Designer Surf

The Tradition of well-rooted culture and the world of design have enriched the new Botanical Martini Glass designed by Benjamin Hubert for Bombay Sapphire Competition. The prototype rewarded and exhibited at the New Designers 2008, transforms the classic cup from Martini in an elegant sculpture of blown glass, characterized by a cable stem culminating in a series of filamentous endings that are filled with sap as the roots of a plant.

I’d like to tell this contest launched by MINI cooper: to draw the roof for the MINI Clubman Shuttle, at the opening of the MINI rooftop in New York. The three winning designs will be printed on MINI shuttle of the event and will be advertised on MINIinternational Magazine and on MINIspace, and will receive the documentation of the book edited by the famous photographer Michel Comte.I would have preferred the story of a beautiful prize money and maybe even a contract of employment… but we must settle its reputation.

MOBAN, Modern Outdoor Bangkok is a new brand for the external design by describing its productions to the next 100% Design in London. Among the various proposals of Thailand will also Sang, the seat simple but very suggestive that playing with the combination light-shadow was awarded the Outstanding Design Award to Thailand International Fair 2008. The stool 110 × 100×45 cm, made of colored metal is characterized by a base of sosteno that proiettandosi like a shadow it stabilizes the sitting and extends the design level perceptive.

The Workshopped 08 Design Exhibition presented by the Powerhouse Museum, is one of the most eagerly awaited events of ‘International Design Festival 08 from Sidney, which from August 13 to 23 will be aimed at promoting the products of local design.

Innovative products like the Revolution Vase dell’australiano Adam Goodbrum, made crystal blown 300 × 190 mm in different colors and characterized by a simple and elegant that makes it seem poised.

Each product can be voted on the site of the event and Mount premiums for those who vote is represented by an incredible number of pieces of design made available for the occasion.

Among the many commercial initiatives sponsored by a strong creative idea, Furni shop online Montreal proposes Sunrise MA, the radio alarm uncontaminated by any decoration and equipped with a box of indelible markers, to leave the design and personalization to users.

The limited edition of 25 copies, sold exclusively online, is flanked by the Collection of creative interpretations that resulted from artists, illustrators and graphics, invited to participate in Furni’s Sunrise Matters Show. The whole initiative sponsors the creativity in every point of view, providing each of us the opportunity to test.

It ’started the countdown. From 24 to 26 September 2008, Flabbergasting, a former gas factory in Amsterdam, will be witnessed PICNIC 08, an event dedicated to creative vitality that through seminars, conferences, workshops, discussions and presentations depth, it is proposed to reflect, cooperate and anticipate Useful innovations to our future.

Three days set up as a great Pic-Nic under cover, dedicated to all kinds of analysis and anticipation, including the award ceremony for the winner of the competition PICNIC Green Challenge 2008, aimed at encouraging the design of services and products eco sustainable.

Since 1963, the Czech city of Brno attracts professionals and graphics enthusiasts who come from all over the world to attend the Biennale. Until October 19, the 23rd International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2008, dedicated to graphic design, illustration and typography publishing of books, magazines, newspapers and digital media, promotes numerous events and symposia, especially the long-awaited Grand Prix 2008 the competition for graphics professionals, which in this edition includes more than 600 projects, submitted by 162 artists from over 27 countries. Jobs that at the end of the Biennale will join the Graphic Design Collection of the Moravian Gallery, while the winner of this edition, Kasia Korczak exhibit in a staff at the Biennale 2012.

Thinking the frenetic rhythms that lead us to consume meals mordi and flee, the young architect and designer Forli Lorenzo Corks designed Compass, the dish plastic light and stackable, in whose diameter of 27cm this also includes cutlery and glass. A practical solution, toilet and elegant, to consume a meal worthy of being established as such virtually everywhere, at home, at work, at school or outdoors. Compass is one of the proposals emerged from the competition futuribili Dining in 2015 at work - during travel - at home, presented a preview to Macef Spring.

After a long selection of well-1900 posters, designed by 1257 graphic designers, illustrators, architects and photographers from 70 countries, the attentive jury of the competition Ten Images for Ithaca 2008, has finally announced the finalists, who drew up the theme of dream in its endless declinations, as a resource, route of escape, desire, function almost mathematical method for processing images and emotions random or tangible. On July 12 the ten winners and 123 finalists will be legendary in Ithaca, for the awards ceremony, which will inaugurate the exhibition exhibition of projects, characterized by an eclectic approach, multidisciplinary and contemporary.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008, under the Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Exhibition to be held in Turin, the designer Tobia Scarpa held an interesting lesson on the role and significance that takes the glass in his vision of design.

During the event the same Scarpa also reward the winner of Glass Competition that has selected the best projects of young Italian designers and had as its theme the reworking of glass Martini.

For the occasion will also present the evocative elements of Tape Collection, designed by Scarpa for Andromeda and Gianluca Vecchi, chairman of the company, will outline paths and outcomes that led the designer to the realization of the collection entirely made of glass. The live Lecture will take place at 18 at the Art Gallery dell’AB + Club of Turin, Via Cesare Augusto 1, while 19 will take place at the award ceremony of the competition that will conclude with a Cocktail Party.