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Icograda eNews 22-23/06
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I N T H I S I S S U E :
New programming added to Icograda Design Week in Seattle
2nd Biennial of Latin Letters opens in Venezuela
Icograda endorses Taiwan International Poster Design Award 2006
Australia's top graphic designer honoured in the United States
G A L E R I A :
AM Studio logo
Alireza Mostafazadeh Ebrahimi, IGDS - Iran
F E A T U R E :
The Road to Hell: Now Paved with Innovation?
by Michael Bierut
O P I N I O N :
Do you believe that speculative competitions can drive innovation?
M I S C E L L A N E O U S N E W S :
Cuban and American designers together in Havana exhibition
Niklaus Troxler exhibition
Zollverein School offers new MBA programme in design competency
Call for Entries: 1,000 Retail Graphics
P U B L I S H E R S C O R N E R:
2+3D Polish design magazine (Poland); IdN (Hong Kong); TipoGraphica (Argentina)
R E M I N D E R :
ReBrand 100; International Poster and Graphic Arts Festival of Chaumont; International Poster Competition: World Expo 2010 Shanghai; Call for Entries: Taiwan International Poster Design Award 2006; 20th International Poster Biennial in Warsaw; Brno Biennial International Symposium and Exhibition; BIO 20: Biennial of Industrial Design; 'Defining Design on a Changing Planet': Icograda Design Week in Seattle; P&G/IDSA's 'The Aging Consumer'; Golden Bee 7: Moscow International Biennial of Graphic Design; The 6th Trnava Poster Triennial 2006.
A G E N D A :
International Biennial of the Poster in Mexico; Quanto? How Much? Telling the Story of Sexual Slavery; Red Dot Award: Communication Design; 2006 Design Competition: Big Ideas; Good Design Award; 8th edition of the Brazilian Biennale of Graphic Design; Design for Asia Award 2006; International Congress of Design, Art and New Technologies: Ways, Interchanges and Borders; INDEX Award: 2007; Managing Innovation and Change; Aspen Design Summit; Reinventing with Design 2006 – From Product to Brand; Strategies for Designing Meaningful Brand Experiences.
H E A D L I N E S T O R I E S
New programming added to Icograda Design Week in Seattle
Both student and professional delegates will have the opportunity to participate in sessions developed exclusively by Adobe as valued-added programming for Icograda Design Week in Seattle. “We are pleased to be able to work with Adobe as a major event partner to bring our conference delegates an experience tailored just for them,” said Brenda Sanderson, Icograda Director.
Read this leading story at http://www.icograda.org/web/news.shtml
2nd Biennial of Latin Letters opens in Venezuela
New forms of typographies of some Latin American countries are shown in the 2nd Biennial of Latin Letters. The event is taking place at the Carlos Cruz Diez Museum and is an exhibition of different proposals that go from the vanguardist to nationalist tendencies. Biennial judge to Venezuela, Juan Carlos Darias, explained.
Read this leading story at http://www.icograda.org/web/news.shtml
Icograda endorses Taiwan International Poster Design Award 2006
The Taiwan International Poster Design Award 2006 is being organised by Icograda member, the China Productivity Center, for the purpose of enhancing Taiwan's commercial design talent and providing opportunities for interchange with international designers. The goal is to boost the visibility of Taiwan's design talents and place them in an international context. The award scheme is being jointly presented by The Graphic Design Association of the Republic of China, Taiwan Graphic Design Association, Taiwan Poster Design Association, Kaohsiung Creators Association. Each of these associations are members of Icograda.
Read this leading story at http://www.icograda.org/web/news.shtml
Australia's top graphic designer honoured in the United States
Garry Emery, design director of emerystudio and one of Australia's most successful graphic designers, has been honoured for his lifetime contribution to the discipline of environmental graphic design, by the Society of Environmental Graphic Designers (SEGD) in the United States. He is the first Australian and the first non-USA based designer ever to win this prestigious award.
Read this leading story at http://www.icograda.org/web/news.shtml
G A L E R I A
AM Studio logo
Alireza Mostafazadeh Ebrahimi, IGDS - Iran
The designer was asked to reflect the "pungent" style of work produced by AM Studio. With this logo, the company is compared to a hot red pepper, with the text radiating from it like a flame to exaggerate this spicy feeling. The logo aims to show how the studio's work deeply influences its viewers in the same way that tasting a hot pepper would.
View in Galeria http://www.icograda.org/web/galeria-current.shtml
F E A T U R E
The Road to Hell: Now Paved with Innovation?
by Michael Bierut
When Business Week's Bruce Nussbaum blogged that the concepts for INside Innovation had been developed on spec he added fuel to the debate about the ethics of speculative pitches in the world of design. Michael Beirut took on the topic in Design Observer and the subsequent discussion has been both passionate and provocative.
Read this story http://www.icograda.org/web/feature-current.shtml
O P I N I O N
Do you believe that speculative competitions can drive innovation?
State your opinion http://www.icograda.org/web/opinion
F R O M P R E V I O U S O P I N I O N
Is design your competitive edge?
