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To celebrate MA's Design Is Human annual international design event and Modern Atlanta Home Tour, MA will host a Launch Party and Social Mixer at Mason Murer Fine Art, located in Midtown Atlanta.
It's the opportunity to unite and embrace what makes Atlanta a true destination for international design, while experiencing firsthand all the excitement that embodies modern-day Atlanta with its unique mix of contemporary urban culture.
Meet the architects and designers who are making Atlanta modern and leave informed and inspired to make positive change.
The event is free for Modern Atlanta Home Tour ticket holders and $20 at the door for non-ticket holders.
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Unorthodox, adventurous contemporary art meets on-the-go technology with the inaugural Special Art Edition Inspiron 1525 laptop, featuring two exclusive artworks by Mike Ming.
Choose from "Bunch O Surfers" or "Sea Sky," two unique designs that reflect Mike Ming's quest to create art that relates to broad audiences, yet speaks directly to everyone.
A new Dell manufacturing technique brings alive every color and brushstroke on the laptop's cover, creating a fluid, graffiti-inspired tattoo effect that lets style pioneers add another level of individuality to everyday life.
Brooklyn-based artist Mike Ming brings fascination with popular culture and life experiences to the canvas.
"I wanted to create a sense of energy, playfulness, sophistication and psychedelic momentum when I started this," said Ming.
"This new technique from Dell brings my inspiration-water and the energy it produces-to life and gives computer aficionados their own display of style."
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Downtown Art Scene Arrives on Your Laptop with New Mike Ming Designs from Dell
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In a unique collaboration between three of Britain's iconic brands - James Bond, Bentley Motors and Penguin Books - a special, limited edition of the new Bond book Devil May Care will be published on 28th May.
Written by Sebastian Faulks at the invitation of Ian Fleming Publications to celebrate the Ian Fleming centenary, Devil May Care is one of the most eagerly anticipated publications of 2008.
Cars and James Bond have always had a strong association and, contrary to popular belief, Bond's preference has historically been firmly with Bentley Motors.
He owned three Bentleys in the course of the fourteen original novels written by Ian Fleming.
It is fitting therefore that in Devil May Care - published to coincide with the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth - Bond is found once again in the driving seat of his favourite car.
To mark the reunion, Penguin approached Bentley to produce a luxury, limited edition of Devil May Care.
The result is a beautiful and striking edition which takes its inspiration from hard-covers of the original 1950s and 1960s Bond books combined with the stylish Bentley owner's manuals and handbooks of the era.
Inside the book is a specially designed model pewter Bentley, described in detail by Fleming in Thunderball.
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Bentley Motors Designs Limited Collector's Edition of the New Bond Book: Devil May Care
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Until mid May, a special Eurostar class train will travel on the Torino-Milano route, customised inside and out with the graphics of Torino 2008 World Design Capital.
For an entire month, the daily service will connect Torino, World Design Capital for 2008, with Milano, the home of the Salone del Mobile, a classic appointment for the design world, establishing a trait d'union between the two cities at a time of great new international visibility: the 2015 Expo in Milano and the celebrations in Torino of 2011 for the 150th anniversary of the reunification of Italy.
The initiative is also a way to give greater visibility to the event in Torino, transforming the train into a travelling showcase to promote the numerous initiatives in the programme to involve not only specialists but a vast and very mixed public.
The other proposals can be seen in this perspective: the distribution of information on Torino's year as design capital on all the Eurostars that cover the route between the two metropolises; the customisation of the graphics inside and outside Piemonte's regional trains and the insertion of an information window on the main initiatives of Torino 2008 World Design Capital on the Ferrovie dello Stato (state railways) portal.
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"The Creative Economy Report 2008 - The challenge of assessing the creative economy towards informed policy-making" is the first comprehensive study to present the United Nations perspective on this emerging topic.
This policy-oriented analysis is intended to facilitate a better understanding of the key issues underlying the emerging creative economy at national and international levels.
It brings together contributions from five United Nations organizations, namely UNCTAD, UNDP UNESCO, WIPO and the International Trade Centre (ITC), in a joint endeavour to enhance policy coherence and international action in this area.
The development dimension is the guiding principle of this Report which aims to assist developing countries to harness their creative economies and to maximize trade and development gains by recognizing the creative economy as a feasible development option for linking economic, technological, social and cultural development objectives of our contemporary society.
The statistical annex presents first-hand trade data and pioneering analysis of international trade flows of creative goods and services in world markets.
The 350-pages Report recognizes that creativity and human talent are fast becoming powerful engines for economic growth and development, and calls for the adoption of effective cross-cutting mechanisms and concerted inter-ministerial policy action.
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