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- ZINK Imaging Seeks New Innovative Solutions From The Design Community
- 10 Creative Reasons To Take Up Sports And Get Fit
- Easter Moai Phone
- Umbrella Chandeliers
- Tulip Toaster Is Really Warm
| ZINK Imaging Seeks New Innovative Solutions From The Design Community Posted: 05 Jun 2009 06:00 AM PDT UPDATE: What are you doing this weekend? Only 3 days left to enter! ZINK Imaging is asking the design community for new “solutions” and applications (not new form factors for existing products etc.) that enable and enhance printing with the ZINK Technology. Essentially, it's about the whole design solution, not just the fit and finish. If you think you got it in you to provide a super solution; then enter ZINK Imaging’s Zero Boundaries Design Competition. The contest is open to established design firms, emerging designers, and students of design. As ZINK puts it, "The design challenge is to re-imagine printing and its role in the digital world using the ZINK Technology to fuel the future possibilities of this unique technology platform." Registrations are open NOW and the Design Submissions are due on June 8th 2009. The Finalists will be announced on June 22nd and the Winners take home the booty by June 29th 2009. What are the awards? • First place - Option 1 - $10,000 cash prize There are many rules and info that you need to go through before you register, but lemme highlight a couple of them for you. - Participants can submit multiple entries AND win multiple prizes. - A fresh perspective on printing is desired; a global perspective from both students and professionals that explores printing possibilities beyond the traditional thinking about how and where printing integrates into a person’s life. - Entrants are challenged to design a complete ZINK-enabled product “ecosystem” that demonstrates the power of the ZINK Technology to link the digital world to the real world via a tangible ZINK Print. Entrants have two ways they can solve this challenge: 1) by creating a ZINK ecosystem that will make today’s youth crave ZINK products in the context of their digital and mobile world or 2) by creating a “ZINK World” in a context or market of their choice. For complete details head here and here. All the best! No Tags       |
| 10 Creative Reasons To Take Up Sports And Get Fit Posted: 05 Jun 2009 02:05 AM PDT Couch potatoes and computer-addicts like me can't just rely on the remote control or the keyboards to get us enough exercise. And sweets, walking to the fridge for refills or fingers flying over the keys don't count! Since YD is all about inspiration, let's showcase Ten Scintillating reasons for us to take up some sort of sporting activity, that will make us fit. 10) Dumbbell Sports Drink by Jin Le Suiting the eco-conscious and the not-so-flab-conscious, a few reps using this handy dumbbell can get you fit within no time. Fill it up with your fav low-cal drink do the reps and then reward yourself with a couple of healthy swigs! 9) Twin Parabolic Ski by Charlie Pyott This pair of skis that is specifically meant for racers, but that shouldn't deter us potatoes! We all wanna be racers someday…so may as well start practicing with the best possible equipment. 8 ) Collapsible Surfboard by Nicholas Notara On the subject of surfing, if you do get adventurous enough to try it, but lament the lack of space at home to stow one; consider the Collapsible Surfboard. It looks awesome and works awesome as well! Confined spaces your issue? No worries, MULTI'UZ is the ideal equipment that allows you to play basketball, racquetball, golf, and football wherever you want to. It easily adapts to city life, where space comes at a premium. 6) High-tech Yoga Mat by Hui-Zong Chen If you wanna take up power yoga, the you better be equipped with something equally powerful as this High-tech Yoga Mat. It entices you with functions like mp3, video conferencing and uses e-paper. 5) Ping Pong Door by Tobias Franzel Ping Pong Door, as the name suggests, multitasks as a door and a ping pong table. Flip it down, pop the plastic net on and get going. Computer and TV addicts can do some serious rounds of play while keeping a watchful eye on the TV/Computer screen. Hell if a door can multitask, so can you! 4) Pumpboard Skateboard by Maciej Puzon If you must take up skateboarding, then you need to do it in grunge-style and nothing better than the Pumpboard. Learn a few tricks from the rest of the gang and then show them a couple; like roll up your board after the session! 3) Mana Squash Racket by Sophie Horton Wanna take up Squash but don't have a proper coach? Get a proxy coach with the Mana Squash Racket. It comes with three different vocal settings and three different weight variations to teach you the tricks. 2) Oakley Beach Golf Club by Adrien Noirhomme I don’t play golf for the simple reason that it will keep me away from the screen for long, but if I do indulge in the sport, then I must get this Oakley set. In fact it’s meant for Beach Golf…like a double bonus..coz working out on the beach is tougher. The head of this club can rotate from 12º to 64º so one club could take the place of many. Neat! 1) Sandviper Sandboard by Marc Bischoff Go ahead and rule the dunes with this amazing board. Ideal for those who want to try a hand at a different kinda sport. My first attempt at sandboarding got me gulping in a whole lot of sand…so I'm gonna pass. But if I ever do try it again, I'd like to do it with Marc's iteration. Sports     |
| Posted: 05 Jun 2009 12:02 AM PDT Here's a phone that's intuitive, functional and sleek; people let's scrutinize the Easter Moai. It wouldn't be a futuristic phone, if it didn't have a touchscreen LCD! For convenience, all the function keys are reserved to the slant edge, which I think is brilliant. The face has just the essentials slated to the corner edge, giving the much needed screen-space that most people demand these days. It sits pretty, on a slanted dock for recharging. And when it's parked there, the phone doubles up as a music player with bombastic speakers. Designer: Joong-Ho Choi SKY Desingers Community has copyrights of these images. Concept, Easter Moai, Joong Ho Choi, MP3, phone, player, Sound Horizon, Speaker     |
| Posted: 05 Jun 2009 12:01 AM PDT As I’ve totally said before, the simplest combinations of two objects are often the most interesting industrial designs. This one is also quite pretty. What Shelly Sabel, lighting designer, has designed is the Umbrella Chandelier. It’s made up of some rather simple components: found umbrella pieces, aluminum, and porcelain sockets. And a dash of cuteness. They’re not yet made for mass production, but have been installed at two separate shows in 2009 already. These imagination capturing devices have been featured at American Design Club’s “Hue Are You?” as well as DIFFA’s* 2009 “Dining by Design.” *Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS Images from both shows are below. Wouldn’t it be just fancy as all get-out to have some of these in all colors lighting up your entryway? Especially in the springtime! Designer: Shelly Sabel     |
| Posted: 05 Jun 2009 12:00 AM PDT I'm sure you will recollect the showcasing of Toasters we did on YD recently. While those were the flamboyant, futuristic sorts that bordered on unrealistic strategies, the Tulip Toaster we see here is quite contrary to the. It redefines the cold steel lines with ballistic black finishes that we see in the markets these days. The Tulip tries to break traditional norms by incorporating some warmth into the design. This is achieved by adding a wooden frame inspired by the namesake flower. The bended plywood used to create the outer cover gives the toaster a very “Arts and Crafts” feeling. Kitsch! Designers: Sergej Kuckir, Hayley Powell, Katherine Whiting, Minas Patsalos & Varun Gujral     |
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