Upcoming Design Events

The Savannah College of Art and Design announced the addition of Ashley Bryan, author and illustrator, and Ruth Fine, a curator at the National Gallery of Art, to its Trustees Lecture Series schedule.

Melanie Robinson, Principal and Director of KAA Design Group's Brand Experience Studio moderates a discussion on how to work more effectively and collaboratively with artists of various disciplines and the importance of this artistic collaboration in the world of design.

BrightType is a 3-hour typographic evening covering the world of type and design.

Reflexive Architecture Machines exhibition in the UB Art Gallery's Second Floor Gallery presents faculty and student research in responsive materials conducted at the Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies at the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Urban Planning.

The exhibition will draw from a variety of work by Kiki Smith in a range of media including cast objects, unique sculpture, and works on paper.

To Live Forever explores the Egyptians' beliefs about life and death and the afterlife, the process of mummification, the conduct of a funeral, and the different types of tombs-answering questions at the core of the public's fascination with ancient Egypt.

This renowned award is given for products that skilfully add design, functionality, aesthetic qualities and clever realisation.

Chaired by Imperial College's Professor David Fisk, the debate features contributions from leading thinkers, including former London Mayor Ken Livingstone, economist Will Hutton, engineer and technologist Mark Whitby and director of the award winning muti-national architectural practice Brisac Gonzalez, Cecile Brisac.

At Grant Funding by Design, four Australian business builders - who have been there, done that and acquired funding for growth - will share their experiences and provide invaluable advice.

Brit Insurance Designs of the Year has established itself as a leading showcase of the most innovative and forward thinking designs from around the world, supporting the critically acclaimed Brit Insurance Design Awards.

Featuring ephemera and over 100 pairs of shoes and boots, this first-time retrospective explores the unbridled energy and creativity behind one of the greatest designers.

First major survey in the UK of the internationally acclaimed design maverick.

FITC returns to Amsterdam, NL, for the third edition of FITC Amsterdam, a bustling two day event that brings together the best and the brightest from the world of Interactive design and development to learn, share and be inspired.

The Real Men and Women of Madison Avenue is an exhibit the celebrates the contributions made to American business and to popular culture by the real stars of Madison Avenue.

From 26 - 28 February 2010, London's prestigious Royal College of Art will play host to a three-day exhibition of contemporary ceramics, Ceramic Art London, a must-visit exhibition for anyone with a passion for great design and a love of ceramics.

Verge is the source for emerging art in New York, the only art fair exclusively devoted to emerging art throughout the New York art fair scene.

Christopher Wilk, Keeper of the Furniture Textiles & Fashion Department, V&A, chairs a conference that surveys major 20th-century designers and centres of furniture design and production.

IAB Case Study Road Show: Digital Media Success Stories is a new event series that responds to the growing surge of interest in the best interactive advertising campaigns.

BeingHERE is an opportunity to explore an approach to design that is contemplative and reactive, a design that does not prescribe or impose formulas but responds to the conditions that surrounds it.

Business is changing faster than ever. The Redesigning Business Summit on March 11-12, 2010 will show how designers are helping businesses amid today's environmental, regulatory economic and social challenges.

Selected: Graphic Design from Europe is an event which will gather top professionals from all over Europe in Barcelona, for two days, to share creative ideas and solutions through a series of conferences and workshops.

The design has become the most adapted tool to look for the necessary balance between the enterprise benefits and the social benefits. For this reason, the motto of the congress is: Design, driving force of the innovation and the social progress.

Learn how to look at your communication plan and see how your brand can extend into a strong print portfolio and beyond, becoming integrated into the everyday lives of your audience and explore how to utilize social media and take our brands to the next level.

In his first U.S. solo show, The New showcases Nesci's acute examination of the urban infrastructure.

The University of Brighton plays host to Design and the Creative Industries on Friday 26 March, a major conference to discuss the issues and anomalies raised in Advancing by Design.

