tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16711875677450892812023-11-16T12:08:02.427+00:00Grays Product DesignBDES (HONS) Product Design
The course aims to produce Product Design graduates who have a highly developed intellectual, critical and practical awareness of the important role product design has in shaping our world.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671187567745089281.post-54102685641296110182010-02-04T12:40:00.001+00:002010-02-04T12:42:31.320+00:00Clean Water for Haiti - about filters and health training<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LPAWuws7qMM&hl=en_GB&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LPAWuws7qMM&hl=en_GB&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671187567745089281.post-34205667829681308832010-02-04T12:27:00.003+00:002010-02-04T12:40:46.330+00:00<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/O59nm5ezCuw&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/O59nm5ezCuw&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671187567745089281.post-9283816985991110902010-02-04T12:12:00.001+00:002010-02-04T12:21:08.948+00:00Ceramic Water Filters<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><h1 style="font-size: 22px; color: rgb(51, 153, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Ceramic Water Filters</h1><div class="story" style="margin-bottom: 2px; line-height: 18px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; "><p style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><img src="http://www.rain-barrel.net/images/ceramic-filters.jpg" align="right" border="1" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 4px; padding-left: 4px; " /><b>Ceramic Water Filters</b> are a low-tech solution to the problems of water pollution that threaten a third of the worlds population.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://pottersforpeace.org/?page_id=9" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">Potters for Peace</a> founded in Nicaragua, in 1986 is a network of volunteers, supporters, educators, technicians and potters that work mainly in Central America and abroad with ceramic water filter projects all over the world.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Traveling the world and teaching the fabrication of low-cost ceramic water filters is what PFP has been doing since 1998, bringing cleaner, potable water to those who need it most.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Low-cost colloidal silver-enhanced ceramic water purifiers have shown in the field that they eliminate 99.88% of most water born disease agents.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ceramic water filters are a very simple design; a pressed bucket shape 11 W x 10 D, made from a combustible of some kind (such as rice husks or local sawdust) and a local terra-cotta clay.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Milled and screened, the combustible material is burned out in the firing, leaving fine pores, then coated with colloidal silver.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The bacterial properties of the silver and the fine pores create and effective filter.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Between one and three liters of potable water can be effectively filtered per hour with a fine tuned firing process, and the final cost is between 10-15U$ per unit, with replacement filters costing only 4U$ dollars.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ceramic water filters are manufactured to accommodate over the top of a five-gallon bucket with a spicket for water collection.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">While the transportation and production costs will tend to vary from country to country, three or four workers in a basic factory could produce around 50 ceramic water filters a day.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><i>Ceramic water filters are a low-tech solution to cleansing dirty drinking water, a solution that could save the lives of children the world over.</i></p></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671187567745089281.post-41993296674341823492010-02-04T12:02:00.003+00:002010-02-04T12:12:45.170+00:00Water Softening.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><p style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">WATER SOFTENING!</span></p><p style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The presence of hardness salts (calcium and magnesium ions) in the make up </span></p><p style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><img src="http://www.derwentwatersystems.co.uk/water-softening-filtration-pics/48duplexsoftener.jpg" width="200" height="241" align="RIGHT" border="0" alt="water softeners uk" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">water supplies to boilers, cooling and process waters can have a serious impact on their performance. Loss of heat transfer in boilers and poor cooling in re-circulating cooling systems results in an increase in both energy and water consumption, and an increase in operating costs.</span></p><p style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The reliable Derwent standard range effectively removes these hardness salts and provides a valuable return on your investment.