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…

In February 2008, the City of Alexandria released the Call for Entries for the Contrabands and Freedmen’s Cemetery Memorial Design Competition. The City sought design submissions from architects, landscape architects, artists, students, and other interested individuals to memorialize and honor those who are buried at Contrabands and Freedmen’s Cemetery in…

The winners of the 2008 International Design Awards Land & Sea competition for sustainability were celebrated at a reception on Monday, May 21, bringing together an enthusiastic selection of the 30,000 attendees of this year’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair and the IDA jurors for a peek at fourteen of the…

To mark the closing of MoMA’s special exhibition Design and the Elastic Mind, our sister site Archinect presented a set of reviews that cover the show’s web space, individual pieces of interest, and the themes at play throughout. For those of you that were able to visit…

The Scottish Design Award’s results were revealed on Friday 16 May at The Corn Exchange, Edinburgh. Over 530 architects and designers attended this event. Twenty-seven trophies were awarded to those who met the high standard set by the judges. Professor Andy MacMillan received a Lifetime Achievement Award, with The Architecture…

Microsoft XBOX Halo 3 Wins 5 Gold Cubes as ADC Reveals Awards for Advertising, ADC Hybrid, Design and ADC Sphere Winners of Corbis Creativity for Social Justice Award named New York, NY – May 1, 2008 – The Art Directors Club today announces the top winners in the categories of…

National Endowment for the Arts Announces Stewardship Grants in Design Design Grants Part of NEA’s Second Major Round of Fiscal Year 2008 Funding As part of its second major grant announcement of fiscal year 2008, the National Endowment for…

Third Annual National Design Week to be held Oct. 19–25 The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will celebrate outstanding achievement in design this fall with its ninth annual National Design Awards program. Today, Cooper-Hewitt director Paul Warwick…

Architect and Professor Eric Olsen Wins 2008 Metropolis Next Generation® Design Prize San Francisco, May 2, 2008 A Bay Area architect and professor at the California College of Arts has been chosen as this year’s winner of the prestigious Metropolis Next Generation® Design Prize.