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Human Factors Specialist
IDEO
Boston, Massachusetts

IDEO Boston is looking for a Human Factors Specialist to collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and to create innovative products, services, spaces, interactions and experiences that leverage and enhance the client’s brand. Human Factors Specialists play a key role in the IDEO process, leading the team to uncover insights that guide design and innovation.

They are looking for a naturally empathetic, passionate and entrepreneurial person, who has a natural skill to engage with people at a deep level. The ideal candidate is passionate about representing a human and humane perspective and should have skills in bringing this passion to life for the internal design team and client organization.

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Dezeen Space: designer Jan Rose exhibits furniture and lighting made of knitted steel and leather at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. 

Rose presents a footstool made of high-tensile stainless steel thread and a lamp knitted from strips of boiled leather.

Each piece is produced on a specially designed knitting machine.

Each day, for 30 days, a different designer will use a one metre by one metre space to exhibit their work at Dezeen Space. See the full lineup for Dezeen Platform here.

More about Dezeen Space here and more about the London Design festival here.

Dezeen Space
17 September – 16 October
Monday-Saturday 11am-7pm
Sunday 11am-5pm

54 Rivington Street,
London EC2A 3QN

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The tenth annual St Bride Library conference will take place this November; its theme the notion of ‘tension’ in creative practice…

Design is fuelled by relationships integral to the discipline: colour and form, form and function; client and designer, analogue and digital. And a resulting piece of work is quite often the product of a unique tension between two elements.

For Critical Tensions, curators John Walters and Becky Chilcott have invited speakers to discuss how they balance and manage opposition in their work and in their pursuit of ‘perfect tension’.

The theme also taps into another prevalent issue: that times of economic constraint can engender creativity. Moreoever, how has the creative industry responded to the societal changes we’ve witnessed in the last few years?

Speakers set to discuss these issues and more include Phil Baines, Jonathan Barnbrook, Zoë Bather, Tom Farrand, Amelia Gregory, Matt Jones, Alan Kitching, Gerry Leonidas, Vaughan Oliver, Paul Rennie, Lucienne Roberts, Jack Schulze, Steve Watson, Matt Webb, Rebecca Wright and Derek Yates.

The moderators for the event will be Phil Baines and Emily King and there will also be demonstrations by Paul Antonio (calligraphy), Douglas Bevans (bookbinding), Mark Frith (stonecutting), Helen Ingham and Richard Lawrence (typesetting, linocutting).

The two-day event takes place between November 10-11 and tickets are available, here. They cost £120 at full price; £90 for Friends of St Brides Library; and £50 (£35 Friends of St Brides Library) for full time students. The money that St Brides raises from its talks and conferences directly supports the Library. More details on St Brides and its activities at stbride.org/library.

Over the next months we will be highlighting award-winning projects and ideas from this year’s Core77 Design Awards! For full details on the project, jury commenting and more information about the awards program, go to Core77DesignAwards.com

Designer: Alexei Mikhailov
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
Category: Transportation
Award: Student Notable

TrakRok

TrakRok vehicle is an alternative design solution intended for all season off-roading mobility. Powered by sustainable renewable energy, the vehicle is composed of light weight exoskeleton assembly construction. Utilizing a wheeled locomotion swing arm design, delivers TrakRok performance advantage in environments of rough terrain, and harsh seasonal conditions.

ATV vehicles are responsible for more casualties in children and adults than any other leading recreational transportation out there. Safety and sustainability are the social value of my design, offering an alternative new outlook at problems of safety, the TrakRok is the design solution that introduces new features in a conceptual context which would decrease hypothetical number of casualty rates. At the same time taking into account the sustainability factors, which play a major role in the product life cycle and the effect on the environment. Utilizing new biodegradable materials provides a greater efficiency in recycling and disposal of parts as a whole.

Core77: What’s the latest news or development with your project?

The project initially was a concept, I now have plan’s to develop a possible working prototype in upcoming future.

What is one quick anecdote about your project?

I asked my self “why don’t snowmobiles have wheels?” the answer was Trakrok.

Read on for full details on the project and jury comments.

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Dezeen Wire: architect David Chipperfield, structural engineer Cecil Balmond and Wilkinson Eyre Architects are among the shortlisted candidates for the Prince Philip Designers Prize 2011.

Also nominated are: environmental and exhibition designer, Dinah Casson; fashion designer Paul Smith; illustrator Quentin Blake; prosthetics designer Saeed Zahedi; Shane Walter, cofounder of digital design agency onedotzero; milliner Stephen Jones and Tim Brown from design and innovation firm IDEO.

The Prince Philip Designers Prize is the UK’s longest running design award and has been celebrating achievement in design for over 50 years. Previous winners include Kenneth Grange, James Dyson, Norman Foster and Terence Conran. The winner receives a certificate signed by Prince Philip, and the judges may also award Special Commendations.

Here is a link to our Dezeen Wire story on last year’s winner, Bill Moggridge.

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