Boring sofas and unattractive seating are clamoring for your imaginative touch. In return, your creative genius will be rewarded with a super sexy Wacom Cintiq 13 HD. All you have to do is participate in the CATIA Design contest 2013! Essentially, this furniture design contest, wants you to explore, how to mix an ATTRACTIVE seat design with an innovative FUNCTIONAL Experience!

Take your 3D CATIA solution and imagine the seat of your dreams!

Industrial design is about aesthetic shapes, color and materials but it is more and more about the overall consumer experience. With this furniture contest we want to explore how we can marry both.

“A pleasant seat design with innovative functional experience”

To participate, you just have to join to the CATIA Creative Design community and post your images and 3D models. Share your creativity and WIN a Wacom Cintiq 13HD! 
The contest is accepting submissions until July 13th, 2013. [ Submit Here ]

Details:

• Take your 3D CATIA solution and imagine the seat of your dreams!
• A free CATIA licence can be offered for students who participate in the CATIA Design Contest 2013 (under conditions).
• WIN a Wacom Cintiq 13HD!

To Participate

• REGISTER TO 3DSWYM social network
• ENTER IN the CATIA Creative Design community
• SUBMIT your CATIA “Seating Experience”
• Last Date: July 13th, 2013

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First it was the desktop computer, then it was the laptop, and then it was mobile devices. What’s next in the progression? Many speculate the wearable device… and if it’s anything like this concept by Zissou then we’re all for it! Wrist-Borne combines the functionalities of fitness-tracking band, cellphone, and wristwatch into one device that focuses on practicality and ease-of-use in a surprisingly simple way. No buttons, no knobs…it’s the opposite of the Swiss army knife in this category, and that’s why it works!

Features:

• Bluetooth
• Pairs with your phone/computer/tablet
• 3-axis accelerometer
• Retina-quality touch display
• USB Connection/storage
• Blood flow monitor
• Perspiration monitor
• Thermometer
• Water resistant

Designer: Zissou

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At a glance, this wild bike concept looks more like a sculpture… maybe even something out of the Body Worlds Exhibit! Drawing from our very own anatomy, Zapfina takes inspiration from the relationship between bones, ligaments, and muscles, translating their connection to a design language fit for 2-wheels. The Z shaped frame was formed like a joint to absorb shock and protect moving components like the chain and gears. All it needs is a little human muscle!

Designer: JiaLing Hu

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Core77 is pleased to partner with Windows Phone to bring you a series of photo diaries this summer. Based on the theme of Reinvention, we're looking to capture the fleeting moments and highlight the often-overlooked facets of the world around us through the lens of the Nokia Lumia 928, especially in the low-light settings in which its camera excels. (All photos were taken with the Nokia Lumia 928 smartphone and are published without postproduction unless otherwise noted.)

Reporting & photos by Ray Hu

Like the Bicycle Film Festival, the Red Hook Criterium has become an annual highlight for the NYC cycling community in just a few short years since its inception. In the five years since the inaugural race—a birthday celebration for local cyclist and race organizer David Trimble—the event has quickly evolved from an unsanctioned race in an oddball industrial corner of Brooklyn to a multinational Championship Series, thanks largely to title sponsor Rockstar Games.

Of course, the sheer logistics of organizing a criterium on city streets aren't quite as scalable as a grassroots film festival, and the fact that the series expands to two new locations this year is a testament to Trimble's hustle. In addition to the OG event in Red Hook, he introduced the RHC Milan in October 2010; these two events bookend this year's Championship Series, which also includes two new events: last weekend's crit in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, documented here, and a penultimate race in Barcelona in August.

The white balance was set to auto; the photo on the left is slightly warmer, but both turned out quite well. (I switched to Night mode for the race itself.)

I would have liked to attempt to shoot the event on a DSLR, but considering the sheer difficulty of shooting 1.) bicycles 2.) in motion 3.) at night, I realized that the race would be the perfect opportunity to put the Nokia Lumia 928, running Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 OS, to the test.

