9 October 1997

Design Week is running a new award specifically aimed at young furniture designers with the exhibition sponsored and hosted by Selfridges.

Disney’s latest feature film, Hercules, credits Gerald Scarfe as its production designer. A strange choice maybe? Nick Smurthwaite finds out that it was just destiny.

The highest paid directors at seven of the eight top design groups enjoyed an increase in pay last year, with one director at Pentagram getting an 82 per cent rise.

Skakel & Skakel has designed interiors and a new identity for shoe chain Dune. The consultancy won the job of designing the interiors through referral, while winning a free creative

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The Danish Design Centre has recently published a book, Profession Designer. The work of 135 leading freelance Danish industrial and graphic designers is featured. Retailing at around 25.

The Design Council managed to achieve a high profile at Labour’s Brighton conference. But far more important, to Design Council members at least, seems to be an alleged similarity between

Springpoint is undergoing a period of heavy recruitment, as it replaces long-term staff leaving the consultancy and recruits extra personnel to cover a growing workload. Planning director Michael Harvey has

In That’s Art?… Our Child Could Do That! Peter Stanick puts a sardonic spin on Sixties Pop Art. His brightly-coloured and crafted work questions the presentation of art in the

Manchester United, the publicly-quoted football club, is to expand its branded business activities with a new television channel, MUTV, due to launch in a year’s time. The decision to launch

Thames Trains is the last of the privatised rail franchises to unveil its new colours, marking the end of a long run of new identities for previously nationalised train operators.

The Partners has created a new visual identity for NatWest Equity Partners, to mark the change in the company’s name from NatWest Ventures. The new name, developed in-house at NatWest,