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INDEED, an innovation firm based in Hamburg, Germany, designs and develops new products and services for Fortune 500, SME’s, and start-ups. INDEED’s vision is to “establish design as the single most effective steward of our being human in the computational age.” They believe that the future is too important to be left to technocrats and technologists, and hence more than ever, we need human-centered innovation. The Fourth Industrial Revolution will only be human if we design for it. Therefore INDEED claims: “Human-first in innovation”. Their team of designers, innovation specialists, engineers, and business strategists are multicultural and their client base global. Embracing advanced technologies, they combine business savvy with the vision and creativity needed to thrive in a globally connected world. Based on a no-bullshit, highly collaborative approach, as well as their seamless interplay of design, engineering, and strategy, they translate complexity into smart, surprisingly simple solutions. Thus helping companies such as Melitta, Wagner, Freudenberg, KABA and Beiersdorf, as well as international corporations like Airbus, the Linde Group and the Turkish industrial group Eczacibasi to innovate in the computational age. They also have over 100 prestigious awards to their name such as the Red Dot Design Award, iF Design Award, German Design Award, Good Design Award Japan and etc! Apply now if you’re interested in being a part of their innovative award-winning culture!

 Inspired by aerial drones, AIR RUNNER is a futuristic smart device that enhances your jog with games and tracking data! With a light projection onto the street the little flying companion creates an exceptional virtual adventure landscape and even keeps the user safe when running in the dark.

The Opportunity

INDEED is looking for a Senior Industrial Designer (m/f/d) who is ready to take the next step in her/his career. As an Industrial Design Project Lead, you will manage exciting and truly innovative product development and design projects. With passion, expertise, and leadership you will plan design research, inform the strategy and delivery innovation with a dedicated and super powerful team. In order to do so, they will train you in all aspects of design management & strategy so you can grow and become a pivotal part of INDEED.

Requirements

• +5 years of experience in design consultancy
• Track record of projects and teams managed by you
• Must have a portfolio that showcases the entire design process and sketching skills
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Industrial Design or equivalent
• Excellent sketching and form development skills
• Competency in relevant digital tools – Adobe CC, SolidWorks, rendering software
• Sound command in German and English
• Extraordinarily talented, open-minded and curious personality interested into all aspects of design
• An excellent communicator and presenter who can take leadership and responsibility
• Outgoing, positive in nature and a motivated team player
• Passionate about customer-centric design and a creative problem solver who is not afraid to go new ways
• Capable of writing highly complex quotes and you have proven experience in planning multiphase projects

Benefits

• International projects where you will make a fundamental mark and become a thought leader in the industry
• Integration into the entire development process
• Design management and leadership training
• Great team with flat hierarchies
• Cool office in the heart of Hamburg, the best city to live in Germany
• Lots of opportunities for professional and personal growth

How to Apply

You can apply today by sending your job application to jobs@indeed-innovation.com

Location

Hamburg, Germany.

Click here to Apply Now! 

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Layer and Panasonic have designed a range of near-future product concepts, including a smart head massaging device and an AI-powered skin analysis that makes personalised, nutritious smoothies in response to the results.

Called Balance of Being, the collection comprises six designs that use technology to enhance everyday rituals, in order to encourage more meaningful engagements with products and promote wellbeing in the home.

The concept range was envisioned by Benjamin Hubert‘s design agency Layer and Panasonic’s design and engineering teams.

Products include a smart cooking appliance, a skin analysis device that doubles up as a smoothie maker, an LED light treatment for hair, a smart head massager, and two skin care devices.

“All products react and deliver based on the rich living knowledge of you and your family,” explained Layer, “building a thorough and safe understanding of needs to deliver incredibly personal outputs that brings balance to being.”

“Balance of Being aims to close this gap between technology and our lifestyles, focusing more on human interaction, comfort, enhancing our lifestyles, and providing truly meaningful experiences with technology allowing us to bond with one another instead of our devices,” added Rowan Williams, creative lead from Panasonic Design’s London team.

Lift is a smart cooking and food maturing appliance, which uses heat and pressure technology and embedded sensors to “lift” food to its most optimal nutritional state.

The device aims to encourage families and young people to take more of an interest in cooking, nutrition and healthy eating.

The Shot concept combines food with skincare. An AI-powered camera sensor on the front of the device conducts a visual analysis of the user’s skin condition.

In response to the skin test results, Shot creates a bespoke smoothie from a selection of fresh frozen fruit and vegetables to give the user a healthy dose of vitamins and minerals.

