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| Red Dot Design Award |
| With over 4,000 entries from 40 countries, the annual red dot design award ranks among the largest design competitions worldwide. The competition is divided into two sections - product design and communication design - which are staged and adjudicated separately. The coveted trophy in both is the red dot, the international seal of quality for outstanding design. The award winning products are displayed online and published in a yearbook. |
| category : Industrial Design Awards |
www.red-dot.de - December 21, 2004 - details
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| RIBA |
| The Royal Institute of British Architects, one of the most influential architectural institutions in the world, has been promoting architecture and architects since being awarded its Royal Charter in 1837. |
| category : Architecture Organizations |
www.riba.org - October 23, 2004 - details
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| DMI |
| The Design Management Institute (DMI) is an international nonprofit organization that seeks to heighten awareness of design as an essential part of business strategy. Founded in 1975, DMI has become the leading resource and international authority on design management. DMI has earned a reputation worldwide as a multifaceted resource, providing invaluable know-how, tools and training through its conferences, seminars, membership program, and publications. |
| category : Design Organizations |
www.dmi.org - May 1, 2004 - details
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| AIA |
| Since 1857, the AIA has represented the professional interests of America's architects. As AIA members, over 74,000 licensed architects, emerging professionals, and allied partners express their commitment to excellence in design and livability in our nation's buildings and communities. |
| category : Architecture Organizations |
www.aia.org - April 24, 2004 - details
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| AIGA |
| AIGA, the professional association for design, is the place design professionals turn to first to exchange ideas and information, participate in critical analysis and research and advance education and ethical practice. |
| category : Graphic Design Organizations |
www.aiga.org - May 1, 2004 - details
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| Nokia |
| Nokia is the worlds leading mobile phone supplier and a leading supplier of mobile and fixed telecom networks including related customer services. |
| category : Industrial Design Manufacturers |
www.nokia.com - April 24, 2004 - details
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| Icograda |
| The International Council of Graphic Design Associations (Icograda) is the world body for professional graphic design and visual communication. Founded in 1963, it is a voluntary assembly of associations concerned with graphic design, visual communication, design management, design promotion and design education. |
| category : Graphic Design Organizations |
www.icograda.org - May 1, 2004 - details
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| MoMA |
| Founded in 1929 as an educational institution, The Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world. |
| category : Art Museums |
www.moma.org - February 25, 2006 - details
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| CABE |
| CABE, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, is the governments advisor on architecture, urban design and public space. The site includes searchable archives containing hundreds of case studies, publications, press releases and comments on new buildings from our design review service. |
| category : Architecture Organizations |
www.cabe.org.uk - April 9, 2006 - details
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| Center for Architecture |
| The Center for Architecture is a hub for all interested in the built environment. It is a place to gather, share, learn, honor, and advocate. |
| category : Architecture Galleries |
www.aiany.org/centerforarchitecture/ - August 25, 2006 - details
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| The Design Museum |
| The Design Museum is the world's leading museum of 20th and 21st century design, architecture and fashion. |
| category : Design Museums |
www.designmuseum.org - February 20, 2006 - details
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| H&M |
| H&M operates in 22 countries and has more than 50,000 employees all working to the same philosophy: to provide fashion and quality at the best price. |
| category : Fashion Design Brands |
www.hm.com - May 11, 2006 - details
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| Design Council |
| The Design Council's purpose is to inspire and enable the best use of design by the UK, in the world context, to improve prosperity and well-being. |
| category : Design Organizations |
www.designcouncil.org.uk - April 20, 2004 - details
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| School of Visual Arts |
| School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose. |
| category : Design Education |
www.sva.edu - April 14, 2006 - details
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| Imaginary Forces |
