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Global materials consultancy Material ConneXion will present an exhibition of new products and groundbreaking materials by ... [|**more**]
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 * Material ConneXion to Present Beyond the Surface by Forms+Surfaces**

The principal objective of the book is to stimulate thought: What is an object? Why do we desire what we desire? Why has "functionali... [|**more**]
 * Nonobject Design Fiction Book: To Be Published by MIT Press 2010**

For the first time, the three German Bauhaus institutions are uniting to present a comprehensive exhibition about the Bauhaus, the most influential school... [|**more**]
 * Bauhaus: A Conceptual Model**

Design September will take place from September 10 to October 2. Launched 2006 within the framework of the Fashion and Design year, the Design Septemb... [|**more**]
 * Design September 2009: Brussels Design Festival**

What constitutes Britishness in British design? Luxury 'British' car brand, Bentley is German owned and its head of exterior styling is Brazilian. Apple de... [|**more**]
 * Design in Britain: Big Ideas, Small Island**

The selection committee for the Rado Young Designer Award has nominated three up-and-coming Dutch design talents as finalists for the Ince... [|**more**]
 * Young Talents in the Running for the Rado Young Designer Award**

The Real World Laboratory is presenting designs from six countries of Central Europe: Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary.... [|**more**]
 * Real World Laboratory: Central European Design**

International Congress of Design and Innovation of Catalonia will be held by ESDi (Higher school of Design), in order to celebrate its 2... [|**more**]
 * 1st International Congress of Design and Innovation of Catalonia**

The results of the red dot award: communication design have been finalised: 6,112 works were submitted to the competition - one of the most impor... [|**more**]
 * Results of the Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2009**

Design Den Haag 2010-2018 will organize a total of five public events biennially about "Design and Government". Each edition will entail a collaboration between governmenta... [|**more**]
 * Design Den Haag 2010-2018**

In January of 2008, with a thousand dollars, a laptop and an outsized conviction that design can change the world, rising San Francisco-based product... [|**more**]
 * Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People**

This fall, The Design Center (TDC) will present Lace in Translation, a new exhibition of contemporary work that explores the intersection of ... [|**more**]
 * Lace in Translation: an Exploration by Three Design Studios**

Skinit, the leader in consumer personalization for electronic devices, today announced that it has appointed Frank Tyneski as Skinit's ... [|**more**] || School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents "Milton Glaser's SVA: A Legacy of Graphic Design," a 50-year retrospective of nearly 100 works created by the legend... [|**more**]
 * Skinit Hires Design Industry Superstar to Head Up Design Strategy**
 * Milton Glaser's SVA: a Legacy of Graphic Design**

The Rebrand 100 Global Awards is the only highly respected and coveted global awards of its kind. Businesses, brand strategists, and various organizations have come to... [|**more**]
 * 2010 Rebrand 100 Global Awards**

Infographythm, a project coordinated by CarreRotondes and the non-profit organisation Design Friends, was conceived along the same lines as the G... [|**more**]
 * Infographythm: Create a Visual Report on Your August 09**

Illustrative 2009 will return to the creative capital to celebrate the cutting-edge works of contemporary graphic art for the fifth time a... [|**more**]
 * Illustrative 2009: Illustrative Art Festival Returns to Berlin**

School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents "The Wilde Years: Four Decades of Shaping Visual Culture," an exhibition that celebrates designers, art dire... [|**more**]
 * The Wilde Years: Four Decades of Shaping Visual Culture**

2nd Eurobest Advertising Festival will take place 25-27 November 2009 at the historic Beurs van Berlage in the vibrant city of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Over thre... [|**more**]
 * 2nd Eurobest Advertising Festival**

The British Council are seeking the brightest young business talent in the communications sector. You should be entrepreneurial, aged 25-35,... [|**more**]
 * UKYXE 09: UK Young Communications Entrepreneur Award 2009**

An exhibition, Printing Types: New Zealand Typeface Design Since 1870, has opened at Objectspace (8 Ponsonby Road, Auckland, New Zealand), featuring w... [|**more**]
 * Printing Types: New Zealand Type Design Since 1870**

Dutch Contemporary design is universally seen as the melting pot of cutting-edge twenty-first century creativity. Some ... [|**more**]
 * Young 2009: Creative Production Agency Shop Around Portays Dutch Youth Culture**

