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EXHIBITION
Ettore Sottsass & Sottsass Associati
LUXEMBOURG
11-Oct-08> 01-Dec-09 |
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The works on display at Mudam are the result of Sottsass’ fruitful collaboration with the "Manufacture nationale de Sèvres" and DuPont.
Mudam Luxembourg
Luxembourg |
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COMPETITION
red dot award: design concept 2009
SINGAPORE
15-Jan-09> 01-Jul-09 |
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Participating in the red dot award: design concept and winning an award is a recognised and respected achievement. As one of the toughest and most prestigious international competition, the award serves as a strong indisputable proof of your creativity and innovativeness to your stakeholders, and that is invaluable in this market situation.
Call for submissions for the red dot award: design concept 2009 is open. The search for the best design talents, companies and institutions begins. Compete and claim your place in this prestigious list.
red dot Singapore Pte Ltd
Singapore |
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EXHIBITION
See the Light
DENMARK
30-Jan-09> 09-Aug-09 |
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’See the Light’ is an informative and fascinating exhibition about future lighting design. With an emphasis on sustainability and quality, the exhibition presents the light sources that are available today and explores what possible light sources the future might bring.
Danish Design Center
Copenhagen |
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COMPETITION
Sparks Design Awards
UNITED STATES
01-Feb-09> 11-Sep-09 |
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Graphics, product design, transportation and architecture are just a few of the many design categories accepted. If you or your company create great designs, don’t miss the opportunity to compete in this important event.
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COMPETITION
China Innovation Design Award
CHINA
01-Mar-09> 15-Aug-09 |
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The China Innovation Design Award and serial activites (i.e. CIDF) was established in 2001, initiated by State Intellectual Property Bureau and Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society , thanks to the joint efforts of various fields and the support of the society, nowadays, CIDF has become one of the most significant annual events on the China design calendar, which is honored as " Oscar Award in the fieled of China Design".
State Intellectual Property Bureau and Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society
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EXHIBITION
Centennial of Grand Concourse
UNITED STATES
05-Mar-09> 04-Apr-10 |
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Bronx, NY - A visionary feat of 19th century city planning, largely taken for granted by 21st-century New Yorkers, the Grand Concourse flows through the Bronx from Van Cortland Park at the top to East 138th Street at the south. Inspired by the Champs Élysées in Paris and designed by Alsatian-born engineer Louis Risse, the famous thoroughfare was originally conceived in 1870 as a means of connecting the working class of Manhattan to the green parks of the north Bronx. After nearly four decades of planning, engineering, and construction, the Grand Concourse officially opened in November 1909.
Now in 2009 The Bronx Museum of the Arts examines the past, present, and future of the Grand Concourse in Intersections, a year-long, three-part centennial celebration. The three exhibitions comprising Intersections are: Intersections: The Grand Concourse at 100 (March 5 - July 20, 2009); Intersections: The Grand Concourse Commissions (August 2, 2009 - January 4, 2010); and Intersections: The Grand Concourse Beyond 100 (November 1 - January 4, 2010).
Bronx Museum of the Arts
Bronx, New York |
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COMPETITION
9th Andreu World International Design Competition
SPAIN
18-Mar-09> 14-Sep-09 |
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Both students and professionals in the field of design may enter for this competition, has no age limit. The challenge is to design a seat or table in which innovative design/styling contributions are made, bearing in mind the technical specifications in the briefing you can download from the website.
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EXHIBITION
Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner
UNITED KINGDOM
20-Mar-09> 26-Jul-09 |
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Over the course of a career spent largely in Los Angeles, John Lautner captured the essence of southern California in more than 150 distinctive structures. Trained by Frank Lloyd Wright, Lautner is best known for his private commissions such as the Elrod Residence in Palm Springs, featured in the James Bond movie Diamonds are Forever, and Los Angeles’s iconic ’Chemosphere’.
This large scale retrospective will feature over 70 original drawings and models, spanning a 50-year period, as well as short films by award-winning documentary maker, Murray Grigor.
The Lighthouse
Glasgow - Scotland |
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COMPETITION
EESC Design ZeroNine
BELGIUM
31-Mar-09> 15-Aug-09 |
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The EESC, in cooperation with the Belgian design organisation, Designed in Brussels, represented by Olivier Gilson, and the independent design curator, Giovanna Massoni, is launching the design competition ’EESC Design ZeroNine’ in all 27 EU Member States.
