2021.07.27

VOL.211

Trend Reports
	DFA Awards Exhibition @ GOOD DESIGN Marunouchi, Tokyo
	The DFA Design for Asia Awards, which disseminates excellent design to the world, will host an exhibition of the award winners' designs at GOOD DESIGN Marunouchi in Tokyo. The first overseas DFA Awards Exhibition in 2021 is themed "Design Steers¡¦Reshape Future" and will showcase more than 150 selected awardee portfolios and winning projects from the 2019 & 2020 DFA Awards. Date: 14 Jul – 5 Aug 2021 Time: 11:00 – 19:00 Venue: GOOD DESIGN Marunouchi - Shin Kokusai Building, 1st Floor, 4-1, Marunouchi 3-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo *Free admission

Event&Project
	Collaboration Project with MIID: Call for Contributions to MIID E-Newsletter
	NPO ADF (Aoyama Design Forum) has launched a new project with the Malaysian Institute of Interior Designers (MIID). As part of the agreement, ADF will regularly post some articles on MIID E-Newsletter for its members. ADF is looking for articles and reports for the newsletters to share innovative and unique ideas and thoughts.

Trend Reports
	ADF launched Art x Design EC site
	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.

Trend Reports
	¡ÚADF Web Magazine¡ÛRefik Anadol: Humanity 14.0
	Lifestyle Journalist & PR/Marketing consultant, Ellen Boonstra introduces new media artist Refik Anadol and his recent experiments with synesthetic reality, specifically a 30-minute Machine Hallucination film in New York.

Trend Reports
	¡ÚADF Web Magazine¡Û¡ÈFrida Kahlo: Timeless,¡É an uninspired and rote presentation of Kahlo¡Çs artistic legacy
	Development writer, Riley Yaxley reports on an exhibition of Frida Kahlo at the Cleve Carney Museum of Art. The artist was a member of the Mexican Communist Party and arrested in the summer of 1940 on suspicion of being involved in the murder of the exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky with whom she had had an affair three years earlier.

Trend Reports
	¡ÚADF Web Magazine¡ÛTHINK OUTSIDE THE ¡ÈBOX¡É: The Art of Packaging
	The Italian architect Valentina Cannava describes original and appealing packaging as well as some packaging of successful brands by using new shapes and innovative materials or forsake tradition to pursue innovation and create something unique. She also points out some crucial aspects of packaging.

Trend Reports
	¡ÚADF Web Magazine¡ÛINSTRUMENTS FOR DESIGNERS VOL II: The Vignelli Canon
	Product Designer Virginia Alluzzi introduces a famous Italian designer Massimo Vignelli and his understanding of good design and his long career along with a quote from the book, The Vignelli Canon.