Greenpeace and the University of South Australia announced the winner of the Greenpeace Design Awards 2009. The winner is Sam Dickson whose design w... [|**more**]
 * Winner of Greenpeace Design Awards 2009 Announced**

For the first time in its 88-year history, the Art Directors Club, the premiere organization for integrated media and the original global creative col... [|**more**]
 * Art Directors Club Forms International Rep Network**

With Satellites Mistaken for Stars, Egger contributes to the dialog of experimental graphic design by giving us a book concerned largely with understanding the poetic pote... [|**more**]
 * Satellites Mistaken for Stars**

The design developed for tweens' books "Leituras Descoladas" collection ("Cool Readings" collection), has rendered another international award for REX ... [|**more**] || Everything around us in designed and the word "design" has become part of our everyday experience. But how much do we know about i... [|**more**]
 * REX Design Awarded by Communication Arts Magazine**
 * Design Museum and Conran Octopus Present New Series of Design Books**

The Istituto Europeo di Design of Barcelona has presented in its future headquarter, the former Macson factory, the 5th edition of its fashion show that this year carrie... [|**more**]
 * Hyperbodies: Cuerpos Emergentes**

Creative agency Uncle have played a part in helping Encyclopaedia Britannica secure the number 10 place in the coveted 2009/10 Superbrands UK Consumer Index. Un... [|**more**]
 * Uncle: an Integrated Agency on the Up**

Global strategic branding firm Siegel+Gale, the pioneer in simplifying complex customer communications, announced today the appointm... [|**more**]
 * Dona Wong: Siegel+Gale Hires Strategy Director of Information Design**

Duffy & Partners design firm just launched "A Designed Life," as part of their Duffy 25 Years piece. The slide show captures a day in the life of Duffy's logos - presenting ho... [|**more**]
 * Duffy: A Designed Life**

The brazilian agency has designed the packaging for the new range of Skip powder detergent to be launch in Argen... [|**more**]
 * REX Design Develops Packaging Design for Premium Powder Detergent to Launch in Argentina**

The countdown to naming the winner of the 2009 Prince Philip Designers Prize, awarded annually to recognize a lifetime contr... [|**more**]
 * Prince Philip Designers Prize Announces Contenders for 50th Anniversary Year**

UCB announced today that the newly designed Cimzia packaging was honoured with a "red dot communication design"... [|**more**]
 * UCB and Its Design Partners, OXO and Smart Design, Win 2009 Red Dot: Communication Design**

David Weeks, known for his distinctive lighting products, introduces two new desk lamps: the Boi Desk Lamp and the Leda Desk Lamp. The Boi Desk Lamp takes its cue from pop ... [|**more**]
 * The Boi & Leda Desk Lamps**

Product Development Technologies (PDT) announced that it has joined Continua Health Alliance, a non-profit, open industry alliance of the finest healthcare and techno... [|**more**]
 * PDT Joins Continua Health Alliance**

What does power have to do with materials? Everything! The second Get Inspired newsletter is all about "Power" and takes us all over the world from solar powere... [|**more**]
 * Material Stories Newsletter #2: Power**

Product Development Technologies (PDT), Perkins Products and the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) have been honored in the 2009 Internat... [|**more**]
 * The Next Generation Perkins/APH Brailler Wins Acclaim**

NewDealDesign, the San Francisco creative agency providing strategic industrial design, interaction design and brand identity s... [|**more**] || To mark the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the BFI will in November 2009 present Of Dreams and Cities... [|**more**]
 * Newdealdesign Recognized with Four International Design Excellence Awards**
 * Of Dreams and Cities: Architecture and Film**

The Swiss-Italian design team "Architecture and Vision" presents first interior designs of the "Enterprise". The "Enterprise" is a rocket plane, ... [|**more**]
 * Enterprise: Designers Present Interior of Spaceplane**

MercuryHouseOne by Architecture and Vision will be presented on September 2, 2009, during the 53rd Art Exhibition, Biennale of Venice, on San Servolo isla... [|**more**]
 * MercuryHouseOne at the 53rd Biennale of Venice**

The Board of Directors and staff of the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), a Brooklyn-based nonprofit organization that uses the power of d... [|**more**]
 * Christine Cerqueira Gaspar: CUP Appoints New Executive Director**

