Design Week articles from May 2005

Design Week archives from May 2005

BBC Broadcast wins screen test for ITV identities.
May 5, 2005... By Mike Exon In a spectacular turn of events, ITV has appointed the BBC's own design team from BBC Broadcast Creative Services to handle the screen design for its entire channel network. The soon-to-be-sold BBC Broadcast was...

Roster for Natural History Museum.(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... The Natural History Museum is compiling its first roster of designers, Design Week can exclusively reveal. The organisation is looking to sign up between eight and 20 designers to a roster that will run for two years. NHM programme...

WPP builds branding to identity group.(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... WPP has reorganised the bulk of its design interests to create a new brand identity and design grouping. Named B to D Group, the umbrella organisation will include Addison, Enterprise IG, and Lambie-Nairn, Landor Associates and The...

STOP PRESS: Ardill looks for a new experience.(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... Ralph Ardill, former marketing and strategic planning director at Imagination, is to launch a London-based 'experiential consulting venture' this summer, following his departure from the company at the end of last week. Ardill worked at...

STOP PRESS: Leonidas is redesigned by DJPA.(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... DJPA Partnership has been appointed to overhaul the global brand of Belgian chocolate and praline company Leonidas. The consultancy was selected following an international pitch with groups from the chocolatier's domestic markets of Belgium and...

STOP PRESS: Body Shop profits a gift for retailer.(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... The Body Shop has bucked the high street trend, following a comprehensive makeover. Total retail sales growth is up by 5 per cent and the retailer is planning for a 15 to 20 per cent growth in operating profit for the current financial year,...

Holmes Wood rationalises Dulwich Picture Gallery signs.
May 5, 2005... By Sarah Balmond Dulwich Picture Gallery has appointed London design consultancy Holmes Wood to review its visitor wayfinding. Holmes Wood was appointed to the project three weeks ago, following an initial credentials pitch. It is...

Latest adaptation of The Philadelphia Story.(Old Vic theatre)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... The Old Vic theatre's latest adaptation of The Philadelphia Story opens this week, starring Kevin Spacey. London design consultancy Rose has created an evocative programme cover design and spreads, featuring a Harry Beck-style street map of...

Labour and Tories pursue design votes.(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... The Labour Party has made a pledge to 'raise awareness' of design for small businesses and to 'develop' a system of 'creative apprenticeships', if it is elected to a third term of Government this week. The pledges were published last...

Store interiors.(Edinburgh consultancy 442 Design )(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... Edinburgh consultancy 442 Design has created the interiors of women's fashion store Guilty, which opens in the city's Drumsheugh Place next week. The interiors of thee store offer a 'rich and decadent' colour palette, featuring charcoal wall...

Bruges switches Silken Group on to his bright ideas.(Jason Bruges )
May 5, 2005... By Sarah Balmond Lighting designer Jason Bruges is undertaking a design project for the forthcoming London-based luxury hotel and apartment complex run by the Silken Group. The company is behind the #50m Puerta America Hotel in Madrid,...

Enterprise IG packs for new Jammie Dodgers range.(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... Jammie Dodgers is to launch its first ever brand extension this month, with pack designs by Enterprise IG. The iconic children's biscuit brand will be available in two additional flavours, named by the consultancy as Jammin' with Vimto...

Peperami Noodles site by AKQA.(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... Digital design consultancy AKQA has created a series of films and a website to promote Unilever's Peperami Noodles brand on-line and through mobile devices. The website - www.goneabitnoodles.co.uk - launches this week and the creative is...

Ideas conference.(Wechsler Ross & Portet)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... Wechsler Ross & Portet has created a concept and graphic language for Morgan Stanley Investment Management's 'Ideas' conference in Berlin. The design uses pencil illustrations of delegates, key messages and Berlin landmarks. It will run...

IN BRIEF: Featured on-line.
May 5, 2005... The winners of the RSA Design Directions Awards (DW 28 April) will be featured on-line from 20 May at www.rsa-design.net. The postage stamp category winners only will be shown at the Pentagram Gallery. Copyright: Centaur Communications...

IN BRIEF: Louise T Blouin Foundation launch.(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... The Louise T Blouin Foundation was launched this week in New York City, to 'support cultural development across the globe, disseminate culture beyond borders, and generate new knowledge'. Its award trophies have been designed by Ron Arad....

IN BRIEF: Loewy appointed.(Family Housing Association )(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... Loewy Group has been appointed by the Family Housing Association this week, to design its annual reports for the next three years. The design group won the business in a four-way competitive pitch. Copyright: Centaur Communications Ltd....

