The Electrolux Design Lab 2010 competition is under way. Global undergraduate and graduate industrial design students are invited to create home appliances that consider shrinking domestic spaces. The deadline: 1 May, 2010
The Electrolux ‘Heart of the Home’ is an integrated, personalised concept that renders the bulk of one’s cooking utensils obsolete. Say goodbye to pots and pans and give a big warm welcome to digital recipes and emorphous surfaces thatdevelop social relationships and enhance our enjoyment of food.
Electrolux are now thinking about the theme for Electrolux Design Lab 2010 and are seeking your participation in setting the brief through an on-line vote. Now moving towards its eighth year, this is the first time that interactive voting, which is open to everyone, has occurred. Your thoughts and opinions will then help us to formulate the brief for the 2010 Electrolux Design Lab.
Rickard Hederstierna from Lund Institute of Technology in Sweden is the winner of the Electrolux Design Lab 2009 competition for inventing Cocoon. The winner was announced at finals in London on September 24.
Electrolux gives you a sneak preview into the future on September 24, 2009, at 11.00 (GMT +1) when it hosts the 7th edition of its global design competition Design Lab at 100% Design London. Viewers from around the world can follow the event live via a live webcast.
Electrolux Design Lab 2009 finalist Penghao Shan is the Chinese designer behind Water Catcher, the flying rain catcher and water purifier. He is a student at Zhejiang Sci-tech University in China.
Electrolux Design Lab 2009 finalist Nico Kläber is the German designer behind Moléculaire, the 3D molecular food printer. He is a student at Köln International School of Design in Germany.
Electrolux Design Lab 2009 finalist Rickard Hederstierna is the Swedish designer behind Cocoon, the meat and fish maker. He is a student at Lund Institute of Technology in Sweden.
David Fisher is the Design Director of Seymourpowell, the internationally-renowned product design consultancy based in London, and one of four internationally-recognized designers on this year’s Electrolux Design Lab jury.
Electrolux Design Lab 2009 finalist Dulyawat Wongnawa is the Thai designer behind Teleport Fridge, the refrigerator that teleports food. He is a student at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. Read more about what inspires him.
