Brit Insurance Designs of the Year at the Design Museum 2010

My eyes are firmly fixed on the Design Museum until 16th March, in particular on one of the short-listed nominations for the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year entitled Panda Eyes designed by Jason Bruges Studio for WWF. A physical installation consisting of 100 pandas (the old WWF collection boxes) are controlled by servo-motors to detect a viewer's presence and turn to face them. Their confrontational stare is slightly unnerving especially the odd one who doesn't quite look your way and a sense of vying for affection from these inanimate objects if someone else enters the space. As Ross Phillips, nominee, describes this entry "no interface, no explanation, just intuitive and playful interactive design" Panda Eyes was originally displayed in a window of selfridges before being auctioned by Cristies for the WWF : www.jasonbruges.com

Another high-light (excuse the pun) at the exhibition is Soma (meaning body in Greek), an atmospheric and brittle light installation created from inter-twining forms of 2mm wide tinted glass filamints, which are woven together to produce spatial structures, then sprayed with polymer to generate a skin-like crust, a membrane of sorts. As nominee Caroline Roux says "the lights look like illuminated coral and turn a museum gallery into an underwater landscape" : Designed by Ayala Serfaty of Tel Aviv, Israel www.ayalaserfaty.com

Design Mark Guild

An award for excellence in British Furniture Design

The Furniture Makers Company introduced the Design Guild Mark to reward excellence in the design of furniture in volume production

By the award of this Guild Mark for designs which meet the Company's criteria, the designers will receive due recognition and the industry will be made more aware of the importance of investment in design

The Design Guild Mark rewards the work of the finest designers working in Britain and the best of British designers working abroad

Call for entries deadline 29th January 2010/ Awards to be announced March 2010

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I'm a member of the Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers, a Livery Company for the British Furniture Industry, with a purpose to enhance and support the Industry through Awards as well as Student, Manufacturing, Retail and Design Training

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