76 Designers Fazem Homenagem a Shigeo Fukuda

Durante a III Bienal Internacional de Posters na Bolívia, (19.11/03.12.2009), foi feito uma homenagem ao designer gráfico japonês Shigeo Fukuda, onde foram convidados 76 designers consagrados pelo mundo, a criarem posters em homenagem aos seus 76 anos de idade.

A exposição online pode ser vista aqui:

http://www.76designersforfukuda.com/  

Palestra de Marty Neumeier (autor de The Brand Gap)

No dia 25 de agosto de 2009, houve uma palestra de Marty Neumeier, autor do livro The Brand Gap (O Abismo da Marca): www.slideshare.net/BetoLima/o-abismo-da-marca-1939609

e presidente da www.liquidagency.com, empresa de design e branding, durante o evento Connexion Harvard Brasil que se realizou no Centro de Convenções FIRJAN,  na Av. Graça Aranha, 1/4* andar no Centro do Rio de Janeiro.

Onde tive a oportunidade de conhecer e tirar uma foto com o Marty, que me convidou pelo Twitter para participar do evento. Foi muito simpático e atencioso. Ao fundo, Antonio Roberto Oliveira, diretor do MBA de Branding das Faculdades Integradas Rio Branco: www.riobrancofac.edu.br

 

Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters

The rampant spread of the HIV/AIDS virus over the past 29 years has created the most significant global public health crisis in modern history.

Despite the complexity and scale of the epidemic, there is still a lack of worldwide strategies to lead AIDS education.

AIDS education in many countries is still shouldered, to a great extent, by government agencies and grassroots organizations led by community activists who are often motivated local citizens.

Ever since the AIDS epidemic struck, the responsibility of educating the world's public has gained dramatically in significance.

In many countries, the poster as a medium of information was unknown before the emergence and identification of the HIV virus.

With a disease involving sexuality and sexual behavior, and therefore social and moral issues deeply rooted in culture and tradition, messages to raise awareness and encourage preventative behavior have varied significantly to best serve the intended audience.

The poster has played a special role in promoting AIDS awareness and safe sex education across cultures-different aims, messages, visual metaphors, and strategies have strongly influenced the content and design of AIDS posters.

Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985-2010 draws upon James Lapides' extensive archive of international AIDS Awareness posters along with posters generously donated to Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

A cohesive selection of 153 posters presents an insightful overview of diverse visual strategies employed by many different countries working within their own distinctive cultural perspective in response to the subject of AIDS as a public health emergency.

See more: http://jump.dexigner.com/news/22023

Applied Arts announces 2010 Design Awards winners

 

The design awards winners for the 2010 edition of Applied Arts Awards have been announced. Among the professionals from around the world selected in this competition is Rethink Communications for its design of the Design Currency:Icograda Design Week in Vancouver 2010 identity.

The Applied Arts Awards programs are an invaluable opportunity for designers to promote their work to an audience of the best and brightest of our industry, as well as potential clients. With two decades of awards experience, the Applied Arts Awards are one of the industry's most prestigious recognitions of creative excellence.

Winners and their winning work receive extensive media exposure:

• In the highly-anticipated annual Design & Advertising Awards issue, complete with full credits, publishing November 2010. This gorgeous reference is kept and read by the Applied Arts readership of 46,000.
• On the very popular Design & Advertising Awards Winners gallery, which attracts more than 300,000 visitors annually.
• At the well-attended Winners' Exhibit in Toronto, with an exclusive invitation-only opening reception for senior design and advertising creatives, as well as your fellow winners.
• Lastly, all winners will receive a suitable-for-framing Applied Arts Winners Certificate, an enduring testament to your accomplishment.

Each entry is judged by an independent panel of highly regarded industry professionals and experts, based on creative merit, technical excellence and suitability for end use. Discussion is not permitted and judges cannot vote on their own work.

