Celebrating Verner Panton by Anca on Feb 13. 2013 Our famous Designers Born on 13th February 1926, furniture designer Verner Panton had a passion for bright colours and geometric patterns. He created brilliant products that to this day ...
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Aura by Inno filled the international jury of experts for the “red dot award: product design 2013” with enthusiasm and received the “red dot: best of the best” award. Aura, designed by Mikko Laakkonen, is a ...
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MINI is showcasing its flair for design with two impressive exhibits at this year's Salone del Mobile.As last year,MINI is using installations at Milan's Universit degli Studi and the Triennale design Museum to highlight the ...
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Bill Moggridge, the British-born industrial designer credited with the creation of the first laptop computer in 1982, has died of cancer aged 69. Until his death, Moggridge was best known for his design of the Grid Compass, the first ...
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Twelve months ago, when curator Donna Loveday went to visit the shoe designer Christian Louboutin in his Parisian atelier to discuss the retrospective exhibition which opens on Tuesday at the Design Museum, her eye kept wandering to the ...
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Japanese designer Issey Miyake received the 'design Oscars' at London's Design Museum Awards for his Origami-style 132 5. eco-fashion collection. Issey Miyake's dresses are made out of recyclable materials such as polyester processed from ...
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Bill Moggridge, the British industrial designer credited with inventing the modern laptop, has died from cancer at the age of 69. In 1979 Moggridge designed the Grid Compass, the first computer to attach a keyboard to a folding screen. ...
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Solid wood furniture manufacturer Thos. The company's Auburn, Maine, headquarters has been converted to function as both workshop and showroom, with experiential elements such as shop tours and new product previews. Previously, the ...
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Imagine a ten day event filled with 300 spectacular design reasons to add to your personalized design itinerary. Top designers from all over the world will flock to London during September 10th through the 23rd.With 2012 marking the 10th ...
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The Ovation network and design expert Lisa S.Roberts will collaborate on a reality television show entitled"My Design Life,"which will premiere with two back-to-back episodes on the Ovation network on August 24,at 8:00 pm ET/PT.The show ...
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May 29,2012 As founder of the legendary Silicon Valley-based design company IDEO and current director of the Smithonian Institution's Cooper Hewitt National design Museum in NYC,Bill Moggridge surely knows a thing or two about the ...
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The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt,National design Museum will offer a series of public programs in conjunction with the exhibition Graphic design-Now in Production,on view at Governors Island,through Sept 3,to engage the public in design ...
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The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt,National design Museum has launched a new website,highlighting design-related events around the city during the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. Design Week NYC is a grassroots initiative convened ...
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The first UK exhibition of iconic French shoe designer, Christian Louboutin, showcasing at the design Museum until July 9, has been designed by London based customer experience design company, Household. Drawing on Mr. Louboutin's ...
Cooper-Hewitt Director Bill Moggridge announced the winners of the 2012 National Design Awards,which recognize excellence across a variety of disciplines.The award recipients will be honored at a gala dinner Wednesday,Oct.17,at Pier Sixty ...
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