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 From Now to Eternity: Plastic in DesignFrom Now To Eternity is a celebration of and debate around design, with a focus on one material: plastic.Plastic is with us virtually from now to eternity: impervious to bacteria, acid, salt, rust, breakage and, in some cases, able to withstand heat, plastic is something of a miracle substance. One hundred years ago, when it was first invented, no one could have anticipated that plastic would present one of our biggest recycling challenges. Pioneering arts consultancy Arts Co is commissioning ten leading contemporary designers and design collectives to celebrate plastic through their work and look at ways to re-think our growing mountains of discarded plastic. Their ingenious creations will be on display at From Now To Eternity, an exhibition launching during the 2008 London Design Festival and continuing through Frieze Art Fair, at the Biscuit Building in London's East End. The designers will show how plastic's versatility - transparent or opaque, hard or pliant, able to take on a myriad of colours and forms - can serve their creativity. Committee, Stuart Haygarth, Raw Edges and FAT take a witty, playful and imaginative approach: Committee will build on their improbable towers of household objects to create extraordinary designs, while Haygarth's ebullient plastic chandelier is made from 1,000 exploded party poppers. event (ended) current design events more info www.lon... (138) design directory Industrial Design Events added by Levent OZLER |
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 Gatsby Innovation AwardsUK Sport and Loughborough University Sports Technology Institute have today launched two competitions to challenge the nation's entrepreneurs find the most innovative ideas in sport.Competition winners will benefit from funding to pursue their project, together with access to an outstanding network of world-leading expertise and specialist research facilities, dedicated to developing cutting edge technologies in both elite performance and the sport and leisure industry. Through its Ideas 4 Innovation programme, UK Sport's Research and Innovation team is seeking pioneering new ideas designed to give our best athletes the competitive advantage they need to win medals on the world stage. Novel training and recovery strategies or aids, equipment or apparel will be considered for the Garage Innovators Award, a single grant of up to £25,000 to be used to further the idea, exploring its potential to benefit the British Olympic and Paralympic teams. Loughborough University Sports Technology Institute is offering Innovation Awards of up to £10,000, supported by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation. Innovative sports clothing, footwear or equipment at any stage of development will be considered, provided it demonstrates strong commercial potential. competition (ended) current design competitions more Gatsby Innovation Awards design directory Industrial Design Awards added by Levent OZLER |
 World First Eco Pedal Helps Reduce Fuel ConsumptionNissan Motor unveiled the ECO Pedal - a world first technology - designed to assist drivers to become more fuel-efficient.When the eco-pedal system is on, each time the driver steps on the accelarator, a counter push-back control mechanism is activated if the system detects excess pressure, helping to inform the driver that they could be using more fuel than required. An eco-driving indicator integrated into the instrument panel feeds the driver with real-time fuel consumption levels to help improve his/her driving behavior. The ECO Pedal system can be turned on or off according to the driver's preference. The ECO Pedal system is fed data on the rate of fuel consumption and transmission efficiency during acceleration and cruising, and then calculates the optimum acceleration rate. When the driver exerts excess pressure on the accelerator, the system counteracts with the pedal push-back control mechanism. more World First Eco Pedal Helps Reduce Fuel Consumption added by Levent OZLER |
 9th International Conference on Composite Materials at Compotec 2008During the first edition of Compotec, show representing the production of composite materials and technologies, at Marina di Carrara from 29th to 31st October 2008, that two days are dedicated to the 9th International Conference on Composite materials.Chairman of the seminar is professor Ignazio Crivelli Visconti, Technologies of Composites Professor, at the School of Industrial Design, University Federico II of Naples. The meeting with "Advancing with composites 2008", the 9th edition of the international conference on composite materials, will take place on the 29th and 30th October 2008 in Marina di Carrara, in the exhibiting area of CarraraFiere. It is organized by Amme-Asmeccanica, Composite Materials Centre, CarraraFiere and the University Federico II of Naples during the Compotec exhibition, which has been planned for 29th-31st October, the conference has the aim of encouraging an active participation on technologies and applications of composite materials with exchange of scientific and technical information. The conference represents also a favourable occasion to establish new contacts with people who are interested in the commercial applications of composite materials in different sectors. The key word of these works is innovation, in the applications and technologies. event (ended) current design events more info www.com... (199) added by Levent OZLER |
 Science and Engineering Mimicking Natural DesignsFifteen years ago, an economics major looked through a microscope at diatoms, a type of algae, and was blown away by the beauty of design.Over hundreds of millions of years, these organisms have evolved elegant solutions to challenges such as protection, movement, and reducing drag. The most famous product mimicking natural designs is velcro, designed by a Swiss scientist after he picked burrs from his dog and looked at them under the microscope. While velcro is useful, the point of the article is that some biomimicks could be environmentally friendly. For example, many animals emit light and do so with little energy loss, compared to the highly inefficient incandescent bulb. more www.met... (57) added by Levent OZLER |
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