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iida 2009 - international design awards

C A L L - F O R - E N T R I E S
Incheon Metropolitan City, KOREA,
together with designboom promotes an international design competition.
participation is open to applicants from every country in the world,
to professionals, students, and design-enthusiasts.
free registration required.

The subject of the international competition is green life
21st century design is the philosophy that suggests harmony of humanity and nature.
21st century design is the imagination that enables sustained urban life.
21st century design is actions that buffer radical changes in society.
21st century design is a beautiful link between business activities and consumer activities.
21st century design is a tool that expresses beautiful imagination of people.
the philosophy of the 21st century design is the philosophy of 'iida.'
we are looking for entries in the following three categories:

1 - green design for humans
products and household items made of organic materials or recycled materials:
green designs to save energy and protect the environment.
IT devices, home appliances, automobiles or packaging:
green designs combined with state-of-the-art technologies to suggest a new lifestyle.

2 - city and green design
green design to improve city environment and its visual components-
street furniture, architecture, interior design, light: green designs for future cities
that apply environmentally-friendly concepts or alternative energy to urban environment.

3 - green design and communication
visual design of promotional materials or advertises for green design.
other forms of green design: movie clips, character designs, animation films or illustrations

application registration will be accepted from may 18th through august 25th, 2009.
the total prize money of iida 2009 amounts to USD41,000.

Carlos Meglia passes away

Argentinian comic book artist Carlos Meglia has died. He was 50 years old. According to initial reports, he was admitted to hospital after suffering from problems related to his aorta.
Carlos Meglia debuted in 1974 as the assistant of the illustrator Oswal. Two years later, he made science-fiction illustrations for El Péndulo, as well as covers for Record publishers. In 1979 Meglia illustated 'La Bible pour les Enfants', 'Don Quichotte' and several books of the poet Martin Fierro. In the early 1980s, he contributed to Billiken, a children's magazine, Satiricón, a humorous periodical and El Gráfico, a sports magazine.

In 1983, Meglia made his first short comic stories for publisher Record, and in the three years that followed, he worked mainly in the animation field (a.o. on 'The Smurfs', 'The Flintstones' and 'Scooby Doo'). He teamed up with Carlos Trillo in 1987, and started 'Irish Coffee', a series about a detective with supernatural gifts. Also with Trillo, Meglia launched the 'Cybersix' series in 1991, a series in which he intensively uses the computer. In the second half of the 1990s, he settled in Spain and began working for the US market. He cooperated on Dark Horse titles like 'Star Wars: Underworld' and 'Spyboy', as well as DC's 'Superman/Tarzan: Sons of the Jungle', 'Crimson', 'Adventures of Superman' and 'Monster World', and Marvel's 'Elektra'.

He was perhaps best known to Spanish-speaking audiences for his collaborations with Carlos Trillo, with whom he created Irish Coffee and Cybersix. With Crisse, he created "Canari" series in 2005.

The exhibition "360° Bulgaria", presented by "Edno" magazine

An emotional message of the need to take care and preserve natural environment.

The exhibition presents 120 aerial photographs by Alexander Ivanov taken in the course of 8 years from a delta wing and paraglider.

Sofia - May 20th - June 18th 2008
at the Bridge (between the National Palace of Culture and Hilton Hotel)
Burgas - June 26th - July 23rd 2008
pl. Troikata (ul. Alexandrovska)
Varna - July 31st - August 28th 2008
at the entrance to the Sea Garden (by the Festival Complex)
Plovdiv - September 5th -October 3rd 2008
pl. Centralen (ul. Kniaz Alexander I)
free entrance

Source - edno.com

The 13th Salon Des Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria

The thirteenth edition of ‘Salon Des Arts' culture festival starts in Bulgaria's capital and will last for 42 days.
The official opening of the event will be on May 12 in hall 1 of National Palace of Culture (NDK) with huge folklore concert.

In the festival's program are included concerts, dance shows, expositions, cinema shows, literature readings and many others.

