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Beer Bottles nei luoghi pubblici is an international sustainable design competition to develop creative solutions to the problem of glass drink bottles left and broken in public meeting areas in Milan and many other cities.
Participation is open to students and professionals from every country in the world.
Free registration required.
The designers of the 3 winning entries will be awarded a free exhibition space during Milan Design Week 2009 from April 22 though April 27, 2009.
The designer of the top entry will be offered travel expenses.
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The first edition of Boom SP Design - International Architecture, Design and Art Forum will bring booming speakers to Brazil and promote a cool atmosphere to the city.
Organized by RSPROMO it will be held simultaneously to the opening of Karim Rashid's Exhibition at Instituto Tomie Ohtake - October 24th 2008 to January 04th 2009.
BOOM SP DESIGN will promote a debate of the 3 main topics and its influence on consumers behavior, technology, and its impacts in the way, architects, designers, artists, corporations, marketing professionals, curators, institutions directors, etc are establishing news parameters to develop future projects.
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Brazilian designers Humberto and Fernando Campana will receive the prestigious Designer of the Year Award at this year's Design Miami/.
"We are thrilled to be able to give the Designer of the Year Award to the Campana brothers, who have made such a significant contribution to contemporary mass manufactured as well as limited edition design," Ambra Medda, Design Miami/ Director comments.
"Their joyful and exuberant work incorporates discarded and repurposed objects, numerous references to culture both sophisticated and street, and a loving yet frank social commentary on their native Brazil.
They have opened the door for a new generation of designers by creating a language that questions received ideas about Modernism and design."
In keeping with Design Miami/ tradition, the Campana brothers will create an installation designed exclusively for the December show to be presented within the central courtyard of the fair's new temporary structure designed by New York architects ArandaLasch.
The installation, entitled Diamantina, will represent an evolution of their TransPlastic series, which was unveiled at Albion Gallery in London in 2007.
Using the native Brazilian plant Apuí, which grows on and eventually chokes rainforest trees, TransPlastic designs feature this rattan-like fiber woven around ready-made plastic garden chairs and other plastic objects, such as discarded toys, dolls, flip-flops and tires.
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What do fashion and glass have in common?
This question was the focal point of the lecture "Models on the glass catwalk", which was given by Professor Dr. Peter Zec, head of the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen and initiator of the red dot design award, at the third "Trendtag Glas" seminar in Dusseldorf, Germany, on 18 September 2008.
His thesis was: there are definitely interesting results to be gained when comparing the fashion industry with the glass industry.
Similar to large fashion brands designing collections with a great variety of shapes and thus creating desirable fashion, individual glass products have become a brand thanks to their form alone - such as the Coca-Cola bottle or Riedel glasses.
"The form of a glass container gives the brand its distinct character and makes it stand out from the masses," explains Zec.
"Thus we can recognise a jar of Langnese honey, a bottle of Jagermeister and the famous Maggi bottle also without a label."
The fact that design plays a major role also in the glass industry is particularly obvious when products from a range of companies are very similar in taste.
"Only a very limited few of us can taste the difference between different brands of mineral water.
However, everyone recognises the bottles of Apollinaris, Evian and Perrier."
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Montreal International (MI) today announced that an international conference on innovation and business development, Innovation Montreal 2008, will be held October 6 and 7 at Centre Mont-Royal.
This first edition, which offers a rich program of lectures, luncheon discussions, round tables and business meetings, will feature more than 30 speakers from Europe, Asia and North America.
"We aim to position Montreal as a key location for innovation on the world scene," declared Pierre Brunet, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Montreal International.
"This event, which is at the very core of our mandate to support the development of innovation in the metropolitan region, will allow Montreal companies to discover daring models of innovation in human capital, funding, collaboration with universities, and competitive clusters.
Innovation is an increasingly strategic factor for business at all levels," he added.
Among the program's highlights, the Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade, Minister of Tourism and Minister responsible for the Montreal region, Raymond Bachand, will deliver an address on the strategic orientations of the Government of Quebec in innovation and research.
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