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Brazil highlighted as “Design’s Next Superpower” by Fast Company Magazine

John Barrat spent some time in Brazil earlier this year to attend of the IDEA/Brazil Award jury. He shared some of his impressions of Brazilian Design with Fast Company magazine, including a retrospect since 2008, when Brazil made history with 12 award wins in the U.S., a feat never achieved by any South American country [...]

A Brazilian talk about Asian design

Taschen editor-in-charge Julius Wiedemann and co-author Bruno Porto showcased the upcoming 430 page book “Asian Graphics NOW!” at the German Consulate General in Shanghai, on September 15th 2010, featuring a wide selection of design projects from China (mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao), Japan, Korea, India, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam etc, divided in five sections – Advertising, Branding, Editorial, Non-Commercial and Packaging [...]

Brazilian Design at the New York’s MoMA Store

The Museum of Modern Art’s Design Store has been running regionally-sourced collections in their retails shops and online. Currently they’ve got an excellent array of products from Korea, and next up they’ll be bringing work from Brazil. The collection focuses on locally sourced materials—many of them environmentally-minded—like coconut, eucalyptus, and Brazilian white clay. The objects range in scale from small jewelry and vases to stools and even a large lounge chair designed by the Campana Brothers [...]

Business Week’s Bruce Nussbaum talk about the “Best Design From Brazil”

In 2008, the Industrial Designers Society of America ran a new contest in Brazil and some of the winners were included in this year’s Top International Design Excellence Awards. Amazing design and innovation is taking place in Brazil and this slideshow of winners (Brazil placed third behind the US and Korea in the number of IDEA awards in 2008) shows the wide range of activity. Bruce Nussbaum highlights some of the work featured the 2008 awards [...]

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