Electrolux Design Lab 20 Semi Finalists 2013

It is always a pleasure to chat with Electrolux Design Director and Head of Jury, Thomas Johansson and this Monday our conversation on Google Hangout was exceptional. Besides discussing the obvious – this years phenomenal entries to the Electrolux Design Lab, we got talking about the typical use of appliances in an Indian household. He was surprised to know that a majority don’t use dishwashers and we still prefer hand-washed clothes to the washing-machined ones! In any case, without further ado, let me announce the Electrolux Design Lab 20 Semi Finalists For 2013.

2D Kitchen by Ermi van Oers

The wall mounted 2D Smart Kitchen with a full set of kitchen appliances automatically prepares your meals. It gives you more space, more time for each other and makes you a perfect cooked dinner.

3F by Germain Verbrackel

The name of this appliance 3F stands for Form Follows Function. This is an appropriate name, since the physical body of this vacuum cleaner can change form and expand to suit the task required.

Air Drop by Jillian Tackaberry

The Air Drop is an air cleaner, which uses plant purification for harmful gasses and filter purification for dust and other particles.

Atem by Małgorzata Blachnicka

Atem is a breathing window panel, which opens your space to the outside world. It provides constant air circulation by letting in only clean air, balancing the air temperature according to your needs and creating an ambiance to your home.

Atomium by Luiza Silva

Atomium is a 3D printer that uses molecular ingredients to construct food layer by layer.

Breathing Wall by Jeabyun Yeon

Breathing Wall is a wall integrated air-cleaning concept for people who live in urban areas and want to relax and rest in a home with fresh air.

Cellular Pillow by Qing Ji

The Cellular Pillow is an air cleaning system and a pillow, which refreshes the air around us during our sleep, just like we would be sleeping in the forest.

Coco by Kristīne Bula

COCO is an air cleaner, which is inspired by nature as it creates an atmosphere of meadow freshness at your urban house without consuming electrical energy.

Global Chef by Dawid Dawod

Global Chef is a kitchen appliance that brings people together all across the world by using laser hologram technology and is thus also a strong visual experience for cooking.

Hand Tree by Alexandr Kostin

Hand tree is a personal air purifier concept, which is cleaning and filtering the air around us with a wearable appliance accessory.

Harvest Matching by Ke chang-han

Harvest Matching it is an easy and fun way to monitor how your plants are growing and becoming ripe as well as inviting friends to cook together.

Jell Balls by Juan Lee

Jell Balls is a cleaning appliance to hoover up dust using jell surface tension principle for eight jell surfaced balls which roll around a space which is to be cleaned.

Kitchen Hub by Francisco Barboza Grasa

Kitchen Hub is a device designed to help the family eat better, healthier and to reduce food waste. The food stock app controlling information of the ingredients you have at home is the core of it and the rest of apps are a logical consequence.

Mab by Adrian Perez Zapata

Mab is an automated cleaning system consisting of hundreds of flying mini-robots, which will clean all surfaces giving magic to daily activities. Mab will scan and clean up the house using the flight of the mini-robots, will also determine the areas in which the house is divided to run custom cleanings.

Music Yue by Jiawei Huang

Music Yue is a noise converter, solving the stressful noise pollution problem in urban areas.

Nutrima by Janne Palovuori

Nutrima is an appliance which calculates the nutritional values, possible toxins and freshness of your food and ingredients.

Ohita by Jorge Alberto Treviño Blanco

Ohita is an air cleaner with a modular kinetic sculpture structure. The appliance modules can be placed to your home and decorate the environment, but they are also wearable accessories you can take with you as you leave your home and carry around you in the city to protect you from breathing bad air.

Orbita by Natalia Aguado

Orbita is a cleaning appliance making use of the energy created by body movement as energy source of the appliance.

OZ-1 by Wei Kiat Law

OZ-1 is a portable air purifier and stress reliever all integrated in a fashion piece. While showing their fashion style, the user can choose to personalize the device with different cover design to match their clothing.

