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Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight We are on a mission at Design Week. Our aim? - to get interaction design better represented within the creative community and beyond. And we are in [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight Martin Lambie-Nairn is stepping down as creative director of Heavenly at the end of the month to pursue a more flexible career after two years with the [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight Lynda Relph-Knight's perspective on the week Word is we can expect a bit of tub-thumping against the education cuts when D&AD president Simon CySanky' Sankarayya and chief [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight Priestman Goode is aiming to develop its work with clients in China with the opening of a new office in Qingdao the consultancy's first outside the UK. [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight It's a sad irony that while top turns in the interaction world say it's vital for designers to possess craft skills such as drawing and typography - [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight If you thought 2010 was Neville Brody's year, prepare to see a repeat performance by the exhuberant graphics star as plans for 2011 continue to unfold. The [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight * Festival of Britain, 60 years on * Neville Brody's Anti-Design Museum * London Design Festival plans With the festival season almost upon us, we can look [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight Graduate shows like London's New Designers and D&AD's New Blood will have a particular poignancy this year, embodying work by the last generation of design students to [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight We know that good design can change lives for the better, which makes it doubly sad when someone dies plying their creative talent to benefit others. The [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight A team led by Ben Mortimer of NestlE' has won the Judges Award in the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design's 24-hour Inclusive Design Challenge to create a [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight If there's anything more satisfying than knowing that you are on-trend, it is surely the awareness that you got there ahead of the rest. The UK design [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight How do budding creatives find out about design? Lucky kids have family in the business, but until now for most the introduction has come through school. Art [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight Picture the scene. Sea Design co-founder Bryan Edmondson and The Brand Union's executive creative director Glenn Tutssel are huddled round a piece of exquisite artwork, glass of [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight Every January I vow to get out of the office more to see design first hand and to engage with college projects wherever possible. It makes such [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight The Design Council is looking to appoint five or six new trustees to join a Cytrust board' following its merger with the Commission for Architecture and the [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight If proof were needed that design can make life better it is there in spades in a host of initiatives from the likes of the Design Council [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight It's very easy in these straitened times to just get your head down and do the work. It's about winning projects and pulling out the stops to [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight Other people's passions are always inspiring, which is what made it doubly special to be in Cape Town for the Design Indaba last week. Not only did [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight You have to hand it to cultural historian and broadcaster Sir Christopher Frayling. He never misses a chance to state the case for the arts and design. [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight If a creative industries debate at the House of Commons this week is anything to go by, the Liberal Democrat element of the coalition Government is in [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight It's not often a designer gets to enjoy the favours of their government. We've seen it here with the likes of Sir Terence Conran, Sir Paul Smith [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight What do you think about when you think of England? A thrusting creative force on the world stage? A dodgy football team? A cricket side that too [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight How do you sum up 2010? It's been a year of thrills and spills for sure, but not without its high spots. There's little need to revisit [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight One of the big things to be reaffirmed over recent days has been the strength of the UK design community outside London, with particular pockets of excellence [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight For those of you in the frozen East, if you're looking for a place to chill out in warmer climes then simply head South West. Trains out [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight One of the most heartening things about last night's Royal Designers ceremony was that Sir Terence Conran finally joined that elevated throng. For years, his entrepreneurialism has [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight Whatever was happening in Trafalgar Square last night, the student protests didn't deter creative stalwarts from heading down to London University's Bloomsbury campus to hear Pentagram partner [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight Lynda Relph-Knight's perspective on the week. It is always sad when a great designer dies and furniture designer Robin Day, who died last week, is no exception. [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight Generations of creative directors have bemoaned the lack of drawing skills among younger designers. Over the years, some of the best have instituted life-drawing classes and other [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight Another Monday heralds another week. But it's not just another week. It's Internet Week Europe and another chance to immerse yourself in creativity-related activities or to feel [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight So here we are again, facing another challenge to the design industry's prowess in identity design. As things stand, the search for a logo to mark the [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight A week may, as former Prime Minister Harold Wilson said, be a long time in politics. But for design's politicians the past few weeks surely constitute an [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight Dare we hope that the worst of the recession is behind those of us in design? Certainly, there is movement at top level of the business with [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight Happiness abounded at Coley Porter Bell last night as team members toasted the success of their peers in the consultancy's internal Blue Sky awards. Ed Silk took [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight Nina Jenkins, head of branding at Virgin Atlantic Airlines, has joined the line-up of judges for the 2011 Design Week Awards. Jenkins joins a team including five [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight The old adage that all publicity is good gains new potency when you look at what branding consultancy Heavenly has been up to. We've reported on its [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight We knew it wouldn't be long before Boris's bikes - the affectionate term for the hoards of Barclays-backed hire cycles that hit London streets this summer - [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight Those based out of London may be sick of hearing about the London Design Festival. But while we acknowledge other events are taking place outside the capital [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight I'm constantly goading designers to get themselves in print - preferably in the national media. You know it makes sense to put yourself in the public eye, [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight There was an air of anticlimax In Trafalgar Square on Thursday evening when Culture Minister Ed Vaizey switched on Outrace, the much anticipated centrepiece of the London [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight We all know about the power of association for brands - which is why The Emirates backs Arsenal Football Club, Samsung adorns the Chelsea shirts and the [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight Ironic isn't it that just as the coalition Government's axe falls on school design in the UK, the Financial Times should focus on the benefits on great [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight September kicked off in a big way for design, with so much in the offing at the London Design Festival and Neville Brody's Anti Design Festival next [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight Suddenly it's all about design for play - with the focus on children. In this week's Design Week Dominic Lutyens took us around a handful of new-wave [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight A lasting legacy of the Anti Design Festival set to launch next week is the Gun font, devised by Neville Brody specifically for the ADF. Brody's philosophy [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight Simon 'Sanky' Sankarayya will provide the 'glue' between advertising and design, he says, when he becomes D&AD president next Tuesday evening. 'Digital will be at the heart [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight If you're at a loose end in London's Soho tomorrow, you might like to retrace the steps of one of the neighbourhood's great characters, courtesy of a [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight On the continuing theme of crowsourcing - in some instances the newspeak for Cyfree pitch' - we report yet another competition that is appealing to the hearts [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight Whatever else it may have thrown up, the debacle over Foreign Secretary William Hague and his special advisor Christopher Myers has highlighted a significant difference between external [...]

Byline: Lynda Relph-Knight Never ones to conform with the pack, fashion photographer Nick Knight and the team at Showstudio aren't waiting for London Fashion Week to unveil their latest superstar [...]