</span></p><p style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Standard range:</span></p><p style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Model 132 - Water Softeners up to 5m3/hr<br />Model 230/250 - Water Softeners up to 15m3/hr<br />Model 360/LF - Normal-Flow Water Softeners up to 20m3/hr<br />Model 360/HF - High-Flow Water Softeners up to 50m3/hr</span></p><p style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><img src="http://www.derwentwatersystems.co.uk/water-softening-filtration-pics/newno8-21inch-oftener.jpg" width="200" height="185" align="RIGHT" border="0" alt="water softeners uk" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The standard range of units provides service flow rates from 0.65m3/hour to 50 m3/hour, and configuring the units in a duplex or triplex system will provide a further increase in design flow rates.</span></p><p style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The water softeners have capacities which vary from 4.3m3 to 420m3 with a total input hardness level of 200ppm expressed as calcium carbonate.</span></p><p style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The water softeners use the well-proven "Ion Exchange"</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> process to convert the hard water ions of calcium and magnesium to sodium ions. The resultant water to service is typically less than 4 ppm total hardness.</span></p><p style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Derwent Water Softeners have several different control options for instigating automatic plant regeneration:</span></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Water meter control - regenerates after a specified volume of water by counting electrical pulses from the meter supplied with the softener</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Time-clock control - regenerates at regular pre-set time intervals</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Microprocessor Control System programmed for water hardness and flow rate</span></li></ul><p style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><img src="http://www.derwentwatersystems.co.uk/water-softening-filtration-pics/water-softener-pic.jpg" width="200" height="219" align="RIGHT" border="0" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The softener vessels are of a seamless pressure vessel in GRP construction with moulded polyethylene inner and glass fibre reinforced wound outer shell for durability and long life.</span></p><p style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The control valves are of the hydraulic double piston multiport type. Valves can be "top mount" or "side mount" entry for increased flow capacity.</span></p><p style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The Derwent range of softening units have several options of salt/brining systems:</span></p><p style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Single brine tank<br />Combined salt and brine tank for higher salt usage bulk salt systems.</span></p><p style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Raw water break tanks, booster pump sets, level control systems and other ancillary equipment are available as standard.</span></p><p style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Typical Boiler Uses: Boiler make up for low pressure boilers<br />Laundries<br />Brewing/soft drinks<br />Blended for process waters in high hardness areas<br />Dyeing<br />Food processing<br />Cooling tower make-up</span></p></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671187567745089281.post-44291997789899270502010-02-04T12:01:00.012+00:002010-02-04T12:21:32.009+00:00Haiti water shortage 'critical'<span style="font-weight: bold;">Clean water is the most urgent priority, aid workers say</span><br /><br />The contamination of water supplies by rotting human and animal corpses was the greatest danger, said Gordon Weiss, emergencies spokesman at Unicef.<br /><br />"What we fear most is the spread of water-borne diseases - they can kill children very quickly," he told BBC News Online.<br /><br />The distribution of clean water, purification chemicals, oral rehydration salts, basic medical supplies and replacement school materials was the priority for Unicef, he said.<br /><br />http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3683642.stmUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671187567745089281.post-2515521371541335812010-02-04T12:01:00.000+00:002010-02-04T12:02:06.643+00:00TED - Lifesaver Water Bottle<object height="360" width="580"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rXepkIWPhFQ&hl=en_GB&fs=1&rel=0&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rXepkIWPhFQ&hl=en_GB&fs=1&rel=0&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="360" width="580"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671187567745089281.post-33312242196029354182010-02-04T12:00:00.002+00:002010-02-04T12:02:29.054+00:00SeWatch sewege systems<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:#3B5D83">SeWatch - wastewater and sewage wireless monitoring system...Manholes...haha</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">SeWatch™</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> - The wastewater monitoring system</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> <b>network</b> from <a href="http://www.telematics-wireless.com/"><b><span style="color:#0020F6">Telematics Wireless</span></b></a>, provides a wireless system-wide reporting solution for <b>CSO </b>(</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Combined Sewer Overflow</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">) and <b>SSO </b>(</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Sanitary Sewer Overflow</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">) discharge or overflow.