Design Week back issues from August 2007:
Google leaps up Interbrand chart as Ford and Gap struggle.(Brief article)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Last summer the term 'Google' was honoured in the Oxford English Dictionary - since then the value of the US mega-brand has risen 44 per cent, according to this year's Interbrand survey of top brands. Google's brand value is now listed at #8.8bn, putting it at 20th place, ...
Gin inspires Schneider wallpaper.(Luxury gin brand Bombay Sapphire collaborated illustrator Jasmin Schneider )(Brief article)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Luxury gin brand Bombay Sapphire has collaborated with Berlin-based illustrator Jasmin Schneider to create a wallpaper design inspired by the distinctive blue bottle. Schneider's Art Nouveau-style design uses the shape of the iris root - one of the ingredients used in the ...
Penguin cover designs.
Aug 02, 2007 ... Encompassing more then 70 years and 700 Penguin cover designs, Seven Hundred Penguins is a pictorial history of the iconic British publishing house since its conception in 1935. From the bold graphic print of Graham Greene's classic The Quiet American to the disturbing Surrealism of John ...
David Collins to unveil luxury restaurant for Langham Hotel.(The Langham Hotel London )
Aug 02, 2007 ... The Langham Hotel London is set to unveil its second hospitality area designed by David Collins Studio, with the opening of The Landau restaurant this autumn. The standalone 'destination' restaurant is just one phase of a dramatic #50m overhaul of the Victorian hotel, which ...
De-construct sketches out dynamic plan for MOI website.(The Museum of Illustration )
Aug 02, 2007 ... The Museum of Illustration has chosen digital media consultancy De- construct to design its website, following a competitive pitch. The website will effectively provide MOI with its only home over the next five years, since the museum - which is due to open in 2011 - does not ...
Billington's to relaunch range of sugars.(Springetts designs visual identity for food industry.)(Brief article)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Billington's is to relaunch its range of sugars with a revised visual identity and the introduction of recyclable boxes, designed by Springetts. The identity features a hand-written 'B', and an illustration of sugar cane has been added to the pack background, as well as ...
Red Central festival brand is by the book.(Daily Telegraph Bath Festival of Children's Literature.)(Brief article)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Red Central has designed the branding and brochure for the inaugural Daily Telegraph Bath Festival of Children's Literature. The festival organisers offered the Bath-based consultancy the work because of its credentials in children's entertainment, according to Red Central ...
Amanda Levete has designed an installation.(Brief article)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Amanda Levete of Future Systems has designed an installation, in the form of a curving wall of about 220 interlocking leaves, to be unveiled outside the Royal Festival Hall on the Southbank as part of the London Design ...
Digital M&A activity 'frenetic' as Elmwood joins the fray.(Graphic arts industry.)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Digital acquisitions in the design industry took another lurch forward this week with the news that Elmwood Design is hunting for a digital consultancy. The acquisition plans come against a backdrop of digital deal-making, with three mergers and acquisitions taking place ...
HiQ gets to grips with Fitch's customer-focused store design.(Goodyear Dunlop)(Brief article)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Goodyear Dunlop's fast-fit retail division HiQ is about to roll out its new store design, created by Fitch. The group's rebranding work with tyre manufacturer Goodyear helped it to net the contract, says Fitch design director Simon Moriarty, but 'there is no visual connection ...
Lewis Granaiola styles Skandium.(Scandinavian lifestyle retailer Skandium new store designed by designers)(Brief article)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Scandinavian lifestyle retailer Skandium is to open a new flagship store this month in London's Knightsbridge, with interior design by Lewis Granaiola. The concept for the new store aims to differ slightly from the retailer's Marylebone High Street offer, to feature ...
Random House's in-house team bold cover design.(Brief article)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Random House's in-house team has come up with this bold cover design for the hardback version of Toby Barlow's Sharp Teeth, a book about ancient werewolves living in modern-day Los Angeles. Natasha Michaels ...
IN BRIEF: Blue River Design rebranded.(Brief article)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Newcastle consultancy Blue River Design has rebranded TDI, a think-tank tasked with identifying gaps in the current strategy for tackling sex offenders. Blue ...
IN BRIEF: Lowey design brochure.(Oxford University)(Brief article)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Loewy has designed a brochure for Oxford University's Said Business School, which aims to help it raise #20m for the ...
IN BRIEF: Simon Jeal best in show graduate.(Brief article)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Moving Brands has picked Simon Jeal as the best in show graduate from an exhibition at the La Viande gallery from 27-30 July. The show comprised work by 12 students from the Arts College FDA Design ...
IN BRIEF: Navyblue design annual report.(Her Majesty's Courts Service.)(Brief article)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Navyblue has designed this year's annual report for Her Majesty's Courts Service. It aims to show that HMCS is 'open, ...
