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Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2019 Launches Installation Programme Competition
Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB 2019) has recently launched an Open Call for its 'Installation Programme Competition.' The open two-stage competition challenges participants to develop creative designs for a temporary outdoor installation in front of the Museum of Estonian Architecture.
Pavilosta Poet Huts Architecture Competition
Bee Breeders has launched the Pavilosta Poet Huts competition, which asks architecture enthusiasts to create an inviting retreat within the quaint fishing village on the western coast of Latvia. Already a popular European tourist destination, Pavilosta is known for its long sandy beach and idyllic Baltic Sea waters.
LiliLite: All-In-One Solution for Reading in Bed
Designed by Thijs Smeets, LiliLite is a bookshelf, reading light and a bookmark in one. Aside from looking adorable, LiliLite's most unique feature is the responsive light switch: the sensor registers if an open book is placed on the peak.
2019 Susan Beech Mid-Career Grant
Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) is calling for applications for the 2019 Susan Beech Mid-Career Grant. Established by San Francisco-based jewelry collector Susan Beech, the objective of this $20,000 grant is to recognize a mid-career artist who has made a substantial contribution to the field of art jewelry, and to provide the resources for the development and implementation of a significant jewelry-related project that the artist would not otherwise have the means to undertake.
Adobe Announces Photoshop Collaboration with Dungeons & Dragons
Adobe has launched a design contest that offers entrants the chance to create the latest Dungeons & Dragons monster: 'The Terror of Undermountain,' and the possibility of becoming part of the cult franchise forever.
McKinsey & Company Releases Study Quantifying the Financial Value of Design to Business
McKinsey & Company has released 'The Business Value of Design' report, which looks at how design can be an accelerator for business, is officially launching today.
Denomination Designs Identity and Packaging for Frucor Suntory's New Range
Denomination has created a striking design for True Water, a new range of fresh spring water from Frucor Suntory.
RIBA Publishes Ten Characteristics of Places Where People Want to Live
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has published 'Ten Characteristics of Places Where People Want to Live,' highlighting ten characteristics of housing developments where people want to live, illustrated with valuable case study evidence demonstrating the relationship between design quality and the rate of supply in the delivery of much needed, well-built affordable homes.
2018 MPavilion by Carme Pinós Opens in Melbourne
The 2018 MPavilion, designed by Barcelona-based architect and educator Carme Pinós of Estudio Carme Pinós, opened recently in the Queen Victoria Gardens.
Poppin Launches Meredith Meeting Chair
Poppin has launched 'Meredith,' an elegant and timeless meeting chair, perfect for conference and workstation seating in an array of stylish office environments.
Plastic Worlds: Call for Entries
Eleven Magazine has announced its new competition 'Plastic Worlds,' which invites creatives and visionaries from all around the world to join the fight against plastic pollution through raw creativity, imagination and talent.
Design Bridge Shanghai Creates Disruptive Design for Starbucks Mooncakes
Design Bridge Shanghai has created disruptive new packaging for Starbucks Mooncakes for China's Mid-Autumnal Festival.
RMJM RED Designed St. Regis Zhuhai Opens Doors
St. Regis Zhuhai, one of the tallest skyscrapers to be completed in 2017, recently opened its doors.
Arco MONO by Uli Budde and Ivan Kasner
Arco has unveiled MONO, a dynamic place for one person to work or stay at for a short period of time.
PB Creative Develops New Brand Concept for Rare
PB Creative has designed a new brand concept for a range of artisanal rare-breed dairy products. Rare is a cooperative organic dairy brand that works with farmers of native British breeds to celebrate and bring their goods to this discerning customer.
Precipice Rebrands Circassia's NIOX VERO Asthma Control Device
Precipice recently completed a major rebrand of Circassia's NIOX VERO asthma control device. Precipice worked with asthma nurses and senior consultants across Europe, the US and China in a bid to create a new brand identity in touch with the needs of clinicians and their patients.
