BIO 20 announces design competition winners

The Icograda Excellence Award winning HIT corporate visual identity by Gigodesign is just one of the 350 exhibits from 17 different countries on display at BIO 20 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Winners were announced on 5 October at the Fuzine Castle where this year's exhibition is being held.

In selecting this piece for the Icograda Excellence Award, the international jury said, "The corporate identity programme successfully incorporates a diversity of subsidiary and product identities into a clearly organised and integrated system. Outstanding features are the manner in which colour and shape is used to unify the diversity of brand personalities as well as projecting a common visual language that underpins the organisation's corporate philosophy and personality. The system's flexibility and two and three-dimensional applications show true ingenuity."  

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+DESIGN is a new Icograda program that collects inspiring design solutions. It’s about leading creatively and celebrating creative problem solving that makes a difference. Icograda is inviting submissions that showcase unique design solutions to complex communications challenges. "We are hoping that both our members and the public will get involved in identifying projects that exemplify Icograda's ideals of leading creatively," says Don Ryun Chang, Icograda's President Elect.

The online component of the campaign will include both an archive of the case studies and a blog to promote dialogue about the notion of leading creatively.

The program was developed by Rethink Advertising in Vancouver, Canada. "I want to acknowledge the work done by Ian Grais and the team in Vancouver to develop this idea," said Chang. "From the original concepts through to the final execution, they’ve captured the spirit of Icograda and its mission."

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Baiao de Dois Filmes is a small production company located in Brazil. The identity evokes the legacy of the industrial revolution and the dawn of mass media, by representing an old 8mm film projector formed by distorted and distressed letterforms.

View in Galeria http://www.icograda.org/web/galeria-current.shtml

Giving it all away
David Robertson, FDIA, Design Institute of Australia
reprinted with permission from Artichoke (August 2006)

Nothing arouses more emotion in design circles than free pitching - competing for a design job by providing free work. This practice is widely condemned by professional design organisations, including the Design Institute of Australia (DIA), but it continues to occur. Why is it so difficult to stamp out? Surely giving away the only things you have to sell, your time and your expertise, doesn't make good sense?

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Do you pitch for free?
Where do you stand on the issue?

State your opinion http://www.icograda.org/web/opinion

How do you approach design solutions for multiple markets?

50% - Research. I test messaging in each market to ensure its relevance.
19% - Luck. I develop messaging for the main market and hope for the best.
34% - Not applicable. My clients are not international.

Totals shown may be more or less than 100% due to rounding

GDC works with VANOC to create fair pitch process

Vancouver 2010 is looking for a creative genius (or team of them) to develop the mascots for Canada’s Olympic and Paralympic Games - with the full support of the GDC. In 2004 the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada [GDC] lobbied the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee [VANOC] for more appropriate design competition processes and more recently local GDC Executives Yves Rouselle MGDC (President, GDC/BC) and Mark Busse MGDC (President-Elect, GDC/BC) met with VANOC Creative Services Directors Ali Gardner and Leo Obstbaum. With valuable input from BC Ethics Chair and GDC National Ethics Committee member Linda Coe, the GDC team helped VANOC finalise language and procedures for the newly announced mascot design request for proposals.

The GDC is thrilled to announce that VANOC has adopted virtually all GDC guidelines and suggestions and has created a fair, equitable and professional RFP that meets with GDC’s approval and support. For those opposed to spec design competitions, this is a momentus occasion in Canadian and international design indeed.

For more information: http://www.gdc.net

The EIDD Stockholm Declaration was adopted on 9 May 2004, at the Annual General Meeting of the European Institute for Design and Disability in Stockholm.

For more information: http://www.icograda.org/web/membersonly.shtml