

Electrolux Design Lab 2008 Electrolux, a global leader in home appliances and appliances for professional use, launches the 6th edition of its annual design competition and will... more CREATE 2008 CREATE 2008 is a 2-day conference about creating innovative interactions, whether digital consumer products, interactive services or interaction parad... more ABC: Authentic Belgian Creativity On the initiative of Design Flanders and Flanders Investment & Trade (FIT), 16 highly creative Belgian designers and companies are exhibiting a select... more Creative Britain: New Talents for the New Economy The Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport has today, in partnership with BERR and DIUS, launched a strategy for the c... more Design Council Welcomes Creative Economy Strategy Paper The Chief Executive of the Design Council today welcomed the publication of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport's strategy for the creative ec... more Design and Nutrition Come Together in Y Water Y Water Inc., a Los Angeles-based company committed to creating great tasting, nutritious beverages for children, announced the launch of Y Water: a l... more International Design Policy Conference and International Design Casa This unique two-day international design policy conference will begin on the morning of Thursday 6th November 2008. At a time when governments and ... more 3rd International Modeling Contest: Personalize Your Electric Scooter 3rd International Modeling Contest: Personalize your electric scooter! relates to scooter tuning. Electric scooter is environment friendly vehicle ... more FUCINA: The Faculty of Design and Art of Bolzano at the Salone del Mobile One of the characteristics of the study model of the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bolzano, is its close interaction between pro... more New Littlebig Chair from Jeff Miller Jeff Miller designed an additional version of his successful Littlebig chair for Baleri Italia. The chair was shown for the first time at this year... more	AIGA Los Angeles Presents Stories of Place and Purpose AIGA/LA, the professional association for design, together with OTIS College of Design collaborate to present 180 Degrees: U-turns From The Intersecti... more Good 50x70 Good 50x70, the initiative to promote awareness amongst the creative community of the power they have to be a force for good, is back for its second y... more Lemon Poppy Seed: Multitasking Creativity The job description of graphic designers has changed. Classical graphic design is now being influenced by various design principles from the areas ... more Lisa Tse Appointed Creative Director of CHINA NOW Luxury creative consultancy Lisa Tse Ltd has been appointed Creative Partner of CHINA NOW. The award winning designer created the core brand identi... more Boost Mobile Launches New Brand Identity to Unite Product Offerings Under One Banner Boost Mobile, a wholly-owned division of Sprint Nextel, announced the launch of a new brand identity. Designed to visually and conceptually unite p... more Official Poster Design for Munich Oktoberfest Decided Oliver Weiss, an illustrator and designer from Germany, has just been assigned the first prize in the 2008 Munich Oktoberfest poster design competitio... more Arabesque: Graphic Design from the Arab World and Persia Despite their rich tradition of calligraphy, the Arab World and Persia are not known for their contemporary graphic design, illustration and typograph... more Undesignable: New Design Fair in Amsterdam On May 17 and May 18, 2008, Amsterdam sees its first European design Trade Show Undesignable. 26 galleries and dealers from all over Europe will pr... more Generations of GM Wiki Instead of GM telling its history through a traditional coffee table book, GM opted instead to develop the Generations of GM Wiki to create a living, ... more House of Concepts: Design Academy Eindhoven Dutch design is held in high esteem around the world. Its favourable -international reputation is based on the work of many designers including Jur... more	Shogun: Form Us With Love Designs Cotton Terry Robe for Pellevavare "Shogun" is the name of the collaboration between young, innovative design studio Form Us With Love and prestige manufacturer och cotton terry, Pellev... more Rare Metal Integrated Campaign From ATTIK Promotes xB Release Series 5.0 Together with Scion, global creative and brand-engineering agency ATTIK today detailed their multifaceted marketing campaign promoting the first limit... more Clickfire Media Announces Key Management Team Additions New York-based interactive design studio ClickFire Media recently recruited Partner and CD Klaus Heesch and EP Connor Swegle to expand their design an... more Laura Alejo: HUSH Brings New Talent to the Table New York-based directorial collective, HUSH adds uber-talented Spanish designer, illustrator, and artist Laura Alejo to its roster. Fresh from Barc... more Favorite Color: New Motion Graphics Studio With a seasoned creative team at its helm, Favorite Color is New York's latest entrant to the City's vibrant motion design community. Favorite Colo... more Beam Goes Mobile: International Design Competition beam and RIBA announced the launch of a two-stage competition to design an innovative, dynamic and highly interactive mobile facility that stimulates ... more IDC Launches Free Online LCA Calculator With increasing concerns over waste and the need for "greener" products, a new free online service will help manufacturers take the first steps toward... more Ecolect: Discover the Latest Sustainable Materials Ecolect is an easy-to-use website featuring only materials with sustainable attributes, a place that stimulates discussion about defining sustainabili... more The Ziszor: the First Designer Handheld Paper Shredder Helps Deter identity Theft The new Ziszor! makes it easy to follow the government's top tip anywhere to deter identity theft - routinely shred your financial papers, unwanted/se... more	A-cero Builds a House in Madrid The house is located on a 3.500 m2 plot presenting a light slope that is used by the access ramp to the garage. The floor plan has the form of a Gr... more