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The results from the jury for the 2003 photoreal
competition are posted!
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> The Bikers
Bingo Nike teams up with Chicago Marketing chick to
sponsor cool bike messenger race (alleycat style). Chicago Saturday
18 Oct 03 The Blue Frog // 676 N LaSalle 7pm registration // race at
8pm $10 participation fee (includes t-shirt, spoke card &
drinks) All the proceeds go to an Association that helps pay for
Bike Messengers Medical Bills when hurt on the job. (hit by a
taxi...) Winners will receive new Nike Titanium watches slated for
US Launch spring 2004.
> design-engine|education has
recently been approved a WIA Certified training
provider (Workforce Investment Act). Although you do not have to be
unemployed to take advantage of this Federal Grant you will have to
speak to your local 'Unemployment Case Worker' for more information.
Do a google search for 'Workforce Investment Act <yourstate>'
to access your WIA state website or call the DE|E training facility
at 312.226.8339
> Autodesk
Design Awards 2003 Are you
passionate about design? Is your work exciting, innovative and
exceptional? Want the chance to prove it? Enter the Autodesk Design
Awards 2003. Winners will receive a 4-night trip to Las Vegas,
Nevada to attend Autodesk University, free software and other
prizes. Enter by October 7, 2003. Open to both students and
professionals who use Autodesk and Discreet
software.
> International Photoreal Furniture Design
Competition Closed and the judges are looking at the
amazing renderings of the most incredible furniture! Check back late
September for the published imagry.
> CALL FOR
ENTRIES THIRD PHOTOREAL 2003 "furniture and
interiors" competition:: deadline for entries is bumped back to
coincide with the 100% Design Show in London in September. We had
just over 100 entries for last years event and over 10thousand users
per day viewing the winners!
> Ashlar Vellum wins overall in the
2002 Design-engine.com Photoreal Electronics Competition. See the winners from 2002!.
> On Demand Innovation Services
Launches Consulting Organization
> Fifth International Design Contest : Trieste
Contemporanea on the theme of blown glassware.
> Stylepark.com releases English version of terrific
collection of interior architecture products
> Design Beef: Rant about
people who buy design
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Workforce Investment Act has grant money available for the
unemployed to take 3 week product design training which includes
Plastics workshops - Maya - Alias - Solidworks or Pro/ENGINEER
training at DESIGN-ENGINE|EDUCATION.
> engineering jobs - id jobs
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- Workforce Investment
Act
Training
money is available for learning Pro/ENGINEER, Alias studio and other
product related tools. You just have to know how to ask for
it!
An article by a premier training company on how to
accessing money for the under trained, underemployed and
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 Orange Skin Party during
Neocon
Post Neocon
Party at Orange Skin and the pics are in!
A party review by Peter Meyer and what a
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A designer
should be defined by his work, not by his tools...
A software review of Ashlar Vellum by Nelson Au, the winner of the
2002 photoreal competition. |
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 Alias: Name change and new software
announcement..
Alias makes
major enhancements for industrial designers'...
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 What do Trek, Alias and Lance Armstrong have in
common?
Trek uses StudioTools to create faster bikes while
cutting development time'...
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 Fight Club: designers
debate
What ensued
was a very interesting discussion about
whether society in fact
needs another film like
'The Matrix: Reloaded'...
article by Design-engine.com staff
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 Interview of Ross Lovegrove
"I don’t want to make anything which
remotely could
have been made yesterday; it’s about absolutely
being in clue with what goes on now."
Interview
by Peter Meyer of
Design-engine.com
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 Battle of the Bands
CAD shootout between 1 Pro/ENGINEER
Wildfire -
2 SolidWorks - 3 Rhino & 4 Alias Studio
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150 people get together to discuss which is
better and how
to use the tool by
watching industry professionals model the
ACCO Swingline stapler in all four programs.
Article by Bart
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 DMI
- Design Management Institute
Using Design Research for Product and Brand
Innovation
A Professional Development Review Christopher
Woolley
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 Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire software review
2003
industrial designers
use Pro/E ... Who would think? "It could spread like Wildfire."
Software review by Bart Brejcha - Images courtesy
DESIGN-ENGINE|EDUCATION |
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 ICFF 2003
"The show was a surprise and respectful success."
Photos by Rob Curedale
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 Surface Magazine Milan T.A.G. Party Pictures
"I heard the cops broke up the
party."
Photos by James Steiner of Design Continuum's Milan
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 Independent Design
"Create like a
god, command like a king and work like a slave;with an emphasis on
the later." - Branchusi
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 Interview,
Su Hail. Spring, 2003
Su
Hail has designed many of the coolest clubs and dining facilities in
Chicago. His newest development got our attention so we just had to
ask him what's going on.
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 The
Salone De Mobile 2-
photo exhibit of the PELOTA of the
Milan furniture fair.
Photos by Derek Siew of Design
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 This is a
new ink that is conductive. It can be colored and printed in any
pattern or picture creating interactive results. Imagine it on a
cereal box.
Learn more about what's
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> plastic
soda new and revised!
> designmuseum.org the host
for the next photoreal competition
> housewares.org the new
website for the Houswares Show
> iCrank Try this online machinery's
handbook
> Greg
Tate - lighting and furniture
> pulse Positive Urban Life Style Experience.
> World
Furniture Online Resource for Exhibitions
> Orange Italic We don't
typically highlight the graphic designers, but these Chicago type
faces are dope
> IDÉE Japanese Design Powerhouse
> Liquid Metal This stuff
is cool moldable and might offer alternate solutions for unique
problems. I wonder how long it will be before cell phone
manufactures use this stuff in production?
> Orange Skin Swingin
swank for Chicago Italia style
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Plastics Encounter great
resource for plastics from Plastics News
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>September 22 - October 3rd 2003, Transformation: New International Design
>September 25 - September 28 2003, 100% Design
Earls Court 2,
-London, UK email:100info@reedexpo.co.uk
>September 30 deadline, Core77 / Popular
Science Design Challenge Core77 and Popular Science magazine have
launched a series of design competitions, and the second installment
is now open for business. The theme is "Human-Powered" - Design a
product that explores novel opportunities for harnessing human
power. Entries should incorporate cutting-edge technology and
science into design solutions that address everyday problems and
spot emerging opportunities.
>October 16 - October 22 2003, High Point
International
Home Furnishings Market regestration
>November 6 -
9 2003, Chicago Design
Show Annual Contemporary Furnishings Forum -
Chicago
>November 18 2003 Tuesday, Museum of Contemporary
Art Karim Rashid Lecture at 6pm
>February 4-5 2004 NeoCon
West office furnishings show - Los Angeles Convention
Center.
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 "Flow - The
Psychology of Optimal Experience" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Book Review by: Bart Brejcha
How can reading this book on flow change your outlook on
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