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 Clive Roux Chosen as New IDSA Executive Director The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) announced that Clive Roux, IDSA, Chief Marketing Officer for Baumgartens and former design leader wit... more  Frog Design Offers Unique View of TEDGlobal 2009 Conference in Design Mind Magazine Global innovation firm frog design released a special edition of its award-winning design mind magazine, devoted excl... more  Dutch Design Week 2009: From Bricks to Sustainable Design From 17 through 25 October 2009, Dutch Design Week (DDW) will be, for the eighth time, the platform for both up-and-coming and established desi... more  Swedish Design Student Wins Electrolux Design Lab 2009 with His Concept Cocoon Rickard Hederstierna from Lund Institute of Technology in Sweden is the winner of the Electrolux Design Lab 2009 competiti... more  First Ever European Design Day: October 1, 2009 The Design Council has welcomed the first European Design Day - October 1, 2009, organised by the Bureau of European Design Associations (BEDA), and is c... more  Car Design History: Nissan Passion and Beauty of Function The exhibition traces the history of car design in Japan and gives a glimpse into the future of automotive design, with illustrative examples f... more  Floov Workshop Power Innovation Game at the Dutch Design Week 2009 During Dutch Design Week 2009 Floov Visionary Design will present the Workshop Power Innovation Game in cooperation with the Internati... more  Ravi Sawhney Inducted Into the IDSA Academy of Fellows RKS announced that Ravi Sawhney, RKS founder and CEO, was inducted in the Industrial Designer's Society of America's Academy of Fellows at the ope... more  Designing Green Urban Mobility With the number of cars in the world predicted to double to 1.7billion by 2030, the notion of having ecological-friendly vehicles on the road has never been so important.... more  Fourth Annual National Design Week Launched in 2006, National Design Week is an education initiative offering free admission for all museum visitors and hosting a series of public programs surrounding ... more  2010 Australian International Design Awards Standards Australia announced the 2010 Australian International Design Awards, recognising product design and innovation excellence. Manufacturers and des... more  2010 Metropolis Next Generation Design Competition Metropolis's 2010 Next Generation Design Competition is now accepting entries. This year's theme is One Design Fix for the Future. The competiti... more  Re-Designing Design Savannah College of Art and Design faculty visits RKS to learn RKS's proprietary design thinking methodology and stay ahead of the curve in this new era of design. After RKS foun... more  Edison Awards 2010: Call for Nominations The Edison Awards, recognized as one of America's leading innovation awards, is accepting nominations through Dec. 11, 2009 for the 2010 Edison Best New Product... more  Singapore Design Festival 2009 Initiated in 2005 by the DesignSingapore Council, the Singapore Design Festival is a biennial platform to promote design and the design industry in Singapore, creating op... more  Sustaining Design Excellence: Global Innovation and Revolutionary In autumn 2009, as part of the Month of Design 09, Zavod Big will host its annual design conference, this year entitled "Sustaining Des... more  Robrady Design and DK City Unfold Future of Electric Bikes Earlier this month Robrady Design and DK City unveiled their concept db0 folding electric bicycle to a select audience at Eurobike '09, the ye... more  2009 Clear Choice Awards Winners The Glass Packaging Institute (GPI) named the winners of its 20th Annual Clear Choice Awards. This year's Awards recognized twelve consumer product goods (CPG) compa... more |  Parsons Presents Control|Print What is the fate of print in a digital age? Parsons The New School for Design takes on this challenge with Control|Print, a collaborative exhibition with the Royal Colleg... more  Designers Don't Read Designers Don't Read is a love song to graphic design and graphic designers. Austin Howe is a creative director, writer, advocate, and cheerleader for design-but not a designer.... more  The 2010 One Show College Competition The 2010 One Show College Competition, for design students, is open for entries. The challenge for the 2010 competition requires students to creatively use a li... more  Icograda Announces 2009-2011 Executive Board Candidates Icograda has announced the candidates for election to the 2009-2011 