IDEA 2008 : The Industrial Design Excellence Awards Dec. 3 marks the opening of the 2008 International Design Excellence Awards. Designs for practically anything may be entered. The subcategories ... more The Shape of Phones Is 1.2 millimeters a huge number? It depends on who you ask. As cell phones continue to shrink and the demand for additional features like cameras,... more Champagne Free Standing Wine Cellar Vertical Limit for Veuve Clicquot The Porsche Design Studio designed an exclusive free standing wine cellar for champagne makers Veuve Clicquot. The gadget is made from brushed stai... more Seymourpowell Create Ilux for Aqualisa : The Next Evolution of the Digital Shower Having worked with Aqualisa's research and technology teams to design the world's first digital shower (Quartz), as well as its sophisticated successo... more BMW Group DesignworksUSA Designs Iconic Espresso Machine for Starbucks Coffee Company The coffee experience. The brown bean is a global, multi-faceted cultural asset - trendy, versatile, delicious. In the modern city, the coffee shop... more Call for Papers for DMI Paris Education Conference : Design Thinking The Design Management Institute (DMI), in collaboration with Lancaster University, UK; ESSEC Business School, France; and SDA Bocconi School of Manage... more Shakerscope : Pioneering Medical Device Powered by Shaking An innovative new medical device has just been brought to market that is set to transform the efficiency of medical handling in outdoor emergency situ... more More Than 200 Companies and Institutions From All Over Europe Apply for Design Management Prize Almost 240 companies, institutions and organisations from 21 European countries followed the call for entries from the first Design Management Europe ... more Loewy's Charlie Hoult Represents Design Sector in the CBI Growing Business Awards Loewy CEO Charlie Hoult is one of five individuals short-listed for the CBI Growing Business Awards' Entrepreneur of the Year award. Independently ... more Utrecht Manifest : 2nd Biennale for Social Design Utrecht Manifest 2007 turns the spotlight and investigates the latest developments in the field of design through a socially engaged prism. The mai... more Sex in Design : Design in Sex The Museum of Sex announced the opening of its thirteenth exhibition on January 31, 2008. Entitled Sex in Design / Design in Sex, this exhibition w... more

European Design Awards : Call for Entry 2008 The European Design Awards is the comprehensive annual awards organization acknowledging the best of graphic design, illustration and multimedia desig... more Designism : Design for Social Change Art Directors Club announces the 2nd annual evening of Designism: Design for Social Change. Immerse yourself in design activism during a half-day e... more The Create Awards 2007 Reveals Winners Showcase In Magazine and Online Create Magazine announced the Winners Showcase for The Create Awards 2007 hits newsstands - in all five regional editions of the NOV+DEC issue of Crea... more Rodney Fitch to Chair Inaugural Design Lions Jury Now in its 55 year, the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival is one of the world's truly global meeting places for those interested in crea... more D&AD Exhibition : the Best Design and Advertising in the World D&AD exhibition "The Best Design and Advertising in the World" at Urbis showcases the best of the nominated work from The D&AD Awards 2007. The exh... more Widescreen Issue 2 Now Available From Brandwidth Following the recent evolution of their identity, Brandwidth have launched the second issue of "Widescreen" magazine. The PDF is now ready for down... more Tali Krakowsky to Speak at SEGD Dynamic Environments Workshop On Friday, November 30th, Imaginary Forces (IF) Director of Experience Design Tali Krakowsky will be speaking at the Society for Environmental Graphic... more Saatchi & Saatchi China Put Lovemarks on TV While everyone was milking the remaining values of the brand, an inspiring, forward-looking concept that transcends brands was born - Lovemarks. Ke... more SVA MFA in Design Criticism Reading Night On November 29 the SVA MFA Design Criticism department hosts its first reading night at KGB Bar in the East Village. Addressing the concept of home... more Pearlfisher Wins Silver at the London International Awards 2008 Pearlfisher won Silver at the London International Awards for Dr Stuart's Extraordinarily Good Teas in Package Design: Beverages ­ Non Alcoholic. I... more Honey to Brand Curryslim Honey has been appointed to create the branding and packaging for healthy options brand Curryslim for their supermarket launch in January 2008. Tin... more

