Food & Beverage packaging design competition

 
StockFood and The FAB Awards, the world’s only creative awards programme specializing in Food & Beverages have opened a unique new competition for 2008, especially designed for young creative individuals: the “FAB Futures Award” sponsored by StockFood. Young creative talents worldwide under 30 years of age are invited to create either a print ad (advertisement [...]

Visit The Louvre and it’s free!

For a change the French are imitating arch-rival Britain by introducing a free admission policy to 18 French national museums including The Louvre (above), in a bid to encourage more French people to visit them. (I suppose they are so busy with food and fashion, that they have forgotten all about the museums). Normally the entre [...]

Fashion and architecture

 
Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture is back with a new installation, venue and different designers. The exhibition that will open in April 2008 will feature Vivienne Westwood, Alexander Mcqueen and Hussein Chalayan among other designers and will focus on the visual and conceptual similarities between fashion and architecture since the 80s. The architecture [...]

Design Events for 2008

Mark your calendars. Here’s a little round-up of most of the important design events/furniture fairs for the year 2008. A couple of dates are yet to be confirmed but there’re tentative dates to help you plan your schedule better. See you there!

IMM Cologne, Germany, January, 14-20, 2008 http://www.imm-cologne.com   
The Office Exhibition, Dubai February 4-6, 2008 www.dmgdubai.com
Stockholm Furniture Fair, February 6-10, [...]

Jamal Abdul Rahim at Meem Gallery

Bahraini artist Jamal Abdul Rahim is presenting his exhibition titled Memory of the beautiful time at Meem Gallery in Dubai. Rahim is a renowned artist who has previosuly exhibited throughtout Europe and the Middle East. In his current exhibition, Rahim portrays famous personalities of the 60s such as Che Guevara, Om Kolthoum, Fairouz and Nasser in a vividly modern interpretation.  
Meem Gallery [...]

Koolhaas vs Foster

Clash of the titans? Koolhaas and Foster defend their designs for two separate projects in Ras Al Kahaimah (RAK Gateway) and Abu Dhabi (Masdar Zone) that are incidentally similar. Read this story in Building Design at the link below.
 Next month Norman Foster will be speaking about his no-carbon, no-waste city and sustainable architecture at the World Energy Summit [...]

Helvetica at traffic design gallery

Last night I watched the hit documentary-Helvetica by Gary Hustwit at traffic. Well-made with many interesting anecdotes and interviews with well-known typeface designers, including icons such as Massimo Vignelli, Vim Crouwel and my favourites Erik Spiekermann and Stefan Seigmaster, the documentary had me glued to the chair (in this case the cool chair one by Konstantin Grcic) for [...]

traffic design gallery Dubai launches design competition

Dubai’s first design gallery- traffic have launched a new regional design competition which is open to designers of Middle Eastern origin and designers residing in the Middle East. Founder Rami Farook has roped in rock stars of design world such as Karim Rashid, Konstantin Grcic and Dubai’s super talented architect Khalid Al Najjar, founder of DXB Lab architecture firm, as the jury [...]

Trend-setters at Pecha Kucha Dubai

                                                              

Row 1 from left: Manabu Ozawa with a friend; the lady in white is always dressed in quirky accessories, I must get her name next time.
Row 2 from left: White-tee clad girls; and girls engaged in a deep conversation
Row 3 from left: the gorgeous girl in houndstooth dress always turns up in funky outfits, again [...]

Pecha Kucha Dubai snapshots

Clockwise from top left: Louis Vuitton’s corporate communications manager Ruth Bradley (in black) enagaged in conversation with a friend; gorgeous girl checking out the Pecha Kucha guide; aaUAE board member Kashani Wijetunga in a reflective mood; Rasha Shaath presenting Nadine Kanso’s work; two jolly fellows chillin’ on bean bags; Laura Trelford of art Dubai; two [...]