Have a wonderful vacation and Happy New Years, if I don't find more things to post and more season's greetings to give :)Your Blog(s): Your company is blogging. Congratulations. Is anyone listening? Blogging was the bright and shiny object of 2006-2008 and many companies found out just how hard it is to do well. Good blogging provides value. It is interesting and generates a healthy amount of comments and conversation which in turn generates a good dose of Google juice. It's also terribly difficult to sustain. It requires cultural shifts within an organization, and has to be prioritized (read: made part of someone's job). Frankly, I rarely see outstanding examples of a good company blog. That doesn't mean it's not worth doing (if it makes sense strategically), but doing it well is another story.
Source: http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/
It becomes two~! This chair is good for small spaces and multi-functional
2 in 1 chair of designer name HENRICH ZRUBEC
Yu Jordy Fu, born in 9 August 1982, was an incredible talented artist since her very young age. Jordy has won second prize in China Youth Environmental Art Competition when she’s only on the age of eight years-old.
In 2003, she gets her first class BA (Hons) in Arts and Design from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, before studying architecture at the Royal College of Art London in 2005.
For a young designer who wish to create better environments for other people, Jordy has good steps into it with her 2008 Cloud Lamps series, a simple and sustainable approach to add magic and intimacy to domestic lighting.
These lamps are made from recycled paper which can be flat packed, and sold with a milky white energy saving bulb. Comes in five different designs.
more information, visit
http://www.shearyadi.com/myworld/incredible-recycled-paper-lamps-by-jordy-fu/
Shahar, a multi-disciplined designer, designs, develops and produces commercial products in small quantities. His products are sold in design stores in Israel and other countries including Japan, Singapore, and the US and have exhibited in numerous shows in Israel and the world.
A creative idea of an iron trivet for your hot pot base.
The magnetic man that hold your keys or any other metal-made things. Connect Pete to any metal surface and he can carry the weights of up to 30 keys.
More information. check this site.
http://www.shearyadi.com/myworld/interesting-and-attractive-product-designs-by-shahar-peleg/
Vostok from ROCA competition. Anything that comes out of the Yar Rassadin’s design idea of bathroom accessories will go back to the pre USSR era. The design overall gives a feeling of nostalgia as the design looks more like the USSR spaceships, which by the designer’s own confession is a tribute to their cosmic style. So the user can have a feel of weightlessness in a spaceship inspired bath tub. Interesting! Don’t you think so? Still the clean functional design does show up nice details. So all in all, it is an interesting concept.
Green Design
From vast architectural projects to modest one-off pieces of salvaged furniture, “Green Design” shows how the design world is responding to the environmental challenges of the twenty-first century. Emerging trends in green design are covered, such as recycling and ethical sourcing.
more information @ http://www.dezeen.com/2009/12/01/signed-copies-of-green-design-by-marcus-fairs/#more-53979
Image credits, clockwise from top left: MichaelMiesser, lepow, oregon and Tsja!
TreeHugger goes on and on about the importance of design; convincing folks to design the stuff we consume so that it better reflects the TreeHugger ethic is an extremely important step in moving our planet to a sustainable future. 10 Commandments of Design, conceived by German industrial designer Dieter Rams, sum this up well enough that we could just about put "sustainable" in the middle and call it good. Designers and fans of where stuff comes from, take heed:
1. Good design is innovative
2. Good design makes a product useful
3. Good design is aesthetic
4. Good design helps a product to be understood
5. Good design is unobtrusive
