VDA Design Award 2006 : Future Road Transport 2020 With the VDA Design Award, offered for the second time this year, the organisers would like to encou... more Inverted Martini Cocktail Glass Wins Bombay Sapphire Design Prize UK-based designers, Tomek Rygalik and Jorre van Ast have been named winners of this year's Bombay Sa... more RLD République Libre du Design On the occasion of the Salone del Mobile 2006 event, the French Cultural Centre of Milan presents th... more Design Association : First Worldwide Accreditation Scheme for Design Consultancies The Chartered Society of Designers (CSD) has launched the Design Association, the first worldwide ac... more Loremo Concept Car How expensive will petrol become? How valuable is the environment really to us? Why do we need... more Smart Cars Exhibition Along with Other Icons of Twentieth Century Design A New York City real estate developer is drawing visitors and attention to his new Madison Avenue bu... more Optimus Mini Three Keyboard by Art Lebedev Optimus mini is an auxiliary keyboard with three keys, each complete with an OLED screen displaying ... more Red Dot in Moscow From 9 to 12 March 2006, the red dot design award will showcase itself in Moscow. On the occasion... more TAG Heuer Chronographs Powered by Avant-garde Movements More than any other Swiss watch brand, TAG Heuer has a time-proven capacity for transforming horolog... more VinDesign 2nd Edition Design and Innovation of accessories for the serving of wine and spirit drinks. The challenge of ... more New Issue of David Report The new issue of David Report by David Carlson is now available. The theme of this issue is Design (... more Scoot : Electric Scooter by GRO Design The need to commute to and from work impacts greatly on our daily lives and our environment. Inco... more The Red Dot Award : Design Concept Enters a New Round For the second time now, the most innovative, creative and outstanding design concepts in the world ... more Design 2.0 in San Francisco Products and their Ecosystems: Understanding the power of context in product innovation. Products... more The Good Design Awards 2006 The Good Design Awards this year celebrate their 50th anniversary. The predecessor of the Good De... more New Design from Israel Presented by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City, Solos: New Design from Israel i... more Results and Trends of the Red Dot Award : Product Design 2006 The final decisions in the international and renowned "red dot award: product design 2006" have been... more My World : The New Subjectivity in Design The emergence of a new subjectivity in contemporary design as designers use sophisticated new techno... more

Planet Propaganda Creates Book of Summer for American Players Theatre Planet Propaganda has designed and illustrated American Players Theatre's annual Book of Summer. ... more 2006 Advertising Annual Juried by nine leading creative directors, art directors and writers, the Advertising Annual display... more NO!SPEC In an effort to educate Visual Communication Designers and those who use their services, on the dama... more Disorder in Progress Following on the success of Brasil Inspired, Disorder in Progress digs deeper into Brazil to present... more Icograda Design Week in Seattle Defining Design on Changing Planet will be the theme of the first ever Icograda Design Week to be he... more 2006 How Perfect 10 Awards HOW magazine invites you to enter its newest juried design competition, the 2006 HOW Perfect 10 Awar... more 6th Poster Competition of the Island of Ithaca The ten best entries will be made into banners with dimensions 2m x 60cm and will be hung along Itha... more Quanto Project : International Graphic Design Competition QUANTOproject is a "graphics" international competition attempting to explore the meaning of the wor... more Dick Bruna : Pure Dutch Design Dick Bruna's character "miffy", the cartoon bunny, has grown over a period of 50 years to become an ... more 5oup : For Creative Students, by Creative Students James Chambers and Tom Judd have recently launched a website dedicated to showcasing the best studen... more Spark Fuels Fiery New Global Brand Spark, the creative group founded by award-winning designer Elaine Cantwell, has completed a major r... more Calling All Graphic Designers : Inspired Art Fair 2006 The Inspired Art Fair, an annual launch pad event for emerging contemporary artists, is looking for ... more Design Edge Canada : Magazine Brings New Edge to Design World Bursting out in bright orange, Design Edge Canada makes a big statement on the cover of its inaugura... more Industreal Exhibition at Salone Internazionale del Mobile di Milano 2006 For the 45th edition of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile di Milano 2006 Industreal will show a f... more Nanny Still : Ambassador of Design Nanny Still is one of the most colourful figures of Finnish design. In 1949 she started her caree... more Packed up : Unpacked Design archives reflect the life and work of designers, manufacturers and institutions that are or w... more Alonso Collection Many decades ago, Mr. Alonso became fascinated by the various qualities and technical possibilities ... more A Hundred Years - A Hundred Chairs The Vitra Design Museum has one of the biggest and most important collections of modern furniture de... more

