Digital Decade: Participants Shortlist

The Digital Decade competition organized by Designcollector and Depositphotos selected 30 participants!

Jury board members Romain Colin (Fubiz), Rob Ford (FWA), Sara Blake, Ola Omami, Dmitry Karpov (BHSAD), Elena Flanagan-Eister (Depositphotos) and Arseny Vesnin (Designcollector) has selected 30 Brave Hearts to do an artworks for The Digital Decade! 3 of them will win either Wacom Cintiq or Bamboo or iPad Mini and a good half of them selected by Jury and OFFF Festival founder Hector Ayuso will have their works exhibited in Barcelona this June.

View the list on: http://digitaldecade.net/shortlist

What's Next? Participants are challenged to create an artwork following the topic "Digital Decade" using few images from our sponsor Depositphotos free user account. Then DCMAG#3 Print Magazine, OFFF 2013 Exhibition, prizes and fame!

Adobe Mighty Pen and Napoleon Ruler

Yes, that is not a name of a cartoon - those are concept prototypes of new design hardware tools created by Adobe Inc. Alongside with their announcement of Adobe CC (Creative Cloud), team released Mighty Pen and Napoleon Ruler as a debut product designs of their Mighty Project. Check the video below and read full coverage from Adobe MAX 2013 Conference on 9to5mac.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Jexqp-MK0pI

Aurora Fashion Week Fall-Winter 2013 Online

Designcollector is happy to support Aurora Fashion Week 2013 that is taking a place in Saint-Petersburg inside Russian Academy of Arts making a juxtaposition between the beauty of the last and the future. You are welcome to watch it online starting today at 19-00 GMT+4.

Photos by Arseny Vesnin @ Designcollector

С 15 по 21 апреля 2013 года в Петербурге пройдет седьмой сезон Международной Недели моды AURORA FASHION WEEK Russia. В предстоящем сезоне площадкой проведения AURORA FASHION WEEK Russia FW 2013 станет Музей Российской Академии Художеств, памятник архитектуры XVIII века, обладающий уникальным художественным собранием. Показы коллекций участников Международной Недели Моды состоятся в Тициановском и Рафаэлевском залах.

По традиции важной частью будущего сезона AURORA FASHION WEEK Russia станут показы петербургских дизайнеров. На этот раз на подиумах будут представлены коллекции Tanya Kotegova, Tatyana Parfionova, Pirosmani by Jenya Malygina, Leonid Alexeev, Igor Gulyaev, Ianis Chamalidy, Bondarev, Lilia Kisselenko, Stas Lopatkin, Razgulyaev Blagonravova и других. Будут представлены и «новые имена»: Sanan Gasanov, Liza Odinokikh, Leonid Titow. Также на подиуме в Российской Академии Художеств состоится показ Игоря Чапурина, а украинский бренд Andreeva впервые примет участие в Неделе моды. Свою коллекцию представят британский бренд Marques’ Almeida и итальянский - Gaetano Navarra. В рамках Недели пройдет презентация новой коллекции бренда Homo Consommatus, который дебютировал на AFWR 2 сезона назад. Свою коллекцию в рамках AFWR также представят и дизайнерский дуэт Osome2some.

AURORA FASHION WEEKRussia – это федеральный проект в сфере культуры и модной индустрии, проходящий при поддержке Правительства Санкт-Петербурга, Министерства культуры РФ и иностранных консульств.

Ten and counting

Sixteen thousands of subscribers, fifteen thousands of facebook fans, six thousands of twitter followers, nearly three thousands of instagrammers and two thousands of pinteresters just can't be wrong! We Love You All! Thank you!

Designcollector is celebrating it's Tenth Anniversary on 13th of April!

You are invited. We will announce a design collaborative competition "The Digital Decade" with great prizes next week to celebrate our 10th together in an upcoming Designcollector Magazine #3 Stay tuned.