WDO Launches Bid Process for World Design Capital 2022
The World Design Organization (WDO) has launched the bid process for the 2022 World Design Capital (WDC) designation, inviting cities from around the globe to apply for its 8th WDC designation and to demonstrate the ways they are using design to create inclusive, resilient and sustainable cities.
Making of Spun: Thomas Heatherwick Tells the Amazing Story of Spun
Magis Spun chair, designed in 2010 by Thomas Heatherwick, has been used in indoor and outdoor public spaces, office projects, and more and has been described as terrifying, exhilarating, and playful - all at the same time.
INDEX: Award 2019
INDEX: Award 2019 is now open for submissions. Established in 2005, the Award celebrates designs that seek to change the world for the better.
Special Projects Reveal Intuitive New Interface Magic UX
Special Projects have created a new smartphone interface, using AR, which offers a completely new way to navigate between apps. The 'Magic UX' allows users to create a virtual desktop and pin apps to a physical space.
In/Visible Talks 2019
In/Visible Talks, a wildly inspiring one-day design conference that celebrates the creative process, will be held January 17, 2019 in San Francisco. The event will bring together over 300+ graphic designers, product designers, experience designers, content creators, architects, marketers, artists, writers, photographers, and all creatives in between.
Ligne Roset Reintrduces Pierre Paulin's Bonnie, Gavrinis 3, and CM 131
Ligne Roset is bringing original, powerful ideas back to life through its ongoing relationship with the late designer Pierre Paulin's son and wife.
CIOB Opens 2018 International Photography Prize
The Chartered Institute of Building's annual 'Art of Building' international digital photography competition is now open for submissions. Each year, thousands of entrants from around the world are inspired to explore and capture the art of building in an imaginative and thought-provoking way.
D&AD Launches New Podcast Series
D&AD recently launched its new podcast series 'Make and Break.' The six-episode podcast is themed around lessons from the New Blood Academy.
Stone Island Shadow Project 10th Anniversary Installations
Ken Tonio Yamamoto and Nina Heydorn have created four installations for Stone Island's flagship stores to celebrate the anniversary of Stone Island Shadow Project.
Employees Are Happier, Healthier and More Productive in LEED Green Buildings
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has released the results of a new survey, which shows that employees who work in LEED-certified green buildings are happier, healthier and more productive than employees in conventional and non-LEED buildings.
2018 dmi:Design Value Award Winners Announced
The Design Management Institute has announced the winners of the 2018 dmi:Design Value Awards.
Cepezed Completes Sustainable and Collaborative Technova College
cepezed and cepezedinterior have recently completed the Technova College in Ede. The school is a new branch of the Regional Education Center ROC A12 and offers space for the departments Technique & Technology, Media & ICT and Sound & Vision.
Three Pickard Chilton-Designed Projects Honored with 2018 AIA Connecticut Design Awards
Pickard Chilton's three projects have been honored with the 2018 AIA Connecticut Design Awards.
Brandon Designs New Identity for Frozen-treat Brand Yorica!
Brandon has designed the new brand identity for Yorica!, London's premier 'free-from' ice-cream parlor.
Learn by Design Competition Returns to SXSW EDU 2019
The third annual Learn by Design competition returns to SXSW EDU, which will be held March 4-7, 2019 in Austin, Texas. This competition celebrates the collaboration of designers and educators in the pursuit of design-based solutions to physical learning environments for improved outcomes.
Tile Selects Whipsaw to Develop Their Next Generation Tracker
Launched this month, Pro and Mate are Tile's new flagship tracking devices for finding your personal items such as phones and keys.
Cepezed Designs Graafschap College Doetinchem with Corten Tree Façade
Cepezed and Cepezedinterieur have designed the new branch of the Graafschap College in Doetinchem. The recently opened school building is structured around a large central atrium, where the floor rises stepwise.
Closca Bottle by Moleskine
Closca has launched a limited Moleskine edition of the Closca Bottle, a reusable bottle aimed to reduce the amount of plastic we consume daily.
Winner of 2019 Times Square Valentine Heart Design Competition Announced
Times Square Arts has announced Reddymade as the winner of its 2019 Times Square Valentine Heart Design competition.
