Red Dot Award Design Concept 2012 – Open For Entries

Red Dot Award Design Concept 2012 is open for entries. Red Dot Design Award is an international product design prize awarded by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany. Why don’t you try to submit your innovative idea to Red Dot Award Design Concept 2012. The Award calls upon designers, companies, design institutions and design studios to submit their latest and best idea, as a product with good design, to the competition.

The red dot award: design concept has been accepting entries in English, German, Chinese and Korean since 2011. The goal of the award is to be the essential platform that take apart good ideas with good design solutions from the mediocre, to provide a professional appraisal and internationally recognized seal that gives an advantage to the design and designer in the aggressive market. From now till 29 February 2012, submit your entry for early submission discounts. The award closes on 27 June 2012.

Ken Koo, red dot design award Asia President said: “The aim is to pitch concept design to the highest level, which is why there is no student or professional categories. All submissions are treated as equal without any prejudice towards young designers.”

There are prize categories for product design, design agencies, and design concepts. The competition is open to several fields of manufacturing, including, but not limited to furniture, home appliances, machines, cars and tools.

The competition focuses on young, up-and-coming creative talents, designers and design companies around the world. In 2008, there were over 3.200 submissions from 51 countries for the product design prize, over 5,800 submissions for the communication design prize and 1,900 entries from 46 countries.

The deadline for entries is June 27, 2012.

Booming Market of Website Designing in Sydney

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Website designing companies based in Sydney are globally commended for its excellent performance, perfect delivery of work, immaculateness, effectiveness and many more aspects.

Web designing companies in Sydney have open up different career opportunities to fresher and experienced job seekers with talent, high ability, creative thinking and intelligence. Sydney based web designing companies are able to get high level projects from many corporate to dream projects of individual clients. Web design in Sydney is advancing with dives and bounds and is gradually in the path of becoming a leader in providing online business solutions.

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Arts auction house Christie’s 2011 art sales hit record

A fine arts auction house Christie’s on Sunday announced 2011 sales of £3.6 billion / US$5.7 billion, compared with 2010. The London-based auction house sold 3.6 billion pounds.

Christie’s, the world’s largest auctioneer, saw its global art sales drop to 2.1 billion pounds in 2009 from 3.1 billion two years early. According to the London-based auction house the private sales away from the buzz and publicity of the salerooms jumped 44 percent last year to 502 million pounds. Steven P. Murphy, Chief Executive Officer, Christie’s said: “Christie’s ability to curate and offer sales of art to a growing audience has led to continued demand across geographies, collecting categories and at all levels. This is a very encouraging set of results”.

Post-War and Contemporary led the art categories with auction sales with with sales of 736 million pounds $1.2 billion. The second category was Asian Art which increased by 15% $ and totaled record annual sales of $890.1 million and the most lucrative category, contributing 735.7 million pounds at public sales, an increase of 22 percent. Contemporary art has topped auctions at Christie’s. The highest price of the year at Christie’s was for Roy Lichtenstein’s “I Can See the Whole Room!…and There’s Nobody in it!” an auction record for the artist.

Christie’s is an art business and a fine arts auction house. Christie’s was a public company, listed on the London Stock Exchange from 1973 to 1999, after which it was taken into private ownership by Frenchman François Pinault. Christie’s main London salesroom is on King Street in St. James’s. It has a second London salesroom in South Kensington and primarily handles the middle market. Christie’s South Kensington is one of the world’s busiest auction rooms.

Victor Pinchuk Foundations Future Generation Art Prize 2012 announced

A new $100,000 prize for artists under the age of 35 is being announced by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation. Nicholas Serota, the director of the Tate, Richard Armstrong, the director of the Soloman R. Guggenheim Foundation, artists Da mien Hirst and
Jeff Koons, and the Ukrainian collector Victor Pinchuk, who is the chairman of the board for the prize. It was established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and is organised by the Pinchuk Art Centre.

It was established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in order to discover, recognize and give long-term support to emerging artists. Hirst, Koons, Marcelle, Armstrong, Serota and Pinchuk launched the prize in a webcast yesterday, a suitably futuristic medium for launching a prize which has its sights firmly fixed on what is to come. Application for the prize is open to artists of all nationalities, styles and mediums. Entry is open to artists up to the age of 35. Applications available online from February 6 to May 6, 2012.

