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By Damian JosephConsidering how many new cars are rolled out every year, it's no surprise that a few might be just plain homely. There's a chance that certain styles might become fashionable with a dash of retro hip. (Well, maybe not from the 1970s.) But for the most part, the following 50 cars will never be anything but design duds.

See Platform 21's project on designing a machine to make breakfast! Adressen van webpagina's en e-mailadressen worden automatisch naar links omgezet.Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd>Regels en paragrafen worden automatisch gesplitst.

It may seem a long way from the ornate academic halls of Queen's University, Belfast, to the modern problem of cyber-crime, but this higher education institution has launched a research centre to develop expertise on Internet security. See this week's Business section.

“The subordinate place of history, theory, and criticism in design education is concomitant with the difficulty most designers have in envisioning forms of practice other than those already given by the culture.” –Victor Margolin

Check out this amazing project built by 2nd year students - yes 2nd years at Alice. About Alice: ALICE is a laboratory at the school of architecture (ENAC/SAR/IA) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was founded in October 2006 and offers an experimental approach to teaching design in architecture. The team consists of a group of architects and researchers from across Europe and Switzerland. All members of the team have built up their own practices in different European Cities, including London, Berlin, Zurich, Copenhagen and Lausanne. ALICE benefits from this international background at a day to day level, most members commuting between those cities and Lausanne. One of the key ideas underlying ALICE’s approach to teaching design is a constant discourse between a conceptual framework of an architectural idea and its translation into an actual project. While projects are usually developed with typical architectural drawings and models to represent a given proposal, we are presently exploring the potential of expanding the project scale into a one-to-one condition. The intention is that the structural constraints present at this scale as well as the potential physical and spatial impact will encourage synthetic thinking and a holistic approach to design issues. About Entrée Alpine: The Spring Semester 2009 is a continuation of our investigations on altitude. We will develop a project in a mountainous, alpine condition in several resolutions at different scales. First, a series of mountain passes will be looked at and transformed into panoramic site models. Subsequently the program of Entrée Alpine will be introduced as a first step towards a project proposal: the design of an Alpine Motel. After the Entrée Alpine phase 16 proposals will be evaluated in a jury with external experts in a public review. One or several proposals will serve as the basis for a ‘one to one’ structure to be erected on location in one o...

He was more than just a man in the wings who provided the technology and experience. Not until he had developed a functioning model could the design process begin. Egon Bräuning, the brilliant designer, inventor and inspiring partner to designers from throughout the world passed away at the start of September 2009. A picture of a workshop: In the foreground a prototype for a Maarten Van Severen recliner, and at the right edge a man who is bending forward and with one hand activating the lever that adjusts the recliner’s settings. You might be forgiven thinking that we have long since known everything there is to know about Vitra: The fundamental ideas of its CEO Rolf Fehlbaum are outlined in his essays and interviews and have been published on various occasions. The company’s close cooperation with architects and designs, the decisive underlying concepts, such as the principles of collage or of Net ’n’ Nest (combining networking and nesting to enhance productivity and well-being in the office) are long since being discussed in the public domain and not just a matter for insiders. So who then is the man who seems almost by mistake to have walked into the photo on the right-hand edge?

In the 19th century, Dutch consumer electronics giant Philips (PHG) made its name as one of the first manufacturers of lightbulbs. Almost 120 years later, new lighting technologies and increased global demand for energy-efficient goods is offering a unique opportunity for growth. And Philips, the world's biggest lighting company with $10 billion in annual sales, is at the forefront of what Philips Lighting CEO Rudy Provoost calls "the most profound change the industry has witnessed since the invention of the electric light."