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pa href=”http://www.studyoportable.com/”Study O Portable/a curate and contribute to an exhibition of works exploring the role of voids in objects, aptly titled a href=”http://www.objectswithavoid.com”emObjects with a Void./em/a. Six designers responded to the brief, ‘Intentional or coincidental, voids in objects have the power to define the function and aesthetics of the objects. It’s a dismissed yet integral part of design that captivates our imagination.’/pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/london_design_festival_10/london_design_festival_2010_objects_with_a_void__17537.asp”(more…)/a
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emTop: A piece by Jessica Turrell, contributor to Craft Research Journal. Photo credit a href=”http://www.caa.org.uk/exhibitions/archive/2010/remarkable-glass/jessica-turrell.html”CAA/a. Bottom: Rebecca Reubens writes about the impact of bamboo craft industry in India. Photo credit a href=”http://www.indigodesignnetwork.org/?p=637″Indigo Design Network/a/em/p

pA new journal entitled a href=”http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=172/view,page=0/”Craft Research/a is released this month with an aim to promote the emerging area of craft research within the disciplines of applied arts, crafts and craft education. The journal is dedicated to presenting and reporting on research, in the widest sense, in order to advance the knowledge in the field. It will contain a number of peer-reviewed articles that encompass research developments into materials, processes, methods, concepts, aesthetic and style. The Craft Research journal intends to portray and build the crafts as a vital and viable modern discipline that has a vision for the future./p

pTo celebrate the release of the first issue, three articles from the first issue are available to download for a href=”http://www.atypon-link.com/INT/toc/crre/1/1?cookieSet=1″FREE from the Intellect website/a. Other articles in the first issue include research into pewter by a href=”http://www.trishwoodsdesignmetals.com/page3.htm”Trish Woods/a, enameled jewellery by a href=”http://www.caa.org.uk/exhibitions/archive/2010/remarkable-glass/jessica-turrell.html”Jessica Turrell/a and bamboo use in India by Coroflot member a href=”http://www.coroflot.com/rebz”Rebecca Reubens/a/pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/new_craft_research_journal_celebrates_its_release_17535.asp”(more…)/a
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pemBejing Design Week Logo designed by Michael Rock and Xin Jing of 2×4./em/p

pIn case you haven’t heard, this time next year, Beijing will be bursting at the seams with design events of every kind at the inaugural a href=”http://bjdw.org”Bejing Design Week/a, a 6-day event heralding China’s burgeoning design scene and signaling a desire to bring an international design audience to one of its liveliest cities. Aric Chen, journalist, design critic, and recent transplant from New York to Beijng, serves as BJDW’s Creative Director, building on his experience co-directing 100% Design Shanghai with the late Tobias Wong in 2008 and 2009. /p

pThough the event is still a year away, the Beijing Design Week committee has already done loads: bringing in design firm 2×4 to design the event’s identity (above), hosting a preview event during London Design Festival, inviting London to bring some of its cutting-edge design content to Beijing for the event, and arranging for a large-scale installation in Tiananmen Square, to be unveiled on October 1st, 2011, the anniversary of the founding of the PRC. /pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/events/beijing_design_week_coming_in_fall_2011__17534.asp”(more…)/a
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pA lot happening at the a href=”http://www.cooperhewitt.org/”Cooper-Hewitt/a these days, with the a href=”http://designnow.eventbrite.com/”big conference coming up tomorrow/a (Core77 will be live streaming it all day a href=”http://www.core77.com/designnow”here/a) and the Triennial humming along. The second in the series of strongBill’s Talks/strong is coming up next week, featuring one of the wisest, most beloved design writers and thinkers of all time, Ralph Caplan. (Winner of this year’s National Design Award for Design Mind.) Core77 was proud to do a a href=”http://www.core77.com/reactor/byDesign/””double feature”/a on the reissue of Ralph’s seminal book, a href=”http://www.amazon.com/Design-Bathroom-Lessons-McGraw-Hill-paperbacks/dp/0070097771/ref=sr_1_1?s=booksie=UTF8qid=1285864422sr=1-1″By Design/a several years ago, but next week is your chance to see Ralph live. Here’s from the release:/p

blockquotestrongBILL’S DESIGN TALKS/strong

pA new series of design conversations with Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Director Bill Moggridge/p

pDesign Trajectory with Ralph Caplan/p

pThursday, October 7, 2010, 6:30 – 8:00pm/p

pThe design process has moved from just forming objects to addressing the situations in which objects are used. That’s a major theme in Ralph Caplan’s seminal book By Design, expressed in the book’s subtitle: “Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors of the Hotel Louis IV and Other Object Lessons.” This year Ralph Caplan is honored with the National Design Mind Award for his contributions to design research and scholarship. /p

pCaplan will offer his take on the Cooper-Hewitt’s role in shaping the understanding and presentation of design from its opening exhibition in 1976, Man TRANSforms, to the current exhibition Why Design Now? His presentation will be followed by a discussion with Cooper-Hewitt Director Bill Moggridge./p

pGalleries open from 5:30 – 6:30pm before the program./p

p$15 / $10 members, students and seniors. /p

pRegister online a href=”http://cooperhewitt.org/calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D91101739″HERE/abr /
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