P.s. Artwork by Anton Marrast for DCMAG#0

Future Lions 2013 Call for Entries

AKQA announces 2013 Future Lions Call for Entries‘Destiny Awaits’ theme encourages students to start their career with a win at Cannes The Future Lions global student creative competition is calling for 2013 entries. AKQA, in collaboration with Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, is hosting Future Lions for the eighth year in a row. This year’s theme, ‘Destiny Awaits’, encourages students to invent bold ideas that will create the future.

The annual Future Lions competition challenges students to develop an idea for advertising a brand in a way that would not have been possible five years ago. There are no rules in terms of media or technology, no restrictions around product or target audience and no entry fee. Winning concepts will be honoured at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in the Debussy Theatre in June.

Celebrating the competition’s emphasis on creativity and innovation, AKQA is proud to announce WIRED UK as official partner for Future Lions 2013.

Last year the competition achieved a record number of over 1,100 entries from 40 countries, making it one of the world’s largest student competitions. An influential platform for emerging talent, Future Lions winners are highly sought after and quickly employed by many of the world’s leading agencies.

"Future Lions is one of the greatest opportunities open to students. Winners receive job offers from many of the world's leading agencies pretty much as soon as they are announced. No other competition offers a boost like it at the start of a student’s career. This year’s theme, 'Destiny Awaits', encapsulates all that it takes to become a Future Lions winner: self-determination, bravery and the profound understanding that to create the future you need to give your all to the present.” James Hilton, AKQA Chief Creative Officer.

The five student teams submitting the best ideas will win registration to the Festival in Cannes, France, 16 – 22 June 2013, and will be honoured with the Future Lion Cub trophy designed by AKQA. The deadline for entries is 22 April 2013, 12.00 GMT.

Future Lions will also recognise the Future Lions School of the Year, for the individual school achieving the most student submissions to reach the final round. In 2012 this accolade was awarded to the Miami Ad School Europe in Hamburg.

To learn more about the 2013 Future Lions competitions and how to enter, please go to: www.futurelions.com or www.facebook.com/akqa

SEE Conference 2013

SEE Conference is the new event on visualization of information will happen on April 20th, 2013 in Schlachthof Wiesbaden, Germany.

http://vimeo.com/55550349

For eighth years now the see conference has been gathering the most creative people and exciting ideas on the topic of information visualization. The interdisciplinary platform brings together fields like design, art, architecture and new technologies. Our international speakers will show the latest ideas and approaches on how to deal with the current flood of information, on how to visualize it and turn it into something that can be experienced.

Among our new speakers at see#8: Design studio Catalogtree, Antony Turner from Carbon Visuals, design journalist, author and design critic Jeroen Junte, architect and designer Daan Roosegaarde from designlab Studio Roosegaarde, Jam3 Creative Director Pablo Vio as well as media artist, producer and choreograph Klaus Obermaier. More info regarding program and tickets at www.see-conference.org

https://www.facebook.com/seeconference

POST IT AWARDS 2013: Call For Entries

Международный студенческий конкурс дизайна Post It Awards 2013 открыт.A это значит, что все охотники могут смело приступать к выполнению конкурсного задания, а организаторы готовы принять работы и анкеты. В этом году студентам предлагается подумать на тему “Ребрендинг образования” и визуализировать свои мысли в форме плаката, выразить в фирменном стиле или оживить в моушн-дизайне.

Крайний срок подачи работ — 30 апреля

Авторы лучших работ, то есть оригинальных по идее и крепких по качеству исполнения, будут отмечены призами и подарками от партнеров конкурса: Insight Lingua, Hewlett Packard, Wacom, Moleskine, книжного магазина «Республика».

