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Toyota opens Window to the World.
Concept display at ACEA “Our Future Mobility Now” exhibition. Imagine when a journey from A to B is no longer routine as your car in the near-future encourages a sense of play, exploration and learning. This is the image engineers and designers from Toyota Motor Europe (TME) and the consultancy arm of Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID) had for Toyota’s “Window to the World” vehicle concept. The concept re-defines the relationship between passengers in a vehicle and the world around it by transforming the vehicle’s windows into an interactive interface. Using augmented reality, what used to be a pane of glass, begins to provide passengers with information about landmarks and other objects as they go past. The window can also be used as a canvas for drawings, which then interacts with the passing environment. Engineers and designers from TME’s Kansei1 Design Division teamed up with CIID to develop this concept in the context of near-future mobility. Instead of creating a concept simply with strong visua...
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AspectDesign, a Website Design Services Firm in ...
AspectDesign, a website design company that focuses on straight-commission website design and flat-fee business website design services, has just launched a new website atwww.aspectdesign.com. Featuring a crisp new design, the website describes the company's services, presents samples of their work and includes a search box. Along with the fresh website design, the company is redesigning itself. It is concentrating on unique, creative designs for mid-sized businesses that desire to develop a strong digital brand. Using the customer's existing website and branding as well as an in-depth study of the target audience, AspectDesign creates an entirely new website that establishes the company's brand long-term. AspectDesign's unique business model allows customers to pay in one of two ways. With their flat-fee website design services, clients pay a single up-front fee for their websites, based on an analysis of the company's current brand, website and analytics. Flat-fee prices are very affordable, starting at $5,000 per website. Alternatively, the company...
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Design the Dream: High Fashion and Social Action...
Following their own dreams, Gwen and Eboyne have joined forces to create a luxurious dress to raise money for those less fortunate. "I had the opportunity to go to Africa and witness the brilliance and denigration of a rich nation. I saw some of the greatest depths of poverty there. No one should ever have to live like that, especially in a country that is so plentiful in national resources. I have also been a fan of the Gwen Beloti brand since my early days as a fashion editor/writer. So to work alongside Gwen to make the lives of those children and possibly even their families better, was not only the right thing to do, but also a dream come true," Eboyne states. Meshing high fashion and social action, DTD began as a small spark of genius between the fashionistas, who have always wanted to work together. On a recent trip to Africa, Eboyne found inspiration through her interactions with children; children who have so little but live life to the fullest. Gwen, as a Brooklyn native and artist, has always drawn inspiration from those around her, combining fashion with charit...
Designer Promotionals.biz entire catalog now at ...
The Designer Promotionals Company announces they are offering wholesale pricing on their entire e-catalog via their website http://www.DesignerPromotionals.biz; providing apparel, accessories, and other promotional products to all residents of Michigan. With major business's closing their doors daily, and small local retailers shutting down by the hour, when a local business is able to stay open and keep offering their products it doesn't go without notice. Because of this, owner Patrick Granning has decided to extend a wide-sweeping discount as a personal note of thanks. In addition, with their recently re launched website, www.Designer Promotionals.biz, Jones and company are now able to offer top promotional items at a discount beyond all competitor offerings. Granning hopes their affordable pricing, extensive product lists and shipping convenience will stand to set them apart from their competition. As one of Michigan's elite promotional marketing firms, Designer Promotionals has a substantial stake in the trends of the industry, and due to this they are offering their warehouse...
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Perfection Architectural Systems appointed to as...
Perfection Architectural Systems (www.perfectionarch.com), a leader in engineered canopy solutions, is pleased to have contracted with Willis A. Smith Construction to complete Booker High School's reconstruction project in Sarasota, Florida. The $58-million project encompasses a comprehensive design for a new school, five new buildings, and major renovations to five other buildings. Because of ongoing growth in the student body, a more accommodating cafeteria and media center will be constructed. The centerpiece of the project will be a two-story main classroom building that will be sectioned off into specific "communities", providing educational opportunities for students with similar interests such as technology or science. Perfection Architectural Systems was selected for the project to assemble various aluminum structures on the high school premises. The following are the additions Perfection will provide: • A 4,500 square foot dining area in the school's courtyard • A large courtyard canopy that will run through the interior of the campus ...
