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With Clarke's departure the company was reorganised as Design Design,<ref name="crash"/> a trading name that had been used by Brattel since 1976 for his electronic audio designs.<ref>[http://www.desdes.com/ Design Design official site]</ref> Design Design's core consisted of Stafford working mainly on titles for the [[Commodore 64]], Brattel and Mottershead working on the [[ZX Spectrum]] and [[Amstrad CPC]], and David Lewellyn, the company's administrator.<ref name="crash"/> According to Stafford the new name was part of a wider re-branding, as they wanted a more professional image, along with a better relationship with the press and the public.<ref name="crash"/>

Stafford went on to form developer Walking Circles, whichproducing wrotetitles including ''[[The Living Daylights (video game)|The Living Daylights]]''<ref name='crashlivingdaylights'>{{cite magazine |title=The Living Daylights|magazine=Crash|issue=43|publisher=Newsfield|date=August 1987|page=94|url=https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/page.php?issue_id=1010&page=94|access-date=13 July 2021}}</ref> and ''[[Spitting Image (video game)|Spitting Image]]''<ref name='acespitting'>{{cite magazine |title=Snippets... Spitting Image|magazine=ACE|issue=15|publisher=Future Publishing|date=December 1988|page=10|url=https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/page.php?issue_id=1741&page=10|access-date=13 July 2021}}</ref> for [[Domark]] and the PC version of ''[[Bloodwych]]'' for [[Image Works]].<ref>"The Making of: Bloodwych", ''[[Retro Gamer]]'', issue 23 (p.55), [[Imagine Publishing]]</ref>

==Softography==

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*''[[Rommel's Revenge]]'', ZX Spectrum, 1984

*''Bug Blaster'', ZX Spectrum, 1984. A ''[[Centipede (video game)|Centipede]]'' clone.<ref>''Bug Blaster'' review, CRASH, issue 3 (p.83), Newsfield Publications 1984</ref>

*''[[Cyber Zone]]'', ZX Spectrum, 1984

*''[[The Island (video game)|The Island]]'', ZX Spectrum, 1984

*''[[The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (video game)|The Warlock of Firetop Mountain]]'', ZX Spectrum, 1984

*''[[It's the Wooluf!]]'', ZX Spectrum, 1984.

*''Tube Way Army'', [[Dragon 32]] and [[TRS-80 Color Computer|Tandy 32K]], 1984

'''Design Design'''

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*''Spectacle'', ZX Spectrum, 1984 (Additional program supplied with ''Dark Star'' - simulated a [[Teletext]] environment)

*''[[Halls of the Things#Return of the Things|Return of the Things]]'', ZX Spectrum, 1984

*''[[2112 AD]]'', ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC, 1985

*''[[On the Run (video game)|On the Run]]'', ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC, 1985

*''[[Forbidden Planet (video game)|Forbidden Planet]]'', ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC, 1986

*''[[Halls of the Things#Remix|Halls of the Things Remix]]'', ZX Spectrum, 1986

*''Invaders'', ZX Spectrum, 1986. A ''[[Space Invaders]]'' clone published as part of the ''Action Replay'' compilation of Crystal and Design Design games.

*''[[N.E.X.O.R.]]'', ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC, 1986

*''[[Nosferatu the Vampyre (video game)|Nosferatu the Vampyre]]'', ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and [[Commodore 64]], 1986

*''[[Rogue Trooper (1986 video game)|Rogue Trooper]]'', ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64, 1986

*''[[Kat Trap]]'', ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64, 1987

==References==