Upcoming Design Events

Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago presents designs by the movement's most notable practitioners, from William Morris and Charles Robert Ashbee to Gustav Stickley and Frank Lloyd Wright.

This retrospective, presented in collaboration with a consortium of the three Bauhaus collections in Germany, is the first comprehensive treatment of the Bauhaus at MoMA since 1938 and the first major show in the United States on the subject in decades.

Insight is a creativity workshop that removes the rigid structure of traditional program delivery, allowing you to interact with the environment you find yourself in.

Led by Catharine Taylor, this hands-on workshop will show you how to blog, and use other social networking platforms to further your personal brand.

Widely perceived today as quite ordinary, ranch houses are in fact extraordinary- hallmarks of a distinct historic period. Utilizing examples from across the state of Georgia, Cloues will explore how the ranch house represents new ideas about domestic architectural design and family life.

Parallel Nippon focuses on 110 representative architectural specimens selected from among buildings constructed primarily in Japan in the 10 years from 1996 to 2006, presenting them against the backdrop of Japan's socio-cultural environment.

Greenbuild is the world's largest conference and expo dedicated to green building. Thousands of building professionals from all over the world come together at Greenbuild for three days of outstanding educational sessions, renowned speakers, green building tours, special seminars, and networking events.

The aim of the symposium is to exchange knowledge and experience by Brazilian and Dutch specialists on this subject.

Grey to Green is a public debate to shift funding and skills from grey to green infrastructure.

Plensa will discuss the creation of the Crown Fountain-one of his most important and ambitious pieces of public art, made possible in part by a collaborative effort with SAIC faculty and students-as well as other internationally renowned projects installed around the globe.

The five-day San Francisco International Animation Festival celebrates San Francisco's prominence as a hub for one of the most creative cinematic forms.

On Wednesday, November 11, the BFA Illustration program at Parsons The New School for Design will present Moving Pictures, a symposium exploring ideas of motion in illustration.

Cumulus 38 South invites educators, practitioners, and researchers to join the cross-disciplinary conversation, "How can design as a discipline transcend boundaries, shift thinking, and evolve to meet the needs of our future?"

The Fifth Symposium of the Swiss Design Network wants to highlight research cases informed by knowledge of other disciplines to understand their relevance for design theories, methods and practices.

Producing memorable dynamic environments requires a high degree of collaboration among owners, architects, designers, technology integrators, and multimedia experts. The event will explore places and communication transformed by dynamic media.

David Dixon, FAIA, Joan Goody's long-term partner and the Principal-in-Charge of Planning and Urban Design at Goody, Clancy & Associates, will give the 2009 Ratensky Lecture in her honor.

Nussbaum and Martin will discuss the route followed by successful design thinkers in business, science and the arts, on the occasion of the publication of Martin's new book, The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is The Next Competitive Advantage.

The Other New Urbanisms Symposium will explore the possibilities and pitfalls of innovative and contemporary approaches to city making.

Four multidisciplinary teams of architects, engineers, and landscape designers will participate in an eight-week workshop to develop proposals for future infrastructure projects in New York Harbor.

Four distinguished educators who have inspired generations of creatives will be honored as ADC Grandmasters by the Art Directors Club.

A day of lectures and panel discussions will present strategies of French and American urbanists in addressing challenges in transportation, densification, social housing and open space.

Konstantin Grcic: Decisive Design is specifically devoted to the portfolio of Grcic and his firm, Konstantin Grcic Insdustrial Design (KGID), and brings together more than 100 of his objects, including furniture, products, tableware, and office accessories.

Showcasing landmark designs for both Braun and Vitsoe, this exhibition will examine how Dieter Rams' design ethos inspired and challenged perceptions of domestic design and assesses Dieter Rams' lasting influence on today's design landscape.

Singapore Design Festival is a biennial platform to promote design and the design industry in Singapore, creating opportunities for networking and the exchange of ideas, and enhancing Singapore's image as a vibrant and creative international design city.

Wood type aficionados will converge for a Wayzgoose weekend, Nov. 20-22, filled with print presentations and type talk including Matthew Carter as he unveils "Carter Latin Wide," his first wood typeface and the newest addition to one of the premier wood type collections in the world.

Included will be 700 examples of rarely or never-before-seen drawings, paintings, storyboards, moving-image works, puppets, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera, and an extensive film series spanning Burton's 27-year career.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present a multimedia exhibition of works by Marcel Wanders, whose unique fusion of technology, artistry, and wit have established him as a leading figure in international design.

Singapore will host the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) World Design Congress 2009 from 23 to 27 November 2009, in conjunction with the biennial Singapore Design Festival.

This year's Congress will directly address today's global challenges which will shape the world of 2050, including issues around agriculture, climate, education, health and mobility.

Over three days, the who's who of Europe's creative communications community will congregate to engage with top industry leaders and advertisers to participate in a rich, lively and inspirational content programme addressing topical issues and challenges that European agencies face on a daily basis.

FITC Events travels east this November with FITC Tokyo, a one-day design event featuring Flash experts Lee Brimelow, Joshua Hirsch (Big Spaceship), Mario Klingemann, Keith Peters and Grant Skinner.

Design Korea is a biennial international design business event that aims to provide an introduction to the latest trends and information in design business, as well as an opportunity to expand design business networks.

MEX is a two day forum exploring the techniques and strategies for creating great user experience in a multi-platform digital environment.

As the most extensive "modern and contemporary art" event in Turkey, Contemporary Istanbul aims to promote the cultural and artistic life of Turkey.

Curated by James and Karla Murray, the exhibition will feature a selection of work from today's top street artists.

Design Life is a design forum that brings together designers and creative individuals from various design disciplines from Asia and Australia.

Design at Work 09 is the international tradeshow for product development, design and innovation from 6-10 december 2009 in Kortrijk, Belgium.

In this detailed and insightful lecture, industrial designer and product development entrepreneur Robert Brunner will talk about the ethos and achievements behind Ammunition, the San Francisco based multidisciplinary design company he founded in 2007.

New Life Copenhagen is a participatory art festival and will engage 10,000 people in 10 days as a collective manifestation of individual power of action and personal engagement in the contemporary climate debate.

The Yacht Racing Design & Technology Symposium is a must attend-event for leading professionals in the field of design and technology for racing and performance yachts.

The Edge will take place over two days in London, on 9/10 December. The participants will be up to 250 high-flyers from the rising generation of the UK's creative talent mixed with the most senior and successful of its high-achievers.

Passagen is a design event focusing on current trends in design - particularly interior design - with exhibitions in Cologne showrooms, galleries, furniture stores, cultural institutions, museums and universities.

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.

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.

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