Design Week articles from January 2005

Design Week archives from January 2005

Designers to fuel museum revamp.(H Studios)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2005... The Science Museum in London this week embarks on the second phase of its #50m, ten-year masterplan, which will see the creation of an expanded shop by Lumsden Design Partnership and a cafe designed by H Studios. Alongside these retail...

Superdrug announces new roster.(Superdrug Stores PLC)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2005... Superdrug has overhauled its packaging design roster after throwing the list out for pitch to around 20 consultancies in December. Retained on the roster are Turner Duckworth, Inovus and Radius Design, while Taxi Studio, Biles Inc, Mayday...

Johnson Banks to rebuild Cabe look?(Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2005... Johnson Banks has been appointed to review the Commission for Architecture and Built Environment's identity, as the organisation moves to clarify its positioning and deliver a greater consistency of brand. It is the first update of the...

Elmwood London assists the RAC.(Royal Automobile Club Business Solutions)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2005... Elmwood London has been appointed to create naming, identity and marketing materials for a new service from RAC Business Solutions, the motoring association's business arm. The division is planning to launch a branded range of services...

JHP flies into Lyon with plan.(Lyon Saint-Exupery Airport)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2005... JHP has been appointed to create the commercial masterplan for Lyon Airport, France's busiest airport outside Paris. The consultancy was awarded the project following an international competition. The plan will aim to reconfigure the...

I Love Dust and Riba to aid Asia.(Royal Institute of British Architects)(tsunami assistance)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2005... The design industry has yet to issue a consolidated response to the tsunami disaster in Asia, but Hampshire-based I Love Dust has launched an initiative called Designed to Help that will send proceeds to charities working in the region. ...

COMMENT: Put user needs first in spite of commercial pressures.
January 6, 2005... BY LYNDA RELPH-KNIGHT We can all learn from Johnson Banks founder Michael Johnson. Not content with scoring an unprecedented double with his Royal Mail Fruit & Veg stamps last year, winning Best of Show in the Design Week Awards and a...

Pentagram bags 'fictional country' BBC assignment.(British Broadcasting Corp.)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2005... Pentagram has been appointed to create the identity for a fictitious country that will see the design group featured in a forthcoming BBC2 series. Entitled How to Start Your Own Country, the six-part series will chronicle author Danny...

Revamp for Agents' Association.(Creatiscope won its first international business from Salty Girls)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2005... The Agents' Association launches a revamped identity by Creatiscope Design this month, as it moves to modernise its 70-year-old image and reinforce its connections with the entertainment industry. The association's members represent...

Tara Bernerd furniture collection.(Brief Article)
January 6, 2005... Interior designer Tara Bernerd has launched her first furniture collection, called Tara B. Consisting of a range of textured sofas, chairs, tables, mirrors and lamps, Tara B features the Stud Club leather chair, a pastiche of the traditional...

Unreal poster.(London's first Russian Winter Festival)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2005... Unreal has designed a poster to promote London's first Russian Winter Festival, which takes place in Trafalgar Square next Saturday. The poster will launch on London Underground this Friday and features the headline Red Square SW1. It makes...

Bibliotheque on the menu for Busaba Eatthai.(Brief Article)
January 6, 2005... Restaurateur Alan Yau is to open a third Busaba Eathai, on London's Bird Street, in April next year, with graphics designed by Bilbliotheque. The Busaba chain currently comprises two London restaurants - in Wardour Street and Store...

Sexy briefs for Oliver and All of Us.(Vaughan Oliver)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2005... Vaughan Oliver and All of Us have collaborated to promote the latest collection for Sam Roddick's luxury erotica brand Coco de Mer. Oliver, a former 4AD record designer, was appointed to create the brand's Book of Inspiration, a lavishly...

Saville collaborates on mobile art download site.(Peter Saville )(Brief Article)
January 6, 2005... A host of leading designers and artists, including Peter Saville and Malcolm Garrett, has collaborated to create an on-line gallery of content for mobile phones called Candyspace. The site, at www.candyspace.tv, launches this month and...

Proposed chain of stores.(first retail outlet of confectionery store Hotel Chocolat)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2005... Windsor consultancy Hunter Design has created the format for the first retail outlet of confectionery store Hotel Chocolat. The shop in the Harlequin Centre in Watford will act as a pilot for a proposed chain of stores, as the luxury...

Correction: Terry Farrell and Partners.(Correction Notice)
January 6, 2005... Architect Terry Farrell and Partners conceived the masterplan and digital sketch of Greenwich Peninsula (DW 16 December 2004) - not Barr Gazetas, which designed the plans for Millennium Square. Copyright: Centaur Communications Ltd. and...

