Choose a country... ALL COUNTRIES Australia Austria Belgium Canada Denmark France Germany Italy Japan Netherlands New Zealand Norway Serbia and Montenegro Spain Turkey United Kingdom United States   > May 2008 Choose a period... May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 COURSE Master in Light Product Design ITALY 07-May-07> 07-May-08 Promoted by Politecnico di Milano - Faculty of Design, Consorzio POLI.Design and SPD Scuola Politecnica di Design, the university master’s in Light Product Design investigates the design of lighting equipment and systems, which is today one of the most stimulating and complex in industrial design. The first level Master’s will get under way on 7 May 2007 and finish in May 2008. The complete specialization, which is worth 60 educational credits, looks in depth at the entire lighting product development process. The Master’s aim is to supply designers with sound design skills and across-the-board professional tools in order to interact with lighting firms’ production technicians, quality managers, marketing and sales teams. For further information, the Master’s Academic Office is available at Scuola Politecnica di Design SPD: via Ventura 15, Milano, t +39 02 21597590 - info@masterlightproduct.com - info@scuoladesign.com Scuola Politecnica di Design Milan COURSE Master in Retail Design and Store Planning ITALY 07-May-07> 07-May-08 Theatre, meeting point, exhibition space. The new sales locations are reinventing the concept of shopping in the closest ever tie-up between culture, entertainment and consumption. The first University Master’s programme in Retail Design and Store Planning carried out by Politecnico di Milano, Consorzio Poli.Design and Scuola Politecnica di Design, to design and manage retail spaces as complex systems where products, brand and services on offer are elements in a close mutual relationship. This innovative first level master’s starts on May 7th, 2007 and which is worth 60 educational credits. The length of the programme is 890 hours spread between classroom and internship. The overall commitment for each student is around 1500 hours, including attendance of lessons, individual study for exams and assignements. The University Master’s in Retail Design and Store Planning is held at SPD facilities in Milano and it is open to Italian and international students who have graduated or are graduating in industrial design, architecture, engineering and their equivalents. The official languages are both Italian and English. An intermediate knowledge of both languages as well as the mastery of the main professional software packages, is required. There is a restricted number of enrolments. To request admission, which is not binding, it is necessary to present a CV, the complete portfolio and to go through a selection interview. The candidates admitted will be able to complete their enrolments with the necessary documentation by April 2007. For further information, the Master’s Academic Office is available at Scuola Politecnica di Design: +39 02 21597590 - info@masteretail.com - info@scuoladesign.com Scuola Politecnica di Design Milan EXHIBITION Holland-Italy ITALY 18-May-07> 01-Jul-08 10 works of architecture MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo - Roma EXHIBITION WIT0708 Biënnale voor industriële vormgeving BELGIUM 21-Jun-07> 28-Nov-08 Exhibition of Industrial Design Designcenter De Winkelhaak and WI-Age Antwerp EXHIBITION Designing Modern: 1920 to the Present UNITED STATES 15-Sep-07> 01-Sep-08 Designing Modern: 1920 to the Present opens Collab’s new gallery in the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building with a chronological look at the Museum’s collection of modern and contemporary decorative art. On entering the gallery, object platforms joined together and punctuated by four vertical display cases illustrate major movements in design history: Art Deco and the Bauhaus; American and Scandinavian Modern Design; Italian Design; and Postmodernism. The exhibition includes favorite masterworks from the collection, along with large and small acquisitions that have never before been displayed. Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia , PA COMPETITION Interieur 08 Design Competition BELGIUM 01-Jan-08> 15-Jul-08 The Interieur Foundation organises its nineteenth consecutive prototype competition: the Interieur 08 Design Competition, formerly known as ’Design for Europe’. Centred on three thematic subjects ’working, playing, living, it focuses on new, functional, creative and contemporary prototypes. COURSE Master in eco-design & eco-innovation ITALY 07-Jan-08> 20-Dec-08 1° level master in eco-design & eco-innovation strategies, methods and tools for the development and the design of sustainable products. Faculty of Architecture of University of Camerino Ascoli Piceno EXHIBITION "Chants et Paysages" Ettore Sottsass à Sèvres 1993-2006 BELGIUM 19-Jan-08> 03-Sep-08 In 1994, Ettore Sottsass, considered as one of the greatest contemporary designers, discovered the production techniques of the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres. He will conceive there a series of forms still edited today. Grand-Hornu Images COMPETITION Electrolux Design Lab 01-Feb-08> 30-May-08 This year’s submissions address food storage, cooking, and/or washing. Entries should reflect the internet generation’s core interests and concerns like mobility, convenience, time, materials, personalization, entertaining, technology, and sustainability. Design Lab EXHIBITION Campana Brothers Select: Works from the Permanent Collection UNITED STATES 15-Feb-08> 28-Sep-08 As the seventh curators in this exhibition series, the Brazilian design team of Fernando and Humberto Campana mined the Museum’s collection departments and chose a diverse group of more than thirty objects, dating from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. The selected pieces, which range from book illustrations and jewelry, to furniture and wallpaper designs, blend unexpected media, layer varied forms, and weave intricate patterns and lines. Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum New York City EXHIBITION Design and the Elastic Mind UNITED STATES 24-Feb-08> 12-May-08 In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality. Working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, gleefully drowning in information, acting fast in order to preserve some slow downtime, people cope daily with dozens of changes in scale. Minds adapt and acquire enough elasticity to be able to synthesize such abundance. One of design’s most fundamental tasks is to stand between revolutions and life, and to help people deal with change. Designers have coped with these displacements by contributing thoughtful concepts that can provide guidance and ease as science and technology evolve. Several of them-the Mosaic graphic user’s interface for the Internet, for instance-have truly changed the world. Design and the Elastic Mind is a survey of the latest developments in the field. It focuses on designers’ ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and social mores, changes that will demand or reflect major adjustments in human behavior, and convert them into objects and systems that people understand and use. MoMA - NY EXHIBITION Take away UNITED KINGDOM 25-Feb-08> 08-Jun-08 From the tiffin box to the lunch box, army canteen to sports bottle, stacking cup to coffee machine cup, Take Away looks at the culture of takeaway food and the objects associated with eating on the move. See tableware, cutlery, packaging and furniture, which have impacted our modern eating habits and the design of objects around us. This is the only opportunity to see this amazing exhibition from the Museum of Design, Zurich The Lighthouse Scotland’s Centre for Architecture, Design and The City, Glasgow COMPETITION 3rd TAP Industrial Design Contest ITALY 01-Mar-08> 15-May-08 Webert, with the support of the ADI, Associazione per il Disegno Industriale organizes a contest for the design of an innovative single lever mixer or double control taps for bathroom and kitchen, which are technically feasable and can be industrially manufactured. The projects will have to combine aesthetic values with functional values and create a shape for a serial industrial product, suitable to its practical function. Rubinetteria Webert - ADI EXHIBITION Pierre Paulin - Supermoderne BELGIUM 09-Mar-08> 22-Jun-08 First big retrospective of one of the most important French designers from the second half of the 20th century. Grand-Hornu Images Site du Grand-Hornu COMPETITION Materialica Design + Technology Award 2008 GERMANY 11-Mar-08> 30-Jun-08 The Materialica Design + Technology Award is awarded the 6th time in 2008. The following target groups are invited to participate in the international award: material manufacturers, developers, construction engineers, producers and students. The winners of the Materialica Design + Technology Award will be announced during the trade fair Materialica 2008 - the international specialist fair for material applications, surface, technology and product engineering in Munich - which will be held from October 14 through 16, 2008. Wengmann + Rattan, Kultur- und Projektmanagement Munich EXHIBITION Out of this world - Shaker Design Past, Present, and Future UNITED STATES 13-Mar-08> 15-Jun-08 An exploration of 200 years of Shaker design and