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Digital Crystal: Swarovski at the Design Museum
The Design Museum and Swarovski are collaborating with a new generation of designers, challenging them to examine the future of memory in the digital age.
Design/History/Revolution: The Intersections of Design and Revolutionary Movements Across Eight Centuries
Design/History/Revolution is an interdisciplinary conference exploring how design has shaped cultural, political, and scientific upheaval.
World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 Launches Milan Mobile App
World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 has launched an update to its WDC 2012 app for visitors on the move in Milan during Salone Internazionale del Mobile on April 17-22.
Communication Arts' 53rd Design & Advertising Competition
Communication Arts magazine is calling for entries for its 53rd annual Design and Advertising Competition.
Design Thinking Workshops
This workshop series, presented by the Design Exchange in collaboration with ACIDO and the City of Toronto, will provide a greater understanding of the value of Design Thinking and how it can be applied to different industry sectors.
Parsons Festival 2012
Parsons The New School for Design will present its the second annual Parsons Festival, which will take place May 1 through 20, 2012, and feature exhibitions, symposia, panel discussions, critiques and special projects that celebrate the next generation of artists and designers working in a range of disciplines.
Winners of the ADC 91st Annual Awards
The Art Directors Club announced the international winners of the prestigious ADC 91st Annual Awards.
Call for Applications to Journal of Design History Editorial Board
The Design History Society is inviting individuals who can make a distinctive and dynamic contribution to the development of design history to apply to join the Editorial Board of the Journal of Design History.
David Kester to Leave the Design Council
After nine years as Chief Executive of the Design Council, David Kester has announced that he will be leaving the Design Council at the end of June 2012. Until then, he will focus on major policy projects and special events.
Equal Rights for Design
ELLE Decoration UK has launched its Equal Rights for Design campaign to protect creativity, support originality, stop the exploitation of designers, and ultimately protect the reputation of Britain, world-renowned for its exceptional home-grown design talent. The campaign is supported by Sir Terence Conran and Sir James Dyson,
BIID Annual Conference 2012: Celebrating British Design
The BIID is launching its inaugural Annual Conference on June 21 with 'Celebrating British Design' as this years' theme.
Art Breaks: MTV to Debut Video Art from Ten Emerging Artists Throughout 2012
Art Breaks is a new series of ten original video art pieces by some of the most exciting emerging artists working around the world today.
Design Museum Collection App for iPad
The Design Museum released its first iPad Collection App featuring 59 objects from the museum's collection.
Fit In, Stand Out, Stand Apart
In the high stakes game of new business this is how designers can win. Used well, you can move from having no leverage to holding all the cards.
100% Design 2012
With a new director and new owners, 100% Design is getting a new format this year.
DMI International Research Conference 2012: Call for Papers
The Design Management Institute is soliciting submissions for an academic conference to be held August 8-9, 2012 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Icograda Design Week Sarawak 2012: Rediscovery
Rediscovery: Icograda Design Week in Sarawak 2012 will provide a platform for sharing, collaboration and inspiration among local and international designers in an atmosphere steeped in Sarawak's indigenous cultures and traditions.
President's Design Award 2012
The President's Design Award 2012 is now open for nominations. The President's Design Award is Singapore's most prestigious award that is accorded to designers and design projects, in recognition of their design excellence.
Creative Minds Monthly Design Competition: Form & Music
Nemetschek Vectorworks has launched Creative Minds, a monthly, charette-style competition.
Creative Week New York 2012
The 4th edition of Creative Week returns on May 7-11, 2012, with four major awards shows; an all-new, enriched roster of thought leadership programming; the Creative unConference, and new unique special events.
BauhausGuide: The App for the Bauhaus
BauhausGuide, a new app that offers a virtual tour of Bauhaus sights in Germany and around the world, is now available free in the App Store.
Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta: Now Available on Adobe Labs
Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta, a preview of what's to come in the next release of the industry standard in digital imaging, is now available as a free download from Adobe Labs. The final release is expected in the first half of 2012.
Designer As...: MFA Design Thesis Forum
Designer As... is a showcase of 18 exciting thesis proposals from the students in the MFAD program at SVA.
Pantone Lighting Indicator Stickers
Pantone today released Pantone Lighting Indicator Stickers to make it easy for designers and printers to ensure accurate lighting conditions for getting color right the first time.
New DX President, Shauna Levy, Drives Future of Canada's Design Museum
The Design Exchange (DX) today named Shauna Levy as the new President. Levy's appointment is part of a strategic plan in the revitalization of the 23-year-old DX, which will see expanded programming brought to the museum.
Stefan Sagmeister: The Happy Show
Graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister not only tests the boundary between art and design, he often transgresses it through his imaginative implementation of typography.
