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Over 200 pieces of Japanese design were up for bidding during the Tokyo Midtown Design Touch Auction. Work from various eras of the Japanese Design Movement were represented, including How High the Moon by Shiro Kuramata and the Butterfly Stool, Elephant Stool and Armchair by Sori Yanagi . Kengo Kuma's Ana Table was featured, as well as the Polar Bear by Midori Araki and Au by Setsu and Shinobu Ito. Two pieces by Atsushi Kitagawara were Verdi and Cieux. More after the jump.

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Studio Jo Meesters presented Testlab during Dutch Design Week, a group of furniture prototypes created by using discarded materials, again highlighting the studio's focus on sustainability. Work in the Testlab, the Odds and Ends, Bits and Pieces collection, included jars made out of paper and shelving, seating and a bed made from 16 leftover blankets and 34 discarded wooden beams.

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A bit of information from the company website

Lumiknows creates experience. This means that we are creating not just products, services, brands - we are creating a human experience, fills his emotions and feelings, gives it meaning.

'Experience' capacity to assume that as a man going through each day and an instant his life, what role to play in your brand, in what situations produced using the product you are, what emotions felt when comes into your store. That experience - the notion that it is difficult to translate into Russian language - is becoming increasingly important in the life of any brand, any of the manufacturer, they suspect that or not. Of the field of tangible, physical culture of the world economy is gradually moving in the area that can not be poschupat and weighed: trudnoizmerimaya «ease of use», ephemeral «user experience», weightless «emotional attachment to brand», - this is what, after all, are trying to create Today the company leaders.

However, in order to create a decent product, brand, retail experience, the traditional set of competencies industrial designer is not enough. Requires knowledge of methods of work with the customer, the use of competencies in the areas of brand strategies, knowledge of laws of marketing and business, cognitive psychology and, of course, possess a particular mindset that allows you to gather together the highly fragmented and contradictory information in the product, gaining consumer mind and heart .

Stand alone skills of the so-called "ethnographic" or design studies that are now increasingly an integral part of all strategically important stages of creating a new product. We have assembled a team of professionals, cloistered as to perform a variety of design studies, and to implement the main provisions of studies of innovative products for medicine, electrical engineering, electronics, transportation, as well as banking, telecommunications and riteyla. We want to share with you the unique techniques of the pre-research, tested during the first in the world of design studies commissioned by the Russian market as domestic companies, and major Western brands!
Website
www.lumiknows.ru

tudio Artemy Lebedev opened its store in New York. This is the first corporate store at the North American continent. Shop Optimus Store located on the second floor of the trade center RCS Computer Experience, located at 575 Madison Avenue, at the corner of 56 th Street. Unlike other shops Lebedev, in which customers are invited to «everything from electronics to shokoladok» New York studio will sell, mainly electronics own design.
Mainly, the point is aimed at selling Optimus Maximus'ov - the very "kofestoykih" keyboards for $ 1,877 apiece, with programmable OLED-displays in the keys.

Not so important. Tell me how many Russian promdizaynerskih brands can afford to go abroad? In their own offline stores? Who comes it before? That is the same.

Bamboo Scribe - this application to handwriting, which translates hand-scribbled in a digital format. Using user Bamboo Scribe using a Wacom graphics tablet is a natural alternative to data input from the keyboard.

Bamboo Link - a new kind of search and navigation tool, as in a user's computer and the Internet. Bamboo Link allows you to present search results in a visually dynamic form, as well as add, save and send e-mail comments and marks to search results using the stylus.

From Bamboo Space company Wacom begun to develop a simple and vivid online-application for search and exchange of ideas. Anyone can save on a personal page and structure as well as your own desktop, photographs, notes and sketches and freely share their content with other people, inviting them to your page. This development of long runs in a beta-version and will evolve over the next few months.

Bamboo Minis - is a family of small graphical applications, offering users a wide range of solutions for the establishment of a plain sheet of drawings, sketches, add comments to interactive maps and online games.

Bamboo Dock - the control panel, fast access to all new applications through the icons located on the user's desktop. Bamboo Dock provides intuitive way to navigate using the stylus and allows regular updates with the latest applications.

Bamboo Minis, Bamboo Dock and Bamboo Space available for all users map amateur series Bamboo at www.wacom.eu / bamboo.

Deliveries in Rosssyu line map Bamboo in the bundling of applications Bamboo Link and Bamboo Scribe expected in the second half of October.

New applications Bamboo developed exclusively for the company Wacom. The first to take advantage of new tools and applications Bamboo users will be able to Microsoft Vista. In the near future will see the light version that supports Mac OS, as well as new tools and applications.

«Today, PC users spend an enormous amount of time on the Internet, communicating with each other, forging new contacts, exchanging ideas and interesting links. And they are all interested in the interaction with the computer was as faster and more comfortable - said the general director of Wacom CIS Irina Nemeshaeva. - The next generation of products Bamboo offers a more simple, bright and affordable digital world, allowing users to evaluate the benefits of the digital pen to communicate and creativity ».

Producer cars predicts accelerating decision-making and reducing by half the time to create digital prototypes.

Bentley Motors Limited was another automotive company chose the software Autodesk. The company Bentley, a well-known and famous for its engineering solutions and quality products, has acquired Autodesk Showcase Professional and expects that the time to create digital prototypes will be reduced by almost half.

Jeff King (Jeff King), Digital Data Manager at Bentley, said he has long sought a tool that would allow designers to create visual images of their conceptual ideas for a more rapid and informed decision-making. «The availability of high quality realistic images created by the model allows to explore and assess their potential success in the market without having to physically experienced models - he stresses. - We are constantly looking for ways to improve, and we are confident that Showcase will help rationalize our actions and visibility of models will reach the highest level ».

«A growing number of companies in the automotive industry recognizes how important it is still at the stage of conceptual design to have a draft versions of superimposed with materials placed in a realistic environment with appropriate lighting conditions - notes Andrei Nikitin, director of engineering for Autodesk in Russia. - Others have received such an opportunity through Showcase. Now the conceptual ideas are studied in real time that enables efficient and cost-effective solutions ».

Autodesk Showcase - is a tool for visualization, which is part of Autodesk solutions based on the technology of digital prototypes. The program creates realistic graphics quality for 3D models, produced in the CAD, and allows real-time to explore options for the projects.


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The theme of the contest this year - Beyond Silver. Designers to develop silverware: cutlery, accessories - yes anything, not only referring to the fashion or jewelry.

To participate, you need to have time to register (until 18 December) and send the work (and there may be up to four) until 22 December. The main prize - for 3000 euros to each of the three winners. The most interesting projects can be continued at prilavkah stores.

Winners of last year: http://www.designboom.com/contest/winner.php?contest_pk=21

Full details at: http://www.designboom.com/macef09.html
Registration: http://www.designboom.com/users/insert_contest.php?contest_pk=25

Good luck! :-)