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The organisers have confirmed almost all key note speakers to IFA's 9th Global Conference on Ageing next September.
For instance the first plenary panel of the conference, on the morning of September 5, titled The New Paradigm - Ageing and Design, will bring together Dr. Chris Luebkeman and Ms Valerie Fletcher, in addition to Mr. Gordon Lishman, Director General of Age Concern in England.
Dr Luebkeman is director and leader of Arup's global Foresight & Innovation, a global design and business consulting firm.
Based in London, UK, he is currently working with some of the world's leading corporations to develop scenarios to better understand the opportunities that change is creating in the built environment.
Ms Fletcher is Executive Director of the Institute for Human Centered Design in Boston, Massachusetts (formerly Adaptive Environments).
The Institute's mission is to advance the role of design in expanding opportunity and enhancing experience for people of all ages and abilities.
Valerie is currently overseeing projects ranging from universal design, at the urban scale, in public transit, mixed use development, and residential and school design.
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More than 80 members of the Industrial Designers Society of America toured the Bayer MaterialScience Design Center of Bayer's Color Compentency Center at its Newark, Ohio, plastics compounding facility.
The tour was offered to IDSA members in conjunction with the IDSA Mideast District Annual Conference held in Columbus, Ohio.
The BMS Design Center, which opened in June 2007, brings ideas utilizing BMS' LEDA compounded color technology to life.
LEDA compounded resin technology is one of five Fantasia color and special effect technologies - the industry's most complete, one-stop solution for color and special effects for plastic part design.
LEDA compounded color technology adds colorants and special effect additives right in the plastic pellet to yield molded-in colors and effects, including metallic, sparkle, shimmer, pearlescence and glow-in-the-dark.
The Design Center offers customers a hands-on experience and encourages them to be actively involved in the design process.
Customers work hand-in-hand with dedicated BMS personnel as they create precise color matches and select special effects to meet their product design needs within a matter of hours rather than days or weeks.
The tour offered the IDSA visitors a similar experience.
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The DBA's annual Design Effectiveness Awards are both prestigious and authoritative, the only award scheme that uses commercial data as a key judging criteria.
Year after year, winning case studies demonstrate that successful projects require the integration of the design brief with business aims and objectives from the outset.
This sets the stage for a transparent and accountable relationship between client and designer that provides the best creative and commercial environment for success.
The case studies also serve to demonstrate the excellent value for money and return on investment that a coherent, well-thought-out and professionally executed design strategy can achieve.
In a crowded marketplace, there is no place for one hit wonders; good design and good business are a longterm relationship.
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Adidas has won $305 million award from a federal jury for trademark violation of its three-stripe design by a Kansas shoe company.
"The three-stripes are paramount to the Adidas brand, and a very strong and popular brand symbol globally," spokeswoman Anne Putz wrote in an e-mail.
"It is very satisfying for the three stripes to be recognized as a strong trademark after the court heard detailed evidence over more than three weeks."
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LG Electronics cashed in big around the world with its popular design-oriented Chocolate and Shine phones.
Now LG Group's chairman is looking to replicate the phones' success - and he's put up the cash to make it happen.
Chairman Koo Bon-moo has decided to invest 100 billion won this year into upgrading the overall design of LG products.
In addition, Koo announced that the company will add about 700 designers to its workforce in a meeting with 20 key company officials.
"LG earned more than 80 design-related awards last year, compared to 58 in 2006," an LG official said.
"Companies no longer compete over price, quality and technology.
Design makes you a global leader.
After all, most people think quality and design go hand-in-hand."
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