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Design agency for industrial design, design consulting and product development. With our knowledge of product design, marketing, anthropology, interaction and technology we support your design team and create new opportunities and breakthroughs. We offer creativity, engineering, design, strategy, eco design, cradle to cradle, interaction design, prototyping, testing, visualisation, public design, graphic design, design consulting, financing and much more.
Design agency for industrial design, design consulting and product development. With our knowledge of product design, marketing, anthropology, interaction and technology we support your design team and create new opportunities and breakthroughs. We offer creativity, engineering, design, strategy, eco design, cradle to cradle, interaction design, prototyping, testing, visualisation, public design, graphic design, design consulting, financing and much more.
 
Design agency for industrial design, design consulting and product development. With our knowledge of product design, marketing, anthropology, interaction and technology we support your design team and create new opportunities and breakthroughs. We offer creativity, engineering, design, strategy, eco design, cradle to cradle, interaction design, prototyping, testing, visualisation, public design, graphic design, design consulting, financing and much more.
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Product design agency for industrial design, design consulting and product development. With our knowledge of product design, marketing, anthropology, interaction and technology we support your design team and create new opportunities and breakthroughs. We offer creativity, engineering, design, strategy, eco design, cradle to cradle, interaction design, prototyping, testing, visualisation, public design, graphic design, design consulting, financing and much more.
New products, invent and design the products of tomorrow. Design agency for industrial design, design consulting and product development. With our knowledge of product design, marketing, anthropology, interaction and technology we support your design team and create new opportunities and breakthroughs. We offer creativity, engineering, design, strategy, eco design, cradle to cradle, interaction design, prototyping, testing, visualisation, public design, graphic design, design consulting, financing and much more. Design new products and systems for tomorrow. Design agency for industrial design, design consulting and product development. With our knowledge of product design, marketing, anthropology, interaction and technology we support your design team and create new opportunities and breakthroughs. We offer creativity, engineering, design, strategy, eco design, cradle to cradle, interaction design, prototyping, testing, visualisation, public design, graphic design, design consulting, financing and much more.

Industrial Design News - October 2009


Ceramic Speakers




The Ceramic Speakers by Joey Roth with custom-made drivers, porcelain and cork enclosures, and Tripath amplifier reveal every nuance of the sound. They will show the difference between lossless and mp3 files, and will unlock vinyl’s richness.

Bladeless Dyson fan




James Dyson did it again. A fan without any blades. It instead amplifies and accelerates air so that it expels 118 gallons of smooth air every second. Very clever. Very fresh!

Twisk


Great idea for people who do not like to use electrical mixers all the time. The inventive idea of the Twisk™ consists of squeezing movements of your hand instead of turning movements of your wrist.

Nissan Land Glider


This is Nissan's thin-is-in Land Glider concept, a 1+1 vehicle that seats driver and passenger one behind the other. It is not a new concept, rather taken back into the day light. Another idea for the urban transport vehicle. Keep on trying.

Touch Intrigue






Intrigue, curiosity and our urge to touch, all culminate into this experimental “Touch Powered By Intrigue Concept.” A working prototype placed in a busy mall and sidewalk proved that people subconsciously are curious, and this often leads to physical interaction. These weed inspired protrusions harness energy from the touch via the use of piezo-ceramic cores molded within the stems of the product. As these flex, a current is generated and used to light electroluminescent wire at the head of the product, providing vital user feedback. This makes “Touch” completely self-sufficient.

The most exciting aspect behind the concept is the theory, and the possibilities of a deeper understanding of human behavior have for future products and services, especially in relation to power consumption and energy sources. Touch invites intrigue and interaction!

Nizor Scissors


Fancy kitchen scissors with egronomical handles and an anti-slip rubber grip. When taken apart, it becomes a fully functional paring knife.

Cardboard stones


Domingos Tortora’s stones are made from old cardboard. Interesting combination of natural forms and ecological approach to the recycling processes.