Website launch.(Promax & BDA )(Brief Article)
January 6, 2005... Promax & BDA is launching a website, www.dzine.tv, for the broadcast design community next Monday. The site, designed by New York design group Nth Degree, will feature excerpts from current broadcast projects from around the world. ...

Somerfield sherries.(Somerfield has repackaged its range of sherries)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2005... Somerfield has repackaged its range of sherries, with label design by SiebertHead. The designs use a triangular graphic device composed of colour-coded circles. Copyright: Centaur Communications Ltd. and licensors

Enterprise IG appointments and promotions.(Brief Article)
January 6, 2005... Enterprise IG has made a raft of senior appointments and promotions. Former Sitrick & Company partner and Financial Times journalist Alan Brew has been appointed worldwide president, former Germany chief executive Andreas Unger becomes...

Showcase publication for Shisha.(Vivid designs for south asian arts agency)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2005... Vivid has designed a showcase publication for Shisha, a Manchester- based agency for contemporary South Asian crafts and visual arts. Titled Handasah, the brochure will accompany an exhibition by Islamic artist Zarah Hussain. Copyright:...

Advertising spend in the UK.(Brief Article)
January 6, 2005... Advertising spend in the UK has risen by 4.6 per cent, growing to #3610m in the three months to September 2004. The largest beneficiary was cinema advertising, up more than 23 per cent year on year, with TV and regional newspapers also...

Plan to freeze arts funding could hit design industry.
January 6, 2005... The design industry faces a New Year blow as the Department for Culture, Media and Sport announces plans that will effectively cut Government arts organisations subsidy by about #30m in real terms over three years. The department's...

Two TV campaigns.(Brief Article)
January 6, 2005... Up Creative and animation specialist Conkerco, working with Emap TV Design, have created two TV campaigns in support of hard rock brand Kerrang. The two campaigns feature eight sequences in the style of 1970s public information pieces, 'twisted...

The game plan for 2005.(design services forecast)
January 6, 2005... After a cautious 2004, which saw the design industry collectively hold its breath, designers and consultancy bosses seem genuinely bullish about their prospects for the coming year. As advertising revenues slowly improve across the board and...

INSPIRED: DAVE PALMER, LOVE CREATIVE.(Brief Article)
January 6, 2005... I'm not in Loooove... so don't forrrget it. Well actually, in our case, we are. Which is why, among other horrors, I mention 10cc. It's a particularly sadistic company that deliberately exposes itself to painful 1970s revisionism (I'm...

PRIVATE VIEW: Close the business case.(media coverage of design)
January 6, 2005... If design wants more press it needs to stop emphasising its value as a business driver, says Adrian Shaughnessy. It may be true, but it isn't visually appealing In a recent Vox Pop (2 December 2004) a number of prominent design- world...

Letter: Not everyone is out to steal business and contacts.(Letter to the Editor)
January 6, 2005... In response to Ian Silverstein's article on common experience (DW 2 December 2004) I can say this: I have had quite regular meetings with Ian over the past two to three years, which I believe have been fairly open and without any of the...

Letter: There's no need to frown upon in-house designers.(Letter to the Editor)
January 6, 2005... I could never understand why British designers look down their noses at what we call in-house designers. Where would Nike, Apple, Nokia, Philips, Samsung, Whirlpool, Sony, Tupperware, Lamborghini, Renault, Nissan or any other automobile...

Letter: Sustainability will be this year's design challenge.(Letter to the Editor)
January 6, 2005... In product and packaging design, wherever it is practised, the increasingly dominant issues this year (see Vox Pop column) will revolve around sustainability - for the environment, of course, but also in terms of sustaining value. Jim...

VOX POP.
January 6, 2005... What central issues will dominate design consultancies in your region over the course of 2005? 'Global warming, terrorism, the Euro, the dollar, light delays, paternity leave, smoking ban, political correctness, politics, cultural...

DESIGN BUSINESS: Making the right moves.
January 6, 2005... After integrating Boots the Chemists' in-house design team last summer, Mark Shaw discusses his experience of European Tupe legislation In-house design teams aren't always as cost-effective as they seem, and outsourcing to an external...

DESIGN ON TV: CRITICAL MASSES.(ITV PLC provides program on everyday design classics)
January 6, 2005... Design is rarely featured on prime-time TV, but an ITV series is about to change this, says Clare Dowdy Television and design do not always make the best bedfellows. Sure, there have been some examples of well thought-out programmes that...

