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 Australasian Student Design Awards at designEXAfter receiving a record number of entries, Australasian Student Design Awards 2009 is set to be our biggest and best yet.The Design Institute of Australia's Australasian Student Design Awards 2009 entries and results will be on display at designEX in Melbourne at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre from 30th April to 2 May. Now in its 14th year, this highly regarded awards program recognises excellence and proudly promotes Australasia's top tertiary students - the future of innovation and sustainable design practice. event (ended) current design events design directory Design Institute of Australia > Design Organizations added by Levent OZLER |
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 2009 Taiwan International Design CompetitionIn response to contemporary design phenomena as well as other global issues, 2009 Taiwan International Design Competition will be operating under the theme of "Restore".Through this theme, TIDC hopes to explore design as a tool to create new opportunities and restore the world back to its prosperous state. Since its inception in 2002, the TIDC has become one the most prestigious and authoritative design competitions in Asia. It is not only a futuristic design competition open to creative talents worldwide, but also aimed at encouraging design interactions and international cultural exchanges. In order to further trigger the creativity of young students, the Ministry of Economic Affairs has cooperated with the Ministry of Education is planning an expansion of the competition scope since 2008. A team of domestic and international experts in different fields will be invited by the executive team to form the Preliminary Selection and Final Selection committees in order to process the evaluation. The evaluation will first look at the design's creativity and ability to break through existing product design and express the theme's concept and aesthetic perception. The Preliminary Selection will be made based on the design illustrations provided by the participants, the evaluation committee will select 30 pieces of work to participate in the Final Selection. For the Final Selection, the works' mockups and CD-ROM works will be evaluated by the committee. competition (ended) current design competitions more info tidc.bo... (867) design directory Design Awards added by Levent OZLER |
 Design is the Problem: The Future of Design Must Be SustainableNathan Shedroff, Chair of the MBA program in Design Strategy at the California College of the Arts (CCA) has just published a book entitled Design is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable.This "promises to be a very influential book on sustainable design," states Dr. Mark Breitenberg, Icsid President-Elect and Provost at CCA. As design makes a tremendous impact on the produced world in terms of usability, resources, understanding, and priorities, what we produce, how we serve customers and other stakeholders, and even how we understand how the world works is all affected by the design of models and solutions. Designers have an unprecedented opportunity to use their skills to make meaningful, sustainable change in the world-if they know how to focus their skills, time, and agendas. In Design is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable, Nathan Shedroff examines how the endemic culture of design often creates unsustainable solutions, and shows how designers can bake sustainability into their design processes in order to produce more sustainable solutions. more Design is the Problem: The Future of Design Must Be Sustainable design directory Design Is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable > Sustainable Design Books added by Levent OZLER |
 Discovery Evening: Design Creates Added ValueAt the beginning of the subscription period for the "red dot" top7 bond Sparkasse Essen, together with red dot, held a discovery evening for invited guests in the red dot design museum on 20 April 2009.At the event Prof. Dr. Peter Zec, head of the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen and initiator of the red dot design award, held a lecture on the subject "Design creates added value." Following the phrase "Good design is good business" coined by former IBM president Thomas Watson jr in the 1950s, Zec explained why from an economic point of view it is indispensable for companies to invest in design and how these costs generate a profit. Then Arnd Brechmann, regional director of Sparkasse Essen, talked about the current global economic situation and introduced the chances and prospects connected with an investment in the "red dot" top7 bond. In order to take into account the increased significance of design for investors, Sparkasse Essen presents a red dot special exhibition at their main branch. Selected products, which have been awarded the red dot for their pioneering design quality, will be presented to the public from 20 April to 15 May 2009. more en.red-... (18) design directory Red Dot Design Award > Industrial Design Awards added by Levent OZLER |
 UK Treasury Report Highlights Role of Design in Improving Public ServicesIn a report published alongside today's Budget statement, Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling highlighted the need to "build a legacy of innovative design thinking and skills" across the public sector and urged local and central government to improve outcomes and efficiency in public services by using design.The report stated that "innovation and service redesign will be critical in order to achieve improvements in the quality and efficiency of public services in more challenging economic circumstances", and urged government to "build the public sector's understanding of the importance of design in public services and the appropriate skills to turn this understanding into tangible improvements." It also recognised the innovations being triggered by Design Out Crime, a programme from the Design Council and the Home Office Design & Technology Alliance which this week launched a £400,000 Mobile Phone Security Challenge. The report was published following a review conducted by Sir Michael Bichard, Director of the independent Institute for Government, Chairman of the Design Council and co-author of HM Treasury's Operational Efficiency Programme Review. The report will see the Design Council expand the number of pilot projects before rolling out its programme across the public sector- Public Services by Design - in partnership with the Department for Innovation Universities and Skills (DIUS). more UK Treasury Report Highlights Role of Design in Improving Public Services design directory The Design Council > Design Organizations added by Levent OZLER |
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