sexta-feira, 27 de junho de 2008

Now: Design + Advertising

10,000 delegates from advertising, marketing and media world attended the inaugural Cannes Design Lions awards ceremony - perhaps the largest, most high profile and most glamorous ever. Photo: Sudhir Sharma.

This week's Feature is a commentary on the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival which concluded last week. Sudhir Sharma, Founder Director & Principal Designer at Elephant Strategy + Design and Chief Creative Mentor at “Brand Planet Elephant”, was the only Indian on the inaugural Cannes Design Lions Jury.

The concept of design in advertising is not new, perhaps owing to the fact that the earliest advertising campaigns were all by designers of all means. But the introduction of a Design Lion at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival is certainly a new development...

More: http://www.icograda.org/feature/current/articles1164.htm

quinta-feira, 19 de junho de 2008

Africa Design Day


The second Africa Design Day, hosted by the SABS Design Institute, South Africa, on behalf of Network of Africa Designers (NAD) was held in Midrand on 17 and 18 June. Designers, design educators, decision makers and other interested parties attended this highly informative and inspirational event.

The focus of the Africa design Day was on design success stories and a celebration of the awakening of design on the African continent. The programme started with an overview and discussion of the South African research results of the IDA (International Design Alliance) World Design Report, a pilot project to create a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary database on design in the world, classified by country.
The SABS Design Institute was tasked to coordinate the South African section of the report and the first findings will be released at the Africa Design Day.

Cannes Design Lions 2008


Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival has announced the winners for the newly launched category, Design Lions. From the 140 entries announced in the shortlist last Tuesday, the Judges identified the Grand Prix, Gold, Silver and Bronze finalists.
The Grand Prix was awarded to Turner Duckworth: London & San Francisco for their Coca-Cola Identity (shown above). Awarded for their Creativity, Originality, Execution and the level of Consumer Engagement, the design brief for the Grand Prix design states:
Over the years, Coca-Cola's visual identity had become cluttered and uninspiring, diluting the brand's iconic status.The brand was losing its charm and cultural relevance. Coca-Cola developed a new creative idea with the goal of setting the brand back on track.This idea was "Coke brings joy", a simple statement about the happiness the product brings. Moira Cullen, Design Director at The Coca-Cola Company, challenged us with taking this idea and designing a new visual identity and packaging system that would allow the brand to shine again.

quarta-feira, 18 de junho de 2008

ICON 5 The Illustration Conference 2008


ICON5 will be held in New York City at the historic Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan. This year's theme, The Big Picture, is more than a slogan, it is the perspective through which we see our future – a future of limitless possibilities for illustrators as thinkers, story tellers and providers of creative content.
The conference promises to examine and discuss the current creative and economic forces that our industry faces today.ICON continues to gather the industry's best and brightest talent to present and talk about their work, their business, their lives, and their passion for illustration. Our conferences have also grown to include inspiring, informative and topical pre-conference tours and workshops. ICON5 is going a step further with ambitious attendance goals, increased global involvement and more pre-conference events to make the ICON5 experience a must-do for 2008.

sexta-feira, 13 de junho de 2008

Brasileiros são os primeiros a falar sobre promoção e design nos seminários de Cannes


Pela primeira vez na história do Festival de Cannes, o marketing promocional ganha um workshop no Palais des Festival. E não só isso; o workshop será comandado por brasileiros, por meio da Ampro (Associação de Marketing Promocional), que organizará palestras sob o título “Giving is taking”, traduzido para o português como “É dando que se recebe”. O workshop acontecerá na abertura do festival, no dia 15 de junho, próximo domingo, das 14:00 às 15:30.
Alexis Pagliarini, vice-presidente da Ampro e da Impact, comandará as apresentações. Participarão também das palestras Luciana Feres, marketing execution director da Coca-Cola Brasil; Sonia Bittar, diretora da Ipsos Brazil (shopper & retail division); e a professora da ESPM Marina Pechlivanis, Mestre em Comunicação e Consumo, sócia da Umbigo do Mundo e componente do Comitê de Produtos Promocionais da Ampro.

Pagliarini dará uma visão geral do marketing promocional enfatizando sua multiplicidade de ferramentas e o crescimento da sua importância no mundo inteiro. Pechlivanis falará da força histórica do brinde, numa visão sociológica de sua capacidade de envolver e motivar pessoas das mais diferentes culturas. Bittar apresentará ferramentas e demonstração do uso de pesquisas e técnicas que contribuem para o desenvolvimento de ações mercadológicas fundamentadas no “gifting”. Feres, fechando o workshop, apresentará alguns dos inúmeros cases de Coca-Cola, baseados em mecânicas de premiação e brindes.

