INDEX: Design to Improve Life
INDEX: is the catalyst which spurs public and professional awareness of the human and commercial potential in Design to Improve Life.

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ICONS, March 3, 2009Updated about 4 months ago

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INDEX: Design to Improve Life More on the INDEX: AIGA Aspen Design Challenge from Core77

Source: www.core77.com
Industrial Design content and community site - articles, discussions, interviews and resources.
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INDEX: Design to Improve Life Fast Company's Alicia Walker on the INDEX: AIGA Aspen Design Challenge

Source: www.fastcompany.com
aspen water The raging creeks and still snow-packed peaks of Aspen, Colorado don't outwardly suggest any hints of a global water crisis, but it provides a reflective backdrop for design students who arrived ...
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INDEX: Design to Improve Life Finalist Jean Madden (Australia) discusses her design Street Swags on Australian morning sho 9am with David & Kim.

Source: 9am.ten.com.au
Watch FULL episodes of 9am with David & Kim, or just check out exclusive interviews with celebrities, or even watch how your favourite recipe is made!
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INDEX: Design to Improve Life The tour of the special exhibition, which displays the INDEX:Award 2007 winners now continues on to Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana. The exhibition itself will take place in the very center of the city in Ljubljana’s famous gothic Town Hall Mestna hiša, (also known as Rotovž or Magistrat). Please drop by if you are in Ljubljana. INDEX: Award exhibition 2007 - Winners on tour: 03 Jun 2009 - 19 Jun 2009

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INDEX: Design to Improve Life The 72 finalists for INDEX:Award 2009 have just been announced. Check them out at our brand new website!

Source: www.designtoimprovelife.dk
The finalists for INDEX:Award 2009 have been selected by the international INDEX: jury as the best of the best from the a total record-setting number of nominations from 54 countries.
Jeanette
Jeanette
What great ideas! Hoping that all of these deserving innovations get great press.
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INDEX: Design to Improve Life Stay tuned later today for the finalists for INDEX:Award 2009 AND the launch of our new website!

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INDEX: Design to Improve Life INDEX: Award Exhibition 2007 – winners on tour

Lithuania's capital Vilnius is this year's European Capital of Culture and right now Vilnius is celebrating its design week, Dizaino savaitė. If you happen to be in Vilnius, please drop by the Europos Aikste square, where we are right now showing the winner of INDEX: Award 2007.

Showing until May 26

Source: www.dizainosavaite.lt
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INDEX: Design to Improve Life INDEX: CEO, Kigge Hvid has been nominated for the Danish interior magazine "Boligmagasinet"'s annual design award in the "Advocate of the Year" category. Congrats!

Source: boligmagasinet.dk
Vi har glædet os i et helt år til igen at hylde og fejre cremen af dansk og international design. Her er de nominerede til Bolig Magasinets Designs Awards 2009
Demmy
Demmy
congratulations Kigge
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INDEX: Design to Improve Life Young philanthropist: 9-year old aims to raise $12,500 for LifeStraw!

Source: www.southtownstar.com
The spunky, bright-eyed third-grader at Blackhawk Intermediate School in Park Forest is trying to raise $12,500 to buy 1,000 portable water filtration systems called LifeStraws.
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INDEX: Design to Improve Life We reached 1400 fans today! Thanks all. Stay tuned we have exiting new stuff happening soon

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INDEX: Design to Improve Life We are moving today. In the future you can find us down the road (in the same building) at Njalsgade 106, DK-2300 Copenhagen S

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Design and the Elastic Mind
“In order to step boldly into the future, we need design” - Paola Antonelli In the past decades, technology and science have advanced in an ever more rapid pace which seems t...
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Time:7:00PM Friday, April 17th
Location:Medicinsk Museion
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INDEX: Design to Improve Life 2007 INDEX AWARD winner Tesla Motors unveils electric family sedan

Source: www.treehugger.com
The Tesla Model S electric car next to the Tesla electric Roadster. Click the image above to see our Tesla Model S slideshow. Base Price: $49,900 After $7,500 Tax Credit Finally! After all this time, we now know what
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Source: www.indexaward.dk
Next generation of creative thinkers respond to global water crisis with creativity and verve- Students from 115 universities in 27 countries compete for $10,000 award- Selected finalists to present at ...
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INDEX: Design to Improve Life The latest issue of the magazine Design> has a piece on INDEX and an interview with our director of program and events, Lise Vejse Klint

Source: www.designmagazine.co.za
Xinyu
Xinyu
amazing site
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INDEX: Design to Improve Life Five high school girls from the Swedish town of Växjö have set up a business to provide Lifestraws for Cambodia. Their company, PureLife, now competes in the Swedish Youth Enterprise Championship. Read more (in Swedish only):

Source: www.smp.se
Fem tjejer på Procivitas privata gymnasium säljer sugrör som renar smutsigt vatten. Sugrören betalas av Växjöbor och räddar liv Kambodja.
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INDEX: Design to Improve Life Skagen is the northernmost town in Denmark and famous for its stunning beaches, its turn-of-the-century artist colony and its special light caused by it being surrounded by the ocean on three sides, but it is also the hometown of our CEO, Kigge Hvid.
Recently the local tourist board teamed up with a local restaurant and the celebrated chef Paul Cunningham to host a benefit dinner to raise funds to support LifeStraw (winner of INDEX: AWARD 2005). The benefit dinner raised 143,550 dkk (aprox. 20,000 Euro).

Follow the link to read more (in Danish only)

Source: www.nordjyskeugeaviser.dk
Et gammel ordsprog fortæller, at ”...for mange kokke fordærver maden”, men dette var bestemt ikke tilfældet i lørdags på Danmarks nordligste restaurant De 2 have i Skagen.Her var de dygtigste kokke i Skagen ...
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Source: www.indexaward.dk
...an inspiring afternoon about design icons.Exceptional productsPeople immediately recognize some designs as iconic - products like the Ipod, the Rubik's Cube, The VW, the Concorde etc.But what makes ...
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INDEX: Design to Improve Life "A Company Prospers by Saving Poor People’s Lives" (February 2 , 2009) NY Times article on Vestergaard-Frandsen, manufacturer of INDEX: AWARD winner LifeStraw

Source: www.nytimes.com
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INDEX: Design to Improve Life International Herald Tribune reports from the recent WEF in Davos

Source: www.iht.com
Good or bad design? The verdict(s)
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We will explore how designers can lift the responsibility of ensuring that products and services are designed responsibly. Speakers: Martin Fluri, Partner, vuggetilvugge.dk...
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Time:4:30PM Thursday, November 20th
Location:Kunstindustrimuseet/Danish Museum of Art and Design
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The Opening of the INDEX: Online Nomination website
INDEX: Award 2009 is open for nominations!
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Time:2:30PM Wednesday, August 27th
Location:Republikken (The Republic)
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On the occasion of the official visit by Minister for Information, Communication and the Arts Dr. Lee Boon Yang of the Republic of Singapore
From June 1st to June 5th INDEX: has the privilege of hosting an official visit by His Excellency Dr. Lee Boon Yang, Minister for Information, Communications & the Arts of the...
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Time:7:00PM Tuesday, June 3rd
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