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">SeWatch™</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> SCADA technology monitors and handles discharge of untreated water, sewer, storm water, waste water, solids or sludge, all along municipal ,industrial or any domestic sewage network. <b>SeWatch</b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">™</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> system makes sewer treatment easier and cheaper, keeping enviroment cleaner.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">SeWatch™</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> SCADA includes:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-text-indent-alt: -36.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Water-level <a href="http://www.telematics-wireless.com/index.php?page_id=138&gclid=CKqI7LbP2J8CFUYB4wodpDNdGQ#sensors"><span style="color:#0020F6">sensors</span></a> for sewer system manholes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-text-indent-alt: -36.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Remote <a href="http://www.telematics-wireless.com/index.php?page_id=138&gclid=CKqI7LbP2J8CFUYB4wodpDNdGQ#RTU"><span style="color:#0020F6">Terminal Units</span></a> (RTU) for data capture with built-in wireless communications.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-text-indent-alt: -36.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Primary battery or solar-powered <a href="http://www.telematics-wireless.com/index.php?page_id=138&gclid=CKqI7LbP2J8CFUYB4wodpDNdGQ#NODES"><span style="color:#0020F6">wireless relays/nodes</span></a>, reader/gateway unit for interfacing to a Network.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-text-indent-alt: -36.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">A monitoring and <a href="http://www.telematics-wireless.com/index.php?page_id=138&gclid=CKqI7LbP2J8CFUYB4wodpDNdGQ#NOC"><span style="color:#0020F6">Controling Management application</span></a> running on PC or server, which alerts on screen or via SMS about manhole overflow and spillovers.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">How SeWatch™ works?</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.telematics-wireless.com/index.php?page_id=138&gclid=CKqI7LbP2J8CFUYB4wodpDNdGQ#Contact"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:#DA251A">For more details, contact Telematics engineer !</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">SeWatch™ sensors</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">The Wastewater monitoring system network from Telematics Wireless, provides a system-wide solution which includes: water-level sensors for sewer system manholes connected to Remote Terminal Units (RTU) for data capture with built-in wireless communications, primary battery or solar-powered wireless relays/nodes, reader/gateway unit for interfacing to a Network, and a Monitor and Control Management application running on PC or server.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">SeWatch™ wireless in-manhole units (RTUs)</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family: Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">The sewer-located units (RTUs) are battery-powered. This reduces cost dramatically by not requiring any electric cabling through the sewer system and enables rapid implementation of the system. The installation does not require any modification of the manhole cavity or the cover. The communications network and the RTUs, broadcast over unlicensed ISM bands which do not incur airtime charges. With manhole cover closed, RTU transmissions reach wireless relays at a distance of several tens of meters.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">SeWatch wireless Relays/nodes</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family: Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> System wireless relays constitute the backbone of SeWatch network. Depending on the deployment conditions, relays are powered either by primary battery that last for several years, or by solar-powered battery (see picture). The network can be easily expanded to incorporate additional sewers. When a wireless node in a new part of the sewer system is added, it automatically connects to the wireless network, seamlessly integrating into the existing network topography. It sends its data to the network management control server at the Network Operations Center (NOC). If a malfunction occurs at one of the wireless nodes, an alarm is sent to the NOC informing the shift manager of the problematic network element. The network transmits real-time information about the status of the sewer system section. The network contains self-testing elements to ensure constant communication, and identification and reporting procedures which are monitored at the NOC.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> The specific configuration of the Wireless relay/node and Wireless Reader/Gateway depends on the deployment topology, e.g. distance between the wireless nodes, readers etc. Thus the Network backbone configuration can either be a wireless mesh network of the nodes, or a wide-area star-type communication network: In the mesh configuration, wireless nodes communicate with each other to relay the data to the closest Gateway. From there it is further distributed via public (GPRS) network. In this configuration, solar-powered nodes are used due to the “heavy” relayed traffic. In the star-type configuration, each wireless relay communicates directly with one of the network’s readers, strategically spread over the coverage area. These readers are further interfaced with GPRS network to deliver the data to the NOC.