

I Saloni 2009: an Unprecedented Success The Saloni 2009 exceeded every possible expectation, the testing global economic climate notwithstanding. The huge success of the 2009 edition is recognition,... more Design Bugs Out: Design Council Unveils New Designs for Hospital Furniture and Equipment Prototypes of innovative new designs for existing hospital furniture and equipment, aimed at helping the fight a... more What is Eco-design? DV Launches Sustainable Design Resource As we strive to achieve a sustainable and responsible world, two things are certain. The first is that the way we perceive, use, produce a... more Parsons at ICFF: Vitra and Design Within Reach Events Parsons The New School for Design will have a wide range of student work on view throughout New York City during the International Contemporary Fur... more 400 Years Later: Cite Goes Dutch The exhibit presents everything from furniture and tabletop objects to jewelry by 23 emerging Dutch designers and manufacturers and 1 photographer. Curated by Studio... more East Asian Countries Emerging as New Design Powerhouses East Asian countries such as South Korea and Singapore are beginning to shift their economic emphasis away from low-cost production and into desi... more Designboom NY Local As a city that is rich with diverse juxtapositions of contrasts, New York's design culture has evolved into an eclecticism of visual languages which directly reflect the dynamic mix... more Fast Forward 40 Years: Students Design the Cars of 2049 Students from the UK's foremost vehicle design course at the Royal College of Art in London have taken the wraps off their impressions of the car... more Future Mobility: Audi Promotes Intelligent Emotion Project Audi looks into the future. Under the title "Intelligent Emotion," students at Munich University of Applied Sciences, aided by Audi, have deve... more New Hungarian Designers at New York Design Week In conjunction with New York Design Week, the Hungarian Cultural Center will present a capsule show of emerging Hungarian designers at its Soho loft spac... more Winner of the 2009 Next Generation Competition to be Announced On May 18th, the architecture and design community will gather in New York to celebrate this year's winner of the prestigious Metropolis N... more Coffee Maker: Roaster Grinder Brewer Award winning designer Tom Metcalfe will exhibit his latest work at a number of exhibitions in 2009, the first of these is in May at the Degree Show at The Universi... more Altitude Helps Design a Better Home Recycling Center Altitude was recently commissioned by Verde Home Products, Inc. to partner Verde's internal team for the design of the Mode All-In-One Recycling Cen... more	Cause / Affect 09 Cause / Affect is a biennial graphic design competition which celebrates the work of designers and organizations who set out to positively impact our society. Produced by AIGA San ... more DD4D: Data Designed for Decisions The aim of the Data Designed for Decisions conference is to explore how people interact with (statistical) data. Data is collected for all areas of life - the quest... more Sappi Announces 2009 Call for Entries for Ideas that Matter Sappi Fine Paper North America announced the 2009 Call for Entries for Ideas that Matter - an annual, innovative grant program that supports ... more Design and Design Sphere Winners of the ADC 88th Annual Awards The Art Directors Club announced the winners of the ADC 88th Annual Awards program tonight at its Awards Gala, held at the ADC Gallery in ... more Evolution Bureau Debuts Photographic Mash-up Campaign for Smuin Ballet Evolution Bureau announced the launch of a year-long campaign for Smuin Ballet, a progressive ballet company based in San Francisc... more Build Your Own World: Visual Design Competition ZER01: The Art & Technology Network, producers of the 01SJ Biennial which celebrates the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture, is invitin... more Hamilton Wood Type Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Poster Show and Workshops Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum celebrates a decade as the only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, product... more The 34th Annual One Show Awards Best Advertising From Around the World The 34th Annual One Show announced the winners of the Gold, Silver and Bronze Pencils at the Frederick P. Rose Hall at Jazz at Lin... more The CLTG Design Agency Sets Out to Conquer the Tokyo Nights Pernod Ricard, an extremely active group worldwide, is developing specific product creations for a number of international markets with a vie... more SPTID: San Pellegrino Terme Identity San Pellegrino Terme Identity - SPTID - is the new international brand design competition promoted and organized by POLI.design - Consorzio del Politecnico di Milan... more Mariscal: Drawing Life The Design Museum presents the first UK retrospective of Spanish designer and artist Javier Mariscal. Regarded as one the world's most innovative and original designers of our... more ADC CUBE: an Exclusive Group for All Past ADC Cube Winners For 88 years a prestigious symbol of excellence in visual communications, the coveted ADC Cube award now also carries with it an added benefit... more Grid Index: Visual Lexicon of Visual Structures and Systems Grid Index is the first comprehensive visual lexicon of patterns and grid systems. It is an essential reference book for designers, visual... more	Party Noire 2009 Ready-to-wear