MacBook Pro Gold version

Computer Choppers makes this new Apple case in "gold" for about 1500 euros and if you want you can have the apple logo made of small diamants for 2400 euros, too.

This is a rich gadget idea or....just a kitch one!

Via: http://www.corriere.it/

Photography in Paris

Series of photos I have taken of Paris...a different way to visit and document this magic town.

Hamburg presents its biggest design event

After last year's successful launch, Hamburg will be celebrating its second episode of its yearly design festival.
From 5-10 October, Germany’s design metropolis Hamburg presents its biggest design event with exhibitions, shows and events located all over town. Young designers are warming up their studios and the press is getting curious about this year’s design update by Hamburg’s creative professionals.
"After the success of last year’s Hamburg Design Festival it was clear for A&W that in 2007 we would support as media partner this event again. Especially in this year of our 50th jubilee which we celebrate with a whole variety of activities. The Hamburg Design Festival is one of the highlights....follow the article clicking on "read more".

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Via: http://designophy.com/

Fluid Snaidero kitchen Design

DuPont Corian Italia is a company that approaches the "kitchen room " as the best expression of someone's life style.
The materials and their use are essential to put together refined Design & Emotions.
An example is given by the good combination of DuPont materials for the "Fluid" Snaidero kitchen designed by Massimo Iosa Ghini.

Via: www2.dupont.com

IAAD design school thesis 2007

Transportation design students thesis 2007 projects sponsored by VW and managed by Flavio Manzoni (director of Creative Design at VW) and Simon Grand (Chair of Transportation Design Dpt. at IAAD, Turin Italy).Read the full story and watch all projects, click on "read more".....

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Via: http://www.carbodydesign.com/

Photography, Tenerife Spain

It was about 8 o'clock in the morning when, some time ago, we decided to take our kids to the beach for their first time!

Computer-generated image of Bird’s Nest

This computer-generated image released by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of XXIX Olympiad shows the National Stadium, also known as the Bird’s Nest, for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The Chinese capital is gearing up to celebrate the one-year countdown to the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games on August 8.

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Interior Motives Design Awards 2007

Now in its fifth year, the annual design awards ceremony hosted by Interior Motives magazine was held on the second press day of the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show. The awards are open to design students from around the world and are judged by senior designers from the world's leading carmakers and suppliers....click and read the full story with lot of pictures to see....

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Digged this story via: www.cardesignnews.com

Photography, today's proposal

Is it funny or sad? Your reactions in your comments....thanks!

10 Technologies That Will Change The World

From the iPhone to solar power, the 10 gadgets that will change our lives.

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Nabaztag a rabbit as friend!

More then 100.000 sold worldwide, in France it covers already more then 40% of the market at a price average of 135 Euros....who has it is very enthusiastic about...this is an honest introduction to NABAZTAG the wifi smart rabbit gadget that interacts with his human friend!
Nabaztag is kept alive thanks to Internet connection, this rabbit moves ears, talks and signals with lights. Created by Violet, a french company, in 2005 Nabaztag started to enter in people's house interacting with humans. In 2007 a new generation of Smart Rabbits with an higher degree of interactivity and intelligence.
Some of its info/actions are: Meteo,Air pollution,Stock Exchange,reads your preferred online journals or blogs,e-mail alert,alarm clock...
Do you have one? Please share with us your impressions.

Info & details via: www.nabaztag.com

8 SCHOLARSHIPS FOR THE CAR DESIGN MASTER’S COURSE WITH ALFA ROMEO

Frank Stephenson Head of the Alfa Romeo Styling Centre in SPD (Photo courtesy of SPD)



After three years of successful collaboration with Audi Group, Scuola Politecnica di Design collaborates
again with the Italian brand Alfa Romeo. Scuola Politecnica di Design and Alfa Romeo will grant 8
scholarships in order to participate to the Car Design Master’s Course which will begin on
October 17th 2007 and finish in June 2007. The aim is to select the best students and professionals,
providing them with an excellent training with the protagonists of automobile design.

The Master Course - coordinated by professor Mario Favilla - will be carried out with Centro Stile
Alfa Romeo led by Frank Stephenson.

Students from all over the world will design and develop a concept car for the famous Italian brand.
Participation to the Master Course is open to candidates who have a degree from schools / universities
of design, engineering and architecture, or to people with significant experience and skills in car design.
Besides theory and design lectures held by world famous car designers, the programme also includes visits to car companies, styling centres and museums.

