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Since the great stock exchange crash in 2000 the stock price of the Japanese electronics manufacturer Sony has never really recovered.
In the past year alone, it dropped by about 27 percentage points at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
Unlike its competitors Sony showed not much resistance against this slump in the past five years.
In contrast, Apple, Samsung, LG Electronics or Philips, improved their stock prices more or less been steeply in the past few years.
With a comprehensive design offensive the Japanese electronics manufacturer seems to control this negative trend struggling to regain market shares it has lost over the past years to more flexible and aggressive competitors.
For decades, Sony has been a synonym for the latest technologies combined with excellent and original design.
Thereby, it has succeeded again and again to launch innovations on the market that became symbols and cultural assets worldwide.
We have only to think of the first transistor television set in the world, Walkman, PlayStation or Aibo the computer dog.
Consequently, Sony has been honoured with the red dot design award: design team of the year, the highest award of the design world.
However, after the turn of the millennium the company lacked major investments and seemed to become rather cumbersome.
Now the electronics group is remembering its former strength with regard to design and innovation.
It is starting out to create new icons.
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Malcolm Prescott formerly a key project director at global media giant Reuters and more recently Business Manager of design-led SME, Barefoot Botanicals has been appointed Managing Director of British Design Innovation (BDI).
Malcolm's appointment signifies the end of BDI's three year transition from design body to design and innovation knowledge transfer network.
Malcolm will lead BDI and its members, sponsors and partners into a unique licensing programme to be rolled-out across the nation through key corporates; design and innovation intermediaries including RDAs; Business Links, Universities; Innovation Centres and private sector businesses.
BDI is already in preliminary Franchise talks with organisations in Scotland; North East, North West and London.
The popular BDI Open Innovation Challenge programme designed to enable corporate brand owners to source external innovation cost efficiently will be formally licensed to industry under a set of Best Practice Intellectual Property terms and conditions and accredited tools, templates and techniques.
Says Prescott "The emerging new world economic order provides no time or place for complacency.
We are entering a challenging period for British industry and in particular how the IP trading model will impact on the UK's regional, national and international economic performance.
The design and innovation experts will play a critical role in determining whether UK plc leads or lags"
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Gone are the days when design was the domain of a lone individual sitting at a drawing board visualising new kettles, chairs, typefaces or fashion garments.
These days, designers are becoming members of multi-disciplinary teams, using their unique creative problem-solving skills to address challenges which affect society, culture and the economy as a whole.
Now Kingston University, working in partnership with St George's, University of London, is set to lead the way in capitalising on this trend by establishing a new centre for design and innovation with a particular focus on benefitting the health and cultural sectors.
Dubbed Innoversity, the Centre is being launched with a £250,000 award from the Higher Education Council for England.
It will feature a laboratory that will be home to multi-disciplinary teams made up of designers, researchers and engineers who will work together to come up with solutions to real-life business challenges.
Kingston University's Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise, Professor Penny Sparke, who is heading the Innoversity development team, said the project had originated from recommendations made by Sir George Cox in his 2005 'Review of Creativity in Business'.
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The Bombay Sapphire is inviting all design enthusiasts to vote for their favourite martini cocktail glass design from the 2008 US Designer Glass Competition.
The aim of the competition is to design a martini cocktail glass inspired by Bombay Sapphire Gin.
The top ten US finalists have been chosen, now it is up to you to tell us which one is your favourite.
The glass with the most votes will be named the US People's Prize winner and the designer of the glass will win an at-home mixology session with the Bombay Sapphire US Master Mixologist.
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The Singapore Furniture Industries Council (SFIC) is calling for entries for the much anticipated Furniture Design Award (FDA) 2009 and registration is now open.
This year, participants in the Students and Young Designers categories are given free reign with their furniture creations as there will not be any given theme, unlike in previous years.
Mr Andrew Pang, Chairman of the FDA 2009 Organising Committee, said, "For FDA 2009, students and young designers are given a chance to design furniture pieces which best reflects their design capability.
Understanding that students and young designers require more leeway for exploration, we have decided to give them a chance to fully stretch their imaginations by not setting a theme for 2009.
Over the years, we've seen FDA participants rise to the occasion and submit themed works that are innovative and exciting, and for 2009, they will have the absolute freedom to create without boundaries."
"The steadily increasing participation over the years at FDA shows that emerging designers believe it is a great platform to showcase their talents and network with industry players." added Mr Simon Ong, Chairman of the Design Development Committee for SFIC.
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