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Power to the Pedal  Design an Accessory for the Bicycle
Power to the Pedal : Design an Accessory for the Bicycle
The push to make bicycling a regular form of transportation for people across the world is now gaining momentum in light of global problems such as po...
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Winners of Volvo SportsDesign EcoDesign Awards 2008 Announced
Winners of Volvo SportsDesign EcoDesign Awards 2008 Announced
The results for the 4th annual Volvo SportsDesign Awards are in. Winners hail from France, Italy, Austria, Germany, Sweden and the U.S. At a gra...
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Focus Green 2008  Call for Entries
Focus Green 2008 : Call for Entries
The Design Center Stuttgart, run by the government of Baden-Württemberg, is calling for entries for the Baden-Württemberg International Design Award, ...
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No Limited  Dutch-Hungarian Design Festival
No Limited : Dutch-Hungarian Design Festival
WAMP is organising a Dutch-Hungarian design festival in the framework of the LOW cultural festival organised by the Dutch Embassy and Flemish Represen...
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The Design History Society 2008 Conference
The Design History Society 2008 Conference
Networks of Design responds to recent academic interest in the fields of design history, technology and the social sciences in the 'networks' of inter...
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Designboost at Stockholm Furniture Fair
Designboost at Stockholm Furniture Fair
Designboost and Stockholm Furniture Fair, the premier design fair in Scandinavia, start a collaboration. During the period 6-10 February Designboos...
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Ultra Materials  How Materials Innovation Is Changing the World
Ultra Materials : How Materials Innovation Is Changing the World
Smart substances, intelligent interfaces, and sensory surfaces are redefining the world we live in, from self-cleaning materials based on the surface ...
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Viktor Schreckengost Has Died at Age 101
Viktor Schreckengost Has Died at Age 101
Viktor Schreckengost, a Cleveland artist, teacher and industrial designer who transformed America through his own work and that of the generations of ...
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Creative Ideas for United Bottle
Creative Ideas for United Bottle
The team of Instant Architects from Switzerland developed "United Bottle", a novel concept that implements used water bottles as a building material i...
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Rapid Manufacturing Gains Ground, Survey Finds
Rapid Manufacturing Gains Ground, Survey Finds
Mass production in the Western world is on the brink of a silent revolution and e-Manufacturing is an important part of that change. These are some...
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Designfest 2008
Designfest 2008
The second edition of the International Design Festival, DESIGNFEST '08, is a mix of conferences, workshops and exhibition concerning all the areas of...
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European Design Conference
European Design Conference
European Design Week, a series of exciting design events including exhibitions, presentations and receptions, is taking place in Stockholm between May...
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Cobra Appoints Landor as New Design Agency
Cobra Appoints Landor as New Design Agency
Cobra Beer has named branding specialists Landor Associates as its new design agency. Landor, Marketing magazine's Design Agency of the Year 2007 (...
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New Brand for Didcot by Lloyd Northover
New Brand for Didcot by Lloyd Northover
Lloyd Northover, the brand strategy and creative design agency, has been appointed to develop a brand for Didcot, South Oxfordshire to inspire and gui...
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The Best and Worst Rebrandings of 2007
The Best and Worst Rebrandings of 2007
2007 saw some huge companies rip their logos up and start again. Self- confessed brand junkie Armin Vit tells Media Circus his best and worst of th...
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Where the Truth Lies  a Symposium on Propaganda Today
Where the Truth Lies : a Symposium on Propaganda Today
As the presidential race shifts into high gear, Americans are inundated with propaganda. Where does truth end and "spin" begin? Madison Avenue v...
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HOW InHOWse Design Awards 2008
HOW InHOWse Design Awards 2008
When you're a designer, corporate employee recognition programs just don't cut it. But HOW can help you get the attention you deserve. HOW Magaz...
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How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer
How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer
This book presents a series of illuminating and entertaining conversations with twenty-one of today's most influential and revered designers: Milto...
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PEEL  The Art of the Sticker
PEEL : The Art of the Sticker
Dave and Holly Combs traveled to New York City from Indianapolis, Indiana, to assist with Sept. 11 recovery efforts. While exploring Manhattan duri...
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Polling Place Photo Project
Polling Place Photo Project
NYTimes.com announced today its launch of the Polling Place Photo Project, a nationwide experiment that encourages voters to submit photographs of eve...
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Pantone Unveils Fashion Color Report Fall 2008
Pantone Unveils Fashion Color Report Fall 2008
Pantone released the PANTONE Fashion Color Report Fall 2008. The report features the top 10 colors for women's fashion for fall '08, along with des...