SEAbreeze by Fanni Csernátony

SEAbreeze is an indoor air quality control system works with seawater and provides clean, salty air, drinking water and a mild breeze in the room.

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Top 100 Electrolux Design Lab 2013 Entries Announced

From more than 1700 entries this year, Electrolux Design Lab has shortlisted 100 entries. The submissions encompass 3D printing technology, wearable appliance accessories, concepts that reflect our memories and highlight our senses, new integrated solutions as well as smart technology in social cooking solutions. All of the 100 Entries are hungry for your VOTE, so that they can move to Stage 3.

Stage 3 is when the list narrows down and only fifty odd entries will be further asked to refine their projects and tweak them. Stage 4 will see only 20 best entries making it to the cut and from here eight finalists will be selected. To know what happens in Stage 2, please head here.

Voting

The public can also vote for their favorite concepts. The public voting is open now and will be open until 12th May 23:59 CET. All submissions are here. Yanko Design has selected some of our favorite entries, good luck you people; we look forward to meeting you at the finals!

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Electrolux Design Lab 2013 Opens For Entries

UPDATE: Only 4 Days left! Hurry and Submit your ideas NOW

Yanko Design is proud to have been a part of Electrolux Design Lab’s evolution and this year we are excited to announce the commencement of the 2013 competition. The idea is king for Electrolux Design Lab 2013 and the competition opens for submissions on 18th February. The theme for this year is Inspired Urban Living and the focus of which falls into three key areas; Social Cooking, Natural Air and Effortless Cleaning. Designers take note, Electrolux Design Lab has made some important changes to the competition so be sure to READ all the instructions thoroughly before you get started.

Amongst the biggest changes this year, is the fact that any design stream student can apply.

The best 100+ submissions around the world will receive instant global recognition; from offering the public the chance to vote and influence the selection, to Electrolux professionals encouraging entrants with constructive feedback throughout the competition.

The competition is divided into 5 Stages and the entry deadline for the first competition stage, a concept description and a sketch, is 15th March 2013.

Over 100 of the best submissions from around the world will be published online in the beginning of April allowing them instant global recognition.

This year’s theme, Inspired Urban Living, asks for all to submit design solutions that consider evolving challenges set to shape our future. The focus of which, falls into three key areas: Social Cooking, Natural Air and Effortless Cleaning.

PRIZES

  • First Prize – 5,000 Euros and a six-month paid internship at an Electrolux global design centre
  • Second Prize – 3,000 Euros
  • Third Prize – 2,000 Euros
  • People’s Choice Award – 1,000 Euros

More information about the competition can be found and submissions can be entered on Design Lab web page electrolux.com/electroluxdesignlab.

Five submission stages:

  • Stage 1: Submit a Concept Idea and a Sketch, 15th March
  • Stage2: Concept Development, April
  • Stage 3: Visual Development, May
  • Stage 4: Functionality Development, June and July
  • Stage 5: Design Lab Final Event, October

Process:

Submit an idea and a sketch and develop your work
Share your work in social media and write a development blog
Receive feedback from professionals
Present your stunning work at the finals and win Design Lab 2013

What’s new this year?

This year Electrolux Design Lab is breaking new ground and presents key innovative features within the competition. By giving you more possibilities during your design process, you will have the chance to get the most out of both your participation in the competition and your path to becoming the winner of the 2013 edition of Design Lab.

Join the competition: Register Here

What do I submit?

Students are to submit only a description of a concept idea and a visual sketch by 15th March for the first evaluation stage. The best entries are placed online, after which the entrants will go through three more selection stages before reaching the finals. This selection method enables entrants to initially concentrate on the most important part: the concept.

Design Director Thomas Johansson is in search of design with relevance and aesthetic appeal. Head of Advanced Development Mats Ekblad is interested in the thought process behind creating innovative design solutions. Insight Marketer Director Julia Lilliehöök is looking forward to seeing design solutions that go beyond products.

The Rules are here.