SPI donating 5% to environmental organizations
Sustainable Performance Institute (SPI), which helps design, construction and property management companies institutionalize sustainability practices, announces a joint initiative to support local sustainability initiatives. USGBC and AIA chapters and environmental nonprofits are examples of community groups that share SPI's vision of a sustainable future. In the spirit of community development, SPI will donate 5% of all Certification and Assessment proceeds to these local organizations. Companies enrolling between July 27 and August 31, 2011 will designate the recipients. "Our clients are intrinsically connected to the communities they serve," explains Barbra Batshalom, Executive Director of SPI. "We are pleased to extend our support to the organizations they collaborate with, in order to further increase positive and responsible environmental action." "Sustainable Performance Institute is doing something unique and timely - ensuring that companies responsible for environmentally sound construction can meet or exceed sustainability goals," explains...
Food Exeprience Design: PreGel sponsored the cou...
The partnership between PreGel and POLI.Design, the Consortium of Politecnico di Milano, goes on and strengthens itself. After participating as an Academic Sponsor of "Temporary Exhibition Space & Design", the Italian gelato company has chosen to lend its support to another POLI.Design educational project: the fourth edition of the course of high standard training in "Food Experience Design - Design for the innovation of pizza shops and spaces". Thirty-six professionals, among architects and designers, was selected to attend this course of post-graduate specialisation, which ended in April and developed through 120 hours of research and theoretical lessons in class and practical exercises; the lecturers have highlighted and focused the need to create a new image for pizza shops, in order to create specific concepts of very innovative pizza shops, in line with the latest international trend and design scenarios. In the catering market, nowadays, design is playing an important and increasing role, not only as a medium to impress customers from an ae...
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The Art of Fashion in “The Hamptons Guild Hall S...
August 23, 2010 -- The Guild Hall Summer Gala was honoring Marjorie F. Chester, and featured Tory Burch, Betsey Johnson, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Reed Krakoff, Ralph Lauren, Nicole Miller, Elie Tahari, and Vera Wang - all designers who have ties to Eastern Long Island, and many who are staples in the Hamptons. They were featured along with artists such as Robert Wilson, Stephan Weiss and Arthur Becker in "The Art of Fashion in the Hamptons," an exhibition celebrating art and fashion and life on the East End of Long Island. Joining these fashion greats were Liam McMullan, fiance Aesha Waks, Fern Mallis, Bill Cunningham, and Patti Cohen. The event was followed by alfresco dining on the property of Tony Ingaro and Randy Kemper, and included a live auction and dancing. The show was co-curated by Pamela Fiori, editor in chief, Town & Country, and Stan Herman, designer and past president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA). About the Guild Hall Founded more than 75 years ago, Guild Hall is the year-roun...
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St. Jerome Parish Hall Achieves LEED® Silver Cer...
LOS ANGELES––International design firm Cuningham Group Architecture, P.A. (Cuningham Group) announces that the St. Jerome Parish Hall remodeling project has achieved LEED® Silver certification by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The St. Jerome Parish Hall project is the first project with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to become LEED® certified. It was certified Silver per the USBGC “New Construction and Major Renovation” Category, Version 2.2. Following the Church’s teachings that the environment is God’s gift to everyone, the Parish made a commitment to create a “green” hall within the remodeling project. Sustainable goals were in place from the outset as Cuningham Group, Stonemark Construction Management and the client collaborated on making sustainability a visible priority in the design. Features include innovative mechanical system controls; new skylights to boost and equalize ambient lighting in the gym; water-conserving restroom fixtures; new glazing; new lighting and lighting control syst...
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An unique amalgamation of advanced graphic desig...
Exhibiting nationally and internationally, John T. Crutchfield has produced graphic designs in mixed media fiberglass on brass for the past 25 years. These custom-made works of art consist of an unique amalgamation of advanced graphic designs and linear application of intense colors on a high quality brass base. The artworks are then cast in a durable clear fiberglass encasement. The purpose of these designs is to evoke the inner desires of one wishing to escape from the present to explore the past civilizations of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Persia, to get lost in a famous Da Vinci painting, or to fall into a bed of roses. To achieve these results, John draws on his influences from his studies in Europe. He aims to craft one of a kind pieces that transport the individual beyond reality into a world of grandeur and imagination. John’s detailed creations range from jewelry fit for a woman of any age to switchplates, clocks, and sculptures that can adorn any living room or office. Each work of art is hand-made to fit the desires of the customers. Metallic Art Graphics incorpora...
