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 2010 Passion for Fashion Competition For High School Seniors2010 Passion for Fashion Competition For High School The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition 2010 provides high school students an exciting glimpse of the highly competitive fashion industry by offering students interested in Fashion Design or Fashion Marketing, Merchandising or Retail Management an opportunity to win a full-tuition scholarship to study fashion at one of The Art Institutes schools.Open to high school seniors across North America, The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition was created to encourage and reward young fashion design and fashion marketing, merchandising and retail management talent at the high school level. Since it began five years ago, interest in the competition has taken off, says Bruce E. Dempsey, Vice President, Academic Affairs Specialist for The Art Institutes. "We saw a record number of applicants enter last year's competition. There are so many wonderful fashion courses in high school today, and many students see a career in this industry within their reach." The competition consists of two categories: 1) Fashion Design and 2) Fashion Marketing & Merchandising and Retail Management. The grand prize winner in each category earns a full-tuition scholarship to an Art Institutes school to study in a fashion program. competition (ended) current design competitions more info www.art... (355) design directory The Art Institutes > Animation Education added by Levent OZLER |
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 Cracow School of Art and Fashion Design Starts with International ClassesThis year Cracow School of Art and Fashion Design opens doors for international students.The school offers a two-and-half-year full time program. The staff, all specialists within different areas of art and design, provide a program of study that will enable you to release your full potential. After 15 years of experience the school has achieved a high standard and an exellent reputation. Admission to SAPU is open to any applicant with a high school diploma. No former study in the field of art is required, however, it is advantageous. It has been proven, that students without former artistic experience may have the talent to benefit enormously from taking our course of study. All that is required is a true interest in fashion, creativity and commitment. more ksa.edu... (104) added by Cracow School of Art and Fashion Design |
 Yves Behar Flips Underwear Category on Its Head with Launch of PACTPACT, an online underwear brand that blends design and sustainability with support for powerful social and environmental causes, launched today with three premium organic cotton underwear collections for men and women.PACT believes that everyday essentials can communicate personal values. Buying PACT underwear is more than a transaction; it's commerce as a social movement embodying the motto: Change Starts With Your Underwear. From how it's made, shipped and shopped, the PACT brand is conceived in partnership with Yves Behar and his San Francisco-based studio, fuseproject, the industrial design and brand strategy firm behind iconic products like the Jawbone headset, Herman Miller LEAF Lamp and One Laptop per Child XO laptop. "We looked at underwear through the lens of 360 degree design," said Jeff Denby, PACT Chief Creative Officer and Co-Founder. "Having fuseproject as an equity partner in PACT illuminates the fundamental importance of design to the PACT brand. Our collaboration is key to generating what we believe are the most innovative ideas at the intersection of business, design and sustainability." At the core of PACT are deep partnerships with nonprofit organizations that work to create social and environmental change. Each underwear collection is aligned with a nonprofit. Internationally recognized artists and designers create graphic visualizations of each organization's mission with underwear as their canvas. more Yves Behar Flips Underwear Category on Its Head with Launch of PACT design directory fuseproject: Yves Behar > Industrial Design Studios added by Levent OZLER |
 Hyperbodies: Cuerpos EmergentesThe Istituto Europeo di Design of Barcelona has presented in its future headquarter, the former Macson factory, the 5th edition of its fashion show that this year carries for name "Hyperbodies, Cuerpos Emergentes".The 37 students of the last academic year of fashion design of the IED Barcelona have created a total of 106 styles, which have for inspiration the human body and are born from an intense investigation and experimentation work. The designers Jose Castro, Josep Abril, Txell Miras, and Joan Salvado have directed the thesis projects, transmitting its know-how and passion for the profession to these future promises of the fashion. The collection "Hyperbodies, Cuerpos Emergentes" is a reflexion on the new codes and the new interpretations of the human condition in its social and relational context. The young designers had to travel insight their body and observe attentively the relation of the body with the past, the present and the future to knock down any pre-established stereotype. In the collections you can appreciate this line of experimental work, where the body display different formats and applications that push to a debate on the human contradiction: the altered body, imperfect, artificial, prohibited, crazy, the subtle body, the spiritual and material body,... a canvas that is transformed continuously. more Hyperbodies: Cuerpos Emergentes design directory IED > Design Education added by Levent OZLER |
 Design Museum and Conran Octopus Present New Series of Design BooksEverything around us in designed and the word "design" has become part of our everyday experience.But how much do we know about it? Heralding the start of a unique partnership between Conran Octopus and the Design Museum, this is an exciting new series of books published by Conran Octopus in partnership with the Design Museum. Each book lists the top 50 products that have made a substantial impact in the world of British design today, offering a short appraisal of each that explores what has made their iconic status and the designers that give them a special place in design history. An essential piece of clothing in every woman's closet, Fifty Dresses That Changed The World includes timeless dresses from the 1915 Delphos Pleated dress to Hussein Chalayan's 2007 LED dress. The collection of iconic dresses in this book provides an introduction to the path fashion has taken in the last century. It is a story that takes in social and economic change and radically fluctuating positions on gender and sexuality. These are dresses that have encapsulated particular moments in time in a particularly powerful way, and that have provided fascinating insights into the people who wore them as well as the people who designed and made them. A must-have accessory for all shoe lovers and design enthusiasts, Fifty Shoes That Changed The World includes everything from the 1863 Frye boot to Zaha Hadid's 2009 Lacoste shoe. more Design Museum and Conran Octopus Present New Series of Design Books design directory The Design Museum > Design Museums added by Levent OZLER |
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