The purpose is to create an innovative design product with packaging for a modern, mobile and international audience, aged 30+, which will be officially adopted by the EESC as a promotional gift for its President, Vice-Presidents and Members to be used during official visits and on other designated occasions. The winning design will be awarded 10 000 Euro and will be produced in a limited edition in 2010 as part of the EESC’s communication strategy.
European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
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EXHIBITION
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
UNITED STATES
08-Apr-09> 14-Sep-09 |
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In recent decades "landscape" has taken on an expanded definition in architecture. In the first half of the twentieth century, the architectural avant-garde celebrated autonomy from nature, and architects devised utopian schemes for creating urban realms ex novo, with little consideration for their surroundings. More recently, however, the challenges of a threatened environment and rapidly expanding cities have fostered a revised understanding of landscape. Harmony between the spatial, social, and environmental aspects of human life has become a priority in political thought, and this has had profound reverberations in both architecture and landscape design. "Landscape"-no longer understood merely as nature untouched-now encompasses complex interventions by architects and landscape architects in urban and rural surroundings. In Situ: Architecture and Landscape draws from the rich collection of The Museum of Modern Art to examine the diverse attitudes toward landscape over the last hundred years.
MoMA
New York City |
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EXHIBITION
Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture
UNITED STATES
17-Apr-09> 20-Jul-09 |
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Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture is the first exhibition to treat all facets of Breuer’s work with equal weight, from the highly innovative furniture he produced as both a student and teacher at the famed Bauhaus, to the elegant but modestly scaled houses he created after moving=to the United States, to the large-scale governmental and institutional buildings he eventually designed for major cities around the world.
Vitra Design Museum
Rhode Island School of Design |
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EXHIBITION
Polish Posters 1945-89
UNITED STATES
06-May-09> 30-Nov-09 |
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an installation drawn from the Museum’s collection of 24 posters from the Cold War era of the Polish Poster School, which attracted international attention and admiration. Drawing on a rich Central European tradition in graphic arts, designers like Henryk Tomaszewski, Roman Cieslewicz, Jan Lenica, and Franciszek Starowieyski developed a sophisticated visual language characterized by surreal and expressionist tendencies, a bold use of color, and macabre, often satirical humor.
MoMA
New York City |
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EXHIBITION
New York School of Interior Design MFA & BFA Thesis Exhibition
UNITED STATES
07-May-09> 23-Jul-09 |
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New York School of Interior Design will be hosting their annual spring thesis exhibition with work from seven MFA students and over 25 BFA students.
New York School of Interior Design
New York City |
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COMPETITION
LED - Emotionalize your light
GERMANY
08-May-09> 04-Aug-09 |
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The contest asks international light and design lovers to share their ideas in the field of light designs using LED technology and to create innovative and emotional mood light concepts. Moreover the contest aims to generate feasible ideas for light solutions, which are on the one hand easy to use and implement and on the other hand affordable for everyone.
HYVE Innovation Community and OSRAM
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EXHIBITION
Santiago Calatrava: World Trade Center Transportation Hub
UNITED STATES
09-May-09> 31-Aug-09 |
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The exhibition will showcase renowned architect, Santiago Calatrava’s revised plans for the WTC Transportation Hub in Lower Manhattan. Calatrava was commissioned to design the project after the tragedy of September 11th. Since then, the architect recommended adjustments in order to save time and money, while preserving the overall integrity of the original design. The exhibition will showcase architectural models along with a multimedia presentation and will be an opportunity for individuals to see how Calatrava’s design has transcended the complex challenges of the site and will significantly improve mass-transit across Lower Manhattan.
Queen Sofía Spanish Institute 684 Park Avenue at 68th Street - New York, NY |
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EXHIBITION
Design for a Living World
UNITED STATES
14-May-09> 04-Jan-10 |
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Ten leading designers have been commissioned to develop new uses for sustainably grown and harvested materials in order to tell a unique story about the life-cycle of materials and the power of conservation and design. The featured designers and places include Yves Behar/Costa Rica; Stephen Burks/Australia; Hella Jongerius/Mexico; Maya Lin/Maine; Christien Meindertsma/Idaho; Isaac Mizrahi/Alaska; Abbott Miller/Bolivia; Ted Muehling/Micronesia; Kate Spade/Bolivia; and Ezri Tarazi/China. On view will be the prototypes, drawings, and finished product created by the designers.