Team Dynamics: Resourcing for Success
Today, highly-sophisticated interaction concepts, digital user interfaces, brand guidelines and global markets add complexity to the development of products and services, which no longer can be addressed by individuals.
Show RCA 2012
This year, the Royal College of Art's annual summer show will include work by the greatest number of graduating students in the College's 175 year history.
Design the New Business
Design the New Business, a short documentary about how the design mindset is helping to evolve business thinking, is released online.
Cumulus Helsinki 2012 Conference
The Cumulus Helsinki 2012 conference will be held in Helsinki, May 24-26, 2012 by Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
Designing New York's Future
Design schools may be the real engines of New York City's innovation economy, according to a new report published today by the Center for an Urban Future, a Manhattan based think tank.
ADC Young Guns X
The Art Directors Club has launched ADC Young Guns 10 competition for creative professionals age 30 or younger.
APDF Leadership Exchange & Annual Meeting: Simulate to Stimulate
What are the barriers to your firms' success? How should you lead in the face of uncertainty?
iF Design Awards 2013
The iF Design Awards 2013 is now open for entries. Every year since 1953 the globally-recognised iF seal of quality has been awarded to the very best practitioners of product, communication and packaging design.
Best CreatiFes 2012
Best CreatiFes, a new reference book from iF, introduces the best creative personalities and companies from the international design sector, including designers, design studios and agencies, as well as design-focused companies and manufacturers.
IdN v19n1: Invitation Design
Whether it happens to be what they specialize in, or something that they are only called upon to undertake from time to time, almost all designers enjoy putting together the collateral for a meaningful private event.
Eventually Everything: The 2012 D-Crit Conference
The 2012 D-Crit Conference, featuring graduating students of the SVA MFA in Design Criticism, and moderated by Change Observer co-editor Julie Lasky, will take place on May 2, 2012 at the Visual Arts Theatre in New York City.
Designing Business Strategy: Creating Customer-centered, Holistic Strategies and Tactics
Increasingly, design thinkers are called on to solve the most challenging issues in business: how to thrive in an uncertain world, how to innovate in a regulated industry, or how to increase customer demand for products that been overextended.
PantoneLIVE: Manage Color in the Cloud
PantoneLIVE is a cloud-based color service that provides instant access to essential brand color standards.
Adobe Photoshop Touch for iPad 2
Adobe Photoshop Touch is now available for iPad 2, offering core Photoshop features, as well as new capabilities for creating and sharing in an app custom-built for tablets.
Cambridge Consultants Unveils Bluetooth Low Energy Enabled iPhone Applications for Mobile Health
Cambridge Consultants, today announced new Bluetooth low energy (BLE) iPhone 4S applications developed to meet the needs of the growing mobile health (mHealth) market.
SVA/BBC Design Film Festival
SVA/BBC Design Film Festival will feature a once-in-a-lifetime chance to view groundbreaking BBC films that have never previously been screened in the United States.
Happiness: Pantone View Colour Planner Fall-Winter 2013-2014
The Fall/Winter 2013/2014 edition of Pantone View Colour Planner is now available. Looking at color as a total language, this multi-discipline color forecast, titled Happiness, highlights the key color palettes for women's wear, menswear, active wear, cosmetics and lifestyle, as well as industrial and graphic design.
Balancing Extremes: The Tensions in Design
We are no longer competing in an either-or-world. It has never been more important to break through classic trade-offs for ultimate success in getting the best products, services and experiences to market.
Why Design Firms Must Leverage Their Right Brain
When I started in business I had no idea what "leverage" was, let alone how to use it. The prospect of negotiating a fee for my work terrified me, which is probably why I became a designer.
Design Leaders Optimistic About Business in 2012
AIGA's Design Leaders Confidence Index began to rise again in the most recent quarter. For the fourth quarter of 2011, the index rose from 86.63 to 100.71 - higher than all but four quarters since AIGA began monitoring confidence in April 2005.
European Design Awards 2012
The European Design Awards 2012, a comprehensive annual awards program that recognizes the best of graphic design, illustration and digital design in Europe, is now open for entries.
Director of Civic Voice Moves to Design Council
The Design Council announced the appointment of Tony Burton as its new Director of Policy and Communications to lead the organisation's work as a centre of insight and advice to industry, education, communities and government on the role of design.
Designed in USA
The Designed in USA brand certification mark is a new identifier and brand enhancer for goods, services and environments designed in the United States.
Red Dot Design Concept Yearbook iPad Application
This year's annual red dot design concept yearbook has taken a leap to make good ideas accessible to more design enthusiasts - with a touch, a swipe or a tap only.
Design Council Road-show to Help Businesses Use Design to Survive, Thrive and Grow
A new Design Council initiative takes design to where small and medium businesses are, and helps them access mentoring in how to use design to survive, thrive and grow.
