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Seoul Design Fair 2010

July 14, 2010
By Design Explorer
Seoul Design Fair 2010

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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Audi Urban Future Award

July 5, 2010
By Design Explorer
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

June 23, 2010
By Design Explorer
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

June 7, 2010
By Design Explorer
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

May 18, 2010
By Design Explorer
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

May 18, 2010
By Design Explorer
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

May 7, 2010
By Design Explorer
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

May 3, 2010
By Design Explorer
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

April 30, 2010
By Design Explorer
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

April 19, 2010
By Design Explorer
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

April 15, 2010
By Design Explorer
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

April 14, 2010
By Design Explorer
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

April 9, 2010
By Design Explorer
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

April 7, 2010
By Design Explorer
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

April 6, 2010
By Design Explorer
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

March 30, 2010
By Design Explorer
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

March 27, 2010
By Design Explorer
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

March 25, 2010
By Design Explorer
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

March 25, 2010
By Design Explorer
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

March 19, 2010
By Design Explorer
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

March 18, 2010
By Design Explorer
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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