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Interzum Award: Intelligent Material & Design 2009 Interzum Award: Intelligent Material & Design 2009 is open for designers and manufacturers in the furniture supplier industry. As an industry-speci... more UK Treasury Invites Designers to a Summit to Find New Ways to Save Money Angela Eagle MP, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, hosted a "Design Summit" to identify ways that designers can help governme... more Priestmangoode Design New First Class Suite for SWISS SWISS are introducing a new First Class cabin into their fleet in April, the centrepiece of which is the First Class suite designed by London-based... more The Spark Awards 2009 The Spark Awards are the exciting new competition created to promote great design and designers and encourage people to explore their creativity. Graphics, product design, tran... more DOE and GM Unveil 17 EcoCAR Challenge Designs The 17 student teams competing in EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge appear to have a clear vision of the automotive future, as all of the teams are pursuing desig... more Matthew Blythman: Industrial Designer Wheels in His Future Matthew Blythman's sleek two-seater "Velo" roadster design has won a prestigious award in the Victorian Automotive Chamber of Commerce Target ... more Bread & Butter 2009 Bread & Butter, tradeshow for selected brands, returns to Berlin this summer of 2009. The new location of the internationally leading tradeshow for street- and urbanwear is the d... more W Lounge Chair Wins OFS the Hotseat 3 W Lounge Chair, designed by Daisuke Nagatomo and Minnie Jan / MisoSoupDesign won OFS the Hotseat 3 Competition. W Lounge Chair will be debuted by OFS at Neocon ... more Graham Packaging Cells Up Its Life Science Bottle Design A three-year collaboration between Life Technologies, a provider of life science products for laboratories, Graham Packaging and designer Ideo, ... more	The Art of Lost Words On display at a refurbished Victorian gymnasium opposite London's St Pancras Station, The Art of Lost Words will feature original work from some of the UK's best-known and emergin... more Communication Arts Illustration Competition The 50th annual Communication Arts Illustration Competition is calling for entries. Any Illustration first printed or produced between March 12, 2008 and ... more SVA Presents First In Design Criticism Lecture Series With David Reinfurt The School of Visual Arts (SVA) kicks of its series of Design Criticism lectures with David Reinfurt, an independent graphic de... more PRINT Regional Design Annual 2009 PRINT is now accepting entries for the 2009 Regional Design Annual. All winning work will be collected in the December 2009 issue of PRINT, creating the most compre... more Brand + Image + Strategy: The Ideal Equation Learn the strategy and then put it to use in this one-day workshop that focuses on smart communications solutions in a world of new media. Case studies, ... more Center for American Illustration Art The Norman Rockwell Museum has announced the creation of the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, the first research institute dedicated solely to American ... more Forecast: Nozone X Conspiracy theories, pending Ice Ages, potential revolutions, viral epidemics, and other doomsday prophecies: wherever you look-from the cover of Time magazine to the ... more MoMA Unveils New Graphic Identity The Museum of Modern Art has recast its graphic identity to underscore the Museum's leadership role in the field of design. The new look employs prominent use of th... more New Zealand's Leading Font Foundry JY&A Fonts Announces Workhorse Serif Family, JY Alia JY&A Fonts, founded by Jack Yan in 1987, has announced a new, classically inspired typeface family, JY Alia. T... more	PANTONE Fashion Color Report for Fall 2009 Pantone announced the PANTONE Fashion Color Report Fall 2009. The report features the top 10 colors for women's fashion for fall '09, along with designer s... more Winners of the European Fashion Award FASH 2009 Loden jacket or leggings, airport or festival, routine or freedom? The motto of the European Fashion Award - FASH 2009 was "New Diversity". It is an a... more Urart Receives Two Awards at the Seventh South Sea Pearl Jewellery Design Competition Urart has been awarded with two silver awards at the Seventh International South Sea Pearl Jewellery Competition or... more The Perfect Fit: Shoes Tell Stories Fuller Craft Museum presents The Perfect Fit - Shoes Tell Stories, a new exhibition that explores the cultural meanings of shoes, presenting imaginative objects of e... more Nolcha at the Plaza On February 19, 2009 Nolcha at The Plaza presented by Solerra, a subset of Nolcha Fashion Week, will debut the Fall 2009 collections of seven select fashion designers in apparel and... more Reason Washing Machine: The Best Washing Machine Ever Made? The renowned Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter's theory of creative destruction says that when the economy is floundering, innovators will... more The Designful Company: How to Build a Culture of Nonstop Innovation The complex business problems we face today can't be solved with the same thinking that created them. Instead, we need to start fr... more MX Design Conference 2009 The Department of Design at the Universidad Iberoamericana announced the call for participation for the third edition of the MX design Conference. To participate in this ye... more Pearlfisher Rebrands Nivea for Men Pearlfisher has redesigned Beieersdorf's men's face care line "Nivea For Men" for a full scale global relaunch with