Hunn Wai, a NUS ID graduate,  will present a dining chair from the Tre di Una family of chairs and the WOOD X PLASTIC shelf at Design-e-space design/art gallery during the Architecture Biennale in Venice this year.
 

If you or your friends are in the area, do drop by and have a vino by the canals with Hunn and his design pieces! He will be contactable by info@hunnwai.com or the telephone numbers listed on the design-e-space website.  You can find Hunn’s work at http://www.hunnwai.com/ 

This Yamaha-branded Deus Ex Machina concept motorcycle was dreamed up by Art Center Pasadena student Jake Loniak.
The vehicle is powered by ultra-capacitors and doped nano-phoshpate batteries (similar to the ones currently used in hybrid cars) and it is controlled using 36 pneumatic muscles with two linear actuators set along a spine consisting of seven artificial vertebrae. Even the helmet is pneumatically attached.

For more information, please refer to http://gizmodo.com/392816/yamaha-branded-deus-ex-machina-motorcycle-exoskeleton-a-segway-on-steroids

Tokyo — TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC) announced today development of the “Winglet”, a personal transport assistance robot ridden in a standing position.

The Winglet—still being refined—is one of TMC’s people-assisting Toyota Partner Robots. Designed to contribute to society by helping people enjoy a safe and fully mobile life, the Winglet is a compact next-generation everyday transport tool that offers advanced ease of use and expands the user’s range of mobility.

For more information, please visit http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/01/toyotas-winglet-aims-to-usurp-segway-why-we-dont-knowor http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-16486-Toyota+announced+the+development+of+its+Winglet,+a+personal+transport+assistant.html

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Sphere is an interactive spherical display prototype that uses custom optics hardware as well as computer vision and graphics software to enable interaction on a spherical surface. It’s more advanced than Surface, since it has to use algorithms to round images, and uses an infrared system to detect hands and objects touching it. It plays omnidirectional video and what has to be the craziest rendition of Pong ever. The video shows a lot of amazing potential, but incredulously, it’s just an ooh-and-ah project right now, with no commercial plans—it’s just supposed to relay their vision of everything as a potential Surface. For more information, please visit http://research.microsoft.com/~benko/projects/sphere/

NUS ID grdaute, Hans Tan’s work titled “Placemat Paperback” will debut at the 11th Architecture Biennale in Venice, exhibited as part of the exhibition SINGLETOWN by Droog and KesselsKramer.

It will take place in the traditional venues of the Arsenale and the Italia Pavilion. With a preview on September 11th, 12th and 13th, the 11th edition of the International Architecture Biennale will take place from September 14th 2008 until November 23rd 2008. For more information about the exhibition, please visit http://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/

Placemat Paperback, 2007: paper, binding, Against the Grain
{this piece of work will debut at the 11th Architectural Biennale Venice, for the exhibition SINGLETOWN developed by Droog and KesselsKramer from 14 September to 23 November 2008.}

For Hans’ works, please visit:http://www.hanstan.net/index.htm

Deadline: 19 September 2008 

Along with Nelson’s Column, Tower Bridge and The London Eye, London city’s ubiquitous black cabs and red double-decker buses have become trademark icons. London deserves a bus fit for the 21st century, and they want as many people as possible to submit their ideas. Whether you’re a professional designer who can submit a detailed plan or you are someone who uses buses every day and has one great idea that would make your journey better, they want to hear from you.

The winning design in the whole-bus class will win £25,000. There will also be two runners-up prizes of £10,000 each.

Prizes worth up to £5,000 will be awarded to the winner or winners in the element class.

For more information, please visit http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/corporate/projectsandschemes/technologyandequipment/anewbusforlondon/default.aspx

Final year Industrial Design students, Woo Huaijie and David Mak won the Merit award in this year Lite-On awards. The competition received more than 1600 entries. In addition, Industrial Design alumni Foo Wei Zen and Chua Wenfong won the Lite-on Judges Special Awards from the same competition.

Merit Award: Stick’It

Lite-on Judges Special Awards: Halo

NUS ID students, David Mak, Cheong Yian Ling, Tan Sixiu plus alumni Terence Woon works will be featured at National Day Parade 2008.

1. The Interactive Items: 

The AIR by David Mak and Cheong Yian Ling and 3 other students from Temasek Polytechnic, and Nanyang Polytechnic.

The light-emitting inflatable noisemaker in the shape of a hand is designed to evoke the spontaneous and playful side of the audience at the NDP’08.The AIR Glove will also light up when hit, adding to the atmosphere at the parade. 

SPARK! is designed to be a part of an interactive mass display involving 30,000 spectators at the seating gallery. Made up of a reflective material of different colours, SPARK! is a large oversized sparkler representing a burst of light. 

With SPARK!, spectators will be able to participate in a mass display, where the seating gallery becomes a field of sparklers. This will spell the celebratory words “Shine Singapore” which is symbolic of how Singapore is able to shine only with the contribution of every Singaporean.

2. The Funpack:

Perspectives Funpack by Terence Woon, grduated last year and now works in A*STAR SIMTech, as well as 11 students from Very Special Arts and the School of the Arts

The NDP’08 Funpack, titled Perspectives, articulates the concept that everyone has a part to play and we are all connected.The design is also built on the three themes of “green”, creativity and inclusiveness. Additionally, for the first time, the Funpack is made from Tetra Pak, the packaging material for beverage cartons. These cartons are made primarily of paperboard which comes from wood, a natural and renewable resource.

For more information, please refer to http://www.designsingapore.org/RunScript.asp?Page=311&p=ASP\Pg311.asp or http://www.ndp.org.sg/articles/featured/funpack/funpack.php