The Seoul Design Olympiad reopens in 2010 for 21 days under the new name Seoul Design Fair. Its theme this year is “Design For All” and encompasses numerous design fields that play a role in improving peoples’ quality of life. It is expected that over 200 design teams around the world, twice the number...
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Seoul Design Fair 2010
Audi Urban Future Award
The Audi Urban Future Award aims to analyze the future of our cities in the context of questions of mobility, and to offer concrete suggestions for their reconfiguration.
At the heart of the Audi Urban Future Award is a competition between six internationally renowned architectural...
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Our Cities Ourselves
Our Cities Ourselves shows the visions of ten of the world’s most fascinating cities from ten of the world’s leading architects. These cities have proven to be leaders in innovation in sustainable transport and are fertile ground for further transformation.
Nearly all of the cities...
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INDIGO Call for Submissions
INDIGO, the International Indigenous Design Network, has launched Mother Tongue, an innovative online exhibition that seeks to capture the power of language – verbal and visual, formal...
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North South Project
The North South Project is a new model of viable design and craft collaborations in the developing world. Called the North South Project because of its reach across...
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New Caribbean Design – Love, Freedom, Flow
Love, Freedom, Flow is the international debut of the New Caribbean Design initiative. The developing world is one of the next design frontiers, producing goods that fuse quality with...
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The Why Factory
The Why Factory (T?F), at the Delft University of Technology, is organized like a foundation and seeks to give argumentation back to the architectural and urbanistic world.
T?F concentrates...
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LEED for Neighborhood Development
The LEED for Neighborhood Development Rating System integrates the principles of smart growth, urbanism and green building into the first national system for neighborhood design in the United...
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Designing Water’s Future
In May 2008, INDEX: and AIGA posed a challenge to students around the world, asking them to address the world’s fresh water crisis. This book presents the...
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Plus Minus Solar
Plus Minus Design is an innovative product design consultancy based in the centre of Leeds. It comprises a team of three designers with particular interest in...
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Austin Center for Design
The Austin Center for Design exists to transform society through design and design education. This transformation occurs through the development of design knowledge directed towards all forms...
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Design, Who Cares? – EDTI
“It is no longer easy to dismiss design. As well as an essential driver of technological innovation, it is now seen as an important
tool for socially responsible and environmentally...
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For a Good Cause
Many large NGOs invest money in design for ad campaigns but there are people who do not understand how they can spend money on something like advertising....
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Eco-Pro-Net
Creative Design City Nagoya aims to create a recycling-based society and environmentally friendly cities.
To that end, the city has implemented a broad range of innovations. Eco-Pro-Net is...
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Iridescent
Iridescent: Icograda Journal of Design Research is a peer-reviewed online journal, inviting researchers and scholars world-wide to submit papers and essays for publication on site. The aim...
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Alain de Botton x Channel Four
The book The Architecture of Happiness was turned into a 3 hour documentary, entitled The Perfect Home.
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DESIGN>Magazine
DESIGN> is a meta-disciplinary information platform and stable of subscription-free digital magazines that seek to present and serve the interests of designers, buyers of design, service providers, the design...
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Time to Rethink Design
“We are facing a pandemic of ‘designed stuff’ and we have reached a contamination point, a crisis for Design. Why are we not more pertubed and disturbed,...
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Design Industry Research 2010
The British Design Council survey covers more than 2,200 design businesses including in-house design teams, design consultancies and freelance designers working across communications, digital & multimedia, interior...
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D- Lab at MIT
D-Lab is a program that fosters the development of appropriate technologies and sustainable solutions within the framework of international development. D-Lab’s mission is to improve the quality of life...
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Min-Kyu Choi
Brit Insurance 2010 Award winner, Min-Kyu Choi’s folding plug revisits the design of the standard UK electrical plug, which has remained largely unchanged since its introduction in 1947. Infuriated...
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