Multidisciplinary Design News
Seymourpowell and Heston Blumenthal Create Breathtaking Mechanical Sweet Shop for Fat Duck Restaurant
Seymourpowell and Heston Blumenthal have created a breathtaking mechanical sweet shop for Fat Duck restaurant in Bray, Berkshire.
Microsoft and Steelcase Introduce Office for Creative Work
Microsoft and Steelcase have unveiled jointly-designed Creative Spaces - a range of five technology enabled spaces designed to help organizations foster creative thinking and better collaboration.
Boston Design Week 2017
The fourth Boston Design Week will take place March 29 - April 9, 2017. The 12-day citywide design festival will feature an array of more than 80 programs and events across the design spectrum -- from fashion and interior design to product design, student fabrication labs, museums, and technology.
MADWORKSHOP Announces Open Call for 2017 Fellowship Program
Madworkshop, a design incubator based in Los Angeles, has announced an open call for two design fellowships for 2017 addressing the theme of Emergency Architecture.
Melbourne Art Book Fair 2017
A never-ending book club, an international symposium on typography, an Australian zine showcase and a Wikipedia edit-a-thon are among the fifty events of the third annual Melbourne Art Book Fair, which will take place at NGV International from March 16-19, 2017.
Universal Design 2017 Conference NYC
Universal Design Conference, an inaugural event bringing together leading professionals from the fields of architecture and design, technology, healthcare, education and government, is being hosted to promote accessibility and ensure inclusion and equality for people of diverse abilities and backgrounds, no matter their size or age.
Tilemark Trace by Form Us With Love
Form Us With Love has recently unveiled Trace, the first ever collection for new Swedish tile pattern printer, Tilemark.
This Human: How to Be the Person Designing for Other People
With the increasing popularity of design thinking and human-centred design we've also seen more material discussing various aspects of the practice. One missing aspect, almost in an ironic twist, is what it takes to be the actual person who is doing the designing.
Foresso: The Timber Terrazzo
Conor Taylor, the designer of Foresso, has invented a new way to repurpose beautiful British timber for an original take on traditional terrazzo.
National High School Design Competition: Good for All
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has today launched its second nationwide competition for high school students. Organized in collaboration with Target, "National High School Design Competition: Good for All" invites students to submit design ideas that improve access to healthy, fresh foods for a community that lacks it.
2017 Core77 Design Awards
Submissions are now open for the 2017 Core77 Design Awards. Core77 invites designers from all over the world to put their best work forward for the seventh edition of the competition.
Refugee Shelter Named Best Design of 2016 by Design Museum
Better Shelter has been named the Beazley Design of the Year by Design Museum for its outstanding contribution towards the global issue of population displacement.
It's LIQUID Contest: 4th Edition
The fourth It's LIQUID Contest is now open for submissions. The contest offers a great opportunity for artists, architects and designers to present their works in galleries and art spaces in the most influential cities in the world.
Be Original Americas Announces Second Annual Summer Design Fellowship
Be Original Americas is calling for applications for its second annual Summer Design Fellowship, an unparalleled opportunity for two college students to gain real world, hands-on experience about all it takes to make, distribute, and sell great design from industry leading companies across the country.
Nix Pro Color Sensor
The Nix Pro Color Sensor is a real-life eyedropper tool that can scan any surface and provide digital color measurement in RGB, CMYK, HEX, CLAB, and more.
Adobe Showcases Sensei Technology Innovations
Adobe Research has released three videos this week showcasing innovation, leveraging Adobe Sensei technology, that the team has cooking behind the scenes.
2017 Fuller Challenge
The 10th Fuller Challenge will open for applications January 13, 2017. A $100,000 prize will be awarded to support the development and implementation of one winning strategy.
Wacom Unveils New Intuos Pro, Intuos Pro Paper Edition and Small Bamboo Folio
Wacom has today unveiled the new generation of Intuos Pro and Intuos Pro Paper Edition pen and touch tablets for creatives, and the small Bamboo Folio smartpad for consumers, students and professionals on the go.
Additive World Conference 2017
The 5th Additive World Conference will be held March 15-16 at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven. The Conference aims showcase the latest on industrial additive manufacturing from a broad perspective and offers a platform to exchange visions, knowledge, applications and experiences.
Oi: The Knog Bike Bell Wins 2016 Victorian Premier's Design Award of the Year
Oi: The Knog Bike Bell, a revolutionary new take on the traditional bicycle bell designed and developed by Catalyst Design Group, has been awarded the 2016 Victorian Premier's Design Award of the Year, the highest honour for design and innovation in the state.