58% Yes. There is a clear link between design-centered business and success.
37% Maybe. Design is a component, but not the only one.
7% No. Design can play a role but other factors are more important.
Totals shown may be more or less than 100% due to rounding
M I S C E L L A N E O U S N E W S
Cuban and American designers together in Havana exhibition
“Sharing Dreams”, a retrospective exhibition of posters made by Cuban and American designers, will open on 20 June in Havana. The show includes a total of 36 works that sums up those presented in two previous editions of “Sharing Dreams” and those of the current edition, organised by partners AIGA Cross Cultural Design (AIGA XCD), the Pablo de la Torriente Cultural Centre and Cuban PROGRAFICA Committee. The current exhibition is part of the 8th Salon of Digital Art, which will take place from 19 – 30 June.
For more information http://www.artedigital8.cubasi.cu/
29 June - 15 September 2006
Niklaus Troxler exhibition
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Opening: 29 June 2006, 18:00 pm
Organised by Emzin Institute of Creative Production
Niklaus Troxler, born in 1947 in Willisau, Switzerland, is a graphic designer, illustrator and concert organiser. Following the completion of his apprenticeship as a typographer, he studied Graphic Design Education at the Art School in Lucerne. In 1971 and 1972 he was the art director for the Hollenstein Création in Paris and in 1973 he opened his own graphic design studio in Willisau. Troxler has won numerous awards, including the Cultural Prize of Central Switzerland (1982), 22 'Swiss posters of the year', as well as multiple awards from the Switzerland Art Directors Club, New York Art Directors Club, European Art Directors Club, New York Type Directors Club and Tokyo Type Directors Club. He participated and won prizes in a number of Design and Poster Competitions. His posters have been exhibited at numerous exhibitions, including the Raeber Gallery in Lucerne (Switzerland) and the Reinhold Brown Gallery in New York (USA). His posters can be found in a number of important Poster Collections, amongst others also in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The exhibition, featuring jazz posters by Niklaus Troxler, will be an accompanying event to the 47th Jazz Festival Ljubljana.
Zollverein School offers new MBA programme in design competency
The Zollverein School consistently links management skills and design competency
throughout its MBA programme. The aim of its professional development programme is
to stimulate new styles in management and corporate strategy. On completion of their
studies, the Zollverein School's MBA graduates will be able to plan innovative processes
and put these into effect in concrete business models.
The MBA programme at the Zollverein School is aimed at managers both in business
and in the creative sector. It is directed at ambitious professionals who are faced with
issues of design, creativity and innovation in their professional lives.
For more information: http://www.zollverein-school.de
Call for Entries: 1,000 Retail Graphics
The retail industry is one of the most competitive and thus, has some of the highest failure rates. Therefore, getting the marketing and branding right is essential for survival. This book will provide a wealth of ideas for a variety of different types of businesses by showcasing 1,000 different designs of items used in the industry including signage, tags, advertisements, flyers, bags, logos, and ad premiums such as novelties and giveaways.
Send your most innovative designs for consideration by 24 June 2006. Winners will be featured in the sixth book in this best-selling series, a full-colour, 320-page, 9" x 9", flexibind book brimming with great design. Slated for publication in the spring of 2007, this volume will present innovative designs created for all types of clients.
To download a call for entries form: http://www.rockpub.com/callforentries.html
P U B L I S H E R S C O R N E R
2+3D Polish design magazine, Poland
Number 19 (II - 2006)
http://www.2plus3d.pl/english
Out of the table of contents (articles with English summary): Books and typography of Bonawentura Lenart – history of Polish graphic design; “Easy does it” – interview with Darek Komorek; “The Cedar Collection of Takumi Shimamura”; Debuts – young Polish carpets designers; “The Railway According to Marad Design”; “Kazimierz Zembrzuski, Inventor of the Pm36 locomotive” – history of Polish transport design.
IdN, Hong Kong
Volume 13, No. 2
http://www.idnproshop.com/
War & Peace issue
Out of the table of contents: Pick of the Month; War & Peace: Making Art, Not War, featuring Invisible Children Inc., Jadran Boban, SFAUSTINA, SVSV, Joe Kubert & John Robertson; Creative City: Kaula Lumpur, small town networks, big city ideas; Music: All that jazz; Playback: Nailing down network news; Poster: Akro’s ‘Secret Garden’ of delights; Studio: Room to Growth; Video Game: Art for Games’ sake; Interactive: Shaking up people’s expectations; Comics: Furi Furi Company
TipoGrafica, Argentina
71, June-July, 2006
info@tipografica.com
http://www.tipografica.com
Out of the Table of Contents: Communication: Information design: defining by doing, by David Sless (Designer | Australia); Opinion: Design, Social Criticism and Utopia, by Norberto Chaves (Theoretician | Spain); Typography: tipoGráfica Latin American Font Design Awards; History: Colour as an indexical key in Andean lands, by Gabriela Siracusano (Historian | Argentina); Photography: Arctic Assignment, by Janet Foster (Photographer | Canada), among others.
