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'Creative Lebanon' selects advertising campaign to project youthful image of the country to the world.
How do you represent a culture through design? How do you package a culture through product? How do you capture a culture through publications? How do you sell a culture to clients?
The second phase of "Creative Lebanon" - a project kicked off last spring by the British Council in Beirut and the Association pour le Design et l'Architecture au Proche Orient (ADAPO) - cut straight to the chase with its questions. And it offered up one rather surprisingly apt answer in selecting Joe Abou-Khaled and Vincent Repasse's "Lebanese Homemade" poster and postcard campaign as the winners of a competition geared toward promoting a younger, more vibrant image of Lebanon abroad through contemporary design.
Phase one of "Creative Lebanon" consisted of a jam-packed two-day conference in March, with lectures by London- and Beirut-based artists, architects, academics and more. Though an overall illuminating affair, it digressed on occasion into the building blocks of identity politics and unearthed a good deal of uneasiness with the idea of exporting young talent from a country that offers little support for culture, youth or otherwise.
Phase two pared down its scope - just three lectures and the opening of an exhibition, which unv
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REZN8, a world-renowned, Emmy Award-winning digital design studio, recently solved a complicated design challenge for Paramount Domestic Television's Entertainment Tonight, the #1 syndicated entertainment newsmagazine in the world.
Earlier this year, REZN8 was commissioned to update ET's graphic image while simultaneously creating a new brand identity for the show's new hit spin-off series, The Insider.
Entertainment Tonight is the industry's pioneering entertainment news magazine and the most successful program of its kind in the history of television,commented Linda Bell Blue, executive producer of Entertainment Tonight and The Insider.
'With the launch of THE INSIDER, a companion show that creates an 'hour of power' in 47 markets, we had to make sure these brands worked together in unison while maintaining their own individual identities.'
REZN8 kept the color palettes for both brands warm and personal, yet professional, featuring golds, amber, blues and reds. Marquee-style graphics, film reel animations, and crystal-like accents representing Hollywood's glamour and glitter, all combine to create a visually captivating experience without distracting from the actual news stories.
'We used award show metaphors to create a crystal clear entertainment brand,' explains Paul Sidlo, REZN8's founder.
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The Annual Design Contest has been a hallmark of the American Design Awards since its inception in the year 2000, welcomed by thousands of graphic and web designers worldwide.
The decision to break-up the contest into two manageable yet integrated design events, is to facilitate the overwhelming number of participants.
Although this move will not lead to any significant increase in the number of entries, it is believed that it will result in faster judging times and increased chances of recognition for our participants.
"It is a very tough and daunting task to go through hundreds of entries each summer, and having to choose only a handful of designers to represent the cream of the crop.” said Kevin Javid of ADA.
“With all the preparations we do each year, we are always overwhelmed by the number of entries – not to mention disappointed that so many wonderful designs will have to be passed up due to limiting factors. That is about to change!”
The Winter Semi-Annual Contest and the Summer Semi-Annual Contest are set to take place on the 15th of February and August of each year, open to graphic and web designers throughout the United States and the world. Categories include logo, stationery and web site design, as well as advertising, packaging and brochure design just to name a few.
Interested parties are encoura
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By Amanda Brown, Environment Correspondent, PA News.
Author Bill Bryson will lend his weight to a scheme aiming to protect historic streets from being "trashedR 21; by thoughtlessness and cheap design.
The best-selling author will back English Heritage's Save our Streets campaign which hopes to tackle a rising tide of signs, posts, bollards, poles and barriers.
English Heritage warns that visual chaos from hotchpotch paving and obtrusive traffic signs blights historic villages, towns and cities and affects the quality of people's lives.
Dr Simon Thurley, chief executive of English Heritage said: "Once England had some of the most elegant streets in the world and was famed for the quality of its street furniture.
"Today it is a different story. Our historic streets are being trashed by thoughtlessness and cheap design.
"Some of the worst culprits are local authorities which should be setting an example of enlightened stewardship.
"We need to start by removing the clutter and viewing our streets as historic places in their own right rather than using them as a dumping ground.
"We are all pedestrians and we all deserve better."
More than 20 different agencies are able to install equipment in the streets without any control or co-ordination, often using taxpayers' money and without planning
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Strategies for Management, Inc. (SFM) has pulled together a comprehensive study of the U.S. graphic design market and is making it available to early sponsors at what it terms "an early bird discount."
The study, called "The U.S. Graphic Design Business 2004-2009", has not yet been published, although the group did release some interesting findings.
For example, the study found that in addition to billing nearly $5.8 billion in 2004, the graphic design industry has approximately 16,000 businesses (with an average of four employees each) and spends more than $400 million annually on capital goods. It also includes more than 80,000 independent freelance practitioners.
SFM said the report outlines the number of creative businesses, employees and freelancers, types of services being offered (and how their service mix is changing), as well as the sizes of their billings and capital purchases. It is based on SFM historical data from 1997 through 2004, and will project its findings out to 2009.
"This type of study is important," said Dr. Joseph Webb, president of SFM, "because the graphic design industry represents a large portion of the overall graphic arts marketplace and their skills and experience are the first step in the demand for print and other media. This significant industry is often overlo
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