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2009 Annual Design Review
Student Work
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Design Distinction
IN-FORMED
What if the statistics you read in newspapers or books crawled off the pages and seeped into the products you use every day? That’s the goal of Nadeem
Haidary’s In-Formed products: Caloric Intake, with four different sized plates and a fork with tines of varying lengths according to nationality; Water Usage, a faucet that shows how much water you are using; and a Garbage Can that bends according to the amount of trash disposed in it.
Design Nadeem Haidary (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh)
FLAWED
Im and David Schafer wanted to show that “individuality and mass-production are not mutually exclusive.” The pair collaborated with craftsmen at a ceramic factory outside of Bangkok to subvert the manufacturing process and, they say, “encourage variation—not replication.” Each vessel has its own drip pattern along the lip. “It’s a really nice balance—the sense of having something unique within a system of multiples,” Coombes said.
Design studiomake: Im Schafer,
David Schafer (Cranbrook Academy of
Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI)
T ZERO BOOK COVER
Kim Dowd was captivated by Italo Calvino’s 1967 short story collection, in which post–big bang beings drive cars and chat with dinosaurs. But given the book’s postmodern nature, she felt its original 19th-century cover illustration was out of sync. Dowd wanted to address the themes of science and time, so she grew mold letters in Petri dishes using saliva, agar, and lemon peels. Duplessis called it, “a gross new approach to type.”
Design Kim Dowd (School of Visual Arts, New York)
SMOOTH POUR
Brian Kelly and Andrew McCandlish won kudos for their redesigned milk jug. They moved the nozzle farther away from the bottle’s handle for a more accurate and even pour and fluted the sides of the jug for a better grip. “It’s not a problem that most designers in school would choose to embrace,” said Moorhead. But, said Coombes, “These guys are going to get jobs. Thank God people do work like this.”
Design Brian Kelly, Andrew McCandlish (University of the Arts, Philadelphia)
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