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Yanko Design Heads To Milan For The Electrolux Design Lab Finals

Ciao a tutti! Yanko Design is the official media partner for the Electrolux Design Lab and we are heading to the beautiful city of Milan for the finals. We will be bringing you extensive coverage, which you can follow on Facebook and Twitter and right here. Ten finalists will be battling out, but guess what; you do have a say in it! There is a People’s Choice Award that allows you to vote for your favorite design.Before you decide, here is a quick recap of videos that showcase each of the projects. Voting closes 12:00 CET, 25th October 2012. The winner will receive the ULTRAMIX/PRO stick mixer.

Treat by Amy Mon-Chu Liu

Tastee by Christopher Holm-Hansen

Spummy by Alexandre de Bastiani

SmartPlate by Julian Caraulani

MoSphere by Yunuén Hernández

Memory by Wenyao Cai

Impress by Ben de la Roche

ICE by Julen Pejenaute 
Beorlegi

Easystir by Lisa Frodadottir Låstad

Aeroball by Jan Ankiersztajn

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Exclusive: Electrolux Design Lab Finalists Announced

Yanko Design takes great pride in bringing to you this exclusive announcement! The 30 Shortlisted Entries for the 2012 Electrolux Design Lab have now been narrowed to the Top Ten Finalists. Each of these ten designers will be invited to Milan, to showcase and present their design concept in front of a select Jury. The event will be telecast live online and Yanko Design will be in Milan to capture the excitement for you. This is the first time that ten designers, instead of the usual eight finalists are being invited.

Finals On: October 25, 2012

Memory by WenYao Cai

Memory is a coffee maker that uses hand print recognition to make the right cup of coffee for the right person.

SmartPlate by Julian Caraulani

SmartPlate is the world’s first intelligent dish that physically understands food and transforms it into sound, completing the circle of senses by which we understand what we eat.

Tastee by Christopher Holm-Hansen

The Electrolux Tastee is a taste indicator that is used when cooking to assist the chef in bringing out the flavours in the meal.

Mo’Sphere by Yunuén Hernández

Mo’Sphere allows the user to experiment with and experience new flavours and sensations through the exciting world of “molecular cooking”.

Impress by Ben de la Roche

Impress is a refrigeration wall that holds your food and drinks for you, out in the open and not behind closed doors so you will always remember the lunch you prepared for work or find that midnight snack with ease.

Treat by Amy Mon-Chu Liu

The Treat seamlessly combines classic food storage techniques, such as vacuum sealing, with modern remote, mobile technology for the perfect combination of freshness and convenience that is more important than ever in our increasingly busy lives.

Easy Stir by Lisa Frodadottir Låstad

By utilising magnets that react to your induction stove the Easystir will literally save you time and money by never needing to be charged, batteries replaced or plugged into a wall socket.

Spummy by Alexandre de Bastiani

The Spummy is the future of flavor creation. Using nano-technology the Spummy creates edible foam with any flavour or combination of flavours you can imagine.

Aeroball by Jan Ankiersztajn

The Aeroball is a revolutionary way to improve the spaces in which we live. In tiny bubbles that float and hover, the Aeroball cleans and filters the air while hovering in place.

Ice by Julen Pejenaute

ICE can not only be used as basic lamp with adjustable brightness or colour to fit the mood of any dining occasion.

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Electrolux Design Lab 2012 – Top 30 Declared!

Electrolux Design Lab’s 10th Anniversary challenge to international design students is to design products that develop the sensory experience of home appliances. The countdown has begun, and after the shortlist of 80 nominations has been tightened to 30 shortlisted entries. The next step will be to announce the Top 10, who will be invited to Milan in October, to present their projects. The jury will as always, include Henrik Otto SVP of Global Design at Electrolux. As media partners Yanko Design will be at the event, keeping you updated via YD, Facebook & Twitter, till the ultimate winner is declared.

Below are the 30 projects shortlisted for the 2012 Electrolux Design Lab. This year has been many of firsts for the Design Lab. First they held a Logo Design Competition in partnership with Yanko Design. After adopting the new logo, they moved on to the Pinterest Competition. Now they have 80 nominees, 30 shortlisted entries and 10 finalists!

