Design Week articles from February 2002

Design Week archives from February 2002

Schweppes given Blue Marlin look. (News).
February 28, 2002... BLUE MARLIN has rebranded Cadbury Schweppes European Beverages' global soft drinks portfoiio and redesigned the Schweppes identity in a project worth over [pounds sterling]500 000, Design Week can exclusively reveal. The drinks range,...

As it dresses up new Kraft brand. (News).
February 28, 2002... KRAFT FOODS (UK) is launching a salad dressings brand, Get Dressed, with its [pounds sterling]150 000 name and identity, graphics and packaging by Blue Marlin. Get Dressed launches in the UK at the end of March. It will be followed by a...

Walkers to launch snack Sensations. (News).
February 28, 2002... WALKERS is preparing for what is understood to be the largest snack launch for ten years in May. Details of the launch of Sensations have been strictly guarded, but Design Week can reveal that Walkers is about to make its first move into...

FutureBrand to reshuffle group. (News).
February 28, 2002... FUTUREBRAND is in the midst of a global restructure that could have an impact on scores of jobs across the network. FutureBrand London says no redundancies have been made, but it refuses to rule out the possibility of future redundancies....

Dozen jobs go at Enterprise IG. (News).
February 28, 2002... ENTERPRISE IG has made 12 staff redundant, including four designers, it has emerged this week. The cut in staff numbers is due to the 'softening in the corporate branding marketplace' rather than the loss of any specific clients, says UK...

LBS identity is debut for Home. (News).
February 28, 2002... CWG breakaway Home, which launches officially next month, has scooped its first work and redesigned the identity for Leeds Business School. Former CWG creative director Glen Cartwright and head of copy Ian Buttle will be joint creative...

Train operator looks to rebrand. (News).
February 28, 2002... MIDLAND MAINLINE may overhaul its identity. It is in the throes of an advertising pitch and short-listed groups have been asked to consider the rebranding. Earlier this month Midland Mainline announced that Seymour Powell is working on the...

Intuition can prove to be just as creative as research. (Comment).
February 28, 2002... Mention Michael Wolff and you are guaranteed to raise a smile (see Heroes feature, page 21). He is one of those rare larger than life characters whose ability to come at a project from left field has earned him respect in design and provoked...

JHP stores up designs for ABC flagship in Lebanon. (News).
February 28, 2002... JHP has been appointed to create the complete environment and communications programme for the largest department store chain in Lebanon, a project that carries a six-figure fee. ABC has hired JHP for the retailer's most ambitious project...

Hobbins Sides brands TV3 channel. (News).
February 28, 2002... HOBBINS SIDES has created a package of branding for Swedish TV station Viasat's TV3 channel, which will be aired for the first time on 8 March as part of its spring schedule. The fee was 'around [pounds sterling]25 000', says Hobbins Sides...

Tutssels Enterprise IG.
February 28, 2002... Caption: Tutssels Enterprise IG has updated the design of six presentation packs for the Royal Mail's Definitive Stamp Collection, which will be unveiled on 12 March. The packs contain a photograph of sculptor Arnold Machin at work on his cast...

Bronte Country launches updated identity and tourism campaign. (News).
February 28, 2002... A [pounds sterling]2m campaign to promote Bronte Country in North Yorkshire, one of Britain's most famous literary heritage sites, as a destination for rural tourism will be launched next week, with branding and identity work by Dulay Seymour....

Ztwo Design has created graphics and packaging for three new flavours from Haagen Dazs.
February 28, 2002... Caption: Ztwo Design has created graphics and packaging for three new flavours from Haagen Dazs, which launch in shops and cafes in March. The ice creams are inspired by flavours from international cuisine, including Morocco and India, and are...

20/20's vision applied to revamped Liberty interiors. (News).
February 28, 2002... LIBERTY will unveil the results of the interiors revamp of its Regent Street building by 20/20 on 7 March. The consultancy, which was appointed to the project in February 2001 without a pitch, has created a brand strategy for the central...

Design Bridge redesigns 60-year-old gin bottle. (News).
February 28, 2002... THE UK's biggest selling gin brand, Gordon's, has been redesigned for the first time in 60 years, by Design Bridge. Work, which includes revamped graphics and a new bottle shape, launches in April and will be supported by a [pounds...

Third Planet International. (News).
February 28, 2002... Third Planet International has created sleeves for Billy Bragg and the Blokes' latest album England, Half English and the single St Monday, as well as tour posters and merchandising material, for a fee of 'around [pounds sterling]10 000'. The...

Lumsden Design. (News).
February 28, 2002... Lumsden Design Partnership will unveil its prototype store for Spanish home furnishings company Nido in June or July in Valencia.

