Next Generation(R) Competition: ONE FIX FOR THE FUTURE (and $10,000)

METROPOLIS MAGAZINE ANNOUNCES NEXT GENERATION® 2010 DESIGN COMPETITION:  ONE FIX FOR THE FUTURE (AND $10,000) September 29, 2009 New York, NY -- Metropolis, the leading magazine for architecture and design professionals, announces the focus for its annual Next Generation® Design Competition:  ONE DESIGN FIX FOR THE FUTURE.  The winner receives a $10,000 prize and the kind of career-building attention that previous winners have enjoyed: they've become leaders in their fields, the subject of PBS TV series, and received notice from manufacturers, design firms, governments, important design schools, major NGOs - and, of course, clients.   Next Generation® 2010, sponsored by Herman Miller, is expected to attract hundreds of entries from around the world. Entries for ONE DESIGN FIX FOR THE FUTURE are due January 29, 2010.    Metropolis established the Next Generation® Design Competition in 2003 to publicize the conviction that drives everything that Metropolis does editorially:  Good design is not a frill, not an expensive luxury, but is basic to how things work, from buildings, to cities, to consumer products and energy grids.  Faced with great environmental challenges, we must all assure that the buildings and devices in our world are not only functional, but contribute to a sustainable way of life in the future.  Everything we use, live in and work in must work better for this to happen.  And great design can make this happen just as much as great engineering and great dedication.   ONE DESIGN FIX FOR THE FUTURE, the Next Generation® Design Competition, challenges designers of all kinds - architects, interior designers, product designers, landscape designers, graphic designers, and communication designers.  We are looking for entries that propose ONE DESIGN FIX to our designed environment, fixes that can be applied to the way that the designer himself or herself may actually live today:  the products we use at home or work, our home or workplace, our city, or any commercial application.  We are looking for a design fix that may be quite humble or affect only a small thing, but which in scale, deployed throughout our society, can improve our future by making it more sustainable, energy-efficient, less damaging to the environment.    The winner will probably not be something that is explicitly environmentally re-engineered.  It will be a brilliant, possibly quite small and - naturally - beautiful and elegant fix that will benefit the environment in the long run.  The winning entries will display the entrant's training, imagination and passion for improvement in a completely unexpected way.  We are looking for first-rate design imagination applied to a difficult, overlooked or completely mundane problem - resulting in a solution that is practical, clearly thought out and presented, and will have real-world consequences for the human community.   "We are the leading design industry magazine with a culture of sustainability," says Susan S. Szenasy, Metropolis editor-in-chief.  "So we're putting our money where our editorial heart is.  We believe that the design profession has the tools and techniques that the world needs, and that good design is a way of solving problems."  Horace Havemeyer III, Metropolis' publisher, adds: "Designers are fixers.  And Metropolis wants to show how much good design - not just good intentions - can add to the building of a more sustainable world in the future."   "We are particularly pleased that Herman Miller, Inc. is sponsoring Next Generation® 2010," says Peter Lenahan from Metropolis magazine.  "Herman Miller says that as a company, they design 'furnishings and related services that improve the human experience wherever people work, heal, learn and live. We think that Herman Miller's values are perfectly aligned with what Next Generation® 2010 ONE DESIGN FIX FOR THE FUTURE is trying to achieve."   The competition will be judged by a distinguished international panel facilitated by Ms. Szenasy, consisting of:   Tama Daffy Day, FASID, IIDA, LEED AP, Principal at Perkins+Will Ellen Lupton, Director, Graphic Design MFA Program, Maryland Institute College of Art Joel Makower, Co-founder and chairman, Greener World Media and Clean Edge Christopher Sharples,R.A.  Co-founder and Partner, SHoP Architects, P.C.   Entries for ONE DESIGN FIX FOR THE FUTURE are due January 29, 2010. For full information about how to enter, visit http://www.metropolismag.com/nextgen.   About Next Generation® The Metropolis Next Generation® Design Competition was created in 2003 to promote activism, social involvement, and entrepreneurship in young designers. Metropolis saw the need for a new type of competition, one that went beyond the usual beauty pageants for finished projects, a competition that would generate and reward ideas. The Next Generation® winners and runners-up are a testament to the success of this mission. Each project recognized has embodied the core values of good design-incorporating systems thinking, sustainability, accessibility, materials exploration, historic relevance and technology-while forwarding our thinking on what designers can accomplish. The breadth of proposals has been stunning: building projects, urban planning and community building schemes, responsive interior environments, population pressure issues, new materials, ergonomics, product design, social and housing solutions, environmental management, water purity, and waste disposal in crisis situations and so on. The prize of $10,000 in seed money for developing the projects, plus the publicity they receive, have helped winners' and runners-ups' projects leap from the drawing board to implementation and production. http://www.metropolismag.com/nextgen   About Metropolis magazine  Professionals in all areas of design--architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, technology, industrial design, and graphic design--rely on Metropolis magazine each month for dynamic journalism that spans the gamut of their profession. The Metropolis Tour, hosted by more than 70 leading architecture and design firms in North America since 2007, explores today's increasingly complex design issues with lessons of regional architecture and modern preservation, innovation and research in design, and features compelling Metropolis-produced films. Visit http://www.metropolismag.com to subscribe to the magazine and access a wealth of continually updated content and professional design resources.

