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Parrot announced an exceptional digital photo frame created by the leading French designer Andree Putman.
Sporting a pure and sober design that skilfully contrasts the black and white tones with a subtle play of transparency, the frame faithfully respects the Putman style sought-after worldwide from New York to Tokyo.
The Parrot digital photo frame by Andree Putman combines technology with art: with this frame, savour the luxury provided by an extraordinary artist.
"I would like to pay tribute to Parrot for daring to think that this wonder of technology could be coiled up inside a beautiful wrapping," explains Andree Putman.
"Storage fans will be the most vulnerable to the charms of this object, which will overcome any problems of arranging photo souvenirs," she adds.
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Dare to dream up a toy that will pull kids away from the computer screen and entice them outside to play.
That was the task handed to industrial design students at Cleveland Institute of Art eight weeks ago -- along with a copy of "The Daring Book for Girls," a best seller that helps girls discover the fun of adventurous play.
On Thursday May 1, it was time for students to show their work.
And an all-star panel was there to look over their projects.
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What started as a semester-long design studio class at one of the top-ranked industrial design programs in the country not only led one shining student, Bethany Klausing, to a summer internship and full-time job upon graduation at Emerson Ceiling Fans, but also secured her spot as one of the most dynamic emerging design talents in the industry.
"Create an air circulating device."
That was the instruction given to junior-year students at Auburn University's School of Industrial Design in Auburn, Ala., from leaders at Emerson Ceiling Fans, the company that invented the A/C-powered ceiling fan more than 100 years ago.
The Origami - the ceiling fan that Bethany created as part of her school project in May 2006 - is now on the cover of Emerson Ceiling Fan's 2008 catalog.
Now working full-time at Emerson, she also developed a whole line of ceiling fans for the company, the Elite Series, the segment that is still seeing growth in spite of the housing slumps and home improvement markets.
Another fan in the new collection, the Tureen, is also a product of designs presented in the class.
Steve Cox, vice president and general manager of Emerson Ceiling Fans said, "Thanks to our partnership with Auburn University, we were able to discover raw talent and nurture her skills in all aspects of ceiling fan design.
Bethany brings a fresh perspective to the industry.
Whether it's finding a new way to attach the blades or different ideas for the motor housing, she makes everyone reconsider how to approach ceiling fan design."
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A year ago, when DNA spoke with retailers and manufacturers of consumer durables, they all agreed that Indian consumer was still very price sensitive.
Design and looks of a product came second on the priority list.
True, they said, there is a niche segment who go for the looks but it's a very high-end small segment, with a bulk of consumers preferring performance over appearance.
Nilesh Gupta, of Vijay Sales, an electronics and consumer durables retail chain, had told DNA Money last June, "Design and appeal still goes secondary.
It takes the lead in very niche high end products.
But in the next two years it will surely become more important.
As of now, pricing is still what the consumer looks at."
The prediction is coming true faster than everyone thought.
The look of an air conditioner or LCD television has begun to matter to majority of those walking into any retail outlet.
Manufacturers know this and are innovating accordingly.
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These seem to be apocalyptic times for designers.
If you happen to be a member of this threatened species, you better look for another calling.
We had just put Pillippe Starck's "Design is dead" fatalism to bed, and then I read Peter Merholz's essay from 2007: "Stop designing products!"
What sounds like another shocker initially, however, turns out to be a milder riff on an old and well-known theme that Merholz himself has been promoting for two years now: "Experience is the product -- and the only thing users care about:"
"When you start with the idea of making a thing, you're artificially limiting what you can deliver.
The reason that many of these exemplar's forward-thinking product design succeed is explicitly because they don't design products.
Products are realized only as necessary artifacts to address customer needs.
What Flickr, Kodak, Apple, and Target all realize is that the experience is the product we deliver, and the only thing that our customers care about."
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