Design Week back issues from October 2001:
Groups line up for Reuters overhaul. (News).
Oct 04, 2001; ... REUTERS, the global news and information service, is looking for a consultancy to implement the strategy created for it by Wolff Olins. Wolff Olins has created a mission statement for Reuters that will drive the company's overall strategy, including branding and positioning, for ...
Airport extension may not take off. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... A QUESTION mark hangs over the building of the [pounds sterling]450m (Austrian Schillings 10bn) extension to Vienna International Airport, for which JHP is designing the interiors and retail concept, following the attacks in the US last month. The new terminal was scheduled for ...
100% Design fire sparks evacuation. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... EXHIBITORS were evacuated and visitors turned away from the 100% Design show on Saturday morning, after thick smoke overwhelmed the Earls Court 2 venue. An electrical fire in the control room, three floors below the exhibition hall, broke out at 8.30am and smoke soon filled the ...
Identica reviews overall staffing. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... THE IDENTICA PARTNERSHIP has embarked on a review of its staffing levels in response to the downturn in the media and marketing sector in the wake of the 11 September attacks on the US. The objective is to reduce staffing levels to reflect the anticipated needs of current and ...
LSO plays to The Partners identity. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... THE London Symphony Orchestra unveiled its corporate identity, which has been designed by The Partners, on Sunday. The launch coincided with the ...
Soane goes to Project Orange. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... FORMER Conran & Partners director James Soane has joined architecture and interior design consultancy Project Orange. Soane this week joins Christopher Ash as co-director of the five-strong team. Project Orange will ...
The design heroes shine through to brighten future. (Comment).
Oct 04, 2001; ... Times are tough, but design will rally round and make the best of the situation. I can predict this with confidence because it has happened before. Design has consistently shown the value of its offer to a client or customer where the less flexible ad industry has failed. Its ...
Journeys By DJ.
Oct 04, 2001 ... Caption: Journeys By DJ, a DJ mix album label, is releasing a new CD on 21 October with a sleeve designed by Rob Wade. The brief was to convey ...
Hutchinson Leek revamps loyalty club for Huggies. (News).
Oct 04, 2001; ... KIMBERLEY CLARK has appointed Manchester-based consultancy Hutchinson Leek to relaunch its loyalty scheme, the Huggies Mother & Baby Club, Design Week can exclusively reveal. Kimberley Clark's European marketing manager Sarah Langan says the fee for the loyalty club work is ...
Pure by Design styles Lee Stafford. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... PURE BY DESIGN is launching hairdresser Lee Stafford's first haircare range, which will be available in Boots The Chemists stores nationwide and Stafford's salon in London's Soho. The consultancy won the [pounds sterling]30 000 project after an unpaid creative pitch against ...
Metaphor steers museum ahead. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... METAPHOR is creating the exhibition concept and generic building development for Glasgow's Museum of Transport and Industry, which is scheduled to open in three to five years. The museum will replace the existing Glasgow Museum of Transport but will expand to tell the story of ...
Nesta identity goes full Blast. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... BLAST has been appointed to create the identity and literature for an educational software scheme instigated by the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts. FutureLab is an initiative that brings programmers and software and games developers together with people ...
Audi petrol cap.
Oct 04, 2001 ... Caption: An Audi petrol cap and a stainless steel roll bar have been turned into non-automotive 'conversation pieces' such as lights and a coffee table respectively by Jam for the car manufacturer. Prototypes of the products, which are scheduled for completion in the New Year, will be on ...
Ahli United banking on Intergraphic identity. (News).
Oct 04, 2001; ... INTERGRAPHIC has created a six-figure brand identity for recently formed Middle East bank, Ahli United, which went live on Monday. Last week the consultancy won a five-figure project to produce an annual report for First Islamic (DW 27 September). Ahli United Bank, ...
Freeflex wears Dew Gibbons brand. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... DEW GIBBONS has created the brand identity, packaging and promotional literature for Freeflex, Aristoc's latest control tights brand, which launches this week. The brief was to mirror the brand's technological developments that differentiate it from its rivals in the packaging ...
North Creative. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... Former Deepgroup chief executive Gary Lockton has resurfaced as chief executive ...