IN BRIEF: Redesigned newsletter.(K4 Creative)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... Credit Suisse Asset Management has redesigned its Investment Matters newsletter with K4 Creative. The portrait photography for the publication is by Mary Dunkin. Copyright: Centaur Communications Ltd. and licensors

IN BRIEF: Branding for local recycling campaign.(Fudge Studios )(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... Bolton design group Fudge Studios has created the branding for a local recycling campaign. The Bolton Metro initiative has been dubbed 'Bin It, Bag It and Box It'. Copyright: Centaur Communications Ltd. and licensors

IN BRIEF: Studio McLoughlin project.(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... Studio McLoughlin has completed a graphics project for Battersea Dogs Home that will be used as a poster design and direct mail campaign. The photography is by Los Angeles-based Deborah Samuel. Copyright: Centaur Communications Ltd. and...

Tesco rejects traffic lights in favour of nutritional signposts.
May 5, 2005... by Sarah Balmond Tesco, Britain's largest supermarket, is shunning the Government's preferred option of 'traffic light' food labelling following an initial trial period, amid claims that the system is too simplistic and confusing for...

COMMENT: Are apprenticeships a better way of honing business skills?
May 5, 2005... BY LYNDA RELPH-KNIGHT, EDITOR As students prepare for their final shows, the thoughts of many a creative director turn to snapping up the best new talent. A glance at the best work going through the colleges this year suggests they...

Daly churns up identity and interior for Underbelly.(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... By Sarah Balmond Bar designer Paul Daly has created the interiors for Underbelly, 'a rock 'n' roll electro cabaret'-influenced club located in the heart of London's Shoreditch. It opens this week underneath Zigfrid bar in Hoxton...

Free Range grows into its new format.(Old Truman Brewery)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... Free Range, one of the UK's leading festivals of student exhibitions, hosted by the Old Truman Brewery, is upping the ante and overhauling the way it runs the event, as it grows to its largest ever gathering. It will exhibit more than 50...

A profit-building prescription.
May 5, 2005... Boots has designed a comprehensive treatment to improve business. Scott Billings looks at the elements from packaging to stores Boots The Chemists has unveiled the highest profile display so far in its much-needed - and closely watched -...

PRIVATE VIEW: Break from the norm.(Column)
May 5, 2005... Spare a thought for your friends and family when you book a holiday - avoid destinations that just happen to be of design interest, says Jeremy Myerson There they were: the complete picture of misery. Saturday morning in Milan, and an...

INSPIRED: Adam and Mike Beukes, Bite.(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... The first book I ever owned was written by Roald Dahl [says Adam Fenn]. Entitled The Twits, it was the story of a married couple, who lived and festered in their own filth, and who were nasty to everyone, including each other. There was even...

Letter: Sign credits should also point in Thirteen's direction.(Letter to the Editor)
May 5, 2005... Regarding Pamela Buxton's article 'Clean slate' (DW 21 April), I would agree wholeheartedly with Sam Gullam's point that 'people get confused with what's branding and what's information'. Lacock Gullam's utilitarian steel and wood...

Letter: Corporate action speaks louder than branding.(Letter to the Editor)
May 5, 2005... I read with great interest your article on the identity crisis of Abbey and the accompanying back catalogue of rebranding flops (DW 21 April). It strikes me that the flaw of this, and most other rebranding initiatives, is that it was...

Letter: When another company swallows you up.(Letter to the Editor)
May 5, 2005... Your piece on identity crises (DW 21 April) was extremely misleading. The new brand we created with Abbey was working well: research showed it had the best stand-out in the high street of any bank. Abbey changed logo simply because it...

Letter: DBA/Design Council service will extend across the industry.(Letter to the Editor)
May 5, 2005... David Smith asks about the inclusiveness of the matching service that we are developing with the Design Business Association (Letters, DW 21 April). I am happy to reassure him that the brief for the service is that it needs to be objective...

Letter: Let's not forget all the successful Wolff Olins' rebrands.(Letter to the Editor)
May 5, 2005... I am writing in response to David Benady's article headlined Identity Crises. The Abbey case is one of a change in business circumstances. It cannot possibly be put in the category of a rebranding disaster. To say that this case would...

VOX POP.
May 5, 2005... The Chartered Society of Designers appears to be going head-to-head with the Design Business Association, using its Design Association division to provide business development services to consultancies and in-house teams. Is this an issue and...