Dutton Merrifield is to redesign Bristol Zoo Gardens. (News).
February 28, 2002... Dutton Merrifield is to redesign Bristol Zoo Gardens' logo and literature as part of its appointment as advertising agency for the zoo...

Sunjuice, which launched this week. (News).
February 28, 2002... ... while the consultancy has redesigned packaging for drinks brand Sunjuice, which launched this week. Products include juices, crushes and smoothies.

Greater Manchester Music Action Zone. (News).
February 28, 2002... Former Factory Records designer Trevor Johnson, now creative director at Manchester-based consultancy Via, has designed an identity and print material for the Greater Manchester Music Action Zone. Launched tomorrow (Thursday), it aims to get...

Pure Design. (News).
February 28, 2002... Whisky brand Glenmorangie will relaunch its website, designed by Pure Design, by June. The consultancy is also designing a 2002 annual report and accounts, internal newsletter and a quarterly magazine for the brand.

Arjo Wiggins' Curious Collection paper range. (News).
February 28, 2002... Toronto-based consultancy Viva Dolan has revamped the identity and promotional literature for Arjo Wiggins' Curious Collection paper range, which will be launched in the UK and Europe this week...

Silk Pearce. (News).
February 28, 2002... ... Silk Pearce has created the identity for Arjo Wiggins' Impressions range of papers, which launches this week.

Ware Anthony Rust. (News).
February 28, 2002... Ware Anthony Rust has carried out design development and identity work for the Belgian chocolate manufacturer Duc d'O. The first example is a bowshaped identity for the 500g pralines packaging, which goes on shelf next week.

Litmus Design. (News).
February 28, 2002... Litmus Design has designed a 100-page report for the Mental Health Foundation into the provision and quality of crisis care for people with mental health problems, which will be published this week.

Fingal Design. (News).
February 28, 2002... Fingal Design has created an identity and print material for the Peugeot 206 Super Cup, which will be unveiled in March.

Hunter Lodge Design. (News).
February 28, 2002... Hunter Lodge Design has created two prospectuses and an interactive CD-ROM for Southampton University, which will be launched in April.

The Plymouth Mayflower. (News).
February 28, 2002... Interiors, branding and promotional material for The Plymouth Mayflower has been created by John Csaky Associates. Songbird Film and Television created audio visual material and Sutton Vane Associates was responsible for the lighting (DW 21...

OLP exhibition work is approved. (News).
February 28, 2002... O'LEARY PRESCOTT had first-stage concepts approved last week for identity, content and exhibition designs on a [pounds sterling]6.5m visitor attraction in Devon, Design Week can exclusively reveal. The design budget for the project, a...

While its designs for Dubai museum launch. (News).
February 28, 2002... A [pounds sterling]15m museum is to open in Dubai next week (6 March) with exhibition designs by O'Leary Prescott. Children's City, covering 9000[m.sup.2] and eight galleries, is the largest museum of its kind in the Middle East. For...

Hot dog brand identity by HMS. (News).
February 28, 2002... HMS STUDIO has redesigned hot-dog brand Megadog's corporate identity and packaging, which is set for relaunch next week. Megadog needed an identity that would work within the international business community as well as appealing to...

Cubic has designed a sleeve.
February 28, 2002... Caption: Nottingham-based consultancy Cubic has designed a sleeve for dance producer Charles Webster's latest CD, Born on the 24th of July, which is released this week on the Peacefrog label. Printed on uncoated card, it features a specially...

Fuse fires up identity for Solnet. (News).
February 28, 2002... FUSE has created an identity and marketing literature for Supported Opening Learning Network, a distance learning initiative for small businesses developed by Anglia Polytechnic University, which is unveiled today (Wednesday). Solnet...

A Portrait of the Russian Space Age.
February 28, 2002... Caption: Kosmos: A Portrait of the Russian Space Age, a photographic record by Adam Bartos of the Soviet Space programme, will be published in April by Princeton Architectural Press. Kosmos, which was designed by PAP design director Deb Wood,...

Rufus Leonard overhauls Shell's marketing tools. (News).
February 28, 2002... RUFUS LEONARD has overhauled Shell Chemicals' primary marketing tools for a fee of more than [pound sterling]100 000. The new design will be unveiled tomorrow (Thursday). The project to revamp Shell Chemicals' handbook and website took...

Contra pushes right MMA buttons. (News).
February 28, 2002... CONTRA has designed the identity for mobile phone trade body the Mobile Marketing Association, which was unveiled last week. The group has also designed marketing materials, brochures and stationery. The identity is carried across all forms...