Bill's Design Talks 2012
Bill's Design Talks, a vibrant conversation and presentation series moderated by Cooper-Hewitt director Bill Moggridge, resumes in February and continues through June at the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at New York Public Radio.
The Five Fears of Negotiating Design Fees
A few weeks ago I led a negotiation seminar with my colleague Charles Wiggins, who was my negotiation coach back in 1998. We hired him to improve The Leonhardt Group's ability to bargain with large corporate clients.
SVA MFA Design Criticism Lecture Series: Spring 2012
SVA MFA Design Criticism Lecture Series, held on Tuesday evenings at D-Crit, presents the most interesting and provocative writers, editors, designers, thinkers, and curators practicing today.
Ventura Lambrate 2012: Focus
Ventura Lambrate, an exhibition that presents international design talents, will be in Milan from April 17 to 22, 2012, simultaneously with the 51st Salone Internazionale del Mobile.
Core77 Design Awards 2012
The second annual Core77 Design Awards is now open for entries. Recognizing excellence in all areas of design enterprise, the Core77 Design Awards celebrates the richness of the design profession and its practitioners.
Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation
Backed by strong support from The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) Charities Trust, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has brought together multi-disciplinary expertise for the establishment of Hong Kong's first Design Institute for Social Innovation.
Metropolis Names 12 Game Changers in Special January Issue
Metropolis released its second annual Game Changers issue, hitting newsstands later this month.
Winners of the 2011 Good Design Awards
The Chicago Athenaeum announced the winners of the 2011 Good Design Awards.
Catch 22: National UCDA Design Education Summit
The eighth annual National UCDA Design Education Summit will convene in Blacksburg, Virginia, May 21-22, 2012.
Royal College of Art Celebrates Its 175th Anniversary
In 2012 the Royal College of Art will be celebrating its dodransbicentennial - 175 years since it was founded in 1837.
AZ Awards 2012
AZURE Magazine's international competition celebrating excellence in design is open for submissions.
Art Directors Club Announces ADC 91st Annual Awards Juries
The Art Directors Club has announced juries for Photography, Illustration and Motion categories for the ADC 91st Annual Awards.
The 2012 Designs of the Year
The Design Museum announced the longlist for the fifth annual Designs of the Year Awards. Showcasing a year in design, the 2012 longlist is a celebration of the best in global designs.
Material ConneXion Opens Shanghai Location
Material ConneXion has opened a new office in Shanghai, it's second in China, to support clients with business interests in the region.
WDC Helsinki 2012 Released Its Mobile App
The World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 app was released today, offering digital program listings, always up-to-the-minute and easy to carry around.
Design for Innovation
To coincide with the UK government's innovation and research strategy for growth, the Design Council has published Design for Innovation, a document containing facts, figures and practical plans for growth.
Fjord Digital Trends 2012: Forecast Covering Tablets, Auto, Mobile, Banking, and More
Fjord released its digital trend predictions for 2012. With the digital landscape rapidly evolving, the new year will be a tipping point for emerging trends that will define and pave the way for future digital innovation.
BIO 23: Biennial of Industrial Design
The Biennial of Industrial Design (BIO) is an international design exhibition that, through its selection of well-designed works and emphasis on quality, originality, and innovation, presents current trends in contemporary design.
8th International Conference on Design & Emotion
The 8th International Design & Emotion Conference will be held from September 11 through 14, 2011 at the Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, London.
Design Industry Voices 2011
New evidence of the reality of the Britain's faltering economic recovery emerged today, in a survey which shows that digital and design agencies are increasingly being asked to work for free.
Media Trends 2012: Bring It On
We talk to entertainment consumers all the time - about shows, about apps, about print, about themselves, about TV and other entertainment devices that use electricity.
A New Year: A New Definition of Luxury
Although luxury prevails as the champion recession-proof market segment, these last three down years have none-the-less created a dramatic shift in the definition of luxury.
Restarting Britain: Design Education and Growth
Restarting Britain: Design Education and Growth, an inaugural report from the Design Commission explores the link between the UK's national design capacity, and economic growth in the 21st century.
Shared Voices: The RISD Presidential Speaker Series
Rhode Island School of Design announced the inaugural Shared Voices: The RISD Presidential Speaker Series, kicking off with special guest Juan Enriquez on Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 7:30PM in the RISD Auditorium.
Design Week Awards 2012
The Design Week Awards are back, with a brand new judging panel and a unique new venue.
Curious Minds: New Approaches in Design
Curious Minds: New Approaches in Design is a new exhibition that challenges our definitions of design and encourages a new discourse about the role design plays in shaping our world.
AIA NY Medal of Honor Redesign Competition: Call for Entries
The AIA New York Chapter announced a competition for the redesign of the Medal of Honor.
What Design Means to Me
The Design Council commissioned a one-off book to mark HRH The Duke of Edinburgh's contribution to the promotion of UK design featuring a collection of illustrations from previous winners or designers nominated for the Prince Philip Designers Prize.