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
New York, NY 10128 |
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Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward
UNITED STATES
15-May-09> 23-Aug-09 |
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Fifty years after the realization of Frank Lloyd Wright’s renowned design, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum celebrates the golden anniversary of its landmark building with the exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward, co-organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. The 50th anniversary exhibition brings together sixty-four projects designed by one of the most influential architects of the 20th century, including privately commissioned residences, civic and government buildings, religious and performance spaces, as well as unrealized urban mega-structures.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York City |
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EXHIBITION
Antibodies-The Works of Fernando & Humberto Campana 1989 - 2009
GERMANY
16-May-09> 28-Feb-10 |
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The Brazilians Fernando and Humberto Campana are the most significant designers in present-day Latin America. In addition to designs for international manufacturers of furniture, lighting and home accessories, the majority of creations coming out of their Sao Paulo studio consist of custom-made one-off objects for the home characterized by recycling of found materials, idiosyncratic combinations and a surrealistic impression. The retrospective on the 20-year collaboration between the two brothers emphasizes the artistic working method and explains how the works take shape - from the first sculptures up to the interdisciplinary works of today - based on prototypes, experiments and one-off pieces.
Vitra Design Museum
Weil am Rhein |
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EXHIBITION
Prix Émile Hermès
DENMARK
19-May-09> 19-Aug-09 |
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The exhibition ’Prix Émile Hermès’ presents the finalists in the grandiose European design competition that was launched by the international fashion house Hermès in spring 2007.
Danish Design Center
Copenhagen |
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EXHIBITION
Speed Limits
CANADA
19-May-09> 12-Oct-09 |
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The exhibition addresses the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. It marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement and is curated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Stanford Humanities Lab.
CCA, Montréal, and the Wolfsonian-Florida International University, Miami Beach
Montréal, Québec |
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COMPETITION
Mannahatta 2409
UNITED STATES
20-May-09> 12-Oct-09 |
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A Design Competition for the Ecological Future of New York in the Year 2409.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a city that worked like a forest and flowed like a stream?
Can you envision a truly ecological city? Building on Dr. Eric W. Sanderson’s Mannahatta Project, a scientifically robust, block-by-block reconstruction of Manhattan’s ecology when Henry Hudson landed on the island 400 years ago, Van Alen Institute launches a design competition in Summer 2009 to imagine the long-term future of Manhattan as an ecosystem in the context of its rich ecological and social history.
New York City |
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EXHIBITION
Super Contemporary
UNITED KINGDOM
03-Jun-09> 04-Oct-09 |
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Super Contemporary is the spirit of London design, past, present and future. The exhibition celebrates and examines the creative magnetism of London and its enduring reputation as a beacon of design. The Design Museum has joined forces with Beefeater 24 to showcase 12 new commissions from London’s most dynamic creative’s to explore what it is that attracts the world’s leading designers to study, work and live in the city.
Design Museum
Design Museum London |
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EXHIBITION
What Was Good Design? MoMA’s Message 1944-56
UNITED STATES
05-Jun-09> 30-Nov-09 |
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At mid-century MoMA played a leading role in the definition and dissemination of so-called Good Design, a concept that took shape in the 1930s and emerged with new relevance in the decades following World War II. This installation presents selections from MoMA’s design collection that illuminate the primary values of Good Design as promoted (and disputed) by museums, design councils, and department stores. Iconic pieces by designers like Charles and Ray Eames and Hans Wegner are shown alongside more unexpected items, such as a hunting bow and a plumb bob, as well as everyday objects including an iron, a hamper, a rake, a cheese slicer, and Tupperware.
MoMA
New York City |
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EXHIBITION
Glass Stress
ITALY
06-Jun-09> 28-Oct-09 |
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Glass Stress will feature both specially commissioned new work and selected pieces by over thirty-five modern and contemporary artists, many of whom are working with glass for the first time. The exhibition will explore each artist’s unique approach to working with the glass, the technical limits inherent in the material, and the synthesis between the artist’s ideas and the glass master’s skills.
Glass Stress is the link between the Venetian fine art glass movement of 1950s, Venice Projects and the 2009 Venice Biennale.
