

Nestle Develops Kansei Design Method for Emotional Packaging Confectionery giant Nestle is building an in-house global design network based around a Japanese design philosophy, called Kansei, which has... more Designinquiry 2009: Design-LESS DesignInquiry invites professionals, educators and students of diverse disciplines to respond to a design-related topic in any way they think is appropriate, necessary o... more Results of the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2009 The international jury of experts awarded the red dot to 683 products for their high quality of design, and the best 49 received the "red dot: best of ... more Master in Strategic Design: Design of the Value Offering The Master in Strategic Design, "Design of the Value Offering" is a 1st Level University Specializing Master at the Politecnico di Milano, manag... more DiabetesMine Design Challenge: Fostering Innovation to Improve Life with Diabetes The 2009 DiabetesMine Design Challenge is a competition designed to foster innovation in diabetes design and encourage ... more 9th Andreu World International Design Competition Andreu World International Design Competition is an initiative of Andreu World to find out new up-and-coming contemporary designers, stirring up the ne... more TECAtech Creative Workshop: China - UK New innovative products require different development techniques from "me too" designs and this means a new way of working for many designers in developing market... more DMY International Design Festival Berlin 2009 The DMY International Design Festival Berlin 2009 will take place from Wednesday 3rd - 7th of June 2009. Over the period of 5 days the DMY International... more HKDA Asia Design Awards 09 HKDA Asia Design Awards 09 is open to all designers in the Asia Pacific region. Works entirely designed in the region and first released between 3 June 2007 and 30 June 20... more Traxon's Mesh RGB LED Module System Receives 2009 Design Award Since receiving the first red dot design award in 2003, followed by numerous other prestigious awards, Traxon has once again been rewarded... more Design Indaba 2009 Imagines the Future Running from 25 to 27 February at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, Design Indaba 2009 attracted more than 2100 conference and simulcast delegates. ... more Tonium's Pacemaker Wins Highest Design Award in the Red Dot Design Award With its excellent and innovative design, the Pacemaker by Tonium has succeeded in one of the most renowned and hardest internat... more Creative Field is the Source of a New Wave of Optimism Although design is only half as popular as love, compared with Barack Obama or David Beckham it is very high up on the international popularity sc... more Design Why? Four-day Discussion Platform About Design in Milan For whom do we make design? Where does design stands today and how will it look like tomorrow? How do you, as a designer, keep up with ... more World Industrial Design Day 2009 Student Poster Competition One distinctive attribute that separates humans from every other species on earth is our capacity to be creative. Our insatiable imaginati... more Kia Wins a 2009 Red Dot Design Award Kia's stylish and fun urban cross-over vehicle, the Soul, has become the first Korean car ever to receive the prestigious recognition of a design award from the wor... more	2009 Future Lions Call for Entries Announced The Future Lions global student advertising competition, hosted by AKQA in collaboration with the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, is callin... more Greenpeace Design Awards 2009 The Greenpeace Design Awards 2009 are now open. The awards, hosted by Greenpeace Australia Pacific in conjunction with UniLife Inc. and the University of South Australi... more ISTD Awards 2009: Call for Entries The International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD) Awards 2009 are an opportunity for all practising designers to submit their work to be judged by today's lea... more PSFK Conference New York 2009 On April 2, 2009, PSFK will host PSFK Conference New York in Battery Park. Tailored for creative professionals, strategists and the media, the event will host 12 lectur... more 2009 SEGD Conference + Expo The Society for Environmental Graphic Design announced its upcoming 2009 SEGD Conference + Expo. Taking place in San Diego, a city where cultures converge and where desig... more Professor Per Mollerup Appointed to Swinburne Faculty of Design Preeminent Danish designer Professor Per Mollerup has been appointed Professor of Communication Design at Swinburne University's Faculty ... more A Cardboard Office: Nothing Amsterdam Michael Jansen and Bas Korsten, highly awarded ex-DDB Executive Creative Directors and co-founders of Selmore, have officially started Nothing this week. Nothin... more Academy of Art University Joins Design Ignites Change The Academy of Art University has announced that it has joined Design Ignites Change: a call to action challenging students, educators, creative