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The Third Maier S. Coop. Design Competition

Ob — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:47:57 +0000

The company Maier S. Coop. announces the “Third Maier S. Coop. Design Competition”. It is an international competition for the design of Vehicle Interiors.

The aim of the competition is to award prizes for projects consisting of ideas for new products, focusing on vehicle interiors, more specifically for doors, with innovations affecting their opening and closing lifetime and other uses. These new product ideas should be geared to facilitating user operation, simplifying the currently-existing systems, including new features, improving driver and passenger safety, modernising the appearance of the vehicle interior using new decoration techniques or including environmental improvements.

maierdesign.es

The Comité Colbert launches design-colbert.fr at Le Palais de Tokyo in Paris

Ob — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:15:57 +0000

On November 27, the Comité Colbert will unveil design-colbert.fr, a virtual creation developed with “Le Pavillon,” the creative laboratory at Le Palais de Tokyo headed by artist Gerald Petit. The idea was to showcase the winners of the Young Designers Competition and explore new esthetic codes. A creation to visit online from November 27 to December 25 2008.

Young Designers Competition: 2008, a year for records
This was a year for record numbers: 1,600 entries, 35 luxury houses involved 46 winners and 38 projects. Over the last twenty years, the competition has earned an excellent reputation for the luxury sector in the field of design. Many French art and design schools have built luxury crafts into their curriculum.

Flexo Mathieu Girard, Ecole Bleue
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A group of artists creates Les Sémiophores
Internships at Colbert companies give YDC winners a chance to realize their prototypes under the supervision of first-rate craftsmen. But the Comité Colbert decided to go farther and explore new territory: the Web. It turned to Le Pavillon, the laboratory of contemporary creation at Le Palais de Tokyo. Objective: keep a finger on the pulse of the new creative and esthetic codes emerging on the Web.

Ettore Geoffrey Istace, ESAAT Roubaix
Manufacture nationale de Sèvres

“There’s a natural affinity between contemporary art and luxury. We talk the same language based on the creative process. The Internet, with its creative ferment, is opening up a new world of the imagination that is shaping the minds of next generation. It is imperative for the luxury industry to explore this world and be part of it,” points out Élisabeth Ponsolle des Portes, President and CEO of the Comité Colbert.

The installation created by Gerald Petit and his group of artists immerses the visitor in a poetic, other-worldly ambience. One part, Les Sémiophores, presents the 46 winning students and their creations, with off-camera commentary to tell each story of each. In some cases, the central focus is the object itself.

Le petit Napoléon partit en voyage Mélanie Cosseron, ESAAB Nevers
Pierre Frey

Online users can become cyber-collectors
Some visitors navigating through the site will get a chance to download a work, free of charge, from a Limited Edition collection created especially for the occasion. You need to be one of the first hundred visitors to a given work of art and also visit the web site as often as possible, because these special opportunities arise at random during the 29-day period of the exhibition.

L’Agora, a platform for talking about design, digital creation and innovation
L’Agora joins the two other parts of the project: Les Semiophores, which tells the stories of these creations, and L’Encyclopédie, which is the place to go for information about YDC winners, their schools and participating companies. During the month of the exhibition, the Agora talk show will be shown on a dedicated Web TV channel, courtesy of Orange-innovation.fr, our partner in this undertaking.

design-colbert.fr (November 27 to December 25).

DESIGN THE MOST DESIRABLE CAR EVER

Ob — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:49:24 +0000

with Desire Design Competition // second edition

Domus Academy and Audi look for the car design talents of tomorrow. Young creatives, driven by design passion and ready to start a career in car design, have the opportunity to shape the automotive world of the coming years.

Among the mass production objects, cars are the most diffused, the most expensive, the most technologically advanced and above all still the most desired. What makes a car desirable? What makes a vehicle the actual platform of our dreams? What makes car design a promise for a forthcoming future?

Desire Design is a competition project that aims at rediscovering the fundamentals of car design.
Participants are requested to submit a design project of a car with a strong emotional impact.
The prizes are 3 fantastic scholarships (70%; 50%; 30%) to join the Master in Car Design in April 2009!
All candidates who send their project as participation to the competition will receive an award consisting of 10% discount on the tuition fee to attend the Master in Car Design.
The winning projects will be selected by Marco Bonetto (Domus Academy, Master in Car Design Director), Walter De Silva (Volkswagen Group, Director of Design), Wolfgang Josef Egger, (Audi Group, Head of Design), Fabrizio Giugiaro (Italdesign Giugiaro, Style Director )
The works must be received at Domus Academy by and not later than January 15, 2009. Candidates will be informed on the results of the competition via e-mail by January 31, 2009.

