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Un po’ persa nella calura dei giorni di ferragosto le agenzie e i giornali locali hanno pubblicato la notizia che il Comune di Firenze ha intrapreso la registrazione del suo marchio istituzionale. Ovviamente per proteggerlo da usi e abusi. Del redesign dello stemma si è occupato Walter Sardonini e il suo studio Social Design. La [...]

La giuria della decima edizione è così composta:
Giorgio Arlorio (Presidente di giuria)
Lucia Ragni
Domitilla d’Amico
Liz Fairs
Davide Morena
Andrea Adriatico
Seguono maggiori informazioni sui singoli giurati.
Source:AiC10: Giuria del Festival

Design Coordination and corporate image - FHK Henrion + Alan Parkin c1967
This is an excellent book on the subject of corporate identity. All the big design guns are in here. The best part, for each case study the designer explains the problems he encountered and his thoughts behind the design etc.
Includes case studies by Dick [...]

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Going to be in Hawaii sometime this month? The Nuuanu Gallery in Honolulu is hosting an exhibition called Dirty Laundry: The Art of the Stain in Modern T-Shirt Design. The basic concept is that they asked designers to stain t-shirts with a medium of their choice (grass, wine, lipstick, etc.) and then design custom artwork [...]

Required Viewing for those of us in the Bay Area.
The Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery located within San Jose State University is hosting an amazing exhibition of graphic design by the office of Otl Aicher for the 1972 Munich Olympics. The exhibition features, posters, books, brochures and signage conceived for the 1972 Olympic identity [...]

A clever combination of modern material and decorative form, the Flower Footstool is fabricated from urethane foam. A color relief is created on the t..
Source: Flower Footstool

I try to create consumer products which are struggeling to compensate our consumption. It is about communication, information and motivation.My produc..
Source: USE LESS.energy

CASSIUS, an interactive design interface, invites users to a virtual boxing match. Users compete with their computer-mouse against a 3D model of a pun..
Source: CASSIUS

a typograpical movie about the powerful social & economic change brought about when girls have the opportunity to participate in their society.
[link: girleffect.org]

a coffee-table display case for samples of all existing stable elements. each element sample is individually embedded inside a solid acrylic block, while all the blocks are arranged in the grid of the periodic table, priced EU 6,890, US $8,550. more interactive versions of “periodic” display walls exist as well.
[link: element-collection.com|via bornrich.org & boingboing.net]

a detailed network representation giving an overview of the international products space, with different colors for each product class (e.g. petroleum, animal products, cereals, machinery, chemical, electronics), node size denoting the average income per-capita associated with that good & link color indicating a range in the proximity values
[link: chidalgo.com]

an alternative way to represent time schedule tracking by stacking different lengths of Lego blocks as a way to convey different sequential time periods. stacking hourly rows on top of each other builds up the whole day, while color represents the different projects at hand. a whole week of time tracking is created by setting [...]

a novel display interface that allows simultaneous collaborative actions by multiple people, while each user perceives an equally-valid view & no-one has a “master position” over the displayed information. projected objects can be passed around the sphere by different gestural actions.
applications include photo-browsing, geographical mapping, the navigation of live omnidirectional camera images & a pong [...]

Dopo gli ultimi numeri, che portano ad otto il complessivo delle
uscite, possiamo azzardare un primo bilancio della rivista di grafica Un Sedicesimo, voluta da Pietro Corraini, che ne cura il progetto e
l’edizione.
Source: Otto sedicesimi

Durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale, nel gennaio del 1941, il presidente americano Franklin Delano Roosvelt indirizzò al Congresso il suo famoso messaggio sulle “Quattro libertà”. Libertà di parola, libertà di culto, libertà dal bisogno, libertà dalla paura. L’anno successivo la dichiarazione di principio presidenziale costituì l’elemento ispiratore per una serie di quattro poster realizzati da [...]

Ci è capitato di parlare più volte, anche negli ultimi giorni, della tutela degli stemmi e delle immagini delle istituzioni pubbliche, dato che da questa tutela deriva la garanzia dell’amministrrazione nei confronti del cittadino.Il caso, anche questo agostano, dei biglietti d’ingresso per la Galleria degli Uffizi di Firenze, venduti in rete a prezzi maggiorati anche [...]

The first Arts and Crafts exhibition mounted at the museum in more than 30 years, Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago will present designs by the movement’s most notable practitioners, from William Morris and Charles Robert Ashbee to Gustav Stickley and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Source: Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from [...]

Bicoastal creative production company Stardust Studios recently produced a spot for the New York-based creatives from advertising agency Publicis and their clients at Nestle’s Jamba Juice.

Source: Stardust Gets Fruitful for Jamba Juice in Colorful 3D Animated Spot

Offering a glimpse of the design collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, this August the MFAH presents Celebrating 10 Years of the Design Council, an exhibition of two dozen objects that pays tribute to the friends group funding design purchases at the MFAH.

Source: Celebrating 10 Years of the Design Council Showcases MFAH's Growing [...]