spirituality. In addition-and for the first time in a major exhibition-Out of This World illustrates the Shaker influence on diverse contemporary design, including Scandinavian furniture and the work of George Nakashima. The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture The Bard Graduate Center - New York EXHIBITION China Design Now at Liberty UNITED KINGDOM 15-Mar-08> 23-May-08 A showcase of contemporary Chinese design throughout the store in collaboration with the V&A’s Spring exhibition. Liberty pays homage to all things modern across Chinese fashion, art, photography, interiors and design with a wealth of product and installations throughout the store. Highlights include: - Acclaimed artist Michael Wolf’s: ’The Real Toy Story’ in windows and on 4th floor, and his Chinese architecture photography collection ’Architectures of Density’ on the 4th floor. - A variety of contemporary Chinese design: Lisa Cheung’s decadent chandeliers, Pamela So’s artwork, Frances Dows antique lacquered modern furniture, Wok Media’s sculpture, Ming Midern furniture and Sam Buxton’s techno chair. Liberty, Great Marlborough Street , London , W1B 5AH COMPETITION 8th Andreu World International Design Competition SPAIN 15-Mar-08> 15-Sep-08 The challenge is to design a seat or a table in witch innovative design/styling contributions are made, bearing in mind the technical specifications in the briefing you can download from our website, along with the complete rules and regulations. There are two prizes - one with a cash purse of 4.000 euros and another with 2.000 euros. Andreu World COMPETITION GRAALGLASS International Design Contest Trieste Contemporanea ITALY 17-Mar-08> 10-Jun-08 To exalt the search for modern formal quality, in the vast typology of receptacles destined to contain liquids, a new design for a vessel for drinking, with or without a foot, is requested. The vessel is a theme par excellence in the history of glass production and palestra of its modern renewal. As inspiration, the competitor may use principles and conceptions that refer to symbolic meanings of the Grail in the various traditions and legends. Projects which are innovative in their exploration of the behavior of light in contact with glass will be particularly taken into account. Trieste Contemporanea EXHIBITION Posters and Graphic Design by Ott and Stein GERMANY 20-Mar-08> 15-Jun-08 The exhibition offers an insight into the diversity of graphic works which Nicolaus Ott and Bernard Stein produced during thirty works of their working together. The exhibits are characterised by a clear-cut articulation of text and image within a balanced structure of form. Script and picture are carriers of information and forms carrying meaning at the same time. With their posters and book designs, Ott and Stein provided new impulses in graphic design, earning themselves a reputation on an international level as well. They lent a new face to numerous institutions, including the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin). Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz, Kunstbibliothek Matthäikirchplatz 8 - 10785 Berlin-Tiergarten EXHIBITION Adventure with objects ITALY 20-Mar-08> 06-Jul-08 The exhibition curated by Mathias Schwartz-Clauss presents Alexander von Vegesack’s collection proposing an unusual portrait of the collector, of his great curiosity for research and his ability to look beyond the pure aesthetics of an object. A nucleus of more than 300 objects, divided into twenty-two sections, traces the history of 20th century design, through furniture, architectural models, textiles, saddles, plates and glasses, books, catalogues, photographs, film and documents put together by Alexander von Vegesack, a cultural innovator, and the founder and director of the Vitra Design Museum of Weil am Rhein. Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli Torino COMPETITION Business Innovation ITALY 28-Mar-08> 15-May-08 Domus Academy would like to explore the interesting innovation field in business collecting the ideas of prospect talented students. The participants to Business Innovation are requested to select a company, that they consider innovative, in their country of origin and residence, to define the context of innovation and to analyze it. Prizes for the competition: One scholarship for non-EU citizens, covering 50% of the total tuition fee of the Master in Business Design at Domus Academy (Euro 17.000+VAT 20%). One scholarships for EU citizens, covering 50% of the total tuition fee to the Master in Business Design at Domus Academy (Euro 13.000 + VAT 20%). For more information: infobusiness@domusacademy.it Domus Academy Milan COMPETITION BraunPrize 2009 GERMANY 30-Mar-08> 