All those interested in taking part to the selection have to send their CV and portfolio by e-mail to:
info@scuoladesign.com


Here below you can find some pictures taken in our car design department in the past months.

For every potential car designer it’s important to stay at least one year in Italy .
So if you do like car design and you think you have great skills in this field, don’t miss this opportunity.
Send your portfolio as soon as possible.

SCUOLA POLITECNICA DI DESIGN
Via Ventura, 15
20134 Milano – Italy
Tel. +39 0221597590
www.scuoladesign.com

2007 Microsoft/IDSA Spotlight Speaker Series

Here an event having as speaker a great friend of mine designer and VP Corporate Design Plantronics, Inc. Darrin Caddes

September 19 seminar starts at 1:00 PM ET

"Body & Form: Creating Intimate Relationships Between Products and the End-User"
Competition for customer mindshare and loyalty are at all-time highs. From consumer electronics to automobiles, the market is constantly flooded with new products from around the world that provide yet one more option for your customers to choose from. The margin of error for product success has become paper thin. One misstep and customers will abandon you for a product that looks similar, has more features and costs half the price online.

How can companies succeed in fiercely competitive markets? What are the traits of successful products that customers are willing to pay premium prices for (hello, iPhone!)? What is the role of industrial design?


Please join us as Darrin Caddes explores these issues and discusses the importance of fostering customer loyalty through products that establish emotional and physical connections. Products that people are passionate about because they empower and accentuate lifestyles. Products that become extensions of the body.

Darrin Caddes is vice president of corporate design at Plantronics, responsible for leading the company’s worldwide efforts to design innovative, compelling and stylish products in the consumer and professional marketplaces. Prior to Plantronics, Caddes served as director of design for Indian Motorcycle Corporation, where he helped create and define its brand strategy and brought numerous motorcycles to market.

Before joining Indian Motorcycle, Caddes was senior designer for BMW/Designworks USA. While there, Caddes served as chief designer of the award-winning BMW R1150GS Adventure motorcycle, currently displayed in the Pinokotek Der Modern, one of Germany’s largest museums dedicated to 20th and 21st century art and design. Caddes also managed the design of several other motorcycle models as well as the design of motorcycle accessories, rider's gear, apparel and lifestyle products. Before joining BMW/Designworks USA, he was a designer with Fiat Automotive Group and was part of the development team for several show and production cars.

Caddes holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial design from the Art Center College of Design, where he graduated with honors.

Info Via IDSA : http://new.idsa.org

Is blogging a good way to make money?

Apparently yes if we read all those blogs that explaine how to organize a blog or site to make money,too.

Today I was reading an article about a girl from Dretoit Ashley Qualls creator of www.whateverlife.com a free sharing site on graphics for webdesign. It looks like she became a millionaire avec her activity on the web thanks to the Google advertising program and naturally the great traffic her site is keeping on generating (lots of clicks = $$$).

She makes about 70.000 US Dollars a mounth!!!

Now I know that many of you are thinking how the hell this is possible if we arrive to make few Dollars a mounth??? Honestly I am not a guru to tell you how because I simply do not know; however, I noticed that if your content is good quality then it is easier that people click more than usual.

The "little" Ashley did not start a website to make money, but to get involved with her passion which is colors and graphics. I trhink that her passion brought her to improuve the quality of her job and visitors appreciated it and became fedels going back everyday and telling around..this provoked an increase of contacts that made the today's success for Ashley site..

So my suggestion is: write about interesting topics and do it as professional as possible.

Have a nice day!

Asheley's story Via: www.ilmessaggero.caltanet.it

iPod Shuffle by Apple a great Design.

Yes I have one. Actually I bought it for my wife who takes the train every morning and this fanthastic small well designed object is giving her a good company with an excellent quality sound.
The features of the iPod Shuffle are quite easy to control and manage, its "Trendy Design" makes of it an object of distinction and a very comfortable one to carry along. It is extremely light small thin and beautiful. The emotional side of its Design is very strong even if very simple. The Design message is straight, Hight Technology for a friendly perception and easy/quick use.
Realized in different fashion colors (my wife wanted it in Gray, however I love the Blue one..) it is not an expensive object for what it offers..I forgot to say that its clip is the final intelligent touch on this product.

Design appeal is: its emotional side?

What makes of an object, car, house etc. etc. to be Emotional?