Although these 30 projects are very briefly described here, Yanko Design will be showcasing the most intriguing and innovative projects as individual posts shortly.

Hurricane Cocktail Mixer by Kuan-ting Ho


The Hurricane is a fun and instructional drink mixer for those entertaining at home. All you need are the ingredients and the friends and then Hurricane will do the rest.

Spummy by Alexandre de Bastiani

The Spummy is the future of flavour creation. Using nano-technology the Spummy creates edible foam with any flavour or combination of flavours you can imagine.

Treat by Amy Mon-Chu Liu


The Treat seamlessly combines classic food storage techniques, such as vacuum sealing, with modern remote, mobile technology for the perfect combination of freshness and convenience that is more important than ever in our increasingly busy lives.

Tide by Anne Berit Kigen Bjering

With the Tide the sound of food comes alive as you’re cooking to help put you and your guests in the right mood for dinner.

SaltSpoon by Barbara Adamonyte

A handy little tool for the modern kitchen. Easily add accurate amounts of salt to your soup or sauce using SaltSpoon’s built-in dispenser.

Impress Fridge by Ben De La Roche

Impress is a refrigeration wall that holds your food and drinks for you, out in the open and not behind closed doors so you will always remember the lunch you prepared for work or find that midnight snack with ease.

Spacepan by Christian Bakkhaug

Spacepan is moveable it may be placed on the kitchen table so the whole family can be part of the cooking process.

AhrmaDilo by Chris Carpenter

The AhrmaDilo features the world’s first flexible iron (the Dilo) and an adjustable ironing board (the Ahrma). In combination the Ahrma and the Dilo create an ironing experience that works to eliminate the annoying parts of standard ironing such as, constantly shifting garments to iron them and ironing difficult parts of clothes such as sleeves and pant legs.

Tastee by Christopher Holm Hansen

The Electrolux Tastee is a taste indicator that is used when cooking to assist the chef in bringing out the flavours in the meal.

Melodi by Elena Sitnikova

Melodi is a device designed to allow the other senses help you in task of measuring liquids.

Julienne by Florent Corlay

Julienne is a new food experience. By enabling guests to sense the evolution of the meal, shown through changing music and shifting ambient light the progression of the food‘s journey from simple ingredients to a delicious meal.

Tempo Blender by Fu Chun Wan

The Tempo blender can tell you what and how much you need to make a variety of fresh juices, cocktails or sauces.

Cruet Salt & Pepper by Harry Hale

The Cruet not only enhances the taste of your food but also increases social interaction at the dinner table between you and your guests.

Smart Embossed Blender by Hwajin Ock

With the Smart Embossed Blender you can feel how smooth or rough your ingredients are while you are blending.

Aeroball by Jan Ankierstajn

The Aeroball is a revolutionary way to improve the spaces in which we live. In tiny bubbles that float and hover, the Aeroball cleans and filters the air while hovering in place.

ICE by Julen Pejenaute Beorlegi

ICE can not only be used as basic lamp with adjustable brightness or colour to fit the mood of any dining occasion.

Smart Plate by Julian Caraluani

SmartPlate is the world’s first intelligent dish that physically understands food and transforms it into sound, completing the circle of senses by which we understand what we eat.

Fiery by Karen I Man Cheong

Fiery – the magic wand that brings flambé from restaurant to your home kitchen.

Easy Stir by Lisa Frodadotter

By utilising magnets that react to your induction stove the Easystir will literally save you time and money by never needing to be charged, batteries replaced or plugged into a wall socket.

Sensual Control by Malgorzata Zsostak

Sensual Control is a portable control panel that lets you know when your food is ready whilst allowing you to control temperature levels from anywhere in your house.

Touch by Markus Marks

Touch fits into the palm of your hand and can be used to remove wrinkles from your clothes while you are still wearing them.

Wentylor by Michal Pospiech

Cool your house and calm your mind with the Wentylor.

Be There by Mikus Vanags

Be There is a virtual restaurant that lets you select your favourite locations around the globe with local cuisine and themed atmospheres.

