Roberta Smith writes for the New York Times: “With their first public artwork in Manhattan, which went up at the northwest corner of Houston Street and the Bowery on July 17/2009, the Brazilian brothers Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo, who call themselves Os Gêmeos, bring graffiti art to its Rococo phase” [...]

Communication Arts Magazine announces the winners of its 2009 advertising competition. Now in its 50th year, the prestigious competition selected 155 projects, representing the work of 97 firms, for inclusion. DDB Brasil was awarded for several campaigns, including FedEx, in which Fedex Express service is presented in an advertising campaign in Brazil showing the personal side of its service [...]

Highlights From Ad Age International Partner Adlatina’s Annual Rankings: Sky Brasil, Hyundai Brasil, HSBC Brasil among the best campaigns of 2009. As part of its awards, Adlatina has also named outstanding marketing executives of the year.

The April/2009 issue of CR features The Annual, showcasing the best work of 2008. CR goes through the process of how Lobo’s wonderful hand-crafted title sequence for Brazilian TV series “Capitu” — a Brazilian TV mini-series adaptation of 19th-century novelist Machado de Assis’ work, Dom Casmurro — was made:

UK monthly graphic design magazine Grafik features a review of Rogério Duarte’s exhibition in Australia in its issue #180.

Marcello Serpa, partner and general creative director, AlmapBBDO, São Paulo, Brazil, was selected by the international Clio Awards as the recipient of its distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for 2008. “Throughout his career, Marcello Serpa has clearly embodied the tradition of creative leadership, integrity and dedication to great ideas that are the cornerstones of the Clio Lifetime Achievement Award,” said Tony Gulisano, managing director, Clio Awards. “It is our honor to present him with this award.”

ADG Brasil, founded in 1989, has as its fundamental objectives to promote Brazilian Graphic Design. Acting as a channel between professionals, suppliers, entrepreneurs and the public in general, to affirm the profession’s identity, contributing for the country’s social, cultural and economic development [...]

Brazilian graphic designer Kiko Farkas gave a talk at the Nanjing Arts Institute on November 10th 2009 during the opening of an exhibition of 50 of his posters for the São Paulo Symphonic Orchestra.

Companies in every industry have adopted design thinking to offer fresh insight in functions from strategy to finance. BusinessWeek selected 39 master’s and MBA programs from North America, Europe, Asia, South America and Australia that significantly integrate design thinking and business. Students in these programs take classes in art, management and science, for example, and create projects in multi-disciplinary teams with students from other schools. They aim to use design for strategy rather than merely for aesthetics and may find jobs as design managers, researchers or business consultants. These 30 programs have formally established hybrid curricula [...]

The design developed for tweens’ books “Leituras Descoladas” collection (“Cool Readings” collection), has rendered another international award for REX Design. The brazilian design agency has been selected by Communication Arts Magazine among many design agencies around the globe to be on the magazine’s Design Annual 50.