What if design helped us get back to basics?
… taking the world as it comes?
After all, there must be a reason why it is like this.
A reason why European industry is shooting itself in the foot by transferring research and production to Asia.
A reason why intelligence is exported.
A reason why more and more Chinese companies are aiming to develop their own products.
A reason why the design is considered, more and more as an ordinary component.
A reason to wish an excellent year to designers because if they have the competence the opportunities are there.
A reason to wish an excellent year to European manufacturers because it is no longer a matter of economics but intelligence : to build a future based on other criteria.
Therefore happy new year to everyone….
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Smoove
News - September 26, 2009
Take note…
Smoove, a real challenger
Bikes are more and more popular : For several years now, bike-share services have been installed in a few cities in France.
Quite recently, with Lyon and then Paris, this kind of service had major media coverage, accelerating its legitimacy. These important realisations have opened the way for development in this field.
There has been real impact on the public and the community find their own interest in terms of service, to clear the traffic and also for their communication.
Important companies with enormous means are managing this market now, due to logistic complexity and investment’s level.
Why then SMOOVE ?
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Forum des halles is one of the most busy shopping malls in the heart of Paris. Fifty million people pass through each year.
The decision was taken to create a digital interactive directory to help people find the right services and to orient themselves through the four levels of shops and cultural places.
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INTERIOR, at Courtrai, has always been an interesting place for discovering.
But now there’s a surprise; we have to receive lessons too.
PINOCCHIO in designland is the fair’s event (Jaime Hayon’s presentation).
It’s super. I believe that industrialists will not be able to resist any longer.
Less annoying than the Bauhaus theories and other any theories for pretty rather than ugly and, if possible, practical at the same time.
In the same line we also have Karim Rachid.
I conclude that it is a new (strong) trend that we have to follow.
I also suggest we adopt the Babygros suit as an identified uniform for designlander profession .
Jaime Hayon - PINOCCHIO in designland : De Standaard - DSM MAGAZINE 18 Oktober 2008
Rachid - www.karimrachid.com.tw
Interieur 08 – www.interieur.be
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Zaragoza is celebrating the International Exhibition under the Theme “Water and Sustainable Development”
Specially for this event, Sonríeteme Recicla S.L, company specialist in waste analyze, contacted to our Design Pool partner in Spain, Stimulo, to create a full range of merchandising products made of recycling materials and manufactured for convicts from penitentiary under a social and professional rehabilitation course.
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Magicframe Consulting, founded by Amitava Guha, is a visual design programming and design-application project management consultancy established in Bangalore, in India..
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Hurray ! a book that hasn’t aged as nothing has really changed!
It is good and invigorating to know that people think.
People who allow you to situate yourself between what they say and what you do…
Ralf Caplan , a journalist, writer & design consultant clearly analyses, with rigour and humour, the stakes of design with BY DESIGN.
« … :the design process has more to do with your life than you may think. »
« The trajectory of design has been moving from the design of objects to the design of the situations in which objects are made and used »
It is remarkable to see that this “design of the situations”, in which the creation of objects has become legitimate, already had an evident meaning. This could be a real subject for today;
it is not at all the case, but almost the opposite.
It was 1982.
Read then and read again today it remains dramatically relevant as nothing has changed.
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In the industrial world, it happens more and more often that we come across copies of products which we have designed, once they have been manufactured and commercialised with success.
The latest case : products developed by and for RIVADOSSI (Italy) copied almost identically by DINGTAO (China), which were discovered at Canton trade fair.
From the point of view of the designer, who came up with the idea in the first place, it might not be that important “in the form” (what is an idea after all ?) but it becomes unacceptable “in substance”, because we are actually dealing with spoliation ant a total lack of respect for other people.
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