Henkel Interactive Packaging Design Contest

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the big rethink competing on ideas

The Big Rethink, taking place on March 3rd 2011 will focus on the various ways that businesses are generating new ideas to gain competitive advantage. We will explore the drivers of fresh thinking, from imaginative leadership to global trends like changing consumer behaviour, and consider how these can be used in your own organisations.Gain...

Production Methods: Arne Jacobsen's Series 7 chair

It's shot and edited like a European film of the variety one spouse drags another to see, but the following vid is a great look at how a bentwood chair is made. And not just any chair, the Arne-Jacobsen-designed Series 7 made by Republic of Fritz Hansen. It starts off with sheets of veneer, then you get to see which parts humans do and which...

Core77 Gallery: NAIAS 2011 Gallery + Wrapup

America is back.At this year's North American International Auto Show, Ford and Chryslerstole the show with their exhibits and products. As they say in America, "Bigger is Better" and their exhibits were on-par with the Germans (the krauts always set the bar for exhibit design,) but much, much bigger. Besides exhibition design, both Ford...

Stockholm Furniture Fair 2011: "Something" nuts and bolts stool

Now this is a stool that gets the hardware fanatic in us very excitable. Charlie Heyward and Peter Bingham from the Steneby school at the University of Gothenburg collaborated to make this giant nut-and-bolt stool—that we can confirm actually works! Peter kindly gave us a demonstration.More from the Greenhouse:+ oOo Design Lab's "Book of...

Interview with Pattie Moore, proponent of Universal Design

SmartPlanet's got an interview up with Pattie Moore, one of the mothers of Universal Design. Most of us that have gone through ID programs learned that way back in 1979, when product design was a lot less enlightened as a field than it is now, Moore began disguising herself as an elderly woman and traveling the country to learn firsthand...