Design News
NYSID Names David Sprouls as Its New President
David Sprouls is named the seventh President of the New York School of Interior Design (NYSID). Mr. Sprouls has been serving as Acting President since January 1, 2012.
Carbon Again Ranks as Top 10 Design Firm
With two Carbon Design Group collaborations selected as winners in the 2012 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) competition, the world-recognized product design and development consultancy has been ranked as a top 10 design firm by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). The 2012 ranking was for IDEA awards received over the past five years.
100% Design Singapore 2012
100% Design Singapore, the first and only curated contemporary design-led interiors exhibition in Southeast Asia, will debut on October 10, 2012 at Marina Bay Sands Singapore. The event will present the latest trends in furniture, lighting, accessories, wall and floor coverings in the region.
AIA Consensus Construction Forecast: Nonresidential Construction Spending Expected to Increase Through 2012
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) semi-annual Consensus Construction Forecast, a survey of the nation's leading construction forecasters, projects a 6.2% increase of spending in 2013.
Russia Rising: Votes for Freedom
Co-curated by design historian and SVA MFA Design Department Co-chair Steven Heller and Abbeville Press Art Director Misha Beletsky, Russia Rising: Votes for Freedom exhibition responds to recent political turmoil in Russia through the language of the poster.
Architectural Record's Innovation Conference 2012
This year, Architectural Record's Innovation Conference celebrates its tenth anniversary. The conference will highlight the profession's top innovators, most influential new projects, and groundbreaking achievements in super-tall, super-efficient and super-smart buildings.
IIDA Best Interiors of Latin America Design Award
The International Interior Design Association (IIDA) launched an international competition honoring the best in interior design projects from Latin America.
Sephora + Pantone Color IQ
Pantone and Sephora launched the Color IQ System, which uses Pantone Capsure to identify and categorize skin tone color with unsurpassed accuracy.
Meat Without Drugs: BigStar Animates Eye-Opening Short Film
BigStar recently partnered with Kenner Films to create a provocative and informative short film about the abundance of antibiotics in today's meat products and the effect it has in the daily lives of consumers.
Pierini Redesigns Rexona Men Line
Rexona launched a renewed line with a new image, more masculine and technological, designed by Adrian Pierini. The new layout enhances the high effectiveness the brand has, with more angular shapes and a major role of the color black, which highlights the tic, symbol of the brand.
Independence Blue Cross Reveals New Brand Position and Visual Identity
Independence Blue Cross (IBC) unveiled a new brand position and advertising campaign that highlights the benefits of a better coordinated health care system that places members' health and wellness at the center of everything the company does.
Top 4x4: Design Sydney vs Design Melbourne
Design Sydney vs Design Melbourne is the seventh of the Design Institute of Australia's annual and iconic Top 10x10 series.
Venables Bell & Partners and 1st Avenue Machine Created Toy Car World for Google Fiber
To announce Google Fiber's much anticipated arrival in Kansas City, Venables Bell & Partners and 1st Avenue Machine produced several new spots that each take a different angle on what internet 100 times faster than broadband will mean for the city and the folks that live there.
BMW C Evolution Electric Scooter
BMW Motorrad unveiled a near-production prototype of an e-scooter as it might soon go on the market. Since it was conceived as a future-oriented vehicle for commuting between the urban periphery and the city centre, there were two particular requirements for its development: performance figures comparable to those of a maxi scooter with a combustion engine and a long range in realistic conditions of use.
LEED-Certified Building Stock Surpasses Two Billion Square Feet Worldwide
The total footprint of commercial projects certified under the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED green building program surpassed two billion square feet. An additional seven billion square feet is currently in the pipeline across the globe as registered projects.
Adobe Digital Index Report Q2 2012: Search Advertising Spend Continues to Climb
Search spend among advertisers remains strong with a growing emphasis on mobile devices as tablet conversion rates surpass desktop conversion rates, according to the third Adobe Digital Index report.
MoMA Releases Its First Enhanced Digital Books for iBookstore
The Museum of Modern Art has released its first enhanced digital books for Apple's iBookstore. Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000 and MoMA Collection Highlights: 350 Works from The Museum of Modern Art, made with iBooks Author, are available today from the iBookstore on iPad.
AutoCAD WS 1.5: New Social Capabilities
Autodesk has added new social collaboration capabilities to the new version of AutoCAD WS. The enhancements deliver new workflows that help streamline the design development, review and approval process by incorporating functionality made popular by leading social media platforms.
Design Council Urges UK Business to Embrace Design
Commenting today on the Government's publication of research on the value of design to the UK economy, the Design Council welcomed the findings which demonstrate the crucial role that design plays in UK's exports.
