

Bay Area's Best 2008 Every year the Industrial Designers Society of America and Business Week join forces to bestow the prestigious International Design Excellence Award to the most outstanding example... more New David Report: 5 Key Design Trends The new issue of David Report we will bring forward five key design trends, Cooltural, Rationaissance, Responsibiz, Sensuctive and Breaking Boundaries, that in one... more Tansport Efficiency: 2020 Winners of the VDA Design Award 2008 Transport Efficiency 2020 was the theme of this years VDA Design Award for design students all over the world. Since 2005 this award ha... more The Next Generation Perkins Brailler Fifty seven years after the original Perkins Brailler was introduced by Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts, where both Helen Keller and Laura ... more D-CRIT Open House SVA MFA Design Criticism Open House, taking place on Saturday, October 25, will be a chance for visitors to sneak-peek the brand-new department in New York's Flatiron District, mingle... more 2009 Metropolis Next Generation Design Competition Metropolis Magazine challenges young designers to apply their innovative talents to our energy addiction and rethink the broken models that represente... more Flatshare Wins Electrolux Design Lab 2008 Stefan Buchberger, from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, has been chosen winner of the Electrolux Design Lab 2008 competition for inventing Fla... more Business of Design Week 2008 Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC) announced an all-star line-up of speakers and programmes for Business of Design Week (BODW) 2008, Asia's leading design gathering on innovati... more Premio Lissone Design 2008: International Design Competition The Local Council of Lissone are promoting a new edition of the Premio Lissone Design that is focused on lighting design. This award init... more Beer Bottles Nei Luoghi Pubblici: International Sustainable Design Competition Beer Bottles nei luoghi pubblici is an international sustainable design competition to develop creative solutions to the p... more Dutch Design Week 2008 From October 18 through October 26, the city of Eindhoven will be hosting the seventh edition of Dutch Design Week, the largest design event in the Netherlands. Around 1500 de... more Service Design Conference 2008 in Amsterdam From 24th - 26th November, the first Service Design Conference will take place in Amsterdam. This is the first Europe based, international Service Design ... more AutoDesignNight Lights Up the Paris Motor Show Paris' trendy nightclub, La Bellevilloise, opened its doors for the inaugural AutoDesignNight Paris last week, attended by key players from across the int... more French School of Design Opens in China L'Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique opened its first foreign subsidiary institution in Qingdao, China, in collaboration with the Pays de la Loire regional authori... more Fast Company Names Stuart Karten Design Among America's Top 5 Design Factories Stuart Karten Design (SKD) has been named one of America's top five industrial design firms in Fast Company magazine's 200... more	Europe by Designers: Call for Entries Europe by Designers is an international artistic project whose aim is to unveil a multitude of images of Europe from the inside and from the outside. Design as ... more Plus: International Design Expo Plus is a unique design-led festival showcasing all that is innovative, pioneering, and novel in the world of international typo/graphic design. The Plus lectures are... more Art Directors Club Names Doug Jaeger as New President Doug Jaeger, founder, CEO and creative director at design and branding agency thehappycorp global and director of event/digital media project LVHRD... more Creativille's Steve Hartman Curates Get Out the Vote Poster Show for EAC Creativille's Steve Hartman curates an AIGA Get Out the Vote Poster Exhibit for the Edwardsville Arts Center. Just off the he... more Picture Challenge 2008 The Picture Challenge 2008 is a new annual international poster design contest for talented creative people in the field of design, illustration and photography. First price w... more Art Directors Club announces 2008 Hall of Fame inductees The Art Directors Club announced the latest group of inductees into the prestigious ADC Hall of Fame. The seven illustrious honorees, represe... more I Live Here I Live here is a unique paper documentary. The lives of refugees and the displaced are told through journals, stories, images, and graphic novellas: war in Chechnya, ethnic cleansing in ... more FreeAgent Inspires: Locker Art Design Competition Open to creative people of all levels, the