D&AD 2011 Yellow and Silver Pencils for Russian students

Dmitry Karpov - the tutor of a Moscow based British High School of Art & Design recently shared an awesome news: Russian students took D&AD Yellow Pencil (2nd place) in Digital Design/Graphic design (no 1st place in a category for this year) and Silver Pencil for Interactive Design by Marina Tristan and 4 In Book awards!

Svetlana Shokhanova, Nataliya Sinelshchikova, Mikhail Krivoruchko did an awesome iPad app concept for a Taschen brief. Watch the video under the cut.

And Silver Pencil goes to..

Silver Pencil for Interactive Design by Marina Tristan

Also Moscow students won 4 D&AD In Book Awards

First D&AD In Book Award goes for Digital Design Tatiana Sineva, Natalia Rudenchik, Maya Shulepova, Jane Ponomareva, Alexander Fedorenko

Second In Book award goes for Interactive Design Ilya Krasinskiy

Third In Book award goes for Brand Communications Mikhael Kravchenko, Max Katyunin, Margarita Galkina, Helen Dernova

Fourth In Book Award for Advertising - Digital Direct Dmitry Kazban, Anton Basistov

Open Titles for OFFF On Tour Madrid 2011

OFFF Barcelona Festival holds a one day Tour to Madrid this week (19.05) and then an exhibition curated by OFFF with the participation of some of the best featured artists till 27 May. Here is the main Titles of OFFF Madrid Tour 2011 made by Cocoe

P.s. Don't mess with the main festival that starts on June 9 till 11, and join our Tumblr to be up to date with OFFF (and our Russian Panel there).

Ora-Ïto Mutation Exhibition

Later last year world-famous enfant terrible of design Ora-Ïto presented Evo-Mobil for Citroen. And this month in Milan he revealed a second concept of a mobility - "UFO" - a juxtaposed piece of contemporary art and futuristic mobile vehicle.

On the edge of the hy­poth­e­­sis and con­tem­po­rary art, Ora-Ïto pre­sents hy­brid ob­­jects as­­so­­ci­at­ed to the re­search and in­­no­­va­­tion de­­part­­ment of the dy­­nas­tic Cit­roën. Bap­­tized «Evo­­mo­­bil» and “U­­FO” th­ese two monu­­men­­tal sculp­­tures are the cross­ing of Cit­roën’s Icons and a re­flec­­tion from the past to the fu­­ture. Based on the pro­cess of the evo­lu­­tion, the vi­­son of Ora-Ito com­bine his­­toric and so­­ci­o­log­i­­cal tes­ti­­mony by put­t­ing aside estab­lished codes. The icon­o­­clas­tic artist was not dream­ing about another con­­cept car but a ge­net­ic tran­s­­for­­ma­­tion to spread an uni­ver­sal mes­sage to the car in­­­dus­try through his ar­tis­tic vi­­sion and new di­rec­­tions nev­er in­­vesti­­gat­ed be­­fore

MAG for iPad by Designcollector. Work in Progress

Earlier this year we started to work on the first independent design magazine for iPad called "MAG" by Designcollector. We are happy to show you some work in progress and announce MAG release this spring!

Team: Fiodor Sumkin (solo on iPad), Aziz Melybaev (art director), Arseny Vesnin (design connector).

Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2011 #BIDOTY

Brit Insurance Designs of the Year is the Design Museum’s annual exploration of the most innovative, interesting and forward-looking new work in design of all kinds, from around the world.

The exhibition presents around 100 projects which are a selection from those nominated by a group of internationally respected design experts, curators, critics, practitioners and enthusiasts. The nominated designs fall into seven categories - architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, interactive, product and transport. They can be designed by a practice, team or individual. A winner for each category will be selected by an international jury and one overall winner is awarded Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2011 at the awards dinner on March 15

Watch the highlights on BBC

Some examples from nominated designers:

John Galliano Fall Winter 2011-2012

We love fashion (but less than our Fashioncollector bloggess Olga Bohan). While watching recent Galliano's Fall Winter 2011-2012 collection, series of images shot the brain "Winter. Russia. Bakst. Dyagilev..." etc. etc. Pure awesome and literally inspiring John Galliano. Must watch.

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Lady Gaga for Polaroid

Famous performer and singer Lady Gaga joined Polaroid team as a Creative Director with an aim to restore the world famous brand. She unveils new Polaroid Grey Label products at CES 2011

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GL10 Instant Mobile Printer

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GL30 Instant Digital Camera

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GL20 Camera Glasses

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