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The 2nd international Copenhagen Design Week is to be held in Copenhagen from 1st to 6th September 2011.

Igor Polyakov — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:58:11 +0000

Copenhagen Design Week brings together activities from the world’s largest design award: INDEX:Award to exhibitions and conferences showing Copenhagen as a living lab of sustainable urban development. The week offers an exciting programme with exhibitions, conferences, talks, guided architecture tours etc. – all in a “Think Human” context.

http://www.copenhagendesignweek.com/

INDIA Future of Change Innovation and Design Events at Davos

Igor Polyakov — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:20:20 +0000

In Davos on Friday January 28th from 1200 to 1400CET, INDIA Future of Change will assemble a panel on design, innovation at entrepreneurship. The panel, moderated by Tim Brown of IDEO, will discuss how the synergy between design and innovation can be a catalyst for India’s inclusive growth. The panel is slated to be broadcast on Bloomberg TV. INDIA Future of Change is accepting questions for the panelists via twitter @futureofchange.

INDIA Future of Change is an organization that conducts Indian public diplomacy and nation branding.

More info at: http://indiafutureofchange.com/davos.htm

CAMP PIXELACHE 2011 TEMPORARY LAB + EXHIBITION

Igor Polyakov — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:02:56 +0000

Camp Pixelache is an experimental, informal programme format which was tried out in Pixelache Festival context for the first time in spring 2010. For more information, see the wiki pages at http://wiki.pixelache.ac/10kerava/home.

This Open Call is for artworks and other projects to be presented in Camp Pixelache 2011 lab/exhibition in several venues on Suomenlinna island during two days (Saturday 13 March – Sunday 14 March).

The deadline for proposals is Friday 14 January 2011 (at MIDNIGHT CET / Central European Time).

More information at www.pixelache.ac.

Design Blogs Blog Carnival

Igor Polyakov — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:06:59 +0000

Welcome to the November 20, 2010 edition of design blogs. I am pleased to announce that there will be a month now Design Blogs Blog Carnival on the Every Saturday at 2pm EDT. This Blog Carnival is for all kinds of design blogs, everything related to: Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Fashion Design, Interior Design, Production Design, Multimedia Design, Home Desoration, DIY, and more! My hope is that this blog carnival that will encourage and inspire you to explore world of design and style!

Sharon Harlan presents Top 50 Interior Decor Blogs and Articles posted at Interior Design Degree, saying, “Everyone wants a beautiful space, but few of us can go out and snap up designer furniture and the knick-knacks that make a house a home. These blogs are written by professionals and interior design enthusiasts who make decorating a fun task.”

Sharon Harlan presents 50 Beautiful Blogs to Make Your Home More Like Martha?s posted at Interior Design Degree, saying, “Making your home like Martha’s isn’t easy, but it is within reach. Remember that not every single thing must be in order at every waking moment, but keeping things organized and streamlined will help your home look its best on a regular basis.”

Thailand Breeze presents Thai Hand-Printed Cotton Khomapastr posted at Tip.

Sharon Harlan presents 25 Tips, Articles and Blogs to Guide Your Holiday Decorating posted at Interior Design Degree, saying, “Getting your home ready for the holidays can be fun or it can be incredibly stressful. Everyone has fond memories of fighting with Christmas lights and attempting to get the tree up in its stand. It always comes with as much grief when the job is getting done, as it does with joy once it’s over.”

Kerry Fletcher presents How to Decorate Your Christmas Tree Like a Professional Designer posted at Interior Design Info.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of design blogs using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Submit your blog article to the next edition of design blogs using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Events in helsinki

Igor Polyakov — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 07:59:15 +0000

Nov. 14
Karjala Tournament Sunday – Czech Republic vs. Russia, Finland vs. Sweden
Hartwall Areena / Helsinki Halli Oy

Nov. 14
Guided Walking Tours in English
Suomenlinna Maritime Fortress

Nov. 14
Risto Räppääjä concert for children
Music Theatre Kapsäkki, restaurant Allotria

Nov. 14
Talvisirkus Sika
KAAPELITEHDAS, Pannuhalli

Nov. 14
Torpparit-kuoro IsÃ¤ tekee ain
KANNELTALO, Hgin kulttuurikeskus

Nov. 16
Humppavanti!
Tavastia

Nov. 17 Wicked
Helsinki City Theatre
More dates: Nov 19 | Nov 20 | Nov 26 | Nov 27 | Dec 08

Nov. 18
“Semillas” – Design Exhibition
International Cultural Center Caisa

Nov. 18
“Mexico in Flames” – Photo exhibition
International Cultural Center Caisa

Nov. 19
Corridos Revolucionarios – Music Performance
International Cultural Center Caisa

Ahus seeking CAD services

Igor Polyakov — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 08:45:00 +0000

Akershus University Hospital Announces now a tender competition for the purchase of new CAD services.

Entering into a contract for the purchase of CAD services.

