0Design world notes:
– Sex toys from Industrial Designers
– Core77 reviews Jennifer Hudson’s book Process: 50 Product Designs from Concept to Manufacture
– BMW unveils its new 7 Series this week at the Paris Auto Show
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– National Geographic’s “Design by Nature” gallery, with examples on biomimetics, the science of adapting designs from nature to solve modern problems. [via Core 77]
– The Marc Newson-designed Airbus A380 lands in Sydney.
– Amsterdam police remove Stefan Sagmeister’s Urban Play project.
– I am the DJ, I am what I play…
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Objectified cast member Tim Brown, CEO and president of IDEO, is regularly posting to his new Design Thinking blog:
[via Core 77]
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New York Magazine’s design editor Wendy Goodman and a panel featuring MoMA curator (and Objectified cast member) Paola Antonelli, hotelier Andre Balazs, architect Richard Meier, and designer Murray Moss discuss the city’s influence on their work.
Tuesday, September 23, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
65 Fifth Ave.
Swayduck Auditorium
New York City
Free, doors at 6pm.
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0Design world notes:
– Marc Newson has been awarded the 2nd London Design Medal.
– Naoto Fukasawa’s new designs for Japanese paper company ONAO. [via Design Corner]
– Post-War Plastics exhibit of Dieter Rams designs at Vitsoe in London.
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0Design world notes:
– Lots of talk in the past week about IDEO’s Project Inkwell device. [via Gizmodo]
– Business Week profiles Culture and Commerce, the NYC design agency that scouts new designers for Target, among others. [via Core77]
– Engadget is liveblogging Apple’s “Let’s Rock” event in San Francisco today.
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Double Objectified news action: design writer Alice Rawsthorn profiles Marc Newson and his design for the interior of the new Airbus A380 double-decker “superjumbo” jet for Australian airline Qantas.
The plane will be making its first flight next month, and begin commercial service in October. Read the full story on the International Herald Tribune’s site.
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0Several Objectified interviewees are in the news this week:
– The Japan C exhibit opens August 16 in New York, and includes work by Naoto Fukasawa. “Spanning home and fashion accessories to gadgets, food, beauty and pop-culture products, Japan C will be part design exhibition, part bazaar, part trade fair.”
– IDEO redesigns their website.
– Karim Rashid gets Kurve-y.
– Alice Rawsthorn reports on “1% Water and Our Future,” an exhibition at the Z33 Gallery in Belgium which explores our relationship to water, and how design can help us to use it more responsibly and productively.
– Qantas announces the delivery date of their new Marc Newson-designed Airbus A380 planes.
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The New York Times has a nice interactive feature on something you may not have thought about before: the design of the Olympic Torch. It’s interesting to see the torch’s evolution, and how the different host nations have tried to imbue their national identities into a burning stick. [via Core77]
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