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Zon Hearing Aid wins Cooper-Hewitt Museum's 2008 People's Design Award
24 Oct 2008
PRESS RELEASE
October 2008
The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum presented its third People's Design Award to the Zon hearing aid at its ninth annual National Design Awards gala in New York.
Padma Lakshmi, host of Bravo’s “Top Chef,” announced the winning design and presented the award to Zon’s designer Stuart Karten.
After thousands of votes were cast during the course of one month on Cooper-Hewitt’s website, Zon, a hearing aid developed by the Los Angeles-based industrial design consultancy Stuart Karten Design, emerged as the public's favorite design.
Zon transforms the standard beige, shapeless hearing aid into a dynamic, sculptural object that ergonomically embraces the geometry of the ear while taking advantage of the latest technology to provide the highest audio quality.
Research shows that hearing impaired listeners wait up to eight years before being fitted with a hearing aid because of its perceived association with disability and weakness.
Virtually invisible when placed behind the ear, Zon turns the hearing aid into a high-performance object while providing unhampered communication and a modern alternative to a traditional design.
The device was developed for Starkey Laboratories, a leading global supplier of hearing technology.
“I’m delighted that the public has chosen to honor an object that marries design with technological innovation. The success of Zon demonstrates that good design can indeed have a transformative impact on our everyday lives,” said Cooper-Hewitt director Paul Warwick Thompson. Based in Marina del Rey, Calif., Stuart Karten Design is an award-winning, full-service industrial design consultancy that works across a range of practices, including medical devices, consumer electronics, transportation and housewares.
Karten is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, served as the former chair of the Los Angeles chapter of the Industrial Designers Society of America and currently sits on the advisory board to the University of Southern California master’s program in Medical Device and Diagnostic Engineering.
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October 2008
The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum presented its third People's Design Award to the Zon hearing aid at its ninth annual National Design Awards gala in New York.
Padma Lakshmi, host of Bravo’s “Top Chef,” announced the winning design and presented the award to Zon’s designer Stuart Karten.
After thousands of votes were cast during the course of one month on Cooper-Hewitt’s website, Zon, a hearing aid developed by the Los Angeles-based industrial design consultancy Stuart Karten Design, emerged as the public's favorite design.
Zon transforms the standard beige, shapeless hearing aid into a dynamic, sculptural object that ergonomically embraces the geometry of the ear while taking advantage of the latest technology to provide the highest audio quality.
Research shows that hearing impaired listeners wait up to eight years before being fitted with a hearing aid because of its perceived association with disability and weakness.
Virtually invisible when placed behind the ear, Zon turns the hearing aid into a high-performance object while providing unhampered communication and a modern alternative to a traditional design.
The device was developed for Starkey Laboratories, a leading global supplier of hearing technology.
“I’m delighted that the public has chosen to honor an object that marries design with technological innovation. The success of Zon demonstrates that good design can indeed have a transformative impact on our everyday lives,” said Cooper-Hewitt director Paul Warwick Thompson. Based in Marina del Rey, Calif., Stuart Karten Design is an award-winning, full-service industrial design consultancy that works across a range of practices, including medical devices, consumer electronics, transportation and housewares.
Karten is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, served as the former chair of the Los Angeles chapter of the Industrial Designers Society of America and currently sits on the advisory board to the University of Southern California master’s program in Medical Device and Diagnostic Engineering.
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Gestalten Presents crEATe: Eating Design and Future Food
24 Oct 2008
NEW BOOK RELEASE
Food is not just a hot topic in design and cutting edge creativity but also an enormous industry with changing standards and perceptions. crEATe investigates recent trends and visual developments within food, design, hospitality and packaging design.
Based upon research by trend analysts Chris Sanderson and Martin Raymond from the London firm The Future Laboratory, this sourcebook documents and illustrates manifold examples and concepts that are the driving forces in contemporary food, both influencing and inspiring today’s visionary chefs, designers, and consumers.
Six extensive chapters shed new light on the central topics and various approaches relevant in contemporary food with incisive texts including profile features of visionary creative’s accompanied by visuals.
It starts by examining the treacherous landscape of food politics with environmental and production concerns in “Food Activists”.
The return of “Wholehearted” home-style cooking is addressed as well as the sophisticated choices of nutritional “Smart Food”.
“Packaging” confronts new challenges in delivering high impact aesthetic and brand experiences while being cost effective and sustainable. The concepts and interior design approaches of “Food Spaces” are also evolving into luxurious canteens, cooking laboratories and store designs.
The various attitudes of how people are embracing food are defined in “Typologies”. Finally, crEATe further explores “Future Solutions” by illuminating emerging trends that will follow illustrating how food will look as well as how we will respond to it emotionally and aesthetically.
The multifaceted examples in this informative volume are diverse. Portrayed in striking ways, they range from product design, industrial design and the interiors of restaurants and hotels to branding and consumerism.
crEATe surely indicates how food is gaining new meaning in our lifestyle as well as in top-notch contemporary design.
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Food is not just a hot topic in design and cutting edge creativity but also an enormous industry with changing standards and perceptions. crEATe investigates recent trends and visual developments within food, design, hospitality and packaging design.
Based upon research by trend analysts Chris Sanderson and Martin Raymond from the London firm The Future Laboratory, this sourcebook documents and illustrates manifold examples and concepts that are the driving forces in contemporary food, both influencing and inspiring today’s visionary chefs, designers, and consumers.
Six extensive chapters shed new light on the central topics and various approaches relevant in contemporary food with incisive texts including profile features of visionary creative’s accompanied by visuals.
It starts by examining the treacherous landscape of food politics with environmental and production concerns in “Food Activists”.
The return of “Wholehearted” home-style cooking is addressed as well as the sophisticated choices of nutritional “Smart Food”.
“Packaging” confronts new challenges in delivering high impact aesthetic and brand experiences while being cost effective and sustainable. The concepts and interior design approaches of “Food Spaces” are also evolving into luxurious canteens, cooking laboratories and store designs.
The various attitudes of how people are embracing food are defined in “Typologies”. Finally, crEATe further explores “Future Solutions” by illuminating emerging trends that will follow illustrating how food will look as well as how we will respond to it emotionally and aesthetically.
The multifaceted examples in this informative volume are diverse. Portrayed in striking ways, they range from product design, industrial design and the interiors of restaurants and hotels to branding and consumerism.
crEATe surely indicates how food is gaining new meaning in our lifestyle as well as in top-notch contemporary design.
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