Pantone View Colour Planner 2007 2008 Color Forecast Pantone, the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design i... more City Bag by Kristiina Lassus for Alessi The City Bag, designed by Finnish designer Kristiina Lassus, constitutes Alessi first foray into the... more Nokia Cape Town Fashion Week 2006 Nokia Cape Town Fashion Week, Africa's largest gathering of fashion talent, will take place 11th - 1... more Arts of Fashion Competition 2006 The Arts of Fashion Competition is to promote & reward creativity & inventiveness, discover young ta... more When Philip Met Isabella Cranbrook Art Museum will present an exhibition of the extraordinary hats that the Irish designer Ph... more Flowers, Dragons and Pine Trees : Asian Textiles Comprising some three hundred objects, the collection of Asian textiles in the Spencer Museum of Art... more Sighting the Past The University's Macleay Museum has provided both the inspiration and the venue for a new exhibition... more Adnan Serbest Launches New Furniture Design Collection Adnan Serbest'06 collection is full of 25 products and each of them has a design story which has beg... more Demet Bilici at Salone Satellite Demet Bilici, a young designer from Istanbul, will be exhibiting at Salone Satellite, the special pa... more A+B : Furniture to Go During the International Furniture Show in Milan from 5-10 April 2006 Marcel Kampman will be introdu... more Milan Furniture Fair 2006 : Riches of Isolation Exhibition The unique challenges and opportunities that arise from working in creative industries in the most i... more HP Receives First Design for Recycling Award The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries has named HP the recipient of its first Design for Recyc... more BLOB BLOB - a mobile phone that can also be used as a personal accompaniment and supervising device, with... more The Design and Business Catalyst Award 2006 Now, more than ever, business managers are recognizing the impact of good design on the bottom line,... more Nokia 3250 WESC Limited Edition Nokia Scandinavia and WESC take their first joint step in an exiting long-term cooperation. The mobi... more Modernism : Designing a New World This major exhibition at the V&A is the first to explore Modernism in the designed world from a trul... more Philips Shows Product Concepts Designed with Users Dutch Philips Electronics unveiled innovative product ideas that emerged from its design laboratorie... more DesignLines Toronto DesignLines magazine, the ultimate guide to design in the city, is bigger than ever. Since its la... more

Master Plan International Competition for Taiwan's Eternal Golden Castle Parks The parks of Fort Erh-Kun-Shen are located inside the National Anping Harbor Historic Park, which is... more Rogier van der Heide : Festival of Lights Keynote Speaker World-renowned architectural lighting designer, Rogier van der Heide will headline the May 7 - 9, 20... more International Iakov Chernikhov Prize : Conceptual Architecture The Iakov Chernikhov International Foundation (ICIF) announces for 2005-2006 the award of the intern... more Jean Prouvé : The Poetics of Technical Objects This is the first comprehensive and systematic travelling exhibition of furniture and architecture w... more VENICE 2006 : 1st Urban Architecture Contest ARQUITECTUM, enterprise dedicated to the organization of Architectural Contests, is pleased to welco... more Tektonica 2006 International Prize : Luxury for All This year Tektónicas' Competition will have, for the first time, an international scope. April 2... more Geo Henderick : La Merveilleuse Architecture Geo Henderick studied architecture at the Gent university. One of his teachers was the city's arc... more DynamiCity : Tactics for a Changing Metropolis It takes more than buildings to make a city. This fact is demonstrated by a new group of architec... more Jasper de Haan : Blue Darkroom Jasper de Haan's "Blue Darkroom" is a spatial installation in a room whose walls are coated with pho... more SOM Wins Design Competition for Sustainable Skyscraper in China Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP has won an international competition in China to design one of the mo... more Claremont on the Road to Success Claremont Showroom Interiors has won a major contract with BMW (UK) Limited to implement a programme... more Artist's Choice : Herzog and de Meuron Artist's Choice: Herzog & de Meuron is the seventh exhibition in MoMA's Artist's Choice series, in w... more 2006 Kitchen & Bath Portfolio The editors of Architectural Record are calling for entries for the 2006 Kitchen & Bath Portfolio. ... more 2006 HOPES Eco Design Arts Conference The Ecological Design Center is proud to invite you to the 2006 HOPES Conference from April 13-16 at... more Homecity Is it possible to create an entire city from the houses in which one has lived throughout one's life... more Architecture in Scotland Marking the publication of the third biennial review of architecture in Scotland, this exhibition fo... more Xefirotarch Design Series 4 Since its founding in 1999, Hernán Díaz Alonso's Los Angeles - based architectural firm, Xefirotarch... more British Library Opens New Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurs The new Business and Intellectual Property Centre at the British Library was officially opened on 9 ... more