A staff member mentioned that the cobblestones were an homage to the first Red Hook Crit, which also had a cobbled section.

But first, a bit of background, for the uninitiated: a criterium is a specific variety of bicycle race that typically occurs on a short, highly-technical circuit on closed-off city streets. The Red Hook Crit is unique in that riders are required to ride brakeless track (i.e. fixed-gear) bicycles, making it a unique hybrid of velodrome cycling and alleycat races: the course at the Brooklyn Navy Yard featured several near-90° corners, a cobbled chicane, and a killer S-curve that proved to be the downfall of many a contender. That, and the fact that the race takes place at night, per tradition. (Racing Towards Red Hook, a short documentary about the 2011 RHC, is a good primer).

This corner (the view looking north from "10" on the map below) turned out to be the bane of many a seasoned rider

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Herman Miller's Embody is one of the best office chairs on the market, and the company has a reputation for excellence in design and engineering. So we were surprised when both armrests on our review unit of the Embody independently stopped working within just a few years. (Two and a half, to be exact.) We subsequently saw the same issue on a second Embody.

The Embody's cost has come down from a whopping $1,600 to a more manageable $1,100 or so, but that's still a lot of scratch; shouldn't a Herman Miller product last longer than that? After all, the company does guarantee their products for 12 years. But if you've got a busted Embody and don't want to go through the hassle of shipping it back to HM for repairs, living without it for a spell, then waiting around for the delivery guy, we figured we'd see if we could fix ours using basic household tools. Have a look:

For our last Core77 Design Awards jury broadcast of the day, we've got two for the price of one: interiors and exhibitions! ...ok, so that was pretty bad, but the winners for that category definitely are NOT! Live from Mexico City, jury captain Andres Mier y Teran and his jury team— are on air now, presenting their selections for the Interiors & Exhibitions category. Watch above or at Core77DesignAwards.com

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Professional
Winner: Vaillo-Irigaray Architects - OCCIDENS MUSEUM // Cathedral of Pamplona (1394 - 1805 B.C.)
Runners-up:
» Tellart & Google Creative Lab - Chrome Web Lab
» Jose Arturo Revilla Perez - Mr
Notables:
» Situ Studio - Heartwalk
» Hisaaki Hirawata & Tomohiro Watabe - BAO BAO ISSEY MIYAKE shinjuku
» NotaNumber Architects (NaNA) - Bulgari Pavilion
» Freecell - SpontaneousInterventions | Design Actions for the Common Good
» Chris Bennewith Submergence
» Zoey Tsopela - UXUS HQ
» Sheela Pawar - PLAY WORK BUILD

Student
Winner: Camille Dedieu - GRAVITY - The body in space // Inversion Glasses
Runners-up:
» Freya Robinson & Zoë Fehlberg - Portal for Reverie
» Mailin Lemke - [DIZAJN]
Notable: Alexandra Georgescu - PullOver

In a bold maneuver, Jony Ive enlisted Apple’s marketing department to refresh the platform’s core icons (and newly branded color space).

Getting out of a design rut is hard. It’s why car companies take at least a decade to turn their lines around, while in the meantime, they just eat it in terms of sales. But when Apple wanted to refresh the experience of iOS under the new regime of Jony Ive, it didn’t have a decade. So, according to The Next Web, Ive took what might seem like a crazy approach in a company filled with some of the world’s best designers: He enlisted the marketing department. From TNW:

Many of the new icons were primarily designed by members of Apple’s marketing and communications department, not the app design teams. From what we’ve heard, SVP of Design Jony Ive (also now Apple’s head of Human Interaction) brought the print and web marketing design team in to set the look and color palette of the stock app icons. They then handed those off to the app design teams who did their own work on the ‘interiors’, with those palettes as a guide.

We’ve also been hearing that there wasn’t a whole lot of communication between the various teams behind say, Mail and Safari. And that there were multiple teams inside each group that were competing with various designs, leading to what some see as inconsistencies in icon design. Those may well be hammered out in days ahead.

