South America
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 [...]
New media & semiotics lecture in Shanghai
Brazilian architect and urbanist Polise De Marchi (PhD) presents the lecture “Media, perceptions and the city”, a collection of visual manifestations through the use of unconventional media, inspired by students’ perceptions of São Paulo.
Brazilian posters win 1st prize in Bolivia
Brazilian art director Carlos Vinicius Lopes won the main award at the 3rd International Biennial of the Poster in Bolivia. The exhibition was held at the Museo San Francisco in La Paz, during November 2009. The theme of this edition of the Biennial was “Migration”, and Lopes’ poster series “Sobreviver” (“Survive”) was elected by the Jury the recipient of the U$3,000 prize…
Roots: ADG Brasil (Associação dos Designers Gráficos)
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 [...]
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná featured on the “World’s Best Design Programs” list by BusinessWeek magazine
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 [...]
Brazil outsourcing industry featured in Design Council Magazine’s “The Latin American renaissance” article
Brazil’s productivity growth outstrips the US and Mexico is rivaling India for outsourcing. Rhymer Rigby says Latin America’s emergence is built on quality and creativity. Check out what else did Design Council Magazine said about Brazil’s economy [...]
“Brazil Contemporary” Exhibition opens in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Brazil Contemporary is an overview exposition compiled by the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI), Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and the Netherlands Photo Museum. These three institutions have joined forces to introduce to the general public Brazilian artists, architects, photographers and designers [...]
Interaction South America ’09: São Paulo, Brazil
The Interaction Design Association (IXDA) is pleased to announce the 1st regional conference of Interaction Design Association (IxDA): Interaction’09 | South America, which will happen on 26,27 and 28 November at 9 am to 18 pm, in São Paulo. The purpose of the event is to encourage and work with the education of interaction design in Latin America, so has the support of several institutions of higher education, promoting greater visibility for professionals engaged in the development of interactive solutions.
Schools: Escola Superior de Design Industrial (ESDI)
The Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial (ESDI) [Superior School of Industrial Design] was the first school of higher education in industrial design was created in 1963 and is the oldest design college in both Brazil and in South America [...]
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