Executive Board who will be selected at the General Assembly 23 taking place ... more  Studio David Hillman Designs Major Olympic Stamps Series for London 2012 Royal Mail has commissioned Studio David Hillman to design three sets of stamps to be issued in the run up to London 2012 Olympi... more  Akzo Nobel Appoints Brand Advocate London Brand Advocate London, the integrated creative communications agency, has been appointed by Akzo Nobel Decorative Paints, the world's largest decorative paints... more  Hamilton Wood Type's 10th Anniversary Events Wood type aficionados will converge for a Wayzgoose weekend, Nov. 20-22, filled with print presentations and type talk including Matthew Carter as he unveil... more  Strategies that Transform Brands Organizations in the midst of critical change need the tools and insights to get back on track and moving forward. Scott Lerman has led some of the most important br... more  Design Collection with Limited Colors This book presents powerful designs achieved with one or two colors, and one color on colored paper. The limited-color projects help designers not only work on ... more  Pattern Factory "Pattern Factory" shines a light on unconventional contemporary patterns created by cutting-edge illustrators and graphic designers and showing how these unique patterns are created, ap... more  The Sketchbook Project 4: Library Atlanta's Art House Co-op has opened a call for entries for the Sketchbook Project, Library edition. Participants are asked to donate their finished sketchbooks to ... more  Glitch: Designing Imperfection Systems fail, errors happen, computers crash - and in some instances, these gaffes create unusual and brilliant visuals, or "glitches." A glitch usually fixes itself i... more  Where's Stig? the New Top Gear Book Illustrated by Rod Hunt Released The mysterious Stig, Top Gear's resident racing driver and one of the most popular members of the "TG" team, has finally got a book ... more  CB'a Design Solutions Creates the Packaging Design of Jyvashyva Hetkiset After several successful packaging design revamp for Jyvashyva, CB'a Design Solutions collaborated once again with the leading b... more  BCAC Show Features Graphic Art From ECU and UNC-W The Graphic Art Exhibit features work from the art and design departments at East Carolina University and the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, ... more  Study Pushes the Button on Intuitive Design A Queensland University of Technology researcher is looking for volunteers to take part in a study aimed at making contemporary appliances such as dvd player... more  Burgopak Wins iF Communication Design Award 2009 Burgopak has won the iF Communication Design Award for Packaging 2009. The winning entry was a sleek and innovative promotional cigarette pack design... more  Products and Packaging Contribute 44 Percent of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions The garbage filling the trashcans is also changing our global climate, according to complimentary reports released by the U.S... more |  Mercedes-Benz Selects Narciso Rodriguez as the Spring 2010 Mercedes-Benz Presents Designer Narciso Rodriguez, known for his sleek and sculpted fashion design, receives the distinguished title of "Merce... more  First UNESCO World Forum on Culture and the Cultural Industries In cooperation with the Italian Government, the Lombardy Region and the city of Monza, UNESCO is organizing the First UNESCO World Forum ... more  2009 Imagination Prize to Jakob Schlaepfer The international "Premiere Vision" trade fair in Paris, which attracted 1200 exhibitors, saw the presentation of the four first ever "PV Awards" for outstand... more  Reconstruction: Live Competition United Music and Fashion in Innovative Ways The School of Fashion at Parsons The New School for Design collaborated with Louis Vuitton, a worldwide leader in luxury, fo... more  Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion and Architecture Luxury and art have never been more closely linked than they are in these early years of the twenty-first century. Virtually all the world's major luxury... more  YLB for Wallis If Wallis isn't at the top of your shopping list normally it will have climbed up more than a few places by the weekend. Yasmin Le Bon, one of the world's original supermodels, marrie... more  Madeleine Vionnet Famous for the "bias cut," Madeleine Vionnet's sophisticated approach to couture remains a pervasive influence today. Eschewing artificial and restrictive padding and stiffening, s... more  Amazing Cartier: Jewelry