The Imperial Furniture Collection holds one of the key works of Viennese interior design around 1930: the apartment of the ceramic artist Lucie Rie, designed by Ernst P... [|**more**]
 * Interior Design Between the Wars**

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) today announces the shortlist for the annual RIBA President's Awards for Research 2009, wh... [|**more**]
 * RIBA President's Awards for Research 2009 Shortlist Announced**

In the 125 years since William Le Baron Jenney's ten-storey Home Insurance Building in Chicago became the world's first skyscrap... [|**more**]
 * Bangkok Rising: Construction to Begin on Ole Scheeren / OMA's MahaNakhon**

Rafael Vinoly Architects has designed the new East Wing at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), Ohio, which opened to the pub... [|**more**]
 * Rafael Vinoly Architects Complete East Wing at Cleveland Museum of Modern Art**

The City of Kent, Washington now boasts one of the greenest event centers in the country. The ShoWare Center-a 154,000-squar... [|**more**]
 * ShoWare Center Nation's First Event Center to Achieve LEED Gold-NC Rating**

BCDC announced the winners of the Rising Tides competition. Six winners will share a total prize of $25,000. The selection of six winners was an une... [|**more**]
 * Rising Tides Competition Announces Six Winners**

Rafael Vinoly Architects' expansion of the Brooklyn Children's Museum, located at the intersection of Brooklyn Avenu... [|**more**]
 * Rafael Vinoly Architects Expansion of Brooklyn Children's Museum Awarded LEED Silver**

International architecture, planning, engineering, interior design and program management firm LEO A DALY announces an association with EG... [|**more**]
 * Leo a Daly Announces Strategic Association with EGA Architects**

As the only automaker in the luxury class that utilizes a master design firm - legendary Pininfarina - Maserati has found there is an affinity betw... [|**more**] || Information technology has brought great changes to human life. Digital media has influenced every aspect of society, culture and entertainm... [|**more**]
 * Design Driven: Maserati Competition Announces Winners**
 * The 1st International Conference in Interactive Art & Design**

FITC Mobile brings together the leaders in mobile design and development for a two-day conference, September 13 - 14, 2009, at the Metro Toronto Convention ... [|**more**]
 * FITC Mobile: A Mobile Development Conference**

From 10 to 11 September, 23 speakers from nine countries will share their expertise and knowledge with decision makers, transportation providers, interest groups, informat... [|**more**]
 * IIID Traffic & Transport 2009**

Boulder Digital Works (BDW) is a new project-based learning initiative focused on developing digital leaders and entrepreneurs. BDW is the first program in the... [|**more**]
 * Boulder Digital Works Opens It's Doors**

Happy Cog announced the merger of Happy Cog and Airbag Industries. Effective today, the two leading and influential web design firms have f... [|**more**]
 * Web Industry Leaders Happy Cog and Airbag Industries Merge**

On the heels of his Cannes Lions Grand Prix win for Phillips "Carousel," editor Paul Hardcastle joins The Whitehouse, Bicoastal / Chicago / Londo... [|**more**]
 * The Whitehouse Adds Editor Paul Hardcastle to US Roster**

NYC based visual effects/conceptual design company, Manic has signed Creative Director Fran Roberts as part of its continued growth as a leading creative bran... [|**more**]
 * Manic Signs Creative Director Fran Roberts**

th2ng has added award-winning live action director Jake Knowles to its growing roster of emerging and established talent. Knowles spent four years as senior director for ... [|**more**]
 * th2ng Snaps Up Jake Knowles**

July 2009 marks the 2nd anniversary of LA-based motion design and production studio Royale. Drawing on 20+ years collective experience, Partners ... [|**more**]
 * Royale Turns Two, Celebrates Studio Defining Culture**

The Portland, Oregon-based production company and creative laboratory Bent Image Lab is further expanding its roster with the recent signing of veteran a... [|**more**]
 * Bent Signs Stop-Motion Heavy Hitter Ken Lidster**

72andSunny, the creative powerhouse for worldwide brands such as Nike, Discovery Channel, 2K Sports and Quiksilver, announced today the appoi... [|**more**]
 * 72andSunny Taps Yahoo's' Yau to Expand Digital Capabilities**

The New York office of international design and architecture firm Perkins Eastman has been commissioned by the Indian School of Business for a 7... [|**more**]
 * Perkins Eastman Awarded Indian School of Business Campus**

