designjunction and Visa launch Milan 2014 map powered by Dezeen Guide

Dezeen Guide, designjunction and Visa launch map for Milan 2014

Milan 2014: Dezeen has teamed up with designjunction to create a free map of showrooms, boutiques, pop-up shops and department stores offering discounts to Visa Premium cardholders during the Milan furniture fair.

Dezeen Guide, designjunction and Visa launch map for Milan 2014

Some of Milan’s best shops have collaborated to run a series of offers as part of The Visa Shopping Promotion from 7 to 13 April 2014, exclusively available to Visa Premium Cardholders.

Dezeen Guide, designjunction and Visa launch map for Milan 2014

Included in the map are Italian menswear specialist Ravizza, furniture and design company Raw Milano and new department store Brian & Barry.

Dezeen Guide, designjunction and Visa launch map for Milan 2014

To access the map, visit www.thedesignjunction.co.uk/map. The map is compatible with mobile devices, tablets and desktop computers.

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Food Maps

L’artiste néozélandais Henry Hargreaves a travaillé avec la styliste Caitlin Levin et le graphiste Sarit Melmed pour la série « Food Maps ». Le projet consistait à former des cartographies de différents pays en utilisant des aliments correspondant aux représentations gastronomiques de chaque pays.


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Trax: The world’s smallest real-time GPS tracker brings relief to parents and pet owners

Trax


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Link About It: This Week’s Picks: The passing of a political hero, growing crops on the moon and the color of 2014 in this week’s look at the web

Link About It: This Week's Picks


1. Mandela, Captured by the Camera This past Thursday, the world mourned the death of Nelson Mandela. Passing away at the age of 95, Mandela is best known for his leadership role in the movement to end apartheid in South Africa. To look…

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World Design Guide relaunches with key events for 2014

World Design Guide relaunches with key architecture and design events in 2014

We’ve relaunched and updated our World Design Guide to the best architecture and design events to include festivals for 2014, plus read on for details of key fairs and conferences taking place this month.

The 2014 guide features a selection of events that have been announced so far – see them all here. More will be included as venues are finalised and dates are confirmed.

World Design Guide is now part of a new product called Dezeen Guide, which over the coming months will grow into a comprehensive guide to what’s happening in architecture and design around the world.

Dezeen Guide to design and architecture events

Here are the key events taking place in November:

» Gwangju Design Biennale: until 3 November 2013
» Lisbon Architecture Triennale: until 15 December 2013
» Tokyo design week: until 4 November 2013
» Design Week Ireland: 5-11 November 2013
» 3D Printshow London: 7-9 November
» EXD’13 Lisbon: 7 November – 22 December 2013
» BOOM: The Future of Latin American Design: 14-19 November 2013
» 3D Printshow Paris: 15-16 November 2013
» Istanbul Design Week: 27 November – 1 December 2013
» New Generations: 28-30 November 2013

Dezeen Guide to design and architecture events

New events added this month:

» Shenzhen/Hong Kong Biennale: 6 December 2013 – 28 February 2014
» Wearable Futures conference: 10-11 December 2013

See all events in Dezeen Guide »

You can still add Dezeen Guide events to your calendar so you never miss a thing. For more information or to submit an event for inclusion in the Dezeen Guide, please email hello@dezeenguide.com.

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World Design Guide update: October

World Design Guide update: October

This month the World Architecture Festival and Inside Festival are taking place in Singapore (pictured). We’ve also updated the World Design Guide to feature four new events coming up this year.

Dezeen will be reporting live from the festivals this week and filming interviews with winners of the awards programmes, plus making movies for our Dezeen and MINI World Tour. Also as part of the tour, we’ll be stopping in Eindhoven to check out Dutch Design Week later in the month.

