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The Design Museum in London has announced the seven category winners in the Brit Insurance Design Awards. They include the Plumen lightbulb by Hulger and Sam Wilkinson in Product; Forsman & Bodenfors‘ recipe book for Ikea in Graphics; and TFL’s Barclays Cycle Hire scheme in Transport…

Also topping their respective categories were the Flipboard magazine iPad app by Mike McCue and Evan Doll in Interactive; the Branca chair designed by Industrial Facility in Furniture; Uniqlo’s A/W 2010 +J collection created with Jil Sander in Fashion; and Karo Architekten‘s Open Air Library in Magdeburg, Germany in Architecture.

The seven winners are now in contention to become the overall Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2011, which will be announced at the Design Museum on March 15.

Quite how these seven projects will be pitted against each other is the rather difficult conundrum facing this year’s judging panel. In previous years, the top award has gone to projects as diverse as Min-Kyu Choi’s Folding Plug; Shepard Fairey’s Obama poster; and Yves Béhar’s One Laptop Per Child scheme. And it’s perhaps surprising that the ubiquitous iPad hasn’t made more of a splash here in the 2011 list.

The winning entries along with the shortlisted designs will be on show at the Design Museum until August 7.

Here are the full details of the seven category winners, complete with comments from some of the judges:

Brit Insurance Architecture Award 2011
Open Air Library, Magdeburg. By Karo Architekten. Germany
“Thought-provoking creative re-use which energises a tired corner of an exhausted city. Cheap, flexible and dignified, the Magdeburg library presumes citizens are intelligent, interested and responsible. This may be unrealistic, but it’s nonetheless inspiring.”
Stephen Bayley, 2011 jury chair

Brit Insurance Fashion Award 2011
Uniqlo +J Autumn/Winter ’10. By Jil Sander for Uniqlo. Japan
“The +J collection epitomises that you can buy style, you can buy glamour, you can buy clothes that are well designed for a very reasonable amount of money, in fact it’s quite a democratic approach to fashion.”
Janice Blackburn, 2011 jury member

Brit Insurance Furniture Award 2011
Branca. By Industrial Facility, Sam Hecht, Kim Collin and Ippei Matsumoto. Italy
“There’s justified scepticism about whether the world needs yet another new chair, but this one is too good to dismiss. Ingenious production technology is, for once, turned to genuine advantage.”
Stephen Bayley, 2011 jury chair

Brit Insurance Graphics Award 2011
Homemade is Best. By Forsman & Bodenfors for Ikea. Sweden
“In Homemade is Best there’s something that’s new, that I haven’t seen before, there’s a completely and utterly different approach to a cookbook which is aesthetically very pleasing and playful, a deserved winner.”
Mark Farrow, 2011 jury member

Brit Insurance Interactive Award 2011
Flipboard. By Mike McCue and Evan Doll. USA
“This is one of the applications that literally frightened me silly; it’s a social experiment more than a magazine and I can just see the spark igniting what will be a massive industry.”
Simon Waterfall, 2011 jury member

Brit Insurance Product Award 2011
Plumen 001. By Hulger and Samuel Wilkinson. UK
“We like the Plumen light bulb, we like what it’s doing for low energy light bulbs, we acknowledge that low energy light bulbs are the way forward. We think the whole idea of the exposed glass and exposed element of the low energy light bulb can be used in an exciting way.  And we think Plumen are moving it in that direction. I think the general feeling is it that this is the start of something; it’s not the culmination.”
Will Self, 2011 jury member

Photo: Urban75 blog

Brit Insurance Transport Award 2011
Barclays Cycle Hire. By Transport for London. UK
“The fascinating thing about the ‘Boris Bike’ is that no one thought it was lovely, no one thought it was a gorgeous object – the Boris Bike was designed to be not covetable. It was designed to be disagreeable to ride and designed so that no one would want to steal it. And yet you know the scheme is useful. It’s a very intelligent idea; I think one of the definitions of excellence in design is that it’s something that evolves. Only things which can be defined as truly excellent are things which are capable of evolution. And that’s the Boris Bikes Scheme.”
Stephen Bayley, 2011 jury chair

More at designsoftheyear.com.

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will present this chair called Moon for Italian brand Moroso at their showroom in Milan this April.

The tub chair upholstered in differently textured white fabrics will form part of a lighting installation at the showroom called Twilight.

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Here’s some more information from Yoshioka:

In the collaboration with MOROSO, an exhibition “TWILIGHT-Tokujin Yoshioka” will take place at MOROSO Showroom. At the exhibition, an installation “TWILIGHT” and a series of chairs named “MOON” , will be presented.

The installation “TWILIGHT” , releaseing the infinitive light rays in the white space, creates a scene as if the light breaks through the cloud, and the crepuscular rays pour into the ground. The crepuscular rays is a beatiful natural phenomenon known as angel’ s ladder.

This heavenly light profiles the chair “MOON” . The light reflects on the surface of the chairs and reveals the beauty of the textures exists in the various white materials.