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Network Operations Center (NOC)</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt; font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">The server at the Network Operations Center enables graphical display of the dynamic picture of the water levels throughout the sewer system pipes and manholes, with warnings of any problems or unusual readouts. concering water or wastewater overflow or discharge. Every system alarm, including warnings that are defined as serious, is shown on the screen and can optionally be sent to shift managers and technicians via SMS text messaging service.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671187567745089281.post-63822984871695101202010-02-04T11:57:00.003+00:002010-02-04T11:59:42.039+00:00Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting<object height="360" width="580"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eJCTAXb_BWs&hl=en_GB&fs=1&rel=0&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eJCTAXb_BWs&hl=en_GB&fs=1&rel=0&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="360" width="580"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671187567745089281.post-81688357193969801522009-09-30T09:39:00.006+01:002009-09-30T09:50:05.197+01:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifNlwLXOdrkKyuleY82qx7lB1pHeANm85dDZBoEbxYP7E34ILDhtnspEnJtszF0pvKtc79h7ghISwlGJJKV3CihWuCXhgUgycPT8BerYQ3lTsyTglX0-o3RIBBbhT1fZY5XqD7Bf7_zAvL/s1600-h/wondercity.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 142px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifNlwLXOdrkKyuleY82qx7lB1pHeANm85dDZBoEbxYP7E34ILDhtnspEnJtszF0pvKtc79h7ghISwlGJJKV3CihWuCXhgUgycPT8BerYQ3lTsyTglX0-o3RIBBbhT1fZY5XqD7Bf7_zAvL/s320/wondercity.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387179961384400034" /></a><div>via: <span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; font-size:12px;"><a href="http://readymade.cmail1.com/t/y/l/kkktf/tilujyuid/tt" style="text-decoration: underline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">An Illustrated Weekly of World Design, 29 September 2009</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px; font-size:13px;"><b>A good idea, communicated well, can spread fast and wide and a large group of people can be a tremendous source of money and encouragement - <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">that's the premise of</span> </b>Kickstarter - a funding platform for artists, filmmakers, journalists, designers amongst others. Some projects are so popular that they are up to 1500% funded. Interesting projects on the site include <a href="http://readymade.cmail1.com/t/y/l/kkktf/tilujyuid/jj" style="text-decoration: underline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">The Wonder City</a> a graphic novel that reimagines New York’s entire history and <a href="http://readymade.cmail1.com/t/y/l/kkktf/tilujyuid/jt" style="text-decoration: underline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">MakerBeam</a>, an open source building kit. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-size:13px;">It's time for good ideas...!</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671187567745089281.post-8151338875467316422009-09-24T12:42:00.007+01:002009-09-24T14:49:28.191+01:00Welcome Back...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.e-architect.co.uk/aberdeen/jpgs/aberdeen_grays_school_art_02.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 800px; height: 375px;" src="http://www.e-architect.co.uk/aberdeen/jpgs/aberdeen_grays_school_art_02.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With the impending semester a mere 24 hours away the Grays Product Team would like to take this opportunity to welcome everyone back. Hopefully everyones Summer was packed full with a good balance of relaxation and inspiration setting you up for your respectful year.</div><div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 450px; height: 301px;" src="http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/dzn_Tournament-in-Trafalgar.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Image via <a href="http://www.dezeen.com/"><b>DEZEEN</b></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If anyone has the chance to catch the sleeper train to London this weekend the <b><a href="http://www.londondesignfestival.com/">London Design Festival</a></b> is in full swing. Find a extensive range of images at the following <b><a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=london+design+festival">link</a>. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671187567745089281.post-1979269948663069702009-09-16T10:59:00.003+01:002009-09-16T11:08:10.735+01:00Diary of a Social Venture Start-up<a href="http://ads.anvato.com/AnvatoAdServer/www/delivery/ck.php?oaparams=2__bannerid=551__zoneid=76__cb=fd0b71b76d__maxdest=http://www.good.is/shows/inventions" target="_blank"><img src="http://anvato_media.s3.amazonaws.com/delta_728x90_4a777109b8c2f.jpg" alt="" title="" border="0" height="90" width="728" /></a><div>via: <a href="http://www.good.is/post/diary-of-a-social-venture-start-up/">www.good.is</a></div><div><br /></div><div><strong>ramblings of ...a self-taught entrepreneur who is chronicling what it takes to launch a social venture.