The Art Directors Club will announce this year’s award winners at the ADC 88th Annual Awards Gala on Thursday evening, April 30, 2009 at the ADC Gallery in New York. Winners in the Advertising, Design, Interactive, ADC Design Sphere…

If you happen to be in Slovenia this spring, make sure you don’t miss this event: Ljubljana-based Zavod Big will host its second annual architectural conference, entitled “BIG ARCHITECTURE: Sustainable Excellence”. The conference explores a host of questions which explore the relationship between quality design, innovation,…

Julien De Smedt, of JDS Architects, gave a public lecture at Harvard University in the Graduate School of Design’s George Gund Hall on March 5, 2009. Topic: “Embracing Diversity”. Watch the video of the lecture here on Bustler:

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…

“Urban China: Informal Cities” is a multifaceted exploration and physical manifestation of the groundbreaking magazine Urban China. Founded in 2005, Urban China is the only magazine devoted to issues of urbanism published in and about China. In addition to offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, the magazine has a network…

For the fourth consecutive year in Languedoc Roussillon, France, lively architecture will penetrate and appropriate themselves courtyards of private mansions of downtown Montpellier. Ten teams were selected by a jury composed of architects, journalists, and participants from the past edition of the Festival of…

Organized by the San Francisco Museum of Art (SFMOMA) and Henry Urbach, SFMOMA’s Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design, the exhibition is unorthodox in that it combines two approaches to showing architecture in a gallery: video documentation of the studio’s built work and an environment,…

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…

A heart-pounding contest of slick computer tricks, quick-witted design, and high-energy showmanship, the AU Design Slam marked Cut&Paste’s first foray into 3D design. The live event, taking place over two days at the Autodesk University 2008 conference, put the spotlight on architects and industrial designers as…

The ninth Glenn Murcutt International Architecture Master Class will be held in Australia at Glenn Murcutt’s “Masterwork”, the Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Education Centre ‘Riversdale’ on the banks of the Shoalhaven River south of Sydney, and at the School of Architecture at the University of Sydney, 12-26 July 2009.