To see the winning designs, visit the Applied Arts website: 
http://www.appliedartsmag.com/winners_design.php

Winners of the Crafting Excellence Competition

With the introduction of industrialization and mass production, people have forgotten how to make things by hand.

For this reason, UNESCO developed the Award of Excellence for Handicrafts program to ensure that handicrafts remain relevant, valuable, and marketable in today's changing world.

Every year, UNESCO presents the Award of Excellence to distinguished craft producers who link tradition, innovation and sustainability.

UNESCO and Design 21 announced the winners of the Crafting Excellence logo competition to raise awareness for the Award of Excellence for Handicrafts.

After reviewing nearly 700 entries from 80 countries, the jury awarded $5,000 to three designers: Anna Trzebska from Poland; Marilena Florio from Italy and Nikou Alexandros from Greece.

The Most Popular vote was also given to Albert Hardiman Tejasukmana from Indonesia.

More: http://jump.dexigner.com/news/21604

The winners of the Pentawards 2010:

About the Best of the Show – Diamond Pentaward 2010

This astonishing and creative HOYU3210 bottles are the work of designers from ADK, a major Japanese communication agency created in 1956, now present everywhere in the world, and a member of the WPP group.
HOYU3210 – countdown to beauty – is a range of products of HOYU, a company specialising in hair and hairdressing products. Created in 1905, HOYU has never ceased to innovate and to offer Japanese customers, who are among the most demanding in the world, exceptional products… in exceptional packaging.
3210 refers to a countdown to indicate what the product has to offer consumers, in a few seconds, even with the stress of the last finishing touches before going out, the ideal solution for a really perfect hairstyle.
The distinctly original and ideally ergonomic shape of the bottles leaves the usual codes behind to stand out among all its competitors. The designer confesses that he did not use a computer to create these ever so particular forms. His tools were his hands, the earth to be moulded, the file and sandpaper.
To be sure, the computer did play its role when the design went into production, but the initial form, as can be appreciated at first glance, owes its fundamental aestheticism to the artist’s hand, to his pure creative emotion.
The chosen colours, black and white, and transparency, reinforce the simplicity and the purity of the packaging.
It is odds on that these bottles will not wind up being recycled, but will be kept as decorative objects in bath rooms and will soon find their way to exhibitions and museums devoted to design.

See all the winner here: http://blog.pentawards.org/

Positive Posters announces 2010 finalists

Melbourne (Australia) - After a week of so of speculation, the 2010 finalists for Positive Posters have been announced. This annual design competition aims is to inspire individuals and make a positive difference in the lives of people everywhere.

This year, designers worldwide were asked to respond to the theme of "A Glass half full." The event organisers couldn't be more happy with the quality of the finalists.

The finalists (in order of submission date):

* Rich Smith (England)
* Woo Jin Lee (South Korea)
* James Smart (UK)
* Kayla Turner (USA)
* Ipek Turk (Australia)
* Tuan Tuan (Hong Kong)
* Ron Whitfeild (Australia)
* Damon Armstrong-Porter (Australia)
* Mike Nguyen (Australia)
* Cecilie Larssen Lonning (Norway)
* Tim Swainson (Thailand)
* China Stylus (Hong Kong)
* Hilary Sloane (Australia)
* Amelia Ericksen (Australia)
* Peter Fong (Australia)
* Quentin Brown (Australia)
* Tom Shanahan (Australia)
* Gus Beeforth (Australia)
* Micah Scott (Australia)
* Jeremy Arnold (Australia)
* Nicholas Cary (Australia)
* Sam Ziino (Australia)
* Peter Borg (Australia)
* Wolfgang Steinbauer (Austria)
* Jesse Mallon (Australia)
* Mike Witcombe (Australia)
* Terry Chisholm (New Zealand)
* Hailey McKenzie (Australia)
* Carlo Mussett (Australia)

View the finalists' work in the online gallery: http://positive-posters.com/gallery/2010/finalists/