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We’ve teamed up with NAi Publishers to to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of the Dutch Design Yearbook 2010.

The 216-page paperback presents 50 projects from the Netherlands in the last year and includes work by designers Maarten Baas, Aldo Bakker and Studio Job, fashion brands like G-Star, and architects including John Körmeling and Rem D. Koolhaas.

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Competition closes 23 November 2010. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the bottom of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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The information below is from the publishers:

Dutch Design Yearbook 2010
The Best of Dutch Design

The Dutch Design Yearbook is the authoritative survey of the best of Dutch spatial design, product design, fashion, and graphic design in 2009-2010.

Dutch design has rocked the world, with sensational and innovative work by designers in the Netherlands. The editors of the Dutch Design Yearbook, Timo de Rijk, Antoine Achten, Vincent van Baar, and Bert van Meggelen, are pleased to present this year’s survey of the latest developments. The yearbook presents the 50 top designs that came out of the Netherlands in 2009-2010, covering the fields of spatial design, product design, fashion, and graphic design. Featured designers include Maarten Baas, Aldo Bakker, G-Star, Joost Grootens, Hans van Heeswijk, John Körmeling, Rem D. Koolhaas, Lernert & Sander, MVRDV, Piet Parra, Letman & Sprey, Studio Dumbar, Merkx+Girod, Studio Job, Bertjan Pot, Scholten & Baijings, Koen van Velsen, Jeroen Vinken, and West 8.

Three leading international critics – Glenn Adamson, Aaron Betsky, and Rick Poynor – have contributed essays presenting their views on the current state and characteristics of Dutch design. A supplementary selection of a few dozen major events, publications, and exhibitions in the field rounds out the discussion of design in this period. This bilingual publication will appeal to a broad range of individuals with an interest in Dutch design.

Dutch Design Awards The yearbook has been compiled in cooperation with the Dutch Design Awards (DDA), an annual celebration of the best of Dutch design. Alongside the well- known competition and closing awards ceremony, the DDA organization also sponsors an international touring exhibition with the work of the winners and finalists, and supports the production of the Dutch Design Yearbook 2010. This year’s awards ceremony will take place on Saturday 23 October at the Muziekgebouw Frits Philips in Eindhoven. The exhibition will run from 23 to 31 October in the Brainport Greenhouse, forming one of the highlights of EindhovenÊs crowd-pulling Dutch Design Week.

Editors: Timo de Rijk, Antoine Achten, Vincent van Baar en Bert van Meggelen
Design: Studio Dumbar
216 pages
Illustrated (colour)
Paperback
Dimensions: 22.5 x 27.5 cm
Dutch/English edition
ISBN 978-90-5662-755-3
In cooperation with the Dutch Design Awards
Available from 23 October

Dezeen have teamed up with Laurence King Publishing to give readers the chance to win three copies of Planning Office Spaces by Juriaan van Meel, Yuri Martens and Hermen Jan van Ree.

To enter the competition, visit the Laurence King Publishing Facebook page and click the Like button to become a fan. Three winners will be chosen from the new fans and notified via Facebook once the competition closes.

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Competition closes 10 November 2010. Laurence King Publishing will select the winners at random and notify them via Facebook. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the bottom of this page.

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Planning Office Spaces A Practical Guide for Managers and Designers by Juriaan van Meel, Yuri Martens and Hermen Jan van Ree

Planning Office Spaces, by Juriaan van Meel, Yuri Martens and Herman Jan van Ree and published by Laurence King in October 2010 is a practical guide to creating successful work environments. With a step-by-step approach, it takes the reader from strategic objectives and fundamental choices to space-by-space design guidelines and practical recommendations for implementation.

When planning a new office, designers and their clients are faced with many challenges and questions. Fundamental questions to be addressed include: What do people actually do in an office? What types of activities need to be facilitated? What kind of office spaces best support key activities? Subsequently, a wide range of decisions has to be taken concerning issues such as floor plans, zoning, partitions, furniture, and so on. Before rushing into detailed design proposals, however, it is important to set a number of strategic objectives, decide on various crucial choices, and select the right office spaces.

At the strategic level, it is important to set clear and constructive objectives concerning issues such as occupancy costs, effectiveness of the working environment and environmental impact. Subsequently, organizations need to decide whether employees work at the office or elsewhere, whether they get allocated or shared workstations, whether they work in open spaces of enclosed rooms, etc. Finally, the right work spaces, meeting spaces and support spaces need to be selected. Planning Office Spaces is written to assist during all phases of the planning process, looking at each of these issues in turn and showing the alternatives on offer and clearly indicating the advantages and disadvantages. It helps both clients and their design teams to structure ideas, think critically and create unique work environments that really work!

Juriaan van Meel is a senior consultant at ICOP, a workplace consultancy firm in the Netherlands, which he co-founded. He is also senior researcher at the Centre for Facilities Management – Realdania Research in Copenhagen. His previous publications include The European Office and, as co-author, The Office, the Whole Office and Nothing but the Office.

Yuri Martens is a researcher and a practitioner on workplace strategy, combining his PH.D. research on creative work environments with strategic workplace consultancy. Previously he worked at the Center for People and Buildings in the Netherlands, where he co-authored the Werkplekwijzer, the Dutch predecessor to this book.

Hermen Jan van Ree is a senior consultant on strategy, CSR and sustainability – specializing in performance management. Previously he worked as a senior research fellow at University College London and various research institutes in the Netherlands and the United States. He is an active member of the BIFM and a principal expert to the European Committee for Standardization.

