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August 2009 Greetings Design Fans, Hit the slopes! Okay, we're a bit early on that, but we are proud to announce the winners of the Nidecker Core77 Snowboard Design Competition! If you're still feeling summer, relax to this month's tall cool glass of design inspiration: Esin Arsan shoots the Istanbul Design Week, Aart van Bezooyen visits the Bauhaus Summer Program, Lisa Smith uncovers why young American designers are ganging up into design clubs, and David Malouf presents a design school case study on the development of a new netbook for tweens and teens. We've also launched our latest 1 Hour Design Challenge: The most ideation sketches you can produce in 60 minutes. Finally, if you haven't yet checked out the Dutch Master limited edition bike yet, make sure you do. There's still plenty of time to ride! Keeping cool, Allan Chochinov |
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Nidecker Snowboard Design Competition Winners! The results are in for the Nidecker Core77 Snowboard Design Competition! Designers from around the world were invited to create the next generation of snowboard graphics for Nidecker's famed snowboards, and the response was overwhelming. Over 3,000 designs came in from all corners of the globe, and we are thrilled to present the winners. Paul McDermid took Grand Prize, followed by five finalists: Artur Tchoukanov, Kai Dame, Hendy Musa, Tom Gregory, and Christopher DeLorenzo. We've got a huge gallery of all the winners, semi-finalists and notables up at the site, so check out the winners and then dive deep into the gallery. There are some truly amazing designs in there!
Design Club: Why young American designers are ganging up, by Lisa Smith "While collectives look inward, focused on their own ambitions and sensibilities, these groups look outward, attempting to build a lasting infrastructure for young American designers, capable of outliving changes in personnel and design culture. This change in outlook indicates two things: first, there is a structural gap in the design industry that demands filling, and, second, design collectives are ceasing to function as a satisfactory solution to this problem..."
Istanbul Design Week 2009 Gallery This year, Istanbul Design Weekend took place between the 18th and 21st of June, themed as "Mediterranean Design between Present and Future." In addition to major exhibitions and cultural events, a showroom circuit extended the fair into Istanbul's design shops and galleries, which were invited to compete for "Best Installation". Esin Arsan was on site all weekend—in addition to photographing the events, she offers her impressions here.
Case Study: Freescale Netbook Design at SCAD, by Dave Malouf "We began to understand better their perception of technology and how productivity and play very much intertwine. They are very electronically social and don't distinguish between electronic friends and physical friends, but rather through physical proximity. This means they know where the people they communicate with are, and, whether the relationships were purely virtual, purely physical or somewhere in between, it is the geographic distance that seemed most meaningful to them..."
"Bauhaus City, get on site!" says the international summer school organized by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, celebrating its 90th birthday this year. Creative folks from all over the world were invited to experience the famous Bauhaus buildings firsthand, while reimagining the future of Bauhaus City through hands-on workshops. Aart van Bezooyen shares his experience as a participant of this intensive weeklong summer school in the Core77 galleries!
Book Review: Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams "Anyone who thinks that minimalist or clean product design begins and ends with Jonathan Ive would be well served to check out the latest exhibit on Dieter Rams. Unfortunately, the exhibit in question was already held at the Suntory Museum in Osaka, Japan, but the contents of the retrospective have also been catalogued in a book, Less and More available in limited numbers through the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Rather than working for Braun, Rams was Braun, since of the 1,272 products designed during his stay, 'Rams, or teams in which Rams was a member, designed 514 of them.' During that time, they crafted the design language for everything from stereo amplifiers to electric shavers, and much of that language remains applicable today..."
New 1 Hour Design Challenge: Ideation Sketches! Run to the closest printer or copier, grab a small stack of copier paper, and show us some ideation love. Yup, it's as simple as that—create the most number of ideation sketches in as many angles, forms, and scribbles of a single subject of your choice. If you love shoes, sketch 'em. If you're feelin' it for cars, we want to see those. If you're into cellphones, gadgets, gizmos, fashion, or accessories, have at it! We've all seen these ideation pages populating your Coroflot portfolios; now's your chance to prepare a stunning array live with the kitchen timer set to 60 minutes!
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Package Designer Art Director, Consumer Products Dean, Continuing Education |
Freelance Interaction Designer Jewelry Designer Junior Industrial Designer |
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Made in Macef Spark Design & Architecture Awards Image Space Object 6: Tools for Transformation Design High |
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Vadim Kibardin's killer clock concept Brilliant (literally) anti-paparazzi device This Just Inbox: A book-sensitive reading lamp Design in the wild: What a product designer takes on an 18-day walk Design theses from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
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