

Stuart Karten Design's Zon Hearing Aid Wins 2008 Cooper-Hewitt People's Design Award The Zon hearing aid, designed by Stuart Karten Design for Starkey, has been honored with the 2008 People's Design Aw... more Automotive Design Studios Visualize Auto Racing in the Year 2025 Today's race cars have ground-breaking technology to improve speed, power, performance and safety but what a difference 17 years into th... more World Usability Day 2008 World Usability Day was founded to ensure that the services and products important to life are easier to access and simpler to use. Each year, it has a specific focus and is... more GE Edison Award Competition GE Consumer & Industrial announces a call for entries for the 26th Annual GE Edison Award competition. Through the competition, GE recognizes excellence and quality in pr... more Barcelona Design Week 2008 The third Barcelona Design Week opens its doors from 10-14 November, having become established as a leading event for promoting and debating design and a date on the internat... more Tokyo Design Tide This marks the 4th year that Designtide Tokyo is being held. This year, Tokyo Midtown Hall will be used as the main venue for the event. Designtide Tokyo is a trade show where d... more Aalto University: Flagship Project in Higher Education Reform On 8 October 2008, Professor Yrjo Sotamaa, former Rector of the University of Art and Design Helsinki (TaiK), gave a speech at a Turkish-Fi... more 40 Under 40: Fresh Ideas From Young Canadian Designers From digitally fabricated buildings to Bucky Fuller-inspired fashion and everything in between: fresh ideas from some of Canada's best young desig... more SRD Change 08: Graduate Sustainable Design Exhibition SRD Change 08 is an important exhibition of new graduate design and ideas that address our future. Issues of sustainability, environmental chang... more Worrell Presents at Participatory Design Conference 2008 Worrell researcher, Ryan Sohlden, presented at the biennial Participatory Design Conference 2008 in early October. The conference invited int... more	A Perfect Pairing: Wine and Design AIGA/LA, the professional association for design, will join with Mohawk Fine Paper to toast the design of the Mohawk Show 9 at the Pasadena Museum of California Art o... more A Great Show of Character: The Type Directors Club Exhibit 2008 A Great Show of Character: The Type Directors Club Exhibit 2008 opens November 4 in The Art Institute of Atlanta Gallery. The exhibit ... more Icograda Honours Mario Piazza with Achievement Award The presentation of an Icograda Achievement Award to Mario Piazza, designer and architect, during the opening ceremonies on 17 October 2008, was a h... more D&AD Awards 2009 D&AD has opened the entries for its 2009 awards. The categories this year include: ambient, branding, installations, graphic design, studio illustration, mobile marketing, music vid... more Alan Aldridge: The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes lan Aldridge embodied the spirit of the 60s and 70s. His evocative, psychedelic images epitomised the feeling and art of an era. As The Beatles lead an ... more 36 Point Announces Webcomic 1Pt.Rule 1Pt.Rule is a thrice-weekly webcomic following the trials and tribulations of two graphic designers named Newton Lee and Conrad Thompson, written and illustrated by... more 3030: New Graphic Design in China Thirty of China's best young graphic designers around 30 contribute to the first ever survey of new graphic art in China, from poster, print and logo design to packing... more Motorola AURA Inspired by luxury watches and handcrafted design, Motorola introduced AURA, a unique handset that breaks convention and re-establishes artistry in the design and manufacturing of mobile ... more Arco Cabinet Pivot: Winner Dutch Design Awards On Saturday October 18th, the Dutch Design Awards 2008 were presented. Wall cabinet Pivot, designed by Shay Alkalay won the award for "best residential... more Cintiq Digital Pen Fosters Product Design at Oakley Some companies have a knack for anticipating trends, or even creating them. One of them is the eyewear and apparel firm Oakley, which for more tha... more	Brilliantly Birmingham: International Contemporary Jewellery Festival Brilliantly Birmingham, a unique celebration of Birmingham's long standing reputation for jewellery design and production, returns ... more Passion for Fashion Competition 2009 The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition offers high school students interested in Fashion Design or Fashion Marketing & Merchandising or Retail Managemen... more Steinunn Sigurdardottir: Icelandic Designer Receives Soderberg Prize Icelandic fashion designer Steinunn Sigurdardottir has been chosen to receive the Swedish Soderberg Prize this year, SEK 1 million (... more Baltic Fashion Award Goes to Polish, German Designers Polish and German fashion designers received Baltic Fashion Awards on Saturday, a prize sponsored by the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and... more British Fashion Awards 2008 Shortlist Released The British Fashion Council has unveiled the nominees shortlist for the much-anticipated British Fashion Awards 2008. Established in 1989, the Awards r... more Emerging Designer Competition: Southeast Up-and-coming designers in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia: This is your chance to prove your talent. Nine winning designers will show their coll... more Flagler Museum Show Spotlights Great Architect Richard Morris Hunt Richard Morris Hunt was the most influential American architect of the 19th century. But that didn't help him land the job to desig... more Ferrari Legends: Classics of Style and Design Few names in the automobile industry evoke as much glamour as Ferrari. From its inception as a motor racing team in the late 1920s to its position today... more DishDrawer Fisher & Paykel's unique dishwasher consists of two totally separate, independently operated wash units. The DishDrawer delivers two dishwashers in one. DishDrawer is also ergonomicall... more Trad Project Wins the Third Industrially-Produced Designer Furniture Award The project Trad, by designers Josue Gamonal and Vicente Porres (Madrid), has won the Third Mar�a Mart�nez Otero Industrially-... more	Dead Sea Masterplan Proposes Sensitive Sustainable Design