Doc'Spag : No Spoon Just Pleasure No need for a spoon to eat spaghetti from a DOC'spag plate. A mere twirl of a fork in the centre and... more Clever Clocky Design Combats Oversleeping Clocky, a shag carpeting covered digital clock on two wheels, jumps from the bedside table to find a... more YUPO Synthetic Paper Designs at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile Architect and paper design whiz Liming Rao, who has made a splash in North America with his YUPO syn... more A Shot in the Armchair On a bustling cobblestone street, shoppers laden with bags halted at the glint of an AK-47 -- an 18-... more The Foreign Affairs of Dutch Design From Thursday 14 July to Sunday 21 August 2005, the exhibition ´The foreign affairs of Dutch design'... more Life Jacket Design Competition Current models of life jackets save lives everyday, however, a 2004 Boat U.S. Foundation study found... more Designing Unseen Wellness Designing Unseen Wellness is a design competition organized by the department of Industrial Design o... more Interior Motives Design Conference 2005 The world's top designers and architects gather in Berlin to discuss the future of car design. In... more Interior Motives Design Awards 2005 : The Car Design Evolution Continues The third Interior Motives Design Awards 2005 competition has officially started! Since registration... more Milan Student Show 2005 The British Council Art, Architecture and Design Department has announced the 16 winners of its annu... more Great Brits : The New Alchemists Curated with the Design Museum and Sir Paul Smith, Great Brits is a showcase for the new generation ... more Euroluce 2005 : International Lighting Exhibition From April 13 to 18, 2005, the much-awaited international lighting exhibition, Euroluce, returns to ... more Recycling Competition The First Rikrea biennial competition refers to objects to be produced in series from recovered and ... more Become a Condom Designer : Design One Global Protection Corp., the company behind the distinctive Pleasure Plus and Night Light brands o... more Eva Zeisel is Hotter Than Ever She first created a splash in American housewares more than 50 years ago. But today, Eva Zeisel migh... more World Class Designers to Focus on Sustainable Rural Transport Designers from 17 countries joined their South African counterparts in Rustenburg on Sunday, 3 April... more The Next Big Design Challenge You might not know it yet, but designing for the environment will become a major issue as countries ... more Year of Design Will Boost Swedish Industry The pantheon of Swedish design classics already contains some familiar names. From carmakers such as... more

Peachpit Announces Lineup of Adobe Creative Suite 2 Books Today Peachpit announced its lineup of books designed to guide readers through Adobe Creative Suite ... more Do Not Disturb Signs Get a Makeover While you were sleeping, the "Do Not Disturb" sign turned into a clever, artful symbol of slumber. ... more New PANTONE Color Bridge Guide Pantone, Inc., the worldwide leading provider of professional color standards for design industries ... more Logos and Labels Continue to Lose Appeal The fourth annual Brand Keys Fashion Index, a national survey of fashion and apparel brand labels an... more American Theatre Wing Introduces New Corporate Identity Created by Siegel & Gale The American Theatre Wing, founder of the Tony Awards, is embarking on a program to raise its presen... more Rolland Inspiration : A New and Inspiring Line of Fine Paper Cascades Fine Papers Group is proud to present a new and inspiring Writing, Text and Cover paper lin... more Adobe InDesign CS2 Leads Next Wave in Publishing and Design Innovation Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the latest version of its layout and design program, Adob... more New Jersey Based Designer Donates Talent to Essex County's Turtle Back Zoo  Graphic Designer and illustrator, Louis Simeone has created a striking new logo for the Essex County... more Corel Corporation Introduces Corel Designer Technical Suite 12 Corel Corporation today introduces Corel Designer Technical Suite 12, the latest version of the comp... more Longing : A Sans Serif Font with Floral Ornaments Font-o-Rama, Nina David's fontlabel, has now extended its variety of quality fonts and currently off... more Innovative Designers Spark Wallpaper Trend It might be less insistent than cicadas, but wallpaper is definitely getting buzz. Especially since ... more Brett Davidson : Poster Design for The 77th Annual Show 'I'm like the little engine that could,' says graphic designer Brett Davidson, who kept trying until... more Flower of the East: Iranian and Arabic Posters Exhibition From April 10 to June 26 the Affichemuseum in Hoorn, Holland, will present an exhibition of modern I... more Tenth Annual Apple Design Awards 2005 Apple is now accepting entries for the Tenth Annual Apple Design Awards, recognizing technical excel... more The Big Brand Theory Learn the back-story behind the best brands, understand the trends that affect your trademark, and d... more Ten Images for Ithaca : 4th Poster Competition of the Island of Ithaca The ten best entries will be made into banners with dimensions 2m x 60cm and will be hung along Itha... more The Creative Suite Conference The Creative Suite Conference will be the first conference dedicated for Adobe Creative Suite users,... more

