Industrial Design in the Modern Age, by Penny Sparke, published by Rizzoli Electa, New York, addresses how products have become both symbols of modern life and harbingers of the future. A major work about industrial design, it covers the design, mass production and consumption of everyday objects in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Neofit is the brainchild of Seb Kipman. A writer with a passion for keeping fit. A lightweight collapsible roller, Neofit easily expands from 10 to 30cm in length.
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A new annual summit supporting creativity in all its forms in the state of Victoria, launches on 29-30 June. The State of Victoria, sees creativity as the source of radical new ideas in Australia.
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Trend researcher and academic Els Dragt shares her trend research expertise in her new book, How to Research Trends, move beyond trendwatching to kickstart innovation.
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Founded in 2004, by Joris Laarman and his filmmaker partner Anita Star, Joris Laarman Lab uses 3D printing and digital manufacturing to the extreme. Joris Laarman Lab’s team of engineers, programmers and craftspeople experiment with manufacturing processes that are innovative and on the edge of possibility.
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iF's new Social Impact Prize is free to enter. Companies, design studios, NGOs, foundations, public institutions and other organisations from all over the world are invited to take part free of charge. Social impact projects will be published free of charge in the iF World Design Guide. Entrants win a share in 50,000 Euro prize money.
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Next-gen performance wear by 776BC in partnership with Victorian Institute of Sport and BAT Logic is set to change the way athletes and coaches train worldwide.
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Aeris arrives - flexible, connected airport seating. A New York based industrial design team at Grimshaw architecture firm, have partnered with Italian furniture manufacturer Tecno to design Aeris, a comfortable, flexible airport seating system.
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The World Design Organisation (WDO) has launched the World Design Medal. The award recognises and celebrates industrial designers who've made a significant contribution to the design profession.
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By using big data and data mining technologies a team of researchers at Nottingham Trent University in the UK have created a computer algorithm to detect product features that will work and fail.
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Eleven new installations by leading designers including OMA, Hussein Chalayan, Kenya Hara and Neri Oxman will be unveiled at the new Design Museum in Kensington opening exhibition.
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Domaine de Boisbouchet’s Summer Workshops Program for 2016 is open for bookings.
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An outdoor performance shell at Monash University has won the Corian Design Award for 2015.
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BIS Publishers and author Carola Vershoor have released a new book titled Change Ahead – How research and design are transforming business strategy.
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Three proposals for a landscape architecture student design competition include plans to create inner-city wetlands, activity precincts in an industrial area and disaster ‘resilient’ social parks.
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The Taiwan Design Center is calling for international design collaborators to partner with Taipei-based design groups to create innovative solutions to Taipei City’s urban problems.
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Helsinki is a city in design transition. Designstoriesfromhelsinki.fi is a new web publication that presents stories about eight design initiatives in Helsinki.
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In collaboration with Barcelona’s materials centre, Materfad, RMIT University’s Design Research Institute is hosting Smart Flexibility: Advanced Materials and Technologies.
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Lexus have created a futuristic hoverboard for its ongoing campaign to showcase the creativity of their brand.
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Idea killers, idea boosters and creativity myths unravelled for business, designers and design strategists.
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Harley-Davidson showcases its first electric motorcycle with the Project LiveWire.
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For the first time ever in Australia, Sydney will be hosting the Enabled by Design-athon 2014 on 25–26 July. Teams of industrial designers, engineers, inventors and people with disabilities will work side-by-side.
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A children’s playground design that tests the senses, Neural Climber is a new creation in children's climbing equipment.
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The annual Domaine de Boisbuchet summer art workshops run from 13 June to 15 September this year.
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Gallery Funaki invites jewellery artists to participate in the 2014 Mari Funaki Award for Contemporary Jewellery.
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From now until 31 August, designers from Mathery Studio are at Melbourne’s NGV to teach kids adventurous art
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The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum has announced their 2014 National Design Award Winners.
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Swedish architecture and design firm, Claesson Koivisto Rune, has designed Grappa – a modular chandelier in Murano glass – for manufacturer Wonderglass.
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Veryday industrial design and innovation consultancy has won this year’s Red Dot:Design Team of the Year.
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Renault unveils its first concept car outside Europe specifically designed to appeal to young customers in the Indian market.
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The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will present the next installment of its Design by Hand series in May.
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The 2014 winners have been selected for the Red Dot Award: Product Design in Essen, Germany.
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ABC Syringe is the winner of the World Design Impact Prize 2013–2014, aiming to improve health in the developing world.
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Uniting Scandinavian and Spanish influences, Collar Lamp is a simple yet striking lamp that recently showcased in Oslo.
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Stone Designs creates the Muffin Family of tables and stools – inspired by Scandinavian design for Japanese company +d
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The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt has released a new e-book – 'Favelization: The Imaginary Brazil in Contemporary Film, Fashion & Design'
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Look Upstairs is the landmark event for the Design Matters Melbourne International Design Week in April.
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Torafu Architects has collaborated with Aesop for their new project, ‘Aesop Kawaramachi’ – a fit-out for the Australian store in Kyoto.
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Chüne is a playful music device designed for multiple users by simply tapping a phone to the top of it.
