Design News
CAKE Kalk Nominated for 2018 Beazley Designs of the Year Award
CAKE has received a nomination from the Design Museum's Beazley Designs of the Year Awards for its all-electric high-performance off-road motorcycle in the Transport category.
TPG Architecture Designs New BSE Global Headquarters
TPG Architecture has designed the new global headquarters for BSE Global, formerly Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment, a company that develops and operates sports venues and manages sports franchises in the New York area.
Design Museum Announces Beazley Designs of the Year Nominations
The Design Museum has revealed the 87 nominees for the eleventh Beazley Designs of the Year exhibition and awards.
Le Carthcart Restaurants et Biergarten by Sid Lee Architecture and A5 Hospitality
Imagined by Sid Lee Architecture and A5 Hospitality, and executed by Sid Lee Architecture | Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Architectes in consortium, Le Carthcart Restaurants et Biergarten, a gourmet biergarten in the heart of downtown Montreal, will open at Place Ville Marie in late 2019 as part of the $200-million revitalization of the Place Ville Marie Esplanade.
Jay Schwartz Creates Brand Identity for The Jaffa
Jay Schwartz has created the brand identity for The Jaffa, opened in the 4,000 year old port city of Jaffa.
2019 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence: Call for Entries
Sponsored by the Bruner Foundation, the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence (RBA) celebrates transformative urban places distinguished by their economic and social contributions to American cities. Winners offer creative placemaking solutions that transcend the boundaries between architecture, urban design and planning and showcase innovative thinking about US cities.
IDC Develops World's First Web-Browsing Robot
IDC has developed a robot who can type at a computer using fingers like a human for the purpose of demonstrating Garrison's cyber security.
The Form of Simplicity: Good Design for a Better Quality of Life
The Form of Simplicity: Good Design for a Better Quality of Life, on view at the China International Exhibition Center in Beijing from September 27 to 30, will present examples of how the principle of simplicity influences the form of products and helps to increase quality of life.
Ragged Edge Adds a Dose of Fun to the Sharing Economy with Whirli
From strategy and naming, through to identity and launch, Ragged Edge worked with entrepreneur Nigel Phan to build an exciting proposition centered around swapping for toys instead of shopping for toys.
SXSW Place by Design 2019
Place by Design is SXSW's public space design competition, celebrating transformative work at the intersection of art, technology, and design that rethinks how we use and interact with the places around us. This competition provides a platform for artists, architects, designers and urbanists at all levels to present their scalable solutions for improving our shared landscape.
Morisawa Type Design Competition 2019
Submissions are now open for the 2019 Morisawa Type Design Competition. The competition is open to any individual, group or nationality.
RSA Student Design Awards 2018/19
The Royal Society of Arts has announced the briefs for the 2018/19 RSA Student Design Awards. The international design competition provides students and new graduates with an invaluable network and platform to develop their careers.
Jumpthegap 2018-2019: 8th Roca International Design Contest
The 8th Roca jumpthegap competition will open for registrations on October 9, 2018. jumpthegap is a biennial International Design Contest, promoted by Roca with the collaboration of BCD Barcelona Design Center, that asks entrants to create conceptual, sustainable and innovative solutions for the bathroom space of the future.
Resilient Homes Design Challenge
The World Bank, Build Academy, Airbnb and GFDRR have launched the Resilient Homes Design Challenge. The competition aims to challenge entrants to generate designs for cost-effective, sustainable, small homes for people living in underdeveloped areas that both reduce the risk of damage and enable rapid reconstruction following a natural disaster.
SpaceTime 2019: Call for Submissions
Organized by ACM SIGGRAPH, the SpaceTime 2019 International Student Competition offers an excellent opportunity for students to exhibit their computer-based media creative work nationally and internationally. The theme for SpaceTime 2019 is 'Thrive,' keeping with the theme of the 2019 SIGGRAPH conference.
Worldwide Logo Design Award 2019
The 9th WOLDA: Worldwide Logo Design Award is now open for submissions. First held in 2006, Wolda is a worldwide competition for logos and business stationery.