Tom Ford Back to Fashion One year after his final catwalk bow, the fashion designer Tom Ford yesterday announced his return t... more Fashion Design Stretches across Cultural Divide American style met Japanese tradition as students at Parsons School of Design met peers from Tokyo's... more Gwen Stefani is Top Fashion Icon Singer Gwen Stefani has knocked Kate Moss off the top of the best dressed list. The flamboyant s... more Body Scanner : One Size Fits All With magazines giving the image that today's ideal body is tall and slim, retailers are creating clo... more Fashion Fringe 2005 The new Fashion Fringe talent search for 2005 will be underway as from April 12, with its first even... more 2005 CFDA Fashion Awards The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) announced today that Vera Wang, Marc Jacobs (for ... more URART Awarded Silver Prize at The Fifth International South Sea Pearl Jewellery URART of Istanbul Turkey, designer of handcrafted jewellery and silver objects based on interpretati... more Spreadshirt : New UK Website Makes Everyone a Fashion Designer A new website launched last week in the UK gives Internet users with a flair for design the opportun... more Fashion Gets Down to Business in Western Canada British Columbia Fashion Week today released the list of designers selected to participate in the in... more Robert Lee Morris Necklace Featured on Britney Spears for Allure Magazine "The necklace that Britney is wearing in the Allure photo is one of my silver archive pieces that I ... more Gucci Shakes Up Design Team Again Italian fashion house Gucci has shaken up its design team again, just two seasons after star designe... more Mini is No.1 Fashion Icon The mini skirt has been named the most iconic fashion item of all time. The classic garment beat ... more Roots of Art Announces the Launch of 2005 Spring Collection Becoming an online favorite jewelry store, Roots of Art, inc. features "must have" jewelry pieces to... more FrostFrench by Sadie Frost and Jemima French Sadie Frost has unveiled the latest collection from her FrostFrench label at London Fashion Week. ... more Wild Designs Make Fashion Headlines in London While historically the Paris and Milan shows may attract more attention, London has earned the reput... more Nickel Free Fashion Sales on the Rise Nickel allergy, already the most common contact allergy in North America, is on the rise. Nickel, fo... more Spectres : When Fashion Turns Back The Victoria & Albert Museum presents Spectres: When Fashion Turns Back, on view through May 8, 2005... more Triumph International Fashion Award 2005 Triumph International, the global market leader in high quality woman underwear, continues the compa... more

