Hasta La Ideas

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pemGuest post by Thom Moran./em/p

pThis year at NeoCon, Scott Wilson of a href=”http://www.mnml.com/”MINIMAL/a is launching a href=”http://www.coalesse.com/designers/Wilson%20%20MINIMAL.html”a new line of conference furniture/a with Coalesse. The line, called SW_1, responds to changing life/work habits by challenging the conventional relationship between the chair and the table. A lower slung posture creates a more casual work setting that encourages collaboration and comfort during long meetings. Key features include a sliding surface that brings the work to you, an ample chair that encourages changing posture, and a clean, new take on tabletop power. /p

pWe snuck in early to the Coalesse showroom to hear about it from Scott himselfmdash;check out the video above for a demo. /p

pMore shots after the jump./p

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pWe’re totally in love with a href=”http://www.arianeprin.com/”Ariane Prin’s/a emAir Hair Machine/em, a hairdryer for hairdressers that emphasizes precision through a revisitation of its ergonomics. /p

pFrom Ariane:/p

blockquoteAs part of my survey, I visited many hairdressers and I was able to observe that they use the hairdryer for approximately 4.5 hours a day but that this was not very well adapted. They taught me that this object has to be smaller, lighter, wireless, that they often use the same nozzle, and that the switch allowing distinct levels of power is useless because they habitually use the maximum mode.

pThe most impressive thing is the fact that a majority of hairdressers do not use the handle because they cannot be precise, then efficient, then rapid, then have a lot of clients, and earn a lot of money. They hold it by the body of the object even if this is the hottest part. Moreover, at the end of their career, 70% of the hairdressers have wrist and shoulder articulation problems./p

pThis is for all those reasons that I started to work on the ergonomics of the hairdryer. I have made research on different shapes in blue foam and I came back to the hairdressers to decide together what could be the three most adapted shapes./blockquote/p

pThe whole process is revealed, in photos, after the jump./p

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UK designer Austin Houldsworth has erected a machine at a park in Cheshire, UK, to fossilise a pineapple and a partridge. (more…)

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pAalto University and the Design Factory in Helsinki are producing a a href=”http://trac.sme-ccppd.org/SID/wiki/SIDTrainingSchoolProductSoundDesign201008″summer workshop on Product Sound Design/a. The brief is awesome, aimed at the future of interactive sound in product design:/p

blockquoteFuture products will rely on our natural capabilities of continuous and physical interaction. Moreover, for the best experience in their use, they need to stimulate, but not saturate, all our senses. Our sense of hearing is quite advanced; yet only a few product developers, engineers, marketing teams, and designers know how to make use of it properly. The COST-SID action, over the years, has developed a growing body of methods, tools, and techniques to get you started.

pOur mission in this summer school is to educate the future product design and development team members with a specific competence on interactive sound. The training school is strategically positioned as a first step in a longer research and training on the integration of SID product sound design methods with Product Design and Development, as thought at the Aalto University and MIT, for example. /blockquote/p

pThe best part: if you are accepted, you not only don’t have to pay a registration fee, but, if you are from outside of Finland, you get a travel stipend of 600 EU to cover your costs of travel and accommodation. There are some eligibility restrictions; seems like you should be either a Masters or PhD student to apply:/p

blockquoteThe target participants are 16-20 students in the last year of masters studies, or first two years of PhD studies in design, engineering, or economics. They will be selected by the relevance of their studies or research to the product sound design. We expect about half of the trainees to be Aalto students./blockquote

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