NASA-Inspired AR Installation at Dolby Gallery
A NASA-inspired AR installation recently went live at Dolby's Gallery in San Francisco. Titled 'Asteria,' the augmented reality journey across space is part of Dolby's ongoing series of site-specific commissions that are created for its unique gallery space in San Francisco.
Optimist Designs New James Bond Cinematic Installation
Optimist, in collaboration with creative director Neal Callow, has created '007 ELEMENTS,' a world-first cinematic installation that sits more than 9,800 feet above sea level at the peak of Gaislachkogl Mountain, high above the town of Sölden in Austria.
Red Dot Names Hyundai 2018 Brand of the Year
Hyundai Motor Company has been named 'Red Dot: Brand of the Year 2018.' The title pays tribute to a brand that has created innovative design solutions on a very high level and recognizes its design quality and decisiveness in brand management.
Los Altos New Residence by Klopf Architecture
Klopf Architecture and Outer Space Landscape Architects designed a new warm, modern, open, indoor-outdoor home in Los Altos, California.
Wick Architecture & Design and LAND Design Studio Create Little Tokyo Restaurant in Los Angeles
Wick Architecture & Design + LAND Design Studio recently completed Sake Dojo located in the city's popular Little Toyko neighborhood.
ITSLIQUID International Contest 2018
The 6th ITSLIQUID International Contest is now open for submissions and offers artists, architects, designers the chance to win 100,000 Euros.
Carter Wong Unveils New Visual Identity for Kin + Carta
Carter Wong has created a new visual identity for international marketing services group St Ives - now rebranded as Kin + Carta.
Karim Rashid's Cultural Shaping on view at Ottawa Art Gallery
Ottawa Art Gallery is hosting the first large-scale Canadian exhibition of Karim Rashid. On view through February 10, the exhibition features industrial designs imbued with the sense of environmental responsibility and sustainability that is at the heart of much of Rashid's current practice.
RIBA, CIOB and RICS launch Quality Tracker tool
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) and Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) have launched a new free-to-download digital tool - the Quality Tracker - to improve the quality of outcomes in the construction industry.
Mr Kipling International Rebrand by Robot Food
Robot Food created a fresh new look for Mr Kipling. For many in the UK, Mr Kipling's range of iconic cakes holds a special place, but internationally the 'exceedingly good' brand is relatively unknown.
V&A Photography Centre by David Kohn Architects
The new V&A Photography Centre, designed by David Kohn Architects (DKA), recently opened at the V&A Museum in London. The new gallery more than doubles the space to display photography at the museum.
74 Creates 'Hox Haus' for Moorfield Group at 'Hox Park'
74 has completed a £2.7m project to extend and remodel a Grade II-listed, two-storey, Victorian brick building in a semi-rural location in Englefield Green, just outside Egham.
HUSH Designs Permanent Data-Driven Experience in United Therapeutics' New Energy Conscious HQ
HUSH and Biotech innovator United Therapeutics (Unither) recently collaborated to bring to life Unither's new digitally controlled energy-conscious headquarters in Silver Spring, MD.
B&B Studio Creates Branding for FIX8 kombucha
B&B studio has created the branding for kombucha start-up FIX8. Launching in the UK this month and available in three core flavors, FIX8 is a brand born from the idea of positive addiction.
Bentley Creates Highest Fine Dining Restaurant in Arabia
Bentley recently created Arabia's highest fine-dining experience on the summit of the UAE's tallest mountain, Jebel Jais.
Actiu Unveils Karbon Chair
Actiu has recently unveiled Karbon, a highly resistant and extremely light chair designed by Javier Cuñado of ITEMdesignworks.
D&AD Launches Briefs for New Blood Awards 2019
D&AD today releases the briefs for the 2019 New Blood Awards. The Awards recognizes, educates and supports emerging creative talent from various backgrounds to get a foothold in the creative world - giving them a chance to respond to real briefs set by some of the world's biggest brands.
