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RCA Platform 10 Present Crisis Shop. Sold Out! at the Milan Salone For the duration of the Milan Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2009, a team of young design students from Platform 10, one of six teac... more Corporate Creativity: Developing an Innovative Organization Following the success of Building Design Strategy, DMI's latest book, Corporate Creativity, is the ultimate guide for executives and managers... more Design for a Living World This spring, The Nature Conservancy and the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will present "Design for a Living World," a traveling exhibition featuring obje... more Love and Money: 50 Years of Creative Britain UK Trade & Investment has commissioned a film to promote British design groups including Priestman Goode and Conran & Partners to design buyers around the w... more Design Korea 2009 Korean Institute of Design Promotion announced the theme and dates for the Design Korea 2009. The theme for this year's event is: Sharing the future of design. The Twenty-first ... more The University of Design at San Marino at the Salone Satellite 2009 The University of design at San Marino will be participating this year for the first time at the Salone Satellite of Milan. The In... more Element by Fuego: Ammunition Designs New Fuego Outdoor Grill Product Line A new outdoor grill, the Element by Fuego, has been launched by Fuego North America, the award-winning brand of high-end grills... more Ron Arad: New Works Timothy Taylor Gallery announced an exhibition of new works by Ron Arad. This marks the first show at the gallery since it announced sole representation of Arad in the UK. Gro... more London Associates Change the Way We Work A radical new product concept has just been announced by Ambidexx and it calls into question the way people have traditionally used their hands for working. ... more Potential Energy: 19 Designers Set Their Ideas in Motion School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents "Potential Energy: 19 Designers Set Their Ideas in Motion," an exhibition of products, campaigns and servic... more IDC Wins Global Awards for Packaging Design Following in the footsteps of two IDEA Awards for innovation and design, Industrial Design Consultancy Ltd. has been presented with two further awards for ex... more Pentawards 2009: Worldwide Packaging Design Competition Pentawards, the only worldwide competition online dedicated exclusively to packaging design, will be open for entries in less than two weeks! ... more RKS and Neuma Usher in a New Age of Tattoo Artistry, Comfort, and Safety World-recognized strategy, innovation, and design consultancy RKS announced the introduction of the Neuma Hybrid Tattoo Machine,... more	Embedded Brand: The Soul of Product Development In an intriguing and important question, Guido Stompff asks if a brand's essence can be understood and conveyed intuitively. His positive response is ... more Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2009 Particularly in times of crisis, a coherent brand presence becomes a survival strategy and successful communication design one of the most important differentia... more British Designers Create Italian Branding for Bahraini Restaurant SHH has created a full branding package - including identity, environmental graphics, signage, menus, place settings and staff uniforms... more Trnava Poster Triennial 2009 The call for entries for the Trnava Poster Triennial (TPT) 2009 is now open. From now until 15 May 2009, designers, authorial teams, design studios and students of Fine ... more ADC 88th Annual Awards Gala Set For April 30 The Art Directors Club will announce this year's award winners at the ADC 88th Annual Awards Gala on Thursday evening, April 30, 2009 at the ADC Gallery in ... more Design and Design: Book Of The Year The DesignAndDesign website is focused on the community of designers worldwide and was created to showcase their latest and most innovative design work. Every day... more Branding and Literature Design for CPA's Annual Westminster Seminar by 400 Following the success of the last year's conference on International Aid Effectiveness the CPA asked 400 to brand the 2009 Wes... more Brochures: From North to South America This latest edition of From North to South America reviews the best in contemporary brochures by designers from across the American continent. Packed with crea... more Timothy O'Donnell Discusses New Book, Sketchbook, on The Reflex Blue Show Author Timothy O'Donnell, design director for Johnson & Johnson's Global Strategic Design Office, appears on the ... more Detskiy Mir Group New Retail Concept by Fitch Detskiy Mir Group of Companies, the largest children's retail chain in Russia, and the branding consultancy Fitch announced the first stage of a ... more Lars Bastholm Joins Ogilvy as Chief Digital Creative Officer Award-winning digital creative leader, Lars Bastholm has joined Ogilvy North America in a specially created role as Chief Digital ... more Extendable Dining Table Antonio Citterio's new Extendable Dining Table offers ample room for six people and can be easily extended to accommodate ten people. The solid-looking wooden table top rests... more 90 Years of the Bauhaus: Mart Stam's S 43 in Special Edition Thonet is producing Mart Stam's S 43 cantilever chair in a special edition with many new colour options. This special edition of