PHOTOGRAPHY: Shoot it out.(Deutsche Borse Prize)
January 6, 2005... At last photography in Europe has its own Oscars equivalent - the Deutsche Borse Prize. Edward Barber looks at the four finalists in view for this year's prestigious award It's official: photography has finally come of age. It's up there...

APPLIED ART: COLLECT CALLING.
January 6, 2005... Collect is capitalising on the growing international market for applied art, discovers Miriam Cadji This month the Victoria & Albert Museum plays host to Collect, a show that bills itself as 'the international art fair for contemporary...

REVIEW: Can't help buying a single.(Elvis album art)
January 6, 2005... Over the coming weeks, Elvis's 18 UK number one singles will be re- released. Richard Clayton reports Short of a New Year's resolution? Here's one that doesn't involve dieting, cutting back or doing without in any way. Sure, you must...

Steers McGillan to deliver mail range.
January 13, 2005... The British Postal Museum & Archive, an organisation responsible for managing Royal Mail heritage, is planning to open a multi-million pound museum by 2008 and has appointed Steers McGillan to develop merchandise ranges which showcase...

NTL ready to play identity by DEJ.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... Cable operator NTL is poised to launch Europe's first major cable video on-demand television service, with the visual identity, animated on- screen idents and user interface all designed by Dunning Eley Jones. NTL On Demand will roll out...

Ford car set to fire up Imagination.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... Imagination has designed dashboard displays and in-car multimedia for Ford's latest concept vehicle, launching at the North American Motorshow in Detroit this week. Called the Mercury Meta One, the car features a mini-cinema screen,...

Tollit to take on principal role.(Jon Tollit)(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... Gensler Worldwide has promoted senior associate Jon Tollit to principal of the firm's London office. Tollit joined the group in 2001 as technical director and design leader of Studio 585, the consultancy's branding and retail offer, and...

Call for pitching code of practice.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... Pearlfisher creative partner Jonathan Ford has called for the design industry to raise its professional standards, instead of 'continually devaluing' itself through free-pitching. Rather than blame industry bodies, says Ford, designers...

Gallery in frame for Lottery aid.(Whitechapel Art Gallery)(Museum of Childhood)(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... London's Whitechapel Art Gallery has won a #3.28m Heritage Lottery Fund grant to aid an expansion that will almost double its exhibition space. The #12.3m scheme includes a street level restaurant, expanded bookshop and improved disabled...

Wheel turned over to LB Icon.(Wheel Communications )(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... Interactive group Wheel Communications has been acquired by LB Icon, a Stockholm and Amsterdam-listed Internet consulting company. Wheel employs 90 people at its London and Glasgow offices. Chief executive Philip Hunt says the deal provides...

COMMENT: Website will make public sector tendering easier.
January 13, 2005... BY LYNDA RELPH-KNIGHT For now, the website that promises to make access to Government contracts easier is only at planning stage, with the call out for tenders to design the site (see News, page 5). But once it is live, it could encourage...

CuriousOranj's interest in Learning Centre pays off.(Glasgow Caledonian University)(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... Glasgow Caledonian University this week appointed local group CuriousOranj to design interiors for its #20m Learning Centre, following a three-way pitch in November. The 9300m2 space is split into several distinct areas, including a...

Edge has ingredients for Borough Market eatery.(Edge Design to design interiors to Roast)(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... Edge Design is drawing up the interiors for Roast, a London restaurant and bar due to open in spring this year. Roast is the latest project from Iqbal Wahhab, founder of the Cinnamon Club, which is located in the Grade II-listed Old...

Competition-winning sculpture.(B of the Bang)(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... Thomas Heatherwick's competition-winning sculpture B of the Bang is unveiled in Manchester this week. Standing at 56 metres high, it is the tallest sculpture in the UK. It is made of steel specifically designed to weather to varying degrees...

Supermodel radiator.(Peter Rankin's dancing woman model)(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... A radiator lasciviously curved like a dancing woman has been produced by Peter Rankin Design for Radiating Style, a designer radiator manufacturer. The model is called Charlotte and has been dubbed the world's first supermodel radiator....

Zimmi shines with Allies branding.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... Allies has designed an identity and branding for start-up diamond retailer Zimmi, and is set to create interiors, a website, print material and packaging for the company. The brand and identity launch this month, ahead of the retail...