| Founded in 1996, Imaginary Forces (IF) is a multi-disciplinary entertainment and design agency based in Hollywood and New York. The award-winning work spans the diverse industries of feature film production and marketing, architecture and experience design, corporate branding, commercial advertising, and network branding. |
| category : Multidisciplinary Design Studios |
www.imaginaryforces.com - April 8, 2006 - details
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| Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum |
| Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution is the only museum in the nation devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. The Museum presents compelling perspectives on the impact of design on daily life through active educational and curatorial programming. |
| category : Design Museums |
www.cooperhewitt.org - February 21, 2006 - details
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| Design Forum Finland |
| Design Forum Finland actively promotes the competitiveness and development of Finnish industry and culture through the means of design. This work seeks to improve the exposure of Finnish design and to increase the use and applications of design in industry. Design Forum is an information centre of design presenting a wide range of news and materials on the achievements and strengths of Finnish design both within the country and abroad. |
| category : Design Organizations |
www.designforum.fi - April 20, 2006 - details
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| Autodesk |
| Autodesk is one of the world's leading digital design and content companies. We serve customers in industries where design is critical to success: building, manufacturing, infrastructure, digital media, and location services. |
| category : 3D Design Software |
www.autodesk.com - October 28, 2004 - details
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| ICSID |
| The International Council of Societies of Design Societies has been created in 1957. With 156 member organizations in 53 countries, ICSID is the leading worldwide organization for industrial design. |
| category : Industrial Design Organizations |
www.icsid.org - April 19, 2004 - details
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| Karim Rashid |
| Karim Rashid . 2002 International Interior Design Association Star Award. In 1993, he opened his own studio in New York City. His clients include Umbra, Issey Miyake, Prada, Nambe, Magis, Mikasa, Edra, Frighetto, Herman Miller, Foscarini, Artemide, Idée, Bozart,Shiseido, Giorgio Armani, Leonardo, Nienkamper, Yahoo, Zerodisegno, Copco, Method, Guzzini, and Danese, among others. |
| category : Interior Designers |
www.karimrashid.com - January 12, 2005 - details
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| IDSA |
| IDSA is the voice of industrial design, representing the profession to business, government, education, the media and the general public. |
| category : Industrial Design Organizations |
www.idsa.org - April 19, 2004 - details
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| Parsons |
| Parsons focuses on creating engaged citizens and outstanding artists, designers, scholars and business leaders through a design-based professional and liberal education. The school embraces curricular innovation, pioneering uses of technology, collaborative methods and global perspectives on the future of design. |
| category : Design Education |
www.parsons.edu - February 27, 2006 - details
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| Fashion Templates |
| Tutorial site teaching students to develop contemporary fashion drawing skills & drawing of fashion figures for men & women. Purchase fashion figure templates, download free technical drawing templates, view fashion illustration gallery showcasing professional illustrators. |
| category : Fashion Design Resources |
www.fashion-templates.com - August 9, 2006 - details
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| Adobe |
| Building on more than twenty years of innovation and leadership, Adobe helps people and organizations communicate better through its world-leading digital imaging, design, and document technology platforms for consumers, creative professionals, and enterprises. |
| category : Design Software |
www.adobe.com - October 21, 2005 - details
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| Pininfarina |
| With a history dating back to 1930, Pininfarina is today one of the leading service company within the automotive industry, able to offer to the OEM's creative solutions based on its know-how and flexibility through each stage of Concept & Design, Product & Process Engineering, Niche Vehicle Manufacturing, as a full-cycle turn-key partner, or a provider of specific services. |
| category : Car Design Companies |
www.pininfarina.com - January 8, 2007 - details
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| ADC |
| The Art Directors Club is the premier organization for integrated media and the first international creative collective of its kind. Founded in New York in 1920, the ADC is a self-funding, not-for-profit membership organization that celebrates and inspires creative excellence, connecting creative visual communications professionals from around the world. |