Design Since 1937 Cartier's peerless designers have continued to amaze decade after decade-from the 1930s into the twenty-first century - with their fanciful and trendsetting c... more  IDI Launches Exhibition of Jewelry Design Competition Finalists The diamond jewelry design competition held by the Israel Diamond Institute Group of Companies (IDI) in honor of Israel's 60th anniversar... more  AIA to Host Series of Transportation and Community Forums As a member of Transportation of America, a broad coalition calling for the renewal of our national transportation program for the 21st century... more  David Mason: New Design Leader for Woods Bagot London International architectural practice, Woods Bagot, today announced the appointment of David Mason as the new Design Leader for its Lifestyle interi... more  Architectural Spatiality: the Dialectic Between the Concepts of Raum and Bekleidung The subject of this book is twofold - a concept and its meaning, an architectural culture and its preoccupation. T... more  Ville De Montreal Invites Designers to Create a New Bus Shelter The Mayor of Montreal, Gerald Tremblay, has announced that a design competition will be held for a new bus shelter, including the adverti... more  Miho Koshido Named Retail Design Creative Director International retail brand strategy and design firm, JGA, recently named Miho Koshido to creative director at JGA. She will be overseeing the proje... more  ARCH + CITY: GOOD Design San Francisco Good design can solve everyday problems. Join Min Day Architecture, Mike and Maaike, Stamen Design, Surface Design, Kuth Ranieri Architects and Volume, some of... more  Perkins Eastman Announces Park Hyatt Saadiyat Island Hotel Groundbreaking The New York office of international design and architecture firm Perkins Eastman announced the groundbreaking of the new Park ... more  XS Future: New Ideas, Small Structures XS Future, the third volume in the successful XS series, focuses on two of today's most challenging design problems - how to conserve space and help preserve the ... more  FreemanWhite Releases Podcast On Emergency Department Design Frank Brooks, AIA, ACHA, chairman and managing partner at FreemanWhite, an architectural, engineering, interior design and consulting servic... more |  New York School of Interior Design Announces Lighting Lecture Series New York School of Interior Design (NYSID) announced a number of public programs around the theme of lighting this fall at their cam... more  Andrew Doolan Award 09: Call for Entries The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland announced the launch of this year's RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award 2009, which is supporte... more  The Art of Architecture: Foster + Partners Opens at the Nasher Sculpture Center Continuing its investigation of contemporary architecture, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas presents a retrospective... more  Portland Architecture and Design Festival 2009 Portland Architecture + Design Festival is a month-long festival for the entire city, from design enthusiasts to design professionals, policy makers to ho... more  Buildings Matter: RIBA Unveils Its Manifesto for Architecture The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) will unveil its manifesto for architecture, Buildings Matter, at the first of its party co... more  Flatiron: High and Low Spotlighting the Flatiron District's colorful and changing architectural and urban history, the exhibition draws on photographs, architects' renderings, vintage views, and film f... more  Arch Schools: Visions of the Future The AIA New York Chapter announced Arch Schools: Visions of the Future, the fifth annual exhibition of exemplary student work from fourteen area architecture schools... more  Houses of Steel: Living Steel Showcases Next-generation Architecture A commemorative book documenting the visionary and varied responses to the Living Steel's International Architecture Competitions wi... more  Student Team of Architects Wins Multiple Awards A team of four PhD students in the computation program of the Department of Architecture has recently racked up a string of impressive wins in design com... more  AIA Columbus Announces Design Winner for New Center for Architecture A design created by Lincoln Street Studio has been selected as the winning submission for the new Center for Architecture, which wil... more  Winning Project for the Kunsthaus Zurich Extension Optimized David Chipperfield's winning design for the Kunsthaus extension has been optimized