Scotland's first nationwide international design festival
In conjunction with the festival organizers we are pleased to announce the winning design of the Six Cities Design Festival t-shirt is, ‘Omni Present’ by ‘39Steps’. Congrats to the winner and thanks to everyone who entered... even those who completely ignored the brief. The other tees by the designers will appear on the site when they are all finalized and read to go.
The six cities of Scotland, Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness and Stirling will host the country’s first nationwide international design festival from 17 May – 3 June this year, promoting and celebrating Scottish design. An imaginative programme of exhibitions, events, keynote speakers, talks, tours and much more will take place all over Scotland, alongside two major continuing programmes – Design into Business and Learning. The Six Cities Design Festival is delivered by The Lighthouse, Scotland’s National Centre for Architecture, Design and the City.
Six renowned designers, including Wayne Hemingway, Stefan Sagmeister, Timorous Beasties, Zandra Rhodes, Peter Saville and D8, will each create a tee shirt for the inaugural Six Cities Design Festival, one for each city. Tee Shirts will be showcased shortly.
Designer Profiles
Wayne and his wife Geraldine built their fashion label, ‘Red or Dead’ into a label that received global acclaim. This resulted in winning the prestigious British Fashion Council's Streetstyle Designer of the Year award for an unprecedented 3 consecutive years in 1996, 1997 and 1998. Having sold Red or Dead in a multi million cash sale they set up Hemingway Design, which specializes in affordable and social design.
Stefan Sagmeister is among today’s most important graphic designers. Born in Austria, he now lives and works in New York. His long-standing collaborators include the AIGA and musicians, David Byrne and Lou Reed. Read more of this extract at Designmuseum.org.
Noted for its surreal and provocative textiles and wallpapers, the design studio Timorous Beasties was founded in Glasgow in 1990 by Alistair McAuley and Paul Simmons, who had met while studying textile design at Glasgow School of Art. Timorous Beasties was shortlisted for the Designer of the Year prize in 2005. www.timorousbeasties.com
D8 and 3D8 are a group of like-minded people who enjoy working together. They think about, and design across, a whole bunch of formats including print, interiors, web, multimedia, advertising and most others you could mention. www.d8web.co.uk
Zandra Rhodes was one of the new wave of British designers who put London at the forefront of the international fashion scene in the 1970s. Her designs have always been clear, creative statements, dramatic but graceful, bold but feminine and her garments have a timeless quality that makes them unmistakably a Rhodes creation. www.zandrarhodes.com
Ever since his first work for the fledgeling Factory Records in the late 1970s, Peter Saville has been a pivotal figure in graphic design and style culture. In fashion and art projects as well as in music, his work combines an unerring elegance with a remarkable ability to identify images that epitomise the moment. Read more of this extract at Designmuseum.org.
We wanted you to look around you and see how design plays a part in your everyday life.
- Design is everywhere
- The Royal Mail red postbox, La Sagrada Familia, the iPod, the paper clip, the toothbrush, the Porche 911, the mundane to the extraordinary
- Everything around us has been designed
- Take inspiration from everything around you; from the everyday things that most don’t notice to the white ear phones protruding from commuters heads.
- Do not use competition or festival branding on your designs. We will place these on the winning designs.
- Provide us with a tee that makes us step back and notice design that is all around us
- Remember, at all times you are competing for attention, and boring design is not good design
