|
Archived January 28, 2012
Alternative Material: Zelfo Technology, based in Brandenburg, Germany, recently opened a pilot facility to produce panels as light as cork or as dense as PVC from waste cellulose plant fibre.
Archived January 28, 2012
Canadian Design: The Design Exchange (DX) lists its events supporting Toronto Design Week (January 23-29), including tours of the DX permanent collection of Canadian design.
Archived January 28, 2012
Toronto Show: IDS, Canada's largest contemporary design fair, lists the furniture designers participating in the exhibition January 26-29.
Archived January 28, 2012
Dutch Award: The Green Design Competition challenges designers (in two categories) to "Design a product and write a business plan which explains how your design contributes to sustaining Biodiversity." Deadline February 10.
Archived January 28, 2012
Saw Safety: Woodworking Network reports the US Consumer Product Safety Commission extended the public comment period on its proposed rules for developing table saw safety guidelines to February 10.
Archived January 28, 2012
Design Dialogue: The Cologne Furniture Fair (imm) presents interviews with furniture designers
Konstantin Grcic, Harald Gründl, Stefan Heiliger, Defne Koz, Steffen Kroll, Arik Levy and Patricia Urquiola.
Archived January 19, 2012
Eco View: The Atlantic interviews Yves Béhar, founder of the California-based design firm, fuseproject, to determine how his commitment to sustainable design influences his company's product development, including the Sayl chair for Herman Miller.
Archived January 18, 2012
Design Awards: Submit regular entries to the 2012 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), by February 10.
Archived January 18, 2012
Digital Tools: California-based Digital Toolbox offers free access (under Creative Commons licence) to video tutorials for Rhinoceros 3-D modelling software and the plug-in graphical algorithm editor, Grasshopper.
Archived January 18, 2012
Ergo Excellence: The UK's Furniture Industry Research Association (FIRA) identified two furniture manufacturers with products that exhibit "outstanding ergonomic excellence" -- Interstuhlnet (AirPad and Hero chairs) and Orangebox (Flo and Newton school chairs).
Archived January 18, 2012
Hardware Tariffs: The Canadian goverment intends to eliminate tariffs on 70 imported items, including "Hardware to make furniture (for example, casters)."
Archived January 18, 2012
Alder Added: UK-based Accsys Technologies now applies to alder its process of using acetic anhydride to change free hydroxyls in wood to acetyl molecular groups creating a more dimensionally stable and decay-resistant wood product.
Archived January 6, 2012
Table Wins: Argentina-based designer Francisco Lupin's soul desk table wins (with two others) the Bulgarian Design Group's product design competition.
Archived January 6, 2012
DX Awards: Paige Magarrey reviews this year's Canadian Design Excellence Awards for the Toronto Standard, lamenting "not a stick of furniture in the whole lot." The awards can be viewed at the Design Exchange in Toronto to February 26.
Archived January 6, 2012
Design Strategy: Recipes for Systematic Change, a 339-page book in PDF from Helsinki Design Lab, provides a comprehesive introduction to strategic design.
Archived January 6, 2012
More Tools: The Guardian gives an excellent introduction to the development of inexpensive rapid prototyping using 3-D printing technology and its potential to produce new plastic products from recycled materials.
Archived January 6, 2012
Design Small: Guardian and BBC Radio pay tribute to the legacy of E. F. Schumacher and his inflential 1975 book, "Small Is Beautiful."
Archived January 6, 2012
Design by Women; Cambridge Galleries in Cambridge, Ontario, hosts 5% Against the Odds: Canadian Women in Industrial Design, an exhibition that celebrates seven Canadian women industrial designers and reflects on the under-representation of women in the profession. Until January 15.
|