Both the Tone and Grow product concepts use LED light treatments to improve the user’s health, and come in the form of a headband-like accessory.

Tone sits around the user’s neck and examines their skin complexion before coming up with a personalised self-care regime. The device then uses a combination of steam and LEDs to treat the user’s skin.

Grow is placed over the user’s head, and uses an LED light treatment that targets the wearer’s hair and hair follicles to promote healthy growth.

According to Layer founder Benjamin Hubert, the collection takes design cues from the traditional Japanese wabi-sabi aesthetic that celebrates imperfections.

Layer and Panasonic used these ideas to “help soften high performance experiences with an approachable aesthetic.”

Other designs in the collection include Ease, a skin care device that works during sleep, and Wave, a smart head massaging device that maps the user’s level of tension to determine the length of time, method and intensity of the experience.

Layer and Panasonic envision the products being made with materials such as glazed ceramic, refined timber and constructed textiles, in a neutral, pale colour palette to make them “feel natural in the home.”

“We are curious in how we engage with products and the knowledge that they can build of us and our families,” said Panasonic Design’s creative director, Takehiro Ikeda.

“How do we intersect our aspirations of a more natural world with experiences that are technologically enabled?,” he continued.

“This creates many exciting questions for Panasonic; opening opportunities for new paradigms of products and experiences that allow us to lead our lives in more meaningful ways that brings balance.”

Balance of Being was first revealed at the 2019 IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin, which took place this year from 6 to 11 September.

Layer and Panasonic are not the only companies using technology to promote wellbeing. UK design agency Morrama released a smartphone earlier this year with a series of wellbeing features that give users more control over what they see on their device.

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San Francisco’s Carpenters Workshop Gallery is staging an exhibition of works by French-Swedish artist Ingrid Donat that includes furniture detailed with interlacing loops and lines influenced by tribal patterns and 1920s Art Deco.

Rituals documents the 30-year-career of Donat, who got her start making lamps for friends and family and now creates tables, chairs, cabinets and shelving units.

“This exhibition will show the variation in her sculptural designs and the wide range of materials and techniques that are employed in her oeuvre,” said Carpenters Workshop Gallery.

The exhibition’s name comes from the artist’s approach to her designs. “I envision my work as a ritual, a structured repetition in time and space from which an energy emanates,” said described.

Among the exhibit is a series of bronze works that Donat created using a method called lost-wax casting. The process begins with a sheet of wax that the artists shapes and carves to create a mould for metal works. Molten metal is poured into the cast and left to cool.

Donat then engraves the bronze, paints the upholstery and treats the wood herself to match.

The artist’s work features elements from her family’s roots in La Réunion, France. The intricate decorations etched into many of her pieces are reminiscent of tribal tattoos from the area, and scarification, a tradition that involves cutting and burning patterns into one’s skin.

Donat works with a variety of materials that also emulate the textural designs of pieces by 1920s Art Deco designers Pierre Legrain and Aramnd-Albert Rateau. Like Rateau, who used animal, flora and fauna patterns in his pieces, Donat creates metal etchings that are evocative of fish scales.

“The motifs she engraves recall the animal and fish skins Art Deco artists incorporated into their works to add texture,” the gallery added.

Repeating circular shapes in a variety of colours, green, brown, gold, interlace on Cabinet Klimt, a bronze cupboard Donat designed to appear like lace.

Curved table legs are inlaid with etched bronze to accent the walnut surface of Table Tribal, while black bronze is paired with panels of red parchment to comprise Bibliotheque Murale en 5 éléments, shelving unit.

Other pieces in the Rituals show include an aluminium chair and matching ottoman, titled Fauteuil Ohio and Repose Pieds Ohio, and a variety of stands, coffee tables and buffet counters, which are all intricately carved with interlocking circles, loops and lines.

Rituals is on display in San Francisco’s Carpenters Workshop Gallery 18 September to 20 December.

Carpenters Workshop Gallery was founded in London in 2006 by Le Gaillard and Julien Lombrail in a former carpenter’s workshop.

The San Francisco space, which opened inside a former church last year, forms its fourth outpost, following other locations in New York and Paris.

Recent exhibits at the international gallery have included a presentation of fashion designer Virgil Abloh’s sinking furniture collection in Venice a series of lacquered tables and seats by Aldo Bakker in New York.

Photography is by Carpenters Workshop Gallery.

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