Umbrella Inside Out : TreeHugger Design Competition Umbrella Inside Out is the first ever TreeHugger design competition, in collaboration with I.D. Maga... more EAD2007 : The 7th International Conference of the European Academy of Design The Faculty of Fine Arts and Design at Izmir University of Economics, Turkey, will host the 7th conf... more Material About Materials : Mysterious World of Materials Opens Up to Design Community The fast-growing community of creative people who design products, objects, processes, services and ... more Nokia Collaborates with CSM to Design the Future of Mobile Nokia revealed the result of its recent collaboration with Central Saint Martins (CSM) College of Ar... more Red Dot Design Yearbook 2006 2007 The red dot design yearbook 2006/2007 documents the latest products from major international industr... more Ecodesign 06 Eco-design has been treated by many companies as peripheral to their main product launch activities,... more International Bicycle Design Competition The Bicycle Design Competition is sponsored by the Department of Industrial Technology, Ministry of ... more INDEX : Award 2007 Nomination From June 12th until November 18th 2006, designers from all over the world have the chance to be nom... more Ergonomic Violin : Intelligent Design Meets String Theory Industrial design graduate Tricia Ho has been awarded the Gold Australian Design Award - Dyson Stude... more Mvura Water Purifier by Julie Frost Industrial design graduate Julie Frost has been awarded the Bronze Australian Design Award - Dyson S... more Cooper-Hewitt Announces Winners of the Seventh Annual National Design Awards This fall Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will celebrate significant achievement... more LG Corporate Design Center is the Design Team of the Year 2006 The LG Corporate Design Center is the design team of the year 2006. This is only the second time ... more Design Management at MIP-Politecnico di Milano Design is increasingly becoming a major competitive weapon in today's competition. An increasing ... more Voyage in a Bottle : Kenneth Hirst Designs Nautica Fragrance Kenneth Hirst, Chief Creative Officer & President of New York City based design agency Hirst Pacific... more The Magnum Chair by Erik Magnussen For those who love Engelbrechts' Chairik chair but find the seating surface too small, there is now ... more Masters RSP - Research Study Program at Istituto Europeo di Design Istituto Europeo di Design has been operating in the Training and Research field and in the discipli... more Core77 Launches Blu Föm Sneaker A custom kick marking Core77's 11th year. Like the site it's a built specifically for designers a... more Droog Design : The Human Touch Object Gallery brings world renowned Amsterdam-based design phenomenon, Droog Design to the forefron... more Life is Flexible : New Flexible Display Concepts from Plastic Logic Five exciting new product concepts from Plastic Logic were on show at SID this year with the theme t... more

REJECTED! If creative people were making final decisions about graphic design and advertising campaigns instea... more Images 30 : the Best of British Contemporary Illustration 2006 The Association of Illustrators (AOI) is proud to present Images 30 - the best of British contempora... more AIGA - Aquent Survey of Design Salaries Available Free Online For the seventh year, Aquent and the AIGA (American Institute for Graphic Arts, the professional ass... more The Little Know-It-All : Common Sense for Designers What is a Meta-Tag? What kind of measurement is DIN A1? What kind of clearance and documents do you ... more Bak 04 is Online 4th issue of Bak Magazine is now online! Bak has 8 special interviews in this issue. Turkish d... more Spoken With Eyes It covers today, right now, this second, and maybe tomorrow. The world of post-dot-com. The wo... more GDC Awards Highest Honours Fellowships awarded to outstanding designers. Award-winning Victoria BC designer, Peggy Cady, imm... more Planet Propaganda Hires Mike Krol as Junior Designer Planet Propaganda has added Mike Krol as a junior designer working on such passion-based brands as G... more New Issue of David Report David Report is a trend report with a design perspective and a humanistic approach, which concern in... more Spark Builds Road to TVtropolis with Major Branding Initiative Canadian media company CanWest MediaWorks turned to the talents