Sequence by Julianna Goodman

http://www.vimeo.com/6483110

Sequence is a stop motion animation created by Julianna Goodman, a graphic designer, art director and illustrator based out of Brooklyn. The animation was created in istopmotion and Adobe Premiere using paint chips, tape, found images, type, and a paper bag. Music is a mashup entitled "Five Step", created by Overdub (Dave Brubeck vs. Radiohead). 

Julianna spent the last two years as a full time freelancer in the Department of Graphic Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and recently returned to her own studio practice. Her work will be featured in a Sandu publication entitled "Fashion Graphics" due out in the States this fall. http://www.cardamom.ws/

moe works at:

cardamom.ws

Rezon products > cool designs from Tokyo

Rezon is a product design label launched in 2006 operated under Kawamura Hideo Activity Inc. that is a graphic design company in Tokyo, Japan.

here some of their products:

ONOFF

"ONOFF" is the first lighting design created under the Rezon brand. It is a rectangular lampshade that can either be hung or used as a standing lamp. An illustration is printed on both the inside and outside of the shade. Each ONOFF shade displays two different designs - when it is switched OFF, only the outside illustration is visible. When the light is switched ON, the illustration on the inside is exposed, altering the visible picture. ONOFF won Good Design Award 2006.

Color ： Zebra ／ Flowers ／ Cows ／ Glasses ／ Love Bulb ／ Green Up
Size ： H 217mm x W150mm x D 150mm
Material ： Polypropylene
Weight : 100g （Item） ／ 420g （Package incl.）　
Contents ： Lid （＊Light bulb is not included.） Electric cord ： Type A（120V）, BF（240V）, C（240V） & O（240V） are available

Available at their shop - www.kha.jp/rezon/shop/paypal/


BROKEN MIRROR - NEW!

"BROKEN MIRROR" is a designed mirror as it looks broken. Its appearance is cracked, but an acrylic mirror that is indestructible and safe is used for the material. This mirror is radical, edged, practical and of course can be used as a design interior for your daily life.（The mirror is NOT broken actually).

Size：H 420mm × W 297mm × D 5mm
Weight：700g（Item）／800g（Package incl.）
Material：Acrylic Mirror
Available at their online shop - www.kha.jp/rezon/shop/paypal/

CUTTER PENDANT - NEW!

Are you looking for a real "cutting-edge" accessory? CUTTER PENDANT surely is the one. This is a pendant accessory that is designed as a cutter blade and it looks a real blade. Acrylic mirror is used for material for the product, so not only for a fashion item, it can be used for a compact mirror when you go outside. Gold and Silver are available for color choice.

Color ： Gold ／ Silver
Size ： H 18mm ／ Chain 600mm
Weight : 5g （Item） ／ 10g （Package incl.）
Contens ： Pendant （Acrylic mirror） ／ Chain （Gold type ： Brass／ Silver type ： Stainless）
Available at their online shop - www.kha.jp/rezon/shop/paypal/


DIAMOND REFLECTIVE PENDANT - NEW!

A 2-way pendant accessory that uses reflector for material and is designed to look like a shiny diamond. As a pendant, spangle yourself with it and grab everyone's attention. It can be attached to clothing, bag, bicycle, etc. with a safety-pin & clip. It informs around where you are by shiny reflective light at evening & night. It also is valuable as a safety item for accident prevention. White and Red are available for color choice.

Color : White ／ Red
Size : H 72mm × W 114mm ／ Chain 600mm
Weight : 5g （Item） ／ 10g （Package incl.）
Contens : Pendant （Acrylic ／ Acrylic mirror ／ Reflector） ／ Chain （Stainless）
Available at their online shop - www.kha.jp/rezon/shop/paypal/


DOLLAR T - NEW!
For a person who really wants to be rich very easily with fake 100 dollars.（Coin budge Included）

Size：XS - XL
Weight：～230g（Item）
Material：Cotton 100%
Available at their online shop - www.kha.jp/rezon/shop/paypal/

want more Rezon craziness? check their blog.