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Design house Studio Proper introduces Proper Audio 1 (PA1) – a portable wall-mountable Bluetooth speaker.
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A celebration of award-winning design, the Good Design Award Exhibition 2013 recently took place in Tokyo.
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Red Dot Young Professionals Application Day is on 11 December and graduates have 24 hours to apply for free registration.
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Dr Brandon Gien is set to lead the Icsid Board of Directors for the 2013–2015 term.
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The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) opens its 2014 International Design Excellence Awards for entry on 2 December.
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The city of Taipei has been designated the World Design Capital (WDC) 2016 by Icsid.
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The German Design Council releases an anniversary book: ‘The Major German Brands’
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Ventura Lambrate 2014 is set to take place from 8 to 13 April 2014 in Milan and applications are closing soon.
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A lamp made of cardboard, Numerouno is an affordable and unique lighting solution for the home.
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Dominic See's design Fish Eyed Joe’s Tuna Can is the winner of the 12th annual Cormack Innovation Awards.
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Red Dot is calling for entries for the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2014, which opened on 11 November.
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airFIELD – a dynamic sculpture at Atlanta International Airport – is one of the winners of the 2013 SEGD Global Design Awards.
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A range of functional, minimalist lamps by German lighting maker Schneid Enlightment that have a focus on sustainability.
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Advertising agency Olson is one of the winners of the 2013 SEGD Global Design Awards.
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A new volume in the Nordic Architects series, Ebbs & Flows showcases the current themes in architecture and the push towards sustainability.
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Scope design studio showcase a unique bamboo furniture collection at the Taiwan Designers’ Week 2013.
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The fourth annual Sustainable Design Lecture will be held at the Design Museum London on 8 November and feature John Thackara.
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koloro-wagon is a mobile storage solution for the home comprising three stackable boxes, designed by Torafu Architects for Ichiro.
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Japan Institute of Design Promotion announces the results of the Good Design Award 2013.
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Designed by Alessandro Zambelli for Diamantini & Domeniconi, Ipno is a ‘rocking’ clock that sways to an internal pendulum.
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Design Forum Finland’s Young Designer of the Year Prize for 2013 goes to Mari Isopahkala and Iina Vuorivirta.
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A first-of-its-kind international design event will take place in Mexico on 23–27 October.
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An open-face skydiving helmet that combines comfort and safety by streamlining cameras and audible altimeters to eliminate line snagging.
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Red Dot have opened their third design museum. This time in Taipei.
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Korea is taking over the world of design, as showcased in this book – Korea Power: Design & Identity.
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Turin’s design festival, Operæ – for independent and self-produced design – runs from 11–14 October this year.
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‘Think Outside’ is a upcoming talk series at the State Library of Queensland, which will challenge designers to think outside of the box.
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SEDG’s Xlab – Experience + Interaction in Public Space – is taking place on 24 October at the Museum of the Moving Image.
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Torafu Architects has created a spooky display at the ‘Ghosts, Underpants and Stars’ exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.
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Breakthrough science on shark sensory systems has led to the design of a new range of wetsuits that deter sharks.
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The People’s Choice Award is open to vote on the architectural competition to revamp Melbourne’s Flinders Street Railway Station.
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The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) has revealed the winners of the International Design Excellence Awards 2013 competition.
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An installation in Hyde Park in Sydney’s CBD is turning heads.
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The Helix Tree by Bruce Ramus is a luminous sculpture on display in Melbourne in the Light in Winter program.
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The industry-led council plans to chart the new direction for Australia’s high value advanced manufacturing
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McKinsey&Company released this article last month in the McKinsey Quarterly by three of their principal consultants Sauri Gudlavalleti, Shivanshu Gupta and Ananth Narayanan based in India.
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The University of Canberra has launched an international Canberra Centenery Typeface Design Competition to mark the Centenary of Canberra, Australia’s capital city.
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Design lights up, and Blackmagic wins the trophy.
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BMW Motorrad partner with Roland Sands Design in California to bring a 1970s classic motorcycle back to life.
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Ten Images for Ithaca workshop is a five-day design event to be held from 2–6 September in Ithaca, Greece.
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The Can–Watch is a product with a social ‘mission’.
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The SEGD Conference for 2013, ‘Above the Fog’, will be held in San Francisco on 6–8 June, celebrating design.
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The winners of the 2013 Australian International Design Awards will be announced on 30 May.
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Students from London’s Royal College of Art have designed Eidos – experimental facial masks that give users superhuman sight and hearing.
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With more designers and engineers needing to develop and test products at an exponential rate, the move towards using cloud-based services is inevitable.
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The new version of Curve for iPad is featuring in New & Noteworthy on Newsstand.
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French automotive manufacturer Renault recently unveiled the Twin’Z all-electric concept car at the Milan Furniture Fair.
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Italian designer Andrea Ponti has redesigned a familiar kitchen tool with Fusion: Wooden Knife.
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GIGS.2.GO is a concept for a credit-card-sized pack of four USB flash drives that tear off so you can share them.
