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2009.12.22

'Unit-T' project featured at Dwell magazine on an interview to Emily Pilloton, founder of Project H Design.

2009.10.20

Popular Science magazine features an online article on 'MX-Libris'.

2009.09.23

IndigoMedia features an article-interview with Alberto Villarreal for their Piensa section.

2009.08.12

'Silla Guarda' featured on NotCot.

2009.08.06

Co-founded by Alberto Villarreal, the non-profit group 'Razon Social' (focused on social design programs) is born as an evolution of the Project H Design Mexico City Chapter.

2009.08.01

'MX-Lirbis' selected to be featured on the launching list of Original Projects.

2009.06.06

Red dot online features an interview with Alberto Villarreal.

2009.06.05

'MX-Lirbis' and 'SanDisk ImageMate® Readers' projects included in the exhibition:
"Exposicion Cambia: Pequenos Actos, Grandes Efectos" at UNAM's Architecture School lobby, Mexico City. Openning ceremony on June 5th, celebrating the World Environment Day.

2009.04.15

Metropolis Magazine features an article on 'MX-Lirbis' concept: Green with Envy, by Suzanne LaBarre.

2009.03.12


'SanDisk ImageMate® Readers' case study featured on Sustainable Minds blog, showcasing some of the decisions made during the design process in order to reduce its environmental impact.

2009.03.06


Sarcastic concept 'YOU-SB' inundates the blog sphere creating polarized reactions and thus accomplishing its mission. Featured in Yanko Design and many other blogs.

2008.12.23


'Toco Madera' and 'Cascuz' projects are featured on DESIGN AND DESIGN website, and will be included on the 2008 year book.

2008.12.18


Environmental blog Ecofriend published an article about 'MX-Libris'.

2008.12.02


'MX-Libris' project received a red-dot design award 2008 and it is exhibited at Red Dot Design Museum in Singapore, as part of the red dot award winners 2008 exhibition.

2008.11.20


Alberto Villarreal presented at the Pecha Kucha Night San Francisco Vol. 29 at the Autodesk Gallery and celebrated 3 years of co-organization of the local chapter.

2008.11.19


Alberto Villarreal and Travis Lee of LUNAR were invited to give a lecture on Design for Sustainability to the
Haas MBA students at University of California Berkeley.

2008.07.21

LUNAR publishes The Designer's Field Guide for Sustainability for the design community. Alberto Villarreal is co-author of the document.

2008.07.12


Alberto Villarreal was interviewed for the recently launched QueVerde portal.

2007.11.27


'Habit Forming' project exhibited at Red Dot Design Museum in Singapore, as part of the red dot award winners 2007 exhibition.

2007.11.27

Alberto Villarreal participated as presenter at the Pecha Kucha event on the opening night of
Autodesk University 2007 in Las Vegas.

2007.11.22

'Brightwalk' project featured on IVYworld.de

2007.10.17

'Cascuz' exhibited with the IDEA Award 2007 winners at ICSID/IDSA World Design Congress: Connecting '07,
Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco.

2007.10.16

Alberto Villarreal was interviewed by Guillermo Ochoa for his Mexican radio program Panorama, at Grupo Acir.

2007.10.15

Alberto Villarreal joined the Ecolect team as a blog editor.

2007.08.27

'Toco Madera' Ring featured on MoCo Loco.

2007.08.22

Metropolis Magazine online feature: Shaping the Future: Alberto Villarreal speaks @ ICFF.

2007.07.20

'Cascuz' received an IDSA/BusinessWeek International Design Excellence Award, 2007 and it is featured at Business Week IDEA 2007 winners.

2007.04.26

'BrightWalk' project was presented by Alberto Villarreal at ICFF in New York as part of the:
Metropolis Conference / Design Entrepreneurs: Rethinking Energy.

2007.04.26

'BrightWalk' project awarded as runner up at the Metropolis Magazine Next Generation 2007 competition.

2007.04.15

Alberto Villarreal presented a lecture on: "Ethics and design, towards a socio-cultural sustainability"
at Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico.

2007.02.01

Icon-O-Cast, Lunar's Podcast, features an episode on "Cool concepts & Creativity" with an interview to me about Cascuz.

2006.11.07

Barcelona-based school of advertisement creativity "TENEMOS UN PLAN", interviewed me for their Barrio section.

2006.10.17

'Cascuz' received the red dot : best of the best design award 2006, and was nominated for the Luminary Award. It was exhibited at the red dot design museum in Singapore.

2006.01.04

Alberto Villarreal is co-organizer of PechaKucha-SF, the new event for the Design Community of the Bay Area (San Francisco), which is part of the PechaKucha global phenomenon.

2005.11.01

'BrightWalk' received the red-dot design award 2005 , and took part of the winners exhibit in Singapore.

2005.09.01

Alberto Villarreal was a jury member at the International Photoreal Furniture Competition 2005, by Design-Engine & OrangeSkin.

2005.08.02

Alberto Villarreal was an invited juror at the finals of the Braun Prize International, at BraunPrize Forum 2005 in Kronberg, Germany.

2005.01.12

Zanicdesign V. 3 was nominated to "Site Of The Year 2004" (SOTY) at Netdiver

2004.10.04

Alberto Villarreal joined the ID team of Lunar Design in San Francisco.

2004.09.28

'Elastime' project awarded with Honorable Mention at the 'TIMEX 2154 : The Future of Time' international competition.

2004.07.14

DesignTAXI interviewed Alberto Villarreal for their Fresh Hot Design Feature: 'One Size fits all'.

2003.11.11

Alberto Villarreal participated in the Visual DNA project.

2003.10.24

'Liquefaction' project exhibited atthe Expoluz 4, event by Colectivo Etzprime in Guadalajara, Mexico.