Can the Current Recession Affect Future Home Design? A Leading Home Designer Thinks Not
Housing industry experts continue to predict that the new home of tomorrow will be smaller and smaller. Most of those predictions are not backed up by events of past economic downturns. AVID Home Studios, a leading residential home design firm, decided to look back in order to look forward. (PRWeb Jan 9, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/01/prweb1836134.htm

Kimball Office Receives Prestigious ?GOOD DESIGN? Award for Innovative New Desk System: Hum. Minds at Work.®
The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, has distinguished Kimball Office with a 2008 GOOD DESIGN? Award for the Company?s Hum. Minds At Work.® desk system. The award reflects Kimball?s growing reputation as a leader in problem-solving design and workplace efficiency. Kimball was previously honored ...

It's the last month for Anomaly Design Shop
Sadly, another Milwaukee business is closing its doors at the end of this month. Anomaly Design Shop, the Brady Street gift boutique, will close Feb. 1. Located at 816 E. Brady St., Anomaly opened in 2006 to sell kitschy, design laden gifts, paper goods and accessories inspiring creativity.

My1Stop.com Adds Direct Express Direct Mail Services with Bulk Mailing Options for Customers of Any Size
My1Stop.com print services expansion continues with the addition of mailing services and bulk mailing services. The new direct mail services, dubbed "Direct Express Mail", join the My1Stop Services offering which includes, Print Management Services, Graphic Design Services and Green Business Services. (PRWeb Jan 9, 2009) Read the full story at ...

Web Design Firms - 31 New Listings
Here are some of the most recent Web Design Firm listings submitted by fellow designers. Not as many as last time, but some of these are really interesting. Submit Your Web...

Design firm?s ?box? ad spurs terrorism fears
THE COMPANY?S offbeat marketing strategy was not meant to scare those who received the ?DNA fusion? mailing, said Shazamm?s founder and president, Dana Paul. ?We?re very apologetic for any kind of craziness it may have caused.?

The hottest design trends for 2009
Whether you are designing a custom home, remodeling or simply looking for inspiration, here are the 10 big trends they've spotted for the coming year.

Some scared by design firm?s ?box? ad
SPOOF TURNED SCARE: A person examines one of the test-tube containing boxes, in a scene from the video at www.dna-fusion.com. The idea was, the green liquid would represent the fusion of the corporate ?DNA? of marketing company Shazaam and its new parent, Atrion Networking Corp.

Consumers of the World Unite
Saks Fifth Avenue uses Soviet-inspired art in its spring marketing campaign, inspired by the bold graphic designs and propaganda spirit of Constructivist art.

Nathalie Crini?re wins competition to create exhibition design for the Louvre Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 07 January 2008: Agence France-Museums, in partnership with Abu Dhabi's Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC ), today announced that the firm of Nathalie Crinière has been selected to create the exhibition design for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, one of the five major institutions being planned for Abu Dhabi's ...

Design & sustain-ability:pt3
You are reading this article in Creative Review. Do you know how this magazine was produced? Do you know where it comes from? Can you trace this very page back to its origin, its first point of departure? Wheredid the paper come from? The ink?

Nominations Begin for 1st Graphic Novel Hugo Award
The Anticipation convention, this year's World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), has announced on Tuesday that nominations have begun for the first ever Best Graphic Story category in the prestigious Hugo Awards.

Expo for Creative Professionals
With a new iPhoto on the way, plus all the graphic art hardware and software products on display at Macworld Expo, we bring in a trio of creative pros to discuss this week?s developments.

Business Cards Design To Impress Your Clients
And not every business card printing design pass muster. There are those that give you confidence that you can do what you set out to do; and still, there are those that just, well, not that convincing.

Nathalie Crinière Wins Louvre Abu Dhabi Design Competition
Agence France-Museums, in partnership with Abu Dhabi's Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC), today announced that the firm of Nathalie Crinière has been selected to create the exhibition design for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, one of the five major institutions being planned for Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island Cultural District.

lemmondsDESIGN Launches New Web Site and Offers Expanded Marketing & Advertising Service Offerings With Strategic ...
lemmondsDESIGN launched a new web site today showcasing client work and expanded service offerings. The web site http://www.designisapassion.com outlining marketing and advertising design capabilities for this full-service creative communications firm, a portfolio of award-winning design and company information.

This Week & Next
Exhibit "Cory Oberndorfer: Flavor of the Month" Oberndorfer's exhibition of large-scale roller-derby girls and candy-colored confections opens tonight at the Gallery at Flashpoint. Free. Opening reception , 6-10 p.m.; show runs through Feb. 13. 916 G St. NW. 202-315-1310 or visit...

From scroll to screen
Japan?s culture of calligraphy and illustration informs a unique language of graphic design. Tom Dennis traces its development Like Japanese popular culture at large, the history of Japanese graphic design and illustration is a melting pot of traditional heritage combined with selective Western influences and savvy, inimitable humour and style.

SNEAK PEEK: Kate Moss?s New Longchamp Ads
Courtesy Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott for Longchamp Not only is Kate Moss gearing up to release an accessories collection in 2009 for TOPSHOP, the supermodel will also star in British design house Longchamp?s Spring ?09 ad campaign ? along with Russian model Sasha Pivovarova. This is the first advertising campaign which [...]

Design for success
Matthew Wydra, a sophomore at Andrew High School in Tinley Park, first noticed he had a talent for academics when he was placed into a gifted program in the second grade. Now 16, he's a straight-A student with a class schedule filled with honors and advanced placement classes.