pr... more 2009 One Show Design Jury Selected to Judge Year's Most Innovative Design for Advertising 10 of the world's top designers have been selected to judge the 2009 One Show Design Awards, the most prestigio... more Project Never Announces First Design Competition Winner Chris Vogel, a graphic designer and art director from Kansas City, was recently chosen as the first winner of the Project Never design competitio... more 2009 ReBrand 100 Global Award Winning Brands Announced ReBrand has announced the winners of 2009 ReBrand 100, including Best of Awards, Distinction, Merit and Notable winners. Global organisations, ... more New Frontiers of Graphic Design Emerging new media and ongoing economic pressures are redrawing the contours of the design industry. Successful designers are pushing the limits both in print and onl... more Duffy & Partners New Brand Design for Jerky Snack Brands Duffy & Partners announced a new campaign for Jerky Snack Brands' Pioneer beef jerky products. Duffy & Partners was selected for the Pioneer ... more Design Matters: Portfolios Now Accepting Entries How do you promote yourself as an individual or creative firm? Have you created a glossy leave-behind portfolio piece to 'wow' your prospective clien... more Gumuchdjian Architects: Selected Works Proud Creative have just completed a monographic book for Gumuchdjian Architects. Selected Works is an 168 page book printed on 100% recycled stock in Italy by... more The 2010 Icograda Design Weeks Vancouver, Madrid and Brisbane have been selected as the host locations for Icograda's 2010 Design Weeks. Icograda Design Week is a signature event series addressing l... more	United Nude Cosmo: High-tech Piece of Sexy Architectural Art Creative Director of design and shoe brand United Nude Rem D Koolhaas and co-founder Galahad Clark are well known for playing with new mater... more Mudpie Print and Pattern Book: Autumn Winter 2010 2011 Mudpie, one of the world's leading garment and graphic trendbook publisher, launch their Autumn Winter 2010 2011 trends early this year, in the fo... more Liberty Launches Best of British Design Open Call to Support British Design Talent Liberty will host an open day where up and coming designers will have the opportunity to present their ranges to its b... more Bigchief Meet Furni in Sparespace Three creative studios from various disciplines meet together through the web to create a global showcase as they decide to share ideas and interact for Milan's Design... more Ravensbourne College to Host Renowned Cumulus Conference To champion the relocation of Ravensbourne College to Greenwich Peninsula in 2010, the internationally awarded university-sector college for the... more HOW Magazine Awards Ramp Creative for Identity and Annual Report Design Los Angeles-based design studio Ramp Creative received merit awards of design excellence in HOW Magazine's 2009 International Des... more USA's Most Creative People Include David Turner and Bruce Duckworth of Turner Duckworth Each year, Creativity magazine publishes the "Creativity 50" - a list of people who "made a significant mark on t... more Langara College and Rethink launch the Rethink Scholarship Vancouver's Langara College and Rethink Communications have teamed up to offer one aspiring art director or designer a chance to win a two-yea... more ADC Young Guns 7 The Art Directors Club announced the launch of the ADC Young Guns 7 competition for creatives and designers age 30 or younger. ADC Young Guns is the only international, cross-discip... more Duffy & Partners Adds Key Ingredient to Wolfgang Puck Brand Identity Global design firm, Duffy & Partners, showcases the legacy of Wolfgang Puck, with a revitalized brand identity system. The new de... more Vier5 Marco Fiedler and Achim Reichert from Paris-based design team Vier5 seeks to explore the possibilities of creating what they call "new forward-looking images in the field of visual communication"... more Immersive and Virtual Architecture at the Edge of Physicality For the Spring 2009 MediaSCAPES symposium, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) addresses the shifting boundaries be... more Sustainable Design Expert David Oakey to Lecture at NYSID New York School of Interior Design (NYSID) will be celebrating Earth Day with a special lecture by sustainable-design expert David Oakey. Hi... more Laundry POD: RKS Inspires a New Way to See Green World-recognized strategy, innovation, and design consultancy RKS announced that "Laundry POD" was awarded 4th place in Core77's Greener Gadgets Design ... more BraunPrize 2009 Receives Unprecedented Number of Submissions A total of 1074 entries from 54 nations were submitted to the BraunPrize 2009 exceeding last years count of 903. Never before in the hist... more Makrofol LISA: Colorful Light Contours for an Unusual Product Design Makrofol LISA polycarbonate film from Bayer MaterialScience provides designers with enormous scope for creating plastic parts with a... more	RIBA Calls for