DesignEuropa Awards Finalists and Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Announced
The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has announced finalists and Lifetime Achievement Award winner of the 2018 DesignEuropa Awards.
Design Leaders Conference 2018
Organized by Design Enterprise Skillnet, Design Leaders Conference is a one day event to recharge design and agency owners, creative directors, and anyone interested in leading a design team or running a successful creative studio. The conference is focused on designers who have moved from practitioner to a design leadership role.
OpenIDEO Launches NextGen Cup Challenge
OpenIDEO has launched a new challenge to push the boundaries of sustainable design and material and chemical innovation to solve a prevalent global waste issue. The NextGen Cup Challenge asks innovators, suppliers, designers, and problem-solvers to reinvent the fiber cup system.
Simons Launches Online Retail Platform Fabrique1840
Simons has today launched a new online market, Fabrique1840, featuring an all-Canadian line up of skilled artisans creating everything from home décor and modern art to fashion accessories and stationary.
Dieline Relaunches with New Identity from Jones Knowles Ritchie
Dieline has received a refreshed creative platform and bold new identity developed by Jones Knowles Ritchie.
Our Design Agency Produces Video for Mind and English Football League to Mark World Mental Health Day
Our Design Agency has produced a video designed to draw football fans' attention to On Your Side, a partnership between mental health charity Mind and the English Football League (EFL).
IIDA Reveals 7th Annual Healthcare Design Awards Winners
IIDA has announced the winners of the 2018 Healthcare Design Awards. The Awards honors and celebrates outstanding originality and excellence in the design and furnishings of healthcare interior spaces.
Felix Braden Releases Typeface Simulating a Handmade Woodprint
Felix Braden has released Kontiki, a typeface that digitally simulates a handmade woodprint, but less expensive to produce and easier to correct. To create the typeface, 193 glyphs were manually cut into five wooden plates and carefully printed by hand.
DesignInpsire 2018
DesignInspire is an international creative exhibition that gathers global innovative elites, trend-setting design brands, associations and institutes to showcase their creativities via an array of interactive installations, design masterpieces and award-winning projects. The event annually partners with the Business of Design Week (BODW) to present a week-long program of thematic exhibition, conferences, networking activities and fringe events.
TOG, MENU & Norm Architects Present the Co Chair
The Office Group has launched Co Chair, designed specifically for shared workspaces in collaboration with MENU and Norm Architects.
Renault EZ-ULTIMO Robo-vehicle
Renault has recently unveiled EZ-ULTIMO, an autonomous, electric, connected, and shared mobility service solution offering a premium travel experience.
plajer & franz studio Creates New Store Concept for Karl Lagerfeld
plajer & franz studio, in partnership with Karl Lagerfeld Retail, has designed a new concept for Karl Lagerfeld's first store in Germany.
Architecture49 Completes Clubhouse for Golf Exécutif Montréal
Architecture49 has recently completed a clubhouse for Golf Exécutif Montréal, located on Nuns' Island, a green oasis in the St. Lawrence River facing downtown Montreal.
Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty at MAK
With their fascinating exhibition project Beauty, Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh make a multimedia, highly sensory plea for us to take delight in beauty. Almost throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, beauty (has) had rather negative connotations in the design discourse.
BRP Receives Japan Good Design Award for Sea-Doo GTX Limited Personal Watercraft
BRP has received a 2018 Japan Good Design Award for its Sea-Doo GTX Limited personal watercraft. The watercraft features easy storage access, lower center of gravity, proper platform and a new elegant & muscular design that allows the user to spend more time on the water.
Allseating's Lyss Chair Awarded IDEA's Bronze Honor
Allseating's Lyss chair has been awarded a Bronze 2018 International Design Excellence Award (IDEA). Lyss, designed by Carl Gustav Magnusson for Allseating, was selected as a winner for its supreme craftsmanship and elegant design.
Repair and Design Futures Exhibition at RISD Museum
Repair, a humble act born of necessity, expresses resistance to the unmaking of our world and the environment. Repair and Design Futures, on view at the RISD Museum through September 30, 2019, investigates mending as material intervention, metaphor, and call to action.