Bright: Architectural Illumination and Light Installations The use of light and illumination in architecture and design is currently evolving and making an increasingly significant impact on various creative d... more Appeal for the Rosa Barba European Landscape Prize The 5th Rosa Barba European Landscape Prize has been announced within the framework of the 5th European Landscape Biennial: "Storm & stress", which wi... more International Design Competition for WWI and WWII Memorials Launched in Australia After nearly a hundred years, the nation's capital will have memorials dedicated to World War I and World War II. The Governor General, Major Gener... more National Park Service Gets Long-awaited Destination Center at the Blue Ridge Parkway After more than 20 years of planning, Blue Ridge Parkway has a new destination center to orient visitors to the history, culture and resources of the ... more IFS International Interior Design Conference Following its successful conference, exhibition and publication "Thinking Inside the Box" held at Glasgow's Lighthouse in March 2007, the IFS Interior... more Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Gold Medal Award IFLA 46th World Congress in Brazil, in 2009, will be the venue for the second IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Gold Medal award-giving. This Gold Medal a... more Designtrain Congress: Designing Design Education It seems that the public view on the role of architecture is more and more affecting the approach and the design education of students of environmenta... more Phalanstery Module by Jimenez Lai Opening April 4th at Materials & Applications, Los Angeles: A new installation by Jimenez Lai, titled Phalanstery Module. Mr. Lai is a designer, a ... more Sophie Pedersen Named as New Associate at SHH Architect Sophie Pedersen has been named as the new fifth Associate at London-based architects and designers SHH. Australian architect Sophie has b... more	HUSH Keeps it Clean for Honda's Hydrogen Car New York-based directorial collective HUSH pushes the envelope with their work on Honda's new marketing initiatives for the FCX Clarity, billed as the... more Bob English Joins Nth Degree Design and motion graphics agency Nth Degree has named distinguished brand and design consultant Bob English to its team as Executive Creative Directo... more Fluid and Boom Unscrew America Small things can make a huge difference. That's the idea behind Unscrew America - if we all switch out our old light bulbs with energy-efficient CF... more Gallery Hanahou Presents Superdeux Digital artist Superdeux makes a super splash with My World is Flat, his first solo show in New York. With fresh graphics and funky characters, thi... more Buck Helps Saatchi & Saatchi, Toyota Create a Corolla in Control Buck, the bi-coastal design-driven creative company specializing in animation, visual effects and live action, recently completed an ambitious campaig... more Bombastic Rocks for the Super Bowl Bash Concert Viewers who turned in to watch the Pepsi Smash Super Bowl Bash '08 also witnessed the results of the third annual collaboration between VH1 and brandi... more Team One Puts the H in Hybrid for Lexus Team One Los Angeles recently finished a powerful and innovative campaign for Lexus Hybrids that examines what the world would be like without the let... more Imaginary Forces Creates Magical Sequences for the Spiderwick Chronicles On February 14th, the Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies feature film, "The Spiderwick Chronicles," opened nationwide. Based on the beloved ... more Spy Post Launches CG Division & Welcomes VFX Supervisor & Lead CG Artist Joe Henke Spy Post, a leading post-production company based in San Francisco, has opened a CG division and signed VFX Supervisor & Lead CG Artist Joe Henke. ... more Click 3X Forges All Original Spot for Ford Trucks New York-based Click 3X recently shot, designed, and provided the VFX for a :30 spot for Ford F150 Trucks out of TeamDetroit-JWT. The spot features... more	6.5 Billion of Us: The Human Race on 1,500 A4 Sheets of Paper The exhibition of the Yl�huone designer community at Design Forum from 22 February to 16 March 2008 displays the human population of the world. We,... more Brooklyn Museum Celebrates Women's History Month In celebration of Women's History Month and the first anniversary of the opening of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, the Brooklyn Mus... more Virtually Mine: CITIZEN:Citizen Launches a Global Virtual Archive For the past month, CITIZEN:Citizen has been building an online archive called Virtually Mine, which attempts to be the largest collection of objects ... more Fragiles: Pocelain, Glass and Ceramics Not long ago, porcelain, glass and ceramics were almost exclusively used to make ostentatious objects best suited for display in grandmother's cabinet... more SUSI: Designers Heini Riitahuhta and Mikko Jarvenpaa The concepts and works of designers Heini Riitahuhta and Mikko Jarvenpaa come together for the first time in a joint showing at Design Forum. Entit... more 3D Modelling Symposium Berlin 2008 From 7th - 9th April 2008 the Universit�t der K�nste Berlin (University of Arts Berlin) will be holding the first 3D Modelling Symposium for architect... more Utrecht Manifest 2nd Biennale for Social Design Was a Great Success The second edition of Utrecht Manifest closed on 11 February 2008. In the space of barely 11 weeks, more than 30,000 visitors and guests from the N... more Tornado Eyewear Wins Chicago Good Design Award Tornado by Derapage eyewear has won the Chicago 2007 Good Design Award, the prestige accolade of the Chicago Athenaeum-Museum of Architecture and Desi... more Mater: the First Materials Library in Spain The first phase of the Mater project, which is dedicated to researching, seeking out and compiling information, now comes to life in the inauguration ... more Sustainable Packaging: JoAnn Hines Join JoAnn Hines, "The Packaging Diva," in exploring what really works in the world of sustainable packaging innovation. 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February 2008 / #3

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