IN BRIEF: 72Dotsperinch wins pitch.(Brief article)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Digital design consultancy 72Dotsperinch has won a pitch to create two websites for Norwegian gallery Galleri Sand. The consultancy will be creating an on-line ...
COMMENT: Confidentiality clauses are tying up too many groups.(CDT Design )(Viewpoint essay)
Aug 02, 2007 ... In the past week I've encountered four design groups deprived of the right to promote stunning work because of the stringent demands of over- anxious clients. CDT Design could not publicise its far-reaching rebranding of ActionAid until some two months after it was completed, ...
E3 changes tack to differentiate microsites for V&A exhibitions.( Victoria & Albert Museum)(Brief article)
Aug 02, 2007 ... After its Village Fete last weekend, London's Victoria & Albert Museum is busy gearing up for two forthcoming exhibitions that are taking place this autumn, which sees the V&A appointing E3 to create a pair of microsites. The contract was awarded to E3 following two four-way ...
Sage stirs drama into decor for So Restaurant basement.(Brief article)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Soho-based Japanese restaurant So Restaurant has benefited from a smart redesign of its basement by interior designer Russell Sage. The restaurant on London's Warwick Street, W1, offers fusion dishes along with 'modern, Minimalist decor' and the open-plan kitchen forms part ...
Internal comms vital for design, says Radley Yeldar.
Aug 02, 2007 ... If cries from staff of 'nobody tells me anything' are becoming familiar then you could be in need of a shake-up of your internal communications strategy. According to the authors of a new report from Radley Yeldar - Goodbye Staff Numbers 5357 and 76 583, Hello Aisha and Dave ...
NEWS IN PICTURES: Dover Street Market revamp.(Brief article)
Aug 02, 2007 ... London's Dover Street Market, W1, has just revamped its interior features for its biannual Tachiagari. New spaces have ...
NEWS IN PICTURES: Vanilla bar and restaurant opens.(Brief article)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Designed by its restaurant director Matthieu Destandau, with all-white interior and colour-changing LED lights, new bar and ...
NEWS IN PICTURES: Mercury chandelier.(Brief article)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Artemide will feature the Mercury chandelier, designed by Ross Lovegrove, at the Aram Store New Moves exhibition, which will ...
NEWS IN PICTURES: Lucy Williams to unveil her work.(Architect Lucy Williams )(Brief article)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Architect Lucy Williams is to unveil her work at her first major solo exhibition, Beneath a Woollen Sky, including The Lighting Showroom 2006, based on a ...
NEWS IN PICTURES: Thousand Nights and One Night retold.
Aug 02, 2007 ... With illustrations by Jan Pienkowski, co-creator of the Meg and Mog series, The Thousand Nights and One Night is ...
ANALYSIS: A chance to think big.
Aug 02, 2007; ... Designing the UK pavilion for the next World Expo is a much-coveted task. Emily Pacey checks out the six shortlisted proposals for Shanghai 2010 If designers wrote their own briefs, they might read a bit like this: 'Designer to have complete creative control of the project, a ...
PRIVATE VIEW: Doing the business.(Column)
Aug 02, 2007; ... Senior designers have more to offer clients than mere creativity. Mark Shaw says they should provide wider consultancy services and become 'business designers' The world of graphic design is changing under our noses. All of us are reading the signs and adapting in order to ...
INSPIRED: Ian Humphrey Turquoise.(Brief article)
Aug 02, 2007 ... I'm a big fan of the so-called 'loose cannons' of society. Take 'outsider art', for example. It was traditionally an art form made by prisoners and the mentally ill, those outside of the norms of established society, although it now encompasses art made by all uneducated artists. It is ...
LETTER: Healthy criticism is good for the design profession.(Letter to the editor)
Aug 02, 2007 ... What an extraordinary reaction by Ben Marston (DW 19 July) to Michael Wolff's 'rant' (DW 28 June). It's natural to want to defend your work. But Marston's criteria seem odd. He suggests you can't judge a piece of design unless you have 'knowledge of the clients, briefs and ...
Voxpop: Who should take over as chairman of Design Council?
Aug 02, 2007 ... What sort of person should take over as chairman of the Design Council when George Cox's tenure comes to an end this autumn? Who would you put in the frame? It is imperative the next chairman of the Design Council transcends both the creative and the economic worlds. This ...
LETTER: Don't they know humans never read food labels?(Letter to the editor)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Sadly, our labrador and two cats aren't quite as avid readers of Design Week as I am, but they have a rather important query. They'd like to know why they've now started to get each others' food, due to errors on the part of the human (me) who opens their tins. ...
LETTER: Small fish doing just fine in experiential, thanks very much.(Letter to the editor)
Aug 02, 2007 ... We welcome WPP's entry into the experiential sector via the launch of FitchLive (DW 19 July), if only as a very public testament to the ascendancy of live marketing. It has been predicted for some years that experiential would be the biggest growth area within the marketing ...
