United States Artists has honored the USA Fellows for 2011 at a festive event earlier this week in Santa Monica, CA. Fellowship grants of $50,000 each were awarded to fifty outstanding performing, visual, media, and literary artists or artist teams. USA Fellowships are presented annually in the…

If you dig a hole deep enough... is an installation by New York architects LEVENBETTS for The Solutions, the 2011 Chengdu Arts and Design Biennial, currently running through October 30 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. The impetus for LEVENBETTS' installation was the children’s adage…

“Design with the Other 90%: Cities,” the second in a series of themed exhibitions by Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum that demonstrate how design can address the world’s most critical issues, opens October 15 at the United Nations and runs through January 9, 2012.

DESIGN 21: Social Design Network just announced the results of its ‘Help Japan’ competitions, a multi-faceted effort to support Japan and help provide relief to the disaster areas at different stages of the recovery process. Two product competitions, based on the design of a greeting card…

If you're in New York next week, make sure to check out the book launch party of the Hall of Femmes project, a new book series highlighting the contributions of women in design. Presented by the Art Directors Club, the party will be hosted at the ADC…

Design Miami/, the global forum for design, nominated German designer Konstantin Grcic to be this year´s Desinger of the Year 2010.

New Zealand's best designers and their projects were recently honored with the 2010 Best Design Awards in the four categories Graphic, Interactive, Product, and Spatial. The National Graphic Design Awards were established in the mid seventies to celebrate New Zealand’s best graphic design. Over the years,…

Chris Bosse has sliced up the Panton chair as part of the Re-loved: designer stories at the Powerhouse Museum Sydney until 10 October.

Wallpaper* just published the winners of their 2010 Design Awards. Entries come from every possible part of the design field, from architecture to fashion design to industrial design, and were awarded in 66 respective categories. A panel of judges, including icons like architect Steven Holl, fashion designer John…

United States Artists (USA), the national grant-making and advocacy organization, announced the recipients of 50 USA Fellowships for 2009, totaling $2.5 million, at a celebration last Monday at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica, CA. This event marks the fourth consecutive year of the USA…