the tubu... more	Cracow Fashion Week For the first time Cracow widely known as a city of art has become a city of fashion for one week. Cracow Fashion Awards 2009 - a contest for young designers organised by Cracow ... more Calder Jewellery Exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art Calder Jewellery is the first exhibition devoted exclusively to the remarkable jewellery created by the American artist Alexander Calder (1... more The Line of Fashion With a sure, knowing line, a whoosh of color - a look, an attitude, even an era can be defined. This is the power of fashion illustration. The line can capture the very spirit of... more Spring/Summer 2009 from United Nude The arrival of the Spring season ushers in United Nude's Spring Summer Collection for 2009. Classic United Nude shoe styles such as the Mobius, Eamz, Porn, Block,... more Reena Ahluwalia Designs a Historic Diamond Setting Award winning jewelry designer Reena Ahluwalia has designed a diamond setting for the first two mined diamonds from Ontario, Canada. The diamonds h... more Public Receptors: a Textile Installation by New York Prize Fellow Gabi Schillig Van Alen Institute announced Public Receptors: Beneath the Skin, a textile installation by New York Prize Fellow Gabi Sch... more Sleepypod Tests the Safety of its Pet Carrier Line in Simulated Crash Tests Sleepypod today announces the results of testing their line of pet carriers, known as mobile pet beds, in simulated crash tes... more Caddy: the New Stand-up Workstation with Storage Space Caddy is a mobile stand-up workstation designed by Christoph Ingenhoven. It offers a large amount of storage space for everyday office needs. ... more PDT Recognized for Producing Superior Product Designs Product Development Technologies, a division of TZ Limited, has been honored with four 2009 ADEX Awards including three Platinum and one Gold. A... more Parsons Presents Design at the Edge with Bruce Nussbaum Bruce Nussbaum, Visiting Professor of Innovation and Design at The New School and BusinessWeek contributing editor, will host conversations with ... more Design Business Review Fwis + Ministry of Imagery launched a new magazine for designers. Designers are in the business of doing business; their clients rely on them to make smart, market-savvy decis... more HP Z Workstation Designed by BMW Group DesignworksUSA HP unveiled the HP Z Workstation series - a reinvention of the product category from the core outward that offers customers unprecedented performan... more Come Together: Steelcase Launches New Website Steelcase launched a new website, Come Together, which describes the changing landscape of work and the latest design trends for the office environment. ... more	RIBA Futures Fair 2009: Society and Stimulus This summer, the Royal Institute of British Architects' think-tank Building Futures will be launching the new look Futures Fair 2009. Themed Society and ... more New Online Catalogue of Living Steel Competition Designs Living Steel's International Architecture Competitions for Sustainable Housing have inspired thousands of architects to design environmentally e... more Sustainability and Durability: What Traditional Building Materials Teach Us Join two prominent architects, an expert from the United States Green Building Council, and an executive from Ludowici as the... more CA Boom Design Show Descends on Beverly Hills in June The CA Boom Design Show defies the recession and moves boldly into its 6th year, bringing together the best of North America's non-traditional, mod... more Verner Panton: The Collected Works As a child, Danish designer and architect Verner Panton had always dreamt of a large room full of colourful cushions. His designs reveal that love for bold colours... more AIA Announces the 2009 COTE Top Ten Green Projects The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) have selected the top ten examples of sustainable architecture ... more Interior Motives: Designing a Design School Judith Gura, a design historian, author, and lecturer, will be speaking about the early history of New York School of Interior Design (NYSID) in Interior Mot... more The Art of Tile: Designing with Time-Honored and New Tiles From subtly shimmering white subway-style walls to dramatic colorful mosaics, tile is one of the most seductive ways to enhance the beauty of ... more Landscape Architecture Magazine Goes Digital Landscape Architecture, the magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), introduced its digital format online today with the April issue... more Design Plans for British Museum's New Development Revealed The British Museum has revealed the designs for its forthcoming development project in advance of a planning application to Camden Council in ... more Portland Buildings Coming Up Green This week, the Portland City Council unanimously approved a green building resolution, requiring all municipally owned new construction and major renovations building... more Maidstone High Street Open Design Competition The short-list is announced for the Maidstone High Street Open Design Competition. Through creative and innovative use of design and public art, Maidsto... more Ontario Association of Architects Adopts 2030 Challenge The Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) has demonstrated its support for going green by adopting the 2030 Challenge. "This is just the beg... more	Phoenix Editorial Launches Bonfire Phoenix Editorial