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.

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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/

Good 50X70 2010 posters selected

Milano (Italy) – The Good 50x70 jury has finished its deliberations and selected the 210 posters among the submissions received in response to the call for entries. Participation in Good 50x70 has been growing steadily over the years, demonstrating greater awareness and passion for social change and for the message chosen by their partner organisations. In the current edition,
Good 50x70 received 2357 posters coming from 70 countries around the world.

The 210 posters include 30 from each of the seven briefs promoted for 2010:

* Play for Africa (Endorsed by AMREF)
* Freedom to travel (Endorsed by LILA)
* Take action against mafias (Endorsed by “LIBERA, Associations, names and numbers against mafias”)
* Whale shortage: a sanctuary empties by the day (Endorsed by GREENPEACE)
* The uncertainty of the cure (Endorsed by EMERGENCY)
* For a path out of poverty, take the human rights route (Endorsed by AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL)
* Year of the Tiger (Endorsed by WWF)

As Good 50x70 has gained more visibility, this year, the exhibition will be held in a public display in the centre of Milan from via Dante to piazza Cordusio. Additionally, the project Good 50x70 will also be running in Istanbul, Turkey, where our association will run a workshop from Wednesday, 29 September to Sunday, 3 October 2010.

More: http://www.icograda.org/news/year/2010_news/articles1944.htm

Golden Bee 9 Laureates announced

Moscow (Russian Federation) - On 2 September 2010, the laureates for the Golden Bee 9, Moscow International Biennale of Graphic Design, were announced at the Central House of Artists Concert Hall.

The winners of the current edition of the international, Icograda-endorsed award scheme are:
http://www.icograda.org/news/year/2010_news/articles1936.htm

Positive Posters

Positive Posters is an international poster competition that publishes positive design in and around city streets all over the world. The aim is to inspire individuals and make a positive difference in the lives of people everywhere. The competition was started in March 2009 from Melbourne, receiving 339 entries from 53 countries in its inaugural year, and bill posted the winning entry over 3000 times within Melbourne, with the hope it would make people smile. It worked.

Founded by Nick Hallam, the competition set out to show that graphic design can help people, and to connect the work of graphic designers with the wider community.

www.positive-posters.com

Call for entries
2010 is here, and this year's theme is, "A Glass half full." Those who succeed in life are often those who manage to see the world optimistically and value the opportunities that it provides them with. This year, we would like the graphic design community to respond to this theme, so that this important message of optimism can be visually spread across our global community.

Eligibility
The annual Positive Poster competition is open to all designers worldwide (whether student, professional or otherwise). Entry is Free, however donation entry is encouraged. Only one poster per entity may be submitted.

Submission details
1. Design a poster responding to the theme, "A Glass half full."
2. Upload a 72dpi version of a portrait A3 (210 x 420mm) poster by 5pm AEST 10 September 2010 to www.positive-posters.com. It must be in CMYK and .jpeg formats. Please design all artwork at A1 (594 x 841mm), 300dpi for final submission.
3. Submit a rationale describing how your design solution answers the brief with a maximum of 100 words.

As each entry is submitted they will be approved by our submissions coordinator and uploaded to our online gallery.

Deadline for submissions
10 September 2010, 17:00 AEST

Selection of winner
After 10 September, Positive Posters will review the entries and shortlist 30 posters for inclusion in the exhibition. From this shortlist, our five international judges will choose first, second and third place winning entries.

International Jury
Michel Bouvet France
Bobby Solomon United States of America
David Pidgeon Australia
Michaela Webb Australia
Dean Poole New Zealand
Rico Lins Brazil

Announcement of winner and exhibition
Results of the competition will officially be announced on October 12 at the Exhibition Launch at No Vacancy Gallery in Melbourne, Australia, and published on www.positive-posters.com.

Where: No Vacancy, QV complex, Melbourne, Australia.
When: 12-19 October 2010

Awards
Winning entrant receives Adobe Creative Suite Standard CS5 and a Wacom Intuos 4 drawing tablet valued together at $2550.

More: http://www.positive-posters.com/

Posters selected for Golden Bee 9: Moscow International Biennale of Graphic Design

Moscow (Russia) - Designers from 50 countries around the world have been selected by the Pre-Selection Committee to take part in Golden Bee 9. These works will be on display in the Central House of Artists from 25 August - 3 September 2010.

Organised in part by the Academy of Graphic Design, Golden Bee - Moscow International Biennial of Graphic Design, collects the best world achievements in graphic design. For this edition, individuals and groups of artists were invited to submit an unlimited number of works under the categories of Poster, Graphic Design and Music, Graphic Design and Religion, Graphic Design and New Media and Special project 'All Gold of the World'.

This year's Pre-Selection Committee consisted of:

* Galina Bunina, Russia
* Yuri Gulitov, Russia
* Elena Kitaeva, Russia
* Tagir Safaev, Russia
* Olga Severina, Ukraine
* Nikolay Shtok, Ukraine
* Alexander Sinyagin, Russia
* Yuri Surkov, Russia
* Boris Trofimov, Russia
* Arkady Troyanker, Russia
* Ilya Yudovich, Russia


From the full list of designers, Golden Bee Grand Prix and Golden Bee Award Diplomas will be awarded for each category as well as special awards such as the Russian Academy of Fine Arts and Academy of Graphic Design Diplomas, Rodchenko Award, Golden BeeLoved Super Cup, IBCC Prize, etc.

Prizes will be awarded by the International Jury, composed of:

* Igor Gurovich, Russia
* Dylan Kendle, United Kingdom
* Stefan Sagmeister, United States
* Ahn Sang-Soo, South Korea
* Niklaus Troxler, Switzerland
* Catherine Zask, France


As part of a full programme of events, the Awards Ceremony will take place on 2 September 2010 at 20:00 at the Central House of Artists Concert Hall.

Find out more at: http://www.goldenbee.org/