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Why Settle For Something When You Can Make It Shine? – An Interview with Hooping Fan Extraordinaire and Design-Award Winner Danielle McIntosh

Wed Nov 19 2008 00:00:00 GMT+0100

Danielle McIntosh’s “Hoopla Rack” – a bike rack to carry hoops for the activity know as “hooping” or “hoop dance” – has not only racked up a brace of prizes, including a cash prize at the College of Engineering’s Innovation Days this past spring, 3rd place in the Schoofs Prize for Creativity competition, 3rd place in the Tong Prototype Prize competition and, finally, the Younkle Best Presentation Award, but she has also been inundated with requests for bringing the rack to the general public.

“Hooping” or “hoop dance” lends itself to a kind of “grey zone” definition. Call it a fad or a link to an America long since lost or, if you want, the newest ...

“X” Marks The Spot! #19

Mon Nov 17 2008 00:00:00 GMT+0100

Your monthly treasure map to the world of design, effects and color! In this month's roundup:

- The fascination of materials
- JC Report: “The Death of Trends”
- Riba Stirling Prize, one of architecture’s most prestigious prizes
- Electrolux Design Lab 2008 winners
- Tallest Lego tower ever

and much, much more!

Nathalie’s Color Travels #5: Cambodia Part 3

Fri Nov 14 2008 00:00:00 GMT+0100

Ex-Ciba® XYMARA™ stylist Nathalie Gaullier is back with another photoreportage, inspiring us with the sights, colors, energy and atmosphere of Cambodia!

Brand Vision and Designing Corporate Uniqueness – An Interview with Bruno Schmidt of MetaDesign

Wed Nov 12 2008 00:00:00 GMT+0100

MetaDesign, with offices in Zürich, Berlin and San Francisco, is well known globally and considered by many to be one of the most respected interdisciplinary design consultancies in business today. Its portfolio of services ranges from strategic brand management to the design and implementation of complex corporate identities ...

Preview of Art Miami Basel '08 / Design Miami '08 - "The Miami Art connection"

Mon Nov 10 2008 00:00:00 GMT+0100

Let a week in Miami chase the winter blues away while you tank up on visual wonders at Art Basel Miami Beach 2008 from December 4 to 7.

Happy 2nd Birthday, XYMARA.com!

Fri Nov 07 2008 00:00:00 GMT+0100

This month, XYMARA.com celebrates its second anniversary – we’ve now been reporting on the trends in design and in materials and all the news that’s fit to print on new developments in surface effects for two years!

Preview of CHINACOAT 2008

Wed Nov 05 2008 00:00:00 GMT+0100

The Guangzhou International Convention & Exhibition Center welcomes visitors to the annual CHINACOAT exhibition for coatings, printing inks and adhesives to be held from November 26 to 28.

What I am doing is new and exciting - An interview with Tom Rossau

Fri Oct 31 2008 00:00:00 GMT+0100

An interview with self-taught Danish designer Tom Rossau.

Tom Rossau’s collection of contemporary sculptural lamps in veneers builds on a long Scandinavian design tradition of wooden illuminants. Every lamp is carefully handcrafted and ...

Preview of the Los Angeles Auto Show 2008: Cars, cars, cars!

Wed Oct 29 2008 00:00:00 GMT+0100

The big LA fall event is coming round for the third time: the Los Angeles Auto Show is open from November 19 to 30 – media only are invited on November 19 and 20 and then the show opens to the public ...

Meet enPieza! and Some of Their Friends – or How to Help Daily Objects Forget Their Initial Destiny for Fun and Profit

Mon Oct 27 2008 00:00:00 GMT+0100

I have to be honest: I could (should) have released this interview a lot earlier. The good folks at studio enPieza! very kindly got back to me just a few short days after we began our correspondence. But since that time, it just seemed to me that our sunny friends from Spain – not just the studio but the whole darned country – had received enough publicity ...