Magnificent Marimekko Patterns at H&M This Spring H&M's designers have created a beautiful collection with Marimekko's popular patterns from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s for the summer 2008. The coll... more Nolcha Fashion Week : London After the thriving success of Nolcha Fashion Week: NYC 2007, which was featured on Fashion TV and attended by fashion industry elite including Lord an... more The Definitive Style Guide from the Fashion Magazine with 140 Years of Experience With 2.9 million sophisticated readers, Harper's Bazaar has an audience with an eye for style. That's why this elegant and lively guide-filled with... more Futurism & Sport Design Futurism was the first cultural and artistic movement of the twentieth century to examine the emerging phenomenon of Sport, in which it recognised the... more UCDA Design Summit 2008 The UCDA Design Summit provides you an opportunity to get an in-depth look at some of the issues facing designers and communication professionals both... more New Brand for Recycling Code November 2007 sees the promotion of a new logo for the Mayor of London's Green Procurement Code which aims to raise the profile of recycling in the ca... more Graphis International Design Journal Recognizes Oregon Buzzsaw Studios' Work Buzzsaw Studios recently won a Gold Graphis award for its stationery design work for client, Bend Valet LLC. Details like perforated business cards... more AIGA Board Nominations Are Due December 15 The 2008 Nominating Committee, chaired by Clement Mok (San Francisco), requests nominations to the AIGA board to be submitted by December 15, 2007. ... more Adobe Wins Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award Adobe today announced it will be honored this evening with the Corporate Achievement Award from Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. ... more 2008 North American International Auto Show to Feature Dynamic Lineup of Design Events The 2008 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) will once again showcase some of the automotive industry's most significant and trend-setting ... more AutoWeek Design Forum "Designed for Fun" is the theme of the 15th annual AutoWeek Design Forum, which examines design in the auto and consumer product worlds and celebrates... more

There's a Beatles Revolution Under Way in Las Vegas There's a Beatles Revolution under way in Las Vegas, where The Mirage recently inaugurated a lounge created by a team of Montreal designers under the ... more Results of the UNESCO Urban Design Workshop Widening the boundaries of Place d'Armes, connecting it to underground passages, revealing four centuries of history, creating an open space on a huma... more Living City, Deedee Gordon and Mark Hansen : Van Alen Institute Van Alen Institute announced the Living City, an exhibition by New York Prize Fellows David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang. In the future, walls will bre... more Integrating Habitats : A Design Competition Integrating Habitats calls for innovative, visionary design proposals that combine design excellence, ecological stewardship and economic enterprise. ... more Disruptive Thinking : The Art Center Global Dialogues Art Center College of Design, one of the world's premier art and design schools, will stage The Art Center Global Dialogues: Disruptive Thinking, in B... more National Portrait Gallery Showcases Young People's Ideas Young people in London have been exploring their ideas about regeneration, homes, schools, streets and safety through a project run jointly by CABE an... more Green Building Experts Call for Immediate Action to Boost Sustainable Design Education A panel discussion held November 7 in Chicago, and hosted by Autodesk and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), cited the need to promote and incre... more Clapham House : Blacksheep Design Bachelor Pad with Emphasis on Hidden Storage Blacksheep were commissioned by a private bachelor client, who had just purchased a traditional, four-storey Victorian townhouse in Clapham, south Lon... more 50th Annual Monument Awards Recognizes Cubellis for Outstanding Design Cubellis, a national architectural, interior design, and engineering firm with offices in Tysons Corner, was recognized at the 50th Annual Monument Aw... more Chocolate Coasters by Animi Causa A symbol of wealth and luxury. For thousands of years humans have been fascinated with the delicious phenomenon that we call "chocolate". Chocol... more Smartbin Smartbin is a unique gum and cigarette bin developed expressly for the safe disposal of chewed gum and cigarette butts. Uniquely sized and shaped t... more