Visit Domus Academy website domusacademy.com for further information or contact infocar_at_domusacademy.it

Antonietta Spataro, Domus Academy

Tent London is back

Ob — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:25:48 +0000

18-21 september 2008, Truman Brewery London, Uk

Tent London is back this September, making East London a vibrant design destination again during the London Design Festival. What sets this show apart from the other key events is that Tent London is a consumer show. The vast eleven-acre Truman Brewery site allows the design industry to mingle with the public, curious locals and a few celebrities.

Exhibitors can both carry out business deals and sell their designs direct to the public from their stands. This mix makes for a relaxing yet energised environment. Until Tent London launched last year, most events that took place during the London Design Festival were aimed mainly at the trade audience, with the public being allocated a day when they could browse for an entry fee. Tent London has turned this on its head – after all, good design should be accessible to all.

In 2007, Tent London received in excess of 18,000 visitors – not bad for a brand new design event in London. The show presented over 300 exhibitors who covered every aspect of design; from vintage to modern, art and architecture, and a number of stops in between. Home-grown talent was prevalent throughout the show with designers from Cornwall to Shetland. Over seventeen countries exhibited with several designers and collectives exhibiting from Italy, Japan, Holland, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Spain, Portugal and France.

tentlondon.co.uk

Hanger Chair by Philippe Malouin

Ob — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:12:19 +0000

The Hanger Chair is a folding chair based on one of the ultimate storage systems: the modest hanger. It allows us to store clothes in an orderly fashion. Most houses or flats are equipped with a wardrobe to receive the object.

By morphing the function of the hanger with that of the folding chair, a new hybrid is born: a Hanger Chair that has a function, even when not in use, to store our clothes in an orderly fashion.

Designed by : Philippe Malouin

DESIGN BRUSSELS 2008/2009

Ob — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:18:34 +0000

Shop design, distribution and visual merchandising
Flagey, Brussels, Studio 1, Tuesday 23 September 2008 from 9h to 19h, followed by a conference at 20h with Patrick Jouin in the context of Design September

In collaboration with the launch of the Competition for the Brussels Commerce Design Award, developed from an original concept of the City of Montreal, Pro Materia and Design September invite you to attend an international colloquium on this theme, organised for Tuesday 23 September 2008 at Flagey (Studio 1), in the locales of Design September. This day dedicated to news and exchange is open to professionals (those responsible for retail spaces, brands and distributors in design and architecture, architects, interior designers, designers, entrepreneurs, property promoters, communication and advertising agencies, government bodies…) and envisages a better economic and commercial development for Brussels by putting the accent on creativity and innovation in the design of points of sale and their impact on the quality and the improvement of urban life, the places and the attitudes of consumption and the capital’s image in Belgium and abroad. Key to success for the commercial activities and perceptions of a city, this colloquium proposes through the expertise and talent of professionals and companies active in the development of commercial spaces, adequate tools and lasting solutions for the promotion and distinctive distribution of products and services. It will allow, moreover, connecting the added value of the sales and well-being areas (shops and boutiques in all sectors, restaurants, bars, cafés, service oriented shops and shopping centres…) to the transformation of local urban spaces.

At the Commerce Design Brussels, shop design, distribution and visual merchandising colloquium at Flagey the 23 September 2008, the Commerce Design Brussels competition –Brussels Commerce Design Award– will be officially launched for the Brussels Region. Developed from an original concept by the City of Montreal, Pro Materia and Design September have organised this free competition with the support of the Brussels Region and of Design September, with the aim of awarding prizes to the best commercial redevelopments, in all business categories.

The call for candidates is made via a registration form which will be distributed at the time of the colloquium and to which must be attached specific documents such as images on a CD, project plans, descriptive texts… They will be distributed within a large network of professional partners, of press relations and on the internet site. Following the reception of the candidates dossiers, a jury composed of professionals from different disciplines (architecture, interior design, design, graphics, urban design …) will meet to select 20 businesses who will be nominated for the Grand Prix of the Jury and of which 1 will be chosen by a public vote at the end of a large promotional campaign. These 20 prize winners will then be ambassadors of quality in design and will be a source of inspiration for the shopkeepers who would like to call upon the services of an interior designer or of a creative for the design of their shop. The adopted criteria to evaluate the projects are as much the quality of design (aesthetics, creativity, coherence interior/façade/graphics, functionality, security, ease of upkeep, durability…), as the context and impact on the city and its tourists or inhabitants. The jury will select, where possible, projects which reflect the budgets, the commercial vocations, the identities and the cultures of the areas and their various styles.

