Hasta La Ideas

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pa href=”http://www.gestalten.com/”Gestalten/a is one of our favorite design publishers, consistently releasing big, glossy, and captivating tomes, whether monographs or collections of provocative and inspiring themes. They are at it again with their new fall line-up, another set of books that would fit so well on our own bookshelves at home. Included on our wishlist: /p

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pema href=”http://www.gestalten.com/books/detail?id=ceafb21a285fb9f1012936d7b36c020c”220deg;C Virus Monobloc: The Infamous Chair/a/em, edited by Arnd Friedrichs and Kerstin Finger, including text by Alice Rawsthorn. The book is an in-depth look at the Monobloc chair, the immediately recognizable stackable plastic chair found internationally wherever cheap, durable outdoor seating is required. Documented are works by Philippe Starck, Jerszy Seymour, Maarten Baas, and Konstantin Grcic, who have all used the chair as a starting point for work, whether in a positive or facetious light. /pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/gestalten_fall_new_releases_17367.asp”(more…)/a
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Our summer party with partners and building-mates, john st., happened a few weeks ago and the hang-over is

just starting to fade so we’re just  getting around to posting some pics.

pThe New York Times recently published a href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/business/global/09trade.html?_r=1ref=china”emOn Clean Energy, China Skirts Rules/em/a, a story dissecting China’s international lead in clean energy manufacturing, pointing out that while they are leading, they are also skirting trade rules established by the World Trade Organization by subsidizing their exporters. If these subsidies are not removed by the Chinese government, there may be retaliation from other countries, through the implementation of steep tarriffs./p

pBelow, an excerpt from the NYT’s article describing some of these subsidies:/p

blockquoteA visit to one of Changsha’s newest success stories offers an example of the government’s methods. Hunan Sunzone Optoelectronics, a two-year-old company, makes solar panels and ships close to 95 percent of them to Europe. Now it is opening sales offices in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles in preparation for a push into the American market next February.

pTo help Sunzone, the municipal government transferred to the company 22 acres of valuable urban land close to downtown at a bargain-basement price. That reduced the company’s costs and greatly increased its worth and attractiveness to investors./p

pMeanwhile, a state bank is preparing to lend to the company at a low interest rate, and the provincial government is sweetening the deal by reimbursing the company for most of the interest payments, to help Sunzone double its production capacity.br /
Heavily subsidized land and loans for an exporter like Sunzone are the rule, not the exception, for clean energy businesses in Changsha and across China, Chinese executives said in interviews over the last three months./blockquote/pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/business/china_leads_clean_energy_manufacturing_but_skirts_international_rules__17365.asp”(more…)/a
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Visualizing meteorological, astronomical and other data with woven reed sculptures

While artist
Nathalie Emiebach’s sculptures look like
Sarah Sze got ahold of some tinker-toys, the conceptual underpinnings are far more complex. Drawing on data sets—like the distance between sun and earth or moon phases—that she collects herself, Emiebach uses the information to dictate the dimensions, shapes and position of her reed weavings.

Colorful sticks and constellations of beads represent other bits of data, like less easily quantifiable observations, such as the smell of the air.

via Information Aesthetics

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pThe Institute of Design at a href=”http://newbauhaus.id.iit.edu/index.html”IIT/a and the a href=”http://www.designandemotion.org/society/about/”Design and Emotion Society/a will host the 7th International a href=”http://www.id.iit.edu/de2010/index.html”Conference on Design and Emotion/a October 4-7 at the a href=”http://www.spertus.edu/”Spertus/a Institute in Chicago. The conference is aimed at delving into where design crosses with technological, social, cultural and economic change, and how human emotion is involved in it all. Participants can geek out on themes like Consumer Behavior Emotion, Relationships Patterns, Interaction Usability, and Semantic Interpretations. Keynote speakers include Jeroen van Erp, Co-Founder and Creative director of a href=”http://www.fabrique.nl/”Fabrique/a design agency, and a href=”http://web.media.mit.edu/~cynthiab/”Cynthia Breazeal/a, Associate Professor of Media Arts and Science, a href=”http://www.media.mit.edu/”MIT Media Lab/a, whose keynote title, “Socio-Emotional Design of Personal Robots” sounds particularly enticing for some of us design nerds./p

pRegistration and more information a href=”http://www.id.iit.edu/de2010/des+emo-registration.html”here/a./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/events/international_conference_on_design_and_emotion_17363.asp”(more…)/a
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