Locker Art Project organised by Seagate Singapore challenges participants to unleash your creativity and con... more Los Logos 4 Los Logos 4 is the latest addition to Gestalten's line of books on contemporary logo design. This compendium provides an authoritative overview of current developments and advances in lo... more Selection: Germany's Finest Agencies - Band 3 A first-class selection of excellent creative agencies combines the third issue of "Selection - Germany's Finest Agencies". Well known companies from ad... more Creativille Rocks with Contemporary Productions Years of creating annual reports and historical texts, Creativille designs yet another printed artifact for St. Louis-Based Contemporary Productions' Ste... more Insight India 2008: Trends and Design Strategy for India Insight India 2008 is a two-day event focused on elaborating innovation strategy for the Indian market, from global trends to local insights. ... more Vania Zouravliov Russian-born Vania Zouravliov's surreally haunting illustrations capture a mixture of innocence, brutality, beauty and decay. Inspired by a diverse range of influences, Vania draws ... more Hyperakt, Brooklyn-Based Design Studio, Goes Global with First International Art Exhibit Hyperakt, the Brooklyn-based design studio, has been invited to exhibit its political posters and socially engag... more Project Never Design Competition Project Never is a free awards competition created by graphic designers for graphic designers. Thousands of effective designs die each day - often for good reason. ... more	Spring Summer 2010 Trend Inspiration From Mudpie's Latest Trendbooks The need for spring/summer 2010 trend inspiration is here and leading trendbook publisher, Mudpie, delivers the answer by releasing ... more SDC Colour Design Award 2009 Following the success of the recent global student design competition, the Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC) is now launching the search for undergraduate talent in fas... more Arts of Fashion 2008: SF Under Creative Fashion's Influence The Arts of Fashion 2008 will bring an international collection of fashion, art, ideas, and talents to San Francisco on October 25-29 at the ... more DesignEd Asia Conference 2008 Jointly organised by School of Design of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Design Institute (member of VTC Group) and Hong Kong Design Centre, the 4th Annual... more Deceptive Design: Experiments in Furniture The iconography of furniture and functional objects often appears straightforward and simplistic. But are there opportunities for the designer to diverge f... more Eat Drink Design at Dutch Design Week 2008 For the third year in a row, Eat Drink Design presents a new project that will provide a culinary impulse to Dutch Design Week, which will be held from 18 - 2... more 2008 Earth Awards: Call for Entries Our world is under more ecological stress due to human agency than at any time in human history. Climate change is real, and threatens the lives of millions, and ... more London Design Festival 2008: What Happened This Year Yet again the London Design Festival 2008 attracted not only the world's design press but more exhibitors, partners and members of the general publi... more Blue Wine Design Awards Blue Wine magazine and Essencia do Vinho are promoting the international competition Blue Wine Design Awards, which will award innovation and quality of the image of two unique ... more Ceramic Tiles of Italy Design Competition 2009 Ceramic Tiles of Italy announced the 2009 Ceramic Tiles of Italy Design Competition Call for Entries. With hundreds of manufacturers producing elegant ... more Singapore Becomes the First Member of INDEX: Partner City Network The Partner City Network is a newly established forum for global design hubs, who works with design to improve life. As part of the ... more Design on Stage: Index Presents Red Dot Winners For 76 companies the door to one of the most important growth markets in the world is now opening: the winners of the red dot design award were invited t... more Parametric Bookshelves Parametric Bookshelves is the product of collaboration between the Research Lab NSU, at the Graduate School of Architecture of Columbia University in New York, and the Turinbased... more David Chavez's Braille Watch Design Receives Spark Design Award David Chavez's concept design has received the ultimate Spark! Award. The Spark design competition is a bold new forum that recognizes... more Neenah Paper Receives Grand Award from International ARC Awards The 22nd Annual International ARC Awards, the world's largest annual report competition, awarded Neenah Paper the Grand Award in the cate... more	Projecting