The promotional campaign which will accompany this Commerce Design Brussels competition –Brussels Commerce Design Award– will allow the awarded businesses an increase in notoriety and commercial appeal. During the gala evening which will take place before summer, a trophy created by a Belgian designer, will be presented to the 20 winners of 2008/09, as well as labels to put in the window as a symbol of quality and of recognition. As for the public’s prize it will be proclaimed during an event organised for the press in the locales of Design September in 2009. The Internet site as well as the annual publications will also be permanent showcases for all the awarded businesses and for the dynamic retail market
in Brussels.

Timing Brussels Commerce Design Award
September 2008: call to candidates (official launch 23.9.2008)
January 2009: jury selection
April 2009: gala and announcement of the 20 Grand Prix winners with the launch of the public’s prize
May-August 2009: public’s vote (Internet site, on-line)
September 2009: announcement of the public’s choice, promotional press campaign and launch of call to candidates 2009/10 in the locales of Design September.

Lise Coirier & Klara Vanderhenst, Pro Materia
commercedesignbrussels.be

BBC Two and Philippe Starck…

Ob — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:08:26 +0000

…are teaming up for a brand new TV series to find the next great British designer.
Internationally renowned designer Starck will be heading up a specially created School of Design in Paris.

Ten aspiring designers with the talent, drive and vision to create the next ‘must have’ products of the 21st Century will be given the unique opportunity to learn and work alongside Starck and his team over a period of several months.

More : bbc.co.uk/schoolofdesign/

Istanbul Design Week 2008

Ob — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:45:48 +0000

The international design community has a not-to-be-missed appointment from October 16th to 20th in Turkey: Istanbul Design Week 2008 aims to be one of the most important events in the Euro-Asiatic area.
During the previous edition more than 50,000 visitors from all over the world came on the Golden Horn on this important occasion: in 2008 Istanbul Design Week promises to be an even greater success thanks to its new formula.

For the first time Istanbul Design Week will be organized and managed by Design in Turkey, a joint venture between Dream Design Factory (dDf) and DesignPartners bringing together the vibrant energy of Turkish culture and Italian experience.
Dream Design Factory (dDf) is a communication agency specialized in design with offices in Istanbul and London. DDF is the original organiser of Istanbul Design Week.
DesignPartners is the first Italian integrated business services group dedicated to international firms who view design as a key and strategic asset; among various activities it also organises the internationally renowned event “ZonaTortona Design” in Milan.

The joint venture intends to create a format that opens new frontiers, expands, reaches out of the territory, in the wake of “ZonaTortona Design”: Istanbul Design Week 2008 will be a local event with an international perspective.
An opportunity for companies to present their products and activities to an international audience, in a contemporary country with a fast growing economy. Istanbul, meeting point of different traditions, will be the European Capital of Culture in 2010.

The 2008 edition will see exhibitions, workshops, conferences and night & day events taking place in the extraordinary setting of the Golden Horn. The art direction of Istanbul Design Week is by the Italian architecture and design studio Cibic & Partners, one of the most important and active of the international design world.

Cibic & Partners’ project will emphasize the deep spirit of Turkey in every location involved. The primary point and main exhibition area is the Old Galata Bridge, where the event is held since 2005: it embodies the union between East and West, past and future, tradition and innovation. The bridge will be covered by a tent system evoking the old oriental markets atmosphere, with the merchant activities, full of sounds and perfumes. In front of it a tower structure will mark the entrance to the exhibition area.
The other prestigious venues included in the overall exhibition area of 15,000 sqm are the stunning Basilica Cistern; the Kadir Has University, where workshops and conferences will be held; the Old Hat Factory area, a small ‘village’ in the open air with a creative atmosphere.

“Istanbul combines historical heritage with a strong industrial and architectonic development,” explains Maurizio Ribotti, co-CEO of Design in Turkey with Arhan Kayar. “The city is living a moment of experimentation and creativity, thanks also to it’s central position geographically speaking. Many international design companies have understood this and want to be here. We believe that Istanbul will become one of the most innovative design destination in the near future”.

