Dosch- "HDRI: Radiant Skies" 
-The product contains 113 HDR images of computer generated skies for spectacular reflection and lighting effects.Use the High Dynamic Range Images (HDRI) in order to visualize reflecting materials and for lighting your scene with optimized sky settings......................More!(Website Link )
3D animation projects (N.G)Baltimore, Maryland-based Planit, an integrated brand communications agency, has been approached by the National Geographic Channel and Massachusetts Institute of Technology to design and produce 3D animation for a range of projects. ..............Read more!(Source: C.B.Review)
LightWorks 7.5 improves LightWorks Real-time, more
By Brad Cook bcook@maccentral.com-British developer LightWork Design on Wednesday released LightWorks 7.5, the latest version of its 3D rendering engine for use by the developers of 3D graphics software. Changes in this upgrade include improvements to LightWorks Real-time, the API that enables access to hardware rendering on video cards supporting OpenGL Shading Language or Cg, as well as enhancements in the Global Illumination add-on, making it easier to create images using radiosity...........................Read more!(Source: Macworld)
International Furniture Fair Singapore 2005 International Furniture Fair Singapore will be held from 1 to 5 March 2005. Product mix at IFFS/AFS 2005 will include Bedroom, Children, Decorative Accessories, Components, Customised, Dining Room, Garden, Handcrafted, Kitchen, Lightings, Living Room, Occasional, Office Furniture, Rattan/Wicker/Cane/Wire, Upholstery, Soft Furnishing and Others..........More!(Website Link)
ANIMATION TIPS...on B.B.C! A Winning FormulaThe winners of BBC Talent's 2003 Funky Animator Scheme discuss their animation 'Hobbies', getting a script together and creating their new films................Read more!(Source: BBC-Talent)
52nd International Advertising Festival:Cannes Lions 2005 Call For EntriesFilms - Last day March 11,2005Calling entries for TVCs, 10sec,20sec.........upto 180sec.If you think you've made an award winning film in the past year ,sendit to us before March 11. Lets the Jury take a Look and then Most Likly , you'll hear an applause that'll last more than 3 minutes! email : toicannes@timesgroup.com Website : www.canneslion.com .....
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"Recognition for bridging the gap of understandingbetween Western and Islamic Cultures"Washington, DC, 26 January 2005 - His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam (hereditary spiritual leader) of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, received the National Building Museum’s Vincent Scully Prize yesterday, in recognition of his contributions to promoting design excellence, urban and rural revitalization, and historic preservation in countries where Muslims have a significant presence. His efforts, the National Building Museum noted, have “helped bridge the gap of understanding between Western and Islamic cultures.” The National Building Museum, created by an act of Congress in 1980, is America’s premier cultural institution dedicated to exploring and celebrating architecture and the built environment. Explaining the rationale behind the creation of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Aga Khan expressed “thirty years ago, I began to question why architecture in the Islamic world had lost touch with the great achievements of its past.” In recent decades, he went on, new projects in urban Muslim societies were increasingly pedestrian, often carbon copies of the so-called modernism that one would see in any western city. “There was little relevance to the distinctive needs of Muslim communities today or a vision for the future. And hardly anyone was looking at the needs of poor and rural communities” he added................Read more!(Source: akdn.Org)
Design........How often you use this Term? Design, the art and service involved in the planning and making of a product, tool, artefact, building, or service.
“Design” and “designing” are popular, and often misused, terms for a wide range of activities and outcomes and their distinction has not been clear in popular usage. The difficulty of defining “design” has been compounded by its fashionable element.Design is a conscious activity, guided by aims and objectives. It refers to planned and organized actions intended to bring about some predetermined outcome, although there may also be accidental or unexpected results. Design activity usually displays expertise, knowledge, creativity and thoroughness. It has a close relationship with technology, with human needs and aesthetics......................................................Read More about Design :D !(Source: Encarta® )