Dexigner Design Maps Dexigner has launched Design Maps, a new service that allows Dexigner users to browse design events, design directory links and designers on the map.... more Student Interaction Design Research 2008 The Mads Clausen Institute at the University of Southern Denmark announced the fourth Student Interaction Design Research conference (SIDeR '08). T... more Motion504 Captures the Art of Giving in Animated Holiday Campaign for Best Buy Best Buy recently commissioned motion504 to create its new holiday campaign, based on the act of giving and the joy it brings to both giver and recipi... more Guerilla FX Launches New Digital Division Guerilla FX, an independent production, design, effects and post finishing company, has created a new digital division exclusively for the creation of... more 1st Avenue Machine Announces the Arrival of a Very SpecialGuest In a dark room filled with the buzz and flicker of an old lamp, a man's suit sits in an arm chair, starched and unworn. Suddenly, the suit begins t... more RhinoFX Opens Connecticut Office to Support Film Effects Efforts RhinoFX announces the opening of a Connecticut office dedicated to supporting feature film and video game effects. The new location offers 30% tax ... more Black Iris Music Composes an Energetic Medley for Sharp The Black Iris collective composes an upbeat, acoustic soundtrack that matches the light nature of the new Sharp flat screen TV. Black-clad men dis... more The Moon : Back to the Future The National Aeronautics and Space Administration invites college students from the arts, including industrial design, architecture, computer design, ... more iRobot Looj Wins 2008 CES Best of Innovations Award iRobot announced the iRobot Looj Gutter Cleaning Robot has been honored with the 2008 International Consumer Electronic Showcase (CES) Best of Innovat... more UK Design Industry Turnover and Fee Income Declines for Second Consecutive Year The BDI annual design industry survey, now in its 7th year, reports disappointing results for the commercial design sector 2006/7. 2006/7 turnover ... more Delivering Competitive Advantage Through Design Design plays a fundamental role in the success of many of the world's leading companies. But how do those firms ensure that they are getting the be... more

Sounds of Silence for Van Cleef&Arpels If fairies do their Christmas shopping on place Vendôme, they won't be surprised by what they see in the Van Cleef & Arpels windows. Rather, they w... more Alfred Stieglitz : Philadelphia Museum of Art A monumental figure in twentieth-century photography, Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) changed the course of the medium not only with his extraordinary ph... more Rococo : The Continuing Curve 1730-2008 In March 2008, the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will present Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730-2008, a groundbreaking exhibiti... more PolyU's School of Design Features Three Masterpieces Exhibition Design was perceived to be a practical, hands-on, intuitive discipline conventionally. As the only institution that provides tertiary education in ... more Maarten Van Severe Vitra Design Studio features work of Belgian designer Maarten Van Severen. The Belgian designer and interior architect Maarten Van Severen (1956-20... more The Plumen The Plumen low energy light bulb prototype is a reaction to the lack of real diversity, imagination and personality offered by the market today. Th... more Design Event 08 : Call for Submissions The North East's annual design festival, Design Event, launches the 2008 call for submissions. Design Event invites designers, collectives, curator... more IDS 08 Matrix : Tom Dixon, British Design Icon Tom Dixon is big news. Recently, the NY Times Style Magazine dedicated a 4-page spread to the UK's hottest designer. This past September, Tom used ... more Vietnamese Manufacturing Emerges as an Antidote for What's Ailing China Quick, name a consumer electronic product not made in China. Unless you named a pre-production prototype or an individual part, you are probably mi... more Dinamismi Museali Xth Edition Dinamismi Museali (DM), the festival of contemporary art, is at its Xth edition. A ten-year exploration and research to promote cultural changes. ... more Volkswagen Reveals Innovative Space Up! Blue Concept Volkswagen unveiled the third and most advanced iteration yet of the up! family of concept vehicles at the Los Angeles Motor Show. Named space up! ... more

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November 2007 / #3

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