InstruMMents Introduces Pro App and 01Go
InstruMMents last week unveiled its Pro App, making 01 the world's most portable 3D curve scanner. 01 rolls over objects to capture contours, wirelessly connecting to smartphones.
The Drum Design Awards 2017
The 2017 Drum Design Awards is now open for entries. Now in its fourth year, the Drum Design Awards recognize the industry's best design feats of the year.
2017 Good Design Awards
The 2017 Good Design Awards are now open for entries. Managed by Good Design Australia, the Good Design Awards program is recognised by the World Design Organization (WDO) as Australia's peak design endorsement program and rewards excellence in design, innovation and creativity at a national and international level.
2017 Design Management Institute Symposium: Smart Innovation
The 2017 Design Management Institute Symposium will be held March 8-9 at the BMW Welt Business Center in Munich. The focus of the event is "Smart Innovation: Connecting Design to Strategy," an introduction into the value of design as a means to clarify business strategy, align organizations, and catalyze innovation.
Wallpaper* Launches Danish Christmas Market in London
Wallpaper* has launched its 2016 Hygge Christmas Market to bring the best in Danish interiors, craft, fashion and food to London.
4th Boston Design Week: Call for Events
A 'Call for Events' has been issued for the 4th Annual Boston Design Week, a 12-day citywide design festival taking place March 29 - April 9, 2017. Non-profit organizations, government agencies, businesses, individuals and designer collaboratives are invited to propose events for Boston Design Week.
Adobe Adds Touch Bar Support to Photoshop CC
Adobe has today released an updated Photoshop CC that features custom support for Apple's Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro.
Design for Good by Aquent
Aquent is calling for submissions for its Design for Good grants program. The program will offer five $5,000 grants to nonprofits to hire graphic designers who are passionate about the nonprofits' work and propose design projects.
2017 O'Reilly Design Conference
The second O'Reilly Design Conference will be held March 19-22 at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco. The event aims to arm designers with the skills, connections, and inspiration to create the products and services of today and tomorrow.
PANTONE Color of the Year 2017: Greenery
PANTONE has revealed the 2017 Color of the Year, Greenery, a fresh and zesty yellow-green shade symbolizes new beginnings, evoking the first days of spring when natures greens revive, restore, and renew.
RGD Announces Recipients of Inaugural In-House Awards Program
The Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) has revealed the recipients of the 2016 In-House Design Awards, an inaugural awards program showcasing the best design being done in-house.
FITC Amsterdam X
Now in its 10th year, FITC Amsterdam returns to host the groundbreaking design and tech event on the future of innovation, design and all the cool stuff in between.
2017 Toronto Design Offsite Festival
The 2017 Toronto Design Offsite Festival (TO DO) will showcase talent throughout the city from January 16-22, featuring self-produced work from over 400 independent, local, national, and international designers and artists.
Design Shanghai 2017
Design Shanghai, Asia's leading international design event, will return to the historic Shanghai Exhibition Centre from March 8 to 11, 2017. Reinforced by the success of a record-breaking 2016 edition, Design Shanghai has successfully matured and, in a few short years, earned its place alongside the most established design events in the world.
TechnoArt Conference 2016
TechnoArt, an international conference on innovation and creativity, will take place in Tel Aviv on December 13-16, 2016. The 3-day conference will celebrate the world of innovation in the digital era and will be hosted by the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
California at Design Museum
The Design Museum's new exhibition 'California' will bring together political posters, personal computers and self-driving cars to reveal how this culture of design and technology has made us all Californians. The exhibition will also look beyond hardware to explore how user interface designers in the Bay Area are shaping some of our most common daily experiences.
Barilla Smart Pasta: 3D Shapes with a Purpose
Barilla launched an international design competition for the designs of new pasta shapes to be 3D printed through their exclusive technology to be presented at Expo 2015 and Cibus 2016.
2017 Creative Conscience Awards
Creative Conscience, a not-for-profit organisation that aims to improve the communities in which we live and work and in turn help transform the wider world, has announced a call for entries for its 2017 Creative Conscience Awards. The Awards scheme accepts entries from around the world for all creative disciplines.
