Designfest 2009

The third edition of the International Design Festival, Designfest '09, will be held in Expo Guadalajara from the 15th to the 17th of October 2009.This event will gather prominent personalities and design firms.Designfest is organized by the publication REDiseno, and includes 13 conferences held by distinguished national and international designers, among them the recognized Sol Sender, creator of Barack Obama's presidential campaign logo.Other recognized speakers include Spaniard Ximo Roca and Mexicans Hector Esrawe and Oscar Salinas.As part of the event, Designfest will offer nine thematic workshops focused on interior design, brand design, animated design, illustration, fashion, product and furniture design.Simultaneously, in a space of more than 63,00 square feet over 150 proponents of design such as design firms, companies of new technologies in graphic communication, digital printing, multimedia, as well as new talent, eco-design, automotive, furniture and fashion design, will present their work and services.

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Images 34: the Best of British Contemporary Illustration 2010

Images is the showcase for the best of contemporary British illustration.Now in its 34th year, Images is the only independent, jury-selected illustration annual distributed to 4000 commissioners and touring exhibition in the UK.The jury consists of nine eminent industry figures including Penny Garrett - Art Director at The Economist, Angus Hyland Partner at Pentagram, Ben Norland - Executive Art Director Walker Books and Nol Davis - Head of Creative Services Department.Categories include: Advertising, Books, Children's Books, Design, Editorial, New Media, Self-Promotion and New Talent.Deadline for call for entries is July 31, 2009.

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Colors of Money: an Exhibition About Money by Fabrica and Colors Magazine

Fabrica, the Benetton communication research center, has been invited by the cultural space CarreRotondes in Luxemburg to present Colors of Money, an exhibition exploring the approaches, uses and understandings of money.Based on the 73rd issue of Colors Magazine, Colors of Money posits that "money is an illusion", highlighting the myriad contradictions embodied in the all-embracing role money has come to play in modern society.Through photography, creative writing, works of art and interactive installations conceived by Fabrica artists, Colors of Money provides an unorthodox insight into a world seizing from a growing financial crises.The exhibition simultaneously underlines the innovative response of social groups to the cultural dominance of finance, thus making a subject often considered as incomprehensible more accessible to young people, finance professionals and the general public.

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CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL POSTER RETROSPECTIVE

One of the key design events of the Icograda World Design Congress Beijing 2009, "Post__: Contemporary International Poster Retrospective" focuses on avant-garde concepts in international graphic design, illustrates the contemporary landscape of poster design and explores alternative possibilities of poster design as a medium for communication. As a retrospective study in the "post-poster media age," the exhibition aims to analyse, reflect and shed new light on contemporary graphic design. It will expose the contemporary scene of poster design to both Chinese and international design professionals, as well as the general public, and hopes to instigate design dialogue between Eastern and Western audiences.The Retrospective will exhibit 300 award-winning posters from the past 30 years. The collection will demonstrate an exploration of global cultures and styles: a selection of posters from previous international graphic design competitions (donated by partner organisations) will be shown, as well as iconic Chinese posters produced after 1978. Such curatorial blending lends a unique documentary-like characteristic to the exhibition, making it one of the most unique retrospectives to take place.
DatesThe exhibition will take place on 26 October - 26 November 2009. The exhibition will tour other cities around China following the event in Beijing.
VenueThe exhibition will take place in Underwater Corridor gallery of China's National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA). The NCPA, designed by renowned French architect Paul Andre, is a new cultural and artistic landmark at the heart of the old city of Beijing. Its modern structure and facades add vibrancy to the rapidly changing urban scenery traditionally occupied by the Great Hall of the People, Tian'anmen Square and the Forbidden City.NCPA's largest venue, the 2,398-seat Opera House, boasts the most advanced staging equipment. The Concert Hall, with 2019 seats, provides outstanding acoustics, whilst the drama theater, with 1035 seats, is equipped with hi-tech audio-visual equipment. Approximately 10,000 people visit the National Theatre daily; potentially, tens of thousands of visitors will come to see the works on display. NCPA is open from 8:30am to 10:30pm everyday.