Adobe Launches 'Wireframe' Podcast in Partnership with Gimlet Creative
Adobe has announced a new podcast in partnership with Gimlet Creative exploring the biggest questions facing UX and UI designers today. Launching on October 9, Wireframe will discuss the questions designers ask and the answers they discover.
Stephen Kelleher Rebrands Gunner
Stephen Kelleher has completed the rebranding of Gunner, an award-winning animation studio based in Detroit. Having established itself as one of the most exciting new voices in the motion design industry, Gunner wanted to refresh its identity to reflect its position as a force to be reckoned with on the global stage.
IKEA, UNYQ, Open Style Lab and Two Blind Brothers Present Meet The Experts
What can we learn about accessibility in the home? Could customized solutions be mass produced and still fit anyone's unique needs? This unique event is inspired by people with disabilities - the real experts who have learned to cope with day-to-day challenges in their lives.
Studio Makgill Celebrates Ten Years with Beautifully Simple Exhibition
Studio Makgill is hosting an exhibition to celebrate the decennial of the studio. The exhibition, Beautifully Simple, will feature ten extraordinary designs that embody the studio's philosophy: the art of the beautifully simple.
Autonomous Travel Suite Wins 2018 Radical Innovation Award
Radical Innovation revealed the winner of its 12th annual Award at a ceremony that took place at the New Museum in New York City.
2019 New York Festivals AME Awards Open for Entries
The 2019 New York Festivals AME Awards is now open for submissions. Founded in 1994, the AME Awards honors international work that demonstrates ground-breaking solutions to challenging marketing problems.
Monotype Adds Five New Typefaces
Monotype has added five new typefaces to its Library. New entries include a script reminiscent of hand-painted signs, a Wild West-inspired display typeface and new variations on two timeless classics.
Service Design Days 2018
The third edition of Service Design Days, a cross-boundary conference for entrepreneurs, managers and influencers who are involved in product and service innovation and the (digital) transformation of organizations, will be held October 5-6 at the Disseny Hub Barcelona. The event focuses on service design for decision makers and connects strategic designers with business strategists and vice versa.
The Greenary: CRA Designs House Around a Tree
Carlo Ratti Associati has unveiled the Greenary, a renovated farmhouse designed around a 10-meter-high Ficus tree growing within the main living area.
Teknion Debuts New tn Storage & Accessories Collection
Teknion has released its new tn Storage & Accessories Collection. The collection addresses new needs for personal storage and organization in today's workstation, providing a sleek and contemporary solution for the modern office.
Graham Baba Architects Renovates Queen Anne Residence
Graham Baba Architects recently renovated the Queen Anne Residence, with interiors by Holly McKinley Interior Design.
_Action: No More Words
The AIA-NY Global Dialogues Committee is hosting its sixth annual discussion on how digital media is changing the way that we see, understand, discuss, and develop architecture. Past events focused on how blogs (like ArchDaily) were supplanting print media or how architects (like Bjarke Ingels) and companies (like Google Sidewalk Labs) used to these to grow and inform their practice.
Path Refreshes Packaging for Anadin
Path recently refreshed packaging for Pfizer's Anadin portfolio. In uniting the ranges with a clearer and more intuitive design, the leading OTC brand aims to empower its consumers with the information to find the right product for their pain relief needs.
New York Festivals 2019 Advertising Awards Now Open for Entries
New York Festivals International Advertising Awards is now accepting entries for the 2019 competition. This year the competition has announced a world-class advisory board, reduced categories by 35% and unveiled strategic new category groups and categories.
Red Dot Award: Product Design 2019
The 2019 Red Dot Award: Product Design will open for submissions from October 15. Designers and companies from around the world are invited to submit products from all areas of daily life for a chance to win an award at one of the world's largest design competitions.
Inge Moore Completes Redesign of Belmond Savute Elephant Lodge
Muza Lab's Inge Moore has completed the redesign of the Belmond Savute Elephant Lodge. Located in the Chobe National Park where the big five roam, the skies are large and the land is washed with the muted colours of the Savute, the lodge has become a tented retreat infused with the romance of a bush camp.
