World Industrial Design Day 2009 is June 29, and this year’s theme is “Industrial Design: the product of human creativity.”
World Industrial Design Day aims to provide designers with a collective outlet to acknowledge the merits of the profession of industrial design, as well as provide the general public with an opportunity to appreciate design not just as an abstract, but also as a tangible expression of everyday life.
First declared in 2007 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Icsid, World Industrial Design Day received considerable attention following a successful series of international events held during the inaugural year in 2008. This year, designers and design enthusiasts are once again encouraged to mark the day by coordinating events within their region.
Designer: Carla Sapiain
Producer: International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (icsid)
NeoCon® World’s Trade Fair, the National Exposition of Contract Furnishings, is the largest exhibition of contract furnishings for the design and management of the built environment in North America. NeoCon features the latest trends, products, and concepts in office, healthcare, hospitality, residential, institutional and government environments, all under one roof at Chicago’s famous Merchandise Mart.
Producer: Neocon
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If you’re a British designer wanting to travel but lacking the funds, then get your application in to BA’s Great Britons competition – the 3rd round’s now open for entries!
Apply here
Winners announced.
Categories include: architecture, communication, fashion, interaction, interior, landscape, and product design. The National Design Awards were conceived by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum to honor the best in American design. Cooper-Hewitt’s fourth annual National Design Week will be held Oct. 18-24.
The I Saloni May 4 press release begins… As hoped, the Saloni 2009 exceeded every possible expectation, the testing global economic climate not- withstanding.
above: German lighting designer Ingo Maurer launched Euro Condom, a protest against new European guidelines banning frosted incandescent bulbs, at the Euroluce lighting fair in Milan last month. more images via dezeen
above: Teresa Sapey’s Luce dal Lino project strings 100 lanterns above Via Monte Napoleone. via fastcompany
above: one of many photos. via dexigner
above: Depth Charge by Craig Nolan of Glasgow Caledonian University via moco loco
above: Philips’ new line of Ledino lighting fixtures boast high light output, 80% energy savings, 20 years of life, are cool to the touch, dimmable, low voltage, and feature a warm 3100 kelvin color. via inhabitat
The press release continues… The huge success of the 2009 edition is recognition, yet again, of the quality of the goods on offer and of the layout of the exhibition space. There were 313,385 visitors altogether, including operators, members of the general public and the press. [more]
The “2000 Watt Living” initiative imagines attractive new ways of using one sixth of the energy used by the average American. 2000 Watt Living was exhibited at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan 2009, and will be at Making Modern at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from June 16 to July 25.
via gfry studio and fastcompany [PR]
Theme: Evolution. Nature never made a plan, nor does it seem to copy very well.
above: 2009 theme. illustration from portrait of charles darwin, by “DA” dominic tinio
above: the bone tree, by dana albany
above: design by rod garret and larry harvey. rendering by andrew johnstone and rod garrett.
The human species, Homo sapiens, has existed for approximately 200,000 years. The genus known as homo has a lineage stretching back two million years. Homo erectus, the first human ancestor to walk upright, and Homo habilis, the toolmaker, are among our relatives. We are a bud belonging to a twig of this ancestral tree.
Burning Man 2009. August 31 – September 7, Black Rock City, Nevada USA.
One Person. One hour. One & Other.
2400 people will become an image of themselves, and a representation of the whole of humanity. Sculptor Antony Gormley invites you to occupy the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London.
6 July – 14 October.