of spark to complete a high-profile ... more An Idea Worth Expanding : Myndology Myndology, formerly Mindbinders, introduces its new and expanded line of stationery and study produc... more Brandwidth Launches Graduate Scheme 2006 Brandwidth Creative Director and CSD Council Member Dean Johnson, has launched the new 2006 Graduate... more 2nd Biennial of Latin Letters Opens in Venezuela New forms of typographies of some Latin American countries are shown in the 2nd Biennial of Latin Le... more Top 20 Mistakes Marketers Make When Rebranding - And How to Avoid Them ReBrand, the only source for case studies and programs focused on effective rebrands, has announced ... more AIGA Design Expedition to China Design is sizzling hot and served up fast in China today. As markets rapidly expand and global co... more Icograda to Work with WIPO on New IP Publication Icograda has been contracted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to produce a new... more Garry Emery : Australia's Top Graphic Designer Honoured in the United States Garry Emery, design director of emerystudio and one of Australia's most successful graphic designers... more Paul Nini : PDF of Selected Academic Writings Paul Nini, faculty member in the Department of Design at the Ohio State University, has assembled a ... more ZONA Design Puts the Soul in 2006 ALMA Awards Identity and Branding For the ALMA Awards, one of the most highly anticipated entertainment events of 2006, which this yea... more

Vincenzo Taormina : Contemporary Jewelry Designer and Metal Artist The pleasure of creating something different, something that represents a special world, first imagi... more 2007 EDFF : Ecco Domani Searches for Fashion Designers of Tomorrow Be one of the six lucky designers to join the ranks of some of the biggest names in the world of fas... more La Maison Unique Longchamp Longchamp is delighted to announce the opening in May 2006 of La Maison Unique Longchamp, the new mo... more Sandra Di Giacinto The Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao is the last international museum which selected the jewls and delica... more Space Clothes Saving the Lives of Earthlings From bras and babysuits equipped with monitors to tough suits to protect sportsmen and adventurers f... more Elizabeth Kiester Joins LeSportsac as Creative Director LeSportsac, a leading manufacture of functional and chic handbags, has named long-time fashion indus... more International Herald Tribune's 2006 Luxury Conference in Istanbul The International Herald Tribune (IHT) announced that Francois-Henri Pinault, chairman and CEO of PP... more WWD Fashion Career Expo WWD/Women's Wear Daily & Fashion Career Expo have joint ventured to produce the inaugural WWD Fashio... more Tiffany to Open Store in Hamburg Germany Tiffany & Co., the internationally renowned jeweler, announced plans to open a new store next summer... more Fashion forms Opinion How much opinion do you think a voting on 7 young fashion designers can cause? The opinions vary ... more Polo Ralph Lauren to Stop Using Fur U.S. clothing giant Polo Ralph Lauren plans to stop using animal pelts in all the company's products... more H&M to Dress Madonna's Team on Confessions World Tour In a dream marriage of music and fashion, Madonna, has joined up with fashion giant H&M to supply a ... more Henrik Holbæk and Claus Jensen : the Best Designers of the Red Dot Award For the outstanding design and the intelligent functionality of their eva solo "Aromagic" carafes th... more Rui Sampaio de Faria, Jose Carlos Mendes and Pedro Cunha Monteiro Rui Sampaio de Faria, José Carlos Mendes and Pedro Cunha Monteiro have been honoured with the red do... more Antonio Citterio : the Best Designers of the Red Dot Award - Product Design 2006 In this year´s red dot award: product design, even two products of the Italian designer and architec... more Creative Wins Three Prestigious Red Dot Design Awards Creative Technology Ltd., the worldwide leader in digital entertainment products today announces tha... more Wacom Receives International Award for Product Design The Cintiq 21UX Interactive Pen Display from Wacom was awarded the coveted "red dot" for high design... more Dot Dot Dash! : Designer Toys, Action Figures and Character Art Dot Dot Dash ! is brought to you by the editors of Pictoplasma and Pictoplasma 2. Expanding on th... more

