Jotun Paints, one of the world’s leading producers and suppliers of paints, has announced that it will introduce customer to 2007 color trends and interior design paints at the upcoming Emirates Today Ideal Home Show.
Jotun will display its entire range of interior products at the exhibition, which runs from November 30 to December 3, 2006 [...]

The Asian-Pacific Space Designers Association (APSDA) Congress is back in town with three days worth of exhibition, lectures and workshops on interior design.
Malaysia hosted the biennial exhibition for the first time in 1998 and was chosen to organise it again this year after the original host nation pulled out earlier this year.
With only eight [...]

The Building Systems Council of the National Association of Home Builders has long been the nexus for the best designs emerging from the housing industry. The Building Systems Council announced the winners of its annual Excellence in Marketing & Home Design Awards competition during last week’s Building Systems Council’s SHOWCASE event in Miami, FL.
Golden Eagle [...]

Karl Bengs is passionate about polishing ”gems” in Japan. He is a German architect who has attracted increasing amounts of attention for his work to restore old Japanese houses.
For many years, Bengs has searched for old houses and buildings and breathed new life into them by preserving their traditional features while at the same time [...]

Bravo hopes to replicate the success of “Project Runway” and “Top Chef” with “Top Design,” an interior design competition with designer Todd Oldham as host.
The judges for the 10-episode series, which begins production this month in Los Angeles, are Jonathan Adler, a prolific designer known for his “mod shapes, vibrant colors and organic eye-popping patterns;” [...]

Software major Tata Consultancy Services has bagged an interior design contract from US airframe manufacturer Boeing Company and will work closely with its customer to design the interiors of new aircraft.
Separately, the Tata group company is also setting up an “airline innovation laboratory” in Chennai to showcase mock-up interiors of aircraft. The laboratory will enable [...]

Navy Pier isn’t exactly Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, but for the 800 people scheduled to turn out for tonight’s annual Design Night ceremony honoring the year’s best projects by Chicago architecture firms, it’s even better than the Oscars.
Sponsored by the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the evening will honor Murphy/ Jahn Architects — [...]

University of Basil in Switzerland will play host to an exhibition, symbolizing 50 years of Iran’s contemporary graphic design, on January 5, 2007, MNA reported.
Organized by Iranian graphic designers Majid Abbassi, Firuz Shafei, Mostafa Assadollahi, and Ebrahim Haqiqi, the exhibition is centered on Iranian typography and features posters, motifs, and design of book covers, Haqiqi [...]

A serene bathroom that seems carved out of a rock wall, a girl’s bedroom that easily transitions to later stages of life, a teen media room retreat with an oh-so-practical rubber floor.
These are among the winning entries in the sixth annual Orange County Home Design Awards. The competition is sponsored by our sister publication, Orange [...]

In the late 18th century, Georg Jensen (1866-1935) took the world by storm with his namesake silverwares firm. This year, the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s 14th Annual Student Design Competition is inspired by the late Danish silversmith.
Sponsored by Collab: The Group for Modern and Contemporary Design, a collaboration of design professionals supporting the modern and [...]

John Benya, one of Quincy’s most prolific architects and one of its more colorful characters, will be the focus of a major exhibit opening next weekend.
In addition, two public lectures and building tours later this month will showcase Benya’s life and work.
Benya, who died in 1989 at age 77, designed more than 450 buildings [...]

In Southern California’s high stakes residential building market, homebuilders Bill Watt and Neal Pedersen are on a serious roll. The duo, while not widely known to the public at large, has gained a lion’s share of public, peer and media attention nationally for two niche projects tucked behind the gates of the Santaluz master-planned community [...]