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 Kern Forms Joint Venture with HumancentricKern Communications, India's leading user research and usability consulting company announced a joint venture with USA's HumanCentric, an award-winning and integrated product design company committed to make consumer-friendly products by studying and understanding the end-user.This joint venture comes in at a critical juncture for both the companies. HumanCentric and Kern partnership will help both the companies extend their expertise and services to both the geographies. As a part of joint venture, Kern will help HumanCentric's worldwide clients with the necessary cultural knowledge and user research expertise to design mobile, automotive, medical, consumer, and software products for the booming India market. On the other hand, HumanCentric brings its product design and product engineering expertise to help companies in India take their products global. Kern and HumanCentric share similar ideologies and complementary skills while user-centered design and user research are the core competencies of both companies. The joint venture brings in increased reach across geographies, global expertise, consolidated experience, and pooled resources that will help Kern and HumanCentric offer solutions to clients globally. more Kern Forms Joint Venture with Humancentric design directory HumanCentric > Industrial Design Companies added by Levent OZLER |
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 The Smiles Per Hour Design CompetitionWith the Smiles per Hour design competition Fiat is asking to present original vehicle prototypes - not just cars - that propose new way of travelling.The event is free and open to UK residents above 18 and the entry submission deadline is 22 August 2008. The design of the prototype must be tailored around new ways of getting from A to B and making personal transport as enjoyable as possible. In order to be selected as a finalist, prototypes must be ready to be tested, and capable of being used by the public, by 1st September 2008. competition (ended) current design competitions more info www.fia... (254) design directory Transportation Awards added by Levent OZLER |
 Red Dot Goes Dubaired dot increases its involvement in the Arab world with a new promising cooperation: as a strategic partner of dmg world media, one of the largest international trade fair organisers and publishing companies, red dot will for the first time present itself with its own large exhibition at the interior design trade fair "Index 2008" in Dubai from 3 to 7 December 2008."Design on stage - Index presents red dot winners" is the title of the exhibition, which will open the door for the winners of the red dot design award - one of the largest and most important international design competitions - presented there to the currently most important growth market in the world. Recently, Bernard Walsh, managing director of dmg world media, and Professor Dr. Peter Zec, initiator of the red dot design award, signed the respective contract. "I am delighted about this cooperation and I am convinced that in dmg world media we have found the right strategic partner to offer our winners an effective stepping stone for a successful start in the Arab market," said the design and business expert Peter Zec. "It is important for us and the red dot winners to be present here, in one of the fastest growing cities in the world. In addition, our involvement aims to strengthen the role of design as an economic factor in the Arab world." more Red Dot Goes Dubai design directory Red Dot Design Award > Industrial Design Awards added by Levent OZLER |
 Matali CrassetBefore launching her own studio in 1998, French designer Matali Crasset spent five years working for Philippe Starck, first in his studio and later as head of design at Thomson Multimedia.Last September, Crasset collaborated with the artist Peter Halley for an exhibition at Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris; she has plans to collaborate with Halley again next year at Cais Gallery in Seoul. Some of her recent major projects include design for the Hi-Hôtel in Nice, as well as for the temporary site of the Stedelijk Museum's- Hertogenbosch. She discusses some of her ideas on design and logics of living on Artforum. more www.art... (200) added by Levent OZLER |
 Istanbul Design Week 2008The international design community has a not-to-be-missed appointment from October 16th to 20th in Turkey: Istanbul Design Week 2008 aims to be one of the most important events in the Euro-Asiatic area.During the previous edition more than 50,000 visitors from all over the world came on the Golden Horn on this important occasion: in 2008 Istanbul Design Week promises to be an even greater success thanks to its new formula. For the first time Istanbul Design Week will be organized and managed by Design in Turkey, a joint venture between Dream Design Factory (dDf) and DesignPartners bringing together the vibrant energy of Turkish culture and Italian experience. The joint venture intends to create a format that opens new frontiers, expands, reaches out of the territory, in the wake of "ZonaTortona Design": Istanbul Design Week 2008 will be a local event with an international perspective. An opportunity for companies to present their products and activities to an international audience, in a contemporary country with a fast growing economy. Istanbul, meeting point of different traditions, will be the European Capital of Culture in 2010. The 2008 edition will see exhibitions, workshops, conferences and night & day events taking place in the extraordinary setting of the Golden Horn. more Istanbul Design Week 2008 design directory Istanbul Design Week > Design Events added by Levent OZLER |
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