LETTER: Let's get things straight about New Blood briefs.(Letter to the editor)
Aug 02, 2007 ... In response to Kelly Burnett's letter (DW 19 July) on D&AD and New Blood, I'd like to set out the facts. Some people confuse New Blood with the Student Awards. At New Blood, the course or college, not the student, pays a membership fee and gets a stand. Yellow Pencils are ...
PROFILE: James Harrison.
Aug 02, 2007 ... Success came early for furniture designer James Harrison, courtesy of a deal with Habitat, but he retains the pragmatism and level-headedness he learned while growing up on a farm, says Max Fraser James Harrison's first foray into the design industry came in July 2005 when a ...
RETAIL: Screen appeal.(Playboy Beauty )
Aug 02, 2007 ... In the battle for customer attention, seductive moving images integrated into shop display stands seem to do the trick. Matthew Valentine reports on the latest initiatives in the high-end cosmetics arena Retail displays are all about engaging customers, and the latest ...
FILM: Celluloid type.
Aug 02, 2007 ... Film isn't just about moving images and spoken language - the written word, too, can have a strong impact on the big screen. Quentin Newark reflects on some key ways in which typography and graphics have been used in cinema This month, in a season called Paper Movies, ...
BUSINESS INSIGHT: Together we'll work things out.
Aug 02, 2007 ... In today's fast-moving world, you're only as good as your next 'big idea'. Multidisciplinary approaches are usually the best way to find it, suggests Brian Mansfield I've always been fixated on big ideas. The scary, hairy variety that excite and terrify in equal measure. The ...
Take the chill off summer.(Big Chill festival)
Aug 02, 2007; ... By Fiona Sibley It would be crass to bemoan the disappearance of summer with so many people suffering substantial damage to their homes and livelihoods. But despite harrowing weather conditions across the country, The Big Chill festival site in Herefordshire has had a lucky ...
Hermes announces awards for new talent.(Hermes Ltd)(Brief article)
Aug 09, 2007 ... Luxury goods brand Hermes is launching an award for product designers, to recognise newer designers rather than established design 'superstars'. The triennial Prix Emile Hermes launches in June 2008, with cash prizes of E50 000 (#34 000), E35 000 (#24 000) and E15 000 (#10 ...
Aspinal of London appoint GP Studio.(Brief article)
Aug 09, 2007 ... Luxury leather retailer Aspinal of London has appointed GP Studio to transform its on-line identity into a 3D brand with its first site at Selfridges, London. Peter Grimes, creative director of GP Studio, says, 'Because of Aspinal's association with travel, we've ...
Beefeater Gin moots visitor centre.( Four-by-Two )(Brief article)
Aug 09, 2007 ... Beefeater Gin is considering building a visitor centre at its London distillery. Interior design group Four-by-Two is conducting a feasibility study, having redesigned the distiller's premises to accommodate corporate guests. Four-by-Two, which specialises in distillery visitor ...
London 2012 bodies launch 'design panel' tender process.(Olympic Delivery Authority )(London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games )
Aug 09, 2007 ... The organisers of the London 2012 Olympics are ramping up their design capabilities with a hunt for a panel of design and creative services consultancies. The Olympic Delivery Authority and the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games have jointly asked for tenders to ...
Fallon tunes up logo portfolio for BBC national radio stations.(British Broadcasting Corp)
Aug 09, 2007 ... The BBC is set to relaunch all the identities for its national radio stations by the end of this month. London-based advertising agency Fallon, which has an independent design division, was chosen to redesign the logos and brand toolkits for the broadcaster's five analogue ...
Oracle completes branding for redevelopment of old M&S HQ.(Marks & Spencer headquarters)
Aug 09, 2007 ... The design plans have been unveiled for the former Marks & Spencer headquarters in London's Baker Street, which is to be transformed into a striking glass atrium for a new development. Design and advertising group Oracle Advertising is overseeing the branding, while Make ...
Heinz to launch premium soup range.(Cowan Design)(Brief article)
Aug 09, 2007 ... Heinz is set to launch three premium soup ranges, with packaging by Cowan Design. Farmers' Market offers a variety of flavours, with packs using photography to 'reinforce the message of fresh local vegetables'. Soups of ...
In-house concept trialled by HSBC in flagship City branch.(Brief article)
Aug 09, 2007 ... HSBC has opened its largest branch in the UK in the City of London, using a fresh design concept that offers more retail space and dedicated areas for different customer types. Devised by the bank's in-house design team, the concept will form part of as many as five branches ...
Caulder Moore scoops Spa SPC retail task.(Brief article)
Aug 09, 2007 ... The Buckinghamshire-based luxury spa resort Spa SPC, part of Stoke Park Club, is developing a new salon, shop and reception, with design by Caulder Moore. The consultancy, which was appointed without a pitch, has been tasked with creating a 'destination' salon, which will be ...
