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Finland may sound a bit too remote to many in China.
However its signature technology brand Nokia has already become part of our daily lives.
In fact, Nokia is a small town in Finland with no more than 30,000 people, and it has now become a super brand worldwide.
Does Finland's success provide any takeaway for the fledgling scientific and technology industries in China?
More importantly, as Finland's natural environment has been ranked the world's best by the World Economic Forum, what does Finland's experience in environmental protection mean for China, where pollution and climate change are looming?
A group of Finnish experts are visiting Shenzhen this week to share their insights and experience, offering not only learning opportunities, but also a wide spectrum of investment opportunities for investors in China.
As part of the visit, Greater Helsinki Promotion (GHP), together with Otaniemi Marketing, Technopolis and the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (TEKES), organised a seminar in Shenzhen today to promote the Helsinki Metropolitan Area as a business hub for Asian companies.
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The MEX Design Competition challenges the world's most talented designers, engineers and visionaries to unleash their creativity and show us a product, service, platform or concept which will delight their target users and enhance the mobile experience.
There are no limitations on what you can submit to the MEX Design Competition - it is all about giving contestants the creative freedom to think about the mobile experience in different ways.
Winners of the 2008 MEX Design Competition will be presented with their awards at a special reception in London on 27th May 2008, the opening night of the 4th annual MEX conference.
The deadline for entries is Friday, 2nd May 2008.
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Possibly no one knows more about how and why we use gadgets than the folks who design them.
Studying the behaviors and attitudes of potential users before designing a product is often the best practice, said Andrew Macey, chief operating officer of Herbst LaZar Bell Inc., a product-design firm better known as HLB, with offices in Chicago, Los Angeles and Waltham, Mass.
Integrating knowledge and design thinking are critical to a product's sales success, Macey said, but customers often are too impatient for that.
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Thirty-six outstanding vehicle interiors representing 13 manufacturers will compete for top honors in the 9th annual "Ward's Interior of the Year" awards.
Sponsored by Ward's AutoWorld magazine, the prestigious competition is part of annual Auto Interiors Show scheduled for June 4-5 at Detroit's Cobo Center.
With automotive interiors taking a leading role in brand differentiation and in winning over the hearts and minds of consumers, the Interior of the Year awards continues to grow in popularity and prestige among the automakers.
"In the years since we've been holding this competition, we've seen marked improvements in the overall design and quality of all automotive interiors, even in the economy segment.
With great new features, materials and styling in all segments across the board, consumers now have a fairly level playing field in vehicle interiors, whether they select imports, new domestics or vehicles from U.S.
automakers," said Drew Winter, editor-in-chief of Ward's AutoWorld magazine.
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"Fabrico Proprio - The Design of Semi-Industrial Confectionery" is a 292-page book dedicated to Portuguese confectionery and its relation to design.
An encyclopaedic record of 92 Portuguese daily confectionery cakes, it also includes perspectives from 23 Portuguese and foreign professionals, which can be found along its pages in the form of three essays and several sections.
Photographers, illustrators, architecture and food critics, a chef and an art curator take Portuguese semi-industrial confectionery as a source of inspiration, offering unexpected approaches to this surprising world.
"Fabrico Proprio" is a multidisciplinary project dedicated to Portuguese semi-industrial confectionery and its relation to design, authored by Pedrita (Rita Joao, Pedro Ferreira) and Frederico Duarte.
It is composed of this book, a workshop, the fabricoproprio website and a series of launches in Portugal and abroad.
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