Reminder: Designism 4.0, the fourth edition of the annual Art Directors Club Forum that explores "the responsibility and experiences of designers and creatives to drive social and political change," is happening tomorrow night!
This year the discussion will focus on business models that provide careers and incomes while also driving social change. Panelists include Blake Mycoskie, Chief Shoe Giver, TOMS Shoes; Bill Drenttel, Partner, Winterhouse Studio and Design Observer; Paula Scher, Partner, Pentagram; and Mark Randall, Principal, Worldstudio, to be moderated by Business Week Innovation and Design editor Helen Walters.
The ADC is also holding an online auction benefitting its scholarship fund. Designer-created "Walk the Walk" TOMS Shoes are available for bidding here.
Designism 4.0
Art Directors Club
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
6:30 - 9:00 PM
@ADC Gallery
106 West 29th Street, NYC
Joining the many pop-up shops opening in New York for the holiday season are Core77 friends nau with their collection of eco-friendly active wear and outdoor clothing. In keeping with the companies commitment to minimizing their environmental impact, they went dumpster diving in Manhattan & Brooklyn sourcing materials for the in-store fixtures. Anyone who's walked around Soho on a Sunday night after the shops close knows there's a gold mine of stuff to be scored.
Located on Mercer just above Broome St, the shop has a basement which they're using as a gallery, event space and cafe for customers who need a little Stumptown coffee goodness. Check the calendar here for details on upcoming live music, art shows, guest speakers and product demos.
If you're not in New York, or just prefer shopping online, nau are offering Core77 readers a 10% discount on their website including all sale items. Enter the promo code "NEW2NAU" when you check out.
Let's hope the response is good, a permanent retail store would make a nice addition to the city.
Here/Nau/NYC
Through December 31, 2009
69 Mercer St
New York, NY 10012
Nelly Ben Hayoun, creator of the theatrical Soyuz Chair, brings us another hybrid between design, performance, science and amateurism, the Super K Sonic Booooum. The show, taking place at Shunt in London, is described as "a fantastic voyage on a dingy that floats on 50000 tons of extremely pure water where neutrinos interact with electrons in a massive Sonic Boom." In other words, a simulated tour of the Super K Neutrino Observatory in Japan.
Visitors, who will don wellies and white suits, will board a small dinghy with scientists from the real Super K, who will give a short lecture on particle physics as the boat makes its way through the installation by means of pullies. Throughout the tour, the space will periodically resonate with a "Sonic Boom," a powerful sound and light show by Hayoun and sound artist Tim Olden.
Sounds pretty spectacular, and if you're in London, you still have two more days to catch it. More info here.
In association with Judd Foundation, design gallery Sebastian + Barquet is presenting Donald Judd: Furniture, an exhibition of Donald Judd's resolved furniture designs. Shown alongside Judd's original drawings, this exhibition will include important early examples of his furniture in a variety of woods, colored-plywood, enameled aluminum and copper.
Donald Judd: Furniture Sebastian and Barquet, New York City
November 12-December 25th, 2009
Opening: Thursday, November 12th. 6-9 pm
Michael Hopkins of th MIT Sloan Management Review in the OppGreen room
A great way to bum people out is to show them a bunch of pictures of dead animals. Bonus bummer points if you show those pictures to a room full of 500 environmentalists.
“What we need to do as Americans is grieve. Grieve what is being lost before our eyes everyday,” said photographer Chris Jordan, whose striking images of albatross killed after ingesting plastic waste from a floating gyre of garbage in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Maybe not the ideal early morning visual, but this presentation set the stage for the green business conference Opportunity Green, held November 7-8 at UCLA. Throughout the two-day event, the mood of presenters and attendees swung back and forth from doomsday depression to utopianistic confidence.
To gauge the situation, a number of presenters asked attendees for a show of hands at various times throughout the conference. How many green business owners are in the crowd? How many of you use Twitter? Do you know what the great Pacific garbage patch is?
The Business Response
Michael Hopkins, editor-in-chief of the MIT Sloan Management Review, asked the room whether they thought businesses had or had not cut down expenditures of sustainability measure due to the economic recession. The audience was just about evenly divided into three groups: those who predicted less spending, those who predicted more, and those who saw no change at all. But when Hopkins asked the same question to companies in a previous survey, fewer than 25% said that they made any reduction in their sustainability measures.
