Our friends at Wallpaper* yesterday announced the winners of their 2012 Design Awards. The international panel of judges, this year comprising Grayson Perry, Rafael Vinoly, Simon de Pury, Gerd Bulthaup, and Jean-Paul Goude, selected the top entries in eleven major design categories. Many more awards in highly…

Our friends at Wallpaper* today announced the winners of their 2011 Design Awards program. The annual award series honors exceptional design in eleven different disciplines, spanning from fashion design over architecture to industrial design. This year's panel of judges hosts big names like Pharrell Williams, Mario Bellini,…

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…

In December 2008, Italian fashion brand United Colors of Benetton launched the international competition Designing in Teheran to develop a design for two multistory buildings in Iran’s capital city of Teheran. Designers were called to integrate the new structures in the local urban and commercial setting…

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…

In 2007, Swiss bag maker FREITAG invited designers, illustrators and anyone with a pen to participate in the first FREITAG Design-A-Truck Contest. The topic: «Transit». Over 3’000 contenders from 70 countries all over the world signed up. But like Christopher Lambert said: «There can be only one!» The jury, made…