Shall we meet at the spa? A holistic approach to health and fitness has spawned 'boutique style' gyms and Richard Clayton finds out how design is making them socially acceptable. (News Analysis).
February 28, 2002... KEEP-FIT culture has come a long way since Jane Fonda and the Green Goddess. From pumping iron to practising Pilates, there are now numerous ways to keep in shape. How you exercise is as much about fashion, it seems, as fighting the flab. ...

Letters.
February 28, 2002... Davies Hall pencils in the correct news information There is incorrect information in the Hurricane and Derwent pencil news article (DW 7 February). The article states that Davies Hall lost the project following an unpaid creative...

Vox pop.
February 28, 2002... Following the Consignia naming debacle (Comment, DW 21 February), what are the best and worst company names that you have encountered -- and why? 'I dislike pretentious conjunctions, like Innogy (innovation and energy). The worst is...

Art of functional design: there will always be links between advertising, art and design, but Tim Rich believes that some boundaries between the disciplines should never be crossed. (Private View).
February 28, 2002... A FEW years back advertising commercials director Tony Kaye and two agency creatives tried to get their venus in Furs spot for Goodyear (or was it Pirelli?) into the Tate Gallery's collection. The film, they claimed, transcended its commercial...

Putney tries to master riverside gateway to nowhere. (Diary).
February 28, 2002... Forget London's Balham gateway to the south', Putney is where it is at. Local architect Devereux Architects has won a competition to design a new gateway to Putney...and Putney is the gateway to, er, well anyway... Devereux has...

Great Britain skis its way to medals with Ogle Noor. (Diary).
February 28, 2002... We're crap and we know we are, at just about every given sport with perhaps an exception for the Beautiful Game. (But if Emile Heskey continues to get a first team start and the Neville brothers continue to exist that point will be debatable.)...

No point being sheepish about your marketing tactics. (Diary).
February 28, 2002... Ever wondered what the farmer and the businessman talk about at provincial 'round tables'? Sheep. No, not in that way. At least, not before dessert. Sheep as advertising media, that's what. When Abbey Telecom managing director Tony Raynor...

2002 Winter Olympics.
February 28, 2002... Caption: A ski-jumping Thomas Alsgaard of Norway wins the 4xl0km gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics, and Christian Zorzi bought back silver for Italy

It is what you do and the way that you do it. (Design Business).
February 28, 2002... The most decisive difference between an outstanding creative team and a poor one is its quality of leadership. Ian Cochrane looks at how great leaders behave. YOU can always recognise a successful creative team when you see one. The output...

Post moderniser: Deborah Maxwell faced the unenviable task of turning an inherently introspective organisation into a consumer-friendly brand. (Client Profile).
February 28, 2002... WHEN is a brand not a brand? When it's a signpost, according to Deborah Maxwell. It's her job to turn the Post Office from a mere signpost on the high street into a commercial brand with real live values. Sounds like a tricky hill to...

Animal instinct: continuing the Herbes series. Mike Dempsey meets up the the creative alchemis Michael Wolff. (Heroes).
February 28, 2002... HE has been accused of being wacky, off-the-wall, eccentric and even impossible. But what is it that has made Michael Wolff shun conventional ways of working? We met at his home on the edge of London's Bloomsbury. I sat at his generous...

Inside information. (Internal Communication).
February 28, 2002... Communicating a business philosophy and brand internally can be just as important as the methods used to market the company and brand to its target market and clients. Mike Exon finds out why this is. WE are all pretty comfortable with the...

Exhibitions.
February 28, 2002... Dutch group Droog Design and German group E15 exhibit designs at Touch Wood from 1-16 March. Venue: Viaduct, 1-10 Summers Street, London EC1. The work of 19th century German glassmakers Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka is celebrated at The...

Decorative feature: Nick Smurthwaite has a look through the book The V&A Guide to Period Styles--400 Years of British Art and Design. (The Week Ahead).
February 28, 2002... Those of us who can't tell our heraldic motifs from our scrolling foliage will find the V&A's Guide to Period Styles an invaluable reference. Reflecting the South Kensington museum's vast array of period artefacts, the book usefully pinpoints...

Seminar.
February 28, 2002... Director of research at the University of Westminster Alison Riepel leads a Design Management Institute seminar on Managing Innovation & Creativity from 4-5 March, exploring how organisations can improve the management of the creative process....

Book.
February 28, 2002... Practical advice, how to achieve new effects and produce typographical presentations for moving image on the Web is included in www.animation, by Jenny Chapman, published this month by Cassell & Co, priced [pounds sterling]18.99.

Talk.
February 28, 2002... The next Graphic Thought Facility talk takes place on 5 March at 7.30pm. Tickets must be booked in advance, priced at [pounds sterling]20 nonmembers, [pounds sterling]15 for members and [pounds sterling]10 for students. Contact:...