Sybarite Designs Award-winning Restaurant Beijing Kitchen at SKP Xi'an
Sybarite has created an elegant, intimate dining experience for Beijing Kitchen at luxury department store SKP Xi'an in China.
Pentawards Live: Inaugural International Conference Debuts in Amsterdam
Pentawards Live, a new event for the international packaging design community, will be held February 13 at the Passenger Terminal Amsterdam. The concept behind Pentawards Live is to create a space where thought leaders and creative innovators across each pillar within the packaging value chain can convene.
Orange Architects Designs All-in-One School and 190 Apartments in Amsterdam
Orange Architects has designed an all-in-one school and 190 apartments on the site of the existing SITA office on Heathrowstraat in Amsterdam.
IIDA 2018 Global Excellence Awards
Submissions are now open for the 9th annual IIDA Global Excellence Awards. The competition honors and celebrates outstanding originality and excellence in the creation of international Interior Design/ Interior Architecture projects in 15 categories.
ASID Outcome of Design Awards
ASID has launched its inaugural Outcome of Design Awards to celebrate the proof in the power of design. By highlighting new tools and processes in design, strategy, technology, and research, the awards seek to recognize projects that successfully illustrate that "Design Impacts Lives."
Adobe Stock Releases Free 3D Models for NASA's 60th Anniversary
In celebration of NASA's 60th Anniversary, Adobe Stock released a high-impact collection of free 3D models optimized for Dimension CC for the creative community to use in honor of NASA and its legacy.
Be Original Americas Holds a Series of Talks on the Impacts of Tariffs
Be Original Americas has announced a series of panel discussions on the topic of tariffs and their impact on the design industry in Mexico City and San Francisco this October.
Dieter Rams: Principled Design at Philadelphia Museum of Art
Dieter Rams: Principled Design, an exhibition surveying the career of one of the most influential industrial designers living today, will be on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from November 18 through April 14, 2019. The exhibition will feature the prolific body of work Rams has produced - from radios, clocks, and cameras to kitchen appliances and furniture - and will examine the longevity and impact of his design philosophies.
Nude Brand Creation Launches Design for Chimes Vermouth from the Surrey Copper Distillery
Nude Brand Creation has designed brand identity and packaging for the Surrey Copper Distillery's recently launched Chimes English Extra Dry Vermouth.
LAMP 2019 Lighting Design Competition: Call for Entries
Lighting Architecture Movement Project (LAMP) is calling for entries for its 5th annual International Lighting Design Competition. The competition aims to introduce a broader audience to lighting design while promoting and connecting emerging talents to new markets.
Punkt. Launches MP 02
Punkt. has launched its second mobile phone, MP 02. Designed by Jasper Morrison, MP 02 features great ergonomics with excellent audio quality - and unlike smartphones it won't pester you with notifications during a conversation.
Allsteel Launches Evo Seating Collection
Allsteel has launched Evo, a seating collection for both conference and workstations. A weight activated mechanism seamlessly bridges comfort and automatic adjustment, supporting every user, and offers several arm options - from armless, to fixed cast aluminum, to 4D adjustable.
Biles Hendry Takes Ella's Kitchen into the Frozen Aisle
Biles Hendry has developed a new brand architecture and identity for leading baby food brand Ella's Kitchen as it moves into the frozen aisle for the first time.
FLA: Design Thinking and Innovation Week
Future London Academy's 2019 Design Thinking and Innovation Week will be held March 18-22. The week offers a unique program for creative entrepreneurs, designers and business owners - introducing attendees to London's most innovative businesses and uncovering the latest approaches to design thinking and innovation.
GrizForm Design Architects Completes 2300 N Street Office Space
GrizForm Design Architects recently designed an office space for Lincoln Property Company. Located in Northwest D.C.'s West End neighborhood, 2300 N Street is a recently renovated, eight-story office building with a ground-floor retail space.