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2010 Design Events & Exhibitions
 
 
Events
 
 
The Association of Professional Model Makers 2010 Conference:
Revolutions in Model Making Creating the Future Faster

March 26-29, 2010
Cambridge, Massachusetts

The keynote speaker is Neil Gershenfeld, Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms. Saturday and Sunday are workshops on the latest model making materials, techniques, tools and resources as well as career essentials. Friday and Monday are tours of Boston area model facilities at DEKA, Continuum, BOSE, Rhode Island School of Design, Hasbro, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Boston City Model and MIT.
 
 
Chic Dessin
March 26-29, 2010
Paris, France

Mounted in partnership with Duende Studio, the media and events relations agency dedicated to design, the customized layout of each space for the display of emblematic pieces of furniture will favour the domestic loft feel best suited to new contemporary drawings.
 
 
PSFK Conference New York 2010
April 9, 2010
New York City, New York

On April 9, PSFK will return for the fourth year to Manhattan to host one of the most inspirational events available for creative professionals today. PSFK Conference New York will bring together a large crowd of likeminds to learn and share new ideas that will help us make tomorrow better.
 
 
Milan Furniture Fair
April 14-19, 2010
Milan, Italy

The Milan Furniture Fair (Salone Internazionale del Mobile) returns as usual this April, with the publicity slogan The Event Is Back. Don't miss the biggest furniture event of the year, accompanied by many off-site exhibitions, parties and events.
 
 
Transforming Design: Design/Management Europe 14 Conference
April 21-22, 2010
London, England

Transformation is as much a way of thinking as it is a result. Design is now recognized as an enabler of business transformation, because design leads change which is critically needed to save and solve our future. It is a solution that addresses problems, and problems behind problems. DMI's Design/Management Europe 14 will discuss, challenge and explore how this is shaping, connecting and improving our businesses and lives.
 
 
Lift Conference
May 5-7, 2010
Geneva, Switzerland

Lift10 will welcome 1,000 participants from 40 countries to explore the most overlooked aspect of innovation: people. Known in the techno-parlance as users, consumers, clients, participants, prosumers, citizens or activists, people ultimately define the success of all technological and entrepreneurial projects.
 
 
IIT Institute of Design's 9th Annual Design Research Conference
May 11-12, 2010
Chicago, Illinois

Design research is now recognised as the leading way to understand people. Now stripped of its niche status, the field of design research faces new challenges: professional integrity, technology, communication, integration, and new markets. How can it protect its professional integrity as it expands?
 
 
ICFF
May 15-18, 2010
New York City, New York

The 22nd annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) will take place at the Javits Center in New York City. America's biggest design tradeshow, this event draws over 500 exhibitors and thousands of attendees.
 
 

Internet Week
June 1-8, 2010
New York, New York

Internet Week New York is a week-long festival of events saluting New York's thriving Internet industry and the many talented companies, organizations, and innovators creating the future of online media. It is presented by IADAS & The Mayor's Office of Film, Theater, and Broadcasting.

 
 
Create10 Conference: Innovative Interactions
June 30th — July 2nd 2010
Edinburgh, Scotland

The CREATE conference is all about creating innovative interactions, whether digital consumer products, interactive services or interaction paradigms. The event is an opportunity to share and discuss the design opportunities and dilemmas that are currently being addressed by practitioners and researchers from the commercial, public and academic sectors.
 
 
Exhibitions
 
 
Decode: Digital Design Sensations
Ongoing until April 11th 2010
Victoria and Albert Museum
London, England

Decode: Digital Design Sensations showcases the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small, screen-based, graphics to large-scale interactive installations. The exhibition includes works by established international artists and designers such as Daniel Brown, Golan Levin, Daniel Rozin, Troika and Karsten Schmidt. The exhibition features both existing works and new commissions created especially for the exhibition.
 
 
Making Digital Work
April 16, 2010
Boulder, Colorado

ver the past 50 years, clients and agencies have invested immeasurable time and effort in building organizational structures and processes designed to create great advertising. It has taken just two years for technology and digital media to begin to unravel this vast history, pushing more than five decades of planning towards irrelevancy. We are right now living through the moment in which the advertising industry will evolve. Our business has changed, and it’s not changing back.
 
 
Marcel Wanders at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Ongoing until June 20th 2010
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

An exhibition of his favorite work designed by Marcel Wanders, the wildly creative, internationally-recognized designer from the Netherlands whose whimsical and decorative creations range from furniture and objects to wallpaper and hotel interiors. In conjunction with the fall opening of this landmark exhibition, Collab: The Group for Modern and Contemporary Design at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, will present Marcel Wanders with its 2009 Design Excellence Award.
 
 
Rewind Remix Replay: Design Music and Everyday Experience
Ongoing until May 23, 2010
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Scottsdale, Arizona

This exhibition highlights the role played by production and consumption in fashioning our experience of music in everyday life. Music culture thrives within an ecology of such products as turntables, iPods and synthesizers; it expresses itself through images reproduced on dance hall flyers, record sleeves and CD inserts; it gets distributed globally in such media forms as television shows, MTV videos and My Space; it is exhibited in independent record shops, second-hand music stores and large malls; and it finds ubiquity in such technological formats as MP3 files, P2P networks and iTunes.
 
 
 
 
   
 
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