new packaging started in January. "We have mode... more	MoMA and P.S.1 Select MOS as Winner of Tenth Annual Young Architects Program The Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center announce the winner of the 2009 MoMA/P.S.1 ... more Winners of the eVolo 09 Skyscraper Competition eVolo announced the results of the 09 Skyscraper Competition organized by eVolo in New York City. For the 2009 edition eVolo invited architects, engine... more Cepezed Designed Westraven Office Complex Acclaimed Again The cepezed-designed Westraven Office Complex in Utrecht, the Netherlands, has once again been enthusiastically acclaimed... more Greencastle Unveils Zero-energy Home Designs Greencastle, a Cape Coral, FL builder of green homes has recently launched a new line of near zero energy homes called Microhouse. The concept is a singl... more More Mobile: Portable Architecture for Today The allure of mobile portable architecture is worldwide and centuries old. From the desert tents of the Bedouin to the silvery capsules of the ... more Louis I. Kahn: the Making of a Room While numerous studies and exhibitions have explored the buildings of the master architect Louis Kahn, little attention has been given to his interior design ... more Autodesk Unveils 2010 Software Portfolio for Building Information Modeling Autodesk announced new versions of its software products for the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industries, ... more Withee Malcolm's Acura Design Studio Earns LEED Gold and Green Pride in Torrance Award Torrance City Council and the Environmental Quality & Energy Conservation Commission honored Withee ... more SFMOMA Explores Unconventional Approach to Exhibiting Architecture with Patterns of Speculation San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) features Patterns of Speculation: J. Mayer H., the first solo... more	Special Guest: The Journey Special Guest, the multi-talented sibling of 1st Avenue Machine, recently summed up the company's eclectic creative spirit with an 80-second stop-motion style animated film e... more 2009 Corel Asia-Pacific Digital Art Competition Corel announced the 2009 Corel Asia-Pacific Digital Art Competition. Beginning today and running through 31 May 2009, the competition is open to entra... more RIBA Launches Future Trends Survey and Calls for Participation The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has commissioned a significant survey to monitor the employment and business trends affec... more Earth Architecture Dirt - as in clay, gravel, sand, silt, soil, loam, mud - is everywhere and it's free. Civilisations throughout time have used it to create stable, warm, low-impact structures. ... more Leven Betts: Pattern Recognition Powers of observation may be an architect's most underrated skill. For New York City based Leven Betts Studio, the design of meaningful spaces that bring people into... more Peter Eisenman: University of Phoenix Stadium for the Arizona Cardinals Seminal theoretician and influential architect, Peter Eisenman is also an irrepressible sports fanatic. In this revealing look... more Green Schools Get Greener The American Council On Renewable Energy will be hosting one of the largest renewable energy conferences, Renewable Energy Technology Conference and Exhibition 2009, in Las Ve... more Building in the Future: Recasting Labor in Architecture There is no denying the transformational role of the computer in the evolution of contemporary architectural practice. But does this techno-de... more Shanghai Transforming In recent years architecture firms have turned to China as the most hospitable location to experiment with and develop their most unconventional architecture. While other Chine... more	Designing Seeds by Universal Everything Sheffield based design company, Universal Everything, which has had big success with brands such as Apple, Audi, Nokia and Playstation are bringing a taste of th... more Sites In the postwar period, the traditional notion of art as a discrete object has changed to include environments, places, and sites. The critic Harold Rosenberg famously described painting as "an... more Between The Folds Green Fuse Films' new documentary "Between The Folds" uncovers the stories of ten fine artists and intrepid theoretical scientists who abandoned careers and scoffed at hard-earned gra... more The Printed Picture The ability to make and distribute identical copies of a single picture has played a vital role in human society and culture. The Printed Picture is a highly original and accessi... more Bang & Olufsen Launches Golden Colour Bang & Olufsen uses a wider range of materials than most other companies in the industry. Only real materials such as aluminium, glass, rubber and wood are used... more Technology And Innovation Key Xerox In Challenging Times Xerox says a steadfast commitment to research and development is one way to help survive tough economic times. Just last year, Xerox and its ... more Porsche Design Mobile Phone P'9522: Purist Design and Technical Precision Porsche Design Group introduced its new mobile phone P'9522. The mobile phone, available now in Porsche Design Stores and in... more Philips Leads the Way with Twenty-two iF Design Awards Royal Philips Electronics has once again performed extremely well in the annual iF product design award competition, winning 22 awards in 7 catego... more Z Corporation Unveils Two Breakthrough 3D Scanners Z Corporation today unveiled two breakthrough handheld laser scanners to help organizations quickly and easily capture large swaths of 3D geometry and... more

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