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 Down to Earth LightingA team of industrial design students from Swinburne University have taken an invention from a concept to a finished product.Inventor Bradley Wein approached the students with an idea for a double-ended wand that allows people to safely change a halogen light globe from the ground. The product, "Down to Earth Lighting", won the People's Choice Award on the ABC's New Inventors program. The four students worked on the idea for eight months, designing concepts, researching materials and assembling the working prototype. more www.abc... (107) added by Levent OZLER |
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 Serie Platone by PrandinaSerie Platone is a new family of architectural wall lamps.An immediate and discrete illuminating object whose design in characterized by a light curve separating it from the wall offering an effective indirect illumination. The initial dimension for main voltage halogen source is articulated following a progressive modular abacus in the different versions for compact fluorescent sources. more www.pra... (178) added by Levent OZLER |
 Material ConneXion Presents I.D. Magazine's Annual Design Review ExhibitionNew York-based global materials consultancy Material ConneXion announced that an exhibition of winners from I.D. magazine's Annual Design Review is now on view in its New York headquarters through August 21, 2009.Since 1954, I.D. magazine's Annual Design Review has recognized the best in product, furniture, graphic and environment design, from the iconic to the obscure. Throughout the years, this annual showcase has chronicled the evolution of design, and highlighted its impact on our material and visual culture. Each year, the featured work is chosen by a jury of leading practitioners, who, along with I.D.'s editorial team, focus the abundance of submissions into a clear survey of the state of design. This year's lineup includes new takes on well-known brands - from Harry Allen's sleek First Aid Kit for Johnson & Johnson to Hewlett-Packard's lightweight, carbon-fiber notebook, the Voodoo Envy PC - as well as innovative designs from rising young talents, like Shelly Shelly's elegant Loft chair for Bernhardt Design. event (ended) current design events more info www.mat... (121) design directory Material ConneXion > Industrial Design Materials added by Levent OZLER |
 Buriki: Japanese Tin Toys from the Golden Age of the American AutomobileThis unique and charming exhibition, the first of its kind at any U.S. arts institution, charts the achievements of the Japanese tin-toy industry in the two decades following World War II.A new departure for Japan Society, it is the first in a series of summer exhibitions that will attract new audiences, explore new media, and open up new perspectives on Japanese visual culture. The 70 toys on view have been chosen to delight children, parents, and grandparents with the quality of their detailing and their often bright, realer-than-real color schemes. Coupling traditional metalworking skills with imported machinery, Japanese tin toys established a worldwide reputation in the 1920s and 1930s for their quality and detailed workmanship. With the resumption of international trade in 1947, exports grew rapidly. Leading American marques such as Ford, Packard, Lincoln, Chevrolet, Belair, Buick, and Cadillac competed to market ever more seductively styled cars to U.S. consumers in an increasingly automobile-based society. In Japan, toy manufacturers followed these styling trends closely, retooling often in order to offer miniature versions of the latest models to eager American children. This selection from the Tanaka collection features 70 cars, airplanes, buses, spaceships, speedboats, and helicopters that provide a fascinating overview of the postwar Japanese tin-toy industry-a symbol of Japan's startlingly rapid postwar rebirth-and of the Golden Age of automobile styling in the United States. event (ended) current design events more info www.jap... (60) design directory Transportation Events added by Levent OZLER |
 RCA Design Interactions Show 2009Design Interactions Department's show at the Royal College of Art explores new roles, contexts and approaches for design in relation to the social, cultural and ethical impact of existing and emerging technologies.Projects, which are often speculative and critical, aim to inspire debate about the human consequences of different technological futures, both positive and negative. Students work closely with people from outside the College, designing for the complex, troubled people we are, rather than the easily satisfied consumers and users we are supposed to be. Project outcomes are expressed through a variety of media including prototypes, simulations, video and photography. Students have backgrounds in art and design, computer science, engineering and psychology. event (ended) current design events more info www.di0... (179) design directory Royal College of Art > Design Education added by Levent OZLER |
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