Le Monde paper carries new look
Financially troubled French newspaper Le Monde hits the streets this week with a new design by typographer Jean Franáois Porchez and Canadian designer Natalie Ballaucq.
The heart of the matter
Why is there a growing market for nostalgia and retro products? Could it be because the public views modern design as unemotional, gimmicky, cold… and generally not very good? Gaynor
Managing New Product Development for Business Turnaround
Thursday 2 March – Conference on design management and its part in the manufacturing of new products. – Venue: Manchester Conference Centre, UMIST, Sackville Street, Manchester M60 1QD.
It’s a Pleasure!
Saturday 14 January – Sculpture, film, painting, photography and computer graphics by nine women artists. Until 19 February.
New British Architecture
Saturday 14 January – Twelve young architectural practices display designs for the house of the future. Until 18 February.
Coral window graphics
Light & Coley’s work for Coral, one of the three large retail betting chains in the UK, has developed to take on the forthcoming changes in the law which will
The life and times of the Apple Macintosh
The latest insert describing the decades in design credits frogdesign/Hartmut Esslinger with the design of the Apple Macintosh, and I can’t let this untruth pass by. The original Mac (as
Ettore Spalletti
Saturday 14 January – Exhibition of sculptures and drawings by Spalletti. Until 11 February. – Venue: Angel Row Gallery, 3 Angel Row, Nottingham NG1 6HP.
Warts and all portrait of Morag Myerscough
Our sympathies to Morag Myerscough. We can only assume your picture editor was having a mental aberration when he selected that awful picture of her for the cover (DW 16
The Furniture Union
From 7 January – Venue: 46 Beak Street, London W1. – Details: 0171-287 3424.
Award winners are not always the top players
With reference to your feature on awards schemes (DW 16 December), year after year design groups that spend a lot of time perfecting the art of self-promotion pick up design
Sad prospect(us) for the UK
Stonehenge is to be privatised, its ancient grounds destined to become a garish, money-grubbing theme park as actors dressed as Stone Age people sell chunks of genuine pillar in plastic
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