</strong></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>There are many sections to this blog - all with very valuable information on what is involved in developing a social enterprise or venture. Though they are from a business perspective, YOU are uniquely positioned to know that Design - a.k.a. creative thinking - can inform and help you develop opportunities. </div><div><br /></div><div>Check out this highly relevant reading for Stage 3 Semester 1 projects.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671187567745089281.post-10549465380708611652009-09-16T10:02:00.005+01:002009-09-16T10:10:20.573+01:00thebriefdvd... check it out<a href="http://thebriefdvd.com/"><img src="http://thebriefdvd.com/wp-content/themes/briefdvd/images/header.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><div><br /></div><div>Via: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.thebriefdvd.com">www.thebriefdvd.com</a></div><div><br /></div><div>This is a new DVD resource (release pending) - a new approach to showing how products are created. Four professional Industrial Designers were given the same Design Brief asking them to design a single cup coffee maker. All four Designers were videotaped as they worked, showing how they come up with their ideas and begin to realize them as a final product.</div><div><br /></div><div>Check it out - there's <a href="http://www.thebriefdvd.com/">a 15 minutes preview</a> (available for a limited time) on their website (scroll down to the bottom).</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671187567745089281.post-53134132697205913362009-09-16T10:00:00.002+01:002009-09-16T10:03:58.404+01:00Test PostUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671187567745089281.post-11751114452347953112009-08-26T13:16:00.009+01:002009-08-26T13:41:48.510+01:00VOTE NOW! - Sue's plug for Design For Development's BAMBULANCE - An INDEX Award finalist - VOTE NOW!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJuOxBRsT0CSwFA_P9CVwL4cZHHOvZq7OCAwQobTX9M2ATEY_ZSx7qGnrHukxFhaWi7-92ldOPvvTkcVVsAvlccWWFXe9yvzNRBw9YzRXvVYEd6aVgG6UYW8F74LagHbDZFk_mMqCk4kje/s1600-h/vote_best.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 399px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJuOxBRsT0CSwFA_P9CVwL4cZHHOvZq7OCAwQobTX9M2ATEY_ZSx7qGnrHukxFhaWi7-92ldOPvvTkcVVsAvlccWWFXe9yvzNRBw9YzRXvVYEd6aVgG6UYW8F74LagHbDZFk_mMqCk4kje/s400/vote_best.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374248240633818290" /></a><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:'Lucida Grande', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:medium;"><p style=" line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 3px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size:14px;">Design For Development’s Bambulance Project is a finalist in the <span class="caps">INDEX </span>Awards. In addition to being up for the Community Award, the DFD Bambulance also has the opportunity to win the People’s Choice Award – through a system of online and in-person voting. Poll closes this Friday (28 Aug).</p><p style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 3px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br /></p><p style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 3px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">- Follow the link below to the Bambulance Project.<br />- Click on the pink “Vote For People’s Choice Award” button to help us win the People’s Choice Award! (You can also win a prize :) )<br /><a href="http://www.designtoimprovelife.dk/index.php?option=com_content_custom&view=article&id=127:bambulance-project&catid=10:finalists-2009&Itemid=223" style="text-decoration: underline; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); ">http://www.designtoimprovelife.dk/index.php?option=com_content_custom&view=article&id=127:bambulance-project&catid=10:finalists-2009&Itemid=223</a></p><p style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 3px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">The <a href="http://www.bambulance.ca/">Bambulance Project</a> was a final year student project - students at Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver - and look how far it's come! Check out the YouTube link to the making of the Bambulance.</p><p style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 3px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.designfordevelopment.org/">DFD</a> is a Canadian Charity that I (yes, Sue, your PD Lecturer) co-founded with Niki Dun in 2006. I'd really appreciate it if you could support us - and vote for the Bambulance. You can also check out DFD's twitter. </p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671187567745089281.post-81036189489677218532009-06-12T14:33:00.006+01:002009-09-16T10:06:04.901+01:00Grays Degree Show - Product Design 09<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1kUacA8JJScnuDOO6cLIXIUeJ4vxwVc-j3UPOgR5ccQtxIGoXrS2fjvCg-UIPHevbz3AffXJADfS8WqHowlXBMqMciMR1qf1e1py-g0aEbhZ-Ku-lhdvGIlh_Oln4O0q01rX5oW9SleJi/s1600-h/DG_1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 295px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1kUacA8JJScnuDOO6cLIXIUeJ4vxwVc-j3UPOgR5ccQtxIGoXrS2fjvCg-UIPHevbz3AffXJADfS8WqHowlXBMqMciMR1qf1e1py-g0aEbhZ-Ku-lhdvGIlh_Oln4O0q01rX5oW9SleJi/s400/DG_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346438165893928658" border="0" /></a><div><b>"design is thinking