Mjellby Konstmuseum- Halmstadgruppens Museum
Venice - Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti and at the Scuola Grande Confraternita di San Teodoro, San Marco |
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COMPETITION
Water & Wind
UNITED STATES
10-Jun-09> 30-Oct-09 |
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The subject of this international competition is a bath designing program to complement the antelope collection on the DNA+ web site:
Products have to be designed for all, in other words have an easy access, be environmentally safe, compliant for a use in a wet environment for a residential use as well as for a commercial use. Material limitation; wood, Corian, aluminum, stainless steel, glass, acrylic glass.
Technology limitation: die making, tubing, extrusion, thermoforming, CNC machining are preferred.
DNA+ is looking for new and innovative functional designs. Each submitter is to invent new ways of relating to life in the bath environment.
DNA
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EXHIBITION
Global Street Food - A project by Mike Meiré
GERMANY
11-Jun-09> 12-Jul-09 |
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Accompanying the exhibition "Antibodies. The Works of Fernando & Humberto Campana 1989-2009", the Vitra Design Museum is showing the current project created by Mike Meiré for the Dornbracht Edges series. "Global Street Food" is dedicated to the fascination with improvised kitchens in public places. Urban fast food stations navigating the contrast between pragmatic dilettantism and complexity in the smallest of spaces. Dornbracht presents a variety of street food kitchens from different areas of the world. An exhibition exploring the sculptural quality of authentic objects and their cultural identity.
Vitra Design Museum
Buckminster-Fuller-Dome, Vitra Campus |
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EXHIBITION
Luksus 09
FINLAND
12-Jun-09> 30-Aug-09 |
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What is luxury today? Design Forum Finland’s summer exhibition studies modern varieties and phenomena of luxury. "Luxury" has traditionally referred to opulence, abundance and rare expensive products and designer brands. Today’s luxury products emphasize above all good design and their focus is shifting from the objects as such to their different, and even surprising, contexts.
Design Forum Finland
Helsinki |
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EXHIBITION
"Making Modern" Graduate Design Exhibition
UNITED STATES
13-Jun-09> 25-Jul-09 |
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Showcasing design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC) department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects (AIADO), Making Modern brings together work by recent AIADO graduate students in the department’s inaugural master’s thesis exhibition. Included will be special projects featured during Milan’s Fair in April, the highly regarded "Objects for the Age of Obama," "2000 Watt Living," and "The Expanding Classroom," which will be joined by "Objects That Entertain Us," a collaboration with Dupont Corian that will move to Making Modern following the annual NeoCon World’s Trade Fair, held in Chicago’s nearby Merchandise Mart from June 15-17.
SAIC Sullivan Galleries - Chicago |
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EXHIBITION
Josef Hoffmann: Inspirations
CZECH REPUBLIC
16-Jun-09> 31-Dec-09 |
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In collaboration with the Moravian Gallery in Brno, the MAK is developing a concept for a permanent exhibition on the life and work of Josef Hoffmann in Austria and the Czech Republic, to be shown in Hoffmann’s birthplace in Brtnice. The project encompasses the redesign of the six exhibition rooms in the house. In particular, light will be shed on the artistic influences, which Hoffmann, being one of the most important architects and designers of the twentieth century, received in his home town.
Josef Hoffmann Museum, Brtnice |
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EXHIBITION
Light Structure - Barkow Leibinger
GERMANY
23-Jun-09> 31-Jul-09 |
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Light Structure" is a concept for lighting elements utilizing Barkow Leibinger’s capability for digital fabrication. 50mm Plexiglas tubes are laser-cut forming topographical surfaces that are top-lit by L.E.D.s causing the cut and polished edges to glow. The tubes, bundled into clusters of various sizes, accumulate in a cellular fashion to produce larger and more complex forms. When arranged together in a single space their organic surfaces constitute a Merz-bau-like re-mapping of the ceiling of the gallery.
Hans-Peter Jochum Gallery
Knesebeckstraße 54 - Berlin |
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EXHIBITION
I.D. Annual Design Review Exhibition
UNITED STATES
25-Jun-09> 21-Aug-09 |
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Since 1954, I.D. Magazine’s Annual Design Review has recognized the best in product, packaging, furniture, graphic and environmental design, from the iconic to the obscure.
Material ConneXion®
60 Madison Avenue - New York NY |
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EXHIBITION
VIVID Gallery presents: Art | Basel
NETHERLANDS
28-Jun-09> 30-Aug-09 |
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Studio Job - Atelier van Lieshout - Jaime Hayon - Lily van der Stokker - Nathan Wierink.
