Design Bulletin

Design Bulletin

Design Bulletin featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

J.C.Disi 2013/14 Biennial

In 2013 and 2014, the Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation (J.C.DISI) endeavoured to achieve the above vision in three unique but interrelated approaches; to initiated a number of design projects with partners in public, social and private sectors that propel substantial social changes in Hong Kong; to organise a number of programmes dedicated to capacity building of future social innovators in Asia; and to launch platforms of various forms and medium to catalyse knowledge exchange on a global scale. This book serves as an archive and a reflection of their work.

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Royal North Shore Hospital Sydney

Solving the Royal North Shore Hospital's wayfinding was not just about designing ‘better’ signs. Legibility, colour and graphics may be the necessary physical tools for a sign but it was the comprehension of their meaning that was important and how this was organised into a cognitive pattern of sign types. Clarity and directness of the wayfinding system is enhanced and enlivened by the use of colour utilised at each lift core as a wayfinding tool to correspond with vertical circulation. Visitors felt comfortable in their spatial environment, and were easily oriented and logically informed.

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Design in Italy in Project Groups

“Design in Italy in project groups from 1960 to 1990” is a historical and analytical research that presents a study of the experiences of Italian design groups from the 1960s onwards. The aim is to analyse the developments and the importance they have had in the context of national and international design. Through the consultation of primary sources, this volume describes an unprecedented overview of a phenomenon that has still not been entirely historicized, tracing the outlines and investigating the connections between groups of designers, places, trends, and theoretical frameworks.

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Design is

Design is…, project started with an exhibition during São Paulo Design Week 2016, the largest design festival in Latin America. A limited, numbered edition of the book with the same title was created in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the festival and officially released last November. Two hundred creators and creatures from the universe of Brazilian design, including curators, critics, journalists, entrepreneurs, executives, entity leaders, cultural agitators and, of course, designers, coined their own definition of what design is or can be, a very rich collection of ideas.

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MD design magazine

Viliam Kitanov is professionally biased in favour of the logo creation and decided to take a similar approach to the magazine making it more distinctive as well as his job more interesting. The key element is the idea behind the graphics. A graphic wit could be a letter, a word or a drawing, but it's always related to a design topic. As a result the magazine is not only the bearer of a certain information, but has its own additional value.

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My relative, Petofi

The book is about the living descendants of the great Hungarian poet, Sandor Petofi. It documents the vast amount of research the author did, ranging from interviews, archive photographs to detailed family trees. The book is divided between two families(the poet's mother's and father's branch). These are marked in the middle of the spreads with the page numbers. Each chapter starts with a fictional writing of the poet, as if he was commenting on his descendants. To show the relationships, family trees were drawn and placed on fold-out pages.

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Design interview of the day

Read the latest interviews and conversations on design, creativity and innovation between design journalist and world-famous designers, artists and architects. See latest design projects and award-winning designs by famous designers, artists, architects and innovators. Discover new insights on creativity, innovation, arts, design and architecture. Learn about design processes of great designers.

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