Metropolis Next Generation Competition
Deadline:
Jan. 30, 2009
BraunPrize 2009
Deadline:
Jan. 31, 2009
A Better World by Design
November 7-9, 2008
Providence, Rhode Island
Design Miami
December 3-6, 2008
Miami, Florida
Designers' Open 2008
Designers' Open is one of the biggest design events in the east of Germany, including a creative fight club!
99 images
DESIGN PHILADELPHIA 2008
The fourth annual DesignPhiladelphia delivered brotherly love with exhibitions, gallery openings, and lectures.
62 images
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
By now most of you have seen the Flatshare Fridge designed by Stefan Buchberger, but have a look at the other winners of the 2008 Electrolux Design Lab. From a basket-style washing machine to a toaster that burns the day's weather forecast into the bread, the entries are far-reaching, varied in concept, and presented with a pretty high degree of polish.
via appliancist
London Design Festival 2008
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Core77 visits NASA:
Designing for Space with NASA's Industrial Design Team, by Glen Jackson Taylor
DesignPhiladelphia 2008
Bryce Gibson photographs this year's festival of brotherly love
UGLY:
How Unorthodox Thinking Will Save Design, by Tad Toulis
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Comments
I think burning things into toast is the epitome of pointless design. It reduces the quality of the toast (plaid and pointless--they could at least use negative design like the hello Kitty toaster does) and by the time you add a spread you can't see the design/text anyway.
Why would anyone want to get weather read outs on their bread? Would it be more easy and quicker to just display the infos on a digital display? ELECTROSUX.
What's more, this was widely publicized as a student project seven years ago:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/04/bread_as_a_display_device/
Must agree i find all the other entrants designs quite interesting but am increasinly annoyed at how much attention this USB toaster is receiving. It serves no purpose and further more has been done countless times before.
For me my personal favorite is the clothes, gorgeous sculptural design which would fit in most modern styled apartments.
could it be all to do with brand awareness for electrolux in korea, and east asian countries? are they trying to get a younger generation of buyers to buy their fridges and washing machines, as oppose to competitors like LG, Samsung?