Hasta La Ideas

Kaleido-Wall 1.0 est une installation d’art réalisée par Vin Rathod et Priyanka Rathod pour le festival australien Vivid Sydney. En s’inspirant du kaléidoscope, les deux artistes ont érigé une structure géométrique et luminescente composée de miroirs et de LED, suscitant de splendides effets de lumière et de couleurs. Plus de détails en images.

Anna Burns et Michael Bodiam ont collaboré sur le thème de la bombe atomique et sur le rapport des hommes à son usage, entre peur extrême et fascination. Les deux artistes ont choisi de représenter des champignons nucléaires silencieux par des installations poétiques incarnées par des fleurs, des ballons et des broderies. Un projet nommé « Silent but Violent » à découvrir dans la galerie.

The AliveCor heart monitor is the first FDA-cleared device to let patients monitor their heart rhythm through a smartphone, enabling cost-efficient, timely diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmias for those at risk. Designed by Karten Design.

Bringing a consumer product to market is a challenge in and of itself—taking an idea through concept development, business analysis, beta testing, product launch, and beyond. Add the FDA to the mix, and it’s a whole ‘nother story. This is the challenge faced by medical device and product firms, which not only have to make a fully functioning, well-designed product but also have to put it through several rounds of rigorous testing by the FDA and other regulatory bodies.

“They’re parameters. They don’t stop you from doing anything, but they do make you do it in a way that you, as a user, would probably think is a good thing,” says Aidan Petrie, Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Ximedica, an FDA-registered product development firm with an exclusive focus on medical products. On any given day, Ximedica is running 40 individual programs, overseeing the steps required to bring these products to market. “We don’t do anything that isn’t a FDA-regulated product,” says Petrie.

The timelines for these projects can run anywhere between two to six years. While time-to-market is not the primary driver, finding ways to close that gap can make a big difference in profitability. For companies like Ximedica and HS Design, closing that gap meant becoming International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 13485 certified. “There are so many regulatory and quality metrics that had to be put in place to satisfy those requirements that it made us a better and stronger company,” explains Tor Alden, Principal and CEO at HS Design (HSD). “It also put us to a level where we couldn’t just accept any client. We had to become more sophisticated as far as who our clients were and how we could say no or reach a point of compliancy.” By building those regulations into the design process, these companies are able to anticipate and plan for any potential timely obstacles from the get-go.

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Non sarebbe poi così male avere una finestra aperta sullo spazio del vostro salotto. Per ora accontentiamoci di questi tappeti che trovate in vendita su Schoenstaub. Misurano 220×150 in materiale acrilico spesso 7mm. Unico dubbio: la resa cromatica…sarà così bella anche dal vivo?

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Competition: Dezeen has partnered with UK designers Dorothy to give readers the chance to win one of five prints of forgotten architectural monuments.

The Manchester-based studio has collaborated with the London Transport Museum on two new print designs that form part of the Lost Destination series, which celebrates often-overlooked buildings and iconic structures that no longer exist.

Based on 20th century travel posters, the two new prints feature British railway landmarks from the last 100 years and celebrate the grand visions of architects and engineers from two very different centuries.

The first print features Birmingham New Street Signal Box by Bicknell & Hamilton and W R Healey, which was constructed in 1964 to accommodate staff and railway equipment connected to the city’s central train station.

Featuring pre-cast concrete cladding, the building was awarded Grade II listed status in 1995 and still controls one of the UK’s busiest rail interchanges to this today.

The second print is of London’s Euston Arch, built by Philip Hardwick in 1838 as the original entrance to Euston train station. Inspired by Roman architecture, the arch stood 21 metres tall until it was demolished in the 1960s.

Winners will receive a print of their choice from the Lost Destination series, which includes: Preston Bus Station, Spaghetti Junction in Birmingham, Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth, Fylingdales in North Yorkshire and Forton Services in Lancashire.

The prints measure 80 by 60 centimetres and are available to purchase on Dorothy’s website.

Competition closes on 10 November 2014. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. The winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeen Mail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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