DeSForM 2008
On November 6 & 7 the next DeSForM workshop will take place at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung Offenbach am Main/Germany. The actual debate about Des...
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Design Blueprint to Improve Professional Standards and Education
Designers will be able to access a range of professional tools, information and advice as part of a far-reaching plan published today, which aims to i...
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Kyoto Design Declaration Signed
The Kyoto Design Declaration signed in Kyoto on the 28th of March 2008 by the Executive Board of Cumulus (the International Association of Universitie...
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State of Design Festival
From Wednesday 16 - Thursday 24 July 2008, the State of Design Festival will cement Victoria as the centre of Australian design, and Melbourne as its ...
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Designersblock Milan 2008
Designersblock Milan 2.0 will be presenting furniture, lighting, ceramics, accessories, installation, fashion and performance from around 40 UK and In...
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Premier's Design Awards 2008
Be recognised as a designer of excellence in Victoria. The Premier's Design Awards are a biennial awards program developed by the Victorian Governm...
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Design Experts Honour 3M Air Purifier Designed by Pininfarina
In one of the most renowned and hardest international design competitions, the red dot design award, the Air Purifier Ultraslim by 3M designed by Pini...
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Creative Clusters 2008
Creative Clusters is an annual conference that examines the growth of the creative industries, and their role in economic development and in culture. ...
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50 Unique Eggs: The Egg a La Tal R
50 unique and unconventional designs of the classic Arne Jacobsen Egg chair made by Tal R, a superstar of the art world, are going to be revealed duri...
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BraunPrize 2009
Braun launched the 17th edition of the BraunPrize. This internationally recognised design competition is open to young industrial designers who are...
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Motion: a Cabinet as Art
Motion is a flexible cabinet system, designed by the German artist Elisabeth Lux. It consists of separate elements which may be linked together and...
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From Business to Buttons 2008
If you missed last year's hottest interaction design venue, don't despair. From Business to Buttons is repeating the success. On 12-13 June 2008...
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Bklyn Designs 2008
Each spring thousands of design cognoscenti and furnishings lovers from around the world descend upon the Big Apple to take part in the much acclaimed...
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Karim Rashid Designed the Most Luxurious Gin Bottle of All Times for Bombay Sapphire
Bombay Sapphire, the word's leading premium gin and one of the co-sponsors of the red dot award: design concept, has collaborated with three of the bi...
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Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2008
The red dot award: communication design is starting a new season. Designers, advertising agencies and clients of communication designers from all o...
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Corporate Membership Category Broadens Icograda's Voice for Communication Design
Icograda (the International Council of Graphic Design Associations) introduced its first major new membership category since 2003. Companies commit...
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MetaDesign Creates New Vision for SanDisk
Award-winning strategic design firm MetaDesign has collaborated with SanDisk Corporation, the inventor and the world's largest supplier of Flash stora...
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School of Visual Arts Presents Pitch
School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents "Pitch," an exhibition of socially- and globally-minded products created by 18 students graduating from the MFA D...
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The Winners of Put Your Sticker on the Fridge and Their 15 Minutes of Fame
PUMA announced the winners of the second Fridge contest. 2 Argentineans, 2 Chileans, 2 Brazilians and 2 Mexicans sent their designs, participated f...
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Cady / Marshall Scholarship Announced
The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC), Vancouver Island Chapter recently announced the establishment of the Cady/Marshall Scholarship, in h...
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Grafist 12: International Graphic Design Week
From 5-11 May, the twelfth edition of Grafist 12, the International Graphic Design Week will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Grafist is one of the ...
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Branding USA No.2
Branding isn't about getting prospects to choose you over the competition. It's about getting them to see your product as the one and only solution...
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Arabic Graphics: the Work of Tarek Atrissi in Exhibition
The graphic and typographic design work of Lebanese-Dutch designer Tarek Atrissi will be exhibited at the De Levante Foundation in Amsterdam- the lead...
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Nissan Environmental Technologies on Display at Science Museum, London
A scale model of Nissan's highly distinctive Pivo electric concept and several other of the company's environmental technologies are showcased at the ...
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Bene Achieves Red Dots for New P2 Office System Furniture
Once again, Bene's outstanding design quality has been recognised by Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen, the German organization that confers the inte...
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Seoul City Government Host Official World Design Capital 2010 Ceremony in Seoul
On behalf of the Seoul Metropolitan Government, Mayor Oh Se-hoon signed a memorandum of agreement with the International Council of Societies of Indus...
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Pininfarina Recchi Buildingdesign
Pininfarina Recchi Buildingdesign: that's the name of the new company created out of the 50-50 joint venture between Pininfarina Extra, company specia...
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Swarovski Design Contest 2008
For more than a hundred years Swarovski has been the world's leading brand for cut crystal. Water and a healthy environment have always been import...
