

European Commission to Act on Design Policy for Europe On Monday 21 January 2008, BEDA President Michael Thomson (UK) and Vice-President, Jan R. Stavik (Norway) met with Vice-President of the Commission, G... more Using Design to Catalyze Strategy Implementation Crafting strategy remains a top priority for senior leaders as globalization accelerates, competition grows, and customers' needs evolve. Successfu... more 2008 Lite-On Awards Lite-On Awards, the largest-scale industrial design competition in Greater China Community, has launched the 8th annual competition. Chinese and in... more New Centre Has Designs on Innovative Revolution Design is at the heart of innovation, whether it is the Dyson vacuum cleaner, or Trevor Baylis's clockwork radio. But Britain needs a lot more succ... more HLB Product Designs Win Multiple Awards and Help Launch an Initial Public Offering Eight product design awards at year-end capped a successful 2007 for HLB, the Chicago-based ideation, design and engineering agency. In addition, H... more Design and the Elastic Mind In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, ... more Janine Benyus : 12 Sustainable Design Ideas From Nature With 3.8 billion years of research and development on its side, nature has already solved problems that human designers and engineers still struggle w... more World Changing Ideas Award Finalists Announced Bob Isherwood, Worldwide Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi, today announces the contenders to win the fifth Saatchi & Saatchi Award For World Cha... more Professor Gonzalo Tassier Awarded 2008 Sir Misha Black Medal Known for "his original, sensitive style, which is simple yet methodical and perfectionist...", Professor Gonzalo Tassier has been awarded the 2008 Si... more Bentley Design Director Dirk Van Braeckel Follows in Famous Footsteps Dirk van Braeckel, director of design at Bentley Motors, has been awarded the prestigious European Automotive Design Award by Designers (Europe), in p... more Red Dot Winner Sells Design Concept to Swedish Furniture Manufacturer For ADDI, a new Swedish design agency, the New Year has begun as successfully as the last one ended. Just back in November 2007, the designers and ... more Se : A New Luxury Furniture Company New UK-based furniture company Se launches in February 2008 with a range of deluxe furniture and lighting. Se's new showroom will be an exciting ad... more Design Inspirations This 700 page volume offers a comprehensive overview of projects and products of international designers. Technological developments and social and... more Kids.Modern : Modern Furniture, Fashion and Design for Kids and Kidults Forget fairy wings, Bratz bed tents and Thomas the Tank Engine toy trunks, Kids.Modern is about fun, thought-provoking design adults will love and kid... more	Design for the World : Push / Pull Pictogram Design for the World is soliciting designers world wide to collaborate on a project which could contribute to to a better communication between people... more World Effie Festival 2008 The World Effie Festival is the first event of its kind to be held anywhere in the world - a global celebration of creative effectiveness, where the b... more CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 Unveiled Today Corel today unveiled the newest version of its award-winning graphics suite, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4. With more than 50 new and significantly e... more Charity Charity : New Global Creative Director for Head & Shoulders Saatchi & Saatchi has hired Charity Charity as global creative director on Head & Shoulders. Charity joins from EuroRSCG where she was global creat... more 365 : AIGA Annual Design Competitions 29 AIGA's suite of competitions is widely recognized as the most discerning statement on design excellence today, extending a legacy that began 90 years ... more Sony Ericsson Grows Relationship with McCann Erickson Sony Ericsson announced that it would be extending its current relationship with external partner agencies to McCann Erickson London to include its wo... more Colleen DeCourcy to Chair 2008 Cyber Lions Jury Colleen DeCourcy, Chief Digital Officer for TBWA Worldwide, will be the Cyber Lions Jury President at the 55th edition of the Cannes Lions Internation... more SingTel Selects BBDO as Strategic Creative Agency Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) today announced that it has selected BBDO as SingTel's strategic creative agency after a global pitch t... more 2008 Regional Design Annual Print is now accepting entries for the 2008 Regional Design Annual. Entering your work is even easier. You can now register and pay for your entrie... more Artvertising : Aka the Million Dollar Building Artvertising is a project exploring the relationship between commerce and art, society and the workings of the market, and between the private and pub... more Third Eye Design Appointed Consultants for Victor Alfaro Third Eye Design has been appointed to create a new brand identity, guidelines and packaging for American Fashion Designer, Victor Alfaro. Victor A... more Art Directors Club Introduces Inaugural Design Sphere Jury The Art Directors Club presents its inaugural Design Sphere jury to be chaired by Marc Gobe, President & Editor of Emotional Branding LLC, and founder... more New Digital Team for Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore has announced the appointment of Nathan Hackstock as Digital Creative Director and Simon Lazenby as Digital Business Direc... more Dell and Microsoft Launch (PRODUCT) RED Branded Products Dell and Microsoft will offer customers a simple way to make a difference in the fight against AIDS in Africa through the purchase of unique (PRODUCT)... more	Createurope : The Fashion Academy Award createurope: The Fashion Academy