created by FH Potsdam Interface Design student Omer Yosha
This piano concept integrates hand gestures as a means to create and distort sound. The video below demonstrates how one is able to manipulate sound on this new sleek digital instrument.
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The new LG Decoy makes your life easier by integrating the bluetooth earpiece into the phone.
How they do it and why? They simply built in the bluetooth headset charger right into the phone, so you’ll never have to worry about forgetting to charge it. If you charge your phone, it charges the headset.
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Interview conducted by Tino Chow, IDSA RISD Chair.
I was having dinner with Matt Grigsby a couple of days ago and he briefly described to me his vision for the future of transportation. He launched a blog recently called Alternative Transit that focuses on highlighting eco-friendly transportation projects and hopes to one day to turn it into a consultancy and a full time job. I was intrigued by his interest and wanted to know more about what he aims to accomplish through the site. The interview below was conducted to learn more about the project.
Tino Chow: Why did you decided to start Alternative Transit?
Matt Grigsby: Transportation has always been a passion of mine ever since I can remember. Alternative Transit was started for two reasons. The first stems from my desire to continually educate myself about the rapidly evolving field of sustainable transportation. The second is to shine light on progressive projects so that designers, developers, and political leaders can be inspired to try new ways of solving the growing transit challenges that we’re facing.
TC: What do you see in the future of sustainable transportation?
MG: In the realm of transportation, there are some major changes that must take place for us to improve, sustain, and ultimately better our modes of getting around and transporting goods. The future of transit relies on good infrastructure, energy from sustainable sources, and social change through increased awareness of our environmental challenges.
TC: How could this future be realized?
MG: We need to simply begin. The environmental and transit infrastructure problems that we’re up against are best approached by realizing and accepting the challenges while understanding that we must do things differently to succeed. Initiating, seeing-through and celebrating small improvements in transportation will build confidence in developers, policy makers and society who can ultimately tackle the larger issues.
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This past Wednesday DWR in Providence hosted the Modern + Design + Function Show for the New England region. The 23 finalists ranged from current students of RISD and Roger Williams University to professional furniture makers and designers. ‘08 RISD undergrad furniture students swept the awards, with Chris Tolles winning the best in show award with his Cleave bent aluminum table, and classmate James Lear taking the green award with his Trace chair. There was a great turn out for the opening, and while we wish the DWR team could have spread out the work a bit so it was easier to oogle the pieces, they were great hosts and threw a fun event. We look forward to next year, get busy on that furniture!
Chris Tolles’s Cleave Table
Last Tuesday, close to 200 business professionals networked in the ambience of the new headquarters of the Greater of Providence Chamber of Commerce 2006’s Small Business Leader of the Year, Item Group. Item’s founders Stephan Lane and Aidan Petrie hosted the event.
Andrea Larocque, Item’s Marketing Coordinator who organized the event gave us some insight into its success…
“It was a simple drinks party catered by Fine Catering by Russell Morin’s with after work networking of many local businesses…everything from printers and promotional goods vendors to URI teachers looking to place interns and all different members of the chamber involved in different industries such as banking, insurance, spirits, sales and marketing. It was great exposure for Item as many of the people who attended where unfamiliar with what we did here. It was a good showing of close to 200 people including some Item employees and invites guests/clients. Steve Lane gave a quick speech to welcome people to the building and talked about our involvement with this community over the last 20 years.”
The event was put on in conjunction with the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce as part of their “Business After Hours” series.
Turns out that Continuum has a blog called Trackchanges. “It’s a forum for the design thinkers of Continuum to share stories, experiences, and perspectives on the world of design and business. It is also a place to share news, event notices and information pertinent to the design industry as a whole. Within this forum, [they] hope to explore the intersection between design and the role it plays in shaping the world around.”
RIEDC/Concordia Press Release
Hi All. I wanted to make you aware of expansion plans being made by medical manufacturer, Concordia (based right here in RI). I am attaching a copy of the press release that was issued today. For me, Concordia represents the very best of old-line manufacturers who have made a commitment to re-inventing themselves (with great results). In Concordia’s case they have been able to take their expertise in manufacturing and retool themselves to be able to produce cutting-edge medical products. They are in midst of a $1.6 million expansion effort, funded/supported in part by the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation’s Small Business Loan Fund.
This year’s IDSA Northeast District Conference (called NakID) was held in Philadelphia. The chapter along with ITEM Group and Dane Decor (where Friday’s event was held) were sponsors. We had a great turnout of about 300 people and everyone was very excited to meet, share ideas and learn what was going on in the world of Industrial Design on the east coast. The weekend was filled with several great speakers and Cali Shottenfeld presented (RISD’s 2008 IDSA Student Merit Award winner). ITEM’s own Kat Darula presented the companies Resuscitation Bay of the Future project which was very well received.
To summarize, the 2008 IDSA Northeast District Conference looked at Industrial Design and exposed relationships, while exploring existing and emergent areas of business and Graphic and Interaction Design. The theme was centered around exposure of inventive companies, emergent trends and progressive methodologies. Speakers included folks from Nike, Naked Communications, Ebay, Frog, Lextant and Bresslergroup.
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