Nokia Morph: a Nanotechnology Concept Device
Morph, a joint nanotechnology concept, developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the University of Cambridge (UK) - was launched today alongside th...
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Month of Dutch Design: Dutch Design Wows Madrid
On 28 February 2008 Dutch Design Month will be launched in Madrid. This is the first time Madrid has hosted an event on this scale showcasing desig...
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Does Tomorrow's World Need Designers?
If "the future doesn't need us," (Bill Joy), then tomorrow's design will certainly not need designers. Already, the designer's responsibility has s...
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Sir James Dyson and Design Leaders Begin Advising the Most Exciting Educational Project
Design London, a collaborative project between the Royal College of Art (RCA) and Imperial College London, met its new Advisory Board for the first ti...
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The State of Design 2008: Victoria's Design Festival
The State of Design, incorporating the Premier's Design Awards, is the peak design event of the Victorian calendar. A Victorian Government initiati...
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Interface(s): Digital Technologies for Everyday Life
Interface(s) is an interactive environment composed of everyday life objects, which are interconnecting with a network and computers, proposing a new ...
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Design Week Top 100 2008 Call for Entries
Entry forms for Design Week's Top 100 Consultancy Survey 2008 are now available to download from Design Week's homepage. The survey charts the fina...
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Design London STIR Lecture Series Launches
Design London, a joint project between Imperial College and the Royal College of Art that combines design and innovation knowledge, has launched its f...
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Interior Motives Design Awards 2008
For the sixth time the Interior Motives Design Awards will once again take place with the full support of Interior Motives magazine. The aim of thi...
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Michelin Challenge Design Announces 2009 Competition Theme
Michelin today announced the 2009 theme for its global vehicle design competition, Michelin Challenge Design (MCD), asking entrants to explore the fut...
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Competition of Ideas for Merchandising of Torino 2008 World Design Capital
Torino 2008 World Design Capital launches a competition of ideas to create objects that will become a part of its merchandising line. The goal of t...
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The Golden Compass Comes to the Reggia Di Venaria
The Golden Compass, a prestigious European recognition in the field of design, will be one of the main events of the year honoring Torino as World Des...
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Joe Colombo: Inventing the Future
Televisions that retract into the ceiling, pivoting walls with a built-in mini-bar, underground "nuclear cities" - the works of Italian designer Joe C...
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Nokia Opens Satellite Design Studio in Rio De Janeiro
Nokia has opened a satellite design studio in Rio de Janeiro reflecting the increasing impact Latin American style and culture is expected to ...
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PSFK Conference New York 2008
On Thursday March 27, PSFK hosts a day of trends, inspiration and creative ideas. Designed to fuel creative professionals, speakers and topics have...
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Icograda Design Week in Daegu 2008
The first Icograda Design Week for 2008 will be held from 4-10 July 2008 in Daegu, Republic of Korea. It will be an unforgettable event where desig...
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HUSH and Nike Make a Splash
New York-based HUSH collaborated with Nike to bring diversity of style and imagery to the iconic brand with a series of large format images displayed ...
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Color Management: a Comprehensive Guide for Graphic Designers
Color Management shows how to implement color as a practical form of problem solving. It is a consolidated resource, arming designers with an under...
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Icograda Design Week: Torino 2008
The Icograda Design Week Torino is held in a unique and internationally prestigious context; it is in fact included in the Torino 2008 World Design Ca...
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Type, Trends and Fashion: A Study of the Late Twentieth Century Proliferation of Typefaces
Changes in technology and stylistic developments in the design, use and reproduction of typeface designs were exponential in the last two decades of t...
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New Master's of Poster Design: Poster Design for the Next Century
In much the way that the CD replaced the album, the poster has waned as a messaging vehicle. The poster has now become a postcard and e-mail blast,...
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Planet Propaganda Hired by Teva
Teva (a division of Deckers Outdoor Corporation) has tapped Planet Propaganda to help increase the leading outdoor footwear brand's presence among spe...
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The Hub Reveals Lothian and Borders Police Corporate Identity
The Hub are in the latter stages of completing one of the UK's and Scotland's most significant corporate identity projects of 2008. The process beg...
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Checkland Kindleysides Create Graphics for Urban Healing
For holistic pharmacy brand Urban Healing, Checkland Kindleysides created a refreshed graphic palette for their concession within Harrods. New life...
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Typography 28
For over fifty years, the Type Directors Club has encouraged the worldwide graphic arts community to achieve excellence in typography through its annu...
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Character Design Today: 200 Powerful Characters and Applications
A character serves as one of the most powerful communication tools which convey a clear message from a company to its target audience, and differentia...
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LogoLounge 4: 2000 International Identities by Leading Designers
The fourth volume in the best-selling LogoLounge series provides 2,000 totally new logos from designers worldwide. This book, like the previous tit...
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Quark Launches Ilovedesign: a Community-based Web Site for Designers
Quark announced that it has launched a community-based Web site for designers called ilovedesign. The Web site is developed around an interactive a...