Pearlfisher's identity a catch for Spoylt lingerie.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... Pearlfisher has created the brand identity for Spoylt, a new independent retailer specialising in luxury lingerie, due to launch in the UK and the US in February. The consultancy was appointed last July. It has created a marque and retail...

Waitrose eats up B&G packaging.(Butcher & Gundersen)(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... Butcher & Gundersen has redesigned the low-fat Perfectly Balanced food range for Waitrose, introducing clearer packaging and improved nutritional labelling in response to the growing problem of obesity in the UK. The consultancy was...

Pure refreshes packaging.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... Pure has refreshed the packaging for breath freshener product Goldspot, which is manufactured by the personal grooming and homecare brand group LornaMead. The designs see the gold-coloured canister become matt black in an attempt to promote...

Tor Pettersen appointed.(Tor Pettersen & Partners)(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... Tor Pettersen & Partners has been appointed by healthcare company Ark Therapeutics to design its first annual report. The consultancy won the work following a three-way pitch. Copyright: Centaur Communications Ltd. and licensors

NESTA event.(National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts)(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... Hat-Trick Design has produced graphics, posters, a programme and signage for the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts' Imagining the Future conference. The event will be held at the Business Design Centre in London on 25...

D-Squared designs.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... D-Squared has designed the latest series of four school building procurement publications from the Government's Department for Education and Skills. The consultancy undertook research and graphic design after being appointed in 2001. ...

Ingenious Media website.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... The Chase London has designed a website - www.ingeniousmedia.co.uk - for Ingenious Media. The site, which launches this week, features photography by Paul Tozer. Copyright: Centaur Communications Ltd. and licensors

National on-line portal.(Small Business Service and Office of Government Commerce launces a website)(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... The Small Business Service and Office of Government Commerce are to launch a national on-line portal that will act as a gateway between UK companies and the procurement of Government contracts. A tender for the site's design and construction is...

Packaging for Seasons.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... Landor Associates has designed packaging for Seasons, a snack offering from Quaker that launches this month. Packaging across the three-strong range, which is based on crispbread, features ingredient photography on a black background. ...

Font adopted.(Chrysalis Books is using the Read Regular font )(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... Educational publisher Chrysalis Books is using the Natascha Frensch- designed Read Regular font - created to help readers with dyslexia comprehend text - across a series of its educational children's books. Frensch, herself dyslexic, designed...

Stuart Moth appointed.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... Into has appointed Stuart Moth as project lighting designer. He joins the consultancy's retail design team at the Shoreditch studio in London from lighting manufacturer I Guzzini. Copyright: Centaur Communications Ltd. and licensors

New name and identity for the Solicitors Family Law Association.(Solicitors Family Law Association)(Resolution)(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... CGI BrandSense has created a new name and identity for the Solicitors Family Law Association, to help the organisation become a household name. The association is now known as Resolution and receives a refreshed colour palette. ...

Branding for weeknight shows.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... English & Pockett has designed the on-screen branding for Discovery Home & Leisure's five weeknight shows: Property Monday, Turbo Tuesday, Mid Week Retreat, Big Build Thursday and Fish on Friday. The sequences go on air on 17 January. ...

Helen Green Design appointed.(Sandpiper Hotel )(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... London consultancy Helen Green Design has been appointed to produce luxury suites for The Sandpiper Hotel in Barbados. The two suites are scheduled for completion by next Christmas. Copyright: Centaur Communications Ltd. and licensors

Explosive designs.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... Explosive has designed the corporate identity, packaging design, on- line illustrations and photography for Fitbug, a Web-based fitness brand that will provide consumers with tailored fitness plans. The service launches this week. ...

Wren & Rowe packs Spice & Co.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... Wren & Rowe has created naming, identity and packaging for Spice & Co, a ten-strong range of frozen chicken products from food manufacturing giant Grampian Country Food Group. The range launches across Europe this month. The project is...

Ottakar's to trial in-store You Zone.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... Harper Collins' in-house design team has created interiors, signage and point-of-sale material for You Zone, an area in Ottakar's book stores that will consolidate the retailer's rapidly growing Mind, Body, Spirit and Health sector. This is...

Household bags furniture brief.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... Household has been appointed to design in-store communications and marketing collateral for furniture retailer New Heights, after seeing off Four IV and Caulder Moore in a three-way pitch. It is the first time New Heights has worked with a...

Qualtex found guilty of copying visual elements Dyson's products.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... Vacuum cleaner manufacturer Dyson has won a case in the High Courts of Justice against Qualtex, a supplies company that was infringing Dyson's design rights. In a ruling just before Christmas, a judge found that the Chinese manufacturer...