Len Sauers, vice president for global sustainability at Proctor and Gamble, shows a graph of his company’s energy footprint, articulating which products take the most energy to produce, distribute and use.
It seems counterintuitive, but now is the time that people are trying even harder to get the message out—whether it’s a new product, a green message, or even just a simple idea. A panel on using social media like Twitter and Facebook had a captivated audience, seeking ideas on how to use Twitter to build their audience and promote their brands.
What If... is a new exhibition at the Science Gallery in Dublin that investigates the future of technology "in the space between reality and the impossible and where designers meet scientists to explore the future." This exhibition has been curated by Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby and Science Gallery director Michael John Gorman and features imaginative and propositional work from a group of designers who are reimagining our future.
Below, RCA graduate Sascha Pohflepp talks about "The Golden Institute," an alternate history project stemming from the idea that Jimmy Carter was re-elected and focused more of our national efforts on the development of alternative energy sources, such as lightning harvesting. Sounds far-fetched...but maybe not much more so than Yury Luzhkov's recent (and real) proposal to ban snow in Moscow.
There are pictures all over Flickr, but the best way to explore this exhibition online is through the Science Gallery's website, where all the propositions have been thoroughly written up.
If you're lucky enough to be in Dublin, this show will remain open through December 13th, so don't miss it!
What If...
The Science Gallery
Dublin, Ireland
October 8-December 13, 2009
Emily Pilloton, founder of Project H, is taking Design Revolutionon the road. 36 products featured in the book will be hauled to different sites around the country in an Airstream trailer this coming February. (By the way, if you're not sure what we're talking about, read Allan Chochinov's interview with Pilloton here.)
Each product in the exhibition proposes a design solution to one of the following eight categories: Water, Well-Being, Energy Education, Play, Food, Mobility, and Enterprise. These include the Jaipur Foot, an affordable prosthetic for landmine victims; Giant Microbes, educational plush toys that illustrate germs, Menu, a portion control dining set; and Soccer Tape, for making DIY soccer balls. That's just a taste, so be sure to check out the full list here. The best part is, the public will be invited to touch, use and test many of these products in the hands-on zone of the exhibition.
The two-month tour is extensive, starting in Larkspur, California on February 1st and making its way through Los Angeles, Austin, Raleigh, Baltimore, New York, Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago (among others) to its final stop in Ohio on April 16th . And if you're a design student, get excited—the trailer will be parked at many major design schools along the route.
Finally, in addition to serving as a mobile exhibition space, the trailer, which also happens to be Project H's design headquarters, will be occupied by Pilloton and Matt Miller, practicing what they call a "2-Milk-Crate Life.".
Attendees listen to one of the first sessions at Opportunity Green
2009, held on the campus of UCLA.
Everybody wants them to be together so bad. But environmental sustainability and successful business models still seem to find only minimal overlap, coming together briefly then bouncing apart like the positively charged ends of magnets. Switching the poles is likely just a matter of time. The people on the environmental side can’t wait for it to happen. Neither can the people on the business side. But it’s the emerging field of people on both sides who are actually making that switch happen.
Many of them are in L.A. right now for Opportunity Green, a business conference focused on environmental sustainability and the nebulous idea of “green”. Despite the difficulty of splicing the altruistic principles of earth-mindedness into a market driven by profit and competition, a broad range of business people are challenging the longstanding idea that good for the environment means bad for business.
From huge multinational corporations to startup 501(c)3s, the concept of sustainability is increasingly being embraced in the day-to-day world of business operations. Michael Hopkins, editor-in-chief of the MIT Sloan Management Review, described to the first-day crowd at Opportunity Green about the survey his editorial team conducted of 2,000 business executives worldwide to find out what efforts they were making to green their businesses. What they found was a fairly widespread acceptance of the emerging role of sustainability in business. Some are still approaching the idea trepidatiously, according to the survey, which found that 70% of those businesses had not developed a valid business case for investing in sustainability measures. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
“That, my friends, is an opportunity,” said Hopkins. “These trends are going to change how people manage, whether they care about sustainability or not.”
If you're in or near Portland, Oregon this weekend, a couple of things to keep in mind:
First, the China Design Now exhibition is on, and it's a thing of beauty. One of only two American museums to host it, the Portland Art Museum has done a great job of taking viewers on a crash course of China's rise from global factory to independent creative voice, through surveys of the design scenes in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing. We blogged it last month, but it's re-post worthy.