Profile: Holler.(Interview)
May 5, 2005... Sick of working for wasteful ad agencies, the founders of Holler set the group up to capitalise on their expertise creating commercial work that combined digital and sound design. Trish Lorenz meets the duo To succeed in the music...

LIGHTING: Light fingers.
May 5, 2005... John Stones takes in the bright lights of Euroluce and garners the differing views of two designers on what was going on at the fair Vast halls filled with thousands of lamps shining brightly is a challenging environment for light designs...

TRAINERS: Get a grip.
May 5, 2005... The trainer obsession - which started with sneaker anoraks going to untold lengths to track down rare, discontinued styles - has attracted the attention of the leading manufacturers, which have pumped it up to frenzied levels, says Liz Farrelly...

GRAPHICS: In the round.(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... John Stones previews an exhibition of past and present work by creative publisher Circle Press Books printed on wax, made up of mirrors or containing ingenious pop- ups are the kind of unorthodox ideas that have given the Circle Press,...

DESIGN BUSINESS: Spinning in virtuous circles.(Interview)
May 5, 2005... Jeremy Sice reveals his all-encompassing strategy for running a design consultancy: make long term goals and try not to stretch yourself too thin So many decisions related to running a design consultancy come round time and time again....

Tetsuo takes on Kurosawa.(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... By Yolanda Zappaterra Artist and former lawyer Keisuke Kishi may be the quintessential face of the modern East, but judging by his work, he lives in a world that spans centuries. Looking back 2000 years, his work calls to mind the...

IBM aims to link product design with strategy.(International Business Machines Corp.)
May 12, 2005... IBM is launching its first US-based consulting service specialising in product design, which could potentially be rolled out to other key locations, including the UK, as part of plans to tap into a #250bn global market of untapped business....

Channel 4 launch targets older viewers.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... Channel 4 is ready to begin work on channel branding for its next TV channel, More 4, and is likely to bring in an outside screen design specialist to work alongside its in-house team. Polly Cochrane, director of network marketing for...

Judges for branding awards.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... The first tranche of judges for Design Week's forthcoming awards The Benchmarks has been finalised. From the client side are: Orange director of customer experience Clive Grinyer, managing director of Caper Green Mike Lucy, Kim Priest of...

Lambie-Nairn tweak for Sainsbury's.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... Lambie-Nairn has refreshed Sainsbury's brand communications, replacing the primary Living Orange colour with a softer shade of orange, alongside a broader palette. The consultancy was appointed to the task last year. The refresh applies...

RCA appoints new head of interaction.(Appointed Tony Dunne as Professor and head of department of interaction design)(Royal College of Art )(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... The Royal College of Art has appointed Tony Dunne as Professor and head of department of interaction design. He replaces Professor Irene McAra- McWilliam, who is now a business fellow at InnovationRCA (DW 21 April). Dunne's background in...

New identity for merging art colleges.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... Merging art colleges The Surrey Institute of Art and Design, and Kent Institute of Art and Design are in discussions about their future identity as a new arts university college. The pair are poised to submit an application of name change to...

Design team remodels Mary Rose as interactive museum.
May 12, 2005... A collaborative design team consisting of Land Design Studio, Wilkinson Eyre Architects and Pringle Brandon has been appointed to produce a permanent museum on-board the 16th century relic battleship the Mary Rose. The Mary Rose Trust...

Annual review for Revolving Doors Agency.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... Thorne Creative has designed the 2004-5 annual review for mental health charity Revolving Doors Agency. The body claims to be the only UK charity dedicated to helping people who are trapped in a 'damaging cycle of crisis, crime and mental...

Boden trial of retail formats creates design opportunities.
May 12, 2005... Home shopping retailer Boden is planning to roll out a series of retail templates to test its first raft of high street shops over the 'next couple of years', Design Week can exclusively reveal. It has also been working with design...

RFA Designers designs.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... Bradford group RFA Designers has unveiled its designs for the new science and technology-based exhibition centre, the Hope Pit Scheme, at the National Coal Mining Museum for England. RFA has created interactive displays, graphics, signage and...

Science Museum identifies creative groups to work on Aliens exhibition.
May 12, 2005... The Science Museum is collaborating with a raft of design groups, including Urban Salon, Bibliotheque and Art+Com, on its long- anticipated autumn 'blockbuster' exhibition, Aliens. The organisation has appointed consultancies to create the...