Biomimicry Global Design Challenge 2017
Entries are now open for the 2017 Biomimicry Global Design Challenge. The contest calls for design concepts addressing any aspect of climate change adaptation, mitigation, and reversal in any sector of the economy.
iF Design Talent Award 2017
Entries are now open for the 2017 iF Design Talent Award. Organized by iF, the competition aims to promote smart and innovative concepts in all areas of design.
Wacom Cintiq Pro
Wacom recently unveiled Cintiq Pro 13 and Cintiq Pro 16, new digital pen displays that bridge the gap between inspiration and expression, empowering professional and serious creators of digital content to take their artistry to the next level.
IBM + AIGA Partner on Design Leadership to Amplify Design's Role in the Profession
IBM and AIGA have announced a partnership to develop programs that promote how design improves the human experience, reinforcing that design is integral to the civic and business agenda.
HOW Design Live 2017
The 2017 HOW Design Live will be held May 2-6 at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago, IL. For more than 25 years, HOW Design Live has been the premier event and one of the largest gatherings of creative professionals in the world.
2016/2017 RSA Student Design Awards
The Royal Society of Arts is calling for entries for the 2016/17 RSA Student Design Awards. Now in its 93rd year, The RSA Student Design Awards is the longest-running global student competition and is open to all undergraduate, postgraduate or other higher education students around the world.
RGD Launches an Interactive Tool That Helps Creatives Identify Requests for Speculative Work
RGD and Nascent Digital have launched Free, Fee or Flee? - an interactive tool for creative professionals, specifically graphic designers, through a questionnaire to consider various scenarios involving requests for free work.
Off Grid 17: An Experiential Journey
Off Grid 17: An Experiential Journey is an international event from the Society for Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD) that will offer a unique design driven way to experience New Zealand.
International Design Awards 2017
The 10th annual International Design Awards (IDA) is now open for submissions. The competition is open to architects, interior designers, product designers, graphic designers and fashion designers.
Wacom MobileStudio Pro
Wacom recently unveiled MobileStudio Pro, a new line of lightweight, powerful mobile computers. Featuring the newly-designed Wacom Pro Pen 2, with 4x higher pen accuracy and pressure sensitivity than the company's previous professional pen, enhanced resolution, leading-edge graphics, excellent color performance, and 3D camera, Wacom MobileStudio Pro is the ultimate creative tool for CAD artists and designers.
Design is Future
This Friday, Barcelona Design Center will release Design is Future, a documentary featuring the main highlights from the 15 speakers that took part in the Design is Future 2016 held at Disseny Hub Barcelona during the Barcelona Design Week 2016.
Adobe Releases State of Create: 2016
Adobe has released the State of Create: 2016, a global survey that found investing in creativity pays off with tangible benefits - from higher income to greater national competitiveness and productivity.
Survive and Thrive: Five Recommendations for Mid-Size Design Firms
I've been visiting independent design firms and talking with owners and managers for several weeks now.
The Visual Biography of Color
The Visual Biography of Color, the latest title from ORO Editions by Frank Jacobus, discuss the phenomenon of color from a cultural perspective.
2017 Future of Money Design Award
The 2017 Future of Money Design Award is now open for submissions. The competition, which has been running since 2009, was created to develop links between the financial industry and creative practitioners from around the world.
Design is the New Currency Symposium
Design is New Currency the first annual design symposium organized by Pratt Institute, which will take place at the Whitney Museum in NY on November 2nd.
Connect: Free Play Competition
Design Exchange, in partnership with the Government of Ontario, announced the fifth annual Connect Post-Secondary Design Competition.
International Design Competition for the Creation of Worksite Information Modules
The Ville de Montréal has launched an international competition for the design of 3D platforms called 'worksite information modules.'
Brentano Color Forecast 2017
Brentano has released its 2017 Color Forecast Report, presenting three new captivating colors (Coral, Chartreuse and Bloom), a powerful colorless shade (Almost Black) and reintroduces classic hues (Peacock and Elephant) that will dictate the future of design.
Color In Sight
Color In Sight, a documentary created by TEALEAVES, brings together 11 experts of industry, gathered around one powerful, little detail: color.
NYCxDESIGN 2017
The 2017 NYCxDesign will run from May 3rd to 24th. The fifth annual celebration of global design will increase from two to three weeks for 2017. The extended program for 2017 will allow for expanded programming in venues throughout the City.
World Design Capital 2020: Call for Applications
Icsid has launched the bid process for its World Design Capital 2020 title. The World Design Capital mobilizes an entire city in a year-long design program that showcases the effective use of design in making a city more attractive, competitive, and livable.