Greater Flexibility on Zero Carbon Definitions The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has called upon the Government to implement a more flexible definition of zero carbon to e... more Australia's Top National Architecture Prize Goes to Ken Maher A man credited with "shaping Sydney's physical and culture landscape", with creating some of the city's most "iconic public spaces", and "e... more Glasgow School of Art Launches International Design Competition Glasgow School of Art is launching an international competition to design a new campus building opposite its iconic Mackintosh building. ... more Online Green Building Summit Green Building Summit brings experts from the business, architecture, and engineering communities converge to illustrate best practices, case studies, tips, and strategies ... more IIDEX/NeoCon Canada 2009 Expands its Sustainable Expo and Conference ARIDO and IIDEX/NeoCon Canada announced the addition of the Green Building Festival (GBF) as a co-located show with IIDEX/NeoCon Can... more Centre of Exploitation for the Forest-Firefighters in Brissac, France The exploitation center and the building for forest firefighters, takes place on a site to be located in the very heart of a huge g... more Work in Progress: Green Walls The success of green roofs has driven Landscape Architects and Architects to explore alternative exterior and interior applications of green planting technology, such as g... more Festival of Lively Architecture 2009 in Montpellier For the forth consecutive year in Languedoc Roussillon, lively architecture will penetrate and appropriate themselves the courtyards of private mansi... more Urban Re:Vision Call For Entries The City of Dallas and Urban Re:Vision present Re:Vision DALLAS in partnership with Central Dallas CDC and BC Workshop. The 6th competition in a series, Re:Vision DA... more A View from the Inside: NYSID Alumni Exhibition The Gallery of the New York School of Interior Design presents A View from the Inside: NYSID Alumni Exhibition, on view through April 25, 2009 at 170 Eas... more Aftertaste 3: New Agendas for Interior Design AFTERTASTE 3: New Agendas for the Interior, annual international symposium by Parsons The New School for Design, is dedicated to the critical review of the... more Autodesk Announces Vancouver as Third City of Its Digital Cities Initiative Autodesk announced that it has designated Vancouver as the third pilot city of its Digital Cities initiative. A Digital Ci... more MOCA Launches Craft & Computation Series with New Site-specific Installation The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles announced the launch of Craft & Computation, a new series of exhibitions explori... more Design Ignites Change: an Innovative Student Program Worldstudio, together with the Adobe Foundation's signature program Adobe Youth Voices, announced Design Ignites Change, a program that encourages t... more Oxford's New Energy Efficient Cancer Centre Opens The new Oxford Cancer Centre and adjacent facilities, designed by Steffian Bradley Architects will be opening its doors to its first patients on 16 Mar... more Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner The Lighthouse, Scotland's National Architecture and Design Centre, is to stage the only European showing of Between Earth and Heaven: The Arc... more	Forum Nokia Announces Winners of Mobile Games University Competition 2009 Forum Nokia revealed the winners of its global Mobile Games University Competition. Parsons The New School for Design in the... more 72andSunny Launches New Men vs Women Campaign for Nike Running in Europe 72andSunny launched its first major integrated campaign on March 13, 2009 as the lead Brand Connections partner for Nike Running... more OfficeMax: Life is Beautiful Brand New School, the bicoastal directing collective serving all fields of commercial art, recently teamed with ad agency The Escape Pod to create a vibrant, optimistic the... more 10th Annual Visualization Conference in Munich Explore the latest developments and trends in the world of 3D real-time visualization at the 10th annual RTT Conference in Munich. This milestone event... more Tool Hires Dustin Callif to Run Its Newly Formed Digital Division Tool of North America recently hired industry veteran Dustin Callif as head of digital content for their newly formed Digital division,... more Digital Domain Brings Inventive Visual Effects to Lexus A new ad campaign from Team One imagines how the innovative engineering of the new 2010 Lexus RX has reinvented the driving experience. Carl E... more Z Animation Goes Outside the Line for Southern Company and The Richards Group TV commericial animation company Z Animation, teamed the talents of two of its directors, Norm Bendell and John Ryan, to de... more Click 3X Launches Click 3X Entertainment Bob English, Tony Kadillak, David Edelstein, and Rob Meyers - all from the award-winning creative team at NY-based broadcast design firm Nth Degree have recentl... more Anonymous Adds