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Hussein Chalayan Takes on Creative Director Post at PUMA
PUMA announced that it appointed Hussein Chalayan, a global designer, artist and film maker, as the Creative Director for PUMA with immediate effect, ...
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Modepalast 2008
This year's fashion exhibition Modepalast (fashion palace) takes place for the sixth time at Vienna's MuseumsQuartier from 17 until 20 April 2008. ...
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Pantone Fashion + Home Cotton Swatch Set Simplifies Color Palette Development
Pantone announced the Pantone Fashion + Home cotton swatch set, the newest addition to the Pantone Fashion + Home SMART Color System line of products....
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Nolcha Fashion Week: London 2008 It's a Smashing Success
Nolcha Fashion Week: London kicked off with such a wonderful welcome from the London fashion crowd! The crowds queued up to see the catwalk shows, ...
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Jewelry by Alexander Calder On View at the Norton Museum of Art
The first exhibition devoted exclusively to Alexander Calder's unique body of jewelry work will be presented at the Norton Museum of Art. Co-organi...
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Fashion Illustration Gallery Participates in FORM
Fashion Illustration Gallery is participating in FORM, the Modern and Contemporary Art & Design Exhibition at Olympia. New work by Antonio, Francoi...
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Designersblock Milan 2.0: Call for Entries
After many years of successful shows and appearances, Designersblock enjoys a reputation for being the business that best knows what's really happenin...
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Plastics Handbook
From plastics with the strength and durability of metal, to mass-produced skins, sensuous plastics, and rental DVDs that expire 48 hours after you've ...
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PopUp in the 2008 Melbourne International Design Festival
The 2008 Melbourne International Design Festival is fast approaching (17-27 July) and the National Design Centre is seeking submissions for one of its...
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Rainwater Hog
When Sydney-based designer Sally Dominguez was told it was impossible to fit a water storage tank under her small garden deck, she designed her own. ...
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International Journal of Design: Cultural Aspects of Interaction Design
The notion of interaction design has become an indispensable aspect of product design and development, especially for those products with embedded inf...
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Terzani Approaches Lighting From a New Angle with Untitled
Terzani, a leading manufacturer of luxury Italian lighting, presents "Untitled," a uniquely geometric take on illumination. Designed by the celebra...
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Starck Chooses Andromeda
For the Paris launch of Prive, the new collection of upholstered furniture designed for Cassina, Philippe Starck also wanted to astound with the diver...
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The New Sunglasses Collection from Porsche Design
Porsche Design presents a new sunglasses collection, which is distinguished by its striking shapes and sporty lines. With its sporty, simple lines,...
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Corian Loves Missoni
What happens when you combine a world-class master in colour and style with a global star among design and architecture materials? The result is on...
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IFLA International Student Design Competition
Throughout the world climate change is affecting the conditions of nature and local weather. Most people experience these changes as an imbalance b...
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The Oporto Show 2008
The Oporto Show is an international manifest of design, interiors and architecture (for furniture, lighting and fabrics). The show will be composed...
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Ross Lovegrove: Bombay Sapphire Inspirational Design Happenings
For many years Bombay Sapphire, the premium gin with the original "translucent blue" bottle, has been strongly connected with design, posing itself as...
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Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
This exhibition will offer the most thorough examination of both the historical and contemporary significance of factory-produced architectures to dat...
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Lightfair International 2008
The 19th annual LIGHTFAIR International is North America's premier annual lighting industry event for architectural and commercial lighting products a...
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Parsons Design Workshop
Parsons Design Workshop is the school's signature design-build program, which engages graduate architecture, interior design and lighting design stude...
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RIBA Named as Business Superbrand
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) was this week announced as one of the UK's leading business brands in the Business Superbrands 2008 l...
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New Paris Interiors
The city of light is a place of persistent beauty, from the Tuileries gardens to the banks of the Seine to the heights of Montmartre. But the restr...
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Westraven: Cepezed Architects
Westraven in Utrecht by Cepezed Architects is a large-scale combination of existing office buildings and new construction for various sections of the ...
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Imagine Deflateables
Pneumatic structures have been thoroughly investigated and developed during the 1960s. However, the energy crisis and aesthetic developments stoppe...
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The Architecture Annual 2006-2007: Delft University of Technology
The Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology is recognized as one of the most dynamic and innovative research and design schools in E...
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Creative Construct Pre-conference: Call for Creative Submissions
The Creative Construct pre-conference: Designing sustainable creative spaces is an exciting opportunity for young people to explore key models, issues...
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Urban Sustainable Design Studio: Design and Sustainable Innovation
What is required to foster a shift toward greater environmental, social and economic sustainability? What barriers to change exist and how can they...
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Hornet Signs Director Team Mixtape Club
Too technical for the arts, too creative for the sciences; Chris Smith, Jesse Casey, and Michelle Higa knew they had to work together as soon as they ...
