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 Design Council Searches for Exceptional Design Talent in New Chief Design OfficerThe Design Council has launched the search for a new Chief Design Officer to head up its design strategy, direction and partnerships.The role will be the design lead across the broad range of demonstration and coaching projects in areas such as health, crime, public services and business The post involves responsibility for driving forward the Design Council's growing portfolio of programmes, working with organisations and government departments such as the NHS, Home Office, B.I.S and others to help them engage design, technology and industry in the rapid development of innovative design-led solutions to complex problems. "Work like this needs leadership and strategic direction, as well as fresh thinking," said David Kester, Design Council Chief Executive. "I'm looking for exceptional design talent to join a high performance team and lead projects which change lives and have real social impact - and we know that the design community has that in abundance". more www.des... (70) design directory Design Council > Design Organizations added by Levent OZLER |
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 OSRAM Sylvania and College for Creative Studies Announce Lighting Design ChallengeOSRAM Sylvania, the world's leading manufacturer of automotive lighting and College for Creative Studies (CCS), one of the world's preeminent schools of transportation design announced the kick-off of the first annual OSRAM Automotive Lighting Design Challenge on Oct. 8, 2009.The 2009 OSRAM Automotive Lighting Design Challenge is designed to help educate future transportation designers on the many benefits of advanced LED lighting technologies and the design freedom they offer. "LEDs are poised to change the way automotive designers think about automotive exterior lighting," said David Hulick, global product marketing manager at OSRAM Sylvania for its automotive LED systems division. "They are extremely energy efficient, environmentally friendly and the size and format of the technology frees up designers to think outside the conventional lighting design box." The OSRAM Automotive Lighting Design Challenge will run concurrently with the CCS fall curriculum for second year students in the university's Transportation Design program. Contest entrants will design a concept for a forward lighting application using OSRAM Sylvania LED technologies. more OSRAM Sylvania and College for Creative Studies Announce Lighting Design Challenge design directory College for Creative Studies > Design Education added by Levent OZLER |
 The Nissan Land GliderNissan's Land Glider, a zero-emissions car that can lean into corners like a motorbike, will be one of the stars at this month's Tokyo motor show.Nissan Land Glider can lean by up to 17 degrees - which Nissan says enables the car to turn sharply at nearly any speed. But, it also has the ability to avoid crashes, using technology derived from studying the behaviour of fish. The Land Glider uses sensors to calculate the level of lean required to negotiate a corner. more www.smh... (54) added by Levent OZLER |
 Jaguar Introduces Students to Its Latest XJOn Wednesday, Giles Taylor, Jaguar's chief exterior designer of the new XJ sedan, visited Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He brought along an example of the car.This was the first glimpse of the car on the East Coast, after its unveiling in London in July. Mr. Taylor and the XJ are making an unusual tour of automobile design schools that began at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., and includes Parsons The New School for Design in New York and the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. "We tried to keep the basic architecture of the car very pure," he explained. He noted the restraint in details, accent and badging and showed how some features subtly carry the eye downward, to "plant the car." more wheels.... (27) added by Levent OZLER |
 The Kevi Chair in New ColoursThe classic Kevi chair is now being introduced in seven new varnish-painted colours to liven up your office or home.The new colours are: blue, green, red, yellow, orange, pink and brown. Engelbrechts celebrated the Kevi chair's 50th anniversary last year. 2.5 million chairs have been produced since it was designed, making it one of the most popular pieces of office furniture of all time. The Kevi range, which also includes upholstered models, was designed in 1958 by the Danish architects and twins Ib and Jorgen Rasmussen. In 1965 Jorgen Rasmussen invented the "twin-wheel castor" for the chair, which has since made everything from Kevi chairs to Philips televisions easy to move. The Kevi chairs were originally produced by a company that was also called Kevi, until it was acquired by Fritz Hansen A/S. At the beginning of 2008, Jorgen Rasmussen transferred the Kevi production to the Danish company Engelbrechts A/S, which is now responsible for product development and international marketing. The Kevi chair rests on a five-legged satin-polished aluminium swivel base. It has automatic height adjustment and manual adjustment of the backrest angle. The seat and backrest are made of 9 mm varnished moulded veneer. more www.eng... (61) added by Levent OZLER |
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