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With that poster, Reza Alavi was awarded the First Prize at the 8th Tehran International Poster Biennial.

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Culture is an act of design, of preservation of our heritage and of the development of collective memory, a dynamic event of identity. In recent years a surprising social demand for cultural rights has developed to fulfil the need for a varied and individual subsistence, rights as strong as the right to health and food. However, what chronic lacks are these demands expressing? What are we demanding when we demand culture? Who is equipped to perceive culture as a right?

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Pyro Studios is currently accepting Art Director applicants for its dynamic studio located in Madrid, Spain. The Art Director is responsible for defining the overall artistic vision, direction and style of the project. Using the Game Design Document, and in partnership with the Producer and other senior creative staff, you will interpret the vision for the game into a unique visual experience. Once defined, your role will be to clearly communicate that vision to a team of 45 artists and leads and drive the art team to meet the visual standards of excellence you have set.

The title you will be working on will be shipped on next-gen consoles, meaning that the quality and standards for art on the new Sony & Microsoft hardware will be beyond anything seen to date. We are looking for someone who can help us raise the bar and set a visual standard that will leave the competition awestruck.

>From the 8th to the 11th of March, Madrid welcomes an international summit on ‘Democracy and Terrorism,’ in honour of the first anniversary of 11 March. The organisers of the ‘Bad News’ project would like  to take advantage of this international event so that  designers from different countries and cultures contribute their views and personal opinions regarding this subject. They have created a virtual gallery and would like to display in different spaces throughout the city with all the works that they receive.

Bad News/Design for Solidarity hopes to be a symbol for international solidarity against terrorism. For this organisers need for designers from all over the world to contribute with their creativity and talent.

Now is the time to promote your talent to the creative community and potential clients worldwide by having your work selected for the largest and most important juried competitions for illustration and photography. Communication Arts invites you to enter your work in the 46th Annual Illustration and Photography competitions.
Selected, award-winning pieces will appear in Communication Arts magazine, in either the July Illustration Annual or August Photography Annual. More than 72,000 copies of each Annual will be distributed worldwide, assuring the selected entries important exposure to professionals in the fields of advertising and design.

Out of the Table of Contents: Editorial: Designs utiles – Creation: Question d’echelle – Studio: Sombres reptiles – Typographie: Recyclage ingrats – Evenement: Bienvenue a Design City – Architecture: La baraque a theatre – Design: Trois studios non standards – Entretien: Gondry dans l’image – Image reflechie: du dessin d’humour a la bande dessinee – Regard: de la logique des territoires visuels – etc.

Out of the Table of Contents: Special ‘Language Institute – Communicus conservus’

Out of the Table of Contents: Focus typography: Andron, the universal font – Focus Web: Design your network day – Focus Education: IFOG (Germany) - Showroom: Rinzen (Australia); Andrea Mazzocchi (Italy); Pixar Studio: The Incredibles (USA); Linoleum (France) - Novum extension: stamp design – Novum Plus ‘Education Career:’ Are you out to change the world?; New on the job, check this!; Education in the far East; Preparing your portfolio for the U.S. Studios; Unlimited opportunity?; Professional tips on preparing your portfolio

Out of the Table of Contents: A different form of perfection – Mickey in Columbia – Lille 2004 – How Flemish is Vlaemsch? - Portfolio: Matilde Alessandra, Shany Pooja, Maxime Szyf, Vincent Van Duysen, Frans Van Praet, Lieve Vermeire, Hubert Verstraeten, Sylvain Willenz – The narrow road between craftsmanship and mass communication – Bamboo, Flax, wicker and tin – Design inspired by intuition or vision – Is there a place for an arts-based design course in glass and ceramics in our fine arts colleges? - Dark: the making of – Henry Van De Velde Prize 2004

Mervyn Kurlansky, Icograda President: “The 2nd Korea International Poster Biennale is a welcome event in the design landscape, helping to promote the best of Korean poster design as well as giving recognition to the best of the international work.

Textile designer Hanna Korvela established her own company in 1994 in Kuopio, where she had studied design. Now, ten years later Hanna Korvela Design is a nationally and internationally noted and prize-winning design company. Hanna Korvela’s rugs and carpets combine the Scandinavian tradition with modern interior decoration concepts, the variation of materials and structures and exciting contrasts. Hanna Korvela Design’s ten-year anniversary exhibition at Design Forum presents fourteen selected works from the Duetto rug, which won the Rote Punkt prize in Germany in 1997, to Korvela’s latest designs.

This exhibition at Design Forum presents 52 statements related to Design Year 2005. In this exhibition, designers and artists of the Ornamo Association tell of their own thoughts and work. The statement of a designer can be provocative or aggressive, but also something stemming from quiet everyday work. The result is a polyphony of ideas created by designers and reflecting different perspectives that we hope will also arouse discussion among the public.

CZECHDESIGN.CZ is an association that was created in order to enhance the position and the image of Czech design in Czech Republic and abroad. This exhibition will present the authors' works and indirectly the authors themselves to the world scene.

The Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI), in collaboration with the University of Art and Design (UIAH), Helsinki, and Lahti Polytechnic Institute of Design, Lahti, invites submissions of abstracts for presentations on any theme related to type and typography 'on the edge'; novel interpretations are welcome. Appropriate topics include, but are not limited to: typeface design, typographic media new and old, font technology, printing history, the use of type in graphic design, multilingual typography, and design education. Proposals are welcome for practical demonstrations as well as lectures and panel sessions. The conference will be held 15-18 September 2005.

‘Designing the future of public health’ is the theme of the competition organised by the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe and Cumulus, European Association of Universities and
Colleges of Art, Design and Media with the goal of building up a multinational, multicultural team of young designers to produce innovative communication tools for the Health Evidence Network.

The Health Evidence Network  - a WHO/Europe project - was established in response to the need  - repeatedly expressed by decision-makers in the European Region - of timely evidence-based answers to questions on policy issues in public health and health care.

Through the collaboration with the Cumulus Association, entries are invited from students enrolled in universities and colleges of design for one of the following categories: animation design, interactive design, print design.

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