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 LG Announces Winner of the 2nd Annual Design the Future CompetitionLG Mobile Phones recently named Emily Albinski from Wading River, NY the winner of its 2nd Annual Design the Future Competition.The idea competition challenged participants to create a concept to define the future of personal mobile communication. More than 800 designs were submitted in the competition in a battle for over $80,000 in awards. First place winner Albinski, a professional full-time freelance designer, created the CC on the theme of connectivity. The winning concept of a modular phone, which could be used by LG in the future, includes a "core" phone that can be inserted into a touch screen or netbook shell depending on the user's needs. By design, the winning concept would allow users to connect in many different contexts and environments. Albinski, a science and technology enthusiast, refined and laid out her concept in just four days. In 2008, she participated in the challenge and submitted a USB necklace in the LG Swarovski Crystal Vision design contest. "Where better to get inspired than from the imaginations of mobile phone users, ranging from students to professionals," said Ehtisham Rabbani, vice president of product strategy and marketing for LG Mobile Phones. "With these priceless submissions, LG not only gets closer to the future of this industry, but gets to share in the thrill of discovering it with our consumers as a guiding light." more LG Announces Winner of the 2nd Annual Design the Future Competition added by Levent OZLER |
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 Theodore D. Nierenberg Dies at 86: Founder of DanskTheodore D. Nierenberg, who founded Dansk International Designs in New York to manufacture modern Scandinavian tableware and cookware that became popular among postwar American families ready to embrace a new casualness at the dinner table, has died. He was 86.Trained as an engineer, Nierenberg was visiting a Copenhagen museum in 1954 when he spotted hand-forged stainless steel flatware with teak handles, then an unusual combination. He tracked down its Danish designer, Jens Quistgaard, on a farm and convinced him it could be mass-produced. In their garage on Long Island in New York, Nierenberg and his wife, Martha, founded the company that same year. They mainly employed Scandinavian designers and attached the artists' names to their works. more www.lat... (6) added by Levent OZLER |
 The Lab: General MotorsThe Lab is a blog where General Motors' Advanced Design team shares possible future design and technology projects directly with the public and invites feedback.It's a pilot program for GM, an interactive design research community in the making. Here you can get to know the designers, check out some of their projects, and help them get to know you. Like a consumer feedback event without the one-way glass. more thelab.... (139) added by Levent OZLER |
 Bravado That Swaggers to Its Own BeatThe designer Ron Arad has always had a lot of nerve, and it ricochets around his rambunctious, ultimately inconclusive retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art like an ammo belt's worth of stray bullets.Sometimes the bullets hit, turning random targets into bull's-eyes. More often they are wide of the mark, resulting in things that seem self-indulgent and frivolous. No wonder this show, which opens on Sunday and is the first major survey of Mr. Arad's work in the United States, is titled "Ron Arad: No Discipline." In the late 1980s and the 1990s, Mr. Arad was the design world's darling, a man whose name was regularly linked to words like maverick, bad boy, visionary, influential and derring-do. He was known for ignoring the boundaries among traditional disciplines like industrial design, architecture and sculpture before this was a widespread fashion in the design world. He has designed buildings, though few have yet been built, and he has devised several versions of the stackable mass-produced chairs that since the 1930s have signaled serious design intent. more www.nyt... (8) design directory Ron Arad > Industrial Design Studios design database Ron Arad added by Levent OZLER |
 Montreal's Public Bike System BIXI Receives International Design AwardThe Public Bike System Company has received a Bronze International Design Excellence Award (IDEA), transportation category, for the design of the BIXI bike.For the Public Bike System Company and Michel Dallaire, the internationally renowned industrial designer who created the components of the BIXI bike, this was the second such honour. In December 2008, the BIXI prototype captured the Interieurs Ferdie eco-design award in the product design/sustainable development category. Andre Lavallee, mayor of the Rosemont - La Petite-Patrie borough and vice-chair of the City of Montreal's executive committee, is delighted by this news: "Initiatives like BIXI, involving talented Quebec designers, underscore Montreal's status as a UNESCO City of Design. In developing this unique project, Montreal has again proven itself to be on the frontline of change, committed to promoting active transportation and excellence in architecture and design." Roger Plamondon, chair of the board of the Public Bike System Company, is also gratified that BIXI has once again received international recognition. "From the very beginning, Design was an extremely important consideration for this project, since we realized the bike would become an integral part of Montreal's urban landscape. The achievement of Michel Dallaire Industrial Design was impressive, and we are proud to receive this new award from such a prestigious competition," declared Plamondon. more www.bix... (177) added by Levent OZLER |
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