US-style restaurant for London
American restaurant and live music venue Dick’s Last Resort is coming to London as “the antithesis of a good restaurant”. The group’s first site outside the US will open in
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Display of photographic images chosen from more than 10 000 international entries. Until 29 January. – Venue: The Royal Photographic Society, Milsom Street, Bath BA1 1DN.
Corporate design work rises as US recovers
A plethora of company name changes in the US has led to a boom in the corporate design industry, according to two New York surveys. Branding consultancies Interbrand Schechter and
Appropriate Architecture
Thursday 26 January – Discussion on architecture’s responsibility towards today’s environmental and social problems. Speakers include Amanda Levete of Future Systems and author and journalist Patrick Wright.
Stand buys
Stand by for the latest in furniture design at the Cologne exhibition, which is being held next week. Nicky Churchill finds out what’s in store
City: Cities of Dreams
Saturday 28 January – Symposium on urban ambitions. Speakers will include John R Hume, chief inspector of historic buildings for Historic Scotland, and Deyan Sudjic, Professor at the University of
UK groups scoop seven wins at Mobius awards
British designers scored well in the 24th annual Mobius Advertising awards in the US, with UK consultancies scooping six of the 16 prizes in the packaging section and securing a
Lambie-Nairn tunes into BBC launches
Lambie-Nairn creative director Martin Lambie-Nairn decided on an alternative approach to “computer gimmicks”. “BBC World takes flags as its theme. The imagery is far removed from the usual language of
Candidates vie for lottery boon
The Millennium Commission is poised to yield opportunities for designers and architects as proposals for an estimated ú1.
Free-pitch and you’re on the road to nowhere
Apart from the economical lunacy of working for nothing on projects, the gamble is not worth it. – I have never known a free-pitch lead to a design consultancy obtaining,
Natural born talent is the best weed killer
I write in response to Les J Curtis’s letter (DW 6 January), headlined: “Qualifications are the best weed killer.” – I must be one of the “so-called practising designers” referred
Find the perfect silent partner
Saatchi & Saatchi must be keen to fill the shoes left by departed chairman Maurice Saatchi, advertising being such a personality-dominated business.
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