Second, as part of the exhibition's broader program, visionary and multi-talented designer Freeman Lau will be flying in from Hong Kong to present his work on Saturday, and to discuss the current state of Chinese design from his perspective, right there on the ground floor. Lau's involvement in the development of a modern Hong Kong and Chinese design aesthetic is hard to overstate, both with his studio Kan and Lau, and through his personal work. See one of the hundreds of manifestations of his Chair Play series, above, for an idea of how his work brings industrial design, graphic design, art, and social context into simultaneous play.
Coroflot Editorial Director (and occasional Core77 contributor) Carl Alviani will be doing the interviewing, and designers of all stripes are warmly invited.
Designism 4.0 is the fourth edition of the annual Art Directors Club Forum that explores "the responsibility and experiences of designers and creatives to drive social and political change." This year the discussion will focus on business models that provide careers and incomes while also driving social change.
The panel features Blake Mycoskie, Chief Shoe Giver, TOMS Shoes; Bill Drenttel, Partner, Winterhouse Studio and Design Observer; Paula Scher, Partner, Pentagram; and Mark Randall, Principal, Worldstudio.
The discussion will be moderated by Business Week Innovation and Design editor Helen Walters. There will also be an online auction benefit for Art Directors Club Scholarships. Designer-created "Walk the Walk" TOMS Shoes (John Maeda, anyone?) for bidding. More info here.
Designism 4.0
Art Directors Club
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
6:30 - 9:00 PM
@ADC Gallery
106 West 29th Street, NYC
Just a quick reminder that Bits 'N Pieces, an exhibition about the conception and consumption of 'post-digital' design, opens tonight at Material ConneXion in NYC.
Descriptions of the participants and their projects can be found at our blog post earlier this month.
Bits 'N Pieces
Material ConneXion, New York City
November 4 - December 4, 2009
Opening: 6pm, November 4th, RSVP by October 30th to rsvp at materialconnexion dot com
What's more fun than sitting in a dim room with fellow designers and watching slide after slide after slide? Well, maybe getting outside, mixing it up with other designers, architects, planners, and engineers and taking it to the streets to learn about effective transportation reforms by riding bikes, learning about shiny new streetcars, and watching rain drops gather into bioswales.
Starting tomorrow, a great group of designers, planners, and engineers nationwide will all be heading to Portland, Oregon for the 2009 Transportation Summit, hosted by the Cascadia Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism. This multidisciplinary team of experts will meet to discuss the latest in cutting edge transportation reforms to promote connected, multi-modal street networks, which can help solve many transportation, safety, land use and urban design problems that plague our cities.
Successful design solutions also help to reduce carbon emissions, increase pedestrian safety, reduce emergency response times, and create economically viable cities, towns, and main streets.
Congrats to Manuel Dreesmann who received the first prize at this year's VisionWorks Award - Cargopacks 2020! His future concept GREEN envisions a more sustainable future through vertical gardens that add a green and sustainable skin to future buildings.
The jury says: "The winning concept Green by Manuel Dreesmann stood out for three reasons. It uses no packaging, solves transportation and distribution problems through on-site production, and uses the concept of vertical farming in office buildings as the basis for a future-focused vision that can have a positive impact on the climate and atmosphere at the workplace."
URBAN MOLE by Philipp Hermes was awarded with the 2nd prize, BACS by Mareike Frensemeier and WATER AHEAD by Mathias Rauch both received the 3rd prize.
Cargopacks 2020 is the title of this year's VisionWorks Award. The award challenged young design students from all over Europe to envision and design for future scenarios. The VisionWorks Award was initiated by Bayer MaterialScience in cooperation with Airbus, DHL and Hettich.
The highly acclaimed Share Festival in Turin, Italy is opening tonight and two of the festival's key exhibitions are available online.
Market Forces Curated by Simona Lodi
Can artists be an alternative source of information on the economy? In the Market Forces exhibition, artists were sought out who have produced works related to marketing, e-commerce, and commercial communication. Their tongue-in-cheek and at times paradoxical works often use the real or virtual supermarket as a favourite setting to be subverted and transformed into an artistic field of action, often of an activist bent. The artistic works selected make us cringe at the screech of over-used words such as global companies, credit crunch, new-economy, neo-capitalism, gift-economy, free-economy, and neo-liberalism.