Collection: Bourgeois Punk Independent Romanian label Party Noire announced the second ready-to-wear collection since the launch of the label in May 2008. Party Noire ... more 2009 Parsons Fashion Benefit Honored Calvin Klein's Tom Murry and Francisco Costa Parsons The New School for Design honored Tom Murry, President & CEO of Calvin Klein, Inc., and Francisco Costa, the co... more Luigi Colani Action Figures A Japanese web site dedicated to the designs of Luigi Colani, has commissioned a series of ten 12-inch action figures as a tribute to the great man. Professor Luigi Colan... more Brad Ascalon to Hold Solo Show at ADAM International furniture designer Brad Ascalon will have a solo show at ADAM, a clothing boutique participating in Meatpacking District Design 09. Ascalon will ... more World's Best Designers to Mentor UCA Students Eight of the world's best strategic designers are to mentor students at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA), to help them develop and commercialise ... more Sizing Up Australia: How Contemporary is the Anthropometric Data Australian Designers Use The Australian Safety and Compensation Council (ASCC) has released a research report on the occupational health... more Micro Movie: Prophets & Penitents - Confessions of a Chair Prophets & Penitents: Confessions of a Chair took place in Milan between 22-27 April at the Oratorio della Passione Sant'Ambrogio. The even... more Pecanpals: Sustainable Wooden Figures Following the success of their previous coloured wood edition, Noferin announced their Natural Wood Series of Pecanpals. Pecanpals are made from 100% sustainabl... more Arc Collection by Zephyr Receives Three Prestigious Design Awards Zephyr, a leading designer and manufacturer of design-centric kitchen ventilation hoods, has received three highly acclaimed design awa... more The Flo: Industrial Product Design Wastes Away the Competition A team of ASU College of Design students and faculty were recognized this spring for their transgenerational toilet design concept, Go Wit... more Dancing Table: Design to Celebrate a Culture Joel Escalona will be present at ICFF as a part of ICFF Studio with his project Dancing Table. The Dancing Table is a rigid surface with small waves in t... more Weld: Hand-crafted Plastic Furniture by Phil Cuttance The handcrafted Weld series utilises hot-air plastic welding, a process commonly used to repair broken plastic parts. In the Weld collection, th... more Serie Walkiria H 1042: Designed by Panacom Architects / Arseniy Leonovich Valli&Valli announced the release of their latest collaboration for the V&V collection with Panacom Architects / Arseniy Leonov... more	Transforming the Skyline: Three Leading Women Architects Deborah Berke, Audrey Matlock, and Annabelle Selldorf will discuss what they have brought to one building form-the private apartment house-in a ... more Laboratory-Talk: Ready Made Architecture - on Recycling and Reuse in Architecture A sustainable revolution in architecture and design has already begun: concepts of constructing with recycled and used ... more Focal Shift: Magic Wall of Light This year's International Contemporary Furniture Fair will see innovative up and coming product designer, Jake Dyson and the ground-breaking interactive light artist Ja... more AIA Introduces 2030 Commitment Program to Reach Goal of Carbon Neutrality by 2030 The American Institute of Architects 2030 Commitment is a voluntary program for AIA member firms and other entities in ... more RIBA Gulf Chapter Student Ideas Competition The RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Gulf Chapter is launching an architectural student competition open to students residing in the States of th... more Framing Modernism: Architecture and Photography in Italy 1930-60 Despite recent studies, the history of architectural photography remains in its infancy; in particular, little work has been undertaken ... more Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward Florida Southern College's long-hidden treasure trove of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings-the largest single-site collection of the architect's work in the world-is ... more Cubellis Completes Chicago's First Hotel Designed to Achieve LEED Silver Cubellis announced that the firm has completed work on Hotel Felix, Chicago's first hotel designed to achieve a Leadership in En... more New Kolling Research Building by HASSELL Open Designed by HASSELL, the new $92m Kolling Building for Research & Education is the first project to be completed in the redevelopment of the entire Royal N... more Vladimir Kagan to Speak at New York School of Interior Design 2009 Commencement Exercises New York School of Interior Design (NYSID) has selected renowned furniture designer Vladimir Kagan as its keyno... more The Green House of the Future What will the energy-efficient house of the future look like? It could have gardens on its walls or a pond stocked with fish for dinner. It might mimic a tree, turni... more SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss Named Keynote Speaker at 2009 Los Angeles Architectural Awards Eric Owen Moss, Director of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and principal of E... more Ecotect Analysis 2010: Simplify Energy-Efficient Building Design and Renovation Autodesk announced the Autodesk Ecotect Analysis 2010, a whole-building performance analysis tool, and the Autodesk Guide... more	J-Power Powers Life in HD