All the events taking place in October:

» World Architecture Festival and Inside Festival: 2-4 October 2013
» Portland Design Festival: 3-18 October 2013
» Month of Design: 7 October – 7 November 2013
» Northern Design Festival: 10-20 October 2013
» Operae: 11-13 October 2013
» Łódź Design Festival: 17-27 October 2013
» Dutch Design Week: 19-27 October 2013
» Design Week Birmingham: 21-28 October 2013
» Abierto Mexicano de Diseño: 23-27 October 2013
» Tokyo design week: 26 October – 4 November 2013
» Downtown Design Dubai: 29 October – 1 November 2013

New events added this month:

» EXD’13 Lisbon: 7 November – 22 December 2013
» Moscow Urban Forum: 5-7 December 2013
» Buenos Aires Design Festival: 18-20 October 2013
» New Generations: 28-30 November 2013

See all events in the World Design Guide »

You can add World Design Guide events to your calendar so you never miss a thing. For more information or to submit an event for inclusion in the World Design Guide, please email hello@worlddesignguide.com.

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World Design Guide update: September

World Design Guide update: September

Our World Design Guide roundup this month leads with the London Design Festival, taking place from 14 to 22 September, and features 16 more design events around the world.

During the festival we’ll be out and about at exhibitions, talks and parties across our home city, publishing all the highlights and filming movies for our Dezeen and MINI World Tour.

This month Dezeen will also be travelling to the Lisbon Architecture Triennale in Portugal, Gwangju Design Biennale in South Korea and Beijing Design Week in China, so keep an eye out for coverage from these events too.

Here are all the events taking place in September:

» Tallinn Architecture Biennale: 4-8 September 2013
» World Stage Design: 5-15 September 2013
» Brussels Design September: 5-30 September 2013
» Helsinki Design Week: 6-16 September 2013
» Gwangju Design Biennale: 6 September – 3 November 2013
» Paris Design Week: 9-15 September 2013
» Furniture China: 11-15 September 2013
» Lisbon Architecture Triennale: 12 September – 15 December 2013
» London Design Festival: 14-22 September 2013
» Modesto International Architecture Festival: 14-22 September 2013
» Bratislava Design Week: 17-22 September 2013
» Beijing Design Week: 26 September – 3 October 2013
» Monterey Design Conference: 27-29 September 2013
» Vienna Design Week: 27 September – 6 October 2013
» Taiwan Designers’ Week: 27 September – 6 October 2013
» Budapest Design Week: 27 September – 6 October 2013
» Ibiza Creativity Week: 30 September – 4 October 2013

World Design Guide update: September

We’ve also added five new events to the guide this month:

» Portland Design Festival: 3-18 October 2013
» Decofair: 29 November – 2 December 2013
» Abierto Mexicano de Diseño: 23-27 October 2013
» 3D Printshow London: 7-9 November
» 3D Printshow Paris: 15-16 November 2013

See all events in the World Design Guide »

You can add World Design Guide events to your calendar so you never miss a thing. For more information or to submit an event for inclusion in the World Design Guide, please email hello@worlddesignguide.com.

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Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion world map redesigned

News: a map that illustrates global forest densities using wood textures has won a competition to reinvent the tessellated world map designed 70 years ago by American architect and visionary designer R. Buckminster Fuller.

First presented in 1943, Fuller’s Dymaxion Map projects the world map onto the surface of a three-dimensional icosahedron that can be unfolded and flattened to two dimensions. It is said to be the first two-dimensional map of the entire surface of Earth that reveals our planet as one, without inaccurately distorting or splitting up the land.

A team comprising designer Nicole Santucci and San Francisco firm Woodcut Maps was selected as the winner of the Dymax Redux competition to redesign the seminal map, which was launched in April by the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) in New York to coincide with the map’s 70th anniversary.

The winning design, called Dymaxion Woodocean World, illustrates forest densities across the world through the use of different coloured wood textures. Darker wood refers to a higher ratio of trees to land space.