made visual"</b></div><div>Saul Bass</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="http://www.rgu.ac.uk/grays/degree/page.cfm?pge=32843">Degree Show 2009</a></b></div><div><b><a href="http://www.rgu.ac.uk/grays/home/page.cfm">Gray's School of Art</a></b></div><div><b><a href="http://www.rgu.ac.uk/">Robert Gordon University</a></b></div><div>Garthdee Road</div><div>Aberdeen</div><div>AB10 7QD</div><div><br /></div><div>Sat 13th - Sun 14th : 10am - 5pm<div>Mon 15th - Fri 19th: 10</div><div>am - 8pm</div><div>Sat 20th: 10am - 5pm</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Product Design department is proud to present a selection of works from the graduating fourth year Bdes (Hons) Product Design students. The work ranges from shareware gardening to a hammock created from found jewelry and a Pop Art toaster to a modular education system for harnessing sustainable energy. </div><div><br /></div><div><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 281px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0qvmC2H0ye16Psl2kncLdNoLFKLIFKv9OzzQ__H9a_Gt9WIsuBHxVZW6-5ZpZUeT9KIr__rJKZ7a1IMEJwX5yVP0wNPCO1ooDLskmWY2C3nIHA_oIaq49-FxylUu5boqhmDEQCk12ONUt/s400/DG_3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346442999826804562" border="0" /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Congratulations to all the Students @ Grays School of Art.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671187567745089281.post-88418023998836293302009-03-17T13:20:00.003+00:002009-03-17T13:27:03.703+00:00How would a butterfly ...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.interiordesign.net/articles/blog/1860000586/20081201/biomimicry.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 577px; height: 322px;" src="http://www.interiordesign.net/articles/blog/1860000586/20081201/biomimicry.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><p>Announced at Bioneers 2008, the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/">Biomimicry Institute</a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/"> </a>is launching later next month an incredible website that will serve to spark imagination and innovation in the field of biomimicry - <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/07/th-radio-ray-anderson-2.php">AskNature.org.</a></p> <p>And you can be part of its creation. Read on to find out how. </p> <a name="more"></a> <p>The Biomimicry Institute is doing some incredible things for revolutionizing the way we go about solving problems and creating products. From offering degrees, to working with businesses like <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/07/th-radio-ray-anderson-2.php">Interface</a> to improve the eco-friendliness of their products and manufacturing processes, the institute is at the forefront of a coming tidal wave of biomimetic popularity. </p> <p>To facilitate the questions and answers that will come with the change to looking at nature for better ideas, the Biomimicry Institute has created AskNature.org: </p> <blockquote style="font-style: italic;">"The world's first interactive database of Nature's solutions to sustainability challenges, where relevant biological information is searchable by design and engineering function" </blockquote> <p>Designers, planners, engineers, or any one involved in creating the world as we see it can have an online resource helping them quickly find the animals, plants and occurrences in nature that offer solutions. </p> <p><a href="http://www.asknature.org/signup.php"></a>It will be a pretty amazing resource for a pretty amazing emerging field of science and sustainability. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671187567745089281.post-28238187055593376562009-03-16T12:33:00.004+00:002009-03-16T13:10:57.256+00:00Rotational Molding machine for shoes<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.williamsondesign.co.uk/index_files/image003.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 600px; height: 600px;" src="http://www.williamsondesign.co.uk/index_files/image003.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div>via <a href="http://www.williamsondesign.co.uk/info.htm"><b>williamsondesign</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div>For Marloes Ten Bhömer<br /><br />This machine was designed to mold footwear for Marloes Ten Bhömer. The movement of the machine is based on industrial rotational molding machines but is achieved by a custom designed mechanism.<br /><br />Exhibited at the Krannert Art Museum. 2009</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671187567745089281.post-81279784468450053882009-03-13T10:02:00.004+00:002009-03-13T10:26:26.409+00:00Paul Clark's Birdhouse - Core 77 This Just In-box<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM6yjWnQDbjz3OYJMC3B9NPpw2_daYV3CuyqpVM6VHBM4x-jsIasWWiRSyQYWlw9vsudO06cfgNctlu4Fi7T-t6MS3JcNkZVnq9XqnCIa_jC7UACj0dFxfyVH-pATJboW6jkhc86_qhVsx/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 222px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM6yjWnQDbjz3OYJMC3B9NPpw2_daYV3CuyqpVM6VHBM4x-jsIasWWiRSyQYWlw9vsudO06cfgNctlu4Fi7T-t6MS3JcNkZVnq9XqnCIa_jC7UACj0dFxfyVH-pATJboW6jkhc86_qhVsx/s320/Picture+1.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312616753888576210" /></a><br />via <a href="http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/this_just_inbox_lepidoptera_chair_by_simone_leamon_birdhouse_by_paul_clark__12861.asp">core77</a>: <div><br /></div><div>Paul Clark's design is the result of a 'Waste Aware Project' with Gray's School of Art students undertake in their second year. The aim of the project is to give an otherwise considered waste product or material a second life by applying it to a different use.