Latest news & projects by DMI members
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 Work
Anthem Worldwide recently redesigned the packaging for Mike’s Hard Lemonade. Anthem helped craft a sense of authenticity, character, and individuality by evolving and focusing on key brand equity elements and differentiating it within its category.
PhilippeBecker redesigned T-Mobile’s myTouch G1 packaging.
ATB Financial worked with Karo Group to completely reinvent banking at its three newest branches. This meant developing a branded experience to re-engage customers at every level of the retail banking experience, and attracting and retaining both employees and customers.
LPK designed limited-edition, tennis-themed packaging for Pringles in the UK. This work was featured in the August 2009 edition of Brand Packaging, a monthly publication focused on the role of packaging in the consumer product marketing mix.
ThoughtForm created a visual checklist of the best places to find innovation based on a recent article in the Wall Street Journal.
P&G’s design process was featured in the Design News article, “Virtual Design Takes off at P&G.”
Awards
The winners of the 2009 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) competition were announced on July 29th by BusinessWeek, the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), Target, and Autodesk. DMI members receiving IDEA Awards include: frog design (Gold, 2 Bronze), Crown Equipment Corporation (Gold), Altitude (Gold), Design Science (Gold), Continuum (Gold & Bronze), Dell (3 Silver, 2 Bronze), Microsoft (Silver), Smart Design (Silver), GE Healthcare (4 Silver, 1 Bronze), Steelcase (Silver), Art Center College of Design (1 Gold, 2 Silver, 3 Bronze), Philips Design (2 Bronze), Océ (Bronze), Teague (2 Bronze), BMW Group DesignWorksUSA (Bronze), Kohler (Bronze), Medela (Bronze), New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. (Bronze), and Astro Studios (2 Silver, 1 Bronze).
Smart Design, in partnership with UCB and OXO, recently won a red dot: communication design award for Cimzia packaging.
Speaking
Sohrab Vossoughi from Ziba Design will speak at the Rotman School of Management on October 1, 2009, as part of the Design Thinking Experts Speaker Series, addressing “The Customer Experience Era is Over. What Now?”
Valerie Jacobs from LPK and Robert Wallace from Wallace Church, Inc. will speak at the In-Store Marketing Expo 09 to be held in Chicago October 8, 2009.
Ximedica Co-founder and Chief Innovation officer Aidan Petrie and Program Manager Sharon Mulligan will be presenting at the 2009 Project Infusion IDSA International Conference at Loews Miami Beach Hotel from September 23-26, 2009.
Design Flanders will host Open Days 2009 – Invitation, “European Design as an Expression of Creativity & Innovation,” October 6, 2009, in Brussels.
Stuart Karten from Stuart Karten Design will speak on Connecting Creativity with Commerce at A.N.T. Gallery in Venice, California on September 3, 2009.
TheAlloy’s chairman Gus Desbarats addressed the issue of “What is User Experience and Why Does it Matter?” at a special event on the topic of User Experience prior to the Cambridge Wireless Founders Dinner.
Essential’s Bill Hartman spoke at the Leadership Summit on Wireless Health (WiHealth) in July.
Programs Pamela De Cesare of Sterling Brands and Dan Formosa of Smart Design were appointed to the faculty of the Masters of Professional Studies in Branding that will be offered at the School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York City, beginning in the fall of 2010. The new one-year advanced degree program focuses on the intellectual link between leadership and creativity.
Published
Hartmut Esslinger of frog design’s new book, Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business (Jossey-Bass), was published this summer.
Recent DMI member guest bloggers at Fast Company’s Expert Design Blogs column include: Steve McCallion from Ziba, Dev Patnaik from Jump Associates, John Barratt from Teague, John Edson from Lunar Design, Robert Fabricant from frog design, Brett Lovelady from Astro Design, Ken Musgrave from Dell Computers, and Stuart Karten from Stuart Karten Design.
On The Move
 Ziba recently moved into its new headquarters in Portland. Their efforts in creating a sustainable work environment were recognized in Fast Company.
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