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Outside Provides Editorial, Graphics & Color for Old Navy Spring '08 Re-launch Campaign
The creative team at Outside was called on to provide editorial, graphics and color for the exciting new Spring '08 re-launch campaign for popular ret...
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Rhinofx's Blue Light Shines on for Kmart
Rhinofx's original 3D animated character Mr. Bluelight, the aptly named blue light bulb, continues to star in Kmart stores and television spots across...
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Adobe School Innovation Awards
Adobe announced a call for entries for the Adobe School Innovation Awards. The awards program honors the creative and innovative work of high schoo...
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Anonymous Content Meets Magical Standards for Chevy
Joseph Kosinski of Anonymous Content directs this whimsical look at a new take on assembly line life for Chevy Malibu. This spot follows the beginn...
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Smoke & Mirrors NY Welcomes Senior Flame Artist Dan Kelly
Smoke & Mirrors New York announced the addition of senior Flame Artist, Dan Kelly. Dan most recently served at New York-based rhinofx as a Senior I...
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Y&R and Zoic Team to Develop Craftsman Crew Chief
After successfully creating the Mini Cooper robot for Crispin Porter & Bogusky and the design of the new Terminator T-888 for Terminator: The Sarah Co...
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Architecture of Change: Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment
Today's architects and engineers are increasingly being asked to address issues of sustainability in our changing world. Architecture of Change pre...
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Jaime Hayon Works
The Spanish designer and artist Jaime Hayon is a rising star in the international creative scene. It's safe to say that he will be one of the most ...
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Renzo Piano Chosen to Design New Greek Opera, Library Complex
Renzo Piano, the architect who designed the New York Times Building, was chosen to build a cultural center in Greece that will house the country's new...
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ShaC 09: Sustainable Habitat Challenge
A bold step towards making New Zealand houses suitable for a sustainable future has now been launched at Otago Polytechnic. The Sustainable Habitat...
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Mine Hotel Boutique in Buenos Aires by Sternberg Kohen Arquitectos
Esthetics and technology are joined in a warm style of personalized attention, in an enviornment of harmony and cordially. Mine hotel boutique has ...
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A-cero at Expo Zaragoza 2008
The Zaragoza Expo 2008 is about to begin. Last year, the architecture firm A-cero was selected as a finalist in the international architecture comp...
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The Chinese Dream: a Society Under Construction
Dreaming is not Chinese. By 2020 four hundred million farmers will be living in new cities. The urban middle-class will have doubled in size. Th...
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Kunsthaus Zürich Presents Shifting Identities: (Swiss) Art Now
From 14 March until 8 June (Intro) and from 6 June until 31 August 2008 the Kunsthaus Zürich will be featuring contemporary Swiss and international ar...
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Image of the Internet Universe
A visualization depicting a frozen moment of activity in the Internet universe using computer tools at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the Unive...
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Mayor of Barcelona Opens the Art Center Global Dialogues
Barcelona's Mayor, Mr. Jordi Hereu, will open The Art Center Global Dialogues on March 7th with a welcome address highlighting the impact of art and d...
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Babylon: Near Eastern Antiquities and Paintings
For the first time assembling works from all over the world, this exhibition seeks to reconcile Babylon's history with its legend. It explores the ...
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Paris in Prints: Van Gogh Museum
This selection of prints presented on the second floor of the Rietveld building focuses on the themes of the streetscape and nightlife of Paris. Am...
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Blood on Paper: the Art of the Book
At a time when the notion of the book is challenged by the advent of the screen and computer, this exhibition aims to show the extraordinary ways in w...
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Sound Polaroids
In 2008 Sound Polaroids tips its hat to old Blighty, joining forces with the British Council to present a red, white and blue program of performance, ...
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5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art: When Things Cast No Shadow
When things cast no shadow, the 5th berlin biennial for contemporary art, curated by Adam Szymczyk and Elena Filipovic, brings together artists from d...
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Showcases Modern and Contemporary Decorative Arts and Design This Spring
This spring, a pair of exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will explore the passion for design traced through two preeminent collections ...
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Artists Talk on Art Presents: International Art Fairs
Conduits for artistic expression or global commerce? This panel will address the affects of the "mega art fair" on today's art market. Alexandra...
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The Artist Project Toronto
The Artist Project Toronto is a four day exhibition and sale of contemporary fine art featuring over one hundred juried independent artists. From M...
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Mekong: Exploring the Source
Many are familiar with Chang Fee Ming's earlier work, capturing kampong life in his home state of Terengganu, or the colour and ceremony of Bali, even...
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Terminal 5: A Destination for Art Lovers
British Airways has commissioned emerging artists and designers to create eight contemporary art works for its new home at Terminal 5, Heathrow. Un...
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Junk Mail: From Debris to Design
As a part of its dedication to the environment, Academy of Art University has incorporated "green" and sustainable practices not only into its curricu...
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