Our Guest Critics, Jemery Sun, Director of Orcadesign would like invite you to their latest  “make dreams” exhibition at the Icsid World Design Congress 2009.

As you may know, the Icsid Congress is a high-profile international event of the industrial design industry. The exhibition will be showcasing how design empowers our dreams and will take place at the Suntec Exhibition Hall from 24th to 27th of Nov.  For more information about orcadesign, please visit http://www.orcadesign.net/

23 November 2009 (Monday), 2pm at LR425

located on Level 4 of SDE 3, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore.

Deadline: 31-Jan-2010

Students and non-professional packaging designers are invited to participate in our Design Challenge 09.

The task: Come up with a lean, smart – fat free – packaging solution for an existing product that can be bought in retail.

Participants are free to choose any product they can buy in retail and prove they can create a better packaging for it!

For more information, please visit competition website www.scapackaging.com:

Below are works of last year winners:
Natacha Lesty with “Disco Choco” wins Design Challenge 08!

The Disco Choco concept focuses on the theme “disco”: it wants to share the good vibes of pleasant moments, shiny colours, music, pop … The pack wants to be attractive in store and should make consumer desire this product.

Embrechts with “Soft Chocolate Skin” wins the Public Prize

The feeling of existing chocolate packs is always very boring and clean. Also chocolate packaging makes noise and this can sometimes be annoying for you or other people when you want to enjoy your chocolate in a public place.

Deadline: 31-Dec-2009

he student initiatives with the most powerful and provocative solutions will be given financial awards to help fund the implementation of their project. A total of $15,000 will be awarded to the concept or concepts that have the demonstrated ability to ignite change within their local community based on the following broad parameters:

» Addresses a pressing social need within a community
» Can be implemented within that community
» Delivers positive results that can be measured

Awards will be given to fund the material costs of executing the project. Design Ignites Change believes that designers should be compensated for their time when executing socially minded projects. As such, up to 10% of your total requested award amount may be earmarked as an honorarium to cover your time. Monies will be disbursed in one of two ways:

» Paid directly to the vendors contracted to execute the project
» Paid to the school or organization who will oversee the execution of the project

Deadline

The application deadline is December 31, 2009. A complete case study must also be posted on the Design Ignites Change website by December 31, 2009.

Eligiblity

The following groups enrolled in Design Ignites Change are eligible to submit projects developed in 2009 for an award:

» Colleges/universities engaged in projects that use design thinking to address social issues
» Colleges/universities engaged in a youth mentoring program around social issues
» Creative professionals engaged in a youth mentoring program around social issues

Participants in the basic Create! Don’t Hate. billboard mentoring program are not eligible, but any unique extensions – in addition to the billboards – of the Create! Don’t Hate. program, developed by the mentoring organization and the mentees, can be submitted.

Selection

All applications will be reviewed by an independent committee of creative professionals, business, civic and non-profit leaders. Projects will be evaluated on concept, viability, potential for impact, as well as a detailed plan for timely execution.

For more information, please visit http://www.designigniteschange.org/pages/28-about-implementation-awards

Deadline: November 17, 2009

Modern Painters magazine and Louise Blouin Media are proud to announce the inaugural Re:Vision Design Awards.

The Re:Vision Design Awards challenges emerging designers of all stripes to revisit, rethink and reimagine how we live in our homes.

Whether in the fields of furniture, lighting, product, interior or environmental design, submissions are welcome from across the design spectrum that thoughtfully explore new ways to live, work, play, and interact in the domestic environment.

The first prize winner of the Re:Vision Design Awards will receive $10,000; two runners up will be awarded $2,500.

All three will be featured in the May 2010 issue of Modern Painters.

The jury includes Ross Lovegrove, Renny Ramakers (co-founder, Droog), David Mcfadden (chief curator, Museum of Arts and Design), Rosanne Somerson (professor, RISD) and Cristina Grajales (modern and contemporary furniture dealer, NYC).

For more information, please visit http://www.dexigner.com/jump/news/18990

At TEDxUSC, computer graphics trailblazer Paul Debevec explains the scene-stealing technology behind Digital Emily, a digitally constructed human face so realistic it stands up to multiple takes.

About Paul Debevec

Paul Debevec’s digital inventions have powered the breathtaking visual effects in films like The Matrix, Superman Returns, King Kong and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

About TedTalk

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.

TEDTalks began as a simple attempt to share what happens at TED with the world. Under the moniker “ideas worth spreading,” talks were released online. They rapidly attracted a global audience in the millions. Indeed, the reaction was so enthusiastic that the entire TED website has been reengineered around TEDTalks, with the goal of giving everyone on-demand access to the world’s most inspiring voices.