Wolffe & Co buys up rival Scottish consultancy Pointsize.(Brief article)
Aug 09, 2007 ... Last Friday, Dumfries-based design consultancy Wolffe & Co completed its acquisition of Glasgow design consultancy Pointsize Associates. The move is part of the 'growth by acquisition' strategy led by managing director Andrew Wolffe, who says he is ready to raise the company ...
Notting Hill is subject of new book.(photographer Derry Moore)(Brief article)
Aug 09, 2007 ... Notting Hill is the subject of photographer Derry Moore's new book, due to be published in November by Frances Lincoln. Designed in-house by Becky Clarke, in collaboration with Moore, it ...
IN BRIEF: Stand create brand identity.(Tennent Lager)(Brief article)
Aug 09, 2007 ... Glasgow-based Stand has created a brand identity for a Tennent's Lager scheme to educate bar owners and their staff on how to maintain and ...
IN BRIEF: O2 latest handset.(Brief article)
Aug 09, 2007 ... O2 has this week rolled out its latest handset, the O2 Cocoon, with packaging design featuring an existing ...
IN BRIEF: New room design for Travelodge.(Brief article)
Aug 09, 2007 ... Travelodge has unveiled a new room design by The One Off Company, just four years after a Conran Design Group 'refresh'. The hotel chain has ...
IN BRIEF: Dupliquick Zebra Award.(Richard Chapman )(Brief article)
Aug 09, 2007 ... The Dupliquick Zebra Award for poster of the year 2007 has gone to Richard Chapman for his work for magician ...
COMMENT: The banking sector needs to invest in better branch design.(HSBC)
Aug 09, 2007 ... Banking giant HSBC is glorying this week in the opening of its biggest ever branch in (see News, page 5). Indeed, it is claiming that the outlet in the City of London is the biggest bank in the UK. And size isn't the only distinguishing feature. HSBC has taken the opportunity ...
Red Leader rejigs Camden Arts Centre website to increase use.(Brief article)
Aug 09, 2007 ... London's Camden Arts Centre has appointed Red Leader to redesign its website, following a three-way pitch. The London design and production group, which won the work in June, is to revamp the site in a bid to improve its accessibility, and to attract a wider range of visitors ...
Ex-Wallpaper team unveils 'compact' Esquire redesign.(Hearst Business Communications Inc)(Brief article)
Aug 09, 2007 ... Hearst Communications' Esquire magazine launches its redesign tomorrow, devised by the title's art director David McKendrick. The September issue of the magazine, which was founded in the US in 1933, sports a new, compact A5 size. It will also feature a specially commissioned ...
Acid demands tougher measures against IP theft.(intellectual property theft)
Aug 09, 2007 ... By Emily Pacey Describing an object or someone's taste as 'cheap' used to be an insult, but bragging about budget store bargains now counts as status- raising small talk. The less it cost, the more savvy a consumer you are. But cheap could soon mean nasty once ...
NEWS IN PICTURES: Design United Worldwide design Tokyo Tales.(Brief article)
Aug 09, 2007 ... Specialist arts design group Design United Worldwide has designed Tokyo Tales, an account of artist Stella Whalley's journey through the seedy underbelly of ...
NEWS IN PICTURES: Brownjohn appointed by Start.(Brief article)
Aug 09, 2007 ... Brownjohn has been appointed to develop a brand proposition and visual identity for business centre group Start (formerly ...
NEWS IN PICTURES: Will Alsop creates Table Tools.(Brief article)
Aug 09, 2007 ... Architect Will Alsop has created Table Tools, a set of cutlery shaped in random forms, which are moulded to ...
NEWS IN PICTURES: Jens Risom exhibition.(Brief article)
Aug 09, 2007 ... An exhibition of the works of Danish-born American designer Jens Risom (chair, pictured right) and New York painter Larry Zox is being created by Jonathan Stephenson and ...
NEWS IN PICTURES: House of Dorchester refresh.(Brief article)
Aug 09, 2007 ... Halo Design has undertaken a refresh of the brand identity and packaging of Dorset-based chocolatier House of Dorchester ....
NEWS IN PICTURES: Rocket Gallery book.(Rocket Gallery published Keld Helmer-Petersen book)(Brief article)
Aug 09, 2007 ... Rocket Gallery is publishing a book entitled Keld Helmer-Petersen: Photographs 1941-1995, which offers insight into both the ...
ANLAYSIS: Stepping on to the global stage.( London Design Festival)
Aug 09, 2007 ... Australia has long been a fashionable travel destination, so why isn't the Sydney Design Festival more widely celebrated? asks Sarah Woods As the hype starts to build for the London Design Festival, a lesser- known Antipodean event is taking place down under. While ...