IdN v17n2: Retro Graphics OUT NOW!

IdN v17n2: Retro Graphics
Nostalgia In Modern Times

IdN v17n2: 貪新戀舊
不完美主義

http://idnworld.com/mags/?id=v17n2

Design for Asia Award 2010

Recognising in the most influential good designers in Asia.
Call for entry: deadline 31 July 2010

表揚對亞洲最具影響力的卓越設計。
作品征集截止日期: 2010年7月31日。

http://www.dfaaward.com/

"ENTERPLAY" by Hong Kong Community College

Design Annual Exhibition 2010 - ENTERPLAY, Hong Kong Community College
About: low-tech futuristic; stone age time travel; wired daily object- almost find object,archeological findings; iconic yet monolithic, even religious, sacred mass; unknown matter; mis-use of languages; faked symbols & sign; fictional, incongruous, yet a projection of a self-sustained mysterious world.

Opening Ceremony 開幕典禮 : 24/6 (Thursday) 5:30pm
Exhibition 展覽: 25-26/6 (Fri-Sat) 10am-7pm, 27/6 (Sun) 10am-6pm
Location: Exhibition Gallery 4&5, InnoCentre 72, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong,

Exhibition 展覽: 30/6 - 11/7 (Wed-Sun)
Location: 14/F (Hung Hom Bay Campus), Hong Kong Community College, 8 Hung Lok Road, Hung Hom
For enquiry: funghiuwing@hotmail.com

ex-Design Show, GID X RED 2010, Hong Kong Design Institute

About "ex-Design Show": Students from Higher Diploma in Graphic Information Design (GID) and Retails and Exhibition Design (RED) from Hong Kong Design Institute, will join together to hold their first joint-exhibition show in June. The exhibit projects included various field of design: retails and exhibition design, branding, publishing design,illustration, exhibition design, way finding, web design and interacticve multimedia design.

ex-Design Show, GID X RED 2010
Date: 12-14 June
Opening: 11 June, 19:00
Location: L0 & L1, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre (JCCAC), 30 Pak Tin Street, Shep Kip Mei, Kowloon, Hong KOng
For more information: http://www.ex-2010.blogspot.com/

HKBU Graduation Show -- Art to TASTE

Digital Graphic Communication (DGC) is one of the options under the Department of Communication Studies, School of Communication in Hong Kong Baptist University. 22 DGC graduates are going to hold their graduation show - Art to TASTE. Stirring in passion of life, filling in sincerity and sprinkling with heart. Their creations are like colorful candies, not only can they bring delights to your eyes,with the impressive taste of originality, different forms and tastes of works also refresh your every sense. So... Take a sip, or have a bite, serve yourselves to enjoy our feast!

Opening Ceremony 開幕典禮 : 5/6 (Sat) 5-7pm
Location: Y.C. Cheng Lecture Theatre (LT3), 5/F Science Tower,Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University

Exhibition 展覽: 5/6 (Sat) 7-9pm, 6-13/6 (Sun-Sun) 10am-9pm
Location: FSC 501, 5/F Podium, Ho Sin Hang Campus,Hong Kong Baptist University

For more information: http://www.coms.hkbu.edu.hk/2010_exhibition/

DesignLinks, Toronto

Check out new and essential products and services for designers! RGD invites you and your colleagues to this full-day event featuring presentations by suppliers, hourly draws and lots of giveaways. DesignLinks features vendors who work with graphic designers. Meet with prospective new suppliers and catch up with the ones you've talked on the phone and emailed for years.

Date: June 12, 2010
Location: Harbourfront Centre, Brigantine Room, 235 Queens Quay West
For more information please click here

PromaxBDA: The Conference, Los Angeles

PromaxBDA: The Conference 2010 is the world's largest entertainment marketing, promotion and design event attracting industry leaders and executives from top television networks, cable channels, local stations, station groups, distribution, syndication, media and creative agencies, design and emerging media.

Through sessions, panels, exhibits, screenings and networking PromaxBDA brings together the world's leading creative and strategic marketing professionals for three days of dialogue, debate and discussion about the international business of television marketing, promotion and design. This year’s speakers include industry leaders such as Lee Hunt, President and Founder, Lee Hunt LLC; Stefan Sagmeiser, Founder, Sagmeister, Inc.; Hugh Hefner, Founder, Editor-in-Chief & Chief Creative Officer, Playboy; and many more.

Date: 22-24 June
For more information: www.promaxbda.org

IdN sale at Kinokuniya, Sydney

Starting from 2nd June, get any IdNPRO books or magazines with a 20% off discount at Kinokuniya Sydney! Come and get the back issues you have missed, or check out the full selection of the latest publications!

