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CarTunes on Parade, a public art exhibit between the cities of Detroit and Windsor, Canada, has introduced its educational component. The CarTunes committee has developed a web-based curriculum with opportunities for participation from area grade school through high school-aged children.
Content includes the history of the automotive industry and the area's music heritage, the arts in relation to the automotive industry and a section on public art. Transmat Records of Detroit, with pre-eminent Techno artist Derrick May and label manager and recording artist Kevin Reynolds, have provided a bundle of music files by Transmat artists to enliven the site's music component. The instructional support material can be accessed electronically at web site.
Teachers can get their classrooms involved on many levels, from downloading images for younger students to color to ordering and designing maquettes ($4 each). The teaching tool kit also details field testing experiments that encourage exploration of the science behind the materials used to manufacture the sculptures. A second phase of the curriculum will be introduced in December.
Artists from southeast Michigan and southwest Ontario submitted designs for the CarTunes sculptures earlier this year. These entries are now being judged and if selected, the artists will pro
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Apple has filed for a European design trademark which may provide a tantalising glimpse of the company's long-awaited tablet computer.
The filing, made in May this year but only published this week, covers a "handheld computer" and contains sketches of what look like an iBook screen minus the body of the computer.
The paperwork was handled by Leeds, UK-based patent and trademark attorneys Urquhart-Dykes and Lord.
The filing lists Apple CEO Steve Jobs and the company's industrial design chief, Jonathan Ive. It also refers to Daniele De Iuliis, Richard Howarth, Eugene Whang, Matthew Rohrbach, Bart Andre, Calvin Seid and Christopher Stringer all of key members of Apple's industrial design team, with the Power Mac G5, iPod, 17in and 12in PowerBook G4, and others under their belt.
Hints that Apple might be working on such a product emerged in 2003 when a source close to Taiwanese contract manufacturer Quanta claimed that the company had been hired by Apple to build what was dubbed a "wireless display".
Jobs has consistently downplayed claims that Apple is working on a PDA, and given the state of the world PDA market, it wouldn't make much sense for it to do so. Doubly so given how well the iPod works as a portable personal information carrier.
Jobs has similarly poo-poo'd suggestions that the company should offer a
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Aditya Vij, President and Managing Director, General Motors India, launched a special edition of Chevrolet Optra in New Delhi.
Priced at Rs 10,49,566, the limited edition Optra is available in two colours: Shimmering Black and Meadow Gold.
The special design edition of Chevrolet Optra has been unveiled to mark the first anniversary of its entry into the Indian market.
Based on the Optra 1.8 LT category, the artistically crafted Optra design edition is made for the discerning buyers looking for exclusively combined with lavish luxury. The 15-inch alloy wheels complement the sporty and stylish design of the new Optra.
The model has two in-car entertainment systems: a DVD player with 7-inch roof mounted screen, remote control and two cordless headphones and a 5 CD changer on the dashboard.
Only 150 of these cars with exclusive features like chrome-finished front grille, Xenon effect headlamps and wood finish embellishments on the center panel of dashboard and inserts on the steering wheel.
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NewsValet is offering a 50% discount for a limited time to members of three major non-profit design associations: IDSA (Industrial Design Society of America), AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts), and AIA (American Institute of Architects).
Yuri Kusina, creator of NewsValet and president of Ayacom Inc., a design consulting company, said "I've been a member of IDSA for many years now. I appreciate their service of keeping members networked and informed about their design profession. NewsValet is a natural extension of these types of organizations. Offering the discount to their members is a way for us to reach out to design professionals who are serious about their business and want to stay informed about what's going on in their industry."
NewsValet is a time saving, intelligence gathering servant for design-centric professionals wanting to stay in touch with the latest design trends and industry news. Subscribers access the service via their web site at www.newsvalet.com.
There are 7 Design Channels that make it easy for Subscribers to review news about a particular specialty: Architecture, Product, Graphics, Fashion, Interiors, Merchandising, and Stage Set/Exhibits. Subscribers see 10 headline summaries at a time, have their own page for saving and emailing articles, complete access to months of archives, get ed
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Design is omnipresent in the lives of everyone. It determines how people react to their immediate environment, the clothes they wear, the tools they use, the work they can undertake, the furniture they can use, the buildings they can enter and the forms of transport they can avail of.
Deficiencies in the built environment and in product design affect everyone in different ways. Design concepts need to be developed with Design for All becoming a tool to support socially sustainable development and economic growth.
Design for all is understood in a broad sense as the design of mainstream products and services to be accessible by as broad a range of users as possible.
The approach to achieve this consists of three principal strategies:
- design of IST products services and applications, which are demonstrably suitable for most of the potential users without modifications
- design of products which are easily adaptable to different users (e.g. by incorporating adaptable or customisable user interfaces
- design of products, which have standardised interfaces, capable of being seamlessly connected by assistive devices
"Across Europe, human diversity in age, culture and ability is greater than ever. We now survive illness and injury and live with disability as never before.
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