Until the end of Cinema Curated by Luca Barbeni Until the end of Cinema is a screening featuring a series of audio-visual works that begin where cinema ceases to exist, taking us from the linear to the interactive, from the collective to an individual perspective.
The works each use, at various different levels, the global infrastructure of the Internet in its intrinsic qualities, representing an evolutionary step forward in expressive techniques for audiovisual narration.
The works presented in the screening are no longer cinema, but nor are they something else.
Design Concepts, a product design and innovation firm, is hosting a Designers Accord Town Hall Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin on November 12th, to "help amplify the dialogue on sustainability in the region."
The event will take place from 6-9 pm on November 12th at the Design Concepts office. The schedule is as follows:
6 -6:30 Networking with light, local appetizers and beverages
6:30 - 8 Showcase of area initiatives 3, 20 -minute presentations with time to share ideas
8-9 Share your first steps and discussion
If you plan on attending, please RSVP to Rachel DeSmidt at Rachel.desmidt[at]design-concepts[dot]com.
Designers Accord Madison Town Hall
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Design Concepts, 5301 Buttonwood Dr., Madison, WI 53718
Robert Jacobson is very active in Sweden these days, where he is Entrepreneur in Residence at MEDEA, Malmö University's new initiative for collaborative media.
He has developed a beautiful, short lecture series on innovation, media and transformation, entitled Media transformation - Malmö transformation. From November 3 to 17, you can listen to Mark Anderson (Strategic News Service), Marc Canter (Broadband Mechanics), Adam Greenfield (Nokia), GK Van Patter (Humantific) and Robert Jacobson himself.
In June this year, WIRED organised its first ever business conference - Disruptive By Design, in New York City. This exclusive, invite-only event featured top industry leaders -- including Shai Agassi, Chris Anderson, Jeff Bezos, Jeff Immelt (yes, all males!) -- on how to think different about change, and how to use it to our advantage.
The second in I.D. Magazine's new series of webcast goes live today at 4:00 pm EST. Presenters Masuma Henry, and Martjin Van Tilburg from Artefact group will discuss the opportunities for and implications of "Designing Products for Emerging Markets."
Here's I.D.'s writeup:
As countries such as India and China continue to grow and become more accessible, they represent expanding opportunities for product development. How can product designers create unique and meaningful user experiences for people in these populations? Masuma Henry and Martijn Van Tilburg of the Seattle-based design consultancy Artefact will explain how to do just this, outlining an effective process for developing compelling products for customers in emerging markets.
Drawing from their experience designing technology experiences for these users, they will dispel common misconceptions and reveal practical insights and methods for undergoing this design process. Specifically, they will explain how to conduct the discovery phase, including the planning and execution of fieldwork, remote data collection, and concept generation in the field. They will also demonstrate how to make sense of fieldwork results and how to choose the most relevant concepts to pursue further. They'll highlight examples of successful and failed products, discuss the reasons for these outcomes, and show examples of their recent work in this exciting space.
The webcast is at 4:00 pm EST TODAY. Registration is $39.99—sign up here.
Call for submissions: California-based Nectar Design will be hosting"Ecotopia," an exhibition of green innovations in product design, in January, and they're looking for contributions.
"EcoTopia" [is] a juried group exhibition devoted to new ideas and potential breakthroughs in environmentally friendly product design. It will feature designs for new products from designers of all experience levels specifically aimed at fostering a healthy ecosystem and a more sustainable society.
Entries may range from initial concept ideas to finished designs. All media will be considered, including 2D presentations, video, prototypes, scale models, and mockups. There is no entry fee and students, professionals, and independent inventors of all ages are welcome to apply.
"'EcoTopia' is a call to action," said Nectar Senior Designer, Yutaka Kazamaki who is spearheading the event. "It's clear to us that product designers will be playing a key role in the fight for sustainability, and the more skilled and imaginative people who devote themselves to creating innovative product designs, the better our chances will be of developing effective solutions for issues like climate change and declining natural resources," Mr. Kazamaki said. "Our hope is that 'EcoTopia' will introduce promising new talents to the world of sustainable design. Considering the huge stakes on issues like climate change and declining natural resources, we're hoping to be overwhelmed with submissions."