Green Good Design Awards 2019
The 2019 Green Good Design Awards are now open for submissions. The competition's goal is to bestow international recognition to those outstanding individuals, companies, organizations, governments, and institutions - together with their products, services, programs, ideas, and concepts-that have forwarded exceptional thinking and inspired greater progress toward a more healthier and more sustainable universe.
Laurelhurst MidCentury by mw|works
mw|works recently renovated 4,200-square-foot residence Laurelhurst MidCentury, located in Seattle, WA.
Winners of 2018 UX Design Awards
International Design Center Berlin has announced the winners of this year's UX Design Awards. Following intensive deliberations, the jury bestowed five UX Design Awards, four UX Design Awards | Concept and one UX Design Award Gold among 48 nominated projects.
From Post-Industrial City to the New Urban Campus
The 'From Post-Industrial City to the New Urban Campus' conference will take place in Milan on November 14-15. Organized by the Class of 2020, this conference will explore how former industrial, neglected areas are being transformed into knowledge hubs and the brightest beacons of innovation.
Santa Lucia Preserve 1 by Richard Beard
Richard Beard, while a Principal at BAR Architects, designed the Santa Lucia Preserve 1 residence. The Santa Lucia Preserve is a 20,000 acre ranch master planned to accommodate just under 300 residences.
CityX: The Future Cities Expo
Cityx, the Future Cities Expo from Future Cities Catapult, will take place September 25-27 in London. The event will present a unique opportunity to dive into the priority challenges facing today's cities.
Varoom 38: The Activism Issue
Varoom's Autumn 2018 issue is packed with rich imagery and insightful comment. The magazine's new Editor, Olivia Ahmad has curated a fascinating selection of artwork and viewpoints for this Activism issue, from the Middle Eastern comics collective battling state censorship and prosecution to Tara Books feminist adaptations of traditional Indian stories.
Adobe San Francisco Town Hall by Valerio Dewalt Train
The historic Baker & Hamilton building that now houses Adobe was once a tool factory. So when the software company needed to expand its culinary space to serve its growing workforce, Valerio Dewalt Train collaborated with Adobe's chef and came up with the concept of 'tools of the trade' to reference the building's history and organize the experience.
Norman Foster Foundation 2018 Workshop: Urban Mobility
The Norman Foster Foundation's Urban Mobility Workshop will take place on September 17-21, 2018. The workshop will focus on new urban technologies and how these could open up an exciting range of opportunities in which the infrastructure of movement and the architecture of buildings can physically merge together.
2019 Tallinn Architecture Biennale Launches Vision Competition
The fifth edition of Tallinn Architecture Biennale has announced an open call for its Vision Competition. TAB 2019, which will take place September 11 to November 3, is dedicated to the theme "Beauty Matters: the Resurgence of Beauty" and it is curated by Israeli-born, London-based architect and researcher Dr. Yael Reisner.
FreelandBuck Designs Four-Story Home Notched into a Los Angeles Hillside
Stack House is a newly built 2,207-square-foot residence designed and developed by FreelandBuck. Comprised of four stories notched into a sloping hillside, this vertical house uses the subtle rotation of each room to create seamless indoor-outdoor spaces at every floor, each with unique and unobstructed views to the San Gabriel mountains.
Oceanic Awakening: Designers Unite to save the Ocean and Concept the Cities of Tomorrow
Wärtsilä has launched 'Oceanic Awakening,' an initiative that, by 2020, aims to connect and inspire 20 of the world's most influential port cities to embrace and develop Smart Marine ecosystems, which rely on digitalization, cost-effective, carbon-free shipping via smart vessels and more.
Dutch Design Week 2018
The 17th Dutch Design Week will be held October 20-28 in Eindhoven. This year, the event will present the work and concepts of over 2600 designers and welcome more than 335.000 visitors from home and abroad.
Livingboard: A Motherboard for Instant Open-Source Housing
Carlo Ratti Associati and Indian non-profit organization WeRise have unveiled Livingboard, a low-cost system for housing in rural communities.
