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Archived March 12, 2010
Restoring Habitat: Cabinet Maker magazine reports UK retailer Habitat plans a number of steps to return to profitability, including redundancies at head office and opening new stores in Liverpool and Bilbao.
Archived March 12, 2010
Tweet RTB: Rocking the Beaver, a documentary that asks the question "What Is Canadian Design?" to be filmed across Canada this summer, can be followed on Twitter.
Archived March 12, 2010
UK Top 50: Selected for having "gone beyond the brief" in the name of design, Design Week lists its Top 50 UK designers for 2009.
Archived March 12, 2010
SA Finalists: Design Indaba lists the 12 finalists for The Most Beautiful Object in South Africa on exhibit at Design Indaba Expo 2010, Cape Town, February 24-26.
Archived March 12, 2010
In Memoriam: The Guardian prints this epitaph about Lucienne Day, "the foremost British textile designer of her period," who died aged 93 on January 30.
Archived March 12, 2010
Bio Polymers: Researchers at Imperial College in London adapt tree- and plant-based glucose to create polymers that bio-degrade much faster than corn-based polymers currently used in bio-friendly packaging. Source The Telegraph.
Archived March 8, 2010
Green Seats: Blog Designeast lists the three winning designs from Sitting Green, an eco-friendly home seating competition announced during Belgrade Design Week 2009.
Archived March 8, 2010
Design by Night: Toronto's Design Exchange hosts Fall in Love . . . with Design, an early celebration of Valentine's Day and launch of Design by Night, a series of evening events that include studio tours, screenings, workshops and exhibition openings. To be held February 11.
Archived March 8, 2010
Project H Tasks: Project H Design, an organization that "connects the power of design to the people who need it most," repairs rural school desks and produces hospital storage units in two Mexico-based activities.
Archived March 8, 2010
SCP Inspires: On February 3 in London the annual Hidden Art Awards recognized SCP as the most influential and/or inspiring British company.
Archived March 3, 2010
VIA Grants: The Paris-based furniture development agency VIA (Valorisation de l'Innovation dans l'Ameublement) exhibits furniture designs that received its assistance grants. To March 7.
Archived March 3, 2010
Outdoor Award: The Chicago chapter of Architecture for Humanity presents a street furniture design competition. Deadline February 26.
Archived March 3, 2010
By Architects: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) provides images from its recent exhbit, From the Spoon to the City, that featured objects designed by architects Marcel Breuer, Charles Eames, Frank Gehry, Michael Graves, Rudolph Schindler and others.
Archived March 3, 2010
Folded Metal Chairs: Designboom gives an overview of the formed-aluminum-sheet chairs designed by Ran Amitai, a recent graduate of Jerusalem's Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.
Archived March 3, 2010
Eco Debate: Alice Rawsthorn reports on Design for Sustainability, a debate she moderated at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Archived February 24, 2010
E-Waste Ethics: Greenbiz.com reports on a recent seminar from the US EPA that offered a primer for small business on choosing a reputable e-waste recycler and avoiding the pitfalls of e-waste recycling.
Archived February 24, 2010
UK Shortlist: My House Is My Castle provides images of the furniture category shortlist for this year's Brit Insurance Design Awards, sponsored by London's Design Museum, including the "make it yourself" pallet furniture by Nina Tolstrup of Studiomama.
Archived February 24, 2010
FHS Symposium: Furniture History Society holds its 34th Annual Symposium at the Victoria Albert Museum, March 6, with speakers addressing topics, such as Bauhaus furniture and post-War Italian design, and providing a re-evaluation of the work of major designers, including Marcel Breuer and Gio Ponti.
Archived February 8, 2010
Better Bends: Fluted Beams LLC in Gig Harbor, Washington, US, supplies sample packs of compressed hardwoods, produced with Denmark's Compwood Systems technology, that enable designers to shape components requiring extreme bending radii or unusual configerations.
Archived February 8, 2010
Sales Still Slow: Woodworking Network notes US shipments of office furniture declined about 5 per cent in 2010 to $7.4 billion, adding to the approximate decrease of 30 per cent in 2009.
Archived February 8, 2010
Colour-Blind? Alice Rawsthorn interviews one designer who believes "most industrial designers don’t know how to use colour" and adds comments from Rolf Fehlbaum, chair of the Swiss furniture manufacturer Vitra. Courtesy New York Times.
Archived February 8, 2010
MCAD Makes: Minneapolis College of Art and Design hosts an exhibition of 15 emerging artists from around the country to highlight new trends in studio furniture design. To February 21.
Archived February 8, 2010
Eco News: Sustainable Minds of Cambridge, MA, and the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) partner to advance the adoption and integration of ecodesign and sustainability practices in product design.
Archived February 3, 2010
Women Design: Through its Area Declic brand, Italian furniture manufacturer Arrmet Srl sponsors "A Green Place to Sit - Design for a better world," an outdoor seating design competition exclusively for female student and professional designers over 22 years of age. Deadline March 8.