Dymaxion Woodocan World by Nicole Santucci and Woodcut Maps
Dymaxion Woodocan World by Nicole Santucci and Woodcut Maps

“Nicole Santucci and team created a wonderful display of global forest densities, an ever-increasing important issue with the continued abuses of deforestation,” said the BFI. “What’s more an actual woodcut version of the map was made in the process, allowing the 2D version to transform into an icosahedral globe,” the institute added.

Will Elkins, manager at the Buckminster Fuller Institute said: “They went above and beyond our call by creating a powerful display of relevant information using the subject matter itself as a medium. The idea, craftsmanship and end result are stunning.”

Runner-up: Clouds Dymaxion Map by Anne-Gaelle Amiot
Clouds Dymaxion Map by Anne-Gaelle Amiot – click for larger image

A hand-drawn map of clouds swirling over the earth by French designer Anne-Gaelle Amiot has been selected as the runner-up. Other finalists include a map that illustrates 75,000 years of ancestral migration and another that shows the availability of safe drinking water around the world. Three of the 11 finalists also received acknowledgments from graphic designer Nicholas Felton, artist Mary Mattingly and architect and close friend of Fuller, Shoji Sadao.

R. Buckminster Fuller with Dymaxion Map as a globe
R. Buckminster Fuller holding his folded Dymaxion Map. Image: Life magazine, 1943

Fuller’s Dymaxion World Map first appeared in the March 1, 1943 issue of Life Magazine in an article titled ‘Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion World’.

The article illustrated different uses for the map and included a full-colour printable version with instructions for how it can be easily transformed from a 2D map to a 3D globe.

Buckminster Fuller - Dymaxion Map, 1943
Image: Life magazine, 1943

“Fuller’s Dymaxion World embodies his effort to resolve the dilemma of cartography: how to depict as a flat surface this spherical world, with true scale, true direction and correct configuration at one and the same time,” wrote Life Magazine in 1943.

Printable version of the Dymaxion Map featured in Life magazine
Sections of a printable Dymaxion Map, as featured in Life magazine, 1943

Fuller designed the map as a way to visualise the whole planet with greater accuracy and to in turn better equip humans to address global challenges.

Buckminster Fuller - Dymaxion Map, 1943
Article in Life magazine, 1943

The winners and nine finalists of the Dymax Redux contest will be exhibited at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York later this year. The Dymaxion Woodocean Map will be available to buy from the BFI soon.

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Here’s the press release from BFI, including full details of the winning designs:


DYMAX REDUX Winner Selected

The Buckminster Fuller Institute is happy to announce the winner of DYMAX REDUX, an open call to create a new and inspiring interpretation of Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Map. Dymaxion Wood Ocean World by Nicole Santucci of Woodcut Maps (San Francisco, CA) has been selected as the winner out of a pool of over 300 entrants from 42 countries. Clouds Dymaxion Map by Anne-Gaelle Amiot of France was selected as the runner up.

“This was the first contest of its kind organised by BFI, and the response and interest has been amazing. We are thrilled to have such a high level of submissions and look forward to doing more similar initiatives in the future” says BFI Executive Director Elizabeth Thompson, noting the great press coverage to-date.

The Buckminster Fuller Institute will produce the winning entry as a poster and include it in with the BFI online educational resource store. In addition, we have highlighted three entries that were chosen by our guest critics – Nicholas Felton, Mary Mattingly and Shoji Sadao – as their favourite individual picks. The winner and runner-up along with the other nine finalists will be featured at an in-person exhibition at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, scheduled for later this fall.

The Winner: Dymaxion Woodocean World by Nicole Santucci + Woodcut Maps, United States

Nicole Santucci and team created a wonderful display of global forest densities, an ever-increasing important issue with the continued abuses of deforestation. What’s more an actual woodcut version of the map was made in the process, allowing the 2-D version to transform into an icosahedral globe. As BFI Store Coordinator Will Elkins put it “They went above and beyond our call by creating a powerful display of relevant information using the subject matter itself as a medium. The idea, craftsmanship and end result are stunning.”

