What do the Big Brother logo, a school, Heathrow Terminal 5 Live Adverts and Obama’s campaign logo have in common? They are all on the shortlist for the Brit Insurance Design Awards. Following the tremendous success of their inaugural…

The Art Directors Club today announced the complete international juries consisting of leading creatives and designers for the Interactive category of the ADC 88th Annual Awards program for 2009. ADC 88th Annual Awards Interactive Jury:Brendan Dawes,…

The Design Museum, Don’t Panic and Flickr launched the Your Design City project back in October. The final 20 photographs will be on display at the Design Museum in London between January 6th through 11th, 2009. There will also be an…

The Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization, the organization involved in the comprehensive promotion of design, recently announced the results of the 2008 Good Design Awards. Applications for this year opened on May 8, and 3,023 entries were received. As a result of initial and second screenings, 1,067 items received Good…

Artists in Design, Literary, Media, Performing, and Visual Arts From Across the Country Each Receive $50,000 Award United States Artists (USA), the national artists’ advocacy organization, yesterday announced the recipients of fifty USA Fellowships for 2008 totaling $2.5 million. This marks the third consecutive year of the USA Fellows program,…

It began with a competition. The New York City Department of Transportation and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, along with Google, wanted to encourage cycling as a convenient method of transportation. After a study revealed that lack of access to secure bike parking was the main deterrent,…

New York, October 14, 2008 – The Art Directors Club today announced the latest group of inductees into the prestigious ADC Hall of Fame.  The seven illustrious honorees, representing the fields of advertising, design, architecture, filmmaking, illustration, academia and photography, will be inducted at a black-tie benefit gala dinner on…

The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture has announced the recipients of ACADIA awards for excellence. Inaugurated in 1998, the ACADIA Award of Excellence is one of the highest awards that can be achieved in the field of architectural computing. It represents recognition, by colleagues and peers worldwide, of…

  The Cooper Union Student Eco Initiative is looking for designers across the world who have an opinion on the current trend of green design.  They are collecting responses from professionals, students, and the population at large to incorporate into their first public work. The initiative hopes to use the…

The Spark Awards International Design Competition just closed their early entry deadline, but will accept entries for Phase 1 until the late deadline, August 25. After reviewing the early submissions, the organizers counted at least 278 entries. Many of the ‘07 participants returned, and many new exciting firms signed up…