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The Detroit Design Festival returns September 18–22, with a focus on highlighting the independent design trends originating from Detroit and surrounding areas. The third annual celebration of Motor City’s unique art and design scene is set to be bigger and better than ever, and their team and advisors will be sharing various highlights with us over the next few weeks. Mark your calendars for 2013, and check out some of our previous coverage here and here.

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Rapid Bloom est la dernière série de Martin Klimas qui trempe des fleurs dans de l’azote liquide et les fait ensuite exploser à l’aide d’un pistolet à air. Les fleurs semble dénaturées tant leur structure et leur texture sont mises à mal. De superbes photographies à découvrir en images dans l’article.

Over the next few weeks we will be highlighting award-winning projects and ideas from this year’s Core77 Design Awards 2013. We will be featuring these projects by category, so stay tuned for your favorite categories of design! For full details on the project, jury commenting and more information about the awards program, go to Core77DesignAwards.com.

Project Name: Blendtec Stealth – Quiet + Smart in a Blender
Designers: Blendtec R&D Team

The Blendtec Stealth is a powerful commercial blender that integrates the latest sound reducing technology, an intuitive touch interface and USB delivery of customizable blend cycles. This allows coffee houses and eateries to serve up blended recipes without the noise discomfort associated with other blenders. The web app with our extensive library custom blend cycles, combined with USB programming functionality makes maintaining a fleet of blenders fast and simple.

– How did you learn that you had been recognized by the jury?

We actually had been keeping up with the live announcements throughout the week and found out like most people through the live broadcast announcement. We we’re very anxious since our category was one of the last ones so the build up of the whole week was great!

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

The Blendtec Stealth has been in the market now for a few months and has won some additional awards including the Kitchen Innovations Award. It’s quickly becoming one of our most successful commercial products. We’ve been able to learn a lot from the development of the stealth that we’re incorporating into other products throughout our line up. Our commercial partners/restaurants are loving the Stealth and we have gotten some amazing feedback as we continue to improve our product line up.

– What is one quick anecdote about your project?

Blendtec is known for being a hardcore engineering company. We’re obsessive about the little details so much that we even manufacture some of our own screws here in our Utah facility so that they meet our stringent standards. One really unique thing about the Stealth is that because of our use of a capacitive interface we had to develop our own algorithm so the interface can detect wether a finger is touching it or if it’s a drop of water that may have spilt during use. Those are just 2 quick anecdotes about how obsessive we were with this project.

– What was an “a-ha” moment from this project?

We had several during this project, but one major one was when we were developing our user interface. During our research we learned that some restaurant chains update their menu throughout the year to keep up with food trends, but their equipment would stay the same. Their equipment’s function would never change from when they purchased it to when they would dispose of it at the end of the products life. The interfaces stayed the same the whole time because their buttons/interfaces were static. When we learned this we decided we would develop an interface that could be reprogrammed on the spot. The blender can go from having blend cycles specifically for smoothies to blender cycles for iced coffee or ice cream or even hot soups. We made our entire library of Blend Cycles available to the Stealth.

As part of this we learned that there was no easy way to change these cycles on their blenders throughout all the locations in their chains in the country. As a result we made an online web-app where a corporate chef or menu coordinator can organize a series of blend cycles into a blender profile and email that out to all their restaurant chains throughout the country so that all their Stealth blenders can be updated immediately regardless of where in the world the restaurant is located.

This was our aha moment. We were able to deliver a commercial product whose interface can be adjusted to the users specific needs and can be easily replicated across their whole fleet and getting rid of the notion of one size fits all.

View the full project here.

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