The Runner-Up: Clouds Dymaxion Map by Anne-Gaelle Amiot, France

Anne-Gaelle Amiot used NASA satellite imagery to create this absolutely beautiful hand-drawn depiction of a reality that is almost always edited from our maps: cloud patterns circling above Earth. Anne-Gaelle describes the idea and process “One of the particularism of Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion projection is to give the vision of an unified world. From the space, the Earth appears to us covered, englobed by the cloud masses which circulate around it. By drawing a static image, capture of clouds position in one particular moment, the sensation of a whole is created. The result have the aspect of an abstract pattern, a huge melt where it is impossible to dissociate lands, seas, oceans.”

Map of My Family by Geoff Christou
Map of My Family by Geoff Christou – click for larger image

Nicholas Felton Pick: Map of My Family by Geoff Christou, Canada

“This map makes the best use of the Dymaxion projection, by highlighting information that is primarily land-based and allowing for the paths to extend in an unbroken fashion throughout the world.” – Nicholas Felton

Spaceship Earth Climatic Regions by Ray Simpson
Spaceship Earth: Climatic Regions by Ray Simpson – click for larger image

Mary Mattingly Pick: Spaceship Earth: Climatic Regions by Ray Simpson, United States

“Eliminates human-made borders and focuses on mapping the shifting yet distinct climactic planes. This utopian projection relies only on geographic and geologic borders, truly a project Buckminster Fuller would appreciate.” – Mary Mattingly

In Deep Water by Amanda R Johnson
In Deep Water by Amanda R. Johnson – click for larger image

Shoji Sadao Pick: In Deep Water by Amanda R. Johnson, United States

“A dramatic graphic take off on the map and gives important information about one of the basic problems that needs to be solved.” – Shoji Sadao

About DYMAX REDUX:

70 years ago Life magazine published Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Map. With an undistorted projection of the Earth’s surface, ability to be easily reconfigured and transform from a 2-D map to a 3-D globe, the Dymaxion Map (patented in 1946) was a cartographic breakthrough and its iconic design has inspired generations since.

In celebration of the map’s publication anniversary, the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) is calling on today’s graphic designers, visual artists, and citizen cartographers to create a new and inspiring interpretation of the Dymaxion Map. BFI will publish notable entries within an online gallery, feature the selected finalists in a gallery exhibition in New York City and select one winning entry to be produced as a 36″ x 24″ poster and offered for sale within our online store.

BFI is seeking submissions across the creative spectrum and will be selecting the winner based on originality, aesthetic beauty and informative qualities. The contest is open to all and will provide entrants with a high-res image to use as ‘canvas’. Submissions must employ or contain obvious reference to the map’s foundational grid and adhere to specific size and resolution requirements.

About the Buckminster Fuller Institute

The Buckminster Fuller Institute is dedicated to accelerating the development and deployment of solutions which radically advance human well being and the health of our planet’s ecosystems. We aim to deeply influence the ascendance of a new generation of design-science pioneers who are leading the creation of an abundant and restorative world economy that benefits all humanity.

Our programs combine unique insight into global trends and local needs with a comprehensive approach to design. We encourage participants to conceive and apply transformative strategies based on a crucial synthesis of whole systems thinking, Nature’s fundamental principles, and an ethically driven worldview.

By facilitating convergence across the disciplines of art, science, design and technology, our work extends the profoundly relevant legacy of R. Buckminster Fuller. In this way, we strive to catalyse the collective intelligence required to fully address the unprecedented challenges before us.

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A Box From Tehran: A hand-selected souvenir series by Elin Aram, this edition is drawn from Iran’s cultural landscape

A Box From Tehran


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Link About It: This Week’s Picks : Perfect broccoli, comic book infographics and the passing of an iconic stage designer in our weekly look at the web

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