The missing Chair

Posted on May 16, 2008
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Nobody&Co presents a collection of seven chairs, each one different from the other, with which it is also possible to obtain angular compositions and a bench.

Nobody&co is the trademark of a creative team, Alisée Matta, copywriter and Giovanni Gennari, art director.

Pacifier-style thermometer

Posted on May 14, 2008
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The pacifier-style thermometer with an orthodontic nipple makes it easy to take baby’s temperature in a natural and noninvasive way.

Pacifier-style thermometer by SONIC design

While working for top design firms in the US and Germany SONIC Design has developed many medical products, and received highly renowned design awards including IDSA silver.

Bolido

Posted on May 13, 2008
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Bolido is a suspension lamp in silkscreened and curved glass. Supporting metal structure with two white glass diffusers.

Peugeot Design Contest 08

Posted on May 10, 2008
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“IMAGINE THE PEUGEOT IN THE WORLDWIDE MEGALOPOLIS OF TOMORROW”
Create a Concept Car which is designed to evolve within the cities of the future, whilst retaining the key values of the 21st century. The projects should bear Peugeot’s stylistic codes and must contain the following four aspects included in this design competition: environmental awareness, social harmony, interactive mobility and economic efficiency.

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Manta Chair

Posted on May 9, 2008
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Manta Chair has been designed by Rodrigo Torres for Poliform.

Rodrigo Torres lives and works in Milan.

Samsung Young Design Award

Posted on May 8, 2008
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The multinational company Samsung Electronics Italia is taking off for the second time with its competition aimed at students of Italian design schools, the Samsung Young Design Award.

Milan, April 8th, 2008. Samsung Electronics Italia presents the second edition of the Samsung Young Design Award, a competition aimed at all Italian design students. After the success of the first edition in 2007, this afternoon the multinational company presented the schedule and activities at the De Carli room at Politecnico di Milano.

The 2008 edition of the competition began last March 15th with the opening of the first phase dedicated to the sign-up of students and to the presentation of their projects. In addition, the website dedicated to this initiative, www.samsungyoungdesignaward.com, was put online in order to allow interested youth to sign up and find all relative information on the competition. The first phase will end June 18th, at which point the finalists will be chosen, whose projects will be presented to the public at the big final event this fall.

Also this time around, the jury is composed of great and important figures of the design world. Back to judge the projects this year are: Richard Sapper, Industrial Designer, Michele De Lucchi, Industrial Designer, and Stefano Casciano, Design Editor. Accompanying them will be Alberto Meda, Industrial Designer and Ezio Manzini, Industrial Designer. Finally, there will be two other world famous jurors: Donald D. Powell, Interior Designer, and Fritz Frenkler, Designer.

This year, the theme of the SYDA competition as well as of the students’ projects is “Digital Solutions for a Sustainable Life”; this project regards all digital solutions that can be used to improve the quality between people and the space that surrounds them.

The presented projects can range from solutions for the end user to the field of Health, with the objective of creating environmentally-oriented solutions and that favor energy conservation. Among the evaluation criteria are:
-Innovation, aesthetic and ergonomic
-Interaction and usability for the user
-Respect for the environment
-Analysis of the context in which the product is used
-Quality of the visible materials and of contents

The launch of the second edition of the competition will be accompanied by a series of activities in the different Italian universities, involving promotion and several workshops open to the students to better explain the competition.
All information and news will be published on samsungyoungdesignaward.com

Elio Linea, a watch designed by Pierollo

Posted on May 8, 2008
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Elio Linea is a watch which shows you your position on a linear scale, like a computer downloading gauge.

Elio Linea, a watch designed by Pierollo

Check out the portrait of Pierollo on Obdesigner.com (French)

24h, a clock by Rober Stadler

Posted on May 7, 2008
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24h is a hybrid between a lightbox photography and a mural clock. Once the viewer has detected the indicator of the hours and minutes he will be able to read the time.

designer : Rober Stadler

CEO, the directors writing desk by Staffan Holm

Posted on May 6, 2008
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Staffan Holm is a Swedish designer from Gothenburg. The CEO desk was litterally created to preserve the inner child and to reflect on a glimpse of the lost childhood.

CEO is made up with solid beech, MDF and it is painted with Steinway finished enamel paint.

LP Balls, lighting designed by Louise Campbell

Posted on May 5, 2008
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This LED experiment plays with the possibility of free movement of light sources. It as originally designed by Louise Campbell for a solo exhibition for Louis Poulsen titled ‘Light Studies’.

LP Balls, lighting designed by Louise Campbell

Digital Dali

Posted on May 4, 2008
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Ross McBride earned his bachelor’s degree in graphic design from the California Institute of the Arts. He has exhibited at 100% Design London, Salone Satellite in Milan, ICFF New York, and Tokyo Designers Block, where he won the TDB Award 2003 for best installation design.

Digital Dali rests on the edge of any horizontal surface. The power cord can either run out of the back, or from the bottom to be concealed by the tabletop.

Nora House

Posted on May 2, 2008
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Nora House (Danderyd, Sweden), is a private house designed by Tham & Videgård Hansson Arkitekter. The building envelope was defined by the full width, the maximum area and height fitting into the building regulations.