Cow & Gate Organic. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... Loewy has created packaging for the baby food brand Cow & Gate Organic's range of packet meals and juices, which went on shelf on ...
Johnson Banks. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... Johnson Banks creative director Michael Johnson and designer Luke Gifford have created the design for Design ...
Merck KGaA. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... Landor Hamburg has created a global identity, brand platform and brand strategy for Merck KGaA, the pharmaceuticals and chemicals manufacturer, Design Week can ...
Pentagram. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... Pentagram made two designers redundant last week due to a freeze on all ...
Lewis Silkin. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... Precedent has designed a website for London law firm Lewis ...
Imark. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... Event management company Imark has appointed Green Dome Marketing to design ...
Big Picture. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... Designing for the hospitality sector (pubs, bars, clubs, hotels, coffee shops, restaurants, etc) is the focus of the next Big Picture supplement, which is published on 22 ...
Mytton Williams springs into Bath. (News).
Oct 04, 2001; ... A [pounds sterling]20.6m landmark project that will enable visitors to Bath to bathe in the UK's only natural hot spring waters is to be branded by Mytton Williams. The Bath Spa project, its working title, opens in autumn 2002. Mytton Williams, which won a five-way pitch for the ...
Sieberthead in anti-aging bid. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... DEAD SEA LABORATORIES' first anti-aging products make their UK debut this week, with naming, branding and packaging by Sieberthead. The consultancy has also created the structural design of the jars for the Timeline brand. Sieberthead was briefed to create designs ...
Eventer skims credit card fraud with APCS. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... EVENTER DESIGN has created marketing material for a national campaign designed to crackdown on credit card fraud, which starts rolling out this week. The group won the [pounds sterling]20 000 project on the strength of direct marketing work it undertook earlier this year for the ...
Saint Design.
Oct 04, 2001 ... Caption: Saint Design's senior designer Rob Perryman has created a limited edition book (spread from the book pictured) to mark Dream 2001, an exhibition of contemporary Chinese art which runs at the Atlantis Gallery, 146 Brick Lane, London E1 from 11-21 October. 'It was a fairly open ...
Chemical balances Rubicon logo. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... CHEMICAL has created the corporate identity for virtual insurance company the Rubicon Corporation, which will be unveiled next week. Chemical is also working on its website, signage, corporate guidelines and promotional material. Later this year it will develop a ...
Cadbury's Fingers. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... Parker Williams has redesigned the identity and packaging for Cadbury's Fingers, which is relaunched this week ....
Enterprise IG. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... Enterprise IG's identity for TXU Energi, the national energy brand, ...
The Design Council. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... The Design Council's [pounds sterling]40 000 Design Sense Award for 2001 has been won by architect ...
The European Commission. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... The European Commission has issued best practice guidelines on website design for ...
Trademark Design. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... Trademark Design has created an identity for South Africa-based petrochemicals ...
O' Zone Communications. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... O' Zone Communications has created an identity, literature and promotional material for ...
DNA. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... Digital consultancy DNA has designed a Macromedia Flash ...
International Furniture Fair of Valencia.
Oct 04, 2001 ... Caption: Perobell exhibited the Ginger range, designed by Jorge Pensi, at the International Furniture Fair of Valencia last week. Ginger is a collection of upholstered armchairs, sofas and beds, sustained by a stainless steel frame. Pensi resumes his ...
DoH watchdog cared for by Butcher & Gundersen. (News).
Oct 04, 2001; ... THE identity for the first fully independent watchdog to regulate social care services and private and voluntary healthcare, designed by Butcher & Gundersen, will be launched on 16 October. The National Care Standards Commission, set up by the Department of Health, will be ...
Italian interactive institute opens. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... THE Interaction Design Institute in Ivrea, near Milan, opened to students on Monday as a teaching faculty to focus on the ways people interact with communications and computers. It will run two-year diploma courses in English for postgraduate designers. The ...
Wren & Rowe packaging wines drinkers with G port. (News).
Oct 04, 2001; ... WREN & ROWE has created a global port brand, called G, which is designed to attract the young 'wine bar crowd' to the long-maligned drink. The [pounds sterling]40 000 project is part of the consultancy's long-term work with the food and wine division of the Portuguese ...
