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 Super Social Security Card by Frog Design"Of the three forms of identification we have in the states - the other two being the passport and driver's license - the Social Security card is the one that unlocks your life," says Frog designer Laura Richardson.To that end the design firm presents the Troika, an aluminum SS card with a multifunctional screen. "By combining the familiarity and proportions of a standard ID card with the durability of a water-resistant, flexible screen and the security of biometrics, a card like this could revolutionize the future of identification," says Richardson. more www.cor... (144) design directory Frog Design > Industrial Design Companies added by Levent OZLER |
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 Extendable Dining TableAntonio Citterio's new Extendable Dining Table offers ample room for six people and can be easily extended to accommodate ten people.The solid-looking wooden table top rests on twin pairs of elegant, slightly canted aluminium legs with a polished finish. By means of a sophisticated synchronized mechanism, the leaf extension in the middle of the table unfolds when the table ends are separated. A locking device prevents the table ends from separating accidentally. more www.vit... (149) design directory Vitra > Industrial Design Companies added by Levent OZLER |
 City of Seoul Opens Seoul Design FoundationOn March 3, the Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon attended the opening ceremony of the new Seoul Design Foundation (SDF).At the ceremony, Mayor Oh announced that the new organisation will provide comprehensive and systematic support for Seoul's design industry. Appointed CEO and Managing Director for the SDF is Icsid Executive Board Member, Jae-jin Shim, who has served as the Executive Vice President at Koaswell Co., Ltd from 2008-2009, and as the Chief of Digital Display & Media Design Laboratory at the Corporate Design Center of LG Electronics Inc. from 2000-2007. In order to develop new growth engines and increase the city's competitiveness in the long term, design has to be fostered now. When the economy recovers, the design industry would be in full bloom, Oh said. "In this respect, the newly launched foundation will be a vanguard for design Seoul," he added. Mayor Oh added that the Seoul Design Foundation will lend expertise and boost efficiency promoting the design sector in the city, including the 2010 World Design Capital year of events and the opening of the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in 2011. more www.seo... (106) added by Levent OZLER |
 Aesthetics in Figures: Red Dot Top7 Bond"Good design is good business." This phrase was coined by the former president of IBM, Thomas J. Watson jr., in the 1950s.What he meant was that companies with internationally recognized product design often record above-average unit sales and profits. Good design pays off. Design in this context relates to series products that fulfill a purpose and offer quality of use. These are products that many people know or even own. Good design improves the quality of life and helps companies to achieve economic success. Good design pays off because it creates added value. Now there is evidence that aesthetics can also be measured in figures. The red dot institute for advanced design studies made it its task to monitor the design developments at well-known publicly listed companies over several years and analyze their design activities in relation to their economic success. This research project, which was initiated by red dot, was the first of its kind in the world, and discovered a relationship between successful design and success on the stock exchange. The basic idea behind the 'red dot' top7 bond was to make it possible to express design efficiency and thus quality in figures, and to give investors an incentive to invest in quality - in this case in design. more en.red-... (126) design directory Red Dot Design Award > Industrial Design Awards added by Levent OZLER |
 90 Years of the Bauhaus: Mart Stam's S 43 in Special EditionThonet is producing Mart Stam's S 43 cantilever chair in a special edition with many new colour options.This special edition of the tubular steel classic, with its vivid new colour options, is being brought out to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus design school. The Bauhaus can truly be called the cradle of modern tubular steel furniture, since it was there in the 1920s that some of the most important designers started to experiment with the new malleable steel tubing, along with many other colleagues the world over, amongst them the Dutch architect Mart Stam. In 1926, Stam developed the first prototype of a cantilevered, tubular steel chair. In 1927, in the context of the Stuttgarter Weißenhof-Siedlung project, Stam worked alongside Bauhaus teachers such as Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe on the subject of tubular steel furniture and cantilever chairs, which resulted in a chair without back legs, known at Thonet today as the S 33. Stam was later granted the copyright for the cantilevered chairs, which is held to this day by Thonet. In 1931, an optimised version of his earlier design was added to the Thonet range in Germany, known today as the S 43. The classic S 43 available in new colour options: the clear, restrained form of the S 43 makes this cantilever chair an exemplary design in the modern idiom, and one which has enjoyed unbroken success. more 90 Years of the Bauhaus: Mart Stam's S 43 in Special Edition added by Levent OZLER |
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