</div><div><br /></div><div>Paul's design for a birdhouse utilises the core function of the plant pot (to aid the growth of a living organism) and applies it to a different context. (<a href="http://designingthisandthat.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Paul Clark's blog</span></a>)</div><div><br /></div><div>Paul describes his approach as <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">"I decided to take on the challenge of the humble garden plant pot because it is a mass produced item which contributes massively to the amount of waste materials that end up in landfill sites." </span></div><div><br /></div><div>The UK alone produces 500 million plant pots every year - it's no surprise that millions of these pots end up in landfill sites around the country. As they are made from plastic - they remain in landfills for hundreds of years.</div><div><br /></div><div>The project is run jointly between <a href="http://www2.rgu.ac.uk/subj/ats/degreeshows/degree08/index.html">Gray's School of Art</a> in Aberdeen, Scotland & <a href="http://www.creativewasteexchange.org/">Creative Waste Exchange</a>, a local waste redistribution initiative housing stock materials and products donated by businesses and householders which would otherwise have gone to landfill.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671187567745089281.post-85418345528310346122008-12-17T12:04:00.005+00:002008-12-17T12:13:36.857+00:00Press & Journal Coverage - Steven Paxton<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho1F0vyGhR03ZRxa7Nr3v2Nb5PZiL1kX0MRPb-PXYmsHUNOjy51gylST2xzuOBuFn4uk8wG5ZPi3AYPgIZozQuqWtjUha9O0aGM_oloc6Y5Ox96RG74X8W-tL0mycSTIYirP2A9qQ_Ibpw/s1600-h/P&J_Steven.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 307px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho1F0vyGhR03ZRxa7Nr3v2Nb5PZiL1kX0MRPb-PXYmsHUNOjy51gylST2xzuOBuFn4uk8wG5ZPi3AYPgIZozQuqWtjUha9O0aGM_oloc6Y5Ox96RG74X8W-tL0mycSTIYirP2A9qQ_Ibpw/s320/P&J_Steven.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280730011408104610" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />via <a href="http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Press & Journal</span></a><br /><br />Here is the full article featuring and <a href="http://un-boxed.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Steven Paxton</span></a> his winning <a href="http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/982448"><span style="font-weight: bold;">NCR competition design</span></a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671187567745089281.post-65904107585346322752008-12-02T12:23:00.009+00:002008-12-02T16:00:31.044+00:00Student Feature - Paul Clark S3<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUjPykzNcWyFShCDzDnuFhx2RJtkxETlTRXIMYmXZq0YzrR7YMI0782vtIbXx9GLqplpzSh7pRA2eVaH8J7gzEDjwkypxCVxMC0Xwgx1pxYqZoxwjXhyphenhyphenb1NiHwFaJVJY1eSHfQm2N7qXBd/s1600-h/PC_Birdhouse.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 298px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUjPykzNcWyFShCDzDnuFhx2RJtkxETlTRXIMYmXZq0YzrR7YMI0782vtIbXx9GLqplpzSh7pRA2eVaH8J7gzEDjwkypxCVxMC0Xwgx1pxYqZoxwjXhyphenhyphenb1NiHwFaJVJY1eSHfQm2N7qXBd/s320/PC_Birdhouse.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275220632630482210" border="0" /></a><br /><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br />Birdhouse</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />Waste Aware Project<br />In collaboration with Creative Waste Exchange<br />Stage Three<br /><br /></span></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Calibri;" >Birdhouse is an environmentally friendly desig</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Calibri;" >n which is aimed at recycling old, used and unwanted materials in order to help reduce the amount of waste going into landfill. The design is able to exploit the primary function of a plant pot, to aid the growth of a living organism, in a unique and practical approach to the problem of waste.</span></span><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB7N6WE_cCBXiKJSUvsWN8yw_zu3rvLMMbxHiEnqn47kwSuwZ0aGQ7VAENRAZ2_KS_fl_z0sRsixxtUm8p5rIo2t_Y7anbeOqr7z7tpv7b1IbbsNen6Ie0ThN8955Vwtfv6vIhK-c8C6I9/s1600-h/PC_Birdhouse2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 311px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB7N6WE_cCBXiKJSUvsWN8yw_zu3rvLMMbxHiEnqn47kwSuwZ0aGQ7VAENRAZ2_KS_fl_z0sRsixxtUm8p5rIo2t_Y7anbeOqr7z7tpv7b1IbbsNen6Ie0ThN8955Vwtfv6vIhK-c8C6I9/s320/PC_Birdhouse2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275221004573526338" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />copyright Paul Clark 2008</span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671187567745089281.post-32996614819469340112008-11-26T16:53:00.010+00:002009-09-16T10:02:14.223+01:00NCR Service Design Competition Success<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdO5vd3SPOnn4Y603r7bKAOco4Hixh4lKHxvNX-shZ9Zhq5vklSsLeKqe9cvD_f4WgApsA1VBcXQitUtmBcuXWl22VNCaiwuMLaQPKeaXQki1Nsnhbu7JKKImKEd_Xvb7AgMPihpraEWzJ/s1600-h/DSC_0276.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 259px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdO5vd3SPOnn4Y603r7bKAOco4Hixh4lKHxvNX-shZ9Zhq5vklSsLeKqe9cvD_f4WgApsA1VBcXQitUtmBcuXWl22VNCaiwuMLaQPKeaXQki1Nsnhbu7JKKImKEd_Xvb7AgMPihpraEWzJ/s320/DSC_0276.