Australian Airline Qantas launched their new next generation check-in experience designed by Marc Newson at Perth,s airport.

The ‘next generation’ check-in should provide greater speed and ease through the airport terminal by eliminating airport queuing, based on a new Qantas frequent flyer card, a Q card reader and bag drop facility.

Customers arriving at the airport who have not yet checked in online or via their mobile device, will be able to simply touch their card at an all-new Q card reader located throughout the check-in hall. The Q card reader will provide both visual and audible recognition of successful check-in. All customers traveling with bags will be able to use the new bag drop service at next generation check-in airports.

You will be forgiven for mistaking the object pictured below as a sculpture or a home decor accessory. In reality this tree is not there to make a creative statement but to toast some good old bread. The Toaster Tree has been conceptualized by Xu Yan Xiang and it features Transparent nano-electric membrane technology which in English simply means, the leaves are actually the grill!

www.yankodesign.com

Design:Made:Trade is a diverse and inspiring trade exhibition space of over sixty 3×3 metre VISY cardboard booths, including some of Australia’s leading furniture, fashion and industrial design brands.

Design:Made:Trade returns for its third year and will be accompanied by a huge number of programs including workshops, talks, exhibitions and displays. This historic site comes alive with activity during the first week of the Festival, register to visit if you are part of the design industry or enjoy the event during the days opened to the public.

Design:Made:Trade will open from July 15 to 18, 2010 at Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton, Victoria.

www.stateofdesign.com.au

Russian based Studioin came up this cool packaging for Good Milk.

“Milk is a universal and indispensable product. Going along with the modern tendency to popularize healthy lifestyles and recognizing the importance of environmental protection, we suggest that this product, serving all peoples well since times immemorial, should be super-popularly served in aluminum cans. Their advantages include light weight and strength, aesthetical appearance and compactness. Aluminum cans fully preserve the natural taste and quality of the product and are easily opened…”

The design also included Tetra Pak packaging.

www.studioin.ru

Move-On is a suitcase collection designed by Agent that addresses some issues frequently faced by people who travel. A suitcase collection for the mobile individuals of today, and tomorrow.

“We think the concept of traveler is a bit outdated and the modern nomads are in fact experience seekers who need more than just tools for their journeys.”

With Move-On Agent want to show how suitcases can be as practical and beautiful as they have always been, but with a little plus.

www.destroyafteruse.com/

In celebration of World Industrial Design Day (WIDD) on 29 June 2010, the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) invites designers from around the globe to initiate events reflecting this year’s theme:

“Industrial Design: Humane solutions for a resilient world”

This topic was selected to facilitate collaboration within the industrial design community with the goal of producing tangible solutions to world problems.

“This theme stems from the immense response received from our recent ‘Uniting Designers in Disaster’ initiative launched on Facebook on 22 January in light of the disaster in Haiti and conveys the important role industrial design can play in global issues,” stated President Mark Breitenberg.

While the theme for WIDD 2010 calls on the design community to contribute their knowledge and skill, this day of observance is significant in fostering a global understanding of industrial design and all that it encompasses.

Events will take place in the following countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Germany, Ireland, Iran, Russia, South Africa, Turkey and United Kingdom.

For a list of events go here.

www.icsid.org

The futuristic watches or wearable gadgets that we usually watch in sci-fi movies lack one important thing, which is simplicity. Who told that future devices always have to be weird and complicated when Dew wearable mobile device is being so simple in design and can do all the required things of our everyday life in style and convenience. The simplistic design with one ball shaped operating button on the surface can surely make your life easier. With Due’s unique functionality, you will also be able to enjoy 3D hologram of different functions and options of the stylish and lightweight wearable phone.

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In partnering with PUMA, a leader in sportswear, shoes and products, Fuseproject, the design studio of Yves Behar, looked to create a game changing packaging system that would greatly reduce their footprint and build on their initiatives toward cleaner, greener, and safer practices contributing to a better world around us.

www.fuseproject.