelled photographs based on Japanese Manga animation are the focus of Future Visions’ designs of marketing materials for up-and-coming hairdresser Peter Georgiou. Shot by photographer Richard Stow, the pictures will
Music to your eyes
Mike Exon tunes into a selection of work by young sleeve designers, who are taking on the music industry on their own terms
Gazumping process seeps into the design industry
If you were a charity, in the process of shortlisting several groups to enter a paid pitch to design your identity, would you welcome with open arms one of the
Book
TeNues publishes Archipockets, a series of design and architecture books featuring Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto and Alvaro Siza this month, priced £12.50 each. More books in the
Revamp for travel group’s branding
Travel company Accoladia, a joint venture between British Airways Holidays and Thomas Cook, has this week appointed graphics group The Nest to revamp its communication materials and re-articulate the company’s
Presents to Vanessa
Artist Richard Waring, once curator at Hoxton’s Blue Note Gallery, but now based in Derby, returns to the capital for his first solo exhibition next week. Presents to Vanessa is
Pearce linked to Boots design job
Boots the Chemists is close to making a senior creative appointment following John McConnell’s departure from his consultative role last month (DW 18 July). Industry sources have strongly linked Lippa
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