// News from the design world
Campaign against abuse
Very strong image for this campaign. Via Ads of the World.
The future of search?
One more proof that innovation doesn’t only rely on engineers, even in the field of web search. This designer shows that being creative and sharing the impossible is a good thing, it becomes then a challenge for geeks around the world.
Mac Funamizu shares on his blogs his mockups of a gadget that could contextualize search in 3D environments. This is an approach of the Internet that I really like and share, taking the web beyond the browser or the mobile phone.
Read full article at: Designer-Daily.com
If you ever asked yourself: Am I able to read cyrillic, it's maybe of Russian Bear Vodka!
If you are a social bookmarking sites fan, you should already know this creative poster for Russian Bear vodka. When you look at this poster normally, you’ll just see some random communist propaganda and may not even notice that it is not russian if you can’t read cyrillic characters. If you look at it in the mirror, which you probably will if you wash your hands, you’ll see that it is actually sending a message in english telling you not to drink and drive, pretty awkward for a vodka commercial.
Its no miracle - its a mirror!
Read full article at: Designer-Daily.com
When design goes wrong!
Sometimes designs can go awfuly wrong, just like on the above image where the racing path gives a shape full of painful memories to the circuit. There are other ways for designs to be bad, following are a few examples.
Toys with a pollitical incorrectness!
or
Things that shouldn’t need to be designed!
Concept Mobile Phone Wins Student Design Award
A student at the UK's De Montfort University (DMU) has won his second major competition this year with a new mobile phone handset designed for Orange. Chi Shing Lo has won first prize in the annual D&AD Student Awards which showcase the best emerging design and advertising talent from hundreds of colleges and universities around the globe.
Earlier this year Shing, who comes from Hong Kong and is in his second year studying BA(Hons) Product Design at DMU in Leicester, won a national RNID competition to design trendy earplugs to protect the hearing of nightclub goers.
Now he has beaten off international competition, winning one of the coveted D&AD Student Awards with his phone design which reverses the trend in overly complicated aesthetics.
Shing's handset design included a simple 'hole' which acts as a view finder when taking photographs, a charging point using inductive charging technology, and as a means of transferring data. The hole also has a mirror surrounding it to enabling the user to take pictures of themselves.
In their 30th year, the D&AD Student Awards exist to identify the best new talent in advertising and design. A total of 22 first prizes were handed out to students from the UK, South Africa, Italy, Sweden and Finland.
"The quality of work across the board was the best I have ever seen. College standards have risen to such a height, that the judges agreed that much of the material exhibited by these students should have contended at a professional level," said D&AD Education Chairman, Al Young.
Juries made up of 180 creative and business specialists selected the 388 entries that made it into the student annual competition.
All of the work will be showcased in the D&AD Student Annual, which launches on 18 September at the London Design Festival.
Michael Marsden, Subject Leader for Product, Furniture and Industrial Design at DMU, said: "Shing's achievement is characterised by his combination of high skill levels and a particularly creative approach to problem solving. Winning an award at this level is significant, especially as Shing is only a second year student and much of the competition will be final year students with far more design experience.
"This award marks a very good year for Product and Furniture Design at De Montfort University; our students have won first, second and third in the RNID design competition, a student winning an RSA bursary award, and other students being commended in both the D&AD and RSA awards."
German-Korean Cooperation Forum on Design, 24 June 2008
On 24 June 2008, the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen, together with the Seoul Design Center, will host the second German-Korean Cooperation Forum on Design at the red dot design museum.
Interested designers and entrepreneurs will have the chance to establish interesting contacts and exchange views with a delegation from Korea. The main topic will be “Life Science Design”.
Read more at: red-dot.org
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| Vodka: You will be able to read cyrillic! ...read more |
| When design is going wrong ...read more |
| DMU: Concept Mobile Phone Wins Student Design Award ...read more |
| Red Dot: German-Korean Cooperation Forum on Design, 24 June 2008 ...read more |
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