New-look partner site branches for Post Office
The Post Office is rolling out its new-look partner site branches this month, designed by Marketplace. The work is an extension of Marketplace’s earlier visual identity work.
Shelf motivation for those supermarket pack designs
Robin Mackie (Letters, DW 14 November 2002) puts an interesting perspective upon David Bernstein’s Private View (DW 24 October 2002), extolling the virtues of good packaging design on the supermarket
Sales
The winter sale at furniture retailer Viaduct continues until 18 January. Pieces by Marc Newson, Driade, Jasper Morrison and MDF Italia can be bought at discounted prices and there will
Segis’s iconic Alphabet seat
Roberto Romanello Design has updated Italian furniture manufacturer Segis’s iconic Alphabet seat, which will be unveiled to the public at the Cologne furniture fair next week. The padded chair is
Exhibitions
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, showing new work from British art students and graduates, continues until 12 January. Paintings, sculptures, videos and photography have been selected by artists Sarah Lucas and Graham
Taking the rap
Hip Hop Immortals attempts to capture the top 100 characters of this music genre, but John Cooper finds only a few gems in the book
Gormley exits to set up own group
Ziggurat co-founder Bernard Gormley (pictured) has left the consultancy and is setting up a branding group, Badge Consultants, to enable him to develop clients overseas.
Better watch out for the girls on top this year
And finally, inspired by enforced watching of the Sex and the City triple-bill on New Year’s Day, look out for the girls. How will Gillian Thomas step up to the
Draw on basic design principles, but with a twist
Continuing our Mystic Meg theme, Smith & Milton creative director Stuart Redfern said, ‘Drawing ideas in pencil on a piece of paper will make a big comeback.
Liquid Media’s solid support for Unity card identity
Liquid Media has designed the brand name and identity for Unity, a loyalty card aimed at local retailers, developed by e-commerce specialist IT Works. The scheme, which launches this month,
Mall chain sold on Pyott branding
Pyott has created the brand name for a chain of pan-European luxury shopping malls, after winning a £90 000 share of a £1m-plus ‘brand experience’ commission. Pyott will create the
Jewellery retailer wraps up brand
Roundel has developed the corporate identity for newly established, upmarket London jewellery store, Wint & Kidd, which opens this month.
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