Richard Finmore
Richard Finmore, finance director of 35 Communications, passed away last Wednesday, 9 May, after a year-long fight against leukaemia. His colleagues at 35 paid tribute to him last week, describing
Foster & Partners
Foster & Partners last week sold an unspecified minority stake in the practice to venture capital group 3i.
New Blood
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It’s good to talk
Blogs and other user-generated content are creating a mass of hard-to-navigate debate on the Web. Scott Billings takes a look at how digital designers could be meeting these challenges, particularly
An ear for design
Acoustic elements are becoming increasingly integral to both art and design works. Oliver Bennett examines the ideas raised by an exhibition of sonic art, while Mike Dempsey looks at the
Walker Jansseune in city academy push
City Academy Bristol, one of the 40 UK institutions set up under the Government’s city academies initiative, today launches a branding scheme to help raise the profile of vocational education
Japanese underbelly
In a culture renowned for its pulsating urban districts, emblazoned with imagery selling lifestyles of every sort, it’s strange that it has taken this long for the first book dedicated
Voxpop
Last week marked the tenth anniversary of the Labour Party coming to power. As the media looks back on its decade in power, what do you think is Labour’s legacy
Everybody stands to gain from initiatives in schools
It is great that the Sorrell Foundation is expanding the Young Design Programme education initiative to include design colleges in Leeds and Falmouth. The ‘kebab stick’ approach of introducing college
Profile: Johanna Basford
Working from a fish farm in Aberdeenshire, Johanna Basford designs textiles and wallpapers for companies such as Heal’s, exploring botanical motifs, insects and evolution. Fiona Nicolson speaks to her
A rocky road to market
Designers must invest in intellectual property if they want to retain control of their ideas and see them through to production
Enterprise IG growth bankrolls five senior posts
Enterprise IG is experiencing robust business growth from a ‘very buoyant market’, resulting in the announcement of five director-level appointments within its UK design and production teams.According to UK chief
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