A' Design Award 2017: Call for Submissions
The 2017 A' Design Award is now open for submissions. The competition aims create a global awareness and understanding for good design practices and principles by highlighting the best designs.
Detroit Design Festival 2016
The sixth-annual Detroit Design Festival (DDF), an annual citywide celebration of creativity and design, will take place September 21 to 25, 2016. With a focus on "Designing Detroit's Future," this year's event will bring together designers and enthusiasts alike to celebrate Detroit's recent designation as the first and only recognized UNESCO City of Design in the United States.
Designers Fiesta 2016
Taking place in one of London's most creative areas, the seventh Designers Fiesta will inspire those working within new media, while offering them invaluable hints and tips from some of the industry's top names.
Lexus Design Award 2017
Lexus is calling for entries for its 2017 Design Award. First launched in 2013, the Lexus Design Award is an international design competition that targets up-and-coming creators from around the world. The award seeks to foster the growth of ideas that contribute to society by supporting designers and creators whose works can help to shape a better future.
PANTONE Studio: New App Brings Insta-Ready Color & Inspiration to Your Device
Pantone has today launched a brand new digital app that brings color and inspiration to your device. PANTONE Studio lets users capture colors that inspire them in everyday life and convert them into palettes and digital artwork ready for social sharing, all in one on-the-go platform.
Dubai Design Week 2016
The second Dubai Design Week will be held October 24-29. Last year's inaugural event attracted design aficionados, designers, architects and thought leaders from over 150 of the world's leading studios, agencies, brands and institutions.
United States Mint 2018 Breast Cancer Awareness Commemorative Coins Design Competition
The United States Mint has announced a public competition to design the 2018 Breast Cancer Awareness Commemorative Coins. The competition offers an exciting opportunity for American artists to design a coin in recognition of the fight against breast cancer.
D&T Association Launches Social Campaign to Champion the UK's Favorite Products and Innovators
The Design & Technology Association has launched a social campaign to raise awareness about the importance of design and technology and its impact at all levels of our lives.
2016 AIGA Design Conference
The 2016 AIGA Design Conference will bring the design community together in a once-in-a-lifetime, cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas about the changing shape of design.
Fennia Prize 2017: Good Design Grows Global
The 2017 Fennia Prize, the most notable design competition in Finland where a company or organization can be awarded for exemplary use of design as part of its business operations, is now open for registrations.
Tinker Imagineers Completes Nestlé's Open House in Switzerland
Nest is the new Nestle open house in Vevey, Lake Geneva designed by Tinker Imagineers. The Swiss Concept-Consult Architectes renovated the industrial heritage site and covered it with a magnificent glass roof and steel construction.
3rd Annual Core77 Conference: Designing Here/Now
The 3rd Annual Core77 Conference, Designing Here/Now, will be held September 29-30 in downtown Los Angeles.
Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 7
The seventh Weapons of Mass Creation Fest, 3-day celebration of design, entrepreneurship, and creativity, will be held August 5-7, 2016 at PlayhouseSquare in Cleveland, Ohio.
Viewfinders: Thoughts on Visual Design Research
Design, User and UX research too often happens through user testing and focus groups in relatively sterile lab-like environments that result in lengthy written or numerical reports.
Budapest Design Map 2016
Budapest Design Week has released the 4th edition of Budapest Design Map - in both print and online format.
Manifesto Series Part II: In Our Time - The Sharing Movement
Manifesto Series: In Our Time - The Sharing Movement, is a two-part series presented by Storefront for Art and Architecture and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Be Original Americas Meets with U.S. Customs & Border Protection
On June 15, 2016, two representatives from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection office and a special agent from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security gave a 60 minute in-depth presentation to Be Original Americas board members in Chicago, during NeoCon.
The Pantone Cafe: Intersecting Dining and Design
For its second season, the Pantone Cafe - the most Instagrammable restaurant in the world - returns to Monaco.
Adobe Unveils Significant Updates to Creative Cloud & Adobe Stock
Adobe has unveiled significant updates to Creative Cloud & Adobe Stock, including dramatic new features in Adobe's flagship applications, performance enhancements across Creative Cloud (CC) and exciting updates to Adobe Stock - including deeper integration within CC and the addition of an all-new Premium collection of high-quality stock content.