Knowledge: the isolation effect 
The isolation effect, often named “the von Restorff effect” after its founder Hedwig von Restorff, is a cognitive process, which makes us remember outstanding things much faster and better. Our attention is usually captured by salient, novel, surprising, or distinctive stimuli, which can differ in context or experience.



Just imagine you have a shopping list with 20 items, and one of them is underlined or even more: spelt with capital letters. Or a list of words where one word is outstanding like:

  • Lamp
  • Table
  • Bad
  • Chair
  • Disneyworld 2009
  • Wardrobe
  • Sofa

It is obvious, that Disneyworld 2009 pops out. Another great example of this effect is used in the books of J.K.Rowling. The unusual words and spelling from those books about Harry Potter are very popular by kids.

There can also be a reverse effect. You might remember a unique item, but the attention that it grabs from you is removed from other items, thus you may in fact remember less overall.

Atypical words, special happenings (like first school day, or the first time flying), unusual, unexpected faces and many other things can make the message outstanding.

So, if you want people to remember something, make it stand out. Stay creative and be unique!


User experience as trump 
Do you also want loyal customers that keep coming back and no more competition on price alone? Find out how our design consultancy can help you to reach this.

We specialize in designing products that make our lives safer, more interesting and easier. We build user experiences that improve your profits and customer loyalty.

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Design Quickstart 
The Design Quickstart is an excellent way to start with product development and industrial design.

It is a flexible and clear project in order to give your ideas for a new product a jump start, with focus on the analysis of your situation, the user, design and concept.

Quality Design
In this way you can work with our creative team for the first time, have yourself surpriced by new solutions, posibilities and quality design.

Low risk
You have no obligations, after the completion of the project you can have us do the further development of the product, but you could also do it yourself or ask a third party to do it. You have weekly insight in the progress and financial situation of the project.

More information?
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Tensio+ sold
A first Tensio+ has been sold by Feltest Equipment and the product is now prepared for production. A stable production version of the software has been implemented and the last product improvements have been carried out in this version of the product, like 3 button navigation, round grip, faster software, better measuring method. A first small batch of the other product of Feltest Equipment, designed by Bluelarix Designworks, the Capto, has been sold to Maleisia.

CWF 2009
At December 1st and 2nd the yearly Creativity World Forum will be held at Ludwigsburg, close to Stuttgart. More information on the CWF website /

Bluelarix moves to Amsterdam
In order to serve our clients better, we are moving our office to Amsterdam in december 2009. Bluelarix Designworks will be situated in the 'Kauwgomballenfabriek', which is an old factory of Maple Leaf, together with other creative companies.

TED Amsterdam
The famous TED experiences have come to Amsterdam some while ago and soon the first congress will be held. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. More information on the TEDx website /

User centered innovation
The results of the European Commission's public consultation on its working document "Design as a driver of user-centred innovation," which provides an analysis of the rationale for making design an integral part of European innovation policy, are now online. To the EC website /

Ad Meliorem
One of the best sources for improving the design of new products are experiences and irritations that users have with today's products. Therefore we publish products users found irritating or a bad experience. Have a look at our website /

If you as a user meet any products that you find to have design mistakes, or products that irritate your, please send us a photo and a short description to address: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it


A tea ball




Traditions are great, but we should not forget, that even the most traditional subjects once were something quite revolutionairy. For those who like to experiment with established daily things and rituals, there is the Dione Tea Set. Described as a set of teacups with two hemispheres and a thin net preventing the tea leaves from entering the cup and involving some 180 degrees of rotation, the fuss is about keeping the aroma of the tea leaves alive.

Eporo


Nissan has introduced a new Nissan "EPORO" robot car concept, which is designed to travel in a group of like-vehicles, mimicking the behavioral patterns of a school of fish in avoiding obstacles without colliding with each other. This is one of the first steps towards the realisation of ambitious futuristic concept of electric car robotics transportation system.




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