Philippe Starck Wants You to be More Sexy Internationally renowned lifestyle designer Philippe Starck has a dream to "make a place where peopl... more Pantone Home Color Forecast 2006 : Uptown, Downtown and Out-of-Town Pantone, Inc., the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the de... more Residential Designers Gear up for Interior Design Award The latest trends in residential interior design have been revealed as Australia's leading interior ... more design EX Design Exhibition An impressive line up of emerging young designers' work will be featured Australia's most influentia... more Design Turkey : Interior Design Awards Design Turkey-IDA is Turkey's first interior design award. The contest and rewarding process that... more World Trade Center Investigators Call for Skyscraper Design Changes US experts said they will call for major changes to the way skyscrapers are built and managed after ... more Palm Harbor Homes Wins Prestigious Design Award Palm Harbor Homes, Inc. today announced that it has won a National Industry Award for Excellence in ... more Matali Crasset : In Living Color With its technicolor walls and ersatz trees, the Beijing apartment that Matali Crasset designed last... more A Green Library Music, poetry and speakers kicked off the idea of a 'green design' library for Fargo on March 8 at t... more Simulated Earthquake Helps Engineers Design Bridges Brigham Young University researchers temporarily transformed Redwood Road into a mini-Cape Canaveral... more Green Design Can Help Conserve Dollars Five years ago, it would have been quite challenging to find a list of environmentally friendly buil... more Riverlife Task Force Plans Competition to Design Footbridge Across Ohio River In cities as diverse as Paris, Chicago, and Bilbao, Spain, footbridges have become striking addition... more Universal Design : Design for Every Body Universal design is an approach to making homes livable for anyone; aging baby boomers are expected ... more Lord Foster is to Design Supreme Court One of the UK's top architects, Lord Foster, has been chosen to help create London's new Supreme Cou... more GlobalShop 2005 : Muzak Takes Best in Show Award Muzak won the coveted Best Booth award, given by Visual Merchandising and Store Design at GlobalShop... more ADSM Announces London Heathrow Terminal 5 Sustainable Design Project ADSM (Advanced Demand Side Management) PLC is pleased to announce that it is undertaking the detaile... more Colani Rotor House The design partnership between Prof. Luigi Colani and Hanse Haus takes us a great step forward towar... more

Adobe to Acquire Macromedia Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia in an all-st... more L.A. Center For Digital Art Juried Competition : Open Call for Entries LACDA announces our juried competion for digital art and photography. Entrants submit three JPEG ... more Winners Announced in CoCreate's Design Competition CoCreate Software, Inc., a leading provider of flexible CAD and collaborative PLM software, today an... more Retro Redux Atari 2600 Design Winners Announced Parsons School of Design has announced the winners of the Atari-sponsored Retro Redux 24-hour game d... more thinkiD by think3 think3, a leading supplier of industrial design and product development solutions, today announced t... more Autodesk Inventor 10 : World's Best Selling 3D Design Software Latest version of Autodesk Inventor 10 - world's best-selling 3D design software and foundation for ... more Adobe Illustrator CS2 : Designers to Rediscover the Power of Vector Graphics Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced Adobe Illustrator CS2 software, a significant new releas... more UK Experts Develop Realistic Animation System Computing experts at Cardiff University are developing a super-realistic animation system that simul... more Art Students Showcase Web Design Skills It takes a village to raise a child, and it takes hundreds of student volunteers to raise Web sites ... more Apple to Ship Mac OS X Tiger on April 29 Apple today announced that Mac OS X version 10.4 Tiger will go on sale Friday, April 29, beginning ... more Autodesk DWF Composer and DWF Viewer Autodesk today made it easier and faster for companies to turn their ideas into finished designs. Wi... more Dosch LayerFX Dosch Design is releasing the newest LayerFX image collection in the Dosch LayerFX product line. ... more Twentieth Century Fox Animation Acquires Rights to Horton Hears a Who Following almost two years of negotiations, Twentieth Century Fox Animation has acquired rights to t... more Nokia and Wallpaper Collaborate to Create Style-Centric Mobile Site Nokia, the world's leading mobile phone maker, and Wallpaper*, the highly influential international ... more Astley Baker Davies : Exceedingly Good Animators Many people over a certain age will recall with fondness the TV adverts for Mr Kipling's cakes. Whil... more Parsons School of Design Partners with Atari for Retro Redux Video Game On April 2-3, Parsons School of Design, a division of New School University, will present its first ... more Design for Machine Living The new film from the creators of "Ice Age" isn't just a triumph of computer animation, though it su... more