Enjoy!

Soul > Paraplegic's Kite Board

Design by: Etay Amir,
a recently graduated in industrial design studies in Shankar College of engineering and design in Israel.

Soul

Paraplegic's Kite Board

Kite surfing is a new and exciting sport that is spreading fast all over the world. From the field of water sports, I find that Kite surfing has the best potential to create excitement and free movement on the water, By doing so it also achieves physical and emotional rehabilitation, for handicap people.  Another reason I chose Kite surfing was the use of the wind as a power source, which means that the surfer doesn't require a lot of physical strength, and the fact is, an extreme sport proves us that we can do much more than the ordinary person. 

From observing products for the disable I found that the design approach is mostly technical and makes the user look strange and different. Working with disable people I realized that they want to look good as much as anybody else. There for I designed this kite board in a way that it will relates to the disable surfer within the non-disable surfer's visual world.

This Kite surfing board was developed for the needs and disabilities of paraplegics.

Check the video:

http://vimeo.com/5780826

Binary Waves > new website

New Website by LAb[au] and their Binary Waves project

 http://lab-au.com/projects/binary-waves/ 

 

Tatoo Gun byb Omer Deutsch

name:omer deutsch
product:Tattoo gun
product name:Tattoo Gun
description:

Tattoos
going to have a tattoo can be an intimidate experience ,since looking at the tools ,it looks
like an old unprofessional tools and not very sterile.  
my new design, made to create a less intimidating experience and it gives the basic tattoo gun a more professional appearance and
enables precision and comfort during use.
farther more, each individual tattoo artist can airbrushing his\her gun's skin.

Omer Deutsch
+972-506347791
http://omer-deutsch.daportfolio.com/
http://spikebox.deviantart.com/
Industrial designer

DESIGN 21 Announces Winner of Sustainable Materials Challenge "Going With the Grain"

The results are in! It was a tough decision to make but DESIGN 21: Social Design Network is happy to announce that Swedish furniture designer, Charlie Davidson, is the winner of its Going With the Grain Challenge for his ingenious "Uni Table" design. Developed by The Nature Conservancy and the U.S. Chapter of the Forest Stewardship Council to promote conscientious consumerism through responsible design, Going With the Grain called on designers to conceptualize an object using a single sheet of FSC-certified plywood without the use of hardware or glue. As the overall winner, Davidson will receive a one-year membership to Material Connexion and a manufactured sample of his design. A prototype will also be auctioned to support The Nature Conservancy's sustainable forestry work. To view the full selection of entries and the seven designers who received Honorable Mentions, visit http://www.design21sdn.com/challenges/15

4Design > new website

4Design, a compact yet highly efficient design consultancy with two offices, one in Sydney, Australia and also one in Queenstown, New Zealand,  just launched a new website which has an assortment of bits and pieces, of their latest projects and news.

 

4Design specialises in product design but try to keep their fingers in as may pies as possible, including interface, web, graphic and environment. 

 

Check their new webiste at www.4design.com.au

Fireplate : A new stylish campfire

The FIREPLATE by RADIUS DESIGN creates an atmospheric scene on lukewarm summer evenings.
The circular plate is made of black painted steel and comes with a diameter of 29,5 Inches.
The attachable grill completes the FIREPLATE and provides a perfect BBQ experience.
The ideal solution, not only for boy scouts with an eye for aesthetics.

http://www.radius-design.com/en/products/outdoor/fireplate.html

The “all around the world” table

The "all around the world" table is the last creation of Architects Frederic RHODES (Toulouse, France) and Sato MATSUDA (Tokyo ,Japan).

The table is made of glass, steel and wood. It sizes 1.00x1.00x0.50m.

It is a coffee table that represents the meeting of people and objects. Seated around, people and friends meet and exchange ideas.

The right feet, which drawings are reminders of the World Trade Center represent the Occident, while the other feet are symbols of a Japanese temple front-doors. They are the East.

These two worlds meet by commercial and industrial exchanges which are represented by the steel metallic structure.

The glass links them up spiritually in all directions.

The "all around the world" table will be launched in a few weeks, sold by a new furniture design company. Only a hundred units will be available.

You can learn more at this address : http://fredericdefourram.blogspot.com/