Parsons Launches MS in Strategic Design and Management
Parsons The New School for Design has announced a new Master of Science in Strategic Design and Management, which will launch in fall 2012.
2012 Adobe Design Achievement Awards: Call for Entries
2012 Adobe Design Achievement Awards is now open for entries. The competition recognizes the best student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers and computer artists from higher education institutions worldwide who have created innovative projects using Adobe software.
Pantone Color of the Year 2012: Tangerine Tango
Pantone today revealed Tangerine Tango, a vivacious, enticing hue, as the color of the year for 2012.
Design/Leadership Europe 16 Conference: Collective Design
Collaboration is design's competitive advantage in today's world. Together with a laser focus on the user as part of a group or an individual, design leads solutions to an inclusive, integrated and inspiring process that transforms experiences for a better life.
Dress: The Second SVA D-Crit Chapbook
Untangling the sartorial signifiers and unique style of public figures from various corners of the pop culture circuit-including Julian Schnabel, Dora the Explorer, Steve Jobs and Muammar al-Gadaffi-Dress assembles eleven essays by writers from the School of Visual Arts' pioneering Design Criticism MFA program, with illustrations by Peter Arkle.
2013 IDEO.org Fellowship Program
IDEO.org is seeking designers for the 2013 IDEO.org Fellowship Program, which enables candidates from the design, business, and social sectors to spend one year working with experienced IDEO designers to address poverty-related challenges through human-centered design.
2012 Design Management Journal: Call for Papers
The 2012 issue of DMI's annual peer-reviewed publication, the Design Management Journal, will focus on Design Leadership. DMI is seeking submissions of a broad range of papers within this overarching theme.
First Design Council Forum Concludes That Government Should Have a Design Strategy
The first Design Council Forum of nearly 100 leaders in design, business, government and education has cautiously agreed that government should have a design strategy.
Design Museum Adds M1 Motorway Sign, AK-47 Rifle and Sony Walkman to Its Collection
The Design Museum has added 13 classics to its collection. They include a Sony Walkman, a Kalashnikov AK-47 rifle and an example of the motorway signage system, whose standardised typeface, designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert in 1960, has not changed to this day.
Quentin Blake Wins Prince Philip Designers Prize 2011
Quentin Blake, one of Britain's best-loved illustrators and the man who created the world-famous images of the Big Friendly Giant and Matilda, named the winner of the 2011 Prince Philip Designers Prize by HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at a ceremony at the Design Council in London.
zSpace: 3D Holographic Visualization
Infinite Z today launched zSpace, a new 3D holographic visualization product. zSpace provides a highly realistic 3D visualization experience that enables designers and engineers to work with product designs in a way not previously possible in a traditional 2D computing environment.
Upcoming 3D, GPS and Plot to Print Capabilities for AutoCAD WS
Several new features to be added to the next release of AutoCAD WS, a free web and mobile application that enables users to view, edit and share AutoCAD projects across desktop, web and mobile devices.
Artists and Arts Workers in the United States
There are 2.1 million artists in the United States workforce, and a large portion of them - designers - contribute to industries whose products Americans use every day, according to new research from the National Endowment for the Arts.
ADC 91st Annual Awards
ADC 91st Annual Awards is now open for entries. Strenuously and scrupulously judged, the not-for-profit ADC's Annual Awards is one of the most venerable shows in the world.
Designers Express Declining Optimism Toward Economy, Though Still Cautiously Optimistic
AIGA's Design Leaders Confidence Index continued to drop in the most recent quarter. For the third quarter of 2011, the index slipped from 92.27 to 86.63-the lowest measure since the second quarter of 2009.
DesignLove Exhibition at Luminaire
DesignLove stems from an original collaboration between Intramuros and DuPont. Gifted to Luminaire for the 2011 edition of the design showroom's philanthropic Love Series, the exhibition boasts original works in DuPont Corian solid surfaces, shown together for the first time, to be sold through an online auction benefiting the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami.
AIGA's New Case Study Competition Helps Demonstrate the Value of Design
How do we measure the success of design's impact? And more important, how can designers be equipped to describe the effectiveness of communication design?
In Studio: Recipes for Systemic Change
In Studio: Recipes for Systemic Change is a free book on strategic design from Helsinki Design Lab.
Royal Designers for Industry 2011
Six of the UK's best designers are to be recognised for their outstanding contribution to design and society by becoming Royal Designers for Industry (RDI) at an award ceremony held at the RSA on November 17.
Adobe Touch Apps Available in Android Market
Adobe Touch Apps, a family of six intuitive touch screen applications, inspired by Adobe Creative Suite software, to bring professional-level creativity to millions of tablet users, are now available in the Android Market.