Asymptote Architecture Redesigns Alessi's Soho Flagship Store
Alessi's Soho flagship store, a longstanding landmark on design-heavy Greene St. in New York City, has recently undergone a two-month renovation, reopening in May.
Video: Fashion X Commerce X Content
Fashion brands are becoming content studios, whether it's turning your live stream into a multi-day event a la Mugler, crafting online editorial or creating a digital fashion show.
Subatomic Studios Developed Fieldrunners 2 with Autodesk 3ds Max 3D
Subatomic Studios created Fieldrunners 2, the long-awaited sequel to the award-winning tower defense mobile game, using Autodesk 3ds Max 3D.
RIBA Future Trends Survey Results for June 2012
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Future Trends Workload Index for June 2012 stands at +2, significantly down from +13 in the previous month.
Hyper Public: Olympic City - Present Past Future
Hyper Public: Olympic City - Present Past Future, the AIANY Global Dialogue Committees' fourth 2012 event, will focus on the London Summer Games with an eye on the legacy of recent Olympics held in Athens & Beijing and plans for the Rio 2016 Games.
Bureau 100: NFOE et Associes Architectes' New Office
NFOE et Associes Architectes recently moved its offices into Old Montreal. The building, the first skyscraper in Montreal - better known as the New York Life Building - stands out from its surroundings for its exuberant cladding of Scottish red sandstone and red granite from the Thousand Islands.
720 Degrees: Monumental Installation by Ron Arad in Israel Museum's Art Garden
Ron Arad's monumental installation 720 degrees, an immersive experience that presents 360-degree screenings of films and video art, will be in the heart of the Israel Museum's Isamu Noguchi-designed Billy Rose Art Garden.
100 Curators 100 Days: Saatchi Online Launches Global Art Exhibit
100 Curators 100 Days, launched today by Saatchi Online, is a major initiative that recognizes 1,000 artists for their outstanding work.
Architecture Billings Index Indicates Drop in Demand for Design Services Across the Board
The Architecture Billings Index (ABI) saw more poor conditions last month, indicating a drop in design activity at U.S. architecture firms, and suggesting upcoming weakness in spending on nonresidential construction projects.
RIBA / Fees Bureau Employment & Earnings 2012 Survey
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and Fees Bureau have unveiled findings from the 2012 Employment & Earnings Survey. The survey findings reveal architects earnings have stabilized (at April 2012), with average earnings at £41,100.
City of Dreams Pavilion 2012-2013 Finalists
FIGMENT, ENYA and AIANY unveiled the finalists for the third annual 2012-2013 City of Dreams Pavilion Design Competition.
Perkins SMART Brailler
The new Perkins SMART Brailler is a combination of the Next Generation model with a first-of-its-kind multi-sensory technology designed to make learning and teaching braille easier.
Maria Blaisse: Moving Meshes
Moving Meshes, an exhibition of the work of the Dutch designer Maria Blaisse, will be on view at Domaine de Boisbuchet through September 22, 2012.
CIBC Breast Assessment Centre Wins the International Future Health Design Award
Up against projects with construction values in the hundreds of millions, the $5 million, 1100 s.f. CIBC Breast Assessment Centre won the International Future Health Design Award at the 8th Design & Health World Congress and Exhibition in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Acera Flagship Store in Taipei by Hangar Design Group
The Taiwanese ceramics maker Acera has unveiled its first flagship store in Taipei, designed by the Hangar Design Group.
Leahy Brand Design Creates Online Brand Experience for Whitworths
Leahy Brand Design (LBD) designed a new website for Whitworths to guide and encourage the increasing trend in home-baking, with lots of tips and recipe ideas that inspire and bring a little happiness into peoples lives.
Beyond Design Wins IDEA 2012 for the Husqvarna TS 60 Tile Saw
Beyond Design has won a Bronze in the 2012 International Design Excellence Awards in the Commercial & Industrial Products category for the Husqvarna TS 60 tile saw. The TS 60 was developed to be the most user-friendly, precise, and efficient tile saw on the market today.
KITS Mobile: Allsteel's New Space-Planning App
Allsteel, in collaboration with KiSP, has launched KITS Mobile. The free iPad app allows users to develop furniture layouts for any existing environment, thanks to revolutionary visualization and simple specification tools.
Porsche Design Opens its First Store in Hong Kong
Porsche Design launched its first own Design Store in Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong. The store features a new concept that focuses on the substantially extended fashion collection for women and men and highlights the iconic essence of Porsche Design products.
The Art of Logo Design: New PBS Off Book Episode
Off Book, a web series from PBS that explores cutting edge art, released its latest episode "The Art of Logo Design."