Patrick Eagar reaches 50 not out with exhibition by Csaky.
May 12, 2005... An exhibition showcasing 33 years of Test Match cricket photography by Patrick Eagar opens at Lord's cricket ground in London later this month, with exhibition design by Csaky Associates. The group was appointed to the work without a...

Summer Exhibition.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... The Royal College of Art hosts its summer exhibition, Like Nowhere Else, comprising four shows of contemporary work by postgraduate artists and designers. Animation, product design, industrial design engineering, interaction and vehicle design...

Holmes Wood signs for art school.(Holmes Wood Consultancy)(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... Holmes Wood has been appointed to design a wayfinding, signage and graphic scheme for Wimbledon School of Art. The scheme will reach across the art and design organisation's campus, taking in its three schools: The School of Foundation...

Penguin website.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... Poke has designed website www.happybirthdaypenguin.com to promote the 70 'pocket Penguin' books released by the publisher to coincide with its 70th anniversary. Copyright: Centaur Communications Ltd. and licensors

To The Point appointed.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... The Institute of Physics has appointed To The Point to design the identity and graphics for its Lab in a Lorry project. The scheme will involve kitting out a series of 10m-long lorries with physics apparatus for the educational benefit of...

Branding and packaging for Camouflage Cafe.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... Wickstead Design is creating the branding and packaging for the soon-to- launch Camouflage Cafe. The healthy options food chain will target people with allergies and food intolerance diets. Copyright: Centaur Communications Ltd. and...

Renton and Johnston appointed.(OPM Furniture )(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... Renton & Johnston has been appointed by OPM Furniture to design marketing materials that include a website, a company brochure and other print graphics. Copyright: Centaur Communications Ltd. and licensors

Competition to redesign the identity of Glasgow.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... Design students at Cardonald College are being invited to take part in a competition to redesign the identity of Glasgow and win a paid job at 999 Design for six months. The consultancy may also extend the scheme to its Manchester and London...

WRAP award.(Waste & Resources Action Programme )(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... The Waste & Resources Action Programme has awarded #650,000 to the Faraday Packaging Partnership for trialling the manufacture of lighter glass bottles and jars in a bid to reduce consumer waste. Brand owners working on the trials will...

Egovision website.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... Digital design consultancy Egovision has created a website, www.ong- bak.co.uk, and on-line marketing for the theatrical release of martial arts film Ong-Bak, which opens this Friday. Copyright: Centaur Communications Ltd. and licensors

COMMENT: Value your work in this competitive global economy.
May 12, 2005... BY LYNDA RELPH-KNIGHT, EDITOR A debate at the Design Council last week revisited the idea of new business models for design. The event, called Value your Work, sought to bring together consultancies that have succeeded in doing things...

Mather & Co serves up flexible Wimbledon store.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... The All England Lawn Tennis Club at Wimbledon next month opens a premium retail store, created by Mather & Co, with DHA Design, 1977 and Big Studio Glass Design. The 280m2 space will operate all year round, acting as the site's primary...

300million tunes up identity for LSO.(London Symphony Orchestra )(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... The London Symphony Orchestra is updating its branding with London design group 300million. The Partners' breakaway is near to completing brand guidelines and is set to implement a series of revised designs across its various sub- brands....

Mail order retail in decline as Internet shopping booms.
May 12, 2005... Last year Internet shopping overtook mail order catalogues as the most popular form of home shopping for the first time ever. The days of the catalogue 'big book' may be numbered as consumers shun the old- fashioned format to embrace a...

Leaflet for Victim Support.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... Three portraits of young people by artist Julian Opie are featured on the cover of a leaflet for national crime charity Victim Support, designed in-house. Copyright: Centaur Communications Ltd. and licensors

PocketDAB 2000.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... The PocketDAB 2000 is from Pure Digital. Designed in-house, the unit combines a digital radio with an MP3 player and will be available later in the year. Copyright: Centaur Communications Ltd. and licensors

The battle is on for screen time.(BBC Broadcast )( ITV)
May 12, 2005... BBC Broadcast won the ITV rebrand last week, but with a budget of around #1m, Mike Exon asks, are the days of big budget screen-branding numbered? Last Friday, ITV marketing director Clare Salmon put in a telephone call to BBC Broadcast....

Inspired: Martin Grimer, Coley Porter Bell.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... Receiving a brief from Chivas Brothers to design its Royal Salute 38- year-old scotch whisky, an inspirational chord was struck. The design of the bottle - targeted at the Asian market - had to be lavish, opulent and steeped in British...

