

Premsela Design Forum: Milan 2009 Each year during Milan Design Week, Premsela puts on a presentation or debate. At this year's edition, on the evening of Wednesday 22 April, the starting point for ... more RTT USA and Art Center Explore Luminescence in Latest Podcast The most recent Material Intersections podcast coproduced by RTT and Art Center College of Design's Color, Materials and Trends Exploration... more CATALYST Strategic Design Review Pratt Institute launched CATALYST Strategic Design Review, a digital publication of the graduate Design Management Program. CATALYST is designed to encourage a conve... more EESC Design ZeroNine Award To mark the European Year of Creativity and Innovation, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) is launching a design competition to create, and later produce, an i... more Surface Tensions: Surface, Finish and the Meanings of Objects The physical surfaces of objects are the result of complex and subtle finishing processes, they require assiduous maintenance, and function... more Are We Misinterpreting the Innovation Agenda? The rise of competitive activity between universities on the one hand and private sector design and innovation firms on the other was highlighted in Delive... more Future Mobility: New Master Programme Transportation Design at the HBK Starting from winter semester 2009/10 the HBK Braunschweig offers for the first time the master study course Transportation Design... more The Fireplate by Radius Design The Fireplate by Radius Design creates an atmospheric scene on lukewarm summer evenings. The circular plate is made of black painted steel and comes with a diameter of... more Airmail: Bringing Lightness to Everyday Objects Airmail is an exhibition with new objects dealing with the idea of weight, or rather the absence of it, in design. Lightness has been often used to me... more Furniture Design Award 2010 Registration is now open for the highly sought-after Furniture Design Award (FDA) 2010, organised by the Singapore Furniture Industries Council (SFIC). Similar to last ye... more Never Use White Type on a Black Background: and 50 Other Ridiculous Design Rules The world of fashion and design is inundated with a seemingly endless list of rules. Think of "Less is More", "Form F... more	AIGA Clarifies Its Position on Speculative Work The AIGA board of directors, in consultation with a number of interested members, recently reviewed AIGA's long-standing policy against spec work in the ... more ISTD Lectures: Wim Crouwel The International Society of Typographic Designers announced the return or their acclaimed lecture series. The first of which on the 3 June will be Wim Crouwel. The Dut... more Spikes Asia Awards 2009 Spikes Asia Awards 2009 once again recognise the very best talent in creative advertising in Asia. Entries are now open and the deadline to submit work is 24 July. The Fes... more Esquina Norte: 9th International Design Conference Esquina Norte, the most anticipated expected design conference of Mexico's northwest region, is coming once again this fall to Tijuana. This year w... more Nobelini: Designer Seeks Scientist An appealing graphic can help scientists convey complex information while designers have always been influenced by science and technology. Experts in both fields w... more American Graphic Design Awards: Call For Entires Graphic Design USA has announced their call for entries for the 2009 AGDA awards. The American Graphic Design Awards is a four decade old flagship co... more Touch: Creativille Collaborates on Fund Raising Poster with 4 National Designers Creativille, Inc. designer, Steve Hartman joined Chicago designer Justin Ahrens, Kansas City designer Christine Taylor a... more HUGO Create: Summer Time HUGO Create Round 9 is all about being creative as you interpret the summer theme... we look forward to seeing how you integrate the iconic HUGO Man bottle with your entries as... more Corel Wins Award of Excellence from Society for Technical Communication Corel Corporation announced that its documentation team has been recognized with an Award of Excellence from the Society for Tech... more Brian Vogel Hired as IDSA Interim Executive Director The Industrial Designers Society of America announced the hiring of Brian Vogel, IDSA as interim executive director. Vogel is an experienced lead... more HWID2009: Human Work Interaction Design 2009 Conference The Human Work Interaction Design 2009 working conference analyzes the concept of usability in social, cultural and organizational contexts. A... more	SPUR Celebrates Opening of Urban Center The San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) is pleased to announce the opening of the SPUR Urban Center in San Francisco's Yerba Buena distr... more Badly Designed Schools to Be Halted in Their Tracks UK Schools minister Jim Knight has announced a new minimum design standard for Building Schools for the Future (BSF). Designs falling short of the... more Surf's Up! New Macaulay Sinclair Project Makes Big Waves Nottingham-based interior architects and designers Macaulay Sinclair has put their flag firmly in South Coast sand after customers began flockin... more Wolf D. Prix Receives Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art Wolf D. Prix, Design Principal of Coop Himmelb(l)au received the Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art on May 19. Th... more Mannahatta 2409: a Design Competition for the Ecological Future of New York in the Year 2409 Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a city that worked like a forest and flowed like a s... more China Sustainable Building Summit 2009 The China Sustainable Building Summit 2009 will be held on June 29 - July 1, 2009 in Shanghai China. Overall we expect more than 300 high profile participants ... more Bpma Student Design Innovation Award The British Promotional Merchandise Association and leading worldwide innovator 3M have teamed up to launch the first promotional gift student design award. The ... more Australasian Student Design Awards Results The DIA's hotly contested 2009 Australasian Student Design Awards (ASDA) concluded recently, with design students from Australian and New Zealand tertiary ins... more Hans Robertus: New Director for Dutch Design Week Hans Robertus will succeed John Lippinkhof as the new director of Dutch Design Week. He will fulfill this position next to his role as Senior Direct... more CREATE 2009: Innovative Interactions CREATE 2009 is a 2-day conference about creating innovative interactions, whether digital consumer products, interactive services or interaction paradigms. A con... more Design for the Development of Industrial Products: Master by Politecnico di Milano The Master in "Product Design for Professionale - Design per lo sviluppo del prodotto industriale" is addressed to gra... more	Natural Semantics: Boscolo Hotel Exedra Nice, Nice The luxury hotel is set in a majestic building