Parentline Plus report guided by Bluegoose. (News).
Oct 04, 2001 ... BLUEGOOSE has designed an annual report for charity Parentline Plus, which will be published at the beginning of October. Bluegoose has worked with the charity over the past 18 months. The publication features self-assembly kits to illustrate the 'fragmentation of ...
Coney Island.
Oct 04, 2001 ... Caption: Browns has designed Coney Island, the latest book in the Magnum Editions series, to showcase the work of New York street photographer Bruce Gilden. The images were taken on Coney Island, in the US, from 1969 to 1986. Browns partner Jonathan Ellery says, 'We haven't used any grids ...
High street shops can't afford to be charity cases: charity shops are having to work harder to succeed as brand communication tools in ever-more crowded high streets. Hannah Booth raises our awareness. (News Analysis).
Oct 04, 2001; ... BISSET ADAMS' appointment last week by Help the Aged to revamp its retail proposition is the latest example of charities using their high street presence as a brand communications tool. Oxfam is something of a past master, given its long history of investment in interiors and ...
You can't lose sight of what you believe in: Mike Exon talks to Deepend chief executive Gary Lockton about the incongruences of the Deepend business, which went into liquidation last week. (Design Business).
Oct 04, 2001; ... WHEN Deepgroup chief executive Gary Lockton called in the liquidators last week, it signalled more than the end of another digital sector business. The final act, which sent shockwaves round the design world, would seal the fate of a remarkable group of designers. Deepend, as they were ...
Using Foresight, is Noddy going to use a Smart Car? (Diary).
Oct 04, 2001 ... Foresight is in talks with unnamed brands that could benefit from a positive association with Noddy and his red and yellow car, as well as mates Big Ears and Mr Plod. Who are these mysterious brands? Perhaps if the ...
These shoes were made for walking and shopping. (Diary).
Oct 04, 2001 ... 'Shopping shoes' are usually flat, comfy things designed to take the pain from a days' tramping around, but the term takes on a new meaning courtesy of Design Ministry. The group predicts satellite technology for mobile phones could be ...
GOSH drives Still Waters to run deep in Beaujolais. (Diary).
Oct 04, 2001 ... Like driving? Like Beaujolais? Well, as long as you don't enjoy mixing the two, you could join Still Waters Run Deep's James George and Tim Oldman on a Great Ormond Street Hospital charity Beaujolais run. The guys are looking for two individuals to make a 'generous ...
Geocruiser.
Oct 04, 2001 ... Caption: Artist Nils Norman's Geocruiser, a touring library-cum-greenhouse run on a mixture of 'disused' frying fat and diesel, is about to embark on the second leg of its ...
The Gates to creativity all hinge on Branson. (Diary).
Oct 04, 2001 ... What does it say about the state of the national psyche when Richard Branson and Bill Gates vie for pole position in a survey of business creativity? Branson beat Gates to be the person most associated ...
Predicting marketing trends to miss making money. (Diary).
Oct 04, 2001 ... The hunt for new moneymaking opportunities is on. Behind closed doors, business gurus are plotting their next wave of schemes. Quietly recruiting (three) staff in the London press is one such venture for a ...
To monolithic memories: Hugh Pearman wonders why monuments to victims of non-wartime atrocities don't have the same thought put into them as those memorialising wartime acts. (Private View).
Oct 04, 2001; ... After wars, atrocities, and disasters, architects build memorials. These can become the most evocative buildings of their age. Sir Edwin Lutyens gave us the cenotaph in London's Whitehall, and the poignant Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval. In Paris, the 1962 ...
Letters.
Oct 04, 2001 ... Is Government ready to take on the challenge too? I for one was disappointed by Chris Smith's remarks about the future of design [at a recent industry gathering in London organised by Design Week]. We all agree that intellectual property rights need addressing, that ...
Vox Pop.
Oct 04, 2001 ... A financial newspaper is putting together the top 50 business folk who are shaping the creative industry. While Pentagram is still held up as the best consultancy model and Sir Martin Sorrell is an undoubted champion of the design business, which individual do you believe is doing most to ...
