TAG Heuer and Parsons The New School for Design announced the ‘Art of Watchmaking,’ a partnership that taps the creativity of Parsons product design students to reinterpret a legendary timepiece, the iconic Monaco Automatic Chronograph, while learning the intricacies of haute horology.

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Rich Gilbert’s Energy Trumps, a creative tool to think about energy at the start of the design process. They provide a fast visual reference for embodied energy to facilitate easy comparison of materials.

It is normally taken for granted that economic growth is vital for maintaining economic health, but research has shown that wellbeing depends less on material goods than on our lifestyles. The New Economics Foundation in the UK publishes a global Happy Planet Index, which measures the combination of environmental impact and wellbeing, to quantify the environmental efficiency with which—country by country—people live long and happy lives.

So what can we as educators do to enhance those valuable skills that designers have and get them using those skills to redesign not only the products that we buy but also the lifestyles that we live and the systems that organise our lives, making them better for people? Design education needs to position itself in such a way that designers are trained to design good customer experiences with the lowest possible environmental impact.

Conventional design education trains designers to drive consumerism, which drives growth, and is the established way of achieving prosperity; like many art and design institutions the Royal College of Art is beginning to grapple with the apparent contradiction in the sustainability debate, and is looking for ways to encourage students to explore what this might mean in both their work and their future lives.

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Volkswagen of America released three new renderings of its New Midsize Sedan (NMS), which will be produced at the company’s state-of-the-art assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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Recon Instruments released Recon-Zeal Transcend Goggles with real-time GPS data viewable using a head-mounted display system.

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In an excerpt from Design Is How It Works, former BusinessWeek staff writer Jay Greene explores Lego’s troubles and its comeback Paal Smith-Meyer is waving a BusinessWeek article in front of me about LEGO’s resurgence. “The Brick is Back,” reads the headline, and …

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Twelve peak organisations representing all aspects of Australia’s design industry and research network have launched the Australian Design Alliance [AdA] to boost Australia’s productivity, sustainability and innovation. One hundred of Australia’s leading designers, …

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for the past two years, the design firm ideo has been working with the spanish bank BBVA to create a new design

for the ubiquitous ATM banking machine. rather than approach the design from a feature perspective IDEO and

BBVA worked to rethink the interaction from the human perspective. their research led them to design a machine

that is turned 90 degrees from the surface on which it is mounted to give the user more privacy. the whole system

is also now operated from a 19-inch touchscreen display that allows more intuitive control over the process.

outside the screen, there is only a single slot for cash, statements and receipts with a card slot to keep the interface

streamlined. five of the new designs have been installed in spain with more to come.

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‘ridenpush’ by you ho jeon

‘ridenpush’ by you ho jeon from korea is one of the shortlisted design entries

from more than 3000 participants in our recent designboom competition,

‘seoul cycle design competition 2010‘, organized in collaboration with

seoul design foundation.

‘ridenpush’ by you ho jeon – ‘seoul cycle design’ competition shortlist revealed: ”

designer’s own words:

(left) detail, in ‘push’ state

(right) detail, in ‘bike’ state

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SHORTLIST DESIGN COMPETITION

deadline for submission of entries : july 05th, 2010

published september 19th, 2010

theme:

SEOUL CYCLE DESIGN COMPETITION 2010

the designboom jury was composed of:

bjarke ingels, BIG architects, denmark

ball-nogues, architects, USA

birgit lohmann, editor-in-chief designboom

the seoul design foundation jury was composed of:

jae ju, shim, samchuly bicycle company,

myun woo, lee, seoul national university, department of industrial engineering

song, wei zu, beijing industrial design center deputy director tsinghua university

william dresselhaus international design school for advanced studies professor

and the winner is

bike 2.0 design by : nils sveje (inoda sveje design studio) - technology: IPU produktudvikling from italy

designer’s own words:

bike 2.0 the next generation bicycle, will give you more fun with energy boosts when you are cruising around.

it makes you daily ride more comfortable with energy leveling and the stepless gearbox.

you can even add the seat-tube battery and get there faster. bike 2.0 has a generator and wires instead of a chain,

so you will never get oily pants or fingers from the chain again. the two wireless control-units will control any

aspect of your ride. you can easily control all this with the two wireless rings on the handlebar.

bike 2.0 design by : nils sveje (inoda sveje design studio) - technology: IPU produktudvikling from italy

bike 2.0 design by : nils sveje (inoda sveje design studio) - technology: IPU produktudvikling from italy

organized by designboom, in collaboration

with seoul design foundation

3078 designers from 88 different countries participated.

seoul cycle design competition results: ”

see all the 190 shortlisted entries

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