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An Artistic Ride

Frankfurt's Atelier Markgraph designed the Art Wheel for the Frankfurt Museum. The 40-meter high Ferris wheel is covered in canvas, onto which a never-ending stream of art from different centuries is projected. Each gondola on the wheel represents a different art gallery. And passengers learn about their allocated gallery through a media display while riding.

Collect Them All

Best World decided to hire graphic designers to convey the image that the company is a Happy World. Singapore graphic designers Epigram based their concept on the popular local card game Happy Family. Each employee is depicted as a colorful caricature with a description of his role. In addition to the report, a pack of playing cards with Best World staff is included.

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No-Frills Brew

Hamburg's feldmann+schultchen design studios has two entries that won “Best of Best” recognition. One is this design for budget beer brewery 5.0 Original. The design is simple and cost-effective to produce because it is in one color, and ultimately, very effective. A different color code represents a different type of beer, such as black and white for pilsner and orange and white for wheat. And the case itself? A second-hand crate.

Time to Waste

Here and Now is a newspaper for adults, who consider themselves too busy for playing games. Designed by Germany's Catrin Sonnenbad, who is one of the contenders for the Junior Award, the pamphlet has several sheets of paper filled with ideas on how to waste time. Each page offers a different time-wasting exercise and is sprinkled intentionally with typos or uneven lines.

Fishing for Attention

Feldmann+schultchen design studios' second entry is packaging for Frischfisch (“Fresh Fish”). In profile, the revolutionary packaging looks like an airplane. But the wave shape on the top is a reminder of the origins of the package's contents: the sea. When stacked side by side, the quirky packets resemble the surface of the water, with a school of fish moving through it.

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Visual communication design and product communication design ... have to keep it SIMPLE.

All these are for the eyes to see and for the ears to listen. Once the attention caught, the mind will analyze and therefore action is taken.

Here some of the visual of the award winning communication design, designed.

Red Dot Awards

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Award-Winning Communication Design

Here is a selection of winners from this year's Red Dot Communication Design Awards, the design industry's answer to the Oscars

By Marina Kamenev

Keep it simple. That's the message of this year's Red Dot Communication Design Awards, one of Europe's most prestigious creative events. Held in Essen, Germany, the annual awards are the design industry's equivalent of the Oscars. This year, nine international design experts filtered through 3,708 entries from 31 countries. The Red Dot Award was bestowed on 186 winners, of which 24 received a “Red Dot Best of the Best.” On Dec. 8, nine of these winners will be honored with Red Dot Grand Prix. And a separate winner for the $12,850 Junior Prize will be chosen for the best student submission

communication design ... what?

Communication design is a sub-discipline of design which is concerned with how media intermission such as printed, crafted, electronic media or presentations communicate with people. A communication design approach is more concerned with messages communicated than aesthetics in media. The distinction between communication design and other applied arts is in the motivation: while the communication design process does involve a certain amount of self-expression and creativity, the goals are often those of the commissioning body rather than the artist's, and the parameters set by the commissioning body are often more constraining.

The term communication design is often used interchangeably with visual communication and more specifically graphic design, but has an alternate broader meaning that includes auditory communications as well as visual. Examples of Communication Design include information architecture, editing, typography, illustration and professional writing skills applied to creative industries.

Once graduate... where to go? what to do?

• a graphic designer,
• a creative director
  
• art director in an advertising or public relations firm or design consultancy
• a publication designer for a newspaper or magazine or an interactive media designer who designs or manages web sites.

(A concentration in communication design can lead to a career in many different fields. You may use your creative, aesthetic and technical skills to create visual communication pieces that are used by companies and organizations to sell products and services, or to present information in a memorable and meaningful way. As a communication designer, you could create everything from packing and web sites to advertisements, magazine covers and story layouts.)


IF you have these qualities... Mass Communication Design might be for you...

• Creative Mind – electronic media designers see things a little differently than others and allow their imaginations to work to their advantage.
• Visually Literate – the Mass Communication students will have an interest in all forms of visual communication, from photography and motion picture to fine arts.
• Intense Focus – majors are motivated through intense interest in all forms of media and entertainment.
• Self-Motivation – Mass Communication majors are independent thinkers who take pride in their work and value a good product.
• A sense of humor – majors appreciate the occasional “happy accidents” that always happen while learning new media.
• Productive Play – enjoy your time as a team player contributing to the design of a media project.
• A Critical Eye – your notice the details of what constitutes a good web design over one that needs to go back to the drawing board.
• Interest in the World – as a Mass Communication Specialist you work with all kinds of media and all kinds of clients; and your interest in world gives you the freedom to explore.