The exhibition will be a dramatic presentation of Adjaye's findings in Africa, from the traces of a Colonial past in Kigali, Rwanda, to Tripoli, Libya, which is invaded by the energy of the present.

The Luminale will take place in parallel with Light+Building in Frankfurt takes for the fifth time.

As the world's leading trade fair for architecture and technology, Light+Building brings together three segments of particular relevance to building planning - lighting, electrical engineering and building automation - at the same time and place.

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century is the first major retrospective in the U.S. in more than 30 years of one of photography's most original and influential masters.

Fired by the success of 2009's record edition, despite the extremely challenging global economic climate, the Saloni will be back in April as always, hand in hand with their customary optimism.

For the 44th Art Cologne in April 2010, 190 International Galleries will present Modern, Post-war and cutting-edge Contemporary art in a particularly interesting context.

Design is now recognized as an enabler of business transformation. It is a solution that addresses problems, and problems behind problems. DMI will explore this powerful tool at Transforming Design this 21-22 April in London.

Entitled Frederick Fisher: Thinking by Hand, this exhibition of new and recent watercolors explores the form making process and composition strategies Fisher employs when envisioning and creating proposals for a wide variety of potential architectural commissions.

Hosted by the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC) in one of Canada's most innovative cities, the event will include a two-day International Conference, a Design Keynote, the Graphex 2010 Awards and a Design Trade Fair.

Solarexpo is an international exhibition and conference on renewable energy and distributed generation.

Lift is a series of events built around a community of pioneers who get together in Europe and Asia to explore the social implications of new technologies.

American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection will include some 85 masterworks from the newly established Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and mark the first time in more than two decades that a large-scale survey drawn from the Brooklyn Museum's pre-eminent collection will be on public view.

Fashion 2010 is a celebration of contemporary fashion, art, architecture, and design that features more than 200 innovative student-designed garments worn by 60 professional models from Factor Model Management.

Bklyn Designs is New York's hottest exhibition of designers and manufacturers of contemporary furnishings, lighting, and accessories made and/or designed in Brooklyn, all handpicked by a jury of editors from leading design and shelter magazines.

The exhibition showcases design solutions that promote environmental stewardship, social equity, accessibility and creative capital in more than 125 projects.

North America's singular showcase for contemporary design, the fair draws the most intrepid seekers of design truth and design trends to an extraordinary exhibition of the most inspired models of design on the forefront, as well as thought-provoking programs and a schedule of supplementary exhibits and features.

Fiscar 2010 is a multi-disciplinary conference for researchers, professionals, and practitioners.

A comprehensive offer for designers and companies interested in good design will be presented at moodFORM and arena DESIGN in Poznan on 27-30 May 2010.

The world's leading sustainable business innovators will attend Sustainable Brands '10 for three days of extraordinary conversation, inspiration and insights.

DMI's Design / Management / Brand 22 Conference will pick up where we left off last year and move the conversation forward to the next level!

The Brno Biennial showcases the very best of graphic design.

Create 10, 4th annual creative and academic conference on interaction design, is all about creating innovative interactions, whether digital consumer products, interactive services or interaction paradigms.

Photographer Ishimoto Yasuhiro is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential figures in the development of postwar Japanese photography.

The conference aims to explore how the young generation of designers can improve our environment and life in creative ways.

The Sustainability in Design: Now! conference is a platform for sharing the latest knowledge and experiences in product, service and system design, to promote sustainable systems thinking in design education, research and practice communities.

The International Conference on Design & Emotion is a forum held every other year where practitioners, researchers and industry leaders meet and exchange knowledge and insights concerning the cross-disciplinary field of design and emotion.

How Wine Became Modern: Design + Wine 1976 to Now explores transformations in the visual and material culture of wine over the past three decades, offering a fresh way of understanding the contemporary culture of wine and the role that architecture and design have played in its transformation.