Link | blog.developmentxdesign.org

Design USA: Contemporary Innovation commemorates the tenth anniversary of the National Design Awards and showcases the winners recognized during the first decade. In addition to honoring Lifetime Achievement and Design Mind winners, the exhibition is organized according to five themes that are fundamental to the various disciplines: CRAFT,EXPERIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, MATERIALS, and METHOD. 

Link | Cooper Hewitt

Link | Seoul WDC 2010

The SEP platform hosts several research activities and didactic workshops. The Platform is an organization and communication tool providing an open web space and visibility for activities relating to the fields of design and sustainability in the everyday context.

DESIS is a network of schools of design and other schools, institutions, companies and non-profit organizations interested in promoting and supporting design for social innovation and sustainability. It is a light, no-profit organization, conceived as a network of partners collaborating in a peer-to-peer spirit.It is articulated in several DESIS-Local (that are sub-networks within a specified local area). DESIS-International is therefore the framework where the different DESIS-Local coordinate themselves and where some global initiatives are taken.

Link | Sustainable Everyday | DESIS NETWORK

The IDA has selected “Design at the Edges” as the theme for the 2011 IDA Congress. This theme has following three applications:
1.The edge between the design practices and other fields having a stake in design, including:  science, technology, government, business, non-governmental humanitarian organizations.
2. The edge between design disciplines, especially communication, interior and industrial design. What do the disciplines share and what makes them distinctive?
3.“Cutting edge” work and ideas in design and in other fields: radically new, controversial, experimental, pushing the boundaries of the discipline.

Link | 2011 IDA Taipei

According to DESIGNTIDE Founder Masaki Yokokawa:  “During wealthy times, people create a lot of things that we do not need. Now, times are tight; we create things we only really need. That’s exactly the way design should be.”

Link | DESIGNTIDE 09 | Japan Times Interview

History Of Graphic Design - South Louisiana Trailer from AIGA New Orleans on Vimeo.

Link | History of Graphic Design South Louisiana