2024.05.28

VOL. 358

Award&Competition
	¡ÚDeadline Extended¡ÛThe 5th VMARK Vietnam Design Award is calling for Entries
	The 5th VMARK Vietnam Design Award is now calling for entries. This is the National Design Award system empowered by VDAS Design Association, HCMC (Ho Chi Minh City) Vietnam to highlight the excellent qualifications of the best design, design innovation, and design concept through screening by the professional judging panel from international design associations in Interior Design, Architecture, Industrial Product Design, Graphic, Multimedia, Branding & Communication and Fashion Design. As the symbol of winning the Innovation Design, VMARK Vietnam Design Awards is celebrating annually and honored in VMARK Vietnam Design Week – Award Gala Night to strengthen the national competitiveness and improve the quality of life. The award seeks submissions that resonate with the theme, "Design Thinking. Design Tomorrow." ADF (NPO Aoyama Design Forum) is backing this award as a media partner. Early bird submission extended: 30 May 2024 Submission deadline extended: 30 June 2024

Award&Competition
	DFA Design for Asia Awards 2024 calls for Entries!
	The DFA Design for Asia Awards 2024, hosted by the Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC) with media partnership from the NPO Aoyama Design Forum (ADF), will accept entries until June 30. As a supporting organization, we are pleased to offer you a discounted entry fee of HKD 980 per entry for registrations made after the discount period (May 15 to June 30). Please enter the discount code when submitting your entry. Click "Details" to obtain the code.

Trend Reports
	Get Ready for ARCHIDEX 2024
	ARCHIDEX, Malaysia's largest architecture exhibition, will be held for the 23rd consecutive year from July 3-6 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center and is poised to transform the industry with the latest innovations and cutting-edge technologies. NPO Aoyama Design Forum (ADF) is supporting the event as one of its media partners.

Award&Competition
	Dezeen Awards 2024 is Now Accepting Entries
	Dezeen Awards 2024 is now accepting entries. Standard deadline is 6 June, 2024, but you can save 20 per cent by entering before 27 March. Aoyama Design Forum proudly supports the award this year again.  6 June 2024: late entry deadline

Trend Reports
	EK Design Creates a "Show" Setting to Explore the Boundary between Art and Life
	Discussions about art in the past focused on advocating for its integration into everyday life. Nowadays, it's widely acknowledged that art plays a crucial role in enhancing the quality of life for individuals. The question now becomes: how can we incorporate art into our daily routines and create individual artistic practices?

Trend Reports
	¡ÚADF Web Magazine¡ÛThe International Garden Festival Celebrates its 25th Anniversary
	The 25th edition of the Reford Gardens International Garden Festival will run from June 22 to October 6, 2024, themed "The Ecology of Possibility." It will start with Discussion Day, an engaging conference event, held over the Fête Nationale holiday weekend in Grand-Métis, the first such event since 2001.

Trend Reports
	¡ÚADF Web Magazine¡ÛZilio A&C launches a collaboration with Alessandro Stabile
	Renowned Milanese designer Alessandro Stabile and historic Friulian brand Zilio A & C are collaborating for the first time to present two projects: the AX stool and the Mule bench family. This partnership showcases a profound aesthetic and functional affinity, combining Stabile's innovative vision with Zilio A & C's craftsmanship, established in 1951 in the Udine chair district.

Trend Reports
	¡ÚADF Web Magazine¡ÛMargot Krasojevic Architects Unveil Thermodynamic Wind Turbine Chapel and Club
	Margot Krasojević Architects have unveiled a project for a cliffside chapel in Montenegro, designed to deliver renewable energy to worshipping communities. Montenegro, with its rich history of religion and politics, saw Orthodox Christians retreat to the mountains during the Ottoman Empire and great wars. Today, it is a tourist and mining hub with unexcavated mountain tunnels leading to the Adriatic Sea.

Service
	Call for works on the ADF Art x Design EC website
	NPO Aoyama Design Forum (ADF) has launched the ADF Art x Design EC site to promote artists and designers further. Based on the concepts of "Your Art & Design Can Color Someone's Life," "Making Art & Design Accessible" and "Bring Colorfulness To Your Space," we hope that everyone can enjoy art and design more easily and add color to their lives.