Главный приз—летний курс в колледже Central Saint Martins (Лондон)

Более подробно о правилах и условиях участия читайте на сайте конкурса http://postit-awards.com

OFFF 2013 Cincinnati Titles

The old good "Offf Titles" motion design style is back. One-day OFFF Festival "On Tour" took a place in Cincinnati few days ago. Today they presented Official Titles created by magician of motion design Onur Senturk and spiced with graphics by Ipek Torun. Feel the atmosphere of the festival and hurry up with the tickets to the main action happening this June in Barcelona - grab the ticket on http://www.offf.ws/

http://vimeo.com/61217305

FITC 2013 Titles

Another great conference and festival we supported but missed again this year - FITC 2013 Amsterdam. Here is the Official Titles created by GMUNK http://vimeo.com/59892998

Credits: Design & Concept: GMUNK (gmunk.com) Production & Direction : ONESIZE (onesize.com) Type Font Design: Brian M Gosset (briangossett.com/) Music & Sound Design: MassiveMusic (massivemusic.com/)

TOCA ME 2013 Titles

Designcollector has been supporting TOCA ME conference for ages but pity has never been to Munich, hope we do it next year. In Special Titles for 2013 Event director Timo Böse came up with this blend of classic meets modern. Through interrelated pictorial elements and subtle modulation of intense colours and soothing sound, he suffused his piece with a vibrant softness. The traditional Still Life arrangements are enhanced by subtle 3D animations, evoking the artists associated with the event.

http://vimeo.com/59166380

OFFF Rebranding

OFFF Festival got a new rebranding made with LOVE by the guys at Crowd Studio. Don't forget to buy your tickets for OFFF2013 to take a place in Barcelona, 6-7-8 June. Meet you there as usual :)

http://vimeo.com/57653884

http://vimeo.com/57653630

http://vimeo.com/57653502

П.с По инсайдерской информации однодневный оффф-на-выезде возможно будет в Питере этим летом. Будем держать вас в курсе.

London New Year Fireworks 2013

You ask how to celebrate New Year? Than take a look at London New Year Fireworks summarizing the Year of 2012 - the official year of "Great. Britain!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e8vfRTsFU4

Rain Room by rAndom International

Barbican's Rain Room: it's raining, but you won't get wet.Architecture and design critic Oliver Wainwright steps into the Rain Room, a technical wonder by contemporary art studio rAndom International. The free installation, which runs at the Curve at the Barbican in London from 4 October until 3 March 2013, uses 2,500 litres of water, falling at 1,000 litres per minute

http://vimeo.com/50900861

http://vimeo.com/50987695

Photographies courtesy by Felix Clay via Oliver Wainwright from Guardian

TOCA ME design conference 2013 - Next Stop Design

We have been supporting TOCA ME Design Conference for ages, now it is a time to make a Next Stop Design in Munich, 2013! On February 16th, 2013 TOCA ME design conference will take place in Munich‘s Alte Kongresshalle for its sixth time with renown speakers from all over the world. The goal of the event under the claim „Next Stop Design“ is a critical evaluation of design as well as the connection of the Munich design and creative scene with the international design centers.

Amongst the speakers of TOCA ME design conference are Zach Lieberman, digital artist, performer and co-founder of Open Frameworks, and Amit Pitaru, musician, artist and developer - both from New York. Furthermore, the french artist collective Pleix, type designer Andreu Balius from Barcelona and visual artist Memo Akten from London give insights into the processes and techniques of their creations.

Real exchange instead of virtual networking will take place in the lounge where the participants of the TOCA ME design conference have the opportunity to get to know each other, to exchange ideas and to finish the evening in a chill-out atmosphere with live DJ‘s after the end of the presentations (ca. 22:00). The TOCA ME design conference is an important venue of the Munich CreativeBusiness Week (MCBW) taking place from 16th till 24th February 2013. TOCA ME design conference is funded by bayern design and the Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology. The event is also supported by Eventwürze and Designerdock. Organizer of the Design Conference is the Munich-based design studio TOCA ME, which operates in the fields of print, web and event design for the last 10 years. By means of the Design Conference TOCA ME has always strived to create a common communication platform for national and international designers. It has been TOCA ME aims to create with the Design Conference for national and international designers will share a common communications platform.

More Information and Tickets: www.design-conference.de

Ten Collection Contest

Fotolia presents "Ten Collection Contest". Fire up Photoshop and send us the most amazing PSD file you can create based on one of the 10 themes below. The winning artists gets their entry featured in an international advertising campaign worth approximately $250,000, and takes home some amazing prizes, including a copy of the Adobe Master Collection, Wacom tablets and much more!