Archived February 3, 2010
Eero Exhibit: January 21 to February 20, Toronto's Dominion Modern Gallery hosts "The Furniture of Eero Saarinen: Designs for Everyday Living," the first survey of Saarinen's work from the 1930s and 1960s that includes archival pieces from the Knoll Museum, Cranbrook Accadamy of Art and examples of current Knoll production.
Archived January 25, 2010
Design Sharing: desigNYC, a new collective of designers and design advocates in New York City, aims to help non-profit and community groups connect with professional pro bono design services and resources.
Archived January 25, 2010
Innovators + Ideas: Toronto's Harbourfront Centre hosts a presentation by Canadian-born designers Cynthia Hathaway, now freelancing in Amsterdam, and Tobias Wong, designer/sculptor currently working in New York.
Archived January 25, 2010
DWR Reorganizes: Interior Design and the New York Times report on economic challenges facing US retailer Design Within Reach (DWR) and its newly appointed CEO John Edelman.
Archived January 25, 2010
Formerly of IDEO: IDEO founder Bill Moggridge became director of New York's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, while former IDEO partner Mat Hunter joined the UK's Design Council as chief design officer.
Archived January 25, 2010
ID Wake: The New York Times witnessed the wake held January 5 at the Half King bar in Chelsea for "design bible" I.D. magazine, which published its last issue in November.
Archived January 25, 2010
Legal Logs: The Sustainable Furnishings Council sponsors One Good World ECOcongress at the Las Vegas Market to address sourcing legally harvested wood. January 31, 2010.
Archived January 25, 2010
Repurpose: Household products collected by Ottawa's Neighbourhood Services and repurposed into new useful items by Carleton University industrial design students will be auctioned to raise funds for the social services provider. Courtesy CBC.
Archived January 17, 2010
Send to IDEA: class="lastH">Regular entries to the 2010 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), co-sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and the Henry Ford Museum, must be submitted by January 25, 2010.
Archived January 17, 2010
Lumber Lessons: Leo Lewis, The Times's Asia business correspondent, speculates that mass urbanization of China over the next 10 years will dramatically increase the demand for lumber worldwide.
Archived January 17, 2010
BBC Challenge: class="lastH">Students enrolled at an approved university or HE college in northern England can enter the challenge to design a "phone chair" for BBC's new premises in Manchester. Deadline April 30, 2010.
Archived January 17, 2010
Furniture's Future: On examiner.com Martin Harshberger describes the fundamental changes needed in answer to his question, "Can the US furniture industry compete globally?"
Archived January 17, 2010
Furniture Archive: View the furniture of pioneering British modern furniture designer Ernest Race (1913-1964) via the collection of the UK's Geffrye Musuem.
Free Dialogue: Jason Allcorn of [re]design, a "social enterprise that propagates sustainable actions through design," talks at London's Metropolitan Works, January 13.
Archived January 17, 2010
TO Show: Corporate buying groups and independent retailers at Toronto's Canadian Home Furnishings Market (January 9-12) provide details of their purchasing plans to Furniture Today.
Archived January 17, 2010
Recycle Clunkers: US residents can ship their "clunky old aluminum chair" to aluminum chair manufacturer Emco and receive a 50 per cent discount off the retail price of a new Emco chair.
Archived January 17, 2010
Take It Back: Speaking at a recent Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) conference, Andrew Dent, vice-president of library and materials research for New York-based Material ConneXion, challenged designers to develop "take back" strategies for reusing a product's materials at the end of its lifecycle.
Archived January 8, 2010
Nelson Noticed: Designers Peter Galonski and Roland Kurzitza (assisted by Rick Budd) used recycled fir and local birch exclusively for interior and superstructures of the the recently opened mining exhibit hall in Nelson, British Columbia's Touchstones Museum.
Archived January 8, 2010
Tree-mendous Fund: Furniture Today reports Ikea promoted an in-store campaign to reduce the use of plastic bags and donated $280,000 to Tree Canada, a non-profit group encouraging Canadians to plant and care for trees.
Archived January 8, 2010
Peruse Pittsburgh: Closed for a decade, the furniture galleries of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh reopened with collections from the 18th, 19th and 20th to 21st centuries, displayed in separate rooms. Read article courtesy New York Times.
Archived January 8, 2010
Design Real Review: The Times of London design critic Tom Dyckoff provides a video review of Design Real, the current exhibit at the Serpentine Gallery curated by Konstantin Grcic.
Archived January 8, 2010
Design Developments: Design Week's Anna Richardson interviews Nina Tolstrup and Ryan Frank, two furniture designers with projects contributing to community economic activity in the developing world.
Archived January 8, 2010
Eco News: SocialCycling, an initiative of New York-based DMD Green, helps find new uses for difficult-to-recycle materials such as vinyl-coated fabrics that developing countries can "re-purpose" into backpacks.
Archived January 8, 2010
Danish Dissertations: The Danish Design School in Copenhagen released FLUX, a 173-page PDF booklet comprised of 16 "design research" articles from their departments of humanities, social sciences, engineering and design, including Much more than a highchair™ that describes legal disputes over patent and copyright ownership of Peter Opsvik's Tripp-Trapp chair (page 144).
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