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Cracow Fashion Awards
Cracow Fashion Awards is a ceremony held annually in Cracow to present awards to those young designers who have made the most outstanding collections....
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Designing with Conscience: A Sustainable Fashion Symposium
As part of the on-going Year of Eco-Exhibitions, and in conjunction with the exhibition Fashion Conscious, curators Susan Taber Avila, UC Davis design...
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Graalglass: Eighth International Design Contest Trieste Contemporanea
The Trieste Contemporanea Committee announced the eighth edition of the International Design Contest Trieste Contemporanea with the aim of promoting t...
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Beda Elects New Board of Directors and Accepts Three New Members
At its General Assembly timed to coincide with the Slovenian Presidency of the European Union, the BEDA membership attending from 23 European countrie...
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6th Materialica Design and Technology Award 2008
The application period for the 6th Materialica Design + Technology Award has begun. The annual award, which has been held since 2003, seeks to outl...
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Nine-0 by Ettore Sottsass Celebrates an Authentic Chair and an Original Life
Emeco, the Aluminum Chair Company, will debut "Nine-0", a new collection of chairs and stools by the Italian designer, Ettore Sottsass at the 2008 Sal...
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x,y,z: A Stereoscopic View of the Post-industrial Age
The students of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design London invite you to revel in the wonders of stereoscopic vision at stand B47 at the S...
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GAEAforms Presenting at Salone del Mobile 2008
GAEAforms is presenting new products at Superstudio Piu, Salone del Mobile 2008 Milan. GAEAforms will present only a selection of their products fr...
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Red Dot Design Award for PDD
PDD, the award-winning product innovation consultancy, has added another prestigious design accolade to its collection: Quartz Electric, a revolutiona...
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SABS Design Excellence Award 2008
The South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) Design Institute promotes design in South Africa through a variety of initiatives. For the past 39 yea...
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Hardcore New Finnish Design
HARDCORE New Finnish Design will showcase 20 individual design projects and concepts from Finland presented in collaboration with major Finnish design...
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Automobile Design 2008 Trend Report
The 78th International Motor Show took place from 6 to 16 March, 2008 in Geneva, where 260 exhibitors from 30 countries presented their ideas for the ...
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GSA Select Architecture Greats for Degree Honour
Andy MacMillan and Isi Metzstein, formerly of architecture practice Gillespie Kidd and Coia, are to be awarded honorary degrees conferred by the Unive...
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The Icon Experiment at Grand Designs Live London
The icon experiment is a feature at the UK's biggest homes and interiors exhibition. In a space designed by architects FAT, the icon experiment wil...
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m-ch Crosses the Atlantic
The award winning micro-compact home (m-ch) is to make its US debut this summer at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, as part of the exhibition Hom...
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Designing Streets for People - Not Traffic
Most streets in this country are failing pedestrians, and need to become destinations again, and not simply ways of getting traffic from A to B. Ra...
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DesignSingapore Venice 2008 Studio
As a key initiative in DesignSingapore's design development efforts, the DesignSingapore Studios brings together both Singapore and international desi...
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Exploring Design Firm Mergers: Achieving Expectations and Avoiding Pitfalls
An interactive panel discussion, organized by the Professional Practice Committee, explores the pros and cons of mergers of design practices today. ...
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Columbia Theological Seminary to Celebrate Ground-blessing for New, Green Residence Hall
Columbia Theological Seminary trustees will gather on the campus April 1 to celebrate a "ground-blessing" at the site of a new $9.6 million student re...
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June Dwell on Design Conference Announces Extensive Speaker Line-up
The third annual Dwell on Design Conference + Exhibition, debuting in Los Angeles, June 5-8, 2008 will constitute the largest design show in the West....
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Architecture: Celebrating the Past, Designing the Future
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) released Architecture: Celebrating the Past, Designing the Future, a collection of essays, vignettes and pr...
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Residential Buiding in Oia by A-cero
The architecture studio A-cero presents a new project for a residential complex in the South of the Galician coast, a traditional vacation region in a...
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What is Exhibition Design?
What is Exhibition Design? is the ultimate guide to the many facets of this rapidly emerging discipline, from retail design to museums and trade shows...
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KOKUYO Design Award 2008
Kokuyo Co., Ltd. announced the Kokuyo Design Award 2008 design competition, and is encouraging all those wishing to participate to submit their user-o...
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GRO & TIM Present Football Table at Milan Design Week
GRO design and TIM model makers, both from Eindhoven, The Netherlands, have teamed up once more to present a self-initiated design project at the Mila...
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72andSunny Launches New Brand Strategy and Campaign for Discovery Channel
Brand strategy, advertising and design company 72andSunny is rolling out a new campaign for Discovery Channel with an optimistic message: "The World i...