How to Change Cars Forever
biscuit's Christopher Riggert recently directed a series of spots for "How To Change Cars Forever," a high-intensity ad campaign for the new Dodge Dart.
eVolo 2013 Skyscraper Competition
eVolo 2013 Skyscraper Competition is now open for entries. Established in 2006, the annual competition is one of the world's most prestigious awards for high-rise architecture.
Paper Passion: Wallpaper* Launches Fragrance with Karl Lagerfeld & Steidl
Paper Passion is a new fragrance launched by Wallpaper* that captures the scent of freshly printed books.
Allsteel Receives ISO 50001 Certification
Allsteel has received ISO 50001 Energy Management System certification - the first furniture manufacturer in the world to be certified to this new global energy management standard and only the third company in the U.S. to receive the rating.
GO PRO: NYC 2012
The second annual GO PRO: NYC is a two days event tailored specifically for emerging professionals in the interior design industry.
Taxi Studio Reimagines Somersby for the UK Market
Leading brewer and drinks supplier, Carlsberg UK, has planted a stake in the apple orchard ground with the national launch of a new mainstream cider brand 'Somersby' with design and strategy from multi award-winning UK brand agency Taxi Studio.
Evolve: Royale Creates New Launch Spot for Nike Lunar Hyperdunk 2012+
Royale was recently tapped by Nike to create a launch spot for the new Nike Lunar Hyperdunk 2012+, which premiered during Game 5 of the NBA Finals and will air globally.
Blue is the New Black: 10 Step Guide to Developing and Producing a Fashion Collection
Fashion is a multi-billion-dollar industry. It's not just about sketching an outfit, it's about selecting fabric, developing buttons, sourcing a factory, negotiating prices, making patterns, seeing the final launch and selling garments. This multi-faceted industry is exciting, enigmatic and endless.
RIBA President's Awards for Research 2012 Shortlist
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today announced the shortlist for the four categories of the President's Awards for Research 2012.
Doc's Demo: Master's Edition
Goodby, Silverstein & Partners have released the next iteration of their Google docs campaign by collaborating with Google and Google Creative Labs to build the website, Doc's Demo: Master's Edition.
The Last Sermon: The Ebeling Group Directs Darksiders 2 Trailer
Prepare to immerse yourself in the Darksiders 2 experience with this trailer for THQ's popular game series directed by The Ebeling Group's Leythum for Hammer Creative.
First Lady Michelle Obama to Celebrate the 2012 National Design Awards with White House Luncheon
First Lady Michelle Obama will celebrate the 2012 National Design Awards Friday, July 13, with a White House luncheon for the winners of the awards.
solidThinking Evolve 9.0
solidThinking has today released Evolve 9.0 - the latest version of its concept-design and 3D modeling software.
Trollback + Company Designs for Resilience in New PopTech Conference Opener
Trollback + Company completed the opening sequence for the PopTech Conference held in Iceland recently. This marks the fourth collaborative title design between PopTech and T+Co, which also involved additional branding materials.
McLaren Animation Powered by Framestore
Framestore has partnered with McLaren Group to launch a brand new media company called McLaren Animation. The joint venture will focus on creating high-end CGI-led content as part a new content-driven marketing strategy for McLaren.
RIBA Announces 2012 Stirling Prize Jury
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) announced the jury for the 2012 Stirling Prize for architecture.
Amsterdam Worldwide Launches NightTag for Olmeca Tequila
Amsterdam Worldwide has recently unveiled a new phase of its Olmeca Tequila strategy with the launch of a new digital platform for the Pernod Ricard brand.
TEAMS Design Wins 2012 IDEA Award for STILL cubeXX
The cubeXX Forklift System Concept, created by TEAMS Design for Forklift manufacturer STILL, has been selected as a Bronze winner in the 2012 International Design Excellence Awards, in the Commercial & Industrial Products category.
Edit1 Adds Todd Winter as Creative Director
Edit1 has added visionary animation director Todd Winter as Creative Director. Working with Michael Zimbard, and Executive Producer Mike Donovan, Winter will play a leading role in the direction of Edit1's creative work and the growth of the company overall.
Kyoob-ID Completes Cedele by The Bakery Depot
Kyoob-ID has recently completed a new retail identity for Cedele outlet at Serangoon Gardens. The design and build project was completed in two months.
BIID Wraps Up Successful Conference
The British Institute of Interior Design (BIID) has enjoyed a successful debut for its inaugural one-day conference, "Celebrating British Design" which took place recently at RIBA HQ, London.