Not everyone loves the new icons, but I think they’re vastly successful in that they’re driving a new palette that identifies iOS at a glance. Color branding is precisely the type of design concerns that Apple’s communications/marketing team are constantly sweating and strongly opinionated about--potentially even more so than Apple’s interface designers, who are probably more focused on making iOS an accommodating catch-all for the 900,000 app icons in the App Store.

What I don’t think most of the complaints about this new color space admit, however, is how iOS actually still allows you to change it. Most people will not experience iOS 7 as we’ve seen it in Apple’s marketing for the past few days, since transparent windows (which will pull your own colorful photography as a backdrop) and third-party icons will open the color palette back up to a brandless infinity.

In other words, Ive let Apple’s marketing department build the new face of iOS because, in effect, the face of iOS is little more than a marketing ploy anyway. In practical use, the iPhone’s new look and feel will be more often dictated and personalized by its users--thanks to a whole slew of choices made by Apple’s more traditional design team.

Read more here.

And it embodies everything that’s great about childhood.

If I could go back in time and ask my corpulent eight-year-old self what my dream camera might look like, I’d probably hijack that time machine/wormhole to do all sorts of other things first. See the dinosaurs. Save Lincoln. Buy a few stocks. Punch myself in the face at least once. After this list of thousands of other priorities was completed, I’d probably realize that I really screwed up the future, and so I’d find a way to travel back and prevent this time machine from ever being invented in the first place.

But assuming things were okay in the space-time continuum, and assuming I’d grown relatively bored with the concept of skipping through millennia like flipping the pages of a magazine, I’d possibly ask my eight-year-old self what my dream camera might look like. And he’d inevitably crayon-sketch (was I still using crayons at 8?) the Nanoblock Camera ($55), by Fuuvi.

Scratch that, he’d inevitably crayon-sketch a Lego camera, but I’d say, “Sorry, kid, Nanoblocks are all we’ve got in the future.” And then that little wimp would probably start crying again. I’d remember how painful that memory was, relent, and tell myself that Lego was alive and well in the year 2013, but to stop eating so much ice cream.

Regardless, what appealed to me at age eight and appeals to me now is the fact that this toy camera fits in your pocket, then plugs directly into a computer, just like a USB stick. (I had to explain what a USB stick was to the eight-year-old me, but then I totally dug it.) It also exudes charm, thanks to that dotted Nanoblock body, which allows you to expand the frame through all sorts of block building--build a lens, or reshape the camera to look like a Polaroid. It’s mostly cosmetic stuff, but how many cameras have you ever been able to personalize in any way? It’s delightful.

Once we were done talking cameras, me and Mark, age eight, would go hang at the mall, or wherever Mark, age eight, thought was cool and couldn’t drive to on his own. Then I’d say super casually, “I know a little place,” and take him for sundaes in the Jurassic Period. We’d think we were really cool.

I’d ask him how it felt to be a kid. He’d ask me how it felt to touch a boob. Then I’d tell him I didn’t know.

“How can that be?” he’d ask, welling up a bit as he buried his tears in another mouthful of hot fudge. And I’d put my arm around him reassuredly.

“Well, as a kid, I ate too much ice cream.”

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the 400,000-square foot building is an arrangement of horizontal slabs, layered on top of one another at varying heights in such a way that they follow the topography of the surrounding area.

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to celebrate the 25th birthday of photoshop christoph niemann and jon huang have made the web app 'you made that' which brings the magic of drawing and painting back to its simpler and messier origin.

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Caroline Woolard's furniture designs might be considered to be works of art—not in the sense that they are highly limited collectibles but rather as critical commentary. Billed as a "post-media artist" by Eyebeam (where she was a fellow last year), Woolard generally regards objects as a means to an end, and her broad practice reflects her research-based, collaborative approach to making. Per her site: "In 2009, Woolard cofounded three organizations to support collaborative cultural production: a studio space, a barter network, and Trade School." These projects might be described as socially-conscious in the sense that they are intended to be scale models of society.