Spots for Japanese Market Directed by Stardust's Jake Banks In cooperation with Japanese production company Kirameki, bicoastal U.S. creative production company Stardust Studi... more Asylum and Hershey's Sneak A Late Night Kiss At The Museum In a spectacularly animated spot for Hershey's Kisses, Piotr Karwas and the VFX team at Asylum have crafted an instantly memorable tie-in with... more Andy Hall of Elastic and a52 Directs Theatrical Opening for 10th Newport Beach Film Festival Full-service design company Elastic detailed the work of Andy Hall, 3D and visual effects supervisor at VFX ... more IAB to Revise Interactive Ad Unit Standards The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) today announced that it has held its first meeting of the Re-Imagining Interactive Advertising Task Force, comprised... more NVIDIA and CGSociety Announce Winners of Worldwide Digital Art Competition NVIDIA and the CGSociety, the leading global organization for digital artists, today announced the winners of the fourth annua... more Craft Animations Aligns with RTT to Advance Real-time 3D Animation for Design and Visualisation With the goal of delivering powerful new real-time 3D animation tools to the industry's leading designers... more Mekanism Creates Bollywood Stories for Interactive One Show Mekanism has been tapped by The One Club to create the promotional creative for 2009's One Show Interactive awards. One Show Interactive t... more Widescreen Issue 4 Now Available From Brandwidth Widescreen is back with a fresh installment of industry news and features. The design, marketing and technology showcase is packed with exciting cont... more Manic Brings on Bob Cagliero as Managing Director Manic, the New York-based studio for VFX, cutting-edge motion graphics and finishing services, has hired Bob Cagliero as Managing Director. An indus... more Mumble: Line of Sectional Sofas and Armchairs Mumble has been conceived to change completely the concept of the sofa as we traditionally know. It is a highly mouldable object that is well accepted i... more Concertina Coatrack: Designed by BACON The CoatRack is a new take on a classic concept to hang your jacket and small effects in a convenient and accessible setup. The Concertina CoatRack comes in 2 ... more Rocking Chair: Designed by Rainer Mutsch Originally designed in 2001 and in produced in large scale since beginning of 2009 by the Belgian company "Sixinch" the Rocking Chair is comfortable interpretat... more Madame: Designed by Oriol Llahona Madame is the new collection of lamps designed by Oriol Llahona for the new catalogue of Alma Light. Made of epoxy painted metal and available in two finishes (blac... more	SCOPE Announces Details for Basel 2009 SCOPE, the acclaimed art show that established its name by providing a much needed international platform for cutting edge contemporary art, returns to Basel for ... more Salon09: Open Submission Art Prize Salon09 is an ambitious open submission exhibition, which creates a platform for international creative practitioners at all stages of their careers, to present their... more Nick Cave Soundsuits Collaboration YBCA concludes its 08_09 season with a truly remarkable confluence of performing and visual art in Exhibitions gallery, fusing the movement of renowned choreographer ... more Walking Through Poppies: an Installation by Alessandro Loschiavo On the occasion of New York Design Week 2009, Aliantedizioni and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, are presenting an installation by Ale... more 2009 Alpert Award Winners Unveiled as Fellowship Program Reaches 15-Year Mark The Herb Alpert Foundation and California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) today announced the recipients of the 2009 Alpert... more TransportAsian: Singapore Art Museum's Asian Photography Exhibition A selection of major artistic photographers in Singapore and Southeast Asia will be presented at TransportAsian, the Singapore Art Mu... more Front Cover of UK Wired Magazine The very first edition of Wired magazine in the UK was launched this month. The cover was shot by aerial photographer Jason Hawkes, a night view over London with pos... more Kids II Partnership with Savannah College of Art and Design Yields New Toy Concepts This year, Kids II hosted its first-ever toy design program and contest in collaboration with the Savannah College of... more Bayer MaterialScience SampleExplorer The SampleExplorer supports designers and product developers with fast, easy and free to access information about Bayer MaterialScience's broad portfolio of materia... more Mazda North America Names Derek Jenkins as New Design Director Mazda North America announced the appointment of Derek Jenkins to the position of Design Director, Mazda Design Americas. As the former... more Star and Snake: New Knives System for Sanelli Spa Sanelli's Design Line brand is distinctively elegant and tasteful, as well as innovative in shape and produced with quality materials. Sanelli has d... more Aston Martin One-77 Wins Top Design Award at the Concorso d'Eleganza, Villa d'Este The world debut of the complete Aston Martin One-77 concept has won the Concorso d'Eleganza Design Award for Concept C... more Design Promotion in Asia: Cooperation Between Red Dot and the Beijing IDC In the context of the red dot's design promotion in Asia, Professor Dr. Peter Zec signed a cooperation contract with Mr. Chen D... more

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