Todos os palestrantes terão como objetivo focar a força do brinde ou prêmio como ferramenta para diferenciar produtos, atrair consumidores e conquistar a chamada “fidelização”. Essas atividades que deram origem a um novo termo dentro do marketing promocional: o “gifting”. Concursos, sorteios, brindes, programas de incentivo, member-get-member, programas de milhagem, cupons e uma infinidade de mecânicas fazem parte desse universo.
Em 2007, Pagliarini fez a cobertura do festival com ênfase na área de Promo. Na ocasião, ao perceber a ausência de conteúdo relacionado ao marketing promocional nos workshops e seminários do evento, o vice da Ampro reivindicou um espaço para a área diretamente ao ceo do Festival, Terry Savage, que concedeu o espaço neste ano.

O Brasil também estará representado no festival pela New Content e pela Mixer, que farão palestras no evento. Giovanni Rivetti e Roberto Feres, diretores da New Content, irão abordar o case desenvolvido para a TAM, no próximo domingo, 15 de junho, das 11:30 às 13:00. No ano passado, a agência também participou do festival, no lançamento do Content Showcase, em que diversas agências apresentaram casos de sucesso que envolviam conteúdo.
Pela Mixer, João Daniel Tikhomirof, presidente da produtora, falará sobre as novas ferramentas do marketing, sob o tema “Content and brands. Where is the key?”, ou, em português, “Conteúdo e marcas. Qual é a chave?”, na sexta-feira, 20 de junho, das 11:30 às 13:00.

Também na sexta, das 9:30 às 11:00, a Tátil Design – cujo sócio e diretor de criação Fred Gelli é também um dos jurados da estreante Design Lions – será a única do segmento a realizar um workshop durante o festival. O tema “Designing naturally” consistorá em uma forma inteligente de fazer design, com baixo impacto ambiental e alto impacto sensorial. O objetivo do workshop é debater a importância estratégica do design, encarando-o como ferramenta transformadora e estratégica para garantir uma conexão sustentável entre pessoas e marcas.

“Ano passado fui jurado na categoria Packaging Design do D&AD Global Awards, uns dos prêmios mais tradicionais e conceituados do mercado internacional de design e comunicação. Para minha surpresa, no meio da pré-seleção dos projetos que passariam para a fase seguinte, percebi que estavam sendo selecionadas muitas dessas soluções equivocadas, como a inútil e cara embalagem de acrílico do iPod. Lá não passou. E no Cannes Lions vou trabalhar para que a sustentabilidade seja também critério eliminatório”, defende.

Texto de : Felipe Cirelli

quinta-feira, 12 de junho de 2008

9th AGDA National Biennial Awards 2008

The AGDA National Biennial Awards is the premier event on the Australian Design calendar. Its purpose is to document and celebrate Australian graphic design every two years. It is a pertinent snapshot of where the industry has been and where it is headed. Without it there would be no dialogue, no history, no continuity, no critical analysis, no passing on of knowledge and no exchange of ideas.
So it’s time to get your entries ready for the 9th AGDA National Biennial Awards.Australian designers living overseas are encouraged to enter their work produced offshore.The awards weekend, to be held in Adelaide.

More: http://icograda.org/news/year/2008_news/articles1147.htm

2008 SEGD Design Awards


Graphics for an abandoned German coal mine and a pavilion where visitors interact with shadow poems were among the top winners in the 2008 SEGD Design Awards, the annual competition recognising the best in environmental graphic design.
Thirty eight winning entries represent a diverse range of projects at the intersection of graphic design, interior design, architecture, communications, and landscape architecture. The annual competition, established in 1987, is sponsored by SEGD (the Society for Environmental Graphic Design), an international nonprofit educational foundation providing resources for designers involved in the design, development, and implementation of communications in the built environment.

Designing Water`s Future


The Icograda Education Manifesto advocates that design education must be a learning-centred environment that enables students to develop their potential in and beyond academic programs. To support this vision, Icograda promotes unique opportunities addressing global challenges where designers can affect positive change – projects that demonstrate what it means to lead creatively. The first Aspen Design Challenge – Designing Water's Future is one such opportunity.
The Aspen Design Challenge is a call to students, worldwide, to use their creative talent and strategic design skills to address a crucial global problem. The Challenge is issued as part of the Aspen Design Summit, an international conference held in Aspen, Colorado. The Summit brings together leaders from business, the public sector and non-profit organisations; experts working with the UN’s Millennium Development Goals; and individuals and agencies from the developing world.

quinta-feira, 5 de junho de 2008

Singapore-Denmark program Design to Improve Life established


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.