in line with the jury's recommendations for its function ... more  Winners of the 2009 Toronto Urban Design Awards Announced At a ceremony at the Palais Royale this evening, Mayor David Miller addressed members of the design and development community and celebrated th... more  DAY Amsterdam Designs Europe's First Nike Sportswear Store, Paris DAY Creative Business Partners in Amsterdam has designed the first Nike Sportswear pilot store in Europe. The store, opening in Pari... more  August Results of the RIBA Future Trends Survey The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) announced the August results of its monthly Future Trends Survey, which was established in January 2009 ... more  VetroVentilato: The Glass That Breathes Gives Big Energy Savings VetroVentilato is the new solution to the problem of thermal and acoustic insulation of glass. VetroVentilato is innovative because, ... more  Heller Manus Architects Selected to Lead the Design of Guangzhou's Southern Axis Heller Manus Architects was awarded the contract to design the master plan for a crucial portion of Ouangzhou's growing ... more  Green Design: Creative Sustainable Designs for the Twenty-First Century In this timely book, author Marcus Fairs helps readers understand the shift of green design from marginal to mainstream by featur... more  Braviksskolan: School of Braviken Arkitektgruppen GKAK recently completed Braviksskolan - School of Braviken, in Norrkoping community, Sweden. Braviksskolan is a building for contemporary schooling,... more |  FITC Tokyo 2009: a Flash Design Event FITC Events travels east this November with FITC Tokyo, a one-day design event featuring Flash experts Lee Brimelow, Joshua Hirsch (Big Spaceship), Mario Klingeman... more  Fonts That Click: The Present and Future of Using Type on the Web Finding the best way to implement type on the web is no simple task. In this live presentation, type designer Christian Schwartz wil... more  Autodesk Releases SketchBook Mobile on the App Store Autodesk SketchBook Mobile is a new professional-grade paint and drawing app that offers a full set of sketching tools in a streamlined and intuitiv... more  th2ng Directs Interactive Video for David Gray's Fugitivecompany th2ng has directed and produced "Fugitive," the new music video for singer/songwriter David Gray's first single from his new album. F... more  DUCK's Jamie Caliri Earns Emmy DUCK Director Jamie Caliri has won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design for the title sequence of the Steven Spielberg produced Showtime series United States o... more  Craft Animations Extends Craft Director Studio to Autodesk Softimage Further expanding the artist-friendly workflow, Craft Animations today announced the availability of its Craft Director Studio for u... more  Fury Invites Designers to Speak Out for Peace New York City-based motion design agency Fury recently completed work on a series of self-motivated pieces that take an atypical approach to promoting worl... more  yU+co. Stays On Winning Streak With Visual Design For Gamer For Lakeshore Entertainment / Lionsgate's new sci-fi thriller, "Gamer," yU+co. accomplished the task of visualizing a futuristic world using ... more  Guggenheim and Google Invite Public to Vote for Winner of Online Design Competition The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Google invite the public to vote for its favorite design among the top ten Peopl... more  Hornet Directors Collaborate with the Decemberists Hornet directors Guilherme Marcondes, Santa Maria and Peter Sluszka are creating the cinematic backdrop for the Decemberists' one night only event Her... more  Thornberg & Forester Animates the Packers Guy for McDonald's Brett Favre? Who needs him when you've got the Packers Guy. He's a huge Green Bay Packers fan, surrounding himself with all things green ... more  Autodesk Expands Options for Mac Users Autodesk and Parallels announced that they have signed an agreement to make Parallels Desktop for Mac Autodesk's preferred Mac virtualization software. Autodes... more  Zaha Hadid: Complete Works Zaha Hadid is the most visionary of the best-known contemporary architects. This is the most complete survey of her work, and it encompasses both built and unbuilt designs... more  Future Shack: Residential Architecture Reconsidered The Northwest is home to architectural achievements such as the Space Needle, the Seattle Public Library and the Experience Music Project. Now the... more  Ten Year Review: 10 Places Where CABE Made an Impact Has CABE made a difference