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Vidfest 2008
The fifth annual Vancouver International Digital Festival (VIDFEST) showcases the power of digital media to achieve altruistic goals, from tackling cl...
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Autodesk Launches New Versions of Visual Effects and Finishing Systems
Autodesk announced the 2009 releases of the Autodesk Inferno, Autodesk Flame and Autodesk Flint software for visual effects systems, and the Autodesk ...
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Smoke & Mirrors New York Collaborates for Mercedes
In this collaborative effort for the Mercedes Benz brand, Merkley+Partners, director Adam Berg of Smuggler, and the VFX team at Smoke & Mirrors New Yo...
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Rokkan Gets Gnarly for Gnarls
Bicoastal full service Interactive Agency, ROKKAN creates the newest site from acclaimed producer Danger Mouse and the uber talented Cee-Lo Green who ...
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Hornet's Mixtape Club Animates The Tudors
Life for a commoner in 16th century England was violent, dirty, smelly, and overall quite dangerous. Even popular recreational activities came with...
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Blue Room Welcomes Executive Producer Mark Mutschler
Blue Room, the award-winning creative services agency, continues its expansion with the addition of Executive Producer Mark Mutschler, a seasoned broa...
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Spectral Sound Teams Up With WeWorkForThem
Spectral Sound, Dancefloor counterpart label of Ghostly International, has teamed up with design legend Mike Cina of WeWorkForThem and TrueIsTrue to d...
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Flickerlab Expands to Additional Quarters
To better serve their existing and future clients, FlickerLab partners Harold Moss and Tammy Walters, have expanded to additional quarters at 119 Fift...
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FITC Get a Job Event Encourages Recent Grads and Second Career Professionals
Recent graduates from post-secondary design and technology programs and second career professionals can check out the many employment options availabl...
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rhinofx Takes Toyota Camry and RAV4 on a Transitional Tour
New York-based design, animation and VFX studio, rhinofx recently collaborated with Uncle Director Gavin Bowden to create two :30 spots for Toyota whi...
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Behavior Design Develops Single Web-based Tracking System for Exhibitions and Events
Behavior Design has developed a web-based program for art institutions that allows for simple and convenient methods of tracking exhibition schedules ...
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ATTIK Campaign Introduces Lexus IS F as Breakthrough Performer
Together with Lexus, global creative and brand-engineering agency ATTIK detailed the multifaceted marketing campaign which has positioned the 2008 Lex...
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Teach Me the Freedom of Swallows: Fabio Novembre
An event celebrating the young Italian star in the world of design, capable of emblematic, sensational and impressive gestures. The exhibition, cur...
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The London Festival of Architecture Closing Party: Architecture Rocks
The Architecture Foundation is hosting the closing party for LFA. Following on from great British rock acts that have arisen from the world of arch...
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Extraordinary Every Day at Milan Design Week
Within the framework of its "live" event, Alcantara LAB showcases the results of its international Extraordinary, Every Day Movie Contest, addressed t...
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Todd Hunter: This Perfect Day
Scott Livesey Galleries presents "This Perfect Day", the latest series of work from Todd Hunter. Painted at his studio in Pittwater on the NSW coas...
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Murakami's Oval Buddha
Takashi Murakami's monumental, platinum-clad Oval Buddha, 2007, will be exhibited in the 590 Sculpture Garden in Manhattan. This exhibition is in c...
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World Intellectual Property Day 2008
World Intellectual Property Day is rapidly growing in popularity. Since its launch, eight years ago, increasing numbers of governments and organiza...
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MOCHA Launches Outline Vase
MOCHA has just launched the Outline Vase, a novel interpretation of the classic vase. This porcelain outline of the familiar shape creates an inter...
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Wellness and Design at Pircher's
The exhibition "Salone Internazionale del Mobile" is the venue for the preview presentation of "Collections", Pircher's new indoor-outdoor furnishing ...
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Salt and Pepper in One
Hip and handy, this dual salt & pepper shaker is a definite must-have for any kitchen/dining arrangement with modern sleek look - you simply tilt one ...
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hyDrop Illuminated Bollards: Designed by Murat Armagan
Murat Armagan Design studio created hyDrop - street lighting product range - for Polight, Ozlem Aydinlatma. The design team aim at contextually ric...
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Finnish Design Yearbook 08-09
Pointing the way for the field, Finnish Design Yearbook 08-09 is now appearing as the second publication in its series. Design today is facing new ...
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Tectonic Side and Sofa Tables: Designed by Alain Gilles for Bonaldo
The Tectonic table series is based on the idea of movement within the construction of its shape but also the ability to create unexpected freeform geo...
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Artnet Launches Design Marketplace
Artnet -announced the launch of its online Design Marketplace featuring modern & contemporary furniture and decorative art from over 150 galleries in ...
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