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Retooling identity production in the 21st century

Despite design agencies' claim to be visual experts on identity and representational questions, contemporary realities such as cultural diversity and hybrid identities in multicultural social contexts seem to be neglected issues within the profession of identity construction and the production of representation (visual identity design, corporate design and branding).
Even though the overtly expressed search for orientation and identity by individuals, organisations and entire communities cannot be overlooked, designers and identity strategists hardly engage with the unanswered questions sheltered in contemporary hybrid society and markets. Most identity construction and visual identity production remain based on modernistic Eurocentric or neo-liberal Anglo-American methods of identity and representation although social realities have changed over time.Since the Internet started to be a vital part of consumer daily life we have experienced a worldwide hegemony of branding strategies in professional communication. This superimposed identity plays an enormous role in contemporary society mostly in the form of 'consumable identities' such as product brands, brands of services, political bodies and places, etc.Due to the vast expansion of (online) media possibilities, the production of visual identities to express, manifest and seal artificial identity constructs has increased over the past twenty five years. These constructs have become a new occidentally rooted Esperanto of global culture since they are a cross-cultural, cross-economic, cross-political, cross-religious and cross-geographical phenomenon.

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Talking Design: Design And Progressive Change

Brisbane (Australia) - The Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA) Queensland is hosting a Talking Design Public Lecture supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and the State Library of Queensland. Don Ryun Chang (Korea) and David Berman (Canada) will talk about the role of design in a changing world.

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Identidade visual Havaianas - Leão de Ouro no Festival de Cannes 2009 categoria Design

Como transformar 30 cm de borracha e duas tiras,a preço médio de 8 dólares,numa marca mundial. Juntando o simples com a alegria. Exuberância com irreverência. O design com a cor. Toda manifestação da marca, seja ela na mídia que for, tem sempre na sandália o seu ponto de partida. Refletindo a cultura e a alma brasileiras,vamos formando uma identidade única. Deixando de ser uma simples sandália de borracha,para se transformar na primeira marca mundial verdadeiramente brasileira.

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Anunciante: São Paulo Alpargatas Título: Identidade visual das Havaianas Produto: Havaianas Diretor de Criação: Marcello Serpa, Marcus SulzbacherDiretor de Arte: Marcello Serpa, Marcus Sulzbacher, Marcos Kotlhar, Danilo Boer, Bruno Prosperi, Danilo Siqueira, Sérgio Mugnaini, Renato Fernandez, Kátia La Farina, Adhemas Batista, João Linneu, Eric Benitez, Carolina AboarrageArt-buyer: Teresa Setti Produtor Gráfico: José Roberto Bezerra, Marcos Souza Atendimento: Cristina ChaconPlanejamento: José Luiz Madeira, Cintia GonçalvesMídia: Paulo CamossaAprovação: Carla Schmitzberger, Christina Assumpção

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Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the second in a series of special installations, celebrates the extraordinary variety and accomplishment of American artists' works on paper.These exceptional watercolors, pastels, and drawings from the 1920s to the 1960s reveal the central importance of works on paper for American artists, both as studies for creations in other media and as finished works of art.Rarely seen works from the museum's permanent collection by artists such as Stuart Davis, Sam Francis, Edward Hopper, Willem de Kooning, Joseph Stella, Grant Wood, and Andrew Wyeth will be featured in the exhibition.Joann Moser, senior curator for graphic arts, selected the artworks in Graphic Masters.

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Refreshingly Creative Design From Kenya and Senegal

All across Africa, designers are distinguishing themselves with their own authentic signatures. Read what some of the continent’s Thought Leaders have to say in an exclusive DESIGN>magazine interview with icons such as Marianne Fassler, Peet Pienaar and Veejay Archary from South Africa, Frieda Lühl from Namibia, Senegal’s Ousmane M’Baye, Odoch Pido of Uganda, Karo Akpokiere of Nigeria and Sara Abera Alemu from Ethiopia. Read more>>>
Have a look at how Nairobi-based Planning Interiors Ltd tackle the challenges facing their interior design studio in the fields of corporate, hospitality and retail design >>>
And find out how Parisian influences help contemporary Senegal-based designer, Dominique Petot, make his range of vibrant occasional chairs from stainless steel and colourful nylon string >>>
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