On May 22 in Hall 1 of NDK will take place gala-concert of Igor Moiseev's ensemble. The legendary Russian academy ensemble hasn't visited Bulgaria from 30 years.

On May 26 in the same Hall 1 will occur premiere of the new performance of ‘Filip Kutev' ensemble called ‘Crossroads'.

‘Lord of the dance' will be again on Bulgarian scene on June 3. This is the most massive traveling performance in the history of amusement industry.

Toto Cutugno will stage a concert on June 8.

Design Festa Vol.27 in Tokyo

The new edition of Design Festa starts at May 17(Sat) & 18(Sun).2008 in Tokyo Big Sight, West Hall 1, 2, 3, 4 & Atrium & Outdoor.
The 27-th vol. of this event is presenting the original work of over 7,000 artists! Design Festa vol.27 will have 2,600 booths taking up the entire space of Tokyo Big Sight's West Hall.
7,000 artists working in a variety of mediums will be present, creating an eclectic atmosphere. Artists from all over the world exhibit their work, turning this 2 day event into artistic chaos!!
Click here to visit Artist's page

Red Dot launches "Communication Design 2008" Awards

The red dot award: communication design is starting a new season.

Designers, advertising agencies and clients of communication designers from all over the world are as of now invited once more to submit their entries for the competition and to face up to international comparison in one of the most severe design competitions in the world.

A top-class expert jury will decide on the quality of the entries submitted.

Moreover, within the scope of the red dot award: communication design the title "red dot: design agency of the year" will be awarded for the first time this year.

This award will honour an agency or a design studio for particularly continuous and innovative design performance in the field of communication design.

Source: Dexigner.com

Acama Studio and ultimate brake

Kit Kat (Nestle') France & JWT have come up with an exquisite 3D-effect digital marketing campaign that is tied in to their 'Ultimate Break/Win a Trip in Space' campaign. Not only is the execution of this computer animated short by Akama Studio wonderful, but so is the timing.

A stressed stockbroker executive facing heavy losses...see any connection to the (in)famous trader at French bank Societe General who managed to accumulate trading losses of 7 billion dollars only last week?

The campaign call-to-action is for consumers to access the promotional website or to SMS a code via their mobile handset. What is a little surprising for such a brilliant campaign is that no mobile application or mobile site was built to go with it. This shows that despite the inroads mobile advertising is making in general, big brands are still reticent to capitalize reaching out to consumers through this channel.

Advertising Agency: JWT Paris, France
Creative Directors: Ghislain de Villoutreys, Olivier Courtemanche, Xavier Beauregard
Art Director: Xavier Beauregard
Copywriter: Hadi Hassan
Assistant Art Director: Yan-Gaël Cobigo
TV Producer: Elisabeth Boitte
Producer: Akama
Pruduction company: Wanda
Music: Xavier Berthelot.

New CGChallenge at CGSociety

The CGSociety is home to one of the largest and rapidly growing collections of the most fantastic alien images. In Uplift Universe - Alien Relations, you are challenged to go beyond the simple creation of an alien, and show the interaction between humans and aliens.
There are many books, films and myths based on aliens that could inspire entrants. However there is perhaps one epic series that explores the interactions of aliens and humans more than any other - David Brin's multi-award winning Uplift series.
We are especially pleased to invite you to create your image in a setting within the epic backdrop of David Brin’s Uplift Universe Series. This includes the classic novel, Startide Rising which won Nebula, Hugo, and LOCUS Awards for Best Novel in 1983.
David Brin’s Uplift Universe is an epic spanning 5 Galaxies and billions of years of history. The story David tells over 6 blockbuster novels, is one of political and personal intrigue set in the near future. The epic centers on humans and their two Uplifted client races: Neo-Chimps and Neo-Dolphins. Upon contact with the galactic civilizations, the human clan and their clients are a source of trouble from the start…

We have provided a lot of reference material on the 'inspiration' page. David Brin has also selected scenes that he suggests you could focus on. We also have passages from his books and sample images from David Brin and Kevin Lenagh’s book “Contacting Aliens - An illustrated guide to David Brin’s Uplift Universe”.