| category : Communications Design Organizations |
www.adcglobal.org - November 15, 2007 - details
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| Studio MIKMIK |
| Online portfolio of graphic designer and illustrator Michael Lewis. Specializing in design for print, bespoke illustration and identity design. |
| category : Graphic Design Portfolios |
www.studiomikmik.co.uk - April 17, 2006 - details
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| Frog Design |
| frog design, inc. is one of the world's leading strategic-creative consulting firms. By identifying emerging market opportunities and transforming ideas into compelling product and service experiences, frog helps Fortune 500 clients to evolve, expand, and envision their businesses. Founded in Germany in 1969, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with studios in Austin, TX; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; San Jose, CA; Seattle, WA; Milan, Italy; Shanghai, China; and Stuttgart, Germany. |
| category : Industrial Design Companies |
www.frogdesign.com - April 23, 2004 - details
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| How Design Magazine |
| Founded in 1985, HOW Magazine provides graphic-design professionals with essential business information, features cutting-edge technological advances, profiles renowned and up-and-coming designers, details noteworthy projects, and provides creative inspiration. |
| category : Graphic Design Magazines |
www.howdesign.com - March 3, 2006 - details
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| Troika |
| Troika Design Group is a multi-disciplinary award winning design company in Hollywood with a group of 20 plus designers, producers, animators, editors, and conceptual thinkers who specialize in network branding, promotional and advertising campaigns, and show packaging. |
| category : Advertising Design Studios |
www.troika.tv - June 9, 2005 - details
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| Sony |
| Sony is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. |
| category : Industrial Design Manufacturers |
www.sony.com - June 29, 2007 - details
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| Tronic Studio |
| Tronic Studio is a NYC directing, design and animation studio founded in 2001 by Columbia Architecture graduates Jesse Seppi and Vivian Rosenthal. Broadcast design and are at the base of the creative collective occupying Tronic Studio. They've delivered unique digital visions for both RES and Creative Review, directed and animated spots for Nike, HBO, MTV and NEC, conceived and executed projects for Diesel, GE and Wired (in store) and in general, have worked to eliminate lines delineating one form of creative media output from another. |
| category : Animation Design Studios |
www.tronicstudio.com - May 26, 2005 - details
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| Victoria and Albert Museum |
| Victoria and Albert Museum enables everyone to enjoy its collections and explore the cultures that created them; and to inspire those who shape contemporary design. |
| category : Design Museums |
www.vam.ac.uk - January 27, 2007 - details
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| LEO A DALY |
| LEO A DALY is an internationally renowned architecture, planning, engineering and interior design firm. LEO A DALY's portfolio includes award-winning projects in 50 countries, all 50 states, and the District of Columbia. The firm currently employs over 1,200 architects, engineers, planners, and interior designers in 20 offices worldwide. |
| category : Architecture Companies |
www.leoadaly.com - September 10, 2006 - details
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| Zaha Hadid |
| Zaha Hadid is a distinguished architect and designer, and winner of numerous international competitions. Zaha was the first female to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004, and her work has recently been the subject of a major retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim in New York. |
| category : Architecture Companies |
www.zaha-hadid.com - January 6, 2008 - details
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| Lord Aeck Sargent Architecture |
| Lord, Aeck & Sargent is an award-winning architectural firm serving clients in scientific, academic, historic preservation, arts and cultural, and multi-family housing and mixed-use markets. The firm's core values are responsive design, technological expertise and exceptional service. Lord, Aeck & Sargent has offices in Ann Arbor, Michigan; Atlanta; and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. |
| category : Architecture Companies |
www.lordaecksargent.com - January 7, 2007 - details
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| RKS |
| RKS is an Industrial Design consultancy offering a full range of strategy, innovation, and design services. Consistently ranked in Business Week's Top 10 Industrial Design firms, RKS has a 27-year legacy of transforming client inspirations and aspirations into powerful business results. The Southern California-based firm specializes in market segments that include medical/dental, consumer electronics, sporting goods, housewares, consumer products, and industrial goods. Its clients include Apple, JBL, Nokia, HP, Intel, Zyliss, Panavision, Medtronic, and many others. |
