Call for entries: Designs for the next 90 years

The Electrolux Design Lab 2009 global design competition invites undergraduate and graduate industrial design students around the world to create thoughtfully-designed home appliances that will shape how people prepare and store food, wash clothes, and do dishes over the next nine decades.

A limited number of finalists will be invited to participate in the final event in London September 24, 2009, to present their entries to a jury of high-level designers and experts. The jury will review the entries based on intuitive design, innovation and consumer insight and then select a winner.

Submit your innovative home appliance ideas for the next 90 years, deadline May 31.

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100% Wool - on Your Lamp Shade!

One more addition to my Felt Trend findings, where I showed you an example how felt is used today - not only in clothes and home textile, but also in lamp shades and juelry! I just found this beautiful OAK LEAF PENDANT AND FLOOR LAMP from DESIGNLUSH:

Cosy and elegant accent for your home! And no doubt it is eco-friendly - 100% wool!

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IMM Cologne 2009 - conclusions

Wallpaper* : IMM Cologne, the first fair of the year, was notable principally for the number of reissues and the strength of the new talent on show.

"If we had to choose something that stood out above and beyond everything else at
Cologne it would be ClassiCon's presentation of one of our favourite designers
Sergio Rodrigues' work." (above)

Using leather, bamboo and Jacaranda wood Rodrigues is credited with forming the mid-century Brazilian aesthetic and continues to shape it today.
‘It’s time to return to reality’, he said and, after a glut of extreme, sometimes overindulgent design in the past two years, the reality looks refreshingly good.










Limited edition designs - right

Origins by Satyendra Pakhale





is part of his show 'Origins'. Pakhale insists his work was about returning to a more primordial, instinctive response to texture and shape.

Trash design -Els Woldheks BASTARD chair, created with the leftover trash leather from the factory. Also shown are Reinhard Dienes Diaz foldable stool series JUAN, PEDRO AND PABLO (made from pliable plastic (PP))
participant in the d3 contest (picture from Core77 )


Arik Levy won the "best of the best system" category for his ARIE shelf system produced by E15.

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