Date: 2-30 June
Location: Kinokuniya, Lvl 2, TGV, 500 George Street, Sydney
IdN Products: http://idnworld.com/proshop/
Kinokuniya, Sydney: http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/indexohb.cgi?AREA=06

OFFF 2010, Paris

Since 2001, OFFF festival has been held in Barcelona - Spain, becoming the globally recognized and trendsetting event it is today. The three-day festival showcases top digital artists, Web, print and interactive designers, motion graphics studios, and new music adventurous. OFFF festival provides insight into all culture media platforms. OFFF dreams about the digital future, and then writes the code for it.

This year OFFF will take place in Paris, France, on the 24, 25 and 26 of June. It is an exciting challenge and a very special way to celebrate a decade of post-digital creation.

Date: 24-26 June
Location: La Grande Halle de La Villette
For more information: http://offf.ws/

NXNE Toronto -- music.film.interactive

NXNE Interactive (NXNEi) will explore technology and social media as tools to boost ingenuity while enhancing marketing and business. Aiming at independent creators and entrepreneurs in the entertainment industries as well as as professionals in marketing, advertising, and the design industry, and anyone looking to get the most from new technology, tools, and trends. From Facebook to Twit- ter, from monetizing digital content to DIY marketing, Flash to the latest in web skills: it’s all part of NXNEi. Presentations will interest musicians or filmmakers wanting to enhance their online presence, developers keen to learn about new trends, small business owners looking to use social media to help launch product – the possibilities are endless!

Date: 14-20 June 2010
For more information: http://nxne.com/

MINI Hong Kong: Happiest Bits Exhibition

When was the last time you refreshed your childhood memories? Remember the soft and gentle tones from the Mister Softee van from far away, the transparent bunny rice paper, the yellow and white stripes on school buses, the toasted egg sandwich paired with a cup of milk tea or the bunny prints stamped on the ABC letter copybook?

You can enjoy all that with MINI at the HAPPIEST BITS EXHIBITION, an exposition that is going to retrace every drop of the most wonderful experiences. The HAPPIEST BITS EXHIBITION is created by graduating students from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design in co-operation with MINI. Come join an extraordinary journey to explore the happiest bits of your childhood memories.

撕不掉的白兔糖透明米紙, 遠遠傳來的雪糕車音樂，ABC copybook上的兔仔印，黃白相間的保母車，蛋治烘底配奶茶……通通看似微不足道, 卻牽動著我們的童年記憶。一個名為 “Happiest Bits Exhibition” 的展覽即將和大家一起細味種種經歷過的快樂點滴。

是次展覽由著名汽車品牌MINI，與四位香港理工大學設計學院學生攜手創作。他們用了整整七個月的時間去構思、設計、策劃及製作，為的是與你們分享他們有趣的小故事，回饋香港給予他們的美好時光。 四位土生土長的『八十後』畢業生相信，事物觸發回憶，回憶牽動感情。期待你們親身來臨參觀，與MINI一起感受這快樂時光。

Time: 1:00 pm - 7:30pm on 10 May, 10:30pm - 7:30pm on 11-14 May
Date: 10 - 14 May, 2010
Venue: Core FJ Podium, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Organizer: MINI Hong Kong
Co-organizer: PolyU School of Design

European Design Festival - reward and inspiration

The 2010 edition of the ED-Festival will take place in Rotterdam from 27th to 30th May. For the fourth consecutive year, ED-Festival brings to life a unique event presenting the best communication design in Europe.

Rotterdam, 22nd April 2010. Created in 2007 in association with fourteen leading European graphic design magazines, the ED-Festival’s objective is to reward excellence in communication design and to inspire the creative community across Europe. After successful events in Athens, Stockholm and Zurich, this year edition of the Festival will be held in the city of Rotterdam, a highly creative hub by European standards.

Date: 27th-30th May
For more information: http://www.europeandesign.org

Felicity: international graphic competition - Venice

Change your city, change your life

The primary objective of this project is to promote a debate around the basic theme of life in the community and how improvements can be made. The International competition of graphic design is an opportunity for graphic artists from all over the world to express, manifest, symbolize and imagine solutions for a better city capable of improving the lifestyle of its inhabitants.

Sensitive themes:
• Integration of different cultures and religions
• Citizen needs: Youth, Disabled, Children, the Aged, Outcasts...
• Technological innovations
• The Community as protagonist
• Interaction between urban areas and nature
• Safety

For more information: http://www.felicityproject.it