Woolard has set up shop in the Museum of Modern Art for her latest project, the Exchange Café, hosted by the institution's Department of Education through the end of the month. "Taking the form of a café, the Studio encourages visitors to question notions of reciprocity, value, and property through shared experiences. Tea, milk, and honey—products that directly engage the political economy—are available by exchange. Instead of paying with legal tender, Exchange Café patrons are invited to make a resource-based currency."

Yves Béhar’s Public Office Landscape for Herman Miller provides every opportunity for impromptu collaboration.

“The way people are working has changed, but the furniture has not evolved,” says Yves Béhar, founder of fuseproject. Which is not to say that in recent years offices haven’t modernized or, rather, adjusted to include more communal spaces that accommodate spontaneous bursts of brainstorming.

Béhar is referring to the conference room, not the desk template. And the conference room is outdated. “What has been happening in the industry, for years, is an attempt to have a few prescriptive areas: This a great place for collaboration or brainstorming. It’s a destination. You have to go there,” Béhar tells Co.Design.

Public Office Landscape is fuseproject’s antidote. The modular furniture system--which debuted this week at the Neocon trade show in Chicago--was created to embed collaboration into every minute of the workday. Béhar developed the structures for Herman Miller, but Public is actually the result of 11 years of organic in-house experimentation at fuseproject. The design company has, from the beginning, brought multidisciplinary teams together to collaborate on projects.

Two years ago, when Herman Miller gave Béhar an open-ended brief for a new office furniture system, fuseproject started playing with new configurations of prototypes in their office. “We acted as both guinea pig and lab coat, trying to solve a problem from within but also looking at it from the outside,” Béhar says.

The Public concept allows for a comfortable amount of individual space while still adhering to the concept of an open, social environment. Modular pieces mean that group numbers can change, and the furniture can adapt. But the larger goal is to make every desk space as functional as a conference room, so you don’t have to wait to book a room the next day if a spark of inspiration is happening right now.

Besides turning the fuseproject office into a living laboratory for the system, the studio studied office behavior at more than 20 companies on the West Coast, ranging from big Silicon Valley companies, such as Google and Facebook, to smaller startups and more traditional offices. Between observation and interviews, the designers found an across-the-board hunger for better ways to collaborate in-office.

“We have a ton of photos of the idiosyncrasies of the way people pull funky chairs by their desks to encourage people to sit there,” Béhar says. It’s also a common practice at forward-thinking offices, like at Square or Evernote, to have an office floor plan with those kinds of quirky meeting spots already built in. At the American Express offices, the BlueWork program makes office supplies and trashcans more communal, to gently coerce employees into more watercooler situations. But fuseproject’s design is based off the assertion that 70% of collaboration happens at an actual workstation, and not necessarily during ad-hoc meetings in the hallway.

As Béhar also points out, there is no longer a technical need to be in the office. We have state-of-the-art computers and communication systems at home and in our pockets. But we miss out on the most crucial element of working with a team: other people. “The more people interact--the more they have quick chats in an improvised way--the more efficient and happy they are.”

Read more about the design process over at fuseproject.

Minimalist? Simple? Flat? In this video, Apple reminds the world that its design goes beyond Bauhaus sensibility.

At WWDC, the lights went down, the hollers went up, and then Apple played this video in a near whisper. In that moment, I thought it was mistimed. It was too much of a love-in intro to an event with so much electricity in the air, and it clearly contained a poetic subtlety that needed a consideration beyond “zomg, is iOS 7 really going flat?!?”

Seeing it again now, I’ve come to truly appreciate the clip. Every piece of its animation is beautiful, playful, surprising, and interconnected--it’s a physical manifestation of Apple’s latest printed statement on design--one that challenges those of us who’ve begun to simplify its approach as “simpler” or “flatter” or even “sexy.” Here’s a transcription for your easy reading (punctuation my own):

If everyone is busy making everything, how can anyone perfect anything? We start to confuse convenience with joy. Abundance with choice. Designing something requires focus. The first thing we ask is: What do we want people to feel? Delight. Surprise. Love. Connection. Then we begin to craft around our intention. It takes time. There are a thousand no’s for every yes. We simplify, we perfect, we start over, until everything we touch enhances each life it touches. Only then do we sign our work: Designed by Apple in Cupertino.

