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After serving as design director at AKQA's London office, Carlos Matias has been appointed as international design director. The role is based in New York, and Matias will oversee design and branding practices across the consultancy's offices in the US and Europe.
Nelly Ben Hayoun has been announced as an advisor to the United Nations Virtual Reality Lab, which is based in New York and headed up by Gabo Arora. In her role she will advise the team, engage diplomats and the public through events and talk series at the United Nations headquarters.

Richard Wilshire has joined Fjord, which is part of Accenture Interactive, as regional design director. Based in the London studio, he will be developing the company's digital product design and development offering.
CloudTag has appointed Peter Griffith as chief creative officer. Griffith, who has previously worked on the creative teams at Nokia and Microsoft, will oversee the design, aesthetics and brand messaging of CloudTag's products.

Los Angeles-based hospitality company, Sbe, has appointed Michele Caniato as its chief brand officer. Caniato will be based in its New York office and will focus on brand and image development, as well as marketing, design and advertising.
BrandOpus has promoted Leo Hadden from strategy director to board director. Hadden started out as account executive at the consultancy in 2007, shortly after it was founded, and moved to the strategy department in 2015.

As Pearlfisher announces its new San Francisco office, it has appointed Brian Steele to head up the newly established West Coast team as creative director.
The Creatives Industries Federation has moved from its old office on 90 Long Acre to a new headquarters just down the road on 22 Endell Street in Covent Garden, London.
Trunk has moved from its offices in Brixton, London to a new site in Elephant & Castle. The studio's new address is Studio 15, 0 Building, 83 Crampton St, London, SE17 3BQ.
WPP has announced that J. Walter Thompson Company its marketing communications consultancy has agreed to acquire iStrategyLabs, a digital consultancy, in the US.
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Design Manchester has revealed its lineup, which includes talks from the likes of educationalist Sir Christopher Frayling, designer Jason Bruges and an exhibition on the work of Alan Kitching.
The theme Design City will tie everything together this year and co-curator Malcolm Garrett says the festival will look at the “key concerns of living in modern cities, environmental issues, the devolution of power to Northern cities, what's going on in Manchester itself and the wider cultural agenda.”
Garrett also says that he doesn't want the festival to be about “graphic designers talking to graphic designers” and so to this end he adds: “We're going to speak to other disciplines architecture, wayfinding, design for aging, production design, user experience, virtual & interaction design and animation.”
Architect-cum-lighting and experience designer Jason Bruges will be talking about his work in the context of the city theme. “His work gives both a public and commercial perspective of the city,” says Garrett.

This year's event also looks at how the design agenda in cities is being driven by a new generation of design savvy consumers and the growing demand for craft in everything from beer packaging and branding to printing.
“We'll be extending this idea of craft to the public through our workshops and it will also relate to the broader themes of the city,” says Garrett.
A Design City film season is planned and will feature Writer Alice Rawsthorn talking about how Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo is greatly enhanced by Saul Bass' title sequence.
Meanwhile Christopher Frayling will talk about the film Dr Strangelove and what he sees as the “gleaming and sinister” production design of Ken Adam.
Alan Kitching: A Life in Letterpress is an exhibition billed as celebrating “one of the World's foremost practitioners of letterpress, typographic design and printmaking.”

The exhibition gives an insight into Kitching's works, his methodology and processes. Sketches, proofs and roughs are on display as well as artefacts and equipment from his workshop.
The exhibition was at Somerset House earlier in the year and there is an accompanying book.

Design City Fair will take place on 15 and 16 October and features stalls from over 100 creatives with affordable work for sale alongside live art, workshops for screen-printing, letterpress and book-binding among other classes. It's free and billed as a family friendly event. Names include Manchester Print Fair, Hotbed Press and Manchester Artists Book Fair.

Women in Print will being together local designers, print-makers and illustrators to celebrate the women who made Manchester great. This includes everyone from political reformers to paleobotanists.

Art Battle Manchester VIII is scheduled for 14 October at London Road Fire Station where illustrators, painters, tattooists and street artists will go toe-to-toe in what organisers predict to be “the city's most energetic art event.”
A 500 capacity crowd votes in rounds as ten artists take each other on to create a final piece in less than 30 minutes.
Garrett hopes that the Design City theme will “feel definitive” and “embrace different creative endeavours” this year.
One talk still being mapped out is The Great Debate, but Garrett says that it will look at the future concerns of how cities are developing and the role design plays. Garrett says that there are at least 20 more festival announcements to come.
Design Manchester 2016 runs from 12-23 October at various venues across Manchester. Head here for information.
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This is a microscopic photo of metal-oxidizing bacteria found in biofilm samples taken from a South African gold mine. The samples were taken by participants of the University of Tennessee's Biogeochemical Educational Experiences -- South Africa, a Research Experiences for Undergraduates program. South African mines, particularly the deep gold mines, have been selected for study because they provide relatively easy access to deep fissure waters and the rocks that host them. Since these mines are some of the deepest excavations in the world, they increase the possibility of uncontaminated studies of earlier evolution.
Image credit: Courtesy University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and University of the Free State, South Africa's Research Experiences for Undergraduates program

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The cataclysmic 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines masked the full impact of greenhouse gases on accelerating sea-level rise, according to a new study. Satellite observations of the ocean surface, which began in 1993, indicated the rate of sea-level rise was holding fairly steady at about 3 millimeters per year. As the pace of warming oceans and melting glaciers and ice sheets accelerated, scientists expected to see a corresponding increase in the rate of sea-level rise. Analysis of the satellite record has not borne that out, however. Researchers have now determined that the expected increase in sea-level rise due to climate change was likely hidden because of a happenstance of timing: Pinatubo erupted in 1991, two years before the first satellite observations of the ocean began. The eruption, which temporarily cooled the planet, caused sea-levels to drop and effectively distorted calculations of sea-level rise in subsequent decades.
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geometric structures containing boutique garments were dotted underneath the upper level, allowing shoppers to witness the lit-up display below.
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the artists have infilled the D museum in seoul with an interactive installation made up of thousands of luminous hexagonal cells.
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as seoul's population continues to rise so do the number of bridges that cross the han river, the iconic waterway that intersects the city.
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Leafhopper (Hebecephalus sp.) collected in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan, Canada, and photographed at the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (sample ID: BIOUG20896-D08; specimen record: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Public_RecordView?processid=CNGSC3084-15; BIN: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Public_BarcodeCluster?clusteruri=BOLD:ACU5902)