2016 Taipei International Design Award
The 2016 Taipei International Design Award is now open for entries. Organized by Taipei City Government, the competition invites designers around the globe to create design works with commercial potential.
iF Design Award 2017
The 2017 iF Design Award is now open for entries. Agencies, architects, designers and companies from all over the world are invited to put their products and services to the test.
RGD 2016 In-House Design Awards
RGD is calling for entries for its first-ever, international In-House Design Awards. This competition has been created to acknowledge and honour the work done by ever-growing creative teams that work as internal agencies.
RISD 2016 Annual Graduate Thesis Exhibition
The RISD Graduate Thesis Exhibition, featuring work in a wide range of media created by 225 master's degree candidates, opens on May 26.
Waterline: 12th International Design Contest Trieste Contemporanea
The 12th International Trieste Contemporanea Design Competition is now open for entries. The contest aims to showcase design talent from the Central and Eastern European countries.
Winners of the 17th Annual National Design Awards
Cooper Hewitt has announced the winners of the 2016 National Design Awards. The accolade recognizes excellence and innovation across a variety of disciplines in 11 categories.
Tim Brown: Leading for Creativity
Leading for Creativity is the second online course presented by the unique partnership between the Innovation Enterprise Academy & IDEO U. From May 18 - June 15, IDEO's CEO, Tim Brown will deliver the course to show you approaches that empower individuals and teams to search for innovative solutions. You'll learn how to break down a bold vision into actionable challenges; make adjustments to culture by designing rituals and space, and guide teams into the unknown through the process of experimentation.
2016 Innovation By Design Awards
The 2016 Innovation By Design Awards is open for entries. Organized by Fast Company, the competition aims to honor the designers and businesses solving the problems of today and tomorrow.
International Design Awards 2016
The final deadline for the 2016 International Design Awards is April 30. Set to recognize outstanding talent, IDA's mission is to encourage creativity and innovation across all design fields, including fashion, graphic, interior design, architecture and product design.
BLOOOM Award by WARSTEINER 2016
The 2016 BLOOOM Award by WARSTEINER is now open for submissions. The awards program seeks outstanding creatives whose works blur the lines between arts, design, fashion, urban art, advertising, video and architecture.
Lexus Design Award 2016 Grand Prix Winner Announced
Lexus International has named Agar Plasticity, a project exploring how agar, a gelatinous material obtained from marine algae, can be used as an environmentally friendly packaging material alternative to plastic, as the Grand Prix winner of the 2016 Lexus Design Award.
Design Entrepreneur Awards 2016
The 2016 Design Entrepreneur Awards are still open for entries. The Awards are open to designers, engineers and entrepreneurs who have an innovative idea for a new product or service that is at a pre-commercialisation stage.
3D Printing a Tyrannosaurus Rex Skeleton
The Naturalis Biodiversity Center, a national natural history museum and research center, is using an Ultimaker 3D printer to add missing bones to the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur found in Montana.
Communication Arts 57th Design & Advertising Competitions
Communication Arts' 57th Design & Advertising Competitions are now open for entries.
2016 Design Writing and Research Summer Intensive
The School of Visual Arts MA Design Research department will hold its 2016 Design Writing and Research Summer Intensive on June 6-17, 2016. The intensive is aimed at people who care about design and language, and are interested in learning how to write meaningfully about products, graphics, urban infrastructure, and buildings.
Element Talks 2016
The third Element Talks conference will be held April 23-24 in Warsaw, Poland. Element Talks is the one and only conference in Europe aimed at helping their participants navigate the job market ant showing the backstage of the design profession. The speakers shed some light on what great success is made of and "how to be a a designer without losing one's soul."
Morpholio Unveils the ScalePen
Morpholio has released ScalePen, a patent-pending new way to draw on the iPad in Morpholio's Trace app.
Red Dot Award: Design Concept 2016
The 2016 Red Dot Award: Design Concept is now open for submissions. Designers, design studios, manufacturers, and universities are called on to submit their best product ideas, prototypes and ready to launch products.
Core77 Design Awards 2016
The sixth Core77 Design Awards invites designers from all over the world to put their best work forward. Recognizing excellence in all areas of design enterprise, the Core77 Design Awards celebrates the richness of the design profession and its practitioners.
Pantone Develops 112 New Graphics Colors to Reflect New Possibilities of Design
Pantone announced the latest addition of 112 new colors to the Pantone Graphics line.
2016 Good Design Awards
The 2016 Good Design Awards are now open for entries. Managed by Good Design Australia, the Good Design Awards celebrates excellence in cutting edge design and innovation.