Sarah Pirruccio, DesignPartners.

7th L’argus Competition

Ob — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:58:55 +0000

Launch of the 7th L’argus Competition’s web site “Invent a vehicle that is useful for Society”

the 7th L’argus Design Contest, open to European students, is online! After 6 years dedicated to the commercial vehicle, the Competition extends its scope to the broader sense of “vehicle” that is an original, innovative and useful concept for the movement of goods and people. From 21 June, students will have to show creativity on the theme: “Invent a vehicle that is useful for society”, subscribing on the web site www.argusauto.com/trophees/en.

Sergio Loureiro, 1st price 6th Edition : “CŒUR”
Royal College of Art (Londres)
After exploring each and every aspects of the commercial vehicle, young talented European designers are now invited to widen the scope of their investigations. They should adopt a global approach, embracing issues such as mobility for goods and services as well as for people. Coping with the new challenges of transport systems, the candidates will put forward an innovative and useful vehicle concept to be manufactured and sold on mature markets.

All information on: argusauto.com/trophees/en

Saint Etienne International Design Biennial, France 2008

Ob — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:11:44 +0000

10 years of meetings, exhibitions and exchanges, that focus on design and designers!

Original and unique event in the world of design, having been created by the Saint Etienne School of Art and Design (formerly the Ecole régionale des Beaux-Arts (regional school of fine art), the Saint Etienne International Design Biennial has, since its early days, been bringing together creators of different cultures and professions from both France and abroad.
As a witness to the activity of the Cité du Design in conjunction with the business community, the professional sphere and education, the Biennial is also a major event that is open to everyone.

citedudesign.com
Topic available in French.

ARTEINGENUA, PLAY THE GAME

Ob — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:44:08 +0000

INTERNATIONAL PAINTING, SCULPTURE AND PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION FOR YOUNG ARTISTS
PLAY THE GAME – get into the game with art

One of the enterprises supported and promoted by ARTEINGENUA S.p.A. (hereafter referred to as ARTEINGENUA) is the organisation of the second International Competition “ARTEINGENUA Prize 2008” offering the following awards:
-First prize €30,000.00
-Second prize €7,000.00
-Third prize €3,000.00

The Second ARTEINGENUA Prize will give the three winning artists the opportunity for a year long working partnership with ARTEINGENUA without making any exclusive commitment. This partnership will allow three artists (or groups of artists) to work on projects and cultural events which will be decided upon and organised together with ARTEINGENUA’s Artistic Management.
The competition includes an exhibition of works; a catalogue of all the works admitted to the competition; biographies and critical reviews.
The exhibition, adjudication and award ceremony will take place in an important venue in Italy yet to be decided.
There will be a carefully selected jury consisting of well-known personalities chosen from the following fields:
• Art criticism
• Journalism
• Academia
• Art Collecting
• Enterprise
• Architecture and design
• New media

More : ARTEINGENUA S.p.A.

DESIGNR RDV, THEWHITEHOTEL

Ob — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:01:55 +0000

Thewhitehotel exceptionally opens its doors to become the meeting place between an upmarket audience and the design world.
Pro Materia and Thewhitehotel are launching two new editions of DESIGNR.RDV on 14TH/15TH June and 13TH/14TH December 2008.

Encouraged by the great success of the first DESIGNR.RDV event, that took place in September 2007, in the light of design september, The White Hotel opens its doors again for these two new design rendez-vous. Each have their own theme : GREEN EXPERIENCE (IN JUNE) AND LOVE NEST (IN DECEMBER). With DESIGNR.RDV, we aim at creating a dynamic platform for design - That Welcomes designers, design brands and other promotors and actors.

These two weekends allow us to gather more than a hundred professionals out of the world of design, and let a very targeted audience of more than 1000 people discover its creative spirit and atmosphere.