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The Blackmagic Cinema Camera has won a best of the best red dot:product design award
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agIdeas International Design Week runs from 29 April to 3 May, hosted in Melbourne, and features talks from industry leaders.
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A group of Polish students have created an installation, Let’s Cook the Future, where KUKA, a robot, cooks your meal.
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Smool Design unveiled a number of new products and concepts at the recent Milan Furniture Fair 2013, including the Homedia television concept.
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Two young Slovenian companies, Visual Brain Gravity and Dimension Two, have teamed up to produce a longboard skateboard.
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OUYA – an open source, Android-based gaming console for the TV.
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Swinburne University of Technology is sponsoring a new award for the 2013 World Environment Day Awards.
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Inspired by the flow of molten metal, the Serif stool by Charles Wilson was designed to resemble a discarded industrial component - like the casing from a piece of agricultural or earth-moving equipment.
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Chair4Life is an innovative modular wheelchair that grows with the child, promoting independence for disabled children and young adults.
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The 2013 summer workshop program at Domaine de Boisbuchet in Charente runs from 16 June to 14 September.
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Designer and artist Phillippa Carnemolla brings together art, nature and the community in an exhibition at the Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens.
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Australian Designer David Hardwick has created the ‘Unfold’ Desk – a compact and practical workstation with a slide-out desktop area.
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Icsid announces collaboration with WeSchool for the next Icsid Interdesign in Mumbai in 2014.
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Dr Luca Marmorini of Scuderia Ferrari will join RMIT University in the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.
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An innovation in timepieces, QLOCKTWO doesn’t display numbers – it spells out the time in words.
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The 37th annual negative award ‘Plagiarius’ was recently held in Frankfurt, Germany, increasing public awareness of design fakes and imitators.
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The Monash Centre for Additive Manufacturing (M-CAM) was recently launched in Melbourne.
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RØDE iXY is a recording stereo microphone for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.
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The 2012 China Red Star Design Award ceremony was held in Beijing in December 2012, promoting Chinese design.
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The IDEA 2013 jury has been announced by IDSA, and it will be led by IDEO’s Thomas Overthun.
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red dot 2013 is calling for architects and real estate developers to apply for the category ‘Architecture and Urban Design’.
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The Australian International Design Festival is taking place in Sydney from 30 May to 10 June.
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The 2013 red dot award for design concept is now open for entry.
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Designer, Dimitrios Stamatakis, was a National Winner (Turkey/Greece/AP) in the 2012 BraunPrize for his colourful thermometer.
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The College for Creative Studies in Detroit
is mourning the passing of Provost Imre Molnar who died on 28 December, 2012.
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Sky Planter from Boskke is an upside-down pot plant that can be hung from the ceiling, saving floor space in home and office.
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Universal design shapes the form of this nursing kit for the home.
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The 999Bottle reusable water bottle won a BraunPrize Special Mention
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Students at the UMEA Institute of Design in Sweden won a Gold IDEA for their C-thru Smoke Diving Helmet
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Torafu Architects and Ishinomaki Laboratory have created a very simple and versatile wooden stool.
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Turner Duckworth took home the Best of Show Diamond Pentaward this year for their minimal redesign for Diet Coke.
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Futuro house was launched in 1968 and made international headlines.
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Bill Moggridge the renowned design leader, has died, after a battle with cancer. He was 69 years old.
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The barista standard reusable cup has been recognised at the 2012 Telstra Australian Business Awards (Victoria) by winning the HTC Start-Up Award.
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Industrial designer, Jason Bird and the team at Luxxbox designs have released a furniture range made from recycled plastic milk bottles.
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Inspired by the Pilates ball, Bounce Chair offers a funky and unique take on the ergonomic office posture chair
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The Volvo design team was under extreme pressure to refine its ideas and produce a working model for Concept You.
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The world's first internet-controlled cafe plans to make people aware of how design can make things work better.
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This three-piece dice set features pictograms that help you choose your good deed for the day.
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Designed with function in mind, the PRO chair collection by designer Konstantin Grcic and Flötotto, has been designed for active school students.
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Making Waves, an exhibition of 12 wooden surfboards opens on 8 February at the Gallery of Australian Design.
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The Wood Ring bench was created from one massive 10 metre long wooden beam.
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Green laundry detergent company, Vaska recently teamed up with San Francisco based design group, Studio Backs, to create this refreshing range of laundry detergent bottles.
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2011 marks 100 years since the birth of Finnish designer, Kaj Franck.
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Capital Growth: The Piggy Bank Project is an exhibition of 3D printed piggy banks.
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Philips has announced that Stefano Marzano will be retiring as chief design officer after twenty years of design leadership on 1 November.
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The WWF has established a program for the sustainable production and processing of rattan in the Mekong region.
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Droog have included a beautiful hot water bottle by designer, Wendy Legro, in their range.
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A bike rack design called, Derailled, by Jones Chijoff design studio, has won a Bike Rack as Art competition.
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The Vida bottle is KOR Water’s latest tribute to water and its importance to life. A part of KOR’s mission to protect and celebrate water as a precious commodity.
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A product design student from the University of Dundee has created a TweetingSeat.
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Philips has announced a new Chief Design Officer for their Healthcare division.
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