Letter: Simple ideas are lost on clients due to buzz-wording.(Letter to the Editor)
May 12, 2005... Having attended a number of industry events recently, there still seems to be a habit of referring to 'design' as if it is a thing. This implies it is a separate entity, a bolt-on goody - to make something more expensive. I suspect this...

Letter: Doomed BA tailfins fly high in my estimation.(Letter to the Editor)
May 12, 2005... I was interested to see British Airways' identity of 1997 held up as an example of failed rebranding (DW 21 April). For me this rebranding was inspired. Yes, it did look much less like a British institution, and it did lose some of its...

Letter: D&AD talks should aim for better quality of public speakers.(Letter to the Editor)
May 12, 2005... Does D&AD really reflect the true standard of British design or is it just another organisation in its death throes, clinging to some sort of credibility in the hope of better days to come? I recently attended D&AD's Going Global: Japan -...

Letter: No7 makeover includes the team at Enterprise IG.(Letter to the Editor)
May 12, 2005... In your News Analysis (DW 5 May), you mention that Boots' regeneration programme draws on the work of a substantial list of design consultancies, but did not include Enterprise IG. We redesigned the No7 brand logo, working closely with...

Voxpop.(marketing )
May 12, 2005... WPP launched its internal-facing branding-to-identity umbrella B to D Group last week with Landor Associates, Enterprise IG, Addison, Lambie- Nairn and The Partners. What benefits can such groupings create when they are not physically sharing...

Profile: Arik Levy.
May 12, 2005... Arik Levy has tried his hand at virtually every design discipline, taking a practical approach to office design while creating lighting and furniture with a quirky touch Hannah Booth asks about his personal approach You might be forgiven...

GRAPHIC NOVELS: Dynamic duo.
May 12, 2005... Top Shelf's uncompromising formula - its books are the result of painstaking collaboration between the publisher's founders and its writers - has enabled it to build up quite a portfolio in a short space of time, says Yolanda Zappaterra ...

RETAIL: Clean sweep.
May 12, 2005... Ikea is such a hot property that not even the midnight crowd crush at the company's Edmonton store opening earlier this year dampened enthusiasm for the brand. Hannah Booth reviews Great Ikea! You've bought the shaky bookcase, eaten the...

DESIGN BUSINESS: Name of the branding game.
May 12, 2005... Peter Matthews explains how Nucleus has boosted its branding offer with the acquisition of an intellectual property specialist It is debatable how much protection was actually provided by branding your cattle in the unruly years after the...

Light sabre at the end of the tunnel.(Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope)(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... By Mark Delaney In the 2001 UK census 390,000 people registered their religion as Jedi, a powerful indication of the hold that the Star Wars mythology still has over the generations who refuse to grow up. In 1977 I was nine, and Star...

Absolut sculpts plan to bring Icebar to central London.(Brief Article)
May 19, 2005... By Sarah Balmond Leading Swedish vodka brand Absolut is teaming up with the entrepreneurs behind the Icehotel in Sweden and start-up company Below Zero London to bring the UK's first frozen ice bar to London. A raft of designers and...

20th birthday revamp for Cornerhouse.(Brief Article)
May 19, 2005... Cornerhouse, Manchester's international centre for contemporary visual arts and film, is undertaking a major overhaul in design. This is the first time it has changed its identity, website, interiors and wayfinding system since it launched...

Sign update for Milton Keynes.(Brief Article)
May 19, 2005... Applied Information Group and Lacock Gullam have been appointed to develop a wayfinding and signage strategy for Central Milton Keynes, as the area embarks on extensive development. The consultancies were awarded the collaborative contract...

STOP PRESS: Nintendo plugs in NY concept store.(Brief Article)
May 19, 2005... Nintendo has made its first move into retail with the launch of a concept store in New York's Rockefeller Center last weekend. Designed in-house, the two-floor store offers 920m2 of retail space, and features interactive systems based around...

STOP PRESS: University of the Arts' top honours.(Brief Article)
May 19, 2005... A number of eminent figures from the world of art and design are to receive honorary degrees from University of the Arts London next week. Among those receiving honorary fellowships are Terence Conran and cartoonist, artist and writer Ralph...

STOP PRESS: DBA selects new heads for regions.(Appointments)(Brief Article)
May 19, 2005... The DBA has appointed two regional heads of development: Carol Whitworth, creative director at Home, for the South West and Trevor Flannery, sales director at Stocks Taylor Benson, for the Midlands. Copyright: Centaur Communications Ltd....