150 illustrations 230 x 170 mm
144 pages
PAPERBACK
ISBN – 978 1 85669 698 2
£17.95

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Dezeen have got together with Croatian design and communication agency Bruketa&Zinic OM to give away five copies of their limited-edition picture book Spam Jam.

Bruketa&Zinic OM trawled the contents of their spam folders to create this illustrated book based on the bizarre offers, requests and proposals that the emails contained.

Split into three sections – Spam Data, Spam Messages and Spam Future – the book is printed with a range of different paper stocks and inks.

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Here’s more from Bruketa&Zinic OM:

Spam Jam

A new book from Bruketa&Zinic OM, a limited edition designers’ picture book published by Igepa

You could easily have a big winkie, a girl from Kentucky who loves you and 10 million bucks from a friendly banker from Nigeria – if only your computer wouldn’t classify such lifetime offers as junk mail.

What do we really expect from life? How do we imagine the world? Every day, in existential endeavors and unrestrained by moral boundaries of their local community, millions of spammers send messages to unknown people all around the world, containing offers they believe will inspire their most hidden desires. Does junk folder hide a real image of human race? Who are we, really, stripped bare of moral categories?

Bruketa&Zinic OM Agency peeked into a forgotten junk mail folder and created a limited edition designers’ picture book titled Spam Jam for Igepa, picturing a world we secretly yearn for. The book has 52 pages and it contains original illustrations. It is printed on Igepa paper and divided thematically into three parts: Spam Data, Spam Messages and Spam Future. Spam Data abounds with various, more or less well-known facts about what spam is and what it most often promotes, and it also includes some spam statistics. Spam Messages contains various representative spam messages and Spam Future wraps up the story with a futurist vision of spam seen by the authors of the book.

Nebojsa Cvetkovic, art director and illustrator in Bruketa&Zinic OM said: “In a Spam Jam world you could be in top form in less than a month, with a perfectly chiseled body, a large penis and a pile of gold that you would buy at a terrific bargain. Surely you would live to be a hundred because of all the fantastic products that are offered. And all of that from the comfort of your armchair. All you need is an email address. No wonder that the term “spam” comes from one of the Monty Python’s Flying Circus sketches. It is totally appropriate.”

The Bruketa&Zinic OM Agency deals with branding, design, advertising and digital communications, and for their work they have been rewarded with more than 300 international awards including the Art Directors Club New York, Cresta, Clio, London International Awards, Epica, European Design Awards, and many others. To the general public they are known for a cookbook that must be baked before use and the annual report that glows in the dark.

Re-imagined scaffolding hits the streets of NYC with three finalists’ winning prototypes

by Passa C

Protecting pedestrians from both debris and the rain, NYC construction scaffolding is a major part of the urban landscape yet mostly considered an inconvenient eyesore. With nearly 6,000 sheds spanning more than 1 million linear feet throughout the city, NYC Department of Buildings along with several partners challenged designers to re-think these sheds with the Urban Shed International Design Competition.

The team of nine judges—including Snøhetta director Craig Dykers (the architecture and design studio spearheading NYC’s National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion) and NYC Department and Buildings Commissioner Robert LiMandri—recently selected the three finalists who will advance to Stage II of the competition. During this phase each of the three designs will be built and installed on a job site in Lower Manhattan. The selected winner will receive city certification and the design will become industry standard and used for future construction projects.

The new sidewalk sheds will revolutionize the NYC cityscape as well as the pedestrian experience. The winning design should increase light and visibility, complement both commercial and residential facades, intuitively guide pedestrians, use more sustainable materials and make maintenance more economical. To see more of the final three designs and all of the entries, visit Urban Shed.

The one-of-a-kind digital design tournament takes on ten global cities for its fifth-annual competition

New age innovators John Fiorelli, Jamie Falkowki and Bill Irwin kick their fifth-annual design competition Cut & Paste off this Saturday, 2 October 2010, at New York City’s Webster Hall.

With tour dates in ten different cities around the world this year—NYC, SF, LA, London, Berlin, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Bangkok, Seoul and Tokyo—the tournament’s pitting of digital designers against each other in design categories of 2D, 3D and Motion Design in live onstage competitions is bigger than ever. Call to entries were open to the public, but are narrowed down to 16 final competitors chosen on their performance ability and portfolio strength. Each city tournament will consist of eight designers competing in 2D, four in 3D, and four in the Motion Design categories. Additionally, there will even be a category open to the public with “Audience Design Contests” that will allow non-competitors to create impromptu designs while feeling the pressure of the big stage.

Each city’s finalists from each design category will ultimately be pitted against other city finalists to compete for the Global Championship taking place in NYC in February 2011. At this final showdown, the global finalists will compete for a global prize that’s currently still in the works, but should be pretty major.

Competitions are judged and curated by design specialists in each city such as Emily Baltz of Core 77, Eric Haze of Intherhaze and Dan Schwarz of Heyhush judging the NYC show, and Brian Chu of the 3rd Ward and Maxon curating it .

Each show is expected to be around three-hours long and—if previous years are any indication—is sure to provide an evening of creative suspense and fun. Check out Cut and Paste’s site for more information on the NY show including tickets which sell for $15 online, and $20 at the door. Doors for the show open at 5pm with a speaker series, continuing on to the design tournament from 8-10:30pm. The night winds up with a celeberatory after party at Gallery Bar nearby in the Lower East Side.