in Unique Landscape London-based Metropolitan workshop has put together an ambitious sustainable masterplan to develop the shores of the Dead S... more Integrated Design in Contemporary Architecture Listen in on any conversation about architecture these days and you will almost certainly hear the buzzword of early 21st century building - sustainabilit... more Arch Schools 2008 Arch Schools 2008 is the AIA New York Chapter's fourth annual architecture schools exhibition, featuring exemplary student work, including drawings and models, from 14 Tri-State area ... more Brazil Hosts IFLA 46th World Congress The Brazilian Association of Landscape Architects will host the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) 46th World Congress. This major world-wi... more Woods Bagot First Architectural Firm to Win Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise Award Global design company Woods Bagot is the first architecture firm to win a Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (MAKE) aw... more 10th International Garden Festival in Metis: Call for Entries The International Garden Festival is preparing its tenth anniversary edition and is issuing a call for entries to select designers who will... more The 5 Shuko: Montreal Mayor Issues Five Challenges for Creative Professionals The Mayor of Montreal, Gerald Tremblay, has posted online five challenges for the creative and design community, which he i... more Building for Bouwkunde Delft University of Technology, TU Delft, has launched an international ideas competition to re-design its faculty of architecture building, which was devastated by fire earlier ... more Kasian Announces Appointment of 11 Global Design Leaders Kasian, a global design firm, recently announced the appointment of three Senior Associates and eight Associates firm wide. These leaders are... more DawnTown 2008: Waterworks DawnTown 2008: Waterworks invites designers, students, architects, landscape architects, and artists worldwide to generate innovative design proposals for a project that will ... more	Technotalent: International Call for Technotalents The Master in Interaction Design launched the third edition of its international call for Technotalents - academic year 2009 edition. The Master in... more Kommitted Films Directs Spots For Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Nathan McGuinness of Kommitted Films directs two innovative :30 spots for Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V server with lead VFX by A... more Anonymous Content Puts the VW Golf to the Test John Dolan by way of Anonymous Content and Premiere Heure directed this humorous spot for the new and improved Volkswagen Golf via Agence V. In New Tes... more Kerb Attracts Award-winning Art Director Owen Priestley Digital engagement agency Kerb has strengthened its creative team with the senior-level appointment of Owen Priestley, formerly Head of Design at... more In New Colors for Your Home: Aluminium Chair The Aluminium Chair is one of the icons of 20th century furniture design. Though it was designed 50 years ago and tastes and fashion have been changing c... more crEATe: Eating Design and Future Food Food is not just a hot topic in design and cutting edge creativity today but also an enormous industry with changing standards and perceptions. crEATe investiga... more 7th International Information Design Symposium: Beauty Matters Does beauty lie solely in the eye of the beholder or can it be objectified? Do users of interactive products care about beauty at all? ... more iKIT: New Mobile Messaging Device The iKIT is a Pocket Mobile Companion that at 95mm by 65mm and only 15.5mm high is as portable as a mobile phone. Yet the WiFi enabled device comes with a full QWER... more Nottingham Aspires to Be World Design Capital Nottingham is applying to be the World Design Capital for 2012 - in a bid to be recognised for its use of design to further the social, economic and cultur... more Bombardier's Flexity Outlook Trams for Brussels Win Design at Work Award The Bombardier Flexity Outlook trams for the Brussels' transport company STIB (Societe des Transports Intercommunaux de Bruxelle... more	The Art Interview: 15th International Online Artist Competition The Art Interview: 15th International Online Artist Competition is a quarterly, international, juried exhibition of paintings, drawings a... more Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms No artist living in the second half of the 20th century has made a deeper impression on popular culture and consciousness than Andy Warhol (1928-87). The Haywa... more Que Pasa?: a New Project by Katia Meneghini "�Que Pasa?" is the title of the new project realized by artist/designer Katia Meneghini in the city of Medellin. A permanent public art installation whic... more I See Music: Rock Poster Show Up Next at Artery, Portland On November 14, Artery will open an exhibit called I See Music, a collection of silkscreened rock posters commemorating some of the most influe... more Japan Airlines' Sky Shell Seat Wins Good Design Award 2008 Japan Airlines (JAL) has won a coveted Good Design Award in 2008 for its international premium economy seat, the JAL Sky Shell Seat. Sponso... more 30 Leading Design and Innovation Professionals Team Up to Provide Innovation Filter Innovation Filter is a service and process designed to assist Originators from all walks of life assess the commercia... more WA: The Spirit of Harmony and Japanese Design Today The Japan Foundation is holding an exhibition "WA: The Spirit of Harmony in Contemporary Japanese Design" at the Japan Cultural Institute in Paris. ... more Italian Design: MoMA Design Series "The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and 5 Continents Editions" present a new series dedicated to industrial and graphic design. Each volume, beautifully designed ... more Avion: The Lightweight Sports Car On Saturday, October 11, Craig Henderson smashed his old World Book record (103.7MPG) and set a new world record in fuel economy (113.1MPG) when he drove his lightweig... more I Saloni WorldWide Moscow 2008: Quality Made in Italy All targets were hit again in the fourth edition of the Saloni WorldWide Moscow, held at the Moscow Crocus Expo Exhibition Centre, which drew to a ... more

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