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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
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If the annual catch of calendars is a business barometer of sorts, 1995 looks like being a tough year for design. Bar some notable exceptions, the quality and, indeed, quantity
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
Overhaul for Sunday Express magazine
This weekend’s Sunday Express magazine will have a “totally new look” which will “radically define it from all other Sunday magazines”, according to its designer. Art director and associate editor
Queen Mary college bar doubles in refit
Queen Mary and Westfield College has a new student bar interior, created by Paragon Design Group . – The ú250 000 London college bar has a new floor plan with
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
Candidates vie for lottery boon
The Millennium Commission is poised to yield opportunities for designers and architects as proposals for an estimated ú1.
BiC remodels the Crystal biro
BiC’s famous Crystal biro, a design icon of the 1950s, is being relaunched after its first redesign. – The first BiC was designed by Baron Marcel Bich in 1957.
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.
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.
Metropolis in the West End
Metropolis Spatial, the interiors division of Metropolis 88, is redesigning bars in five West End venues for London entertainment group Mayfair Theatres. First to display the new Metropolis Spatial look
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
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