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THE PREMIER ISSUE

COVER JEREMY LORD ZERO MICHAEL YOUNG MARRE MOEREL ORSHO FOSCARRINI ARTEMIDE

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THE FU TU RE O Th e a ut o m o b i le , e s p e c i a ll y i n S o u thern C alifornia where I live, is as familiar as y o ur favo r it e f li p f lo ps a n d a s n eces s a r y a s you r mor ni ng cu p of joe.

W it h all t h e b ro u ha ha la t ely rega r d i ng fa i li ng ca r compa ni es , ca s h for clunk er s a n d c o n c e r n f o r t h e p la n e t , au tomobile produc tion is still stuck somewha t wh e r e it wa s w hen H en ry F o rd f i r s t i nvented th e a s s embly li ne. And wh a t a bout ca r d e s ign? A u t o m o b i l e d es i g n ers a r e s ti ll h a vi ng tr ou ble th i nk i ng ou ts i d e the pr o v e r b ial b o x .

So m a y b e it t a k e s a c o u p le o f i n d us trial designers to come up wi th some new and inno va t ive s o lu t i o n s t o t he m es s w e h a ve fou nd ou r s elves i n.

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Front is a design group made up of four friends who met while students in the Industrial design program at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design (Konstfack) in Stockholm Front members are: Sofia Lagerkvist, Charlotte von der L ancken, Anna L indgren and Katja Sävström.. The company was established in Stockholm in February 2003 with the manifesto to discuss, ask questions and experiment with design.

Front was first seen by OBJC T editors at the 2004 Milan Furniture Fair. They were impressive in the way they looked at design from a perspective of ex ternal forces that are incorporated into the design process, sometimes in ways that are unexpected or entirely organic… Take for example their “design by animals” series where they asked various animals to assist in the design process.

The DESIGN BY series, whereby part of the design is detemined by an external factor and series of events that affect the design process at random.

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They have utilized a number of organic and technological design “assis tants” such as light, temperature or motion to produce design variations that have produced dramatic effects.

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Kevin Scianni is a kind of rebel at the Claremont Graduate Country’s premier art graduate schools... he pushes the lim of us all succeeds in a very digitally induced way. Techno does enter into the equation it is the painstaking design a graphics that are then cut into vinyl adhesive sign materia removes, and layers again... and again... creating a schizo gestural brush strokes.. it works for us...

THE PROCE

University (CGU), one of the mits of his art and, to the benefit ology is his friend and although paint and implementation of computer generated al that Kevin layers on his canvas, paints over, ophrenic mix of absolute control and completely crazy

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Amateur enamelis ts creat ed a vas t supply of ash trays and trinkets in the 1950's, and some of those ama teurs wen t on t o become mas ters. Among t hem was Annemarie Davidson, who says she was busy raising four children when she s tarted taking lessons in 1957. Today her vint age enameled copper pieces, which include boxes and pla tes, sell for $200 and up. Mrs. Davidson, now 89, re cently re tired from making six-inch enameled copper dish es one at a tim e in a studio attached t o her home in Sierra Madre, Calif.