Purchase Brothers to Roster Production and management firm Anonymous Content has hired the dynamic, two-man filmmaking team of David and Ian Purchase to its Commercial, Integrated, and F... more Motion Design and Logo Development Lecture at NYU Blue Room NYC President Chris Gargani and his partner Creative Director Brian Aumueller, will address New York University motion graphics and 3D studen... more WET Appoints Tali Krakowsky Director of Experience Design Tali Krakowsky has recently joined WET as Director of Experience Design. In this newly created position, Krakowsky will head up the WET Thin... more The Crowd Control: Pre-Keyed Alpha Stock Footage Aharon Rabinowitz and All Bets Are Off Productions, today announced, the availability of The Crowd Control Library of Pre-Keyed Alpha Stock Footage. ... more Ping-pong Design Hires Treasure Hunter: Martin Elneff ping-pong Design announced that Martin Elneff has been named creative interactive strategist. Elneff will be responsible for the development of ... more DUCK Improves With Natasha Rand Los Angeles-based creative studio DUCK announced the recent signing of award-winning director Natasha Rand to further bolster their already robust roster. In a decade... more RIBA Announces Latest Results of the Future Trends Survey The Royal Institute of British Architects announced the February 2009 results of its monthly Future Trends Survey, demonstrating further eviden... more Rouse[D] Competition and Exhibition Rouse[D] is a two part competition and exhibition focusing on re-inventing the city of Detroit through the use of digital computation methodologies. The internati... more	New Life Copenhagen New Life Copenhagen is a participatory art festival and will engage 10,000 people in 10 days as a collective manifestation of individual power of action and personal engagement in t... more The Best of Manchester Awards 2009 Organised by Urbis, the annual The Best of Manchester Awards celebrate innovation in art, music and fashion. Anyone working within the fields of music, art and fas... more Jennifer Stoots Presents Figures in the Landscape at Guestroom Gallery Beginning April 2 and running through May 2, Guestroom Gallery at Murdoch Collections presents Figures in the Landscape, an exhibi... more MOCA Online Exhibition Archive The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles announced the launch of its online exhibition archive, providing extensive information and images from all MOCA exhibitions da... more Finalists Selected in First Annual INDEX: AIGA Aspen Design Challenge Tasked with developing design solutions to address the global water crisis, design students across the world rose to the challenge ... more Worrell Launches New Website Serving a vast variety of industries and customer bases, Worrell had quite the challenge of representing itself to a large variety of potential clients in need of Product D... more Multiple Ways to Design Research: Call for Papers The Fifth Symposium of the Swiss Design Network will take place on November 12 and 13 at Lugano (Switzerland). The framework of the conference is ba... more Level_10: Computer Worlds Inspire Design Concept by BMW Group DesignworksUSA The gaming industry is an industry that is associated with attributes such as visionary creativity, innovative strength and ... more Rennpappe 2009: International Workshop/Competition Rennpappe 09, the 2nd edition of the international workshop/competition of the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, was ... more Morera Design Creates the New Image for Bezoya Morera Design Premium Identity has created the new image for Bezoya with a glass bottle design which reflects the essence and excellence of this water fro... more The Role of Design in the Clean Energy Revolution In the next 5 to 10 years, renewable energy will grow by a projected 30 to 40% each year. This rapidly developing energy sector presents design firm... more Unfassbar and Attimo Sospeso For the sixth time in a row, the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano is being represented at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan. ... more Grown Furniture: Pudelskern Exhibits at Salone Satellite The Salone Internazionale del Mobile - designers' paradise and sanctuary to believers in beauty - opens its halls in April. Pudelskern Space ... more Super Contemporary: Celebrating Visionary Design From London's Creative Mavericks Super Contemporary is the spirit of London design, past, present and future. The exhibition celebrates and examines ... more Learning to Lead: Nurturing Your Innate Leadership Skills The expectations placed on the design profession have changed dramatically. Management and leadership skills have now become a prerequisite ... more Erik Magnussen's Chair is Now Being Introduced in Seven New Lacquer Colours Chairik, one of the most popular stacking chairs in Europe, will be introduced in seven new lacquer colours at the end of Mar... more

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