Every year, Lionsgate gets the blood pumping for its new SAW film with the SAW "Give 'Til It Hurts" blood drive, benefiting the Red Cross. As part of that tradition, th... [|**more**] || Early last year, the Polaroid Corporation ceased producing its iconic film. The 9th October 2009 will see the final "Use by" or Expiration date of the last batch of Polaroid f... [|**more**]
 * New SAW VI Blood Drive Poster**
 * Polaroid: Exp.09.10.09**

Parsons The New School for Design will present its annual exhibition of MFA Photography thesis work in the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries of the ... [|**more**]
 * Parsons Presents MFA Photography Thesis Exhibition**

Paper: Tear, Fold, Rip, Crease, Cut shines a light on the beautiful world of paper in art, fashion and design. From the traditional art of origami and paper cutti... [|**more**]
 * Paper: Tear, Fold, Rip, Crease, Cut**

This will be the first exhibition to bring together the seminal group of paintings of London building sites by Frank Auerbach (born 1931). These extrao... [|**more**]
 * Frank Auerbach: London Building Sites, 1952-62**

ShContemporary, Asia's most dynamic and international contemporary art fair, will launch its third edition on September 9, 2009 with a new artistic direction and init... [|**more**]
 * ShContemporary09 : Shanghai in Art**

The first international amberConference will be held in conjunction with the amber'09 Art and Technology Festival on the 7th and 8th of November 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. The confere... [|**more**]
 * amberConference**

The prestigious V&A museum in London has been chosen to host the launch of the first edition of the International Festival of Scenic Arts, an international event c... [|**more**]
 * International Festival of Scenic Arts**

The exhibition James Tissot: "The Life of Christ" will include 124 watercolors selected from a set of 350 that depict detailed scenes from the New Testament, from befor... [|**more**]
 * James Tissot: The Life of Christ**

The San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design presents three concurrent exhibits July 24 through October 4, 2009 at its 550 Sutter Street location in San ... [|**more**]
 * New Exhibit at San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design**

Design Studies: A Reader, edited by Hazel Clark and David Brody, Berg, 2009, is a new publication aimed at those who want to understand the many complex roles of design, includ... [|**more**]
 * Design Studies: A Reader**

Technical expertise and a typical German, Bauhaus-inspired visual vocabulary are the trademarks of idee.design.licht. The Saxon lighting manufactory... [|**more**]
 * Sollos: Shining Corona Highlights Home and Office**

Rough Construction Chair started off as a kind of exploration that turned into a pretty nice little chair and stool. Like most things in the lumber yard, steel fra... [|**more**]
 * Rough Construction Chair by Kassen**

Duravit launched the 2nd floor collection, designed in collaboration with Sieger Design, in 2006. Inspired by the architec... [|**more**] ||
 * 2nd Round for 2nd Floor: Duravit Offers New Possibilities for Room Division**
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 * Design, Complexity, and Change: DMI Design / Management Annual 34**

At a time when the world's automakers are frantically trying to survive an economic downturn while simultaneously inventing new technologies to make... [|**more**]
 * California Car Design: Local Style, Global Influence**

For the first time, Hartmut Esslinger, internationally acclaimed designer and founder of frog design, inc., reveals the secrets to ... [|**more**]
 * A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business**

New York-based global materials consultancy Material ConneXion announced that an exhibition of winners from I.D. magazine... [|**more**]
 * Material ConneXion Presents I.D. Magazine's Annual Design Review Exhibition**

Design education is not keeping pace with the growing demand for new design professionals able to operate in a range of service-based environment... [|**more**]
 * Design and Society: Call for Change in Design Education**

A new publication for Victorian designers, The Case for Export, developed by Design Victoria in collaboration with Austrade, Australian Institute of... [|**more**]
 * The Case for Export: New Design Victoria Publication**

From May 25th to 31st, Belgrade Design Week for the fourth time transformed Belgrade into a platform for world's design scene, an inspiring place for international cre... [|**more**]
 * Belgrade Design Week 2009: Speed2**

Designed by Kilit Tasi Design Team under the leadership of Kunter Sekercioglu, the new Banat "Acrobat" toothbrush has... [|**more**]
 * Banat Acrobat: The New Patented Toothbrush Designed by Kilit Tasi Design**

This unique and charming exhibition, the first of its kind at any U.S. arts institution, charts the achievements of the Japanese... [|**more**]
 * Buriki: Japanese Tin Toys from the Golden Age of the American Automobile**

