TWO Tasmanian jewellers have picked up awards at the 2006 Australian Gemstone Design Awards in Sydney.
Britt Fazey, of Metal Urges Fine Jewellery in Hobart, and Jenni Singleton of Huon Valley Jewellers at Huonville, were competing against the country’s best jewellery designers and manufacturers.
Neither designer imagined they would come home winners.
In fact, 30-year-old Fazey had [...]
On most construction jobs, Clarum Homes project manager Sean Misskelley is sweating the details as new houses come together.
With the Sunset Celebration Idea House, Misskelley is also thinking about how to deconstruct the 2,400-square-foot contemporary that has gone up this spring on a steel-pier foundation in a parking lot at Sunset magazine’s Menlo Park, Calif., [...]
Sometimes a chair is just a chair. But sometimes it is more: a luxury item, a symbol of authority, a refuge for mind and body, a design landmark. The Eames lounge chair — the spacious black leather and molded rosewood chair, with ottoman, that the designers Charles Eames and his wife, Ray, unveiled on national [...]
Diarmuid Gavin, the celebrity gardener, has accused one of his rivals of copying his design for the Chelsea Flower Show. Gavin, 40, said : ‘My design has been taken and implemented by Andy Sturgeon in the full knowledge that we created it four years ago and are currently adapting it for a private client.’
Sturgeon was [...]
Innovative Design Industries’ plant in the Elk Creek Industrial Park in Mosheim has begun construction of a 26,000-sq.-ft. addition.
The company, which now how 15 employees, forecasts that with its expanded facility, over the next three years it will add 46 employees, 22 of them in 2006-07.
The Greeneville Industrial Development Bond Board on Thursday approved [...]
In my house, my wife picks out the paint colors and the furniture and the pictures that go up on the walls and has the final say on just about everything connected with interior or exterior design.
There’s a very good reason for that: I have absolutely no fashion sense. I’d go as far as saying [...]
A futuristic, tailless aircraft design that could be used for military tankers and transport aircraft will be flight-tested later this year at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.
The X-48B, a joint NASA, Air Force and Boeing research project, is testing a design concept called the “blended wing body” that researchers believe provides more lift, offering greater [...]
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An Indianapolis design firm beat out more experienced national companies to become the lead architect on the $275 million Convention Center expansion.
RATIO Architects was tapped Tuesday by state officials to spearhead the planning and design of a project expected to bring 20 more trade shows to Indianapolis and an infusion of $165 million a year [...]
VistaPrint Limited (Nasdaq:VPRT), the leading online supplier of high-quality graphic design services and customized printed products to small businesses and consumers, today announced that the company has reached the 7 million paying customers mark.
“VistaPrint is proud to serve the needs of small business owners all over the world by offering quality printed products at affordable [...]
“Art Leads to Innovation” inspired 30 high school students from across the U.S. to create their own vision of what innovation means in the 2006 Poster Design Scholarship Competition, sponsored by The Art Institutes and Americans for the Arts. Budding artists with an interest in graphic design created original poster artwork reflecting the theme “Art [...]
In a courtyard off Berlin’s trendy Kastanienallee, two graphic designers and a photographer are at work in a former nuts and bolts factory that now serves as an idea factory for products such as soft drinks, cleansers, toothpaste and magazines. But these products will never actually make it onto a supermarket shelf. They’re fakes — [...]