31-Jan-09 The BraunPrize seeks to promote the work of young designers from all over the world, to recognise the work of design schools and to help develop a greater appreciation of the factors and criteria which make for good product design. Braun COMPETITION Franco British Union of Architects Bursary UNITED KINGDOM 31-Mar-08> 31-Mar-09 Applications are invited from young architects and Part 2/3 level architectural students of British nationality wishing to extend their understanding of some aspect of contemporary or historic French architecture. Applicants should provide a summary of their chosen topic, details of the proposed method of study and an intinerary, programme and budget. One bursary of up to £1500 will be awarded in 2008. Applications must be submitted by 31st March. Application forms and further details available by email from Professor Charles MacCallum (cha.maccallum@virgin.net) Franco British Union of Architects London and France COMPETITION The 3rd Nitori One-House Total Coordination Competition 2008 JAPAN 01-Apr-08> 30-Jun-08 Nitori develops products based on the concept of One-House Total Coordination Merchandising (OTCM), in which all the spaces of a house are totally coordinated. In this Competition, Nitori invites the public to propose totally coordinated designs of fabrics, furniture and interior accessories that match the idea of OTCM. This competition aims to commercialize excellent designs and sell them at Nitori stores as well as discover new designers to work with Nitori. We hope many people will enter the competition. Nitori Co. COMPETITION Kokuyo Design Award 2008 JAPAN 01-Apr-08> 30-Jun-08 Kokuyo Co. has announced the Kokuyo Design Award 2008 design competition, and is encouraging all those wishing to participate to submit their user-oriented product designs. The goal of the competition is to develop excellent ideas into commercial products. Kokuyo Co., Ltd. Tokyo COMPETITION Premier’s Design Awards AUSTRALIA 02-Apr-08> 07-May-08 The Premier’s Design Awards are a biennial awards program developed by the Victorian State Government to recognise excellence in the realm of design practice in Victoria, and to communicate the value of good design to a broad public and business audience both locally and internationally. The 2008 Premier’s Design Awards offers a number of categories under which entries can be made. This comprehensive category list clearly communicates the breadth of design skills on offer in Victoria, and allows the Premier’s Design Awards exhibition and publication to be a comprehensive representation of the best work being generated by Victorian design practices in the 2007 / 2008 period. The State of Design Melbourne COURSE Business Classes for Designers and Artists UNITED STATES 03-Apr-08> 13-May-08 Get the skills you need to grow your business at NY Designs. We understand that designers get very few or no business training in school. We know how time consuming is it trying to figure out how to sell, bill or market your products in addition to producing them. Try one of our business courses and start building your design business. NY Design Long Island City EXHIBITION MOBI Junior FRANCE 05-Apr-08> 18-May-08 A selection of fifty pieces of furniture for children. These products will neighbour with prototypes developed from the imagination of primary school kids in workshops held during the first ’MOBIDécouverte - Les Enfants Designers’. VIA Gallery Avenue Daumesnil, Paris CLASS Sustainable Design Classes UNITED STATES 12-Apr-08> 17-May-08 Make your first step in sustainable design, the fastest growing segment of the Design industry. Learn key sustainable strategies and principles to design green products. NY Design Long Island City COMPETITION Create your Style UNITED STATES 15-Apr-08> 16-May-08 For more than a hundred years Swarovski has been the world’s leading brand for cut crystal.Today, Swarovski enthusiastically supports international environmental projects and draws inspiration for its designs from nature. Be naturally inspired and enter the 2008 Design contest! All submitted jewelry, accessories, home décor and paper craft designs must consist of at least 80% crystallized? - Swarovski Elements. The remaining 20% may consist of wood, metal, paper or other material, except other cut crystals than Swarovski elements. Swarovski EXHIBITION Frank Lloyd Wright & the House Beautiful UNITED STATES 19-Apr-08> 20-Jul-08 The Nevada Museum of Art presents an exhibition showcasing Wright’s skill in creating harmony between architectural structure and interior design while fulfilling the needs of a modern lifestyle. The exhibition presents more than 100 original objects including furniture, metal