Airômes by Mylène Manon Baillet


Airômes uses the process of vaporisation to aromatise your food with the flavours you want.

Wine Stewart by Roman Blahynka

The Wine Steward can maintain the perfect temperature for any type of wine to ensure optimal enjoyment from first drop to last.

Ingresure by JongWoo Choi

Ingresure will accurately measure the ingredients of your soup, sauce or stew and let you know how much salt, pepper or spice you need to cook like a pro.

Hula Washer by Sangsoon Lee

Save time and save money by using the energy you need to exercise to spin the Hula Washer, like a Hula Hoop, while it washes your clothes.

Fridge Nose by Vilius Dringelis

Fridge Nose is a home appliance that displays information about the food that is stored in your fridge. Using sensors placed in the food the Fridge Nose warns you when food has expired or lets you know just how long you have left.

Mo’Sphere by Yunuén Graciela Hernández López

Mo’Sphere allows the user to experiment with and experience new flavours and sensations through the exciting world of “molecular cooking”.

Memory by WenYao Cai

Memory is a coffee maker that uses hand print recognition to make the right cup of coffee for the right person.

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Electrolux Design Lab Pinterest Winners Announced

We love it when you get creative and participate in events like the Electrolux Design Lab Pinterest ‘Work in Progress’ competition. Basically you had to pin your work-in-progress project to the Design Lab Pinterest Board and five interesting projects were to be picked by Yanko Design as winners for the Electrolux Powermix Mini Compact Blenders. Without further ado, jump right ahead to see who are the five lucky winners….

Congratulations all, Electrolux Design Lab will get in touch with the winners directly.

Sketches by Marc TRAN

PlayFood experiment

Lamp WIP

WIP. First phase of Odour Transformer

London Underground Stations

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Win 5 Electrolux Powermix Mini Compact Blenders and Fame!

UPDATE: Rules Modified!
There are three ways you can get famous with Electrolux this year. You can either participate in their Design Lab Competition (deadline June 1, 2012) or the ‘work in progress’ Pinterest competition or BOTH! The Design Lab gives you a chance to win prize money and internship at the Electrolux Design Center and the Pinterest competition wins FIVE creative folks Fame and an Electrolux Powermix Mini Compact Blender. Details after the jump.

The Electrolux ‘work in progress’ Pinterest competition is simple. If you have any sketches that are a ‘work in progress’ and warrant attention, simply submit it to their Pinterest board. Ten creative projects will be shortlisted and these will go on to adorn a special wall at the main Electrolux Design Lab Final Event.

Yanko Design will pick FIVE of the best and these will win the Electrolux Powermix Mini Compact Blenders!

Here’s how to enter:

  • Follow Electrolux Design Lab on Pinterest
  • They will then add you as contributor to the board “Electrolux Design Lab work in progress”.
  • Add pins of your work in progress to the board. It could be pictures of your sketches, the music you listen to when designing or anything that visualizes your work in progress. We would like to know how your design process looks like.
  • Yanko Design will choose five favorites and those pictures together with five other pictures with the most Facebook likes will be printed and placed on the wall at the Electrolux Design Lab final event.
  • Winner receives a printed version of the picture. Five winners get Electrolux Powermix Mini Compact Blenders!
  • More details here.

Deadline for Electrolux Design Lab Submissions: June 1st, 2012

Deadline for Electrolux Design Lab Work In Progress: June 25th, 2012

Example of ‘Work In Progress’ Sketches by Rickard Hederstiernas

The Booty!

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Electrolux Design Lab 2012 – Design Experience

You can call it the Scandinavian influence or sheer creative genius, but you have to hand to the Electrolux team to come up with such a catchy video that communicates this year’s Design Lab brief with such finesse! The theme for 2012 is to Design Experience! Inspired by the Electrolux Cube experience, Design Lab wants designers to conceptualize appliances that provide a “fuller sensory experience.” Watch this exclusive video that Premiers here on Yanko Design, be inspired and submit your entries latest by June 1st.

Please Note: Deadline for entries is 23:59 CET June 1, 2012 | For details and rules head here!

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