SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul Design Week, Korea’s largest public design festival, took off Thursday with yet another emphasis on the significance and the value of design. Organized by the Seoul Design Foundation, this year’s festival is themed “Smart City, Smart Design, Smart Life”, and will take place in multiple venues and galleries [...]
SUWON, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Gyeonggi Province announced the 20 finalists of its 10th Public Design Contest Exhibit on Monday. This year’s exhibit focused on ‘Service Design’ projects that sought for the obstacles and difficulties faced by ordinary people, and suggested ways to improve their overall satisfaction levels. The grand prize went to 360˚READER, [...]
SEJONG, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will invest 40 billion won (US$35.5 million) by 2020 to improve the country’s industrial design capability and develop higher value-added products, the trade ministry here said Monday. In a design promotion plan unveiled at the 2016 Design Innovation Forum held in Seoul, the Ministry of Trade, Industry [...]
ULSAN, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Walking through a rain storm is not a pleasant experience. Not only do you need to hold tight to the safe haven that is your umbrella, you also need to continuously adjust how you hold it to maximize protection against changing winds that gust from all directions. With this [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics revealed its ‘Serif TV DecoTem Project’ Tuesday, in which professional designers came up with various home decor items (hence DecoTem) that could pair well with the company’s Serif TV. Samsung’s Serif TV, released in 2015, was designed by the famous Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec brothers, and was [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Bodyfriend, a Korean wellness and healthcare product manufacturer, plans to launch new products inspired by ideas submitted by students from Korea and overseas. The company revealed Wednesday the results of an international competition for young students and professionals that it co-hosted with iF. iF International Forum Design GmbH is [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Ten South Korean designers will open a pop-up store at a renowned concept store in Paris next month, a local design foundation said Tuesday. The Seoul Design Foundation said the store, named “Seoul’s 10Soul,” will open at L’eclaireur in Paris on June 22 and run for three weeks. The [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) - Samsung Electronics Co.’s new flagship smartphone, presumably the Galaxy S7, is set to be showcased at a tech exhibition slated for February, an industry source said Friday, with the device expected to put more emphasis on performance over design. The South Korean tech giant will reveal the new Galaxy at [...]
GWANGJU, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean interior design firms have participated in Maison & objet, one of Europe’s largest trade fairs for interior design, for five consecutive years, introducing Korea’s star designers to the world stage. This has been part of the “Designtag” project initiated by the Seoul Design Foundation. Established in 2009, the [...]
SAN DIEGO, April 2, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) - It was clear that California is bubbling over with creative talent when GEICO announced the winners of its Distracted Driving T-shirt Design Contest. California winners included: Donghyeon Lee, grand-prize winner for his creative images of distractions. Paul Shin, finalist in the elementary school category for his “No [...]