Winners of the 2012 European Design Awards
The ED-Awards unveiled the winners during an awards ceremony that took place at Bio Rex, an iconic architectural monument of Helsinki.
Vivienne Westwood: This is Britain
Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood appears in a brand new film to talk about two paintings which capture her vision of London. The film is part of the This is Britain campaign promoting the free collections displays at Tate Britain.
Bernhardt Design to Launch CP Lounge by Charles Pollock at the London Design Festival
Bernhardt Design will launch the CP Lounge by mid-century modern icon Charles Pollock at the London Design Festival 2012.
Kokaistudios Wins Competition for Tsinghua Law Library Building
Kokaistudios has won the competition for the new Tsinghua University Law Library located in Beijing, China.
AME Design Develops Propod for Mike Powell Design
AME Design have recently completed the development of a unique Golf bag/trolley concept for Mike Powell Design.
Ford Opens Design Centre Expansion in Merkenich-Cologne
Ford has opened an 11.6M Euros expansion of its Design Centre at Merkenich-Cologne, featuring an open and fluid design to help promote idea exchange.
BMW Group Wins the 2012 Green Good Design Award for the First Time
The BMW i8 Concept, BMW i3 Concept and MINI Rocketman Concept have been presented with the 2012 Green Good Design Award for sustainable product design. This is the first time a BMW Group product has been among the winners of the annual prize.
Disrupt & Delight: Five Principles for Sustainable Brand Innovation
BBMG has recently released a new white paper titled "Disrupt & Delight: Five Principles for Sustainable Brand Innovation." The booklet leverages BBMG's recent experience helping clients embed sustainability into the branding and marketing functions to create shared value.
Frost* Eyes Up the Out-of-Home Ad Market with New Branded Industry Magazine
Eye has launched an exclusive new industry magazine featuring diverse opinion and comment on trends, technology and innovation in the sector. As part of its current global brand repositioning, the new publication is a pivotal piece of brand launch communication for Eye.
Yvonne Weng Wins the Architectural Association Foster + Partners Prize 2012
The Architectural Association and Foster + Partners unveiled the winner of the Foster + Partners Prize, which is presented annually to the AA Diploma student whose portfolio best addresses the themes of sustainability and infrastructure.
Framestore Created Immersive VFX to Further Enhance Movie Going Experience for Secret Cinema
Secret Cinema, known for extending the movie-going experience by creating clandestine film-themed events that build up to the screening of a secret film, entered unchartered territory by screening a new release - Prometheus - every night in June at an undisclosed central London location. Over 25,000 people signed up for the event over the course of the month.
Brandient Completes Bitdefender Enterprise Global Rebranding
After completing Bitdefender corporate rebranding and Bitdefender Consumer Products rebranding, Brandient completed the final chapter of the process: Bitdefender's Enterprise division rebranding.
Sue Timney Elected British Institute of Interior Design President
The British Institute of Interior Design (BIID) elected Sue Timney as its new President for the year 2012/13 to take over from Diana Yakeley.
Infill Philadelphia: Soak It Up!
The Community Design Collaborative, in partnership with the Philadelphia Water Department and the US Environmental Protection Agency Region 3, is hosting Infill Philadelphia: Soak It Up!, an exhibition of best practices in Green Stormwater Infrastructure.
Woods Bagot Designs $230M Police Complex in Melbourne
Woods Bagot will design the $230 million Victoria Police Complex; set to be a significant civic and community development located in Spencer Street, on the edge of Melbourne's central business district.
Core77 Launches Design for (Your) Product Lifetime Challenge
Design for (Your) Product Lifetime Challenge, organized by Core77, aims to develop a compelling new "smart" product that is repairable and designed to last. The competition is sponsored by Autodesk and ifixit.
Re-thinking Neighbourhood Planning: From Consultation to Collaboration
A new report from ResPublica and The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) calls for greater formal recognition of community priorities and requirements in the planning process, which would include social aspirations, environmental values and financial stakes.
Mulberry Opens New Store in San Francisco
English luxury brand Mulberry has opened its first store in San Francisco, on the elegant shopping street Grant Avenue.
Visual Creatures and Parker & the Numberman Entice Snapdragon Tech with Colorful Verse
Visual Creatures and the newly launched commercial production division of Funny or Die, Gifted Youth, created a zany world in desperate need of Snapdragon processors in the 3:00 music video "Shoulda Shoulda Got A Snapdragon" for Qualcomm.
Winners of the 2012 International Design Excellence Awards
The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) unveiled the winners of the 2012 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) program. Out of 660 finalists, 35 were honored with the Gold Award, while 71 received the Silver Award and 123 merited the Bronze Award.