of elaborate stuccos and fa�ade decorations. The property is in the heart of Nice, along the Victor ... more Invisible Process: Exhibition of Japanese Contemporary Architecture in Lisbon "(In)visible Process" tries to show in the Japanese context how an architecture project evolves - from the idea till its co... more Making Modern: SAIC Graduate Design Exhibition Showcasing design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's (SAIC) department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects (AIADO)... more 2009 RIBA Award Winners The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) announced the winners of the 2009 RIBA Awards. RIBA Awards for architectural excellence presenteded across the UK with 103 bu... more London's New Bermondsey Square by East Architects Award-winning London architectural practice East has created the new public realm for Bermondsey Square in Southwark, London. The Square aims to sti... more Foster + Partners Beijing International Airport Named Building of the Year Beijing Capital International Airport was named the "Building of the Year" by the UK's architecture sector during the prestigi... more SHH Applies Creative Thinking to Low-budget School Diner Projects SHH have redesigned the dining areas of both a primary school and a secondary school in the Southampton area, creating complete spatial... more 2009 Oasis Award for Outdoor Kitchen Design Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet and Garden Design magazine announced the 2009 Oasis Award for Outdoor Kitchen Design. Residential and landscape architects, land... more Garbage Warrior Michael Reynolds comes to Melbourne & Bendigo for State of Design Festival A world leader in sustainable housing for over 40 years, architect Michael Reynolds will be holding two inform... more Design Minded Design Minded, a London-based focus group for the Design and Build Community, is holding its fourth Central London event this year on Wednesday 17 June at 6.30pm. This event has threef... more LEO A DALY Wins IIDA Award for Design of the American Society of Clinical Oncology Headquarters The Washington, D.C. office of LEO A DALY recognized by the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of International Interio... more	DUCK's Kompost Helped Dixie Trixi Win by a Nose For the recent Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film, five teams each consisting of two members, developed an animated film within 48 hours. Top honors ... more Stardust's Ice Breakers Spot for Arnoldnyc Features Inventive Use of Hand-drawn Cel Animation Under the direction of EVP and senior creative director Sig Gross and his colleagues from ArnoldNYC, bicoas... more Superfad Creates Promotion Film for The New Museum Exhibit Younger Than Jesus Post-Its, naked bodies, and Jesus. The provocative title of the New Museum's current exhibit "Younger than Jesus - The Gene... more The 2009 MEX Mobile User Experience Awards The winners of the 2009 MEX Mobile User Experience Awards were announced on 19th May at a special evening reception in London. Hosted on the 1st night of t... more Pixel Awards: Fourth Annual Call for Entries The fourth annual Pixel Awards call for entries is now open. Established by Erick & Lisa Laubach in 2006, The Pixel Awards take a fresh look at the best ... more HBO's The Alzheimer's Project Behavior has teamed up with HBO to produce the web presence for their new documentary series, The Alzheimer's Project. The emotional films intend to educate the public ... more Littlewoods Rolls Out Sponsorship Idents for British Soap Awards Littlewoods brought in th1ng, the award winning mixed media and animation studio, to create and produce a series of sponsorship idents f... more Bud Light Lime Serves-Up Summer State of Mind in High-Profile Broadcast Spots Bicoastal U.S. creative production company Stardust Studios worked with the creative team from DDB Chicago for Bud Light Li... more Carbon VFX Launches in NYC The Whitehouse is partnering with sought-after industry vets Kieran Walsh and Frank Devlin to open Carbon, a new integrated creative VFX and finishing house based in New York... more Neil Huxley Joins Frantic as Art Director/Mograph Supervisor Frantic Films VFX, a division of Prime Focus Group, announced it has brought on board award-winning Art Director and Motion Graphics Supervi... more Blickfang: The Best in German Photography in One Book The second issue of the yearbook "Blickfang - Deutschlands beste Fotografen" has now been published by NBVD and presents with a total of 688 pages ... more	Magnum Contemporary For over sixty years, Magnum photographers have been responsible for taking some of the world's most memorable photographs, images that have become instantly recognizable. Robert... more Beyond Bloomsbury: Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19 Beyond Bloomsbury: Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, on view at The Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, London, from 18 June to 20 Septemb... more FIGMENT 2009: an Explosion of Creativity FIGMENT is an annual arts event on Governors Island, with artwork in every medium, from installation to performance to music to games and many things in between... more Zeitgeits 09 Interational Art Awards United Creators International Juried Art Awards conducts its' first one of a kind competition for Visual and Video artists on a global scale. Promoting extensive... more How Designers Can Make a Difference We have been hearing the buzz words sustainable design, eco-design and green design a lot lately. We catch on the buzzwords pretty quickly but usually without hav... more Design is No Coincidence: Groundbreaking Approach to the Student Exhibition Not afraid of innovation, students from Salford University's Design Studies Cluster have taken a fresh approach to "the final... more Volvo S60 Concept Awarded Most Beautiful Concept Car Europe has voted: about 200,000 Auto Bild readers from 27 countries have selected the most beautiful vehicles for 2009 in five categories. The Vo... more Power Innovation Game: a Practical Sustainable Design Experience Sustainable design is an extensive hot topic, discussing about it is easy but the difficulties come when bringing it into practice. T... more Gem Essence of Bulgari Designed by Dragon Rouge The Bulgari jewellery brand is extending the expertise it has developed in the luxury goods market to the world of cosmetics with the launch of Gem Essen... more Floating Chairs: the Know-how of the Italian Chair District The Naviglio Grande Canal was the unusual and striking stage chosen by the Italian Chair District, the Italian and international heartland of... more Frog Design Strengthens Creative Leadership with New Appointments Global innovation firm frog design announced that it is expanding its creative leadership team with several new appointments. The ne... more

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