Felt Tapestries Dutch Flowers by Eijkingdelouwere Eijkingdelouwere, a young Dutch firm established by two young architects, completed 20.000 m2 interi... more Interior Design by studioCentral Unit Design studioCentral Unit Design is a collaboration of four professionals from diverse backgrounds and trai... more OMA Commission at Old Brewery Site in Copenhagen The Realdania Foundation of Denmark has announced their commission of The Office for Metropolitan Ar... more Leon Whitehorn : Breathe Group Appoints Design and Build Specialist Cambridge based workplace design and management firm breathegroup has made a major appointment to it... more International Design Workshop in Hungary This event is not just a workshop, not a simple professional event for designers. Here meet the f... more Nokia Flagship Stores to Offer Unique Wireless Shopping Experience Beginning on June 24th, Chicago's world-famous "Magnificent Mile" shopping district will be home to ... more Exquisite Furniture Transforms Bathroom Into a Bath-suite It is no longer a room guided solely by function. The rigor of utilitarian sameness is cast away ... more Southbank Competition Southbank is an international competition for the design of a new environment that will encompass re... more Children Choose the Way in East London School Ranelagh Primary School in London's East End has just taken delivery of its new mobile changing and ... more 138th AIA National Convention in Los Angeles Emphasizes Importance of Sustainable Design The American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2006 National Convention and Design Exposition concluded ... more 8th International Conference on Urban History The Eighth International Conference on Urban History will be held in Stockholm 30th August - 2nd Sep... more Docomomo 2006 : The IXth International DOCOMOMO Conference The theme of the IXth International DOCOMOMO Conference, "Other" Modernisms, proceeds from the conse... more Report from the National Summit on School Design Schools in the 21st century should feature more diverse learning environments, greater technology an... more Alta Log Homes on the Front Line of New Technology In Scotland and Ireland early in the 3rd century A.D. the Celts began to build homes made of logs. ... more AIA Announces Show You're Green Awards Today, at The American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2006 National Convention and Design Expo, the A... more New Guidance for Design and Access Statements With an accompanying design and access statement now a requirement for planning applications from 10... more BCA Announces Finalists for Environmental Design Competition The Boston Center of the Arts (BCA) is pleased to announce the five finalists submissions for "insid... more Domus d'Autore Presents AMO Post-Occupancy Report As part of the "Festa per l'architettura" Domus will present the new "Domus d'Autore" series, dedica... more

Hornet Brings Back the Pink Panther for a Sweet'n Low Summer Sequel Hornet directors JJ&Maithy teamed up once again with Pedone and Partners to bring the Pink Panther b... more Flashforward 2006 Austin The largest Flash conference and film festival in existence, Flashforward, recently announced Austin... more 1st Avenue Machine and MTV Transform Japan for Video Music Awards Design and visual effects studio 1st Avenue Machine recently gave portable music a new meaning as pa... more Troika Design Group Creates New Animal Planet Network Package Troika Design Group was selected earlier this year to create a new on-air experience for Animal Plan... more Method Studios Springs Into 2D and 3D Action for Sears and Y&R Chicago In a new campaign for Sears created by ad agency Y&R Chicago with stunning 2D and 3D visual effects ... more Design and Visual Effects Boutique Synthesis Gets Inside a Never Flat Basketball What does the inside of Spalding's new Never Flat basketball look like? As envisioned by Philadel... more Buck Kicks it to ESPN's World Cup Coverage Los Angeles-based motion graphics and production company BUCK produced an epic and illustrative open... more Umlaut Welcomes Designer Ivan Miller San Francisco Editorial company, Umlaut, has expanded its team with the addition of Designer/ Motion... more Heavenspot for ABCfamily's Interactive Music Machine Heavenspot, a full service new media design agency located in Hollywood, California has recently com... more Lightborne Creates Magical Graphics For MTV TRL & FANTA Summer Promotion Motion design