The piece is, of course, a primer to Apple’s latest design-centric promotional tagline, that “Designed by Apple in Cupertino” finale. But it’s also a shot at the Samsungs and Googles of the world, who are attacking Apple’s mobile marketshare head-on with feature-loaded devices that, with every subsequent generation, are becoming nicer to hold and look at.

It’s a reminder that design is not intended to be any one thing, other than created with the intent for human use. That’s why the word “delightful” is as important as “streamlined.” And hopefully, it’s a lesson that Apple itself takes to heart as it marries iOS, OSX, and a slew of hard, metal, and glass devices together in the years to come.

We're back in London for the 11th of our 17 Core77 Design Awards live jury broadcasts, where Paul Priestman and his handpicked jury of Mat Hunter, Dale Harrow and Sophie Thomas are pleased to present the winners for the Transportation category! Tune in below or at Core77DesignAwards.com

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Professional
Winner: Springtime Design Team - JAC<
Runner-up: Ronan Bariou - ORDU III
Notables:
» Cervélo - Cervélo Rca
» Sunny - Bamboobee Bicycle

Student
Winner: Markus Kurkowski - Beyond - Caravan Concept
Notables:
» Miles Chang - Mobilitate Electric Trailer
» JJ Hwang - Agricultural Vehicle in India
» Hussain Almossawi & Marin Myftiu - nCycle

located within the best golf course in spain, la selva villas at PGA catalunya resort merge with the surrounding 300 hectares of verdant landscape.

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If you are seeking some cutting-edge retro designs that are updated with the latest tech, then the Lit by Bonzart and Ampel Tilt-Shift Twin Lens Digital Camera, are two models that you should be looking at. Quite simply put, the two cameras have the endearing emotional connect from yesteryears and prove some amazing quality pictures. Let’s find out more….

Available At: AC Gears [ Buy it Here ]

The Lit by Bonzart is a fun toy camera with simple operation that makes it easy for you to take high quality pictures and video wherever they go. To notch it up, you can add special effects in real time. Specs include built in LCD screen, 3 Megapixel lens with Image quality: Super fine, fine, normal.

Bonzart Ampel Tilt-Shift Twin Lens Digital Camera has the power of tilt-shifting! This digital camera has the capability of taking amazing photos and HD videos with its twin lenses. It features five different color settings from standard, black and white, sepia, vivid, to a “fuji-film” like green called REF.

The top-down LCD screen in its twin reflex body looks great and it lets you see your subject before and after the shot. Set your shutter speed, take HD videos with sound or choose your desire frame rate! Specs include a 5 Megapixels 1/3.2 inch CMOS sensor.

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There are two things noteworthy regarding the Flex Tab, one is that it features a gliding rail kinda system that allows you to move the plug sockets on the tab. And the other is that it accommodates any configuration of plugs together. Shape and size of the plug is really not an issue! Very clever!

Designer: Yuljae Lee

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Even with its minimal, seamless aesthetic, the Opencase System has a warmer, handmade feel that sets it apart from other industrial-style universal shelving systems. Working like a peg board, the system evolves with the user’s needs, adapting to function as a wardrobe, pantry, utility closet, library and more! Each component is handcrafted from the very best materials in a palette of steel, solid wood and leather fittings, as well as pieces sculpted from solid composite panels.

The backbone of the system is an interchangeable set of precision-machined steel rod supports, which allow for a variety of elegant functional components to be attached to the wall – and to be changed out in minutes by the user. The base of each rod remains fixed within the panel, while the rods can be unscrewed and moved to create different configurations. A collection of specialized components rest on the rods allowing them to be easily re-configured. A single panel can be configured to store wine and can then be reconfigured for use in a hallway for example. Starting point configurations have been developed for pantries, wine storage, entryways, libraries, offices, wardrobes, utility closets, laundry, and children’s rooms.

Designer: Henrybuilt

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