work, textiles, drawings, publications and accessories from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and other collections. This is the first exhibition dedicated to Wright’s decorative and graphic designs since the 1970s. Nevada Museum of Art Nevada Museum of Art EXHIBITION Ateliers Jean Prouvé UNITED STATES 25-Apr-08> 30-Mar-09 With all the excitement surrounding today’s digital manufacturing technologies, it is interesting to look at an earlier historical moment of workshop mass-production, as practiced by the great French architect and designer Jean Prouvé (1901-1984). This exhibition examines Prouvé’s collaborations within his Ateliers Jean Prouvé from idea to finished product. Equipped with a skilled creative team and the most advanced manufacturing technologies available, the Ateliers were laboratories where ideas were continuously refined and adapted to produce furnishings and prefabricated buildings on an industrial scale. The installation focuses on the evolution of the "Standard" Chair and includes other examples of furniture and buildings that demonstrate Prouvé’s approach to construction and his sensitive handling of materials-particularly his inventive applications of sheet metal. MoMA MoMA - NY EXHIBITION Arik Levy’s Absent Nature Exhibit at Wright UNITED STATES 28-Apr-08> 02-May-08 Absent Nature marks the first Chicago exhibition for Paris-based designer Arik Levy. Levy will be designing and creating a custom installation, filling Wright’s expansive exhibition hall with work from his new Log series and the ongoing series of Fractal Cloud lights. Absent Nature investigates the relationship between nature and humans through a subversion and inversion of viewers’ expectations. Levy describes, "every facet of these elements represents the absence of nature and the work appears as if from an alternative civilization." Lyz Nagan Chicago EXHIBITION Nicolas Bovesse, Panorama FRANCE 28-Apr-08> 24-May-08 The first personal exhibition of Belgian designer Nicolas Bovesse. Centre Design Marseille 6 avenue de la Corse - Marseille AUCTION 20th Century Design NEW ZEALAND 01-May-08> 01-May-08 20th century design sale - glass, ceramics, vintage modernist design. Art + Object Auckland LECTURE Adam Zeman - A Portrait of the Brain UNITED KINGDOM 01-May-08> 01-May-08 Adam Zeman will discuss his book "A Portrait of the Brain" weaving together fascinating case histories, clear accounts of concepts and discoveries in neuroscience, and an intimate view of the suspense, excitement, fun and angst, that colour a neurologists days. Zeman will examine various neurological disorders, ranging from the familiar such as epilepsy and memory loss to the relatively mysterious narcolepsy and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Join us as Zeman takes us to the very frontiers of current scientific knowledge and elucidates the workings of the brain in astonishing detail. LTB Institute Louise T Blouin institute - London EXHIBITION New works by Wendell Castle UNITED STATES 01-May-08> 21-Jun-08 Exhibition of new limited edition and unique works by the celebrated American designer Wendell Castle. Castle is presenting new works in fiberglass. Unlike his earlier designs (including his celebrated Molar Group), which employed relatively simple techniques and straightforward zoomorphic and anthropomorphic forms, his new fiberglass works fully embrace the material, resulting in sensuous, fully actualized volumes with luminous finishes. Barry Friedman 515 West 26th Street - New York NY 10001 EXHIBITION Urban Art Show 08 UNITED KINGDOM 02-May-08> 15-May-08 British and international street artists showcase their work alongside vintage and retro furniture. The Old Cinema London EXHIBITION Pitch: School of Visual Arts MFA Design Thesis Exhibition UNITED STATES 02-May-08> 17-May-08 An exhibition of socially- and globally-minded products created by 18 students graduating from the MFA Design Department at SVA. These products have been realized through graphic, web, industrial, and motion design to be both commercially viable and culturally significant. The exhibition is curated by Dorothy Twining Globus, a faculty member at SVA and curator of exhibitions at the Museum of Arts & Design. The featured designers move beyond the traditional role of graphic designer in developing their original concepts to include market research, brand strategies, and business plans. With such a comprehensive scheme for their products, these entrepreneurial designers explore how their ideas will positively influence society. School of Visual Arts Visual Arts Gallery , New York SHOW Grand Designs LIve London UNITED KINGDOM 03-May-08> 11-May-08 Grand Designs Live London is the UK’s