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The Cité du Design moves to Amsterdam ! from 11th to 18th may 2007 Gooood Food bis !

Coktail and dinners, discussions, culinary table and exhibition << Les plats dans le monde >>.

With la Maison Descartes, l'Hotel Sofitel The Grand, Lise Goeman Borgesius, l'Hotelschool Den Haag and the lycée des métiers de la bouche et de la restauration << Les petites bruyères >> of Saint-Chamond.

>> La Cité du Design <<

Lamp in concrete and steel.
I am in search of a producer for this project.

Romain Duclos

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Pulpo is a supplier of functional living-accessories. Premium quality products are created and manufactured in cooperation with designers. – DESIGNSPOTTER.com is the European leading online-magazine when it comes to fresh and young design-ideas. We have put our heads together and invented something for you: ”X:File” – Your chance to show what you got!

Task: From 2D to 3D - Design a product in the field of living-accessories / furniture / small furniture

Material: Ssteel plate 1.5 mm to 2 mm or corrugated cardboard up to 8 mm (BA) with 400 gram kraft liner. Working with the Steel Plate: using laser, twist / cant, cover with powder. Working with the Cardboard: produce the stamping die mold, stamp, assemble.
Measurements: The length and girth combined should not exceed 3 meters: 2 x height, 2 x width, 1 x longest side.

Requirements: max. height 60 cm max. width 80 cm max. length 200 cm

Mode of Submitting: The products can be submitted as pictures, drawings or prototypes.

Contact: gogolin (at) designspotter.com - Subject: competition
Closing Date: July 20th, 2007

Prize and Prize Awarding
The best product will be rewarded once with 1,000.00 EUR.
The product will be produced under the licence of pulpo.

The prize will be awarded on Friday, August 24th, 2007 at the pulpo exhibition stand (Hall 6.1 C72) at the Tendence in Frankfurt.

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Oh China, Take 5 are a series of lamps made from spool vases.

Designer :: Lorraine Brennan (Fifty-Eight b)

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Lab introduces a modern, sophisticated yet reassuring seating element with an understated feeling of luxury in a vaguely contemporary mood. A new cleanness of subtle lines, of perfect proportions emphasized by the high quality fabrics for the seat and organic forms for the frame. Lund is available with the seat in wooden frame covered with stress-resistant polyurethane foam at varied densities and high quality fabrics or leather. Feet in chromed steel.

Designer ::Thomas Mylonas

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The 2007 version of the Copenhagen International Furniture Fair, planned for 10-13 May this year, will, once again, be the setting for a new design event. Last year five designated designers were invited to present their renditions of “stimulating children’s furniture”. This time, five different designers have been assigned the task of making a piece of furniture convey integration.

According to the dictionary, integration means: to make a whole by bringing all parts together; to join with something else; to unify.

Whether these words can be linked with furniture remains to be seen. Nonetheless, that is the task that has been assigned to five designers of Danish and other ethnic origin in connection with this year’s Copenhagen International Furniture Fair to be held at Bella Center from 10-13 May. “’Integration Furniture’ is not a contest with a mandatory task for the participants. The task is to design a piece of furniture, where both the multicultural and integration come together as an expression in the designed pieces. It is going to be very exciting to see what the designers come up with”, says Director Keld Korsager from the Association of Danish Furniture Industries, which, together with Bella Center, is behind the design event.

All the participants are remunerated for their participation, and their names will be revealed when the results are announced publicly during the 2007 Copenhagen International Furniture Fair. The five submissions will be displayed as prototypes at the furniture fair, where a specially appointed jury will judge the submissions and select a winning piece.

Naturally, the winning piece will receive special attention and honours at the fair, but no money or other prizes will be awarded.

For more on the competition and the fair, visit :: www.furniturefair.dk

MUTANDA

Been born from the development of a series of bidimensional lines that synthetize a “beautiful legs”. Three simple bidimensional lines on paper are able to give this effect ,so why do not try to make by a three-dimensional element that approaches itself the line concept? Therefore MUTANDA was born :a simple metal sheet calendered as a base, three aluminium tubes and a sheet of mat white p.e. On the same way INTIMOATTIMO was the completement of the Vitalidesign search on the topic.

Design :: Vitali studio

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New-edition of the cardboard easy chair from series - Sitze für Besitzlose - of 1968. First cardboard-furniture that have been manufactured industrially.

< otto > can be found in MOMA, Vitra Design Museum, Deutsches Technikmuseum....

< otto > serves for painting, covering or decorating. Or you can even just leave it untreated.

NOW AVAILABLE @ Patrick L´hoste

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QUIKSILVER ROSSIGNOL GROUP is proud to launch the first edition of the INNOVATION CONTEST, the annual futuristic competition opened to progressive and passionate athletes, designers everywhere, from professionals to amateurs.

Pierre AGNES, President of Quiksilver Europe says “As both a leader and an innovator the Companies group of brands must always kept our consumers needs in mind. The objective of the innovation competition is to imagine the future of our lifestyle pursuits, sports and the products within and celebrate this.”

On May 10, 2007 the contest will start with 4 months given to applicants to submit their best futuristic ideas and product concepts within the outdoor sports lifestyle category.

The product concepts submitted will be judged on real future innovations in design and technologies that have been developed with users needs in mind whilepracticing boardsports and leisure activities.

To participate, applicants easily connect via ::
http://innovationcontest.quiksilver-europe.com/
or www.quiksilver-europe.com

The submission is simple, contestants can visualise and write about an innovative idea. Required files for each project submission are composed with 1 to 8 image files (Jpeg – 500ko max per image) illustrating the concept and 1 text file (Word or Pdf – 100ko max) explaining the idea, the functioning and the characteristics.

September 27, 2007 a prestigious jury composed by celebrated leaders in the fields of design, sport and innovation will judge the 30 finalists and elect the 3 winners

The 2007 jury comprises of ::
:: Pierre AGNES, President of Na Pali, Quiksilver Europe
:: Kelly SLATER, 8 times world surf champion
:: Bixente LIZARAZU, world football champion in 1998
:: Josh RUBIN, trend spotter, Editor of ‘COOL HUNTING’
:: André FALCHI, innovation specialist, CEO of ESTIA Innovation
:: Antoine GUIRAUD, architect, painter & design specialist
:: Damon WAY, co-founder & Vice-President of DC Shoes

Awards of the QUIKSILVER INNOVATION CONTEST ::

Winner - 1st prize - 5 000 €
:: Presentation of the project at the ISPO Show in Munich on February 2008

2nd prize - 3 000 €

3rd prize - 2 000 €