AIGA Adds Six National Design Leaders to its Board of Directors
This month, six designers join the national board of directors for AIGA, having been nominated following a national search and elected by a vote of AIGA's professional members.
SEGD Reinvents Award-Winning Magazine
The Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) has renamed and redesigned its award-winning magazine that showcases the best in graphic design for the built environment.
Coley Porter Bell Creates a Message in a Bottle for Beefeater Gin
Coley Porter Bell has created a summer of 2012 limited edition souvenir bottle for Beefeater Gin that goes beyond conventional imagery to celebrate the energy and diversity of the real London.
Porsche Named Red Dot: Design Team of the Year 2012
Prof. Dr. Peter Zec, initiator and CEO of red dot, announced Porsche AG as the Red Dot: Design Team of the Year 2012.
Carter Wong Designs Multi-cultural Yogurt Drinks Packaging and Brand Makeover for Bio Green Dairy
New branding and packaging by London design company Carter Wong for Bio Green Dairy has helped the Middlesex based producer achieve instant market penetration with an extended product range of real fruit yoghurt smoothies and exciting Asian-inspired Lassi yoghurt drinks.
Spacejunk Interprets Romance & Destruction of Bonnie & Clyde
For the recent PromaxBDA Conference, Spacejunk was tasked with a unique challenge: choose a song that pre-dates MTV's 1981 launch and create its music video using any medium.
Clockwork VFX Created Complex Character Animation Star Wars Fighter Pods Campaign
Clockwork VFX brought Jedi-like focus to Hasbro's Star Wars Fighter Pods campaign that introduces the new toy line with a cinematic ad and a series of five humorous webisodes featuring the Star Wars characters.
Allplan Young Architects Award 2012
Allplan has launched a call for students and young professionals (up to 32 years old) to put forward a specific idea or project that has been designed and/or implemented using the Allplan CAD software. A jury of three will nominate the best projects and award them a 3D plot.
Beauty Workshop: Selfridges Invites UXUS to Redesign Their Beauty Retail Experience
Award-winning agency, UXUS, has collaborated with Selfridges to design a new retail beauty experience for the iconic department store on Oxford Street.
Woods Bagot Creates New Workplace Environment for ARUP
Boasting open-plan workspaces, transparent meeting rooms, a series of collaboration spaces and a focus on sustainability, ARUP Perth's new environment, designed by Woods Bagot, reflects a workplace of tomorrow yet also celebrates the company's rich history.
Making Your Mark: A Short Guided Tour to a Confident Post-graduate Career in Illustration
Now you've graduated, you're raring to prove yourself with all those original ideas to sell, how much do you understand about protecting your copyright? Imagine you're offered a nationwide campaign for a mobile phone company. Are you able to price it? You need to get yourself noticed but how confident are you at self-promotion?
Whitegoods Lighting Updates Light Meter App
Whitegoods Lighting has recently released an updated version of its Light Meter App.
AIA Home Design Trends Survey Q1 2012: Residential Market Seeing Largest Growth in Six Years
As the struggling housing market shows signs of improvement, there has been a reversal in the 6-year trend in smaller home sizes, according to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Home Design Trends Survey for the first quarter of 2012 that focused specifically on overall home layout and the use of interior and exterior space. This is the case for custom and luxury homes, as well as for additions to existing homes.
RIBA Future Trends Survey Results for May 2012
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today released the results of its Future Trends Survey results for May 2012.
Framestore and BBH Deliver an Integrated Olympics Campaign for British Airways
Framestore has worked with BBH to deliver an integrated Olympics campaign for BA, comprising an iconic TV ad, a timely viral teaser and a customisable application that creates personalised edits of the TV spot.
Adobe Adds Photoshop Lightroom to the Creative Cloud
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom - the company's photography workflow solution is now available as part of Adobe Creative Cloud membership.
Design Summit 2012: We're Better Than We Think We Are - Pride Will Lead to Growth
The UK Government's Business Secretary, Vince Cable will today open Design Summit 2012 at London's City Hall to consider how Britain can capitalise on its distinctive qualities to secure economic growth and rebalance the economy.
Pantone Starts Shipping Color Bridge Supplements Featuring the 336 New Colors
Pantone has started shipping the Color Bridge supplements featuring the 336 New Colors that were added to the Pantone Plus Series earlier this year.
AMA Completes Interior Fit-out of W Communications' London Office
Andy Martin Architects (AMA) has recently completed the interior fit-out for W Communications London office.
Fritz Hansen Launches New Seating and Lighting Series
Fritz Hansen has recently launched two new product series, the minuscule and the re-introduction of the KAISER idell lights.