no. 1 consumer show for anyone who has an interest in design, build, interiors, shopping, home wares, gardens, kitchens & bathrooms, and innovation. Source ideas and inspiration from every house we have ever featured on the TV show; view the widest range of kitchens and bathrooms in the UK, see live builds in Grand Village, enjoy the chance to try your hand at self-build techniques, and indulge in more opportunities to source products than ever before. ExCel, in London’s Docklands AUCTION 20th Century Art & Design Auction UNITED STATES 04-May-08> 04-May-08 This important three session sale contains over 1000 lots. The sale begins with an Arts & Crafts/Art Nouveau session containing furniture, ceramics, lighting, metalwork, graphics and textiles, paintings, and glass. Session two contains paintings including, American and European oils, prints and watercolors. Art Deco/1950s/Modern session three has furniture, lighting, ceramics and Decorative Objects. Treadway Toomey Galleries John Toomey Gallery, Oak Park, IL EVENT Grafist12 TURKEY 05-May-08> 10-May-08 12th International Istanbul Graphic Design Week. Istanbul EXHIBITION Italian Light SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO 06-May-08> 18-May-08 After Bangkok, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Taipei, "Italian Light" will be at Beograd during the "Design Week" in the Superspace Gallery. 60 rare italian lamps (1950-1980) from the Collection Cortopassi. Studio Archeo900 Beograd CONFERENCE Serious Play UNITED STATES 07-May-08> 09-May-08 The biennial Art Center Design Conference is a three-day international gathering of entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and innovators from many fields and disciplines. The 2008 Conference, Serious Play, will explore the essential role of play in business, the arts, science, storytelling, technology, and more. Art Center College of Design Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA EXHIBITION Arabic Graphics: The work of Tarek Atrissi in Exhibition NETHERLANDS 07-May-08> 22-Jun-08 The Graphic and Typographic Design work of Lebanese-Dutch designer Tarek Atrissi is exhibited at the De Levante Foundation in Amsterdam- the leading institute for Oriental Culture and Arts in the Netherlands. The Exhibition will feature a varied selection of Tarek Atrissi’s work developed over the last ten years in Lebanon, New York, Dubai, Qatar and The Netherlands- for commercial and non-commercial projects & commissions around the world. The Graphic Design work displayed will include Posters, Visual Identities, Typographic and Calligraphic Work as well as interactive design work; a selection of work which is often distinguished by a strong cross cultural flavor and often described as a modern Arabic Graphic Design Language. Stichting DeLevante, Amsterdam SHOW BKLYN Designs 2008 UNITED STATES 09-May-08> 11-May-08 BKLYN Designs? is New York’s hottest exhibition of designers and manufacturers of contemporary furnishings, lighting, and accessories made and/or designed in Brooklyn, all handpicked by a jury of editors from leading design and shelter magazines. Founded in 2003, this not-to-be-missed tradeshow has doubled its attendance in just five years, and has grown to include a diverse array of satellite exhibits and demonstrations, panel discussions, and keynote speakers. 4 Brooklyn locations, NY WORKSHOP Championing Sustainability UNITED STATES 10-May-08> 10-May-08 A creative forum for organizational change leaders. Is your company or non-profit ready to meet the challenges in becoming a successful sustainable organization? Are you prepared to take on the role of a sustainability leader? If so, we invite you to join fellow leaders from diverse industries in a creative and participatory exploration of championing sustainability. The outcomes of this one day forum will be to: Help you understand key principles for sustainability and how to begin incorporating them into your organization. Introduce you to diverse frameworks to assist you in generating innovative ideas and strategies. Launch you on the design of a sustainable strategy for your own organization using creative and systemic processes. Enable you to lead strategic conversations as a core sustainability competence. Green Building Exchange - Redwood City, CA SYMPOSIUM Euregio Symposium - Sustainable Design & Living GERMANY 14-May-08> 14-May-08 The Euregio Design Platform will unify all actors who work with design, across discipline and geographical borders. An intensified cooperation between various actors will create a dynamic climate of innovation and exchange of know how. From 12:30 to 5pm. Euregio Design Platform Technologiezentrum am Europaplatz AGIT - Aachen