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Only 3 Days Left to Register!

Just a reminder, there are only 3 days left to register for Design Museum Boston's first UNITE event at Office Environments. To RSVP for the event and for more information visit www.unite.evenbrite.com. A special thank you to our sponsors; Office Environments, Steelcase, Harpoon Brewery, and Boloco. See you there!…

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Added by Derek Cascio on July 19, 2010 at 12:30am — No Comments

Design Awards: Cooper Hewitt & IDEA.

A few big design awards announced: The Cooper-Hewitt's National Design Awards and the Industrial Designers Society of America's Industrial Design Excellence Awards.

About the National Design Awards: "The National Design Awards were conceived by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum to honor the best in American design. First launched at the White House… Continue

Added by Sam Aquillano on July 10, 2010 at 1:37pm — No Comments

Photos from Pecha Kucha.

Derek and I had a blast giving the Design Museum Boston 20x20 talk at Pecha Kucha Boston 18. Thanks to Brett Stilwell and the other Pecha Kucha volunteers for the invite and for organizing. We packed the Elks Lodge in Cambridge for a number of interesting presentations. We're psyched we could be a part of it.

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Added by Sam Aquillano on July 10, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

PBS Kids - Trash to Treasure

We are always on the look out for cool ways to promote design education and, with school out, you might be looking for something to do with the kids this summer? Well, PBS Kids has combined both. The great folks behind Design Squad have launched their 2010 Trash to Treasure competition. Reuse, recycle, and re-engineer your trash into a new innovative design and you could be selected as one of three winners who will see their designs brought to life by… Continue

Added by Derek Cascio on July 4, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

"It's like a concert tour but with sketchbooks."

The Sketchbook Project

A friend of mine told me about this project over the weekend, so I checked it out and I LOVE it.

For $25.00 you could purchase one of their sketchbooks, choose a theme of your liking and sketch your way into galleries across the country...and eventually into The Brooklyn Art Library! This is perfect for designers, artists, illustrators and whoever loves carrying around their own pages of… Continue

Added by Sidney Minh Hoang on June 29, 2010 at 11:02pm — No Comments

World Industrial Design Day

Happy World Industrial Design Day. See the website for ICSID for design challenges. I didn't even know there was an official World ID day, but thought I would share with fellow designers.

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Added by Sara Stump on June 29, 2010 at 10:30am — 2 Comments

UNITE @ Office Environments, July 21!

Come together at Office Environments on Wednesday July 21th 2010 at 6 PM to kick off our first event in our UNITE @ event series!

In collaboration with local businesses, Design Museum Boston will be hosting a series of events at unique locations throughout the city. These events will offer designers and non-designers alike an opportunity to connect, eat, drink and be merry.

As Design Museum… Continue

Added by Sam Aquillano on June 29, 2010 at 8:30am — No Comments

The EDGE Conference: Branded in Boston

Design Museum Boston was on hand for this year's EDGE Conference: Branded in Boston. The AdClub put on a wonderful event with presentations from some great speakers. I spent a good portion of the time at our booth but I did manage to catch presentations from MassChallenge, Fidelity, and Continuum. As a matter of fact, I had the pleasure of introducing Harry West from Continuum who presented the work that they have done with Sprint. The most surprising… Continue

Added by Derek Cascio on June 27, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

June 23 Interior Design Day in Mass.

Governor Deval Patrick has declared June 23, 2010 Interior Design Day in Massachusetts. Very cool. Read the proclamation.

Added by Sam Aquillano on June 21, 2010 at 5:31pm — No Comments

Chicago Guerrilla Truck Show.

Very cool take on a design exhibit. These folks in Chicago back their trucks up to the loading dock in Fulton Market and show-off mini-exhibitions of their work. Via core77: Once a year, during NeoCon, Chicago's young designers back moving trucks up to the loading dock in Fulton Market. Inside are miniature… Continue

Added by Sam Aquillano on June 21, 2010 at 4:56pm — No Comments

DMB at Pecha Kucha Boston 18 - June 22.

Design Museum Boston will be presenting at Pecha Kucha Boston 18, next Tuesday June 22! Doors open at 6pm with drinks and networking and the talks start at 7pm. The event is free and open to the public. We'll be doing a 20x20 talk on the who, what, where, how and why of Design Museum Boston. Come on by and say hello!