VIVID Gallery
Rotterdam |
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CONFERENCE
China Sustainable Building Summit 2009
CHINA
29-Jun-09> 01-Jul-09 |
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China Sustainable Building Summit 2009 is a unique building industry conference, which will mainly focus on Chinese sustainable building market development and green opportunities.
Shanghai |
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COURSE
London Milan 2009: the dual city summer sessions
UNITED KINGDOM
29-Jun-09> 24-Jul-09 |
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This is a unique collaboration of Summer Courses between Central Saint Martins in London and Domus Academy and NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan enables students to study in two of Europe’s most inspiring cities taking complementary courses in the fields of Fashion Design, Graphic Design, Interior Design, Product Design, Event Design and Photography.
CSM/DA/NABA
London and Milan |
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COURSE
Introduction to Interior Design
ITALY
30-Jun-09> 10-Jul-09 |
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Interior design uses forms and languages, strengthened by the history of art, architecture and living, which are subject to the evolution of style and to current trends in art, fashion, industrial design. This course is aimed at introducing students to this dual design framework, allowing them to come in touch with the main phases of evolution of the history of art and architecture. They will be then able to link them to contemporary aesthetic scenarios influencing languages, solutions, proposals in interior design.
Domus Academy
Milan |
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COURSE
Design for All
ITALY
30-Jun-09> 10-Jul-09 |
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The course will explore methodology and development of appropriate tools in order to design objects with the aim that everyone can participate in our society on an equal basis, regardless of age, gender, capabilities or cultural background. The workshop will be focused on managing and development of a DfA project from the concept to the realization.
Domus Academy
Milan |
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CONFERENCE
Creative inventions and innovations for everyday HCI
UNITED KINGDOM
01-Jul-09> 02-Jul-09 |
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CREATE 2009 is a 2-day conference about creating innovative interactions, whether digital consumer products, interactive services or interaction paradigms. A conference where the emphasis is on sharing the wealth of creative ideas we have developed to resolve problems, to create new capabilities, or new functions; where the aim is to evolve further creative designs that can make a difference to people.
British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London |
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EXHIBITION
Mariscal - Drawing Life
UNITED KINGDOM
01-Jul-09> 01-Nov-09 |
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The Design Museum presents the first UK retrospective of Spanish designer and artist Javier Mariscal. Regarded as one the world’s most innovative and original designers of our time, Mariscal’s rich and diverse body of work spans kooky cartoon characters to stunning interiors, from furniture to graphic design and corporate identities. The exhibition and graphics will be designed by Mariscal, promising an immersive experience for the visitor into the world and mind of Mariscal. The exhibition space will be a fully illustrated environment, rich with orchestrated scenarios and installations, each telling the story of Mariscal’s pivotal projects, designs and the drawings that shaped them.
Design Museum
London |
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Marketing Design Services in the New Economy
UNITED STATES
09-Jul-09> 09-Jul-09 |
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As many designers are struggling to keep existing clients and attract new ones, it’s time to re-evaluate your marketing strategies and adjust them to this new era. New York School of Interior Design is here to help with Marketing Design Services in the New Economy.
This one day seminar will prepare interior designers and architects to meet the business challenges of today’s market for professional design services. Drawing on proven principles and practices, marketing guru Steve Nobel will characterize the attitudes and behaviors of the affluent population as they adjust to current economic conditions and help create effective marketing messages that reflect new values and priorities.
New York School of Interior Design
New York City |
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New Designers 2009
UNITED KINGDOM
09-Jul-09> 19-Jul-09 |
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Part 1 - 9-12 July 2009: Textiles, Fashion & Accessories, Contemporary Applied Arts, Ceramics & Glass, Jewellery & Precious Metalwork, One Year On
Part 2 - 16-19 July 2009: Product Design, Furniture Design, Visual Communications (including Graphic Design and Illustration), Spatial Design.
New Designers 2009 is a voyage of discovery - the foremost event in graduate design and not to be missed. For anyone with an interest in contemporary design, predicting trends, identifying new styles and current ideas, the answer is to visit New Designers.
Upper Street Events
London |
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WORKSHOP
Summer Redesign Camp
NORWAY
29-Jul-09> 01-Aug-09 |
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Small furniture & textile workshop. During four days this summer, learn how
to redesign old furniture and textiles to make your own personal design. A professional designteam from Ralston & Bau and Fretex is coaching the participants, in a workshop that aims to teach new skills and make cool stuff for to take home with you.
Transplant
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