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Enlightened - Swarovski Elements is conducting an online design competition in the field of jewellery including bejewelled eyewear.
This competition asks international jewellery- and design-lovers from all over the world to share their ideas, their design creativity and innovative jewellery designs incorporating the applied Enlightened - Swarovski Elements genuine Topaz assortment.
Participants will have the possibility to either upload their own jewellery design(s) or use a toolkit to virtually configure a pendant, based on existing models provided by the system, that allow you to incorporate the existing Enlightened - Swarovski Elements genuine Topaz assortment.
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Curventa, a London based product development company, can now finally tell the world about their biggest secret... Bloodhound SSC, the next world land speed record attempt from Richard Noble.
The Bloodhound SSC project is a three year mission to create the fastest car the world has ever seen - one capable of braking the 1000mph barrier.
That's five times faster than an F1 racing car and even quicker than the bullet fired from Dirty Harry's Magnum.
Curventa have been working with Richard Noble's team from the very start, helping his chief aerodynamacist Ron Ayres develop his designs into 3D data and creating photorealistic images for marketing materials and capital finance.
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Curventa Go Supersonic with Bloodhound SSC
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The prize winning submissions for the Seoul Design Competition are now available online.
Organised as a component of the first Seoul Design Olympiad, the competition invited submissions that addressed environmentally friendly design solutions promoting sustainable city life.
The Grand Prize was awarded to Kim, Woo Sik and Jeon, You Ho (Konkuk University, Korea) for their project "Hansel and Gretel's Life Pebbles".
The design solution, inspired by the popular children's fairy tale, alleviates a common challenge face by firefighters rescuing people from a fire: disorientation.
Life Pebbles become an essential part of a firefighter's safety gear, dropping a trail of fluorescent capsules to indicate a clear path to the exit.
As the Grand Prize winners, the team received USD $5000.
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When Michael Thonet first introduced his bentwood chair in Vienna in 1859, little did he know that he had created what would become the first mass-produced chair in the world.
Since then thissolid bent wood chair has been in continuous production with over 50 million chairs produced to date.
Developed specifically to appeal to - and be affordableby - broad levels of the population, it was to launch Thonet's international reputation in the 19th century.
Today, the company is run by the fifth generation of the Thonet family, direct descendents of Michael Thonet, in Frankenberg in North Hesse, Germany, Thonet's head office.
The 214, the "coffee-house chair" became the first flat-pack chair.
This revolutionary process enabled the chair to be constructed from six components and a handful of screws.
As a result it was easily shipped all over the world and assembled on site in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa.
Today the 214 chair is the most successful industrial product in the world, and is the reason why Thonet is regarded as one of the pioneers of industrial design.
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Bentwood Chair 214 Turns 150 in 2009
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Thinking about seeking a job or internship? How can you make your portfolio stand out from the crowd? What are employers looking for?
Get some real advice from a real pro-IDSA's Executive Director, Frank Tyneski.
Prior to his arrival at IDSA, Frank staffed design teams globally, from interns to executives, at companies like Kyocera, RIM/BlackBerry and Motorola.
He knows what design managers are looking for and how they seek talent.
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