collective Lightborne recently contributed animation and graphics to an ambitious 2:30... more Thursdays Are Impossible on Discovery Channel Thursday nights will never be the same after watching an imaginative Discovery Channel promo campaig... more Lightborne Launches CG Division Motion design and production company Lightborne has expanded its offerings with a new CG division, h... more Nokia Initiates Product Design Lawsuit Nokia has initiated a civil litigation in Beijing, China against two companies for manufacturing and... more Cambridge Manufacturing Engineering Design Show 2006 Manufacturing Engineering students at Cambridge University held their 2006 Design Show, displaying a... more Lino Magazine Issue 14 : Australia & New Zealand's Premier Design Lifestyle Mag LINO's Issue 14 is packed full of fascinating stories about exceptional people, their works, their t... more Fashion and Technology Merge in the New ABACUS Smart Watch 2006 Microsoft's Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) initiative today launched the next generation o... more Daniel Huber : the Best Designers of the Red Dot Award - Product Design 2006 Daniel Huber, Austrian designer and co-founder of Spirit Design, received the red dot: best of the b... more Wolfgang Held : the Best Designers of the Red Dot Award - Product Design 2006 Sometimes it is the small things that make a big difference; such as in the case of the BLUMOTION 97... more

Artist Noriko Ambe Selects YUPO Synthetic for New Body of Work Having completed her second solo show at New York's Josée Bienvenu Gallery, Noriko Ambe's topographi... more Agnes Doroszewicz Photographs the Red Dot Design Yearbook Cover Every year, red dot gives newcomer photographers the chance to place one of the products awarded the... more Onedotzero Young blood always delivers fresh directions but needs to be given the opportunity and the platform.... more Korean Master Glass Artists Exhibit Work Usually considered a practical medium for vases and windows, a current University Museum exhibit giv... more Interact with Large Speech Bubbles Using "always on" technology, cell phones with SMS messaging allow an audience to interact with larg... more All Allure Erotic art dates back to ancient times and has continued to be a subject of artistic expression thro... more New Paintings at Artzone Gallery Enjoy a visit to Artzone Gallery and see the latest exhibition featuring paintings by contemporary I... more Images 31 : the Best of British Contemporary Illustration 2007 The Association of Illustrators (AOI) invites illustrators and commissioners to enter their best wor... more Just Enough Is More : Exhibition of Graphic Design by Milton Glaser at BYU MOA A new exhibition at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art will introduce viewers to the work of... more Influences : A Lexicon of Contemporary Graphic Design Practice Influences looks at who and what is influencing, provoking, inspiring and informing graphic designer... more Tres Logos Logo design is one of the most crucial and challenging tasks in graphic design. Seemingly simple,... more Diamond Sofa by Andrea Fino and Samanta Snidaro The Diamond sofa thought by Samanta Snidaro and Andrea Fino of Sand & Birch design studio is entirel... more Student Summit Set on Vehicle Design Seventy-three students from 21 universities around the world will gather at MIT this summer to desig... more ICSID IDSA Connecting 2007 : World Design Congress "Physical, Virtual and Cultural Connections" - that's the exciting topic of the upcoming Icsid/IDSA ... more Raymond Turner Presents the DBA Design Effectiveness Lecture 2006 Raymond Turner will present the DBA Design Effectivess Lecture 2006, addressing an audience of senio... more Formula One : The Great Design Race Thrilling and addictive, Formula One is among the world's most popular sports. Over eight million... more Nokia 8800 Wins Red Dot: Best of the Best Award Nokia's iconic 8800 mobile phone has won the "best of the best" prize at the red dot design awards, ... more Loggerhead Tools Introduces the Bionic Grip LoggerHead Tools today announced the 8-inch Bionic Grip, an open-ended version of the patented, awar... more The 2nd International Conference for Universal Design in Kyoto 2006 The theme suggests that sensitivity is required for materialzing decisive proposals in a considerate... more

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