There's less than a week left to register and submit your best work for consideration in IDSA's 2011 International Design Excellence Awards.
For over 30 years, IDEA has recognized design excellence in products, sustainability, interaction design, packaging, strategy, research and concepts. The awards program honors new products that have been in distribution between Feb. 2009 and Feb. 2011. The Henry Ford will house the winners in its permanent collection.
Congratulations to Mariam Melkumyan who was announced as the jury winner by Core77's Allan Chochinvov for her entry Start Acting at Compostmodern in San Francisco on the weekend. She joins the other winners as voted by the community with a copy of Adobe' CS5 Master Collection and bonus $500 cash.
Congratulations to Mariam Melkumyan who was announced as the jury winner by Core77's Allan Chochinvov for her entry Start Acting at Compostmodern in San Francisco on the weekend. She joins the other winners as voted by the community with a copy of Adobe' CS5 Master Collection and bonus $500 cash.
Coco Cardenas presents her Jewelry design methods and pieces.
Coco designs and handcrafts all of her pieces. A mold for is produced for each of her designs. The molds and castings are made from silicone rubbers and urethane plastics, giving her flexible, careful control of each piece. Original designs are made from wood and wax carvings, or by the manipulation of previously assembled pieces. The earrings are hung from sterling silver or gold-plated posts. Select designs are adorned with plastic or brass chains. Finally, each piece is given a title referencing its inspiration.
Recently Coco has collaborated with Patty Wilson on custom pieces for photo shoots and with Ryan Watkins-Hughes for Heist Gallery in NY. On her own she has been doing specialty pieces for Screaming Mimi's in New York City and Mini Market in Brooklyn. She created both jewelry and hand bag pieces for Adam Arnold's fall runway show as well as many of the shows at New York Fashion Week.
Coco's presentation will showcase her work and demonstrations of her creative process including details about materials, techniques and safety advice. She will also highlight resources for materials and information.
At XPLANE, you'll work sometimes from a directional void and sometimes within strict guidelines. You won't be making web banners because you're an industry-agnostic multimedia ninja who is constantly asked to stretch into illustration, writing, motion, sound Design and much more. You'll Design for varied industries and for some of the most exciting companies in the world, including many of the Fortune 100. Some currently active studio projects include mobile apps, interactive sites, touchscreen experiences, process maps, training courses, print campaigns, visual languages, and animated movies. Diverse, right? Here are some examples.
Lovable geeks that we are, we've always got a watchful eye on developments in 3D printing technology. Its amazing to see interest spreading through a whole host of disciplines. Core77's very own Matt Brown has even speculated on how such technologies might influence food production in his design fiction work.
Well, according to a report that appeared on CNN Money yesterday, Matt's fantasies may not be so far-fetched. Working alongside the opensource Fab@Home project, students and researchers at Cornell have been experimenting with printing quite a variety of edibles.
The team are seemingly looking to get these babies out into mass production—aiming for a price point comparable to that of an iPad.
In honor of the 7th NYC snowstorm of the season, we're revisiting 7 of our favorite cold-weather ideas from our archives. In case you missed it the first time around, here is some red-hot inspiration for the winter blues.
A California-based company called Sticker City makes vinyl wraps for cars, and while I don't own a car and probably wouldn't gussy mine up in such a fashion, I do find the material interesting.
Made for aesthetic purposes, their line of sheet-good products come in textures and patterns like carbon fiber, brushed aluminum, a variety of camouflages, etc. No good to those of us who aren't fast & furious, but it occurred to me that the material could be useful to ID-student modelmakers who need to fake the real thing on the cheap.
Tune in Thursday, January 27th for the live announcement of the LifeEdited Small Apartment Design Contest winners! With over 300+ submissions and over 500,000 page views already, we are proud to be affiliated with this challenge to do more with less. Launched in October by Graham Hill, founder of TreeHugger, the design competition for a 420sf apartment demonstrates how we can "radically reduce our urban footprint, while living better and saving money." Check out some of the great ideas online and join the LifeEdited team for the announcement!
When: Thursday, January 27th, Noon EST
Where: Live Online!
Every time you turn around they've opened a new cocktail bar a few blocks away from you. I realize this is not a popular view, but I hate cocktails. Gin, whisky and vodka distilleries have spent hundreds of years getting their formulas right, then we go and muck it up by adding pomegranate juice and Maraschino cherries? No thank you. Cocktails were popular and necessary during Prohibition, when all we had was vile-tasting bathtub moonshine that needed masking with fruit juice so you wouldn't realize it was making you go blind.
Anyways I used to say there's a blog for everything, now it seems there's a bag for everything. Specialty bag company Moore & Giles has just released the Meehan Utility Bag & Bar Rollup, a traveling bag for mixologists so they can travel from bar to bar peddling their evil alchemical wares.
It only costs $740 and you can carry it in your right hand. In your left hand you can carry the Hell in a Handbasket this country's going to. Bottoms up, everyone!