High flying profile: British Airways senior design manager Mike Crump flies in the face of negative press reports by striving harder to prove design's worth. (Client Profile).
Oct 04, 2001; ... AIRLINE projects are big news, sometimes too big Mike Crump would say. Take the recent gloom inflicted on the sector in the wake of the World Trade Center attacks, or BA's ethnic tailfins (which you might just remember). Talk about a media feeding frenzy. The upshot has been ...
Wordperfect: Mike Dempsey continues the series on inspirational designers to meet Alan Kitching, the man who has printer's ink coursing through his veins and has elevated letterpress composition to an art form. (Heroes).
Oct 04, 2001; ... I RARELY put designers' work on the walls of my home, but there are two exceptions to this rule. There is a beautiful typographical map of London's Clerkenwell -- where I live for part of the week -- by Alan Kitching. It has an added appeal for me because my name has been overprinted on ...
Shadow box: Oliver Bennett focuses in on four artists whose work is produced using different cameraless techniques. (Photography).
Oct 04, 2001; ... AS any casual shopper will know, the market in consumer photographic equipment is heaving. If you want to buy a camera, you will be assailed by shelves of photographic hardware. This technological overload is not only putting us in danger of developing 'upgrade fatigue', but arguably ...
Directory: in association with the design council.(Directory)
Oct 04, 2001 ... For inclusion call the classified team on 020 7970 6666 1-2-1 MAC TRAINING Stephen Price (Training & Consultancy) Comprehensive, expert tuition in Quark, Photoshop, Illustrator, pre-press and print, Web design: [pounds sterling]120.00/day. Based ...
Exhibitions. (The Week Ahead).
Oct 04, 2001 ... Work by fashion designer, turned furniture designer, and then painter, Martine Maria Renais shows at Against the Grain from 9 October until 13 November. Venue: A&D Gallery, 51 Chiltern Street, London W1. The decline of nature along the coast is the subject for John ...
Photography. (The Week Ahead).
Oct 04, 2001 ... Photographer and critic Jason Oddy explores architectural space, and the way it manages and orders our lives, at Shroud, from 2-27 October. His images of airport chapels, mortuaries, the UN headquarters and ad agency lobbies are drained of colour to emphasise purity and contemplation. ...
A bodily function: an exhibition of work by provocative photographer Andres Serrano is showing at London's Barbican Centre. Yolanda Zappaterra went along.
Oct 04, 2001; ... As most of you reading this will know, generating the right kind of publicity can be a bitch. Take the Barbican's Andres Serrano show, opening today at the centre's The curve gallery. Last week Time Out magazine published a feature on the show, mentioning in passing a few pictures that ...
Events. (The Week Ahead).
Oct 04, 2001 ... The Design Initiative and Roses Design Awards present a symposium on 11 October. James Lamb of The Alloy Total Product Design, David Chaloner of Conran Design Group and Malcolm Garrett of AMX speak at Leading from the Front, which examines the relationship between client, designer and ...
Sale. (The Week Ahead).
Oct 04, 2001 ... Modern Designs for Life is being held on 10 October at 2pm. The sale will include furniture, glass, jewellery and ...
Books. (The Week Ahead).
Oct 04, 2001 ... Designers of city developments over the past 10 years are profiled in Landscape London, published by Ellipsis London, priced [pounds sterling]10. ...
Sainsbury's move hits roster groups. (News).
Oct 11, 2001; ... TWO groups on the Sainsbury's packaging roster, Davies Hall and Two by Two, are reviewing the future of their businesses following a downgrading of their positions. Davies Hall partner Steve Davies confirms there will be staff changes at the group, but denies it is on the brink ...
Six pitch for British Library task. (News).
Oct 11, 2001 ... THE British Library is to appoint a consultancy to develop its brand strategy and will shortlist up to three groups for a second round of pitches in November. The library will select 'two or three consultancies' for the next stage of pitching from six groups, five of which have ...
The Identica Partnership loses 20. (News).
Oct 11, 2001 ... THE IDENTICA PARTNERSHIP has completed the review of its staffing levels announced last week (DW 4 October). As a result 20 people will be taking voluntary redundancy over the next two months. The group, which comprises Identica and Tango, refuses to reveal how many designers ...