The winner will receive a total of $100,000: $60,000 as a cash award, and $40,000 toward the production of new work. An additional $20,000 will be allocated to fund artist-in-residency programmes for up to five other prize-winners. The best get advice and resources for new work and a chance to present themselves to the world. The Cinthia Marcelle was last year’s prize-winner. Twenty short-listed artists will be announced on June 22 and receive an exhibition at the Pinchuk Art Center in Kiev. Their works will be posted online and a winner will be announced in December along with up to five runners-up.

Pinchuk. Richard Armstrong said: “Everybody can apply, from everywhere. The best get advice and resources for new work and a chance to present themselves to the world. For me this is an exciting social investment, creating inspiration for societies.”

Elle Style Awards 2012 Fashion and Glamour

The Elle Style Awards is scheduled the day after the BAFTA. Amongst the high-profile guests included Gillian Anderson, Christina Hendricks, and Eddie Redmayne on red carpet for the Elle Style Awards. The emphasize dresses of the evening included a dress worn by British model Poppy Develigne by Mary Katrantzou for Topshop and Bond girl Harris’ Viktor & Rolf dress with oversized stitching.

Sarah Burton was hailed International Designer of the Year at the 15th Elle Style Awards. Fashion winners included Brazil’s Isabeli Fontana. Model of the moment Poppy Delevigne awarded Acne with the Contemporary Brand of the Year prize.

Alexa Chung hosted the annual UK edition of the international fashion publication’s awards. Nicholas Kirkwood was hailed Accessory Designer of the Year and Jonathan Saunders was cited British Designer of the Year.

The winners list:

Best Music Act: Florence Welch
Next Future Icon: Jessica Chastain
International Designer of the Year: Sarah Burton
British Designer of the Year: Jonathan Saunders
Jewellery Designer of the Year: Jordan Askill
Style Icon: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
Best Actress: Michelle Williams
Best Actor: Eddie Redmayne
Best TV Show: Downton Abbey
Best TV Star: Christina Hendricks
Accessory Designer of the Year: Nicholas Kirkwood
Next Young Designer of the Year: Mary Katrantzou
Best Model: Isabeli Fontana
Contemporary Brand of the Year: Acne

Designs of the Year 2012 show opens

Designs of the Year 2012 Awards somehow opens to the public with usual eclectic mix of the useful, the beautiful, the difficult to understand and the obvious. Its showcase the most innovative and progressive designs from around the world, spanning seven categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics, Product and Transport. The Design of the Year Award 2012 will be announced at an Awards event in April 2012.

London Design Museum’s Design Awards somehow, in a process that describes itself as “the Oscars of the design world”. There are multiple design disciplines; including fashion, architecture, product design, digital and graphics.

There is Re-design for an Emergency Ambulance, Vivienne Westwood’s Ethical Fashion Africa collection of bags, made of recycled materials, Unit9’s One Thousand Cranes for Japan project, SEA’s sample books, the Kinect for Xbox 360 and Andrew Slorance’s Carbon Black Wheelchair .British fashion was an outfit from Mary Katrantzou’s seminal A/W 2011 collection. Lovely exhibition graphics by A Practice for Everyday Life, reflects the breadth, scale and adventurousness of this year’s nominees.

‘We spent nine months talking about the materials with chemists. This has been on the front page of concrete mags. It’s serious chemistry’ says Gordon Young. Design Awards includes more visible works such as Barber Osgerby’s Olympic Torch and Kate Middleton’s dress.

Walker Babington utilizes unconventional tools for art

Walker Babington utilizes unconventional tools for art.

Walker Babington creates work on canvases of discarded wood and metal. Walker Babington lives in San Francisco, California from Annapolis, Maryland. He studied at International Stunt School. Babington studied photography in college, but left just short of his degree.

Walker Babington uses to make his art with blow torches, a flame thrower, a metal grinder, an ice pick, old forks and knives, and melted crayons. Walker uses scrap pieces of wood, discarded doors, and cast-off metal parts from an array of items, including his old Chevy Suburban.

“I do art and kind of live art. It’s just as much about the artist as it is about the art. Being wacky and doing crazy things, moving everywhere…the more preposterous my life is the better my art sells…the more people are interested,” said Walker Babington.