R E M I N D E R :
A listing of upcoming Icograda endorsed events. For more information
see http://www.icograda.org/web/calendar
13 May > 25 June 2006
Exhibition
International Poster and Graphic Arts Festival of Chaumont
Chaumont, France
artsgraphiques.affiches@wanadoo.fr
http://www.ville-chaumont.fr/festival-affiches
24 May > 30 September 2006
Competition
International Poster Competition: World Expo 2010 Shanghai
Shanghai, China
http://www.ipc.eastday.com/renda/node5431/index.html
ipc@eastday.com
1 June 2006 > 31 August 2006
Call for Entries
Taiwan International Poster Design Award 2006
Taipei, Taiwan
http://www.cdip.org.tw/competition
2111@cpc.org.tw
3 June 2006 > 24 September 2006
Exhibition
20th International Poster Biennale in Warsaw
Warsaw, Poland
biennale@mnw.art.pl
http://www.postermuseum.pl
13 June 2006 > 15 October 2006
Exhibition
22nd International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2006 - Poster, Corporate Identity, Information and Advertising Design
Brno, Czech Republic
bienale@moravska-galerie.cz
http://www.bienale-brno.cz
14 June 2006 > 15 June 2006
Symposium
Brno Biennale International Symposium: Graphic Design and Its Significance for Visual Environment
Brno, Czech Republic
bienale@moravska-galerie.cz
http://www.bienale-brno.cz <http://www.bienale-brno.cz>;
13 June > 26 June 2006
Deadline Extended: Call for Entries
BIO 20: Biennial of Industrial Design
Ljubljana, Slovenia
http://portal.bio.si
9 > 15 July 2006
Icograda Design Week
Defining Design on a Changing Planet
Seattle, United States
seattle@icograda.org
http://seattle.icograda.org
1 > 30 September 2006
Competition/Exhibition
P&G/IDSA's 'The Aging Consumer'
Dulles, United States
cellaw@idsa.org
http://www.idsa.org
1 > 8 September 2006
Exhibition
Golden Bee 7: Moscow International Biennial of Graphic Design
Moscow, Russia
klintsova@artfoundation.ru
http://www.goldenbee.org/eng/
13 September > 10 December 2006
Exhibition
The 6th Trnava Poster Triennial 2006
http://www.goldenbee.org.eng
repasova@gjk.sk
27 September 2006
Competition
2007 ReBrand 100: International Call for Entries
Providence, United States
awards@rebrand.com
http://www.rebrand.com
22 November > 2 December 2006
Competition
GUANGZHOU DESIGN WEEK 2006
Guangzhou, China
info@gzdesignweek.com
http://www.gzdesignweek.com
A G E N D A :
For more events and information http://www.icograda.org/web/calendar
3 March > 15 June 2006
Call for Submissions
Quanto? How Much? Telling the Story of Sexual Slavery
Venice, Italy
info@quantoproject.com
http://www.quantoproject.com
4 May > 16 June 2006
Call for Entries
Red Dot Award: Communication Design
Essen, Germany
http://www.red-dot.de
schneider@dznrw.com
11 May > 7 July 2006
Competition
2006 Design Competition: Big Ideas
Austin, Texas
http://ucda.com/competition.lasso
info@ucda.com
11 May > 1 July 2006
Competition
Good Design Awards
Chicago, USA
http://www.chi-athenaeum.org
tcamuseum@netscape.net
June 2006
Exhibition
8th edition of the Brazilian Biennale of Graphic Design
Sao Paulo, Brazil
http://www.8bienaladg.com.br/
1 June > 15 July 2006
Competition
Design for Asia Award 2006
Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
http://www.dfaaward.com
dfa@hkdesigncentre.org
1 June > 30 July 2006
Congress
International Congress of Design, Art and New Technologies: Ways, Interchanges and Borders
Lisbon, Portugal
http://www.cidae.net
cidae@cidae.net
13 June > 16 November 2006
Competition
INDEX Award: 2007
Copenhagen, Denmark
http://www.index2007.dk/2007/forside.asp
info@indexaward.dk
26 > 28 October 2006
Congress
International Congress of Design, Art and New Technologies: Ways, Interchanges and Borders
Lisbon, Portugal
www.cidae.net <http://www.cidae.net>;
cidae@cidae.net
15 > 16 June 2006
Seminar
Managing Innovation and Change
Online Seminar: Design Management Institute
http://www.dmi.org/dmi/html/education/seminars/mic.htm
20 > 23 June 2006
Conference
Aspen Design Summit 2006
Aspen, United States
http://www.aspendesignsummit.aiga.org
27 > 29 June 2006
Conference
Reinventing with Design 2006 – From Product to Brand
Tsimshatsui, Hong Kong
http://www.hkdesigncentre.org/activities/rwd06_intro.asp
red@hkdesigncentre.org
29 > 30 June 2006
Seminar
Strategies for Designing Meaningful Brand Experiences
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
http://www.dmi.org/dmi/html/education/seminars/dmbe.htm
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