This includes management and operation of Ahus its CAD model of an AutoCAD platform: • Audit Changes • Updated PLT files for use in Ahus Technical filing system • Updated dwg files for use in Plania • Future needs for the creation of “new” model for the drawings that have not been part of Ahus CAD model

Firmament – a digital art exhibition featuring

Igor Polyakov — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:46:54 +0000

“The City of Ottawa, Artengine and the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation are pleased to present Firmament – a digital art exhibition featuring James Acres, Eric Chan, Nichola Feldman-Kiss and Adrian Gollner.

Ottawa is a creative city and recognizes that collaborative thinking and dialogue are powerful. They can lead to many great things. Creative and digital collaboration can touch everything from youth engagement, media arts, education, health to meaningful dialogue.

This exhibition accompany’s a digital media trade mission and will bring together creative digital and cultural digital thinkers from Canada and Finland. Opening reception at ArtShortCut’s ArtSpace on Malminkatu 36, Helsinki.

www.artengine.ca

www.artshortcut.com

Pixelache 2011 – Open Call: map me if you will + Computational Photography

Igor Polyakov — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:36:57 +0000

This is an open call for two Pixelache Helsinki 2011 programme sections: map me if you will and Computational Photography.

The deadline for proposals is Monday 8 November 2010.

More information at: http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/festival-2011/

Open Call: map me if you will Pixelache Festival 2011 looks for works that collect, transform, and make use of the data of everyday life in unseen artistic ways.

By the mere fact of living an ordinary modern urban life, we produce a huge amount of information about ourselves that we are hardly aware of, nor we usually see or make use of. Through this data we become traceable, accessible, predictable – and clearly enough – ideal clients of information-based capitalism. So if we cannot prevent the production and the corporate or governmental use of this data without changing our lifestyle completely, how can we at least benefit from it ourselves? How can we share this information with the society at large or the community we live in to our common advantage? And how could we even build systems ourselves that collect data for our own purposes?

Concurrently, the complexity of human actions and interactions increases with the accumulation and growing capacity of the digital tools we are using. We may therefore better understand what’s going on around us if we find ways to visualise and interpret the data which we produce. How can our processes and the correlations of our actions be represented in meaningful and inspiring ways? Are there inventive ways to visualise/represent data that go beyond the pure digital and turn abstract data into concrete entities/objects?

‘map me if you will’ is a programme devised by guest curator Susanne Jaschko. One or two new artworks will be created by invited artists. This open call is for works which will either be presented individually or as a part of a the ‘map me if you will’ seminar. You can also propose workshops, performances and other related programmes.

Open Call: Computational Photography – the return of the unexpected In computational photography, camera and picture-taking are perceived as concepts that can be modified in do-it-yourself spirit and are therefore open to discussion, redefinition, and hacking. This artistic approach to the field differs from how the term is understood in the photographic industry where the focus is on features that serve typical photographic purposes.

The digital camera has become increasingly a tool for programming instead of merely recording images. Cameras are also equipped with sensors that retrieve location and position data thus giving rise to expanding the visual realm to location-aware, multisensory and embodied expression. It is still possible to just ‘take pictures’ but the means of visual expression go beyond what is commonly understood as photography.

The work of an artist takes place in close connection to the digital medium and algorithms that are usually not as well-controlled as conventional photographer’s tools, leaving plenty of room for playful and unexpected results. The partly artificial or manipulated nature of the resulting images is in many cases visible – a seemingly faithful representation of reality is abandoned and our aesthetic preconceptions are challenged. The Internet can be seen both as a giant repository of source images, and a platform for shared projects and shared code.

This open call is for artworks of computational photography in the broad meaning of the term. They can be still or moving images, installations, online projects; or devices or social processes used to create new visual languages. The programme section is organised by guest curator Markku Nousiainen and in collaboration with Aalto University Media Factory. The advisory board for this programme sections consists of Antti Huittinen, Jussi Ängeslevä and Miska Knapek.

Ugg boots giveaways

Igor Polyakov — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:51:55 +0000

Do you want to win a pair of Ugg boots for the upcoming winter? If yes, hurry up to whoa-eu.co.uk, they drawing a pair among these, who will follow them on twitter and another giveaway for these, who will subscribe to their newsletter (links to their accounts are conveniently placed on their home page). In addition, there is a 10% discount for readers of NDB on the next week’s purchases, just use this redeem code: 448HOTSNOW.

SUPER SUSTAINABLE CITY EXHIBITION

Igor Polyakov — Wed, 19 May 2010 18:26:20 +0000

Super Sustainable presents an exhibition for a sustainable Gothenburg. The vision will be exhibited at the Gothenburg city museum until August 2010.

Gothenburg faces a challenge comparable in size with the industrial revolution; to become a sustainable city, the exhibition gives us a glimpse of a possible sustainable future. “Super Sustainable” is a thinktank initiated by Fredrik Kjellgren and Joakim Kaminsky.

Download hi-res images here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kjellgrenkaminskyarchitecture/sets/72157623910681671/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kjellgrenkaminskyarchitecture/sets/72157615100070012/

Download video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC8f2aQItHk

More info at the super sustainable city forum: http://supersustainablecity.blogspot.com/