| category : Industrial Design Companies |
www.rksdesign.com - April 24, 2008 - details
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| Foster and Partners |
| Foster and Partners is an international studio for architecture, planning and design led by Norman Foster and a group of Senior Partners. Norman Foster's philosophy of integration can be seen in the way the practice's London design studio works; it is essentially one large open space, shared equally by everyone, and free of subdivisions to encourage good communication between the many people who come together there. |
| category : Architecture Design Studios |
www.fosterandpartners.com - August 10, 2005 - details
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| Porsche Design Group |
| Porsche Design Group, based in Bietigheim-Bissingen, is a majority-owned subsidiary of Porsche AG. The company's activities are focused on the business areas Porsche Design, Porsche Design Driver's Selection and the Porsche Design Studio in Zell am See, Austria. |
| category : Industrial Design Companies |
www.porsche-design.com - February 25, 2006 - details
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| U.S. Green Building Council |
| The U.S. Green Building Council is the nation's foremost coalition of leaders from across the building industry working to promote buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to live and work. |
| category : Sustainable Design Organizations |
www.usgbc.org - October 28, 2004 - details
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| Material ConneXion |
| Material ConneXion is a library of over 4500 innovative & cutting edge materials. All of the materials are voted in monthly by a jury of architects and designers of different disciplines. Every month we evaluate 50 new materials. We inspire architects, interior designers, industrial designers, product designers, furniture designers and any designer that wants up to date information on cutting edge & innovative materials. Every idea has a material solution. |
| category : Industrial Design Materials |
www.materialconnexion.com - June 24, 2005 - details
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| 72andSunny |
| 72andSunny was founded by John Boiler, Glenn Cole, Robert Nakata and Greg Perlot. We are a full-service advertising, design and brand identity agency with offices in Los Angeles and Amsterdam. Our clients include Microsoft Xbox, Bugaboo, Quiksilver, G4 Media, DC Shoes and Portland Trail Blazers. |
| category : Advertising Design Agencies |
www.72andsunny.com - April 11, 2006 - details
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| SketchList 3D |
| SketchList 3D is the furniture design software that allows woodworkers
to use a computer to design furniture and cabinets by using virtual 3D boards,
drawers and doors. You add, size, pick materials, and locate parts interactively, always
seeing the result of your work. |
| category : Furniture Design Software |
www.sketchlist.com - January 1, 2008 - details
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| Behavior Design |
| Behavior creates compelling user experiences to help our clients strengthen online brands, improve website usability, increase online revenues, and decrease operating costs. |
| category : Web Design Companies |
www.behaviordesign.com - August 8, 2006 - details
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| Austin Metze |
| Graphic design studio with over 30 years of experience. Clients include People, Book-of-the-Month Club, National Review and many others.
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| category : Graphic Design Portfolios |
www.metzedesign.com - May 1, 2004 - details
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| Brandwidth |
| Brandwidth is not just the name of our integrated marketing services agency it's our core business concept. Being equipped to create the widest possible view of the opportunity and then apply the most comprehensive combination of modern marketing solutions is what we believe in - and what gives us our point of difference. |
| category : Logo and Branding Design Studios |
www.brandwidth.co.uk - September 2, 2006 - details
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| BDI |
| British Design Innovation is a not for profit membership organization comprising strategically-led design and innovation consultants, university innovation teams, in-house design and innovation teams, art & design faculties and their graduates. The BDI mission is to foster collaboration between members and create an environment to deliver innovation. |
| category : Design Organizations |
www.britishdesigninnovation.org - May 1, 2004 - details
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| Brooklyn Museum |
| The Brooklyn Museum, housed in a 560,000-square-foot, Beaux-Arts building, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the country. Its world-renowned permanent collections range from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art, and represent a wide range of cultures. |
| category : Art Museums |
www.brooklynmuseum.org - July 19, 2007 - details
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