The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum today announced First Lady Michelle Obama will celebrate the... [|**more**]
 * First Lady Michelle Obama Celebrates the National Design Awards with Public Programs**

For Seoul City, design is leverage not only to upgrade its appearance but also innovate its administration. And Chung Kyung-won, the chief design officer... [|**more**]
 * Design to Make Seoul a Global City**

Design Interactions Department's show at the Royal College of Art explores new roles, contexts and approaches for design in relation to the social, cultural and ethica... [|**more**] || The newly elected board of directors for AIGA, the professional association for design, begins its term today. ... [|**more**]
 * RCA Design Interactions Show 2009**
 * New AIGA Leadership Joins National Board of Directors: Debbie Millman Assumes Presidency**

The first-ever CLIO Healthcare Awards is now accepting online entry submissions. The CLIO Healthcare Awards will honor creative excellence and innovation in advertising a... [|**more**]
 * CLIO Healthcare Awards 2009**

Fabrica, the Benetton communication research center, has been invited by the cultural space CarreRotondes in Luxemburg to prese... [|**more**]
 * Colors of Money: an Exhibition About Money by Fabrica and Colors Magazine**

Transport for London (TfL) is steeped in a history of innovative design which was built on the convictions of one man, Frank Pick whose energy ... [|**more**]
 * The Outer Limits: Transport for London Poster Competition**

Images is the showcase for the best of contemporary British illustration. Now in its 34th year, Images is the only independent, jury-sel... [|**more**]
 * Images 34: the Best of British Contemporary Illustration 2010**

David Droga, the Founder and Creative Chairman of Droga5, will present a seminar at this year's Spikes Asia Festival. Regarded as one of the most s... [|**more**]
 * David Droga to Deliver Seminar at Spikes Asia 2009**

TypeCon2009 explores type for the screen, Dutch design, type in motion, advertising typography, the new life of wood type, and much more. Special events include the premiere of "... [|**more**]
 * TypeCon2009: Rhythm**

Designer and writer Christopher Simmons (of MINE) is working on a new book about designing for the greater good. There is an open call for submissions t... [|**more**]
 * Request for Submissions: The Good Design Book**

Hosted by the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), the biennial Icograda World Design Congress will be held in Beijing, China for the first time. Fro... [|**more**]
 * Xin: Icograda World Design Congress Beijing 2009**

AIGA Nashville announced its inaugural class of winners for the CASE awards on Saturday. More than 125 awards were given for Web, motion, print, identity, i... [|**more**]
 * AIGA Nashville Gives Out Inaugural Awards**

The Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) announced David Gibson as the 2009 SEGD Fellow. Co-founder and managing principal of Two Twelve Associa... [|**more**]
 * David Gibson Announced as 2009 SEGD Fellow**

As one of the key strategists behind Cirque du Soleil's marketing machine, Bertrand Cesvet knows a thing or two about breaking barriers and mergin... [|**more**] || Les Arts Decoratifs is devoting a major exhibition to Madeleine Vionnet. In 1952, the couturiere donated 22 dresses, 750 dress patterns and 75 photo albums to L... [|**more**]
 * Bertrand Cesvet: IIDEX Announces 2009 Business Keynote**
 * Madeleine Vionnet: Puriste de la Mode**

The latest collections of six young Hong Kong fashion designers - Mandy Cheng, Chow Tan Tan, Spy Henry Lau, Hin Lee, DoDo Leung and Harrison Won... [|**more**]
 * Spotlight on Young Hong Kong Fashion Designers in Taiwan**

Harris Tweed Hebrides has won recognition from fashion leaders for the style and quality of its famous fabric. The Company, based on the... [|**more**]
 * Harris Tweed Hebrides is Scotland's Textile Brand of the Year**

The White House and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) have requested AIGA members' help in promoting public service opportunities ... [|**more**]
 * White House Calls on AIGA Members to Promote Community Service**

The advertising and marketing campaign that helped propel Barack Obama into the White House has been honored with the two top prizes - the Titanium ... [|**more**]
 * Obama for America Campaign Wins Top Prizes in Cannes**

The European branding and design network CB'a Design Solutions created the naming, branding and packaging design for the innovative r... [|**more**]
 * CB'a Design Solutions Designed the Packaging of Nirvana's Ice-cream**

The Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA) Queensland is hosting a Talking Design Public Lecture supported by the Queensland Government through Arts ... [|**more**]
 * Talking Design: Design and Progressive Change**

The third edition of the International Design Festival, Designfest '09, will be held in Expo Guadalajara from the 15th to the 17th of October 2009. This event will gather prominent p... [|**more**]
 * Designfest 2009**

The newest issue of PULSE is now available. In this issue, PDT talks about change: the discovery of change, including a few suggestions that can help you expand your "lifesphere", and ... [|**more**]
 * PULSE Issue 7**

Once again, the award-winning products from the red dot design award are presented this year in a two-volume book set - entitled "living" and "doing". The "livi... [|**more**]
 * The Red Dot Design Yearbook 2009/2010**

Design and technology experts attend the Mobile Phone Security Challenge networking event, held at the Design Coun... [|**more**]
 * Design and Technology Teams Win National Challenge to Design Crime Proof Mobile Phones**

When Universities talk about the use of teaching aids to assist with students' studies, they do not usually include a brand new ca... [|**more**] || The green, affordable multi-family home designs of fourteen acclaimed local, national and international architects were released today by Ma... [|**more**]
 * Coventry University' Budding Car Designers Given Ultimate Teaching Aid**
 * Make It Right Architects Introduce Pioneering Duplex Designs**

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has appointed Harry Rich as its new Chief Executive. He will take up his new post in October 2009. Harry join... [|**more**]
 * Harry Rich: New RIBA Chief Executive**

Jan Kaplicky, who died earlier this year aged 71, was the Czech architect responsible for some of the most remarkable buildings that Britain has ever s... [|**more**]
 * Remembering Jan Kaplicky: Architect of the Future**

Herning Museum of Contemporary Art will open to the public on September 9, 2009 uniting three distinct cultural institutions: the H... [|**more**]
 * Herning Museum of Contemporary Art Designed by Steven Holl Architects**

XERO Project, a proposal for a new urban agriculture district and zero-energy, mixed-use development in dow... [|**more**]
 * XERO Project Wins Re:Vision Design Competition for Zero-Energy Development in Downtown Dallas**

Most people know that poor air circulation and insufficient light- levels in the office can lead to chronic fatigue. But the trad... [|**more**]
 * LandWorks Professional Center: A New and Better Idea for Real Estate**

The International Code Council launched its International Green Construction Code (IGCC) initiative, which will reduce energy usage and the carbon footprint of co... [|**more**]
 * IGCC: Safe and Sustainable by the Book**

A new partnership between award-winning architects Marmol Radziner Prefab and Dwell magazine, has spawned a dynamic series o... [|**more**]
 * Marmol Radziner Prefab Teams Up with Dwell Magazine's Dwell Homes Collection**

Designboost released the six last Miniboost interviews which incude Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec, James Irvine, Kristina Dryza, Patricia Ur... [|**more**]
 * Are We Building for the Development of Greed or for Generosity?**

The competition to design a new College Chapel in Oxfordshire received an outstanding response with over 126 expressions of interest received from archite... [|**more**]
 * Bishop Edward King Chapel: Shortlist Announced**

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) announced an exhibition celebrating Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati, examining seven of his projects f... [|**more**]
 * RIBA Trust Presents Exhibition on Valerio Olgiati**

The Delft, The Netherlands-based cepezed architects have developed plans for a large temporary theatre on the Malieveld in The Hague, a large strech of lawn measuring... [|**more**] || Dexigner released the new Dexigner app for iPhone and iPod touch, an ideal companion for designers and design lovers. The application giv... [|**more**]
 * Cepezed Envisions Modern Colosseum**
 * Dexigner iPhone Application Now Available on Apple App Store**

DUCK Director Jan Chen just released a zany animated short featuring a communal home of anthropomorphic condoms promoting safe sex as a u... [|**more**]
 * DUCK's Jan Chen Creates Surreal Short Promoting Real Protection**

A tiny 3D purple pixel appears at the far edge of vision, then tumbles maniacally toward the viewer while issuing a Yahoo- esque yodel... [|**more**]
 * Purple Hunt: Tronic Studio Gives Pixels Life for Yahoo Philippines**

Flying - or modern day travel via air - evokes a variety of images but certainly rarely as beautiful or sublime as what... [|**more**]
 * Award-Winning Director Marc Forster Teams With James Nelson On New Swiss Air Film**