Emeco's New 1951 Chair Designed by BMW A fortuitous discovery on eBay lead to '1951', Emeco's newest aluminum chair. Designed by Adrian van... more Christophe Charbault Takes World Car Design Prize "Big on Design" is the slogan of the 2005 Canadian International AutoShow, and it proved to be a big... more Ball Pen : Best Low-cost Invention Ever A design exhibition at the Design Museum in London titled Under a Tenner - What is Good Design?, has... more Jacuzzi : Designs Upgrade Residence to Luxury Home In most homes, bathtubs rarely bubble up to star power. More often than not, they are plain, white a... more Michelin Tweel Michelin Tweel: another puncture-proof, retreadable solution. The name 'Tweel'' is the contractio... more New Sony Flash Memory Walkman Designs The advanced flash memory Network WALKMAN range from Sony today sees the addition of three new serie... more C2C Design : A Symbol of Design Failure C2C, it stands for Cradle-To-Cradle, and it is the emerging green-friendly standard of industrial de... more Model Ideas : 40 Young Designers A model idea is a poetic gesture with which the designer begins to shape something. It may never ... more Results of The Red Dot Award : Product Design 2005 The waiting is over: The international jury selected the winners of the red dot award: product desig... more Rinspeed's Latest Design Unveiled Every February, car journalists the world over wait with baited breath for the latest Rinspeed show ... more 2005 is Year of Design in Sweden Sweden is known for a tradition of excellence in marrying form and function, from its fine glasswork... more New Designer Mouse from Sony : Vaio Mouse VGP-UMS50 This new "designer" mouse from Sony is an 800 dpi optical mouse that connects to your PC or laptop v... more Razr Sharpens Motorola's Stodgy Image Sleek and stylish are in these days at old-world Motorola as a new focus on design wins back custome... more Bikes Come Clean : Hydrogen Power for Two Wheels Britain's Bovingdon airfield was the home of General Eisenhower's personl aircraftduring the Second ... more Wacom 6D Art Pen Provides Digital Artists a Natural Media Look and Feel Wacom Technology Corporation, with the support of Adobe has successfully developed a 6D Art Pen that... more Lance's Yellow Band Wins Mag Design Award The grand prize in the inaugural Bottom Line Design Awards from US magazine Business 2.0 went to the... more The Red Dot Award : Concept Design Singapore has beaten out other Asian countries to serve as host to one of the world's most prestigio... more SoftSoftSoft Digital Film A carnivorous plant that grows at a monstrous speed, two orange juice squeezers from the demateriali... more

Deutsche Börse Photography Prize Now in its ninth year, London's Photographers' Gallery continues to bring the best new and internati... more Bellevue Arts Museum Set to Reopen in Late Spring Bellevue Arts Museum officials say they are on track to reopen the museum in late spring, after an 1... more NikonNet and Legends Behind the Lens Honor James Balog From the beauty of endangered animals to the destruction of natural disasters, nature has many sides... more DFOTO 2005 : International Contemporary Photography and Video Fair DFOTO 2005, The Second International Contemporary Photography and Video Fair will take place April 1... more Thinking in Glass : Contemporary Glass from the Czech Republic This will be the first ever presentation of modern glass from the Czech Republic and Slovakia in any... more Posti di Vista 05 From the 13th to the 18th of April during the 2005 Salone Internazionale del Mobile di Milano. FDV L... more Design Lab : Tronic Studio Multimedia design firm Tronic Studio will have its first solo museum exhibition at Knoxville Museum ... more 24th International Istanbul Film Festival The International Istanbul Film Festival, organized by Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts ever... more Design by Nature : Resource Forum for Environmentally Sustainable Graphic Design Australia's first Resource Forum for Environmentally Sustainable Graphic Design is launched. De... more Brand Identity and Package Design Conference Top marketers and designers will convene at the Brand Identity & Package Design conference, April 18... more Stretch Design Conference Step inside design magazine, part of the global media company Dynamic Graphics Group, announced this... more Starck Raving About Everything From see-through chairs to chic hotels, Philippe Starck's imagination knows no bounds. But, he tells... more Green Design vs. Sustainable Design When people use the term "sustainable design" with me, as a magazine editor did recently, my first q... more Suginami Animation Museum The Suginami Anime Pavilion is going to re-open as the Suginami Animation Museum on March 5th, after... more KToon: 2D Animation Toolkit KToon is a 2D Animation Toolkit designed by animators (Toonka Films) for animators, focused to the C... more Timely Watchworks If "Swiss clock maker" conjures an image of quaint craftsmanship conducted in gingerbread workshops,... more Catherine David : Design Edge Makes Splash Designer Catherine David's first run of black-and-white linens were made to furnish her own home and... more Prince Charles' New Architecture Blast Prince Charles has launched an attack on the "cavalier attitude" of Britain's architects and town pl... more

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