See also:

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Memory by Yoshioka for Moroso	Cloud paper sofa by Yoshioka for Moroso	Bouquet by Yoshioka for Moroso

Un excellent concept imaginé par Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen et Einar Martinussen explorant le terrain invisible des réseaux WiFi dans les espaces urbains. Le tout detecté grâce à une technique photo de Light-Painting ainsi qu’à une tige de 4 mètres de haut, doté de 80 points de lumière.

Dans le même esprit : iPad Light Painting

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This week is a bittersweet one for me. After six years in our amazing home, we are moving. I’m sad to say farewell to this place — we love our neighbors, we love the house, and this is my son’s first home. Unfortunately, the house isn’t configured for our needs. My son really needs his own bedroom (he’s been in a crib in our bedroom for the past 18 months), and we also want a dedicated office space since both my husband and I typically work from home.

We found a new place, which surprisingly has fewer square feet than our current house but has the exact room arrangements we need. Honestly, the new house is incredible and it’s going to greatly improve our quality of life, but packing up everything we own, moving across town, and selling our current home is very stressful in the short term.

I’ve moved fourteen times in my life, and I’ve learned a great deal from these experiences. Additionally, I’m learning even more on this fifteenth move. Over the next couple weeks as we personally go through the moving process, I’ll write posts sharing tips and tricks for each stage. Please feel welcome to jump into the comments and share advice you’ve garnered from the moves in your life. My hope is for these posts to become guides for anyone going through the moving process who wants the move to be as simple and organized as possible.

Packing

• Wear shoes with good arch support and full-foot coverage. If weather permits, also wear long sleeves, jeans, and socks to help avoid injuries.
• Gather supplies: boxes (small, medium, and large), packing tape, roll of bubble wrap for fragile pieces, permanent black markers, band-aids, ice packs, pain reliever, trash bags, a wardrobe box for each person in the house, a good sense of humor, and anything else you’ll need.
• When acquiring boxes, make a stop at your local liquor or wine store to grab a few boxes with divided inserts. These boxes are perfect for safely transporting alcohol and other kitchen liquids like vinegar and olive oil. (If moving across state lines, check regulations for transporting alcohol and make certain to abide by these laws.)
• Make a hotel reservation for the night you arrive at your new place. Your goal will be to get the best night’s sleep possible so you can start refreshed for your first day of unpacking. You’ll also want a shower after moving stuff all day, and it’s best to not have to worry about making sure these things can easily happen.
• Clear floorspace in your home in four different locations and mark each area: Packed Boxes to Move, Charity Donations, Giveaway/Return, and Sell. These areas are where you will put these items until you’re finished packing your things. You will likely need at least a 10′ X 10′ area to hold the Packed Boxes to Move. Also, the area holding items you intend to sell should be easily accessible from the front door or in your garage so that potential buyers can see the product without having to climb over boxes and mess in your home.
• If you have children under the age of five, see if a grandparent, friend, or babysitter can keep your child occupied while you work.
• Your first act of packing should be a suitcase with two weeks of clothing and supplies. Be sure to include your toothbrush and toothpaste, a couple bath towels, soap, shampoo, hair dryer and anything else that is part of your daily hygiene routine.
• Your second act of packing should be an essentials kit — but don’t tape it up! These will be the last items you take out of your current house and the first items you unpack in your new place. These will be things like cleaning supplies, two or more rolls of toilet paper, a frying pan, a few paper plates and plastic utensils, sheets for all the beds, and anything else you will need the first couple days in your new place.
• Make large print signs for your new home with room names: Living Room, Family Room, Master Bedroom, Sally’s Room, Sally’s Bathroom, etc. These signs will make it easier on you and anyone helping you move boxes into your new place. Bring a roll of painter’s tape with you in your essentials kit and plan to hang the signs immediately upon getting access to your new place.
• As you move throughout your home packing boxes, I recommend starting with the heaviest items that will form the base of your Packed Boxes to Move area. Books are almost always a good item for this. Use small boxes, and group similar types together (cookbooks with cookbooks, children’s books with children’s books).
• Label the top and all four sides of a box with a short explanation of what is in the box (Toys) and what room the box should be placed in at the new house (Bobby’s Room). You want to label the top and sides so that the box can be facing in any direction and you can still know what is inside it and where to take it.
• Try your best not to mix different types of things in boxes (your shoes shouldn’t be with your coffee mugs). If this is unavoidable, at the very least do not mix items that belong in different rooms. Only pack kitchen things with other kitchen things, bathroom things with other bathroom things, etc.
• Sort and clean everything before packing it. If you never plan to use eight vases, put some of the vases in the Donate to Charity pile. The key is to not pack to move ANYTHING you don’t want in your new home. Clear the clutter now so you don’t have to spend time and energy moving it.
• Only use trash bags for trash. This will keep you from accidentally throwing something valuable away. If you want to use trash bags for transporting charity items, use differently colored bags (black for trash, white for charity) and write DONATION in big letters on the bag. Be sure to let the ink dry before using the bag.
• Set packing goals the same way you set other goals in your life. Be as specific as possible: Pack the living room on Monday, the garage on Tuesday, or whatever systematic method works best for you.
• Take breaks at least once an hour for five or ten minutes. Your sanity depends on it.

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