MTV has tapped 21Boom, the Manhattan-based creative and marketing services shop, to design and produce a show open and complete... [|**more**]
 * 21Boom Creates Show Open, Title Design for MTV's It's On With Alexa Chung**

Creative studio Nathan Love recently completed "Blood Trail," a three-minute animated trailer that promotes writer Matt Cochran's screenplay of the same name. Perspec... [|**more**]
 * Nathan Love Creates Blood Trail**

Animation is an exhibit about the science behind the art of animation. Visitors explore the process of animation from concept to finished produc... [|**more**]
 * Animation: Exhibition Explores Six Areas of Animation**

Spoofing the chic, sophisticated marketing of bottled water in the US, non-profit Water Partners International has unveiled a ... [|**more**]
 * Back Alley Films' Pete Meyer Directs Spot for Water Partners International**

The Mountain Dew / World of Warcraft cross-promotional spot brought together some all-star players to handle these iconic bran... [|**more**]
 * Director Tarsem Teams Up with Zoic Studios to Converge Fantasy and Reality**

Blurb, the creative publishing and marketing platform that enables anyone to design, publish, share and sell bookstore-quality bo... [|**more**]
 * Blurb Introduces PDF to Book: Delivering New Levels of Creative Control**

Bicoastal production/design studio Blind expands across the Atlantic with new representation by multidisciplinary production collective jelly, London. The newly ... [|**more**]
 * Blind Inks UK/Europe Deal with Jelly**

The 4th Festival of Lively Architecture organized by Association Champ Libre, took place in Montpellier from June 18th-21st 2009. Architects from ... [|**more**] || Songhai Creative presents African artist Tunde Owolabi's "African Elegance" the first major exhibition of new paintings... [|**more**]
 * Festival of Lively Architecture 2009 in Montpellier**
 * African Elegance: Renowned Artist Tunde Owolabi Brings African Elegance to London**

This exhibition features the architectural development for the urban district of the Moscow quarter "Sretenka". On the basis of the results of an urban study by Mosproje... [|**more**]
 * The Rediscovery of Sretenkas**

The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) announced L.A. in Wien / Wien in L.A, an exhibition featuring works by Hitoshi Abe, Peter Cook, Zaha Hadid, Thom ... [|**more**]
 * L.A. in Wien / Wien in L.A.**

As part of LEED v3, the latest version of the U.S. Green Building Council's program for green building design, construction, operations and maintenanc... [|**more**]
 * Buildings Seeking LEED to Provide Performance Data**

Bennetts Associates' award-winning Potterrow development has created an innovative learning environment for Edinbu... [|**more**]
 * Bennetts Associates' Potterrow Building: an Innovative Educational and Office Building**

Dublin based practice O'Donnell & Tuomey Architects have been chosen as the winners of the competition to design a new St... [|**more**]
 * Winner of London School of Economics New Students' Centre Competition Announced**

Van Alen Institute announced the upcoming exhibition Aesthetics of Crossing, on view at the Institute from Wednesday, July 1 - Friday... [|**more**]
 * Aesthetics of Crossing: Land Ports of Entry / Citizenship by Design**

Scientists at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography earlier this month occupied a new facility that enables them to expan... [|**more**]
 * Skidaway Institute of Oceanography Expands Scope of Research With New Building**

Serie Platone is a new family of architectural wall lamps. An immediate and discrete illuminating object whose design in characterized by a light curve separating it... [|**more**]
 * Serie Platone by Prandina**

A team of industrial design students from Swinburne University have taken an invention from a concept to a finished product. Inventor Bradley Wein approached the students with... [|**more**]
 * Down to Earth Lighting**

The Electrolux 2008 refrigeration collection in Australia has won the 2009 Award for Excellence in Sustainable Design in Standards... [|**more**]
 * Electrolux Wins Australian Award for Sustainable Design**

Disposable paper cups are not recyclable. The paper cup is made from a composite of materials: kraft bleached paper sprayed with a polyethylene coating. Paper cups a... [|**more**] || [|Design News] | [|Design Directory] | [|Design Database] | [|Dexigner Start] | [|Design Agenda] | [|Contact & About Us] | [|Forward] | [|Unsubscribe] July 2009
 * KeepCup: Hot Coffee, Cool Planet**

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