Award is a Europe-wide competition for young fashion designers and fashion design students. On the initiative of t... more Sustainable Fashion and Textiles : Design Journeys Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys brings together for the first time information about lifecycle sustainability impacts of fashion and... more Young European Fashion Designers This book is part of the Young Designers series which focus on young and innovative Designers. Young European Fashion Designers presents a new gene... more Muller & Meirer Develops High-Quality Men's Shoes with Porsche Design Group The Porsche Design Group and Muller & Meirer Lederwarenfabrik GmbH, based in Kirn, Rheinland-Pfalz, will also be collaborating in the field of shoes. ... more The Turkish Fashion Fabric Exhibition This seasons Turkish Fashion Fabric Exhibition will be the first textile exhibition in the European calendar offering buyers an early preview of fabri... more Isaac Mizrahi Named Creative Director of Liz Claiborne Brand Liz Claiborne announced that Isaac Mizrahi has been named Creative Director for the Liz Claiborne brand. In this role, Mr. Mizrahi will oversee the... more 2008 L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival is the largest and most successful consumer fashion event in Australia. L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival (LMFF... more John Bartlett to Design for Claiborne Menswear Liz Claiborne Inc. announced that John Bartlett will be designing the Claiborne men's sportswear line. The revamped product, which will be called "... more Adidas Launches Fifth Generation of Legendary Barricade Tennis Shoe Some of the world's leading tennis stars gathered today in Melbourne, Australia, to help launch the latest evolution of the adidas tennis shoe known a... more H&M's Organic Cotton Collection Increases This Spring The H&M design team increased their usage of organic cotton for the 2008 spring collection. For the spring line, 1,500 tonnes of organic cotton wil... more Bags : an Illustrated History Handbags have never been more important in fashion: the "must-have" bag of the season is a much-lusted-after designer item that can make or break a fa... more Valentino Announced Ferruccio Pozzoni as the New Designer for Menswear Ferruccio Pozzoni,47 years old, has matured a lengthy experience in the menswear business, designing for major fashion brands and at the same time con... more Walk This Way While shoes serve a practical function by protecting our soles from the elements and hazards underfoot, they have also become highly ornamented object... more In This Light : New Finnish Lamp Design In January Design Forum Finland will present a fresh selection of Finnish design lamps and light fittings. The exhibition space provides living roo... more	5. International Bauhaus Award 2008 With the 5th Bauhaus Award, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation continues its research into "Updating Modernism". In doing so, a central topic of the his... more George Nelson : Vitra Design Museum Exhibition In 2008, the American designer George Nelson (1908-1986) would have been 100 years old. In recognition of this centennial anniversary, the Vitra De... more Steven Holl Architects Chosen to Design Arts Buildings for Princeton University Steven Holl Architects has been selected to design the first academic buildings for the new arts and transit neighborhood at Princeton University. ... more World-renowned Architect Zaha Hadid's Design Selected for MSU's Broad Art Museum World-renowned architect Zaha Hadid of London has been selected as the winner in the design competition for the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Mic... more Agence BOS by Rene Desjardins For the second time, Ren� Desjardins has created the interior design for the new offices of Montreal ad agency BOS. On November 1, 2007, the projec... more Street Design and Placemaking : a Masterclass for Managers This series of regional masterclasses has been developed by CABE and partners to support public sector managers responsible for delivering change in t... more EcoBuilding : International Exhibition and Conference Regulations, technological innovation, environmental awareness, and market trends are pushing us toward a change of direction in the design, construct... more Renewable Energy Systems The renewable energy systems subject is very wide and technically complex. Some concepts such as refrigerant thermodynamics, adiabatic heat transfe... more Designing Designers 2008 Year after year, the Designing Designers Conference strives to tackle different issues bearing on international design debate. This year's theme "O... more 10th Arquine International Architecture Competition Thirty years on from the publication of Delirious New York, Rem Koolhaas's manifesto celebrating congestion culture, at the peak of the high building ... more Maison Tropicale for Design Museum at Tate Modern Hotelier Andre Balazs, in partnership with the Design Museum and Tate Modern, brings a house designed by architectural visionary Jean Prouve to Britai... more LEO A DALY D.C. Welcomes Janis Saltans as Director of Design International architecture, planning, engineering, interior design and program management firm LEO A DALY is pleased to announce the appointment of Ja... more Double Take Architecture Talk Series of talks looking at the crossover between architecture and film. John Maybury (pictured) began his career as an artist, experimental filmmak... more Archeworks Announces New Leadership Archeworks co-founders and directors, designer Eva Maddox and architect Stanley Tigerman, have passed the baton to award-winning architects Sarah Dunn... more	Method Helps Director Phillip Van Create Melancholy Journey in Short Film Project Method, recently completed 3D animation and effects work