1st Avenue Machine Designs Modular World Cup Campaign for Adidas and 180 Amsterdam In a new ad campaign for Adidas, hot European agency 180 Amsterdam joined forces with New York's 1st... more Nakd Directs Visually Arresting Promotional Piece for Nike Maxsight The Ebeling Group director-designer collective Nakd has rolled out a 1:30-second promotional spot fo... more Imaginary Forces Designs New Animated Vertigo Logo Comics lovers are in for a visual treat when the new animated Vertigo logo is revealed in front of t... more Convert Goes Underground in Stop-Motion Promo for BBC America Directorial collective Convert has created a :30 promo and show open for "The Underground", a new pr... more Carlos Saldanha Will Headline Promax BDA Latinoamerica Conference Furthering its quest to deliver international members a rich, fascinating and meaningful conference ... more CG Overdrive 2006 : Call for Entries Harbour the opportunity to screen your film(s) alongside some of the greatest Animation Studios like... more Ultrabland Designs Graphics for a Playful Promo for the N Ultrabland, the Flatiron-based creative boutique specializing in high-end promos, re-teamed with The... more TAG Heuer Web Design Contest Results In May 2005 TAG Heuer launched the international Web Design Contest to elect the best TAG Heuer fan ... more STEP Best of Web Design Competition Enter your great Web designs in STEP's Best of Web Design Competition and get the recognition you de... more Lightborne Creates Eye-Catching Visuals For Kenny Chesney In preparation for Kenny Chesney's sold-out nationwide 2006 tour, "The Road & The Radio," motion des... more Fluid's Bruce Ashley Edits in the Sun To raise awareness of the challenges that Hurricane Katrina survivors are still facing, and to raise... more Zona Designs Programming and Promotion Packages for Animal Planet's Horse Power ZONA Design, Inc. created programming and promotion package elements for Animal Planet's Horse Power... more Zero 2 Sixty Has Signed Aggressive for Exclusive Commercial Representation Aggressive, the Directorial/Design duo a.k.a. Dan Shapiro and Alex Topaller, has signed with the New... more Guerilla Fx Opens In Manhattan Guerilla FX, an independent design, effects and post finishing company, is the natural out growth of... more KOffice GUI Competition won by Martin Pfeiffer The KOffice GUI Competition has been won by Martin Pfeiffer. His entry was chosen from eighteen s... more Imagining Penn Center : National Student Design Competition This competition is meant to generate ideas about the revitalization of Penn Center, one of Philadel... more Winning Projects : International Architecture Competition CHAN CHAN 2006 Architectum announced the winning projects of the "CHAN CHAN 2006" International Architecture Contes... more

Transforming Chronologies Transforming Chronologies is a two-part exhibition that approaches the drawings collection from a ne... more The Surreal Calder Living and working in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, Alexander Calder was naturally influenced by the... more Beyond Green : Toward a Sustainable Art Sustainable design, which balances environmental, social, economic and aesthetic concerns, has the p... more Transformations The spring exhibition in the Asia Gallery, organized by Mary M. Dusenbury, guest curator of Asian ar... more The Impressionist Era The rebellious spirit of Impressionism versus academic art and new approaches to constructing images... more Fortuna Lively Japanese prints dating from the 1920s and '30s are showing in the University Art Gallery as p... more Aboriginal Art from the Ebes Collection "Every picture is a story; and every story a picture." This is the Australian gallery owner Hank ... more Dan Perjovschi : The Room Drawing Treating the walls of Tate Modern's Members' Room as a blank canvas, Dan Perjovschi creates a witty,... more Tourism and the American Landscape Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape explores the pr... more Max Beckmann : Watercolors and Pastels Max Beckmann is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. Appreciation of his o... more Leonardo da Vinci : Experience, Experiment and Design Leonardo da Vinci is, arguably, the greatest artist and thinker of all time. This exhibition will... more At Home in Renaissance Italy This major exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum will present a new way of looking at the "Re... more Wassily Kandinsky This exhibition focuses on the first half of the career of the great Russian artist Wassily Kandinsk... more Airworld : Design and Architecture for Air Travel Over the past one hundred years, no other means of transportation has been so profoundly transformed... more Joe Colombo : Inventing the Future Televisions that retract into the ceiling, pivoting walls with a built-in mini-bar, underground "nuc... more Hong Kong Award for Industries 2006 Philips has received two prestigious awards from one of the most influential commercial organization... more Stockholm Furniture Fair 2006 Award Winners The diploma +1 is handed out by the Forum magazine to the fair's most interesting novelty. Accord... more Design Awarded Oliso Iron with Patented Auto-Lift System Oliso "lifted" the standards in the iron industry by winning Best in Category at the annual Housewar... more

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