18th November 2009 by Jon
Congratulations to Ilsa Parry for winning a six month design placement with Philippe Starck’s design agency following her outstanding contribution on Starck’s BBC TV reality show Design For Life.
Ilsa is a 3D creative and Director of REthinkthings product design agency. She is also Course Leader for 3D design at Liverpool Community College.
Philippe Starck is the world famous French product designer behind some of the most recognisable product design of our time. From motorbikes and watches to toothbrushes and lemon squeezers, Starck knows no limits.
Ilsa Perry's Flo design
In this latest reality TV show, he set about unearthing the best of British design and invited open applications from UK designers for a place in his Paris school of design. Hundreds applied but only 12 were chosen based on the quality and creativity of their designs. Following the same format as The Apprentice, the fortunes of the 12 candidates were then followed over a ten week period. Each week Starck set the students a series of creative challenges, with the weakest being eliminated.
Ilsa won the show with her innovative Flo design. An inspirational & unique walking aid device that gave an insight into Ilsa’s design thinking, observation and understanding of how design affects everything around us.
One entry on Ilsa’s blog says it all… “Ilsa, I always hoped that designers would remember that older and disabled people needed products that would express how they feel. The aids out there are miserable and ugly. Thank you for having the courage to think differently about an often neglected market.”
Ilsa, we salute you.
What do you think about the Flo, we’d be keen to hear your views.
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18th November 2009 by Dan Gilbert
Bombardier, managing customer relationships
The Dubai Airshow is taking place this week – as the aviation world focuses on the Middle East region with a sense of cautious optimism. We have been helping two key clients to use this focus to best effect. Bombardier, manufacturer of the iconic Learjet came to Design Inc to brand and package their VVIP client concierge service. Experience the Exceptional was the chosen campaign, a series of high quality branded invitations and personalised service information brochures were designed and manufactured. These were hand delivered packaged with stylish Montblanc pens to truly welcome the customer to the show on behalf of Bombardier and emphasise the special regard with which their patronage is held.
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18th November 2009 by Dan Gilbert
The leading London based charter broker is also making the headlines in the region thanks to some Design Inc PR activity on centred on their opening a Dubai office.
The Flight magazine show dailies are among media targeted and publishing this nice positive bit of news. Design Inc have also authored and designed an in depth article providing the background to this strategic move and the key personalities involved. The transcript includes a key interview with recently promoted Managing Director Julian Burrell, this will be distributed in digital formats to key clients and prospects and be posted on The Charter Company website news pages.
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13th November 2009 by Anthony
Design Inc. is proud to offer dry rub transfer decals in a huge range of colours and metallics exactly the same in style and function as Letraset lettering. For anyone not familiar with them, it is basically the combination of ink and adhesive to create a very thin decal transfer which can be applied to a many range of materials.
These dry rub transfers are especially useful for short run visuals. Perhaps you would like to see (or show a client) a corporate brochure with a foil block to the front as close as possible to the final result without having to incur the costly expense of full-on wet proofs. We can print a single digital sample and using metallic dry rub transfers they can easily be hand-applied to the front to give a very realistic result.
Dry rub transfers are not as much as you’d think and compared to a real wet-proof the savings for visuals and small run jobs are significant. If you would like any further information, samples, examples of how they work or need a presentation visual for a corporate branding project yourself we would be happy to help.
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13th November 2009 by Anthony
Clients looking for luxury-look & feel, quick turnaround and most importantly, cost-effective folders have turned to Design Inc. for support and expertise in this area. We have seen a real increase in demand for these types of folders which are ideal for conferences, presentations or as business gifts.
The folders themselves are made from real leather, with a 4-D ring mechanism inside, pen holder, cd sleeve, and fastening zip, and free pad of paper they are available either screen printed or embossed with your corporate logo or brand identity and can be delivered using our same-day or overnight courier in as little as 5 days from artwork sign-off.
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