Heading in the right direction
Mary Lewis faces a challenging task at the D&AD helm, but is undaunted and full of ideas, reports Bhavna Mistry
The Furniture Union
From 7 January – Venue: 46 Beak Street, London W1. – Details: 0171-287 3424.
Luder heads up RIBA
Owen Luder, president of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1981 to 1983, is to take office for the second time. He received 54 per cent of the votes,
Raw Light
Wednesday 11 January – Chartered Society of Designers event at which lighting design consultant Simon Corder will use past projects to discuss lighting design.
The Conran Shop
Saturday 7 – Sunday 15 January – Venue: 81 Fulham Road, London SW3. – Details: 0171-589 7401.
New TV channel seeks image
SelecTV, which makes Lovejoy and Birds of a Feather, is looking for designers to create an on-screen identity for its cable TV channel launching in March. Janet Goldsmith, who is
Fair Do’s
Get those new diaries and pens out as Design Week rounds up this year’s batch of trade fairs
QE2 delays not due to the designers
Alex McCuaig of Met Studio, one of the designers behind the beleaguered ú30m refit of Cunard’s flagship QE2, has been on board this week as work is finally completed.
Tout Suisse
3 Suisses sells affordable work by world-famous designers to seven million people in France. Howard Rombough finds out how and why
Winning over the young
The Labour Party’s promise to introduce the joys of architecture to schoolchildren may sound like a good idea, but, according to Sutherland Lyall, it isn’t the architects who will do
Spec pitch wins BA in-flight TV project
More cases of free-pitching are coming to light, with clients including British Airways asking for unpaid speculative work. Module Communications has been appointed after a unpaid creative pitch to create
Design study for Weymouth
Imagination and architect Tibbalds Monro have been appointed to carry out a design study of Weymouth’s Georgian terraces and esplanade. The study, commissioned jointly by English Heritage and Weymouth and
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