Posts Tagged Industrial Design
GOOD DESIGN™ Awards 2009
Posted by Kaitlin in Architecture, Art and Design, Events, News on April 6th, 2010
The GOOD DESIGN Awards presented annually by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies honors the world’s top corporations for setting the highest standard of the best products, branding, and graphic design.
In 2009, a total of 500 awards were given out to the leading industry designers and manufacturers representing 35 nations, marking this year’s awards as the largest ever by country. Some of this past year’s top contributing corporations include: 3M Company, Apple Computer, Inc., Armstrong World Companies, AT&T., The Bosch Group, Continental Airlines, Electrolux Major Appliances, Mercedes-Benz, and the long list continues.
Pictured right is a winner from the robotics/bionics category that I had to share. It’s called Air Penguin designed
by Festo AG Co. KG. These artificial penguins have been taught “autonomous flight in the sea of air”. The knowledge gained from this project will benefit automation production processes in the future.
To view a list of all 2009 winners take a look at the Good Design 2009 website.
For more information about the history of the most prestigious world design award and to submit products and designs for the 2010 GOOD DESIGN Awards visit the Good Design 2010 page.
In Design We Trust: Mike and Maaike
Posted by Brian in Designers We Love on June 18th, 2009
Recently our Surface Bloggers stumbled upon the industrial design studio of Mike and Maaike. Known for their experimental approach to design, they create ideas and unexpected solutions for products, furniture, wearables, environments and vehicles.
(From Left: Maaike Evers & Mike Simonian)
The San-Fransisco based design duo is made up of Maaike Evers, who is Dutch, and Mike Simonian, a native Californian. Their unique backgrounds yield unexpected and incredible results. This cutting edge design studio has been growing quickly, and Google chose Mike and Maaike to design the first mobile phone which will runs on the Google Android Operating System.


This Week in Twitterville
This week we’ve seen a lot of activity out there in the abundant land of Twitter. I generally search Interior Decor, Decoration, Industrial Design, Architecture, Decals, Wall Decals, Wall Stickers, etc when looking through Twitter to learn more about hot trends and industry happenings. There are so many well informed, creative, and active people in Twitterville, and the amount of information they are sharing with their Twitter neighbors is amazing! Here are a few interesting Tweets that I read, learned from, and loved this week (in no particular order, although stars denote my favorites):
★★ Furniture Peeps + Interior Design Friends + Decor Freaks like me ~ Just started a Twibe. Visit http://www.twibes.com/group/decor
@UrbanDecorSue
★★ Love this list of 200+ Interior Design Blogs by @Furnitude. A must have for Design + Decor fans http://designbloglist.blogspot.com/
@UrbanDecorSue
RT @Yourmovers: An Overview Of Architecture Interior Design | Feng Shui and Home … http://tinyurl.com/czwrax
@Laurent_Brixius


