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 Mazda North America Names Derek Jenkins as New Design DirectorMazda North America announced the appointment of Derek Jenkins to the position of Design Director, Mazda Design Americas.As the former Chief of Design for Volkswagen Group North America, Jenkins is credited with numerous concept and production vehicles including the Audi A2, A8 and Volkswagen Scirocco concept. Prior to joining VW in 2000, he held various design roles at both VW and Audi, both in North America and abroad. "Derek's intimate knowledge and understanding of the North American market, combined with his wealth of experience after having spent 15 successful years at VW & Audi, are going to be a tremendous asset for the Mazda Design team," said Robert Davis, Senior Vice President, Product Development and Quality, MNAO. "He will help us transition our Nagare design philosophy from concept to reality." In his new role as Design Director, Jenkins oversees a staff of about 25, which pushes creative boundaries by developing advanced ideas for Mazda's next generation of cars. The Irvine-based team is credited with the Kabura, Nagare and Furai concept cars, as well as the new 2009 MAZDA6 and 2010 MAZDA3. added by Levent OZLER |
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 World's Best Designers to Mentor UCA StudentsEight of the world's best strategic designers are to mentor students at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA), to help them develop and commercialise their innovative ideas, products and processes for the marketplace.The eight mentors are all members of British Design Innovation (BDI), the UK's most influential strategic design organisation, whose member companies generate over £200 million in annual turnover. BDI represents many of the most qualified product, service, innovative 3D packaging, digital and brand designers in the world, who have decades of experience in sectors such as aeronautics, biotechnology, consumer electronics, food and drink, medical, nanotechnology, telecommunications and transport. They will use their expertise to support the graduate and under-graduate students who have reached the second round of the UCA's Ur Idea competition - part of a Creative Innovation Award scheme to develop students' entrepreneurial potential by progressing creative ideas which have commercial possibilities. A prize of £2,500 will be awarded to the winning student. By combining educational and commercial benefits through guidance on entrepreneurship, commercial sponsorship and potential IP income, the BDI mentors will also help UCA embed an entrepreneurial culture across the university. Mentoring will take place at the Farnham and Rochester campuses. more World's Best Designers to Mentor UCA Students design directory BDI > Design Organizations added by Levent OZLER |
 Kitchen, Bath, Furniture & Built-in Appliances Fair IstanbulThe kitchen fair's revolution on stage! Between 6-10th of May, Istanbul's famous Kitchen- Bath- Furniture & Built-in Appliances Fair will be a gathering point for young talents meeting the international brands of kitchen industry.The fair which is devoted to "fresh new ideas" will open it's doors with a foyer signed by the well-known designer Adnan Serbest. Survey Fuarcilik, with the goal of changing conventional perceptions of fairs, is converting MUDER's (Wooden Kitchen and Bathroom Furniture Industry and Importers Association ) Kitchen- Bath & Built-in Appliances Fair into "a platform of fresh and new ideas." Between 6-10th of May, displays by industrial design and interior decorating departments from universities, conferences on kitchen culture and design, and installations embedded with creative ideas will accompany the fair's international participants. Famous furniture designer Adnan Serbest's foyer design will welcome the visitors to the year's most "delicious" gathering. With the consultancy of furniture designer Adnan Serbest, industrial designer Sertac Ersayin, and design communications specialist Umut Kart, the event brings the most important names of Turkish design field together. event (ended) current design events more Kitchen, Bath, Furniture & Built-in Appliances Fair Istanbul design directory Design Events added by Levent OZLER |
 Star and Snake: New Knives System for Sanelli SpaSanelli's Design Line brand is distinctively elegant and tasteful, as well as innovative in shape and produced with quality materials.Sanelli has developed a Knife System dedicated to the aficionados of modern design, involving the designers Vittori and Perri in its corporate philosophy. The new knife collection draws strength from a profoundly innovative process that develops forms, surfaces and finishes that are quite unprecedented in cutlery. Sanelli's Design Line constitutes a blend between technological research and the firm intention to give the kitchen a piece of design that completes its decor. more www.san... (179) added by Levent OZLER |
 Luigi Colani Action FiguresA Japanese web site dedicated to the designs of Luigi Colani, has commissioned a series of ten 12-inch action figures as a tribute to the great man.Professor Luigi Colani, now 80 years old, was the original "design superstar" from the 1970's. Colani has been causing controversy and creating his bio-inspired designs for over half a century. Kojun, a well know figure sculptor from Korea, was specially commissioned to sculpt the figure. Such collectable figures are very popular in Japan and elsewhere, but are more usually based on game or movie characters rather than industrial designers. The series is limited to just ten examples, and Professor Colani will be presented with serial number 01. more Luigi Colani Action Figures added by Levent OZLER |
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