The main venue of DESIGNTIDE TOKYO serves as a platform for designers to give polished, carefully considered presentations of their work.

This year, architect Ryuji Nakamura(中村竜治) has been selected to design the main venue at DESIGNTIDE TOKYO. How will he interpret the works by this year’s participating designers? What kind of space will he create to showcase them? Fans of Nakamura’s previous work are no doubt already looking forward to what he will come up with this time.

Brainstorming sessions for potential ideas are already underway. Look out for updates on Nakamura’s ideas and creative process in the coming weeks! / via DesignTide

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Ryuji Nakamura Profile
Architect. Born in Nagano in 1972. Worked at Jun Aoki&Associates. Established Ryuji Nakamura Architects in 2004. Main Works: JIN’s GLOBAL STANDARD NAGAREYAMA, Space for Exhibition “ribbon project of mina perhonen”, Scenery for Opera “Le Grand Macabre”, and Installation at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo “Where is Architecture? Seven Installations by Japanese Architects’” etc. Main Awards: Good Design Award, JCD Design Award Grand Award, THE GREAT INDOORS AWARD (Netherlands), and Competition of Kumamoto Art Polis “West Square of Kumamoto Satation” Second Prize etc.
http://www.ryujinakamura.com

Camper has launched a new store on London’s Regent St. designed by Tokujin Yoshioka during the London Design Festival. The concept for the new store, is derived from the installation which he presented in New York in 2007, where approximately 30,000 sheets of tissues were covered in the entire space, reminiscent of a snowscape. the red flower blossoms emphasizes the corporate color and will also include tokujin’s bouquet chair he designed in 2008.

D&L gallery 是 Design&Life™ 提供給創作者一個線上展覽的平台。除了完全免費無料之外，我們也會在 Design&Life™ 的刊物上，做一篇創作者的專訪，並主動將您的展覽和作品，介紹給我們全世界五十多國的讀者。展覽完畢後，並會放置您的連結在 Design&Life™ 網站上，讓想跟您合作的人，永遠找得到您的資訊。雖然我們沒有花俏的界面、絢麗的影音空間，但 Design&Life™ 相信能提供您最有力的“show off”機會！將您的作品傳送到五十個國家去吧！

目前無料開放申請中，請把握！詳情請洽：info@designandlife.com

*因為是免費的平台，請大家了解所有申請必須經過 Design&Life™ 挑選，中選的創作者，我們會盡快與您連絡！每次展期為一個月，可再議。

D&L gallery is a platform that Design&Life™ provides for artists or designers who would love to show their works to people from more than 50 countries around the world! Besides free of charge, we will also interview the artists on our issues and introduce them & their wonderful pieces to our readers. There will be a link to their websites after the online show so people will find them easily afterwards. We might not have the most fancy website, but we believe D&L gallery is the most efficient choice to show your works! Take the chance & show off now!

Please contact us for more detail : info@designandlife.com

* Because the platform is free of charge, please understand that all applications must go through the selection of Design & Life ™. We will contact you once yours is chosen. Each exhibition period will be 1 month.

Taiwan International Graphic Design Award (TIGDA) includes : Poster Design Award & CI Design Award. The competition is open to designers from all regions and countries. All entries must be created after June, 2007 & the submission deadline is 31 Aug. 2009. Hurry & grab the chance to show your work! For more information, please visit :
TIGDA

台灣國際平面設計大獎包含：台灣國際海報設計大獎，以及台灣國際企業識別設計獎。所有國內國外的設計高手皆可參加。作品必須要是2007年六月之後的作品，截止日期是 2009. 8. 31。
請上網查訊更多資訊！
TIGDA

Paris, Zurich and now Berlin: ILLUSTRATIVE 2009 will return to the creative capital to celebrate the cutting-edge works of contemporary graphic art for the fifth time around. From the 16th of October to the 1st of November, works ranging from drawing, graphic prints, painting and monumental mural collages to graphically inspired 3D-illustrations, book art and animation will be on show. With more than 60 artists from all across the world, ILLUSTRATIVE brings together an inspiring cornucopia of visual contemporary culture in the Villa Elisabeth located in the heart of Berlin.

ILLUSTRATIVE showcases an international scene of artist-designers, whose works have been inspired by subculture movements like comic and graffiti as well as by applied arts like illustration and book art. The exhibition explores the merging of infinite materials and techniques in widely unprecedented combinations, which challenge learned ways of seeing – e.g. the latest development, where illustration and graphics are translated into the third dimension, or new narrative strategies in 3D-animation. / via YIA 2009

Berlin Oct 16 – Nov 1, 2009
Opening (invitation only) Oct 15, 2009, 7pm
Villa Elisabeth, Invalidenstr. 3, 10115 Berlin
Opening hours: Every day 11am to 8pm

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The Swatch Young Illustrators Award

The Swatch Young Illustrators Award is a unique competition awarding creativity and innovation in personal contemporary illustration and graphics. The award encourages and supports designers in their artistic practice and offers an international and worldwide recognized platform to them. Illustrative art works, art projects with graphic influences, animations and book art objects qualify for submission.

The nominees of the Swatch Young Illustrators Award will be invited to Berlin and get the opportunity to exhibit their work at Illustrative 2009 in Berlin. The winners await prizes worth 6.000 Euros as well as publications and illustration agency contracts and will also be featured in future international shows. One winner will be invited to design a Swatch Watch – a great opportunity to join the ranks of artists such as Kiki Picasso, Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Altman and Keith Haring.

The nominees will be awarded by an international jury consisting of leading art directors, experts and editors of graphic and design magazines.

The call for the Swatch Young Illustrators Award opens in June and continues till the end of September 2009. An international jury decides in October about each of the category’s winners.

Within the Illustrative festival in autumn 2009, the Golden Awards and further prizes will be awarded in a festive ceremony. The short-listed artists will be announced on the Illustrative website at www.illustrative.de in the middle of September. A selection of works awarded by the Swatch Young Illustrators Award will be presented at future Illustrative festivals.

Deadline
September 30th, 2009