on "And She Stares Longingly At What She Has Lost," a distributive short film offering direct... more Sennheiser Sound Logo Competition You hear them and they stick in your memory: sound logos are to the ear what a visual symbol is to the eye. So what does an "audio specialist" soun... more Turner City 2007 Interactive Project Map For over a hundred years Turner Construction Company has built landmark projects around the world, from Lincoln Center and Madison Square Garden in Ne... more Aurora 2008 : Norwich International Animation Festival AURORA is an annual festival in Norwich, UK which focuses on animation and artists' film. A uniquely art-focused, progressive event, it fuses artis... more Superfad Battles Nature with Kung Fu HD IDs VOOM HD Networks recently approached Superfad to design and produce new on-air brand identities for Kung Fu HD, VOOM HD's martial arts movie channel o... more Motion Graphics and Visual Effects Artist Phil Spitler Joins Phoenix Editorial & Designs Phoenix Editorial & Designs has recruited motion graphics and visual effects artist Phil Spitler to join its team. The 15-year industry veteran has... more Asylum Creates VFX for Box Office Topper National Treasure: Book of Secrets From opening credit roll to final scene, Los Angeles-based VFX and design company, Asylum created over 700 seamless VFX shots for Walt Disney's Nation... more Zoic Studios Meets Terminator : the Sarah Connor Chronicles Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is the exciting next step for the Terminator franchise and features striking visual effects by the award-winni... more Bluerock Editor Cuts U2 3D U2 3D, Produced by 3ality Digital, directed by Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington, edited by Olivier Wicki of Bluerock New York, recently premiered a... more Rhinofx Re-creates Mercedes Models for 2008 rhinofx recently integrated CG cars into a re-release of five 2007 Mercedes Benz spots, updating the spots to include 2008 models. The company used... more The Biography Channel Teams with Leroy and Clarkson The Biography Channel teamed with New York-based design and production firm, Leroy and Clarkson to produce new domestic and international branding pac... more Brandwidth Create a Haven for Gardeners with New Holiday Inn Green Room Microsite Holiday Inn have launched the Holiday Inn "Green Room" microsite to celebrate a new partnership with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) including c... more New Video Tutorials for Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium Total Training today released Total Training for Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium. This new suite offers a one-stop-shop for learning the ... more Arabesque From the Movements of Glass Arabesque is an exhibition presenting for the first time works by designer Ren�ta Jakowleff that have been created with the aid of a new innovation in... more	20-21 International Art Fair The second 20 21 international art fair will take place at the Royal College of Art in Kensington Gore, London SW7, from 21 - 24 February... more Urban Art Photography Berlin is a particularly strong magnet for international street artists and its landscape is filled with artwork and signatures that are inventing new... more Seven Ways of Thinking About Art This seven-week course explores the philosophical basis of our attempts to understand works of art. Topics covered include : the question of whethe... more Philippe de Montebello Announces Retirement from The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that Philippe de Montebello-whose long and storied career at the Museum has spanned nearly a third of t... more Art Rotterdam 2008 The 9th edition of Art Rotterdam has an international appearance. About 75 galleries from 10 different countries have been selected for their open ... more Lucian Freud : The Painter's Etchings One of the foremost figurative artists working today, Lucian Freud (British, born Germany 1922) has redefined portraiture and the nude through his unb... more Living Under the Crescent Moon Exhibition "The casbah of Algiers has everything: all the elements of an architecture that shows immeasurable sensitivity to human needs and desires." With th... more Never Mind That Noise You Heard : Allora & Calzadilla Allora & Calzadilla have worked together since 1995, and have established themselves as prominent figures in the international contemporary art scene.... more Sally Mann : Gagosian Gallery Gagosian Gallery announced the exhibition of large-format photographs by Sally Mann. Executed between 2000 and 2004, these works consist of images ... more Derek Jarman The Derek Jarman exhibition will present a selection of work by the leading British film-maker of his generation. Curated by the celebrated artist ... more Savannah Film Festival Accepting Submissions for 2008 Festival The Savannah Film Festival, hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design, is accepting professional and student film submissions for the 2008 fest... more Styrofoam Styrofoam, extruded or expanded polystyrene, is a material known for its resistance to moisture and its buoyancy. Its uses range widely... more Fabrique 38 The key creative behind the now ubiquitous Ableton Live software, Robert Henke aka Monolake, presents crucial surround sound ambient works and debuts ... more Space and Learning : Herman Hertzberger Schools loom large in the comprehensive body of work designed by Herman Hertzberger; more than thirty have been built to date... more C2 from Herman Miller Receives 2007 GOOD DESIGN Award Herman Miller's C2 device for personal micro climate control has been honored by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Design and Architecture... more

January 2008 / #4

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