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Design week 15.05.08
Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations has always been a seminal text for me. One of its fundamental messages is that economic advances come through the specialisation of labour....
15 May 2008 |
Market trawl
It's no secret why uniform design dominates the high street. The same look in every outlet reinforces brand identity and reduces fit-out costs, and its merits are well...
15 May 2008 |
Design Museum exhibition marks design links with cities
An exhibition displaying more than 100 pieces of design, from some of the biggest names in the industry, is set to open in London this autumn at the Design Museum.
15 May 2008 |
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In the public domain
British custom has it that even unwanted gifts are accepted with good social grace. So it is perhaps surprising that Westminster Council refused artist Sir Anthony Caro's...
15 May 2008 |
Details revealed of expanded Cardiff Design Festival
The first plans have emerged for this year's forthcoming Cardiff Design Festival, which takes place during October.
15 May 2008 |
LG ramps up for London design centre
Korean mobile and electronics group LG is poised to open its London design hub and is approaching designers in the capital.
13 May 2008 |Is it better in than out?
Attracting the best design talent can be difficult for in-house design teams, which sometimes complain that consultancies stigmatise them as being boring and uncreative.
08 May 2008 |
Planning for the next generation
Succession planning is an organisational development issue that often remains unanswered in the design industry.
08 May 2008 |
On arden and art direction….
It seems as though Paul Cohen's piece last month on the difficulties faced by advertising art directors has struck a chord. Cohen argued that there was a lack of respect for...
05 May 2008 |
The rise and rise of the new mad men
While Don Draper and the other burly ad men of Mad Men take us back to the so-called halcyon days of New York advertising (and of smoking) on our small
05 May 2008 |