The deadline for entries is November 20, 2009. For details and a complete list of rules, click here.
Prague Design Days 2009, or Designblok, is the 11th edition of Prague's major annual design event. The festival took place between the 6th and 11th of October and was anchored in the Holesovice area of Prague. "Spring," this year's theme, underlined a refreshing sense of revival, new beauty and new life. Join our tour along the main locations at the Designblok Superstudios Classic 7 and A7, the DOX Center for Contemporary Art and the Czech Centre Prague.
Night Jar Creative, an new, experimental ad agency, is hosting an open photo shoot in Brooklyn tomorrow. The event, entitled Sand County, aims to depict a "high-fashion, low-impact, sustainable future, with elements in social awareness and environment."
You are invited to come hang out on site at this all-day event (a DJ booth, snacks, games, and a lounge area will be provided) or even ask to get involved. More information at their site.
Sand County
9 am - 6pm, October 24th
3rd Ward Studios, Brooklyn
Bits 'N Pieces is an interactive traveling exhibition exploring the rapidly advancing technologies and materials transforming the world of both digital and analog design.
Curated by Jan Habraken, Lucas Maassen, Alissia Melka-Teichroew, and Unfold, the exhibition will include furniture, architecture, jewelry, graphic design and products that "examine how design is both conceived and consumed in the post-digital age."
Debug by Edhv, 2009
Edhv has built an experimental machine that prints artwork with the help of insects. Edhv's machine will be translating these species' specific movements into graphics that will be printed as posters.
Jointed Pieces by Alissia Melka-Teichroew, 2008
The ball joined jewelry pieces are manufactured using modern technologies that are able to make shapes that were impossible to create using old techniques. Before, a ball joint could only be assembled after the individual parts had been manufactured. Today, using 3D Printing, it is possible to produce a ball joint connection in one form.
Mellitus by Doug Bucci, 2009
This project shows how biological processes can be transformed via digital technology to meaningful, personal, wearable art. Bucci takes his personal Continuous Glucose Monitoring redings and arrays them into 3d space, onto interpretations of red blood cells. The restulting forms are a personalized, visual represenation of Bucci's glucose control
Brainwave Sofa by UNFOLD & Luccas Maassen
The shape of the Brainwave Sofa (which we blogged about here) is entirely determined by recording Maassen's neural activity while he closed his eyes and thought of comfort.
See all these and more at the opening on November 4th at Material ConneXion's New York headquarters.
Bits 'N Pieces
Material ConneXion, New York City
November 4 - December 4, 2009
Opening: 6pm, November 4th, RSVP by October 30th to rsvp at materialconnecion dot com
Good creative hiring is all about flexibility and relationships--this was the core of the message gleaned from Wednesday's long-anticipated Coroflot Creative Confab at the Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco.
The panel discussion at the heart of the 160-attendee event was easily the most boisterous and impassioned of the Confab's four-city tour so far, with panelists Emily Delmont (Google Creative Lab), Steve Johnson (LinkedIn), Kate Gilman (24 Seven) and John Foster (IDEO) bouncing around opinions on networking, creative skill sets, and employee engagement with dizzying speed. Kudos to Coroflot's Carl Alviani, who's deft moderating provided just the right amount of provocation, synthesis, and encouragement to the panel.
A few of the more memorable revelations:
The timeframe for a creative hire can vary tremendously: John and Steve both recalled designers who took over two years to finally bring on board, while Kate regularly places freelancers the same day the position opens. The difference? Specificity: A designer who's defined entirely by their skills is easy to place, but easily replaced; a staff hire with growth potential depends more on collaborative and learning ability, and these take far longer to assess.
Creative skills for the next three years: Once esoteric abilities like motion graphics, interaction design, and social media engagement are being integrated into almost every part of the creative world, and will soon be as common a part of the communication toolbox as email. At the strategic end, John has seen a recent swell in demand for designers who understand business processes, and can approach them with the same creative mindset they bring to other projects. Expect Design MBA programs to proliferate like mad.
The high cost of a bad hire: It's astronomical, in wasted time, money and opportunity. A worry voiced across the panel was of wanting to fill a position so badly that a poor-fitting applicant with great skills gets the job. It always ends in tears.