Why do we feel emotionally envolved in buying a particular object? I could keep on writing millions of questions about this topic or dilemma, what happens in our brain when we see something and fall in love with it to the point that we are willing to spend more money then preview...The sportscar, the i-Phone, the Apple PC, the contemporary house by the lake, a piece of Art, a watch.......

Lot of people studied (and still do) this aspect of the human beeing specially big companies and corporations because understanding and managing this human impulse helps a lot to make money or create money!

At the end it is a question between our irrational/emotional side Vs the rational one. Now designers and the art to make Design play a big role in society to provoke markets and to create new trends. Today we cannot be happy with the "form follows function" because socially the world changed and we need again "Emotions". New technologies opened more opportunities to tease the emotional side of each one of us and Design is the vheicle to move and drive all this.

What is your opinion on the subject? Are you emotionally compulsive buyer or ,on the contrary, a very rational one?

Thanks for leaving a comment!

(I-Phone in the photo)

Frankfurt 2007: image gallery

An image gallery with 300 exclusive photos from the 2007 edition of the Frankfurt Motor Show. Watch and enjoy!

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Fortunebox by MosMea

MosMea Design from Italy realized the "Fortunebox" inspired by the japanese Origami art. It is a versatile box that conteins objects. This project won the award of "Pelletteria & Design" at the International Young Designers Contest (Bologna 17-19 Aprile 2007).
It is their first proposal of Interior Design Decoration, handmade and in a small limited edition.

By MosMea of Francesco Genetti, Italy
Via: www.youngdesigner.it

Maiori's beach at night, Italy

Frankfurt Auto Show: Volkswagen reveals 100 mpg Smart-fighter concept car

Running a teaser commercial on German TV last night, VW plans to reveal a reputed 100 mpg Smart-fighting concept car here on the day before the Frankfurt Auto Show. The car's expected to come to market in two years.

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Sensual photography by Frezensac

Photo of the day..I love it and you?

Via l'Essenza della sensualità http://dianalove.splinder.com/
Photo by: Frezensac

Frankfourt Autoshow 07 i-Blue Concept.

Some Nice Ferrari F1 Photos

A Nice Little Collection of Ferrari f1 photos.

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The weight of books..KC

Dramatic interpretation of a bookshelf by Parsy Debons Design a French firm.
Via: Coscablog.it posted by Marta

PANASONIC "LIVING IN HIGH DEFINITION"

Interactive Tour To Give Consumers A Hands-On Look At Panasonic's High Definition Suite of Products Including 103-Inch World's Largest Plasma Panasonic, a leader in High Definition flat panel TVs.

Via: Multivu on REVVER.Com

1937 Talbot Lago

Make: Talbot-Lago
Model: T-150-C-SS
Body Style: Sport Coupe
Manufacturer: Automobiles Talbot-Darracq
City, State, Country: Paris, France
Color: Silver/Blue
Lic. Number: HV538N
Coachbuilder: Figoni & Falaschi
City, State, Country: Paris, France
Engine Number: 173180
Serial Number : 90107
Body Number: 665
Engine Type: OHV, HEMI
Cylinders: 6
Bore: 90mm/3.6"
Stroke: 104.5mm/4.18"
Horsepower: 140hp

Info and photo via: www.nethercuttcollection.org/ncnews.html.

Luciano Pavarotti just pure emotions

Hi to all of you, it is very sad to write my first post after vacation about Big Luciano's death.
I was flying yesterday back from Italy after about four weeks of inactivity, looking at the blu sky I was thinking to download on my PC all photos and videos I have done for my family but also for my blog for all of you that everyday come back to watch what I have to propose (by the way, thanks for your presence even if in agoust I really did not do much...). I was thinking how to organize the all thing and happy to restart..so this morning I turned on my PC to read the news..the rest is already known.
It has been like if suddenly there was no electricity in the house, or when my old Renault 4 decides to live me on the road without any explanation, or for an unknown reason your PC, TV, Ipod..stop to work! STOP!BLACK! That is it! Silence...just pure silence. Then ,like magic, feeling Big Luciano's emotions, those that each one of us at least one time in life had the pleasure to feel listening to his voice, talent, art.
Now the sky owns Luciano and his art, he is gone with the wind and everytime we will be watching the sunshine or the moonlight we will see his smile and eyes and we will hear him singing.
Sure I could have ignored this sad event concentrating on my usual topics, but believe me I couldn't.