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YKK Its Seven Accessories Competition
YKK Its Seven Accessories Competition
Together with the fashion competition that is the core of ITS, ITS#ACCESSORIES completes the spectrum on the most creative young talents in fashion wi...
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Toronto Alternative Arts and Fashion Week
Toronto Alternative Arts and Fashion Week
The Toronto Alternative Arts & Fashion Week (FAT) is Toronto's first-ever alternative arts & fashion event. With "alternative" defining our style c...
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SAIC Launches One of Few Graduate Fashion Programs
SAIC Launches One of Few Graduate Fashion Programs
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is proud to announce the Master of Design in Fashion, Body and Garment, the newest addition to a suite of g...
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Nike s Head of Footwear Design Moves to New Role at Converse
Nike's Head of Footwear Design Moves to New Role at Converse
Nike announced that John Hoke, Vice President of Global Footwear Design for the Nike brand, is moving into the newly created role of Vice President, G...
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Recykling Multiplikacje  Recycling Fashion Show From Sapu
Recykling Multiplikacje : Recycling Fashion Show From Sapu
"Eco-fashion" refers to stylized clothing that uses environmentally sensitive fabrics and responsible production techniques. The Polish academy SAP...
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ArtOrnamento 2008
ArtOrnamento 2008
ArtOrnamento has become a regular appointment with experimental jewellery, where ex-students from the prestigious contemporary jewellery school Alchim...
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Medieval Fashion Inspires Winning Dress in the Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Compet
Medieval Fashion Inspires Winning Dress in the Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Compet
Only in high school and already determined to have a career in fashion design, 18-year-old Tanya Lund is one step closer to making her dream a reality...
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Speakers Announced for Design Value DMI Singapore 08
Speakers Announced for Design Value DMI Singapore 08
The Design Management Institute (DMI) is pleased to announce its major new international conference, Design|Value DMI Singapore, will be held this 13-...
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LG-KF510  Slimly Tailored to Your Style
LG-KF510 : Slimly Tailored to Your Style
LG-KF510 is a stylish, fashionable phone catering to users' demand for slimmer phones with unique design accents. At just 10.9 mm thick, the LG-KF5...
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Imbalanced Structure at Stockholm Furniture Fair
Imbalanced Structure at Stockholm Furniture Fair
At Stockholm Furniture Fair, the prominent young designers Erika Janunger and Fredrik Färg describe some of the most important aspects of spatial expe...
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Extreme Housing  3rd International Architecture Competition for Sustainable Housing
Extreme Housing : 3rd International Architecture Competition for Sustainable Housing
Living Steel is once again asking architects to take up the challenge to develop sustainable housing for the world's burgeoning housing shortage. T...
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IDS08  Interior Design Show 2008
IDS08 : Interior Design Show 2008
The Interior Design show celebrates ten years of success with IDS08, February 21 - 24. Since its inception in 1998, over half a million design prof...
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AIA Urges Congress to Consider Green Stimulus Proposals
AIA Urges Congress to Consider Green Stimulus Proposals
As Congress and the Administration discuss additional proposals to stimulate the nation's economy, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) is advoc...
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London Milan 2008  The Dual City Summer Sessions
London Milan 2008 : The Dual City Summer Sessions
Students and new designers from around the world are once again invited to enrol onto the London Milan Summer Sessions for four weeks of design tuitio...
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Design Steps Up in the Fight Against Obesity
Design Steps Up in the Fight Against Obesity
Two in three men and three in four women in England don't get enough exercise, but the good news is that the answer lies on our doorstep. CABE has ...
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The Building Futures Game
The Building Futures Game
Building Futures, the Royal Institute of British Architects' (RIBA) think tank with CABE and architectural practice The AOC, today launches the "The B...
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Sustainable Interiors  Material and Product Selection
Sustainable Interiors : Material and Product Selection
This course provides conceptual frames and analytical tools and focuses on simple methods and spreadsheet-based tools to guide the green novice or vet...
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Arts Space of the Future
Arts Space of the Future
Arts Space of the Future competition, set by RIBA London and Arts Council England, asked London architects and students to consider the shape and form...
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Breathegroup Strengthens Its Design Team Twice Over
Breathegroup Strengthens Its Design Team Twice Over
Cambridge based workplace interior and fit out specialist breathegroup has added two high quality strings to its bow with the appointments of two new ...
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Sound Lounge Smothers
Sound Lounge Smothers
Sound Lounge's Cory Melious created the sound design for the 26-minute short film, Smother which was conceived by artist Luis Gispert as part of his E...