Fotolia запускает всемирный конкурс в честь окончания проекта TEN с призовым фондом в $300.000, а работа главного победителя станет заглавной в международной рекламной кампании стоимостью $200,000.

Fotolia представляет всемирный конкурс Коллекция TEN. Начиная с 10 сентября и по 10 Октября, цифровые художники со всего мира могут посоревноваться с художниками представившими работы в проекте Коллекция TEN (10 месяцев, 10 художников, 10 тем и 10 PSD). Финалисты смогут выиграть различные ценные подарки, призовой фонд конкурса составил $300,000. А работа главного победителя станет заглавной в международной рекламной кампании стоимостью $200,000.

Все участники конкурса должны предоставить свои работы с 10 Сентября по 10 Октября на специальной странице конкурса на Facebook http://www.tencollectioncontest.com. Участники должны выбрать одну из десяти тем использованных в проекте Коллекция TEN, создать свой PSD Файл на данную тему с использованием как минимум трех изображений Fotolia, которые были использованы художниками проекта. Темы включают : бизнес, семья, путешествие, еда, образ жизни, уличное искусство, технологии, деньги, напитки и абстракция. Участники так же могут использовать свои персональные изображения и другие файлы Fotolia. Главный победитель будет выбран 17 Октября. В жюри конкурса входят все художника проекта Коллекция TEN, представители Fotolia, Wisibility и Amkashop.

О Коллекции TEN

Креативно-образовательный проект Коллекция TEN была запущен в Декабре 2011. Проект объединил 10 самых востребованных графических дизайнеров, которые в течение 10 месяцев создавали эксклюзивные работы и делились с ними совершенно бесплатно с мировой дизайн коммьюнити. Каждый месяц мы предлагали бесплатно скачать полный PSD файл и узнать о технике и секретах ведущих дизайнеров мира.

О Fotolia

Более 3,5 миллионов профессионалов по всему миру выбирают фотобанк Fotolia. Основанная 2004 году в Нью Йорке, сегодня Fotolia является Европейским лидером среди стоковых фотобанков , представлена на 20 рынках мира и 14 языках. Фотобанк предлагает более 18 миллионов высококачественных фотографий, векторов, иллюстраций и HD видео по лицензии роялти фри, доступным ценам и без каких либо ограничений по времени, территории использования и количеству копий на своем сайте www.fotolia.ru

OFFF Mexico 2012 Main Titles

As you may know our favourite festival OFFF just took a place in Mexico for Day Tour revealing awesome artist public speeches and presentation. Along with this gifted director Rob Chiu shoot the Main Titles of the festival... Six friends, coming of age at the end of the world...

http://vimeo.com/48065893

Google Web Lab by Bibliotheque

Google Web Lab is a series of interactive digital experiments, brought to life at the London Science Museum. It enables worldwide participation both online and from within the exhibition space, to control machines which explore and demonstrate a range of web technologies. http://vimeo.com/46314040

via http://vimeo.com/45703836

Bibliotheque created the environmental graphics and signage, working as part of the team alongside UniversalDesignStudio and MAP (the research and development design consultancy, founded by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby). The Web Lab website and identity were created by B-Reel, and the machines were built by Tellart.

Traffolyte panels introduce each of the 5 areas, and explain the science behind each experiment: Orchestra, Teleporter, Sketchbot, Data Tracer and the Lab Tag Explorer. Floor graphics aid navigation and visitor flow, helping create the feel of an experimental 'test area'. The exhibition is open at the Science Museum, London until June 2013.

Volvo Art Session

7 Chinese artists from our partners at NeochaEDGE portal were asked to recreate the visual image of Volvo Hybrid car within a 30+ square meter background canvas behind it. That was a live performance in Zurich this June, shot by renowned photographer Francesco Carrozzini.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LXo2Xw4MIk&feature=player_embedded

View full credits, all videos and photos on http://www.volvoartsession.com