55DSL Logo Remix Challenge
Deadline:
December 5, 2008
BraunPrize 2009
Deadline:
Jan. 31, 2009
Seoul Design festival
December 3-7, 2008
Korea
Design Miami
December 3-6, 2008
Miami, Florida
Designers' Open 2008
Designers' Open is one of the biggest design events in the east of Germany, including a creative fight club!
99 images
DESIGN PHILADELPHIA 2008
The fourth annual DesignPhiladelphia delivered brotherly love with exhibitions, gallery openings, and lectures.
62 images
LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL 2008
Now in its sixth year, The London Design Festival offers an amazing array of design and celebration.213 images
FREEDESIGNDOM 2008
FreeDesigndom 2008 is the inaugural design and fashion event in the Netherlands.100 images
ManufRactured EXHIBITION
ManufRactured is a collection of art and design objects created from re-purposed manufactured goods. 40 images
VITRA DESIGN MUSEUM SUMMER WORKSHOPS
Participants live & work for 1 week w/ renowned designers, architects and artists at the Domaine de Boisbuchet.70 images
BICYCLE
A 100-day Dutch event anchored by an exhibition at the Designhuis in Eindhoven.100 images
FARNBOROUGH AIRSHOW 2008
The greatest display of aircraft on the planet. In Hampshire, UK.194 images
CERAMICS AND SOUND EXHIBITION
The works of artists and designers recently at the European Ceramic Workcenter (.ekwc).55 images
100 PERCENT DESIGN SHANGHAI
Designers Richard Hutten, Michael Young & Patrick Jouin join creative directors Tobias Wong & Aric Chen.61 images
HAMBURG HARLEY DAYS 2008
Bill Davidson and some 75,000 (custom) motorbikes.80 images
BERLIN DESIGN FESTIVAL 2008
"The Sky Is Not The Limit" at the Berlin Design Festival.64 images
NEW YORK DESIGN WEEK 2008
A hearty collection of the best the Design World has to offer.224 images
MAKER FAIRE 2008
A wonderland of populist & homespun tech, courtesy of Make Mag. In San Mateo, CA.48 images
As part of the "Dove Self-Esteem Fund," this ad aims to teach females about "real" beauty, exposing extreme lengths the media takes to extract a true Venus from an otherwise nothing-special girl who's just like the rest of us unfortunate-looking trolls marred by the impact of airbrushed beauty.
London Design Festival 2008
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Core77 visits NASA:
Designing for Space with NASA's Industrial Design Team, by Glen Jackson Taylor
DesignPhiladelphia 2008
Bryce Gibson photographs this year's festival of brotherly love
UGLY:
How Unorthodox Thinking Will Save Design, by Tad Toulis
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Comments
This is great, absolutely great! It about time someone starts to point out how much the beauty you see in ads is actually not true. Even if dove is just a soap company they are bringing up a topic that should be talked about!
Dove has been doing this with all of their products. They are trying to focus on "real beauty" and most of their models are real people.. and the ads show a little flab, wrinkles, pores and all
It's part of the reason I stopped buying magazines like FHM or Maxim. Whilst I know they look fake that's not the only thing wrong, it homogenises female beauty. I like a lot of different body shapes and looks that you can only really find in RL these days. The ultimate irony is most CG these days has defects being put in to make the characters look more realistic where as we are removing them all from our photos. I'm sure its only time till we get composite models made up of the 'best' bits from various body/face part models.
First of all, I love that your handle is squirrelbait; it reminds me of HS (in a good way).
Secondly, I've been thinking lately about whether or not such image altering constitutes false advertising. In certain industries, there are disclosures that need to be made to the consumer. For pushing certain products, image is the only thing that the push relies on --> so should the push be monitored? Or at least not a total lie?
I have no answers but have thought about it a lot.
Thanks for posting this.