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Microsoft Mouse Awards
Microsoft Mouse Awards
Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions today announces the launch of the MOUSE Awards, its fourth annual European digital creative competition. Re...
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Interaction Design Lab Workshops 4th Round
Interaction Design Lab Workshops 4th Round
Id-Lab organizes the forth series of workshops on new technologies, both hardware and software: technologies as working tools for designers, artists, ...
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Paul Cocksedge Studio Reveals Their Latest Commission on London s Euston Road
Paul Cocksedge Studio Reveals Their Latest Commission on London's Euston Road
Paul Cocksedge Studio has been commissioned by The Wellcome Trust to produce a major display that will illuminate Euston Road in central London. A ...
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Supernatural Presents  Digital Dreams
Supernatural Presents : Digital Dreams
Continuing on from Supernatural's previous lectures exploring the development of visual effects and computer animation, this next installment introduc...
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Imaginary Forces Creates Lyrical Opening Sequence for Definitely, Maybe
Imaginary Forces Creates Lyrical Opening Sequence for Definitely, Maybe
Entertainment and design company Imaginary Forces (IF) recently created a charming main title sequence for the Universal Pictures' romantic comedy "De...
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Involution Master Academy  Design Research Methods
Involution Master Academy : Design Research Methods
This course will provide first-hand knowledge and training in core design research methods. At its root, design research emphasizes learning about ...
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Elijah Raps  Shilo Directs Young Rapper for Cartoon Network Promo
Elijah Raps : Shilo Directs Young Rapper for Cartoon Network Promo
Shilo, the Emmy Award-winning directing group with an affinity for authoring stories that elicit emotional impact, recently completed work on a new pr...
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China on Its Way to Becoming World s Largest Online Market
China on Its Way to Becoming World's Largest Online Market
JWT, the largest advertising agency in the U.S. and the fourth largest full-service network in the world, today released "The Han Internet," a trendle...
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Viewpoint Creative Brings HBO s Year-End Image Spot to Life
Viewpoint Creative Brings HBO's Year-End Image Spot to Life
A centerpiece to HBO's on-air branding is their annual year-end spot. Once again, the network has turned to award-winning creative agency Viewpoint...
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Collecting Collections  Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the MOCA
Collecting Collections : Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the MOCA
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), for the first time in its 29-year history, dedicates the entire MOCA Grand Avenue galleries to the most compreh...
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MOCA Hosts a Special Talk with Japanese Artist Takashi Murakami
MOCA Hosts a Special Talk with Japanese Artist Takashi Murakami
Japanese artist Takashi Murakami returns to MOCA for a special talk about his acclaimed exhibition MURAKAMI, on view now at The Geffen Contemporary at...
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Traditional Building Design Team Challenge
Traditional Building Design Team Challenge
The 2008 Traditional Building Design Challenge invites your team to be inspired by the wide array of Colonial, Classical, Victorian, and Modernist sty...
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Cityscape  The Book
Cityscape : The Book
Cityscape is a colossal wooden sculpture in Brussels' Quartier Louise. With it, the artist and designer Arne Quinze has shown how creative visions ...
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Travel + Leisure Announces the Winners of the Fourth Annual Design Awards
Travel + Leisure Announces the Winners of the Fourth Annual Design Awards
Nancy Novogrod, editor-in-chief of Travel + Leisure, announces that the Ritz-Carlton Beijing, Financial Street; the Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle; a...
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Trend USA Premieres the Liberty Collection of Glass Mosaic Tile
Trend USA Premieres the Liberty Collection of Glass Mosaic Tile
Trend USA is premiering LIBERTY, a new collection of transparent glass mosaic tile designed by Giulio Candussio. The hand cut glass tile containing...
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Archidemo  Architecture in Metaverse
Archidemo : Architecture in Metaverse
"Archidemo" is experimental demonstration and research for the possibility of the architecture and environmental design in Metaverse. In "Archidemo...
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Zoic Studios Helps Make American Idol Promo Larger Than Life
Zoic Studios Helps Make American Idol Promo Larger Than Life
Fox recently tapped Zoic Studios and the company's creative acumen to produce a high-energy promo for the pop culture phenomenon American Idol that se...
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Business and Design Lecture Series at the Red Dot Design Museum, Singapore
Business and Design Lecture Series at the Red Dot Design Museum, Singapore
Design is one of the main factors for economic success. However, how can design be successfully integrated in marketing? red dot academy pursued th...
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Image Source Comes Out on Top
Image Source Comes Out on Top
Image Source, the world's leading independent producer of royalty free stock photography, has been named as one of the UK's best employers. The com...
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