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…

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…

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…

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 Thompson…

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.