announced that it has launched Bonfire, a motion design and integrated media company. The company has also promoted Julia Sonder-Patchin from pro... more Doing DaVinci: Improving Leonardo's Design? The team of 21st century builders, engineers and historians tasked with recreating Leonardo daVinci's inventions for the new Discovery Channel series Doing D... more Biggs\|Gilmore Named Top Agency in 2009 Internet Advertising Competition Competing against some of the world's best, interactive agency Biggs\|Gilmore was named Top Agency in the 2009 Internet Advertisin... more Digital Service Design: Brian Gillespie Survival in the global economy has driven many companies to evolve from being simple creators of products to being creators of added value by providing sophistic... more Click 3X Helps MTV Create Animated Circus for See You Sunday Embarking on a new creative partnership, Click 3X recently collaborated with MTV to create a show open, packaging, and promos for See You Su... more Digital Artist 2009 Digital Artist 2009 is a brand new competition for anyone with a passion for digital art and design from across the globe. It aims to inspire, recognise and reward the highest st... more Corbis Motion: A Comprehensive Collection of the World's Premier Motion Content Corbis has launched Corbis Motion, a website with innovative features and a considerably larger footage collection, inclu... more Yacht Racing Design and Technology Symposium Informa Yacht Group, organisers of the World Yacht Racing Forum have announced the addition of the Yacht Racing Design & Technology Symposium to run paralle... more IDSA Executive Director Frank Tyneski Resigns As of April 23, Frank Tyneski will be stepping down as executive director of IDSA. Frank is taking his talents to Skinit, a leading developer and manufa... more City of Seoul Opens Seoul Design Foundation On March 3, the Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon attended the opening ceremony of the new Seoul Design Foundation (SDF). At the ceremony, Mayor Oh announced that th... more Aesthetics in Figures: Red Dot Top7 Bond "Good design is good business." This phrase was coined by the former president of IBM, Thomas J. Watson jr., in the 1950s. What he meant was that companies w... more Quad Modular and Decorative Storage System A bookcase, a night table, a stool, a column of storage, a coffee table, a shop display... The Quad fits together to suit your needs. On all sides of the c... more Insights, Trends, and Opportunities to Leverage Design We live in interesting and challenging times. Research, innovation, design, packaging, and in-store are no different... and in fact, may lead t... more	Rising Tide Conference: The Arts and Ecological Ethics CCA and Stanford University's Department of Art & Art History will jointly host Rising Tide Conference: The Arts and Ecological Ethics on April 17... more Parsons 2009 Fine Art Thesis Exhibition Parsons The New School for Design will present its MFA Fine Art Thesis Exhibition May 7 through 16 at The Kitchen in Chelsea. The show brings together drawing... more Thonet Photo Competition: 214 x 214 - A Chair the World Over Thonet announced a worldwide photo competition to mark the 150th birthday of the cafe chair "No 14" - today called the 214. When Michael ... more National Architecture Week Goes Virtual National Architecture Week, which this year falls on April 13-19, was created to encourage a public dialogue about architecture. Such conversations are especi... more NYSID Celebrates the Installation of Dr. Christopher John Cyphers New York School of Interior Design will be celebrating the inauguration of its sixth president, Dr. Christopher John Cyphers, with a fo... more RIBA: March Results of the Future Trends Survey The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) today announced the March 2009 results of its monthly Future Trends Survey, marking the end of the first... more Europe and the English Baroque: Architecture in England 1660 - 1715 Some of Britain's best known and most-loved buildings can be described as English Baroque, from St Paul's Cathedral to Blenheim Palac... more Tokyo 2016 Hails City's New Universal Accessibility Design Program Tokyo 2016's Bid to host the most compact, sustainable and athlete-friendly Olympic and Paralympic Games has been given a further boos... more Frank Gehry Selected to Design Eisenhower National Memorial Gehry Partners, the Los Angeles-based architectural firm headed by Frank O. Gehry, has been selected as lead designer of the national memoria... more Public Art New York The images in Public Art New York exhibition, part of the Helfand Spotlight Series, taken by photographer Francis Dzikowski for the book Public Art New York and represent the wide v... more Perkins Eastman Unveils Design for Accident and Emergency Care Hospital in the UAE International architecture and design firm Perkins Eastman recently unveiled the design of Al Maktoum Accident and Eme... more RIAS Convention 2009 Coinciding with the Dundee Institute of Architects' 125th Anniversary celebrations the RIAS Convention 2009 will be held in Dundee from 14th - 16th May, with the main plenary event... more Scott Peterman: Cities Photographs from Scott Peterman's Cities series, documenting the dense urban conditions of Sao Paulo, New York, and Cairo, will be on view at the Center for Architecture through ... more

April 2009

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