the Future: Inamo Shines a Light on a New West End Dining Experience Inamo, a whole new concept in west end dining, opens this month in the heart of London's Soho, with menus projected onto ... more Livewire: Oyler Wu Collaborative with Buro Happold Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) announced Livewire, a site-specific installation in the SCI-Arc Gallery by Los Angeles-based a... more Jump the Gap: 3rd International Roca Design Contest With the third International Design Contest, Roca is proud to provide a platform for talented young designers, architects and interior designers. ... more The-Signers: Sign My Project Founded by Spanish interior design studio Innova::designers, The-Signers is an on-line community conceived as a unique meeting point for all design professionals from acros... more Building Biographies: Architecture In Scotland 2006-2008 The Lighthouse, Scotland's National Architecture and Design Centre, published Building Biographies, the 4th biennial survey of architecture in S... more Wonderwall: Masamichi Katayama Projects No 2 Wonderwall is Masamichi Katayama. The internationally renowned interior and retail designer is synonymous with exquisite quality and applies his distinctive... more Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects Design New Wing Luke Asian Art Museum in Seattle Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects have designed the new Wing Luke Asian Museum. The firm's design preserv... more 3deluxe: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Design 3deluxe is a German interdisciplinary design collective of communications, interiors and product designers and architects. This substantial book prese... more Young Architect of the Year Finalists Announced Six of the UK's most innovative and progressive architects are in the running to win this year's prestigious BD Young Architect of the Year Award (YAYA).... more Kossmann.dejong Designs Thema Pavilion for World Expo 2010 May 2010 will see the largest World Expo in history take place in China, with 200 participating countries and 70 million visitors expected to ... more Call for Submissions for MONU Issue 10: Holy Urbanism The one thing that all religions on our planet have in common is their distinction between the holy and the profane. All religions appear to be ... more Soup Kitchen Partners with Leading Restaurant Design Company to Go Green Cathedral Kitchen, an organization that provides 8,000 meals each month to the poor and hungry in Camden, N.J., has partnered wi... more Cecil Balmond: Solid Void Cecil Balmond: Solid Void, the first major U.S. exhibition on the work of Balmond and his London-based Advanced Geometry Unit (AGU) at the international, multi-disciplinary en... more Fucina Goes on Tour After the great success of fucina, a project by the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free Uni-versity of Bozen - Bolzano, shown at the last Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan... more Bodylicious: New Product From Designcode Bodylicious is inspired by Nyotaimori, a rather controversial Japanese tradition which consists of presenting Sushi on a naked woman, using her body as a tray. ... more	MyToons Launches Animation Contest for Political Cartoons MyToons today announced the launch of its latest artwork and animation contest, Red, White, and Who? Focusing on the funny aspects of the po... more Hillman Curtis, Chris Milk and Mark Romanek Added To PAUSE NYC Line-Up New York-based filmmaker, designer and author Hillman Curtis, music video director Chris Milk and video and feature film director ... more Ego for Bentley Bentley announced an exclusive partnership between Ego Lifestyle and Bentley Motors resulting in a limited edition luxury notebook, known as "Ego for Bentley". No more than 250 piece... more Fluid Turns 10 Fluid, innovators in creating a collaborative of Original Music, Editorial, Design and Interactive resources, celebrates its 10th Anniversary in October. Launched in fall 1998 by foun... more Ralph Scaglione Launches FLYfx Veteran compositor, visual effects artist and editor Ralph Scaglione has launched FLYfx, the effects and finishing company housed in the award-winning editorial/post hous... more Cooliris for iPhone Cooliris, the popular browser extension that revolutionizes the way you view media on your computer, is now available as an application for your iPhone. Cooliris for the iPhone a... more Rubicon to Co-produce New Pink Panther & Pals Turner Broadcasting and MGM Worldwide Television (MGM), announced that they are producing a new 26 episode half-hour animated series for MGM's much-loved P... more Rokkan and 2K Games Dive Deep with Bioshock BioShock for the Playstation 