Categories

Image - Individual.
Video - Team.
Video - Individual.

All entries will also be eligible for any of the following awards:

Modeling.
Texturing.
Animation.
Lighting.
Visual Effects.
Landscape/Matte Painting.
Art Direction.
Compositing and Editing.
Best Character.

Sponsors
BOXX Technologies, SOFTIMAGE, NVIDIA, Wacom, Autodesk, Pixologic, Luxology, e-on Software, REALVIZ, Corel, Stash, Gnomon Workshop, Ballistic Publishing.

Jean Nouvel received architecture’s top honor

Jean Nouvel, the bold French architect known for such wildly diverse projects as the muscular Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and the exotically louvered Arab World Institute in Paris, left, has received architecture’s top honor, the Pritzker Prize.

Mr. Nouvel cemented his reputation in 1987 with completion of the Arab World Institute, one of the “grand projects” commissioned during the presidency of François Mitterrand. A showcase for art from Arab countries, it blends high technology with traditional Arab motifs.

Spend more time designing and less time on technical stuff with LightCMS

LightCMS is a complete CMS/Website builder that is as Open Source. LightCMS is perfect for making personal or small business websites and uses no database. It can run anywhere! So this CMS can be called "web designers ready".

Why to use LightCMS for your site?

Because it is flexible and built for custom website design;
The LightCMS team can handle the HTML and CSS work for you. Just send them a Photoshop file and they'll get it running on LightCMS in just a few days;
Your sites are hosted on their servers at their tier-four data center. It's rock-solid, it's secure, and best of all, it's free;
LightCMS is web-based, so you never have to spend your time fighting with plug-ins, configurations, upgrades, or database issues like you do when you install your own software;
Ask a question, get a quick and helpful response. We'll even support your clients if you want;
With simple-to-use tools, your clients can now make web updates themselves.

The big problem (if it really is for you) is that LightCMS has paid hosting, and you can use this system only on it. There is also a free hosting plan, but just with 5mb server space for you, and no statistics.
Maybe the price won't be a problem if you know that you get full support, great hosting connection and security and no worries about the code.

Travian and the art in the online games

Travian is a browser game with a world full of thousands of users who all begin as the leaders of small villages. The game gives the chance, to play with thousands of players and also to fruition on awesome art in it. At the start, you have only a small village with a single building. In Travian there are four types of resources: wood, clay, iron, and wheat. Before you pay attention to your village's buildings, you should upgrade a few resource fields. After you have taken care of your resource production, you can start upgrading your village. With the warehouse and granary, you can store more resource. A cranny hides your resources from enemy raiders. In Travian, you are not alone. You play together with thousands of players in an online world. The players in your immediate vicinity are especially important. You can get a good view on the map.

Bla.st - the new idea for internet advertising

A new site with unique idea is ww.bla.st, the free advertising network & Web Directory. You can upload your own web-based business card to the site for free and also earn money with with the widget and referral programme.

Why place cards on bla.st?

it's totally free! payment is completely optional
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targeted traffic steadily increasing as bla.st grows
improve your rankings search engines love crawling bla.st
let people find you voluntarily without spamming
a world first help build the worlds first short and long term visual advertising directory on the Internet
promote almost anything including your specials, sales, promotions, events, websites or your businesses
complimentary bla.st compliments your existing advertising and marketing
simple it’s easy to create an account and put a card on bla.st

Features of bla.st

search users find what they want quickly
interesting for users to browse through and explore
flexible advertise in any category, short or long term
global have your card seen by people worldwide
promotable optionally pay to increase your card ranking
link to your website, and improve your Google PageRank
maps link people directly to an address on Google Maps
visually stunning cards on bla.st look fantastic!
statistics track how many people view and click your cards