PechaKucha Boston 18 also includes speakers from Boston Fashion Week, Common Boston, Design Biennial Boston 2010, SHIFTboston… Continue

Added by Sam Aquillano on June 16, 2010 at 3:46pm — No Comments

Designing a Difference; Smallbean + Design Museum Boston part 1

On June 6th Design Museum Boston kicked off our Designing-A-Difference campaign with our first design charette in collaboration with Small Bean.

Designing-A-Difference is Design Museum Boston’s campaign… Continue

Added by Anna Engström on June 13, 2010 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Why Design Now at the Cooper-Hewitt.

The Cooper-Hewitt's National Design Triennial is viewable online and onsite through January 9, 2011. What an undertaking: 134 projects highlighted under the theme Why Design Now? From their site: Inaugurated in 2000, the Triennial program seeks out and presents the most… Continue

Added by Sam Aquillano on June 10, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

Common Boston dParty.

Join Common Boston for the kick off to their festival. From their site:

The dParty’s role is to connect designers and design aficionados in a happy-hour-like ambiance. Slated for June 17, 2010, this year’s dParty will take on an additional layer of service by benefiting local-area philanthropic organizations at a time when both Boston’s design community and its… Continue

Added by Sam Aquillano on June 7, 2010 at 12:05am — 2 Comments

Abitare Museum Game.

Italian design magazine, Abitare, has been playing a bit of a design museum game if you will: from their site: Following the idea of Enzo Mari, Abitare with each new issue will publish five works of design, which will be chosen by a series of well known personalities from the world of design. After the first selection, each juror, besides indicating his or her five products, will confirm – or not –… Continue

Added by Sam Aquillano on June 6, 2010 at 11:49pm — No Comments

L.A. Creatives Using Empty Real Estate.

Great piece on core77 about artist and designers in Los Angeles using the city's vast amounts of empty retail space to create pop-up galleries, event venues, and shops. Very cool! My favorite quote from the piece: Conversation, design and food is scientifically proven to cement new… Continue

Added by Sam Aquillano on June 6, 2010 at 10:47pm — No Comments

Help us curate our first exhibit!- Design Research

Our last category for our first exhibit is; Design Research. Please tell us about good examples of design research coming out of Boston. Thanks!

Follow these links for more information and local events relating to Design Research:

- The Design Management Institute, DMI

- IDSA Boston

A key goal of… Continue

Added by Anna Engström on June 4, 2010 at 5:01pm — No Comments

ADClub's Edge Conference: Branded in Boston.

This year's AdClub's EDGE Conference is blowing up and is not to be missed. The sheer amount of industry-leading presenters is amazing including: Colin Angle, Founder & CEO of iRobot, John Harthorne, CEO & Founder of Mass Challenge, Katherine Hays, CEO of GenArts, Ted Morgan, Founder & CEO of SkyHook Wireless, Chris Reed, Principal & Founder of Stoss Landscape Urbanism, Wade Rousch, Chief Correspondent of Xconomy, Lyn Walker, CEO &… Continue

Added by Sam Aquillano on June 4, 2010 at 10:51am — No Comments

SHIFTboston MOON CAPITAL Competition!

Our friends at SHIFTboston have launched their second design competition: MOON CAPITAL. As big-time space travel buffs we are thrilled. And we cannot wait for the MOON CAPITAL forum at the Cyclorama on Oct. 21. All the info below!

THINK MICRO GRAVITY THINK EXTREME THINK BEYOND

THINK BIG IDEAS FOR THE MOON

2010 SHIFTboston MOON CAPITAL Competition

Call for Entries:… Continue

Added by Sam Aquillano on June 3, 2010 at 2:44pm — No Comments

Help us curate our first exhibit!-Industrial, Interactive, Exhibit

Our new categories this week are: Industrial Design, Interactive Design and Exhibit Design

Please visit our local IDSA (Industrial Design Society of America) chapter for more information and updates on local events:

IDSA Boston

A key goal of Design Museum Boston is to unite the Massachusetts design community around our common purpose of educating the public on the… Continue

Added by Anna Engström on June 2, 2010 at 6:13pm — No Comments

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