Post hire support: It's difficult, it's time-consuming, and it's absolutely necessary. Every panelist described a different strategy for connecting new hires to their colleagues, and keeping them supported, but they all had one. IDEO's in particular is deeply involved, with multiple follow-up interviews, presentations, and introductions with potential collaborators in house (read more at John's 3 Questions preview post)
Biggest surprise--it's not about the job, it's about the person: "Should I apply for a job despite not meeting all the requirements?", asked one audience member. The panelists replied with a unanimous "Yes!" It turns out they keep tabs on dozens or even hundreds of potential hires (Emily's team at the Creative Lab maintains a Google Doc for just this purpose), and job postings are primarily tools for building that list. This is one reason they're often so vaguely written: while there are sometimes specific jobs that need instant filling (especially in freelance), recruiters are more interested in finding qualified creatives with good communication skills and learning abilities. Replying to a post is merely the first step in that relationship. So apply, apply, apply.
The Harley-Davidson Museum and the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design are teaming up for the former's first feature exhibition, "The Helmet Project," which will involve the labor of over 100 art and design students:
The Helmet Project challenged students to deconstruct the conventional notion of a helmet and re-envision its function and meaning through art and design that push visual and conceptual boundaries. Students are also creating the show - from exhibit fabrication and installation to exhibition graphics and marketing.
"Harley-Davidson is renowned for its iconic motorcycle designs - both the industrial design of the motorcycle and the artistic design of distinct paint, graphics, parts and accessories," said Fricke. "The Helmet Project was expressly developed to create an ambitious college-wide project focusing on art and design - skills that are very important to Harley-Davidson. Our rewarding partnership with MIAD has resulted in an exhibition that is informative, bold and fun and will interest fans of art and design, history, motorcycling, and pop culture."
The exhibit opens Wednesday, October 28th. Click here for more info.
There's just a couple more weeks to register for the Opportunity Green Business Conference, taking place on November 7th and 8th in Los Angeles. The conference aims to inspire "a collaborative culture of new thinking" and "facilitate the movement to transform business for good" by providing "unprecedented approaches to sustainability that are bankable and exciting."
Sounds pretty good, right?
Even better is the unbelievable speaker list, including Michael Hopkins, the editor-in-chief of the MIT Sloan Management Review; Yves Behar, founder of fuseproject; Adam Lowry, founder of Method; and Helen Walters, editor of Innovation & Design at Business Week.
To supplement the conference, Opportunity Green is running the OG|25 competition, which will highlight the best of innovative green startups. And, just added, is the Tour de OG, a 5 day bike ride directly preceding the event. The ride will raise awareness about green business, and all participants will receive organic meals, campsites and lodging, promotional bike accessories and discounted attendee registration for the conference.
More information and registration guidelines here.
The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum is celebrating National Design Week by offering free admission for all museum visitors between October 18 through the 24th. In addition, they'll be hosting a series of public programs around the National Design Awards, presented by First Lady Michelle Obama this past July.
Here's the list of what's up for the rest of the week:
National Design Awards Winners' Panel
October 20, 6:30-8:30 pm
The Times Center
The 2009 National Design Award winners, including Laurene Boym, Andrew Blauvelt and Steve Duenes, participate in a panel discussion about their inspiration and drive as designers and the state of contemporary design in America. Register for the event here, or, if you can't make it, watch the live webcast from this website.
Objectified Film Screening
October 21st, 1:30 and 3:30 pm
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
If you missed Objectified when it made its round through the box office, now's your chance to catch this "feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them." Register for the 1:30 here or the 3:30 here.
National Design Awards Gala & After-Party
October 22nd
Cooper-Hewitt celebrates the 2009 National Design Awards with its annual Awards ceremony and dinner held at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City. Get tickets here.
If you aren't in New York but would like to attend some design-related events, check out Copper-Hewitt's "Design Around America" banner for national listings.
DUTCH DESIGN WEEK 2009
PRAGUE DESIGN DAYS 2009
LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL 2009
GIZMODO GALLERY 2009
EUROBIKE 2009
MAKER FAIRE AFRICA
NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL GIFT FAIR
ISTANBUL DESIGN WEEKEND 2009
BAUHAUS SUMMER SCHOOL 2009
Attendees listen to one of the first sessions at Opportunity Green
2009, held on the campus of UCLA.