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273017919208690930" border="0" /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Success</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> for Product Design Students from Grays with First and Third Prizes. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This competition now into its forth year is sponsored and judged by </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">NCR Financial Solutions Group Ltd. This</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Service Design Project and Competition between the Product Design Course at Duncan of Jordanson, School of Design and Product Design at Grays School of Art, this year focused on the theme of 'Selfish Self-service' a challenging brief which resulted in many well developed service design solutions. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The winning project by Steven Paxton looked at the very real problem of packing your car after a trip to IKEA. Too much stuff, not enought space in the car - you need KRAMA. Well done Steven</span></span></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671187567745089281.post-39089469444953966822008-11-26T16:00:00.003+00:002008-11-26T16:07:34.048+00:00Gray's centre to act as Scottish design broker<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.designweek.co.uk/Assets/GetAsset.aspx?uiAssetID=0648d230-05b1-4b2d-b651-740d8b146b89&w=120"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 160px;" src="http://www.designweek.co.uk/Assets/GetAsset.aspx?uiAssetID=0648d230-05b1-4b2d-b651-740d8b146b89&w=120" alt="" border="0" /></a>via Design Week Magazine (20 Nov 2008)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">C4DI, Aberdeen's new £1m Centre for Design and Innovation Management</span>, is seeking Scottish design groups to work with local businesses to improve their products and services.<br /><br />Gray's School of Art has set up the centre, which aims to use its three-year Scottish government funding to help hundreds of small businesses.<br /><br />'We want to have as many Scottish design consultancies on our books as possible, covering many disciplines, from branding to product design,' says <span style="font-weight: bold;">centre director and Gray's School of Art Professor of Design Julian Malins</span>.<br /><br />The centre, which is due to open in January, will keep an in-house team of about three designers to assess the design needs of small businesses.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">'We will take companies to a certain level of thinking about a concept and at that point put them in touch with a designer,'</span> says Malins...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.designweek.co.uk/Articles/140565/Gray%27s+centre+to+act+as+Scottish+design+broker+.html">more...</a><br /><br /><img src="file:///Users/student/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" /><img src="file:///Users/student/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot-1.jpg" alt="" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671187567745089281.post-34710588899463305612008-11-26T15:47:00.004+00:002008-11-26T15:55:35.201+00:00Recessionary Design: A boomtime for creative energy<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.iht.com/images/2008/11/14/17design17550.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 550px; height: 320px;" src="http://img.iht.com/images/2008/11/14/17design17550.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />via: International Herald Tribune - Culture Section<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">"...Design has always coped well with austerity, and is especially well-equipped to do so now."</span><br /><br />This recent article by Alice Rawsthorn shares 5 key insights and suggestions for how design can proactively respond to recessionary times:<br /><br />1. Learn from history<br />2. Respond to change<br />3. Redesign businesses<br />4. Redesign social services<br />5. "Design-Art" R.I.P.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">WE ASK YOU - What's the most exciting role for design? Developing new business concepts and cracking social problems, or making expensive, uncomfortable furniture?<br /> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671187567745089281.post-21157983499343228462008-11-07T09:34:00.004+00:002008-11-07T10:21:49.344+00:00RSA - Anti Bike Theft device<object height="333" width="400"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eieKug-blh4&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eieKug-blh4&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="333" width="400"></embed></object><br /><br />via <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10083001-1.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Crave">crave</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671187567745089281.post-29547650971564587592008-10-31T11:25:00.002+00:002008-10-31T11:28:21.578+00:00Audi TV - Design for Life<object height="333" width="400"><param name="movie" value="http://channel.audi.co.uk/static/player-embed.swf?media=2208&programme=2191"><param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://channel.audi.co.uk/static/player-embed.swf?media=2208&programme=2191" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" height="333" width="400"></embed></object><br /><br />Big thanks to Stage 2 for finding this. This is what Jon gets up to when he is moonlighting.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com