This modular furniture design is made of modular bent laminated wood to furnish an interior space. User can design various configurations using these modules, such as a table, sofa, side table, or even a bookshelf. Very smart design, if you take a look at a module of these furniture units, who would have thought you can actually build a bookshelf from these modules. This project goal is to reduce the wasteassociated with the production of furniture. The usage of wood as the material, it’s because wood being a renewable material which result in an environmental conscious design.

Designer : Krisztián Griz

BMW và Audi “khoe khéo” lính mới

Không hẹn mà gặp, 2 đối thủ đồng hương BMW và Audi cùng hé lộ “con bài” sẽ tham gia giải đua DTM năm sau.

Diễn ra thường niên từ năm 2000 ở Đức và một số quốc gia láng giềng, DTM (Deutsche Touten wagen Masters) là giải đua dành cho những chiếc xe du lịch châu Âu nâng cấp. Lượng xe cho phép tham gia mỗi năm là 18, tất cả phải được trang bị động cơ V8 và đáp ứng các quy định kỹ thuật của giải.

Hai hãng xe hạng sang BMW và Audi vừa đồng loạt “vén màn” những mẫu xe đua mới sẽ cạnh tranh với nhau ở giải đua nổi tiếng này năm sau.

Audi A5 DTM

Bóng dáng của chiếc xe đua A4 DTM từng giúp Audi 4 lần vô địch ở giải DTM sẽ biến mất ở mùa giải DTM 2012. Thay thế vào đó là “anh chàng” A5 DTM concept dự kiến sẽ chính thức trình diện ở triển lãm Frankfurt (Đức) tháng 9 tới.

Sử dụng khung ống thép gia cố sợi carbon siêu bền, chiến binh mới của Audi “xài” động cơ V8 công suất 460 mã lực, đi cùng hộp số 6 cấp. Thiết kế của mẫu xe đua hầu như tương tự với model A5 coupe 2012, trừ một số bộ phận nâng cấp nhằm dễ dàng tăng tốc và phù hợp với quy định giải DTM.

BMW M3 DTM

Vắng mặt ở mùa giải 2011, hãng xe hạng sang nước Đức BMW sẽ quay trở lại mùa giải năm sau với niềm tin chiến thắng đặt vào chiếc xe đua mới toanh, M3 DTM concept. Nếu A5 DTM mới chỉ lộ diện dưới dạng bản phác thảo thì M3 DTM xuất hiện “bằng xương bằng thịt” tại khu trưng bày BMW Welt ở thành phố Munich, Đức vào cuối tuần qua.

Được phát triển dựa trên mẫu M3, tân binh của BMW có công suất cực đại 480 mã lực, tăng tốc từ 0-100 km/h chỉ mất 3 giây và tốc độ cực đại khoảng 300 km/h.

Theo vtc

QWERTY Focus

Most cellphones have joined the touchscreen bandwagon so once in a while it tickles me pink, to come across a QWERTY concept merged with the touchscreen option. The handy keyboard is placed to the right of the phone and it has a 30˚ slant to it. It’s quite a handful but in a good sense and I think we can do with a Samsung Cave!

Designer: Kim Min Seok

Data Design Diabetes: An Innovation Challenge

Imagine a chronic disease, so widespread that it could affect 1 in 3 Americans by the year 2050. Currently 100 million people in the United States lives with diabetes. Sanofi-aventis U.S. believes combining Data, Diabetes, and Design will impact our nation's wellness significantly. The global health care provider is sponsoring the first-ever open innovation challenge combating the diabetes epidemic by integrating open data with a human-centered view into diabetes epidemic.

"Innovation" has many definitions—for this Challenge, they're not looking for the cleverest idea, the best eye-candy, the most bleeding-edge technology. They are looking for a solution that brings together the strength of insight enabled by open data sets and the empathetic connection provided through human-centered design to meaningfully help people living with diabetes in the United States.