University of Kent magazine.(Third Eye Design)(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... Glasgow group Third Eye Design has redesigned the University of Kent magazine, creating six covers that will be used over the next three years. The consultancy won the contract following a three-way pitch in November 2004. The twice-yearly...

Posters to promote Audio.(Red Design)(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... Brighton-based Red Design has created a series of posters to promote local nightclub Audio. The posters are printed on both sides. Listings of events are featured on one side and the musings of Audio, a brand character developed by the...

Designers could cash in on weak Christmas sales.
January 13, 2005... Christmas failed to sparkle as strongly on the high street as it did on- line, according to a report from retail analyst Verdict. Its E-retail 2005 research shows that Internet retailers have enjoyed record sales, jumping by 44.5 per cent...

What are the objectives for 2005?
January 13, 2005... At the start of a new year, Trish Lorenz asks what we can expect from the main design industry bodies Delivering business advice, lobbying Government, awarding gongs to the most creative and effective consultancies - the official industry...

Letter: Let's all donate to those who have lost their future.(Letter to the Editor)
January 13, 2005... I didn't know how to start this letter, so I decided the best way was just to express my thoughts about the tsunami disaster. Teviot sponsors 14 children spread throughout the third world. Each child is able to get medical supplies,...

Letter: Designers must be both engineers and stylists.(Letter to the Editor)
January 13, 2005... James Dyson's recent Dimbleby Lecture presented the case for engineering as the saviour of 21st century Britain, urging us to get over our obsession with superficial styling and concentrate on making things. But as Peter Isherwood noted in...

Letter: David Brend inspired us in the search for solutions.(Letter to the Editor)
January 13, 2005... Many of us were sad to read about the death of graphic designer David Brend (News, DW 16 December 2004). David had worked with most, if not all, of the key players in the very competitive international property marketing sector and was...

VOX POP.(Designers wish)
January 13, 2005... How do you think architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw might raise design's profile in the arts through his presidency of the Royal Academy of Arts and what should we as an industry do to help him? 'The Royal Academy of Arts restricts its...

PRIVATE VIEW: A modern ale? No way.
January 13, 2005... The word 'modern' is all too often bandied about thoughtlessly in advertising. The label on a bottle of beer makes Hugh Pearman reflect on its meaning It was a perfectly nice bottle of beer. I drank all of it, slowly, with reasonable if...

INSPIRED: Bruce Duckworth - Turner Duckworth.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... One of the benefits of being in a partnership of which half is in California is that there is always an excuse to go there when the daily grind seems to be taking over. There's an opportunity to see new things and come back feeling inspired...

DESIGN BUSINESS: Calling for standards.(Column)
January 13, 2005... The design industry would benefit immensely from agreeing on a code of practice for the pitching and commissioning process, argues Jonathan Ford Looking in the wing mirrors of 2004, I am reminded of a familiar problem that holds the...

FURNITURE: DIFFERENT IDEALS.(Interview)
January 13, 2005... Designing Utopian spaces is not an easy task. Dominic Lutyens looks at two women designers' interpretations of what constitutes a good design For the first time, two women designers - Patricia Urquiola and Hella Jongerius - have been...

SIGNAGE: Showing the way.
January 13, 2005... How do you go about designing a system for guiding visitors through renowned buildings, using signs that are easy to follow and don't detract from the spaces? Trish Lorenz finds out Creating a signage scheme that effectively directs...

REVIEW: City of Glass goes graphic.
January 13, 2005... Faber is publishing Paul Auster's novel as a comic book. Does this venture work? asks Andrzej Klimowski When The New York Trilogy came out almost 20 years ago, I was extremely excited. Paul Auster, a then new American writer, presented...

Design buying at RHM under review.(RHM Limited)(Brief Article)
January 20, 2005... RHM, one of Britain's largest food companies, is reviewing the way it procures design and other marketing services, in a move that could lead to the creation of a formal design roster. The company owns brands such as Hovis, Mr Kipling and...

Pocknell diversifies with CDG work.(Brief Article)
January 20, 2005... In an unusual move for design David Pocknell has joined Conran Design Group as executive creative director, while remaining at the helm of his Essex consultancy Pocknell Studios. Pocknell, who has signed a year's contract, will head a...

McConnell resigns from Pentagram.(Brief Article)
January 20, 2005... Pentagram partner John McConnell is resigning his directorship of the consultancy at the end of March. Architect William Russell, designer of the Alexander McQueen flagship store in New York City, has been headhunted for the soon-to-be...