We're seeing some interesting stuff coming from the Samsung group these days, and whether or not any of these products become hits outside of their native Korea, we're glad to see at least one multinational conglomerate designing products that break out of the box in some way.
To enjoy the 3D you'll need special glasses. Samsung teamed up with eyewear maker Silhouette to produce these sleek frames:
Their gargantuan Hauzen Smart Air Conditioner comes with a rather bizarre sweepstakes-style marketing campaign in Korea--select units have been seeded with some kind of powder inside of them, so that if you turn it on and a cloud of yellow dust comes out of the vents, you get a cash reward. I swear I'm not making that up. (If it was the 'States and your air conditioner shot yellow dust out of the vents, you'd sue the company and get your cash reward that way.)
Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA, speaks with The Creator's Project about her upcoming show Talk to Me, exploring the fundamentals of communication between people and objects. Talk to Me opens at the MoMA July 2011.
Antonelli is one of the foremost authorities on the relationship between design, creativity, science and technology. Her 2008 show Design and the Elastic Mind forever changed the way we think about design's place in our world and our lives, and deepened our understanding of the symbiotic relationship between science and design. In Talk to Me, Antonelli seeks to explore how technology is redefining the ever-evolving relationship between people and objects. Technology is humanizing objects, and designers are acting as intermediaries, helping us interpret technology and translate it into a language that we can more intuitively understand.
Bonus! Check out the Lost Tribes of New York City, a video from London Squared that Antonelli references in her interview, below.
The Wall Street Journal has a disheartening article up reporting on the decline and planned closings of many U.S. Post Offices. For us cityfolk they're a dime a dozen, but for many rural areas the post office is their main link to the outside world and even serves as a social hub in some communities. The steady reduction in branches will affect everything from mail-order shopping to eBay and even the delivery of medical supplies.
I predict it will also awaken the war-profiteering instincts of antique dealers and furniture resellers, who will make a run on these locations. It won't be long before you'll start seeing "Classic post office furniture" postings popping up on a (rural) Craigslist near you....
In a move not dissimilar to Lady Gaga's appointment as Creative Director at Polaroid last year, leading chip manufacturer Intel has announced world famous musician and Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am as new "Director of Creative Innovation".
In an acceptance speech that was more than a little cringe-worthy, the star describes his career long admiration for Intel and a desire to look to the future. Skeptics may well put Will.i.am's appointment down to a shrewd branding campaign, but the blue-chip giants insist that the singer brings serious creative know-how to the table, particularly in the development of smart phones, tablets and laptops. Could this brand positioning herald Intel's intent to release its own product line; no longer content with playing the techy sidekick?
The announcement will no doubt have many a (unemployed) designer squirming in their seats—and perhaps considering a tactical career change. Design schools should probably also start thinking about the integration of pop music performance into the curriculum asap.
Over on the Behance Network, Lithuanian design graduate Regimantas Vegele has uploaded an intriguing concept for a robotic railway probe—notable for the delightfully quintessential ID school styling of his working.
The concept aims to tackle the growing problem of railroad inspection, that can all too often causes havoc and delays across much of the aging European network— in the worst cases resulting in some pretty catastrophic train crashes. Using a rather complex-sounding laser and "ultrasonic air coupled transducers" system the probe records the GPS coordinates of possible structural faults, which can then be checked out by the operator.
Just a reminder that our Eames Powers of Ten Video Response Competition ends next Wednesday, February 2nd. If you'd like to participate there's still time to create, post, comment or vote.
Nokia, the world leader in mobility, is seeking an Industrial Designer. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team developing new concepts for next-generation mobile solutions and translating the vision through to successful manufacture and launch.
Primary responsibilities include:
+ Creation and interpretion of design briefs in an innovative way, understanding end-users, routes to market, technologies, as well as design and market trends.
+ Collaboration with Design and R&D teams to aligning solutions to business needs.
+ Application of design language relevant to the Nokia brand over a range of products or for a specific category.
· Follow though of the product from ideation to engineering while ensuring that the vision of the project is developed, evolved and followed through to completion through the design engineering lifecyle.
If you fancy a bit of flotspotting today, we'd have to recommend the truly marvellous "Edison Alarm Clock" by Pratt design graduate David Krawczyk.
According to his presentation sheets, David's convincingly 19th-century alarm clock keeps time with a "controlled electrical current," the alarm is set by inserting the miniature bulbs into the desired slots.
We're loving InCase's irreverence: While most iPhone covers are designed to protect, this one does double duty by allowing some play. S'right, the latest from the Cali-based bag and case manufacturer turns your iPhone 4 into a ping pong paddle.
Things we want to see:
1) Chinese kids engaging in those text-messaging speed contests while simultaneously whipping the ball back and forth.
2) The Forrest Gump edition.
3) A slightly more protective version, for those with the McEnroe temper.