Building on the spirit of a code-a-thon, the challenge casts the widest net for data-informed diabetes solutions, culls the best interventions and incubates the strongest ideas. This challenge is structured to drive entrepreneurship and innovation. The best and most human-centered ideas will be mentored by industry leaders, and all intellectual property and equity will remain the property of its creators. Total awards top $200k, and invaluable support will be provided for game-changing solutions.

Hurry, submissions end on July 30th but the good news is that the entry form is short! See full breakdown of the Awards after the jump and check out the schedule and jury, which includes Todd Park, the CTO of the United States Department of Health and Human Services!

Awards

5 semi-finalists:

» $20,000 to develop the concept into a prototype in 1 month

» Mentorship from industry leaders will be provided to each semi-finalist team

2 finalists:

» $10,000 to get feedback on the concept from a community over the period of 1 month

1 winner:

» $100,000 to develop the solution (no strings attached—all teams retain full IP and equity)

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Core77 Gallery: Talk to Me at the Museum of Modern Art

Photography by Glen Jackson Taylor for Core77

With the Museum of Modern Art's most recent exploration on design opening to the public this weekend, we were excited to get a sneak peek at the nearly 200 artifacts in Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects. The exhibition explores the shifting terrain of design: nowadays, designers are not only expected to create form and function in objects but they also must impart meaning. With the aid of recent technological innovations, objects are now expected to interface with users—and "contemporary designers now write the initial scripts that are the foundations for these useful and satisfying conversations."

As Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, explained, one of the inspirations for the exhibition came from her observation of young children, who often make gestural swipes at static objects (such as television screens) with the expectations that they are interactive. A true sign of the times, the exhibition opens with Yann Le Coroller's "Talking Carl," an iPhone and iPad app that literally talks to you, "respond[ing] to sound and touch, gets ticklish and jumpy, and repeats what visitors say in a high-pitched voice."

With speculative objects, kiosks, websites, video games, interfaces, charts and information systems on view, a simple taxonomy wasn't expressive enough for organizing the exhibition. Instead, the idea of "intention" was used to break out the artifacts into four general categories: Objects, I'm Talking to You, Life, City/Worlds and the somewhat mysterious category of Double Entendre.

Objects include physical objects and interfaces that are communicative, reactive and interactive. New York City's MTA Vending Machine was chosen because of its outstanding interface—the machine in the exhibition dispense especially designed MetroCards! I'm Talking to You explores communication between people by means of objects including Curiosity Club alum Zach Lieberman's "Eyewriter." Life displays ways designers search for the "meaning of life in their own empirical and suggestive ways; two of our faves are Soner Ozenc's "El Sajjadah," a prayer mat that lights up when positioned to face Mecca and Goldsmiths University London's "The Prayer Companion," a T-shaped ticker that gives cloistered nuns real-time news of world issues that could benefit from prayers. City/Worldpoints out that "the city relies on communication for its own sheer survival" in everything from a real-time game using your Oystercard to the website BBC Dimensions, which utilizes area codes for historical and news-related facts. Double Entendre gives us a peek into the future and the possibility of objects to communicate understanding of the Other. Braille Rubik's Cubes, a garter that simulates menstruation cramps and a speculative camera that explores the many-worlds theory are just a few of the objects on display.

Best of all, each object has a dedicated hashtag and QR code linking your digital device to the MoMA site for bookmarking and further exploration. You can join in on the conversation on the website and through Twitter:@TalktoMe2011.

View the full gallery here!

Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects

Museum of Modern Art

New York City

July 24 - November 7, 2011

design addict Conference in Mexico

The Tecnológico de Monterrey is emerging as a leading design education institution in Mexico. The school is coordinating a design conference, called Design Addict, from October 13-15, in conjunction with Hewlett Packard, Glocal Design magazine, and Masisa. Speakers at the 3-day event include Karim Rashid, our own Michael DiTullo of frog, Don Lehman of HLB, Alberto Villarreal, Antonio Aguilar of Electrolux, and Matali Crasset. Most of the speakers will also be giving intensive 3-hour workshops as well. If you are looking to vacation in Mexico during October, register for the conference... I'm no accountant, but it might be a tax write-off...