European Design Day 2009
29 September 2009
Organised by the Bureau of European Design Associations BEDA, the first ever European Design Day will take place on October 1, 2009.
The aim of the celebration is to highlight the important role of Design in driving innovation in European industry and to campaign for the inclusion of Design in the European Commission's innovation agenda.
ADN DESIGN welcomes this initiative that has our enthusiastic support.
Stendhal in Burgos
16 September 2009
The Burgos City Council has been the first to officially approve the Stendhal Bench. The bench, a street furniture element designed by ADN DESIGN for the Samen Group, is to be installed at new public works under construction around the city.
The photo shows the recently inaugurated Stendhal Bench in Burgos’ Juan XXIII Park. The piece will be prominently installed in many other locations, and will soon become yet another representative item in the Burgos urban landscape.
Labels: Products
Bilbao World Design Capital Blog
10 September 2009
This past July, an exhibition was held in the Bilblioteca Foral de Bizkaia (Regional Library of Biscay) of a project by Carlos Alonso Pascual aimed at presenting Bilbao as a candidate city for the World Design Capital initiative. Since then a wide range of people and organisations have shown their interest and support for the project. Creativity Zentrum and ADN DESIGN have expressed their willingness to help out in making this exciting project come to fruition. Such a task will require a wide-ranging, multidisciplinary and fully cooperative workgroup.
ADN DESIGN has set up the Bilbao World Design Capital Blog as an open platform for participation and debate.
The platform aims at becoming a meeting place for the production of ideas, communication and knowledge. In short, it is a space open to all those interested in joining this ambitious project. We urge you to contribute your opinions and suggestions. Would you like to join in the dream?
Labels: Initiatives
Diseña más [More Design]
03 September 2009
Once again, the Centro Aragonés de Diseño Industrial Cadi (Aragon Cadi Centre for Industrial Design) is promoting the Diseña project. The project – which this year is called Diseña más (More Design) – is aimed at offering a tool to SMEs to help in creating their products and their corporate image.
The Diseña más project is directed at any SME that regards industrial design and the management of their identity as strategic factors. It seeks to convince such companies to incorporate industrial design into more projects and over longer periods of time, that this is an effective route, and that design and innovation represent a kind of R&D that can directly affect their competitiveness and future viability – whatever their activity or size.
This coming 18 September, Brigitte Sauvage will appear at an intensive Diseña más workshop. She will give a talk aimed at accredited designers underlining the key role of use factors as an analytical tool previous to the generation of design concepts.
Venue: Palacio de Congresos Expo
Further information: cadi@aragon.es
Labels: Training
Bilbao 2014 World Design Capital
20 July 2009
Last 2 July, professionals from different Creative Industries sectors came together at the Biblioteca Foral de Bizkaia for the presentation of the final conclusions of the Creative Meetings that Creativity Zentrum had been organizing over previous weeks.
The meetings brought together more than 70 Creativity professionals, who shared their ideas and feelings on the sector’s current situation and future prospects. Participants dealt with such topics as the economic and financial situation, the training of professionals, and regional location. As a coda to each meeting, participants were asked to formulate proposals for the development of the Creative Industries in Biscay.
Working within this framework, Carlos presented a project aimed at presenting Bilbao as a candidate city for the World Design Capital initiative for 2014. The proposal, which was quickly supported by the meeting organisers as well as participants, was also presented to the press and public in attendance after finishing the exhibition, with conclusions from the Aproximación al Sector Creativo de Bizkaia (Getting to Know the Biscay Creative Sector) report.
World Design Capital is a biannual designation that was created to identify and recognise those cities that make effective use of design in revitalising the city and improving the lives of their citizens. The city of Torino had the bragging rights in 2008, while Seoul will receive the honour for 2010.
At this time, 47 cities from 27 countries are involved in the process of designating the World Design Capital for 2012. This process offers a fantastic opportunity for boosting a city’s cultural, economic and social development through promoting the effective use of design.
The World Design Capital initiative is being promoted by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design Icsid, a non-governmental organisation for professional industrial design, of which BAI - Biscay Innovation Agency is a member.
Download presentation in Pdf
Labels: Initiatives
Innovating through design (EIDE 1986-2009)
06 July 2009
The Basque Association of Industrial Designers EIDE presents this event at 6:00 p.m. on 9 July at the Gipuzkoa Chamber of Commerce (Avda. de Tolosa 75, 20018 Donostia)
Speakers:
- Iñaki Ibarra Unzueta, Gipuzkoa Provincial Council Promotional Director for Innovation and Knowledge.
- Jon Morán Arzuaga, Director-General of BAI, Biscay Innovation Agency.
- Carlos García Crespo, Director of R&D at Mondragon University.
- Francisco Podadera, Podadera Design.
- Jon Gasca, Designer and Artistic Director at STUA, National Design Prize 2008.
- Ignacio Sola, President of EIDE.
Labels: Events
WIDD 2009 Encounter
01 July 2009
In celebration of World Industrial Design Day, a group of designers and design enthusiasts came together last 29 June on the terrace of the Café Iruña in order to discuss design, innovation and creativity.
Denise Pradel, Carlos García, Unai Andonegui, Pascal Lecailletel, Txabi Zabala, Aníbal Fernández, Carlos San José, Brigitte Sauvage, Marta Sarabia, Leticia Orúe, Pedro Ruiz Aldasoro, Eneko Muruzabal, Leire Gandarias, Carlos Alonso, Benicio Aguerrea, Ignacio Sola, Garazi Izagirre and Juan Abascal were there.
Thanks to all for your company.
Labels: Events, Initiatives
World Industrial Design Day 2009
25 June 2009
Promoted by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design Icsid, World Industrial Design Day is a global initiative aimed at highlighting the important role that design plays in improving people’s lives.
Professional designers and design enthusiasts from around the world will come together on 29 June at events organised around this year’s proposed theme – “Industrial Design: the product of human creativity”.
As it did last year, ADN DESIGN will be bringing together all its colleagues and friends at a celebration held at 7:39 p.m. on Monday, 29 June at the Café Iruña sidewalk. There they will have the chance to join in a relaxed discussion on design and creativity.
Labels: Entities, Events, Initiatives
diForum 2009
19 June 2009
The diForum International Design and Innovation Forum 2009 was held to great organisational success and public acclaim last 8 June in Madrid.
Organised by the Corporation for the Development of Design and Innovation ddi and the Association for Management Progress apd, diForum 2009 functioned as a meeting point for reflection, exchange and the generation of new ideas aimed at a more innovative, competitive and sustainable welfare society.
Together with other well-known figures from the world of design, business management and innovation, Carlos San José, President of the Red Española de Asociaciones de Diseño READ (Spanish Network of Design Associations), acted as a member of the Scientific Committee advising the diForum 2009.
Labels: Events
Cantabria Day of the Entrepreneur
29 May 2009
Last 26 May, on invitation from the Corporation for the Development of Design and Innovation DDI, Brigitte Sauvage gave a talk entitled “Design Management and Business Strategy”. The event marked the Day of the Entrepreneur in Cantabria.
According to information provided by the organisers, the event, which was held in the Palacio de la Magdalena (Caballerizas) in Santander,
The Day of the Entrepreneur represents a way to open up new opportunities for innovative entrepreneurs with business ideas. It is for those wanting to transform a project into a reality, but also for those whose company has the potential for growth, as well micro-companies that are coming together in emerging sectors.
This year’s Day of the Entrepreneur is promoted and sponsored by the Spanish Government Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce, through its Undertaking Together initiative, by the SODERCAN Cantabria Corporation for Regional Development, by the University of Cantabria and by the Cantabria Regional Government.
