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HKU SPACE Community College
Graduation Show 2010
Higher Diploma in Visual Communication
Higher Diploma in Digital Media Arts
Higher Diploma in Interior Design

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7/F High Block
Hong Kong City Hall
Exhibition Gallery
Centrla, HK.

26 July 2010 - 18:00-2100 opening ceremory
27-28 July 2010 - 11:00-19:00 exhibition
29 July 2010 - 11:00-16:00 exhibition
hkus2010design@gmail.com

Image courtesy of Bo Reudler Studio

White Wonders
Dutch product and interior design studio Bo Reudler Studio has launched three new products as part of a furniture series with the tongue-in-cheek appellation Slow White. The Slow White mirror is an adjustable, freestanding 2m reflector with a frame made of gathered temperate-forest wood (beech, birch, cherry or oak) and recycled timber, finished with a coat of white linseed-oil paint. The Slow White lamp is an angled freestanding lamp with a translucent shade also made of gathered wood. A hybrid of sculpture and furniture, as it were, Golden Television is the last of the three products by Reudler, and has a purely aesthetic function. The product is a mobile and wireless television, equipped with a window for watching ‘live’ events. Reudler claims inspiration from the temperate woods of the Netherlands and approaches design and the use of natural materials with a Bachelardian sensitivity. The Slow White series in specific celebrates the idea that nature’s intricacy, arbitrariness and rawness has been tamed, and that designers need to renew the human connection to nature. .
www.boreudler.com

The Walls are Alive
Asia’s casino and hotel resort capital Macau will play host to the HA+D Expo and Conference – Asia Pacific’s first hospitality, architecture and design exhibition and conference. The event, which will take place at the Venetian from 17-18 June, is expected to feature innovative products from some of the world’s top design brands, and showcase leading interior designers and architects who will discuss the forces behind their creativity, innovation and design and how these forces can improve current business models. Exhibitors can choose to position themselves under themes or targeted areas best suited to their product. These include: the Eco Area, Future Tense, The Guestroom as Office and The Guestroom as Home. The Expo will also include a conference programme with 11 sessions on issues such as interpreting hotel chain branding, furniture trends, designing in a budget economy, sustainability and more.
www.HAplusDexpo.com

Blow Wind Blow
Philippe Starck has collaborated with Pramac to come up with a new line of Micro Wind Turbines, trademarked as Revolutionair. Featured at the 2009 La Triennale in Milan, Starck’s designs for these small wind contraptions have a sculptural quality, and express his democratic ecology principles. “Today I make it my responsibility to interest myself in the production of energy,” says the renowned French designer of deluxe objects and dream-like architecture. As they can operate regardless of wind direction, Revolutionair devices are suitable for both domestic applications and urban area installations. They can even harness turbulent air flows, and are silent under every windspeed
condition. The question is, can this Euro-oriented design work in the dense urban environment of Hong Kong?
www.revolutionair-pramac.com