Design consultancies take stock as Martin Sorrell leaves WPP
WPP, which is home to dozens of design consultancies, lost its CEO Martin Sorrell over the weekend in the wake of an internal investigation and a dip in share price.
Packaging
The biggest packaging design stories, from food and drink packaging to new trends in environmental sustainability and the latest debates around unbranded cigarette packets.
Frith Kerr: “Find clients who will let you f*ck with things”
Speaking at this year’s Offset Dublin, the graphic designer and founder of Studio Frith talks about her “playful” approach to projects, setting up a studio straight out of art school
Design Week Awards 2018 judges announced…
Find out who we’ve selected to be part of our panel of more than 20 expert judges and remember you have until 27 March to enter the Design Week
Last chance to enter the Design Week Awards
There’s still time to look back at your best work from the last year and enter the Design Week Awards, as we’re now giving you until 4th April. Here’s how
“Winning a Design Week Award helped us recruit new talent and reach new clients”
Find out from one of last year’s winners Method what winning a Design Week Award can do for your business.
Branding the world’s first plastic-free supermarket aisle
Made Thought has created the logo and campaign for Plastic Free Aisle, an initiative launched in collaboration with environmental charity A Plastic Planet and Dutch supermarket chain Ekoplaza.
Exhibition explores everyday life in “controversial” North Korea
Made in North Korea: Graphics from Everyday Life in the DPRK is a new show on at London’s House of Illustration that looks to show the regularity of people’s lives
DBA Design Effectiveness Awards 2018 winners revealed
The awards look at how design can contribute to a business’ success, and this year’s winning projects include those for Carlsberg, Raspberry Pi and Budweiser.
Design that fights sexism: from gender-neutral clothing to protest placards
Last week, we wrote about a series of long-lost Suffragette posters used to fight for women’s right to vote and work in the early 20th century. Now, we ask designers
5 talks to catch at Offset Dublin 2018
Offset takes place for the 12th time this year, and will see the likes of Gail Bichler, Ustwo and Pentagram take to the stage.
Start-rite looks to put best foot forward with rebrand
Studiosuther& has introduced a walking wordmark to bring “playfulness and joy” to the 230-year-old brand, which is being repositioned as an expert in children’s footwear.
The shaving brand for “womankind” ditching the pink tax
Billie is a new, US-based shaving company that aims to break gender stereotypes by shedding any condescending messages and “girly” colour palettes.
5 talks to catch at Design Indaba 2018
South Africa’s annual design conference returns to Cape Town this month. Here are some of the most interesting speakers to check out during the event, including stage designer Es Devlin
The most influential female designers of the last century
On the centenary of women’s suffrage in the UK, we look at the female designers who have made an impact on everything from graphics to textiles over the past 100
Design Week Awards 2018 open for entries
The Design Week Awards is back – find out how to be recognised for design excellence by your peers and clients.
Design Museum announces Beazley Designs of the Year 2018 winners
Now in its 10th edition, this year’s awards saw the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture named as the overall winner.
Brand Union, Lambie-Nairn and The Partners become Superunion in huge WPP merger
WPP has merged together five of its design consultancies under the name Superunion, ditching individual brands in a bid to “create more opportunities” for clients and employees.
Competition for new materials that could stop plastic pollution announces winners
The £1.4 million New Plastics Economy Innovation Prize has announced its second round of winners, which includes five, recyclable or biodegradable packaging materials.
Diet Coke rolls out new branding and can design
The “sleek” cans have a bright colour palette, stripped back typography and come alongside a new range of flavours, following a drop in sales for Diet Coke in 2017.
Design in 2018 – what will packaging design look like?
As part of our series on the future of design in 2018, Pearlfisher founding creative partner and chief creative officer Karen Welman looks at what will happen in packaging over the
Outlawed coffee cups present fresh design challenge
As MPs put pressure on Government for “Latte levy”, service design opportunities could be brewing but only if a new circular economy coffee cup system can be conceived.
Design Week wraps up for 2017
We’re off to celebrate Christmas and New Year’s – we’ll be back on 2 January 2018.
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5 important things that happened in design this week
A report on the potential impact of plain food and drink packaging, Pantone’s purple hued colour of the year and Mini’s new, monochrome logo – the news from the last