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Warm and vibrant colours and images are used in titles and stings for K Club, a new interactive programme for children. Shortly to be screened on education and learning channel
Paper White completes Mcjob
Fast food giant McDonald’s this week launched McDonald’s Our Town Story, a children’s learning project designed by Paper White. The initiative forms part of the national programme of events to
Road to somewhere
Tibor Kalman changed the way we see and read a lot of things. And he did it without the benefit of a formal design education. He was the classic baby
Red Cross on the Net
The British Red Cross launched its first major website last week created by communications specialist Precedent. British Red Cross creative services manager Stephen Elsden says the website will include a
Colleges should come clean on job prospects
Things are getting pretty fraught at colleges across the country as design students rush to complete their projects for the all-important final-year show. A lot hangs on how their work
NMEC poised to take on another design group
The New Millennium Experience Company is considering appointing an additional design consultancy to create customer events literature for the Millennium Dome in Greenwich. Although Agenda Design Associates was appointed last
Preparation doesn’t need to hamper creativity
I am writing in response to Lee Sillitoe’s letter (DW 9 April) concerning experience and creativity. There are dangerous pronouncements here which could harm the aspirations of young designers, as
Ideas in store for Tower Hamlets
THE Tower Hamlets Library Service is set for a radical 20m overhaul, with seven new state-of- the-art centres intended to revolutionise the library sector. Called Idea Stores, the centres will
Docklands job for Haley Sharpe
The Museum in Docklands, which opens at West India Quay opposite Canary Wharf in the middle of 2000, is being designed by Haley Sharpe Associates. The 14m Lottery-funded attraction will
LCP may suffer from IT fallout
Restructuring at the London College of Printing may lead to job losses within the college’s printing and publishing school. The move away from craft-based printing to digital/IT methods has led
Local Heroes
Deyan Sudjic has a story he likes to tell about his early days as director of Glasgow 1999. Stepping out from the marble-encrusted caverns of City Chambers during the 1996
That extra dimension
Your editorial makes a good point – a background education in one of the 3D disciplines is a good platform from which to branch out into other challenges (Comment, DW
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