MUJI AWARD 03, with its theme of “Found MUJI”, was open to applicants for two months from May 26 to July 31, 2008. Some 1,986 entries from 35 countries were received. The organizers recently announced the winning entries that made it through very rigid judging process. Masaaki Kanai,…

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…

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…

A new exhibition opens this week in San Francisco that profiles the work of today’s finest design talent. The 2008 Spark Design Awards put more than 360 entries under the microscope last month, with the best being selected by a jury of prestigious names in global design. The…

Amsterdam-based experimental design collaborative Platform 21, known for their infamous hacks of IKEA furniture, ran a Hack-your-IKEA competition this summer, and they have received nearly a hundred national and international entries to the contest. All from enthusiastic hackers that each in their own way changed an IKEA…

Past Young Guns winners serve as jury for sixth biennial competition of young creative talent in visual media and design. NEW YORK, September 5, 2008 – The Art Directors Club, the premier organization for integrated media and the first global creative collective of its…

The design competition One Good Chair recently announced two proposals as the final winning designs: Jittasak Narknisorn‘s “Posi+ive Lounge Chair” and Jessica Konawicz‘s “Pandanus Lounge Chair”. The jury also honored designs by Robert Corser, Catherine Pena and Moon Choi as runner ups. Winners: Jittasak Narknisorn …

Visitors of the Droog website have chosen ‘Droog Aalto’, a vase design by Jan Čtvrtník, with 32% of all votes as the winning proposal for the Climate Competition. Designer Rachel Hevic reached up to the second-favourite with her proposal of ‘Large red switch’ (23%…