Metropolis Next Generation Competition
Deadline:
Jan. 30, 2009
BraunPrize 2009
Deadline:
Jan. 31, 2009
Design Event 08
Oct. 9-26, 2008
United Kingdom
Dutch Design Week
Oct. 18-26 2008
Eindhoven, Netherlands
LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL 2008
Now in its sixth year, The London Design Festival offers an amazing array of design and celebration.213 images
FREEDESIGNDOM 2008
FreeDesigndom 2008 is the inaugural design and fashion event in the Netherlands.100 images
ManufRactured EXHIBITION
ManufRactured is a collection of art and design objects created from re-purposed manufactured goods. 40 images
VITRA DESIGN MUSEUM SUMMER WORKSHOPS
Participants live & work for 1 week w/ renowned designers, architects and artists at the Domaine de Boisbuchet.70 images
BICYCLE
A 100-day Dutch event anchored by an exhibition at the Designhuis in Eindhoven.100 images
FARNBOROUGH AIRSHOW 2008
The greatest display of aircraft on the planet. In Hampshire, UK.194 images
CERAMICS AND SOUND EXHIBITION
The works of artists and designers recently at the European Ceramic Workcenter (.ekwc).55 images
100 PERCENT DESIGN SHANGHAI
Designers Richard Hutten, Michael Young & Patrick Jouin join creative directors Tobias Wong & Aric Chen.61 images
HAMBURG HARLEY DAYS 2008
Bill Davidson and some 75,000 (custom) motorbikes.80 images
BERLIN DESIGN FESTIVAL 2008
"The Sky Is Not The Limit" at the Berlin Design Festival.64 images
NEW YORK DESIGN WEEK 2008
A hearty collection of the best the Design World has to offer.224 images
MAKER FAIRE 2008
A wonderland of populist & homespun tech, courtesy of Make Mag. In San Mateo, CA.48 images
Perhaps one day, after a definitive link between cell phones and some kind of fatal brain disease is proven, people will look back on photos like the one above and say "What idiots!"
What makes us say that? Well, check out the photo below, and the countless others up at Consumer Reports' vintage product reviews. Folks, from 1936 to 1980, we have had a lot of bad ideas!
via laughing squid
London Design Festival 2008
Check out Core77's full exhibition coverage
Stepmothers of Invention:
Branding Firms Enter the Industrial Design Fray, by Carl Alviani
FreeDesigndom
View images from Amsterdam's inaugural design and fashion event
Deserve Your Dream:
Design Education and Advocacy, by Mariana Amatullo
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Comments
It's always easy for us to say that ideas were "bad" when we feel disconnected from them through the passage of time, a gap in culture, or other reason. We are conditioned to believe that designs must evolve and that the current model is inherently better than a past one. This is not always true. Many of our modern technologies cause illness, increase pollution, and decrease face-to-face social interactions.
Our modern-day smirking reveals our lack of respect for the work of our forbears and an undeserved assumption that today's inventions are superior.