in ten years? These 10 projects demonstrate the range and extent of CABE's impact. The Ten year review points to some ... more  Better Buildings and Spaces Improve Quality of Life Nearly nine out of ten people say that better quality buildings and public spaces improve their quality of life, according to new MORI research publi... more  Twilight: Flooring Design Where Neither Light Nor Darkness Prevails Twilight is the state where neither light nor darkness prevails. It is the frontier that divides the day between dark and light. T... more  Leo a Daly Washington D.C. Appoints Diane Taitt Chandleur as Director of Interior Architecture The Washington, D.C. office of LEO A DALY announced the appointment Diane Taitt Chandleur, Assoc. AIA, ASI... more |  Crossing the Line 2009: Visual System's A Digital Experience This fall, New Yorkers will build the city of the future when the French artist collective Visual System (VS) premieres its interactive exhi... more  Museum of the Phantom City: OtherFutures Van Alen Institute announced today the launch of Museum of the Phantom City: OtherFutures, a public art project that allows individuals to browse visionary desi... more  The Ducati Official Fine Art Prints Collection The iconic motorbike brand Ducati, in collaboration with Cultwork, launched the fine art prints collection for Ducatisti, motorbike enthusiasts and lovers... more  Graffiti Gone Global: International Street Art Fair Graffiti Gone Global, presented by Sushisamba, will take place December 4-6th, 2009 during Art Basel Miami Beach. Curated by James and Karla Murra... more  What's New, What's Next @ 200 Lex The Savannah College of Art and Design's furniture design department will showcase the best student designs at "What's New, What's Next @ 200 Lex," a new product showc... more  The Best Design from BIO 21 in Estonia and Latvia The Best Design from BIO 21 is a traveling exhibition prepared by BIO Secretariat. The exhibition features BIO 21 award-winners and a selection of S... more  Metro40 : BMW Group DesignworksUSA Takes Design Excellence to City Streets People are in motion all around the globe. Managing people in motion and helping cities provide the comfortable, attractive, h... more  Winners of the Interior Motives Student Design Awards 2009 The automotive design community celebrated the industry's top future designers at a glamorous awards ceremony during the Frankfurt motor show.... more  British Design Innovation Appoints Four Regional Directors British Design Innovation (BDI), the trade body for the strategic design industry in the UK, has announced the appointment of four new regiona... more  Konstantin Grcic: Decisive Design Konstantin Grcic: Decisive Design, on view in the Abbott Galleries of the Modern Wing from November 18, 2009 through January 24, 2010, is specifically devoted to the p... more  Collaborative Innovation Networks Conference: COINs 2009 The Savannah College of Art and Design will host the first-ever conference on Collaborative Innovative Networks (COINs), Oct. 8-11, bringing tog... more  2010 Housewares Design Awards: Call For Entries The Housewares Design Awards, a design award competition focused on the housewares industry, is accepting entries for its seventh annual competition. ... more  Render Demo Sneaker Design Contest Render Demo announced a design competition for a basketball shoe design for a professional basketball player. The design needs to be futuristic and something that'... more  PG Bison Student of the Year Awards PG Bison Student of the Year Awards celebrates its 15th anniversary, showcasing up and coming designers. The awards evening once again acknowledged talented young... more  Spin And Design: International Rotomolding Design Competition Spin And Design is an international rotomolding design contest, open undergraduate students. Winner will receive 1500 USD and 2% royalti... more  William Halal Announced as Keynote Speaker for Icsid World Design Congress 2009 Joining Ged Davis, Thomas Heatherwick and Emily Pilloton as keynote speakers at the Icsid World Design Congress 2009 is W... more  Somedemos by Design Migration Somedemos by Design Migration showcases the latest ideas and concepts of young designers in two exhibitions - at Design Forum Finland and the Habitare Fair. These exhib... more  Ergonomidesign Takes Exclusive Design to a New Level with the Breathtaking Speakers Gramophone The design team from Ergonomidesign, John Grieves, Jonas Dolk and Erik Wahlin, have developed the extreme ... more | ||
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