3 computer entertainment system needed a promotional site that did justice to its intense graphics and compelling storyline. ... more Rhinofx Recruits the Roster for UK Representation International design, animation and VFX studio rhinofx has enlisted the London-based repping firm The Roster to provide sales efforts in London and the... more L.inc Design Creates Whimsical Back-to-school Campaign for Mervyn's Motion, print and interactive design company L.inc Design was recently tapped by Mervyn's to execute an ambitious back-to-school camp... more Computer Designers Share DMI's 2008 Muriel Cooper Award Ben Fry and Casey Reas share the Muriel Cooper Award, the highest international design award given by the Design Management Institute. Ben Fry... more Matt Jarvis Joins 72andSunny as Managing Director 72andSunny is continuing its expansion in the US and Europe. The brand strategy, design and advertising company has named former telecom president a... more Click 3X Enlists Motion Designer/VFX Compositor JD Yepes New York-based design and effects studio Click 3X recently expanded their roster, signing talented artist, JD Yepes, a specialist in editing, mo... more Nemetschek Allplan and 5S AG promote Green Design and Construction Nemetschek Allplan and Stuttgart-based 5S AG have agreed to work together to improve building energy efficiency in the future. The ... more Guerilla FX Adds Vance Miller Character Animator/ Technical Director Independent production, design, effects and post finishing house Guerilla FX has signed Vance Miller as Character Animator/Technical... more	Spread the Lead: What If We Only Had a Pencil? What if the history of art began and ended with graphite, and your local art supply store was little more than a pencil outlet? For this group show, ga... more Calma: The Art of Stephan Doitschinoff Stephan Doitschinoff's street alias is Calma. This book with the same name documents the emblematic and spiritual paintings and murals that the Brazilian paint... more MOCA Renews Partnership with Pacific Design Center The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), has renewed its partnership, first established in 2000, with Pacific Design Center (PDC). Under... more Pens Are My Friends For the first time ever Jon Burgermans commercial, personal and collaborative works are collected together in one lavish publication. Included amongst the many projects are toys,... more To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), presents To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book, the first large-scale museum survey of artists' books in ... more CITY: A Photography Retrospective After publishing award-winning photography for nearly 10 years, CITY Magazine's glamorous fashion shoots, still-life studies, vibrant beauty close-ups, and cover shots... more AirXY: From Immaterial To Rematerial AirXY is a multimedia installation that introduces new spaces of meaning and presence: an architecture of in between moments-of air and the ephemeral. AirXY comb... more Deconstructing Product Design Deconstructing Product Design is a book by William Lidwell and Gerry Manacsa, to be published by Rockport Publishers in the Fall of 2009. Its purpose is to explore the ... more Steve Watson's Prop Lamp The Prop is an acrylic table lamp consisting of three laser cut moulded pieces that radiate from a central triangular form. The manufacturing process used is the reverse to ... more Ducati Announces the New 2009 Monster 1100 and 1100 S Models Ducati North America announced the latest additions to its iconic Monster line of "naked" sport bikes, the Monster 1100 and 1100 S models. ... more ChargerFrame ChargerFrame, a limited edition project that transforms your electronic landscape into wall art. It is the hub for all your chargers - when you add a device, the picture changes. Thi... more Good Design Show Opens the New Contemporary Space Athens The Dublin-based European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum for Architecture and Design o... more Royal College of Art Student Wins Best Automotive Interior Design Award Royal College of Art student, Pierre Sabas, has won the Best Overall Automotive Interior Design award at last week's renowned Int... more Humberto and Fernando Campana Win Designer of the Year Award Brazilian designers Humberto and Fernando Campana will receive the prestigious Designer of the Year Award at this year's Design Miami/. "... more Ridiculous Design Rules Ridiculous Design Rules is a space to collect all the stupid soundbites that designers say either about themselves or design. Like it or love it, we all have rules that help ... more

October 2008

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