New Office Workspace (NOW) from CommackHighSchool on Vimeo

A very impressive student design project–researched, designed and built by high school kids.

For more information, please visit http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/local/suffolk/huntington/blog/2009/02/commack_students_win_prize_for_workspace_design.html

Platform21’s Repair Manifesto opposes throwaway culture and celebrates repair as the new recycling.

If you want to support the Platform21 people in making repairing cool again then send your projects to info[at]platform21.com and you might see your project featured at their website or upcoming exhibition.

Alan Yentob of BBC meets the industrial designer Marc Newson, whose latest project is a suborbital jet that just might be the future of long-distance travel.

The programme follows Newson to Bodylines, an extraordinary Aston Martin panel beating workshop outside Milton Keynes, where men who usually work on vintage cars create his limited-edition furniture pieces – and one craftsman gives him a piece of his mind about the flaws in his Black Hole table.

In the marble quarries of Carrara in Italy, we see the processes behind his exquisite sculptures. Newson’s designs push marble into contemporary shapes, with each piece carved from one individual block. The programme also takes in the launch of Newson’s Space Plane, which, he hopes, will one day do exactly what it says on the tin.

For more information about this programme, please visit BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/imagine/episode/marc_newson.shtml

Deadline: 10^th March 2009.

In order to give greater visibility to young designers, Rima Editrice is announcing a competition restricted to designers born after 31/12/1973.

In order to take part in the competition, the designers must submit a well-documented photographic (or graphic) presentation, accompanied by a brief commentary, relative to newly designed furniture pieces, lamps and furnishing accessories.

THE AWARDS
The three chosen projects will be presented with the following awards:

1st prize: 6.000 euros and plaque
2nd prize: 3.000 euros and plaque
3rd prize: 2.000 euros and plaque
Wonder Design Award
3000 euros and plaque

For more information, please visit: http://www.rimaedit.it/eng/young.htm

Tags: Competition

The legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser dives deep into a new painting inspired by Piero della Francesca. From here, he muses on what makes a convincing poster, by breaking down an idea and making it new.

About Milton Glaser
If his career began and ended with “I [heart] N Y,” Milton Glaser would still be a legend. But over his multi-decade career, his body of work is sprinkled with similarly iconic images and logos.

About TedTalk

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.

TEDTalks began as a simple attempt to share what happens at TED with the world. Under the moniker “ideas worth spreading,” talks were released online. They rapidly attracted a global audience in the millions. Indeed, the reaction was so enthusiastic that the entire TED website has been reengineered around TEDTalks, with the goal of giving everyone on-demand access to the world’s most inspiring voices.

For this talk, please visit: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/david_merrill_demos_siftables_the_smart_blocks.html

Important Dates
Early registration: 15 Jan – 15 Apr 2009 10 Jun 2009
Standard registration: 16 Apr – 1 Jul 2009 8 Jul 2009
Late registration:  2 Jul – 13 Jul 2009 15 Jul 2009

red dot award: design concept 2009

An impractical idea, a figment of imagination or a stroke of genius that has the power to improve our world in the future? This is the elusive answer that all designers and businesses seek and rewards await for those enlightened.

The red dot award: design concept answers these questions by inviting the most talented designers and most progressive companies from all over the world to submit their best design ideas to rigorous adjudication process.

Each year, an independent panel of jury gather at the red dot design museum in Singapore to meticulously scrutinize each entry to the competition. Through a series of examination and debate, exceptional design concepts are identified and awarded with the international coveted “red dot”.

This seal, a mark of excellence, sends a strong and indisputable signal that demands attention to both the design concept and designer.

For more information, please visit red dot website: http://en.red-dot.org/3060.html

NUS ID is doing rather well in the red-dot award: design concept within last few year, we have won the Luminary award in 2005, 2006, and also another 10 red dot concept awards.  Below are some award winning projects:

red dot award: design concept 2008: Dandella

Liminary Award 2005, Skitscooter by Yong Jieyu

Luminary Award 2006, Ring Faucet by Lim Sun Liang

red dot award: design concept 2007: Leapfrog by Donn Koh

You are cordially invited to the guest lecture on ‘Designing new habitats for an interconnected world’ by Raffaele Saporiti on 2 March 2009 (Monday), 5pm at LR 423 located on Level 4 of SDE 3, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore.

For more information about the company, please visit : http://www.saporiti.com/

The Creative Industries (CI) Fair 2009 is an inaugural event organised by the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) and supported by the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA), National Arts Council (NAC), Media Development Authority (MDA), Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), DesignSingapore Council (DSG), and SPRING Singapore.

This is the first time that the Government is organizing an event to showcase the various job, career conversion and skills upgrading opportunities in the Creative Industries which cover the Arts & Culture, Media & Communications, and the Design subsectors.

The CI Fair 2009 will feature at least 300 jobs, 100 apprenticeship places, and 1000 training opportunities. Visitors can also find out more about the jobs available from companies, programmes to help individuals convert into the Creative Industries; as well as training courses to assist existing creative individuals to upskill and prepare for the upturn.

Exciting daily programmes are scheduled at the CI Fair 2009 where all visitors can get to interact with and hear from employers, creative professionals, agencies, trainers and individual workers sharing more on the Creative Industries. Besides these talks and forums, there will also be demonstrations and workshops at the fair.

For more information, please visit WDA website: http://app2.wda.gov.sg/web/Contents/Contents.aspx?ContId=755

MOTION RESPONSE sportswear, designed by Kerri, a textile designer challenges the potential of wearable display technologies in textile design.

The product uses thermochromic printing techniques to enable the fabric to change color in response to heart rate and body temperature.  As you heat up, the Thermochromic ink disappears, and the Thermochromic Liquid Crystal ink becomes colorful. The combination reveals a color spectrum—ranging from clear to turquoise to black—based on your body heat and heart rate that lets others know just how taxing your workout is.

For more information, please visit: http://www.textilefutures.co.uk/exchange/bin/view/TextileFutures/KerriWallace or http://www.kerriwallace.com/frameset.html

From a genetic testing service to an invisibility cloak to an ingenious public bike system to the world’s first moving skyscraper, Times has picked up the top 50 inventions of 2008. For more infromation, please visit: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1852747,00.html?iid=redirect-inventions