WITH:
A+ZDesign, Aod, Aquamass, Thierry Bataille, Kunstlab / Pierre-Marc Bonenfant, Brussels Design Market, Corinna Cadetto, Costumobili, Dam Spazio Gallery, Duo Design, Nedda El-Asmar, Anne Feuillet, Flowerbox, Griin / M-L Stévigny, Michael Guerisse O’leary, Olivia Hainaut, Martine Hermans-Frisvold, Audrey Hermant, Holocube, Charline Lancel, Samuel Lévy, Caroline Lumia, Jean-François Parisse, Plantdesign, David Richiuso / Defact, Jean-Sébastien Sentenac, Helium Concept - Annick Schotte, Studio Johan Dierickxs, Tamawa / H. Verstraeten, Twu / Alain Chennaux, Françoise Pendville

THEWHITEHOTEL
Avenue Louise, 212
1050 Brussels
Belgium

Trophée Up Design 2008

Ob — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:03:11 +0000

until September 30th 2008

THE POLE ENFANT SEARCHES THE BEST YOUNG DESIGNERS IN CHILDREN’S PRODUCTS TROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

After having studied over 120 projects sent in by nearly 250 art and design school students, the 2006 “Trophée Design” is ‘growing up’ and is now the “Trophée Up Design”.
The aim is to spot the best projects in art and design schools throughout the world!

An educational snuggle blankie or cuddly toy, futuristic clothing, Zen furniture, ever-evolving food packaging, or a fun concept store … The 2008 “Trophée Up Design” allows your imagination to run free for any aspect of 0-12 year old children’s products (agri-food, furniture and furnishings, health and hygiene, clothing, toys and games, childcare equipment or children’s living areas …). Entrants for the 2008 Trophée Up Design should put forward a concrete realisation of an innovative idea with an original design and/or original functions that contributes to the well-being of 0-12 year olds.

20 competition projects will be selected by a jury composed of designers, sociologists and companies from the Pôle Enfant (Children’s Products Cluster). A total of €8,500 will be shared by the top three entries as follows:
- 1rst prize : 5 000 euros
- 2nd prize : 3 000 euros
- 3rd prize : 1 500 euros.
The “Trophée Up Design” is open to all students from art and design schools from all around the world. Participants must complete the online registration form as fully as possible on the website trophee-updesign.com.

About:
Awarded the ‘Pôle de compétitivité’ (Competitive Cluster) label by the French Government in July 2005, the Pôle Enfant brings together all those involved in children’s products to work for a common aim: act and innovate to increase child well-being. This project was set up by the Maine-et-Loire Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the Pôle Enfant was officially launched on 16 November 2004 with the 1st Innovation Forum for children’s products.

A few facts and figures about the Pôle Enfant:
Nearly 60 leading, innovative businesses (Bébé Confort, Brioche Pasquier, Charal, Groupe Salmon Arc-en-ciel, Eram, Meubles Gautier, etc.) in the world of 0-12 year old children’s products,
10 business sectors with unique transversal expertise (agri-food, manufacture of clothing and footwear, toys and games, furniture and furnishings, childcare products, etc.).
20 partner schools and research centers (Ecole de design de Nantes, Lycée de la Mode, Sciences Com’, etc.)
A large team of qualified experts advising the Pôle Enfant (Hospitals, the French Education Nationale, designers, nutritionists, stylists, architects, sociologists, etc.).

Breakthrough for Life-improving design

Ob — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:33:51 +0000

Today Singapore’s Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, Dr. Lee Boon Yang, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in Copenhagen, Denmark with the Danish Minister for Economic and Business Affairs, Bendt Bendtsen. This MOU will see the establishment of a Singapore-Denmark Cooperation program on Design to Improve Life. The signing of the MOU is a part of an official visit by Dr. Lee Boon Yang to Denmark hosted by INDEX: Design to Improve Life.

Through collaborative development, the MOU will generate a greater understanding of the human, social, environmental and economical impact of Design to Improve Life. Singapore and Denmark will also share statistics and research studies within the field of the co-operation program and develop links and joint programs between educational institutions and the design industry.
INDEX: and The DesignSingapore Council will be the implementing agencies in Denmark and Singapore respectively.

DesignAndDesign.com unchains design!

Ob — Sat, 31 May 2008 06:43:57 +0000

Since January 2008, at the initiative of agence marc praquin, DesignAndDesign.com website has enabled designers from all over the world, to have their voices heard, finally liberated from the monopoly of major publishers. DesignAndDesign.com offers them a free opportunity to present their work in the first book entirely devoted to the best of graphic and product design.

The “2008 Design and Design Book of the Year” shows the 730 award-winning designs which were honored each day on DesignAndDesign.com homepage.

As a new reference, benefiting the universal community of designers, design and design project integrates contributions by active members from over 100 countries.