Walker Babington burns, rusts and scratches these surfaces to make portraits and pictures. Walker’s fire-centric art he calls “pyrography” or “torchtraiture.” Babington fell into this unique form of destructive creativity accidentally. He’s lived in art collective in San Francisco and sold his work by the roadside in Costa Rica. Babington’s art is voraciously modern, traditionally classic, and resourcefully futuristic.

Valentines Fashion Think Red and Hot Pink

Valentine’s Day is upon us, so it’s time to get ready. Why don’t you take a good look in the mirror and pick what you’ll highlight on this night dedicated to love. If anything, it’s a fresh look for a hot Valentine’s Day dinner. You thought that was going to be your greatest challenge until you realized you have no idea what to wear.

For a casual date, pair a colored jean (in pink, red, orange sherbert or a neutral like beige) with a white blouse and a riding boot. Whether you are dressing to the nines or going the casual route, integrate shades of pink and red. Lingerie model Lindsay Ellingson told Fashion Etc that: “My first Valentine’s Day with a boyfriend was my worst.” If you want to up the dressy factor, layer a sheer, peek-a-boo blouse. The rule of thumb is if you wear pink or red on top, wear a neutral on bottom and vice versa. Wear a red blouse and hot pink pants. Heart pendant necklaces and earrings or a bow headband can perk up a casual look without going over the top.

While for men the collared shirt is perfectly fine. But, if you want to give it a twist, try it in a pink stripe, add a light pink T-shirt underneath so a little peeks out at the collar or add a Valentine’s Day inspired cufflink. Men’s jewellery is a rapidly growing category in the fashion business. From rings to cuffs and necklaces, wearing jewellery has steadily become popular with men in modern years. If you’re not feeling tough enough to wear pink, try something in burgundy, chestnut, rust or wine. If it suits your individual personality wear a bow tie or even a pair of suspenders in the holiday’s colors. Celebrities from Brad Pitt to Justin Bieber have been sporting sparkling rings on their fingers.

Selecting the perfect Valentine’s Day outfit, is to make your date’s heart skip a beat. Avoid anything overly embellished – no need for extra bling here.

DyStar joined the Sustainable Apparel Coalition

DyStar has joined the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), the collaborative venture established in 2011 by leading apparel retailers, suppliers and manufacturers with participation from educational and NGOs. DyStar Colours Deutschland GmbH is a top provider of products and services for the textile and leather industry. DyStar was founded in 1995 as a joint venture from Bayer AG, Hoechst AG and Mitsubishi.

DyStar is the leading global supplier of dyes and chemicals to the textile industry has a long history of action to reduce the environmental impact of the supply chain and also just issued its first corporate Sustainability Report prepared according to GRI principles.

DyStar will facilitate to boost communication on chemical needs along the stipulation chain and to reduce the chance of classy product recollects as a result of chemical contamination through Sustainable Textile Service program.

The Sustainable Apparel Coalition was founded by a group of sustainability leaders from global apparel and footwear companies together. The Coalition composed of retailers, clothing manufacturers, environmental groups and academics has three main goals.

Anna Wintour and Scarlett Johansson hosted Runway To Win Event

Designers Anna Wintour and Diane Von Furstenburg, hosted Tuesday’s Runway To Win in New York City, occasion that launched President Obama’s new line of 2012 campaign souvenirs. President Obama has returned to e-commerce and haute fashion design with Runway to Win, a joint campaign merchandise fundraiser pegged to the kickoff of New York Fashion Week. The start of New York City’s Fashion Week, some of the biggest names in design and Hollywood got jointly in New York City on Tuesday night to launch the new Runway to Win line of Obama-themed clothing and accessories.

The collection features patriotic clothing and accessories, moderately priced from $45 to $95, from top designers with Tory Burch, Rachel Roy, Derek Lam, Beyoncé and Tina Knowles, Marcus Wainwright and David Neville, Proenza Schouler’s Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, Diane von Furstenberg, Narciso Rodriguez, Vera Wang, Thakoon, Jason Wu, Grace Tsao-Wu and Laura Kofoid of Laudi Vindi, Marc Jacobs and Tracy Reese. Anna Wintour was also joined by Jim Messina, campaign manager for Obama for America. Anna Wintour and Scarlett Johansson hosted “Runway to Win,” the fundraising event in support of Obama’s re-election campaign.