Graduating students from Western Australia's premiere Fine Furniture Design School are holding an exhibition

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Graduating students from Western Australia's premiere Fine Furniture Design School are holding an exhibition that will showcase unique designs created from the finest of Australia's native timbers. We would like to invite you to experience a new wave of contemporary fine furniture. For additional information regarding the exhibition. Please reply to morphology@softhome.net . Or contact Forest Heritage Centre fax +61 (08) 95381352 . Morphology Fine furniture Exhibition www.morphology.8m.net. The best of British contemporary furniture design and architecture will be showcased in New York City this fall in Great Expectations, centerpiece of the UKinNY Festival. UKinNY will bring the best of modern British design and innovation to New York for two-weeks Oct. 16 to 27th. The citywide festival of some 100 events exemplifying contemporary Britain's creativity and innovation will celebrate the vital relationship between New York and England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The centerpiece exhibition of the festival is "Great Expectations" an interactive banquet introducing the best of modern British design and innovation with the aim of stimulating transatlantic business dialogue. The exhibition will launch in New York City's Grand Central Terminal and tour North America and Canada during 2002. Products: Furniture and Household 1. Michael Young - Dog House: Amongst the very few real contemporary designs for dogs, the house is amoulded plastic structure with step aiding access to raised platform. 2. Hector Serrano - Superpatata hand molded lamp: The complex balance of salt within latex and the addition of the light element was a real challenge for the designer, Hector Serrano. After numerous prototype attempts he discovered the exact proportion for each element that would allow the Superpatata to work both as a lamp (manipulating the balloon softens or increases the density of light) and as an object that can be hand moulded into a variety of shapes without bursting at the seams. The Superpatata is part of the Droog Design collection. 3. Mathmos - Mathmos Bubble Lamp: Mathmos Bubble is a new concept in portable lighting that charges up like a mobile phone. A revolutionary use of silicone, it utilises the distinctive light diffusing and tactile properties of the material. 4. Fiona Raby & Tony Dunne - Placebo Furniture The series of furniture solves problems for people that suffer from electromagnetic - caused problems. The story will be articulated through film and product. 5. IDEO London and ElectroTextiles Company Limited - Fabrications: soft keyboard Fabrications is part of a unique collaboration between Electro Textiles and IDEO that explores and develops product concepts incorporating the new soft technology, Elex Tex. This fabric structure includes conductive fibres that allow the 'soft' product concepts to carry information systems and messages. Elex Tex is like skin: the fabric can sense the location as well as pressure from human touch. The skin is soft and also flexible. The skin is itself intelligent. 6. TKO Design and Monotub Industries plc - Titan washing machine Titan offers a number of significant design innovations and improvements; an ergonomic, angled drum, a 40% larger wash load capacity, a pause control that allows the machine to be stopped mid-program and a removable basket. TKO have designed the entire package for the Titan, including graphics, packaging, literature and company website. 7. Remarkable (Pencils) Limited - Remarkable Pencils The remarkable recycled pencil is a pencil which is made from 70% recycled material and its lead is made from up to 30% recycled material. 8. Michael Marriot - Nice: Stephen Bretland - Shortcake Oreka Kids Biscuit furniture The response to the brief was multi-functional & playful, often inspired by the idea of children playing with a cardboard box for longer than the toy. The range matures with the children from being a storage box for toys and transforming into a train, house, desk, computer station, video stand etc. 9. Tom Dixon - Jack : An internally lit object made of low-density polyethylene that can be used in a variety of domestic situations as a floor lamp, seat or table. 10. Freeplay Energy Group - The Ranger Self-sufficient Radio: Wind-up, Solar, Rechargeable Radio Wind-up and rechargeable product that is a new launch in the Freeplay range. 11. Jasper Morrison - Air Chair: Air chair represents not only a shift in production methods (new technologies to use gas to form the shape of furniture) but also shifting attitudes towards British design and designers as these pieces are moulded and manufactured in their 1000s. The polypropylene plastic has enabled the chair to be formed in one piece - creating a fluid and ergonomic design by one of Britain's most talented designers. 12. El Ultimo Grito - "What goes down... must come up" laundry basket. When designing this product there where two different issues to address. First, the amount of soap needed for a washing machine load, as the instructions on detergent boxes read, the right amount would be a cup for 5kg, but... how many clothes make those 5kg? Second, your back, all the laundry bins follow the same concept, a deep container where you always end up digging for that last sock. The combination of these two issues gave EUG the product, the bag containing the clothes works on springs so it moves down as it is loaded, and in doing so, reads the weight of the total load,half way through 5kg (one load), completely down 10kg (two loads). As the laundry bin is emptied the bag moves up so the clothes 'come to you'. 13. Rainer Spehl - Coffee_stools: Stackable rotation moulded high-density polyethylene stools in the shape of plastic coffee cups. 14. Ron Arad Associates - FPE (Fantastic Plastic Elastic); The production technique for this mass produced chair is an incredible thing to watch: double-barrelled aluminium extrusions are slotted to the sides of a translucent sheet of plastic, the plastic and aluminium are then bent together in one piece to form the chair profile, this process automatically bonds the two elements. Also each aluminium extrusion is partially split to provide a back as well as a front leg making the chair not only very light but also made without any screws, bolts, hinges or nails. 15. Thomas Heatherwick Studio - Plank: Plank is based on the idea to try to simplify furniture design in wood to its basic constituent - the plank. By hinging at a repeated angle the plankbegins to fold into a spiral. 16. Dyson Limited - DC06 vacuum cleaner: The Dual Cyclone robotic vacuum cleaner provides an automatic vacuum cleaner solution: it works on its own, is methodical and achieves the same level of pick-up efficiency demanded of all Dyson Dual Cyclone vacuum cleaners. DC06 has over 50 sensory devices which constantly feed data into the 'brain' of the machine, the 3 on board computers. Using this data it makes 4 decisions per second and will constantly adjust to navigate its way around a room. DC06 does not need to be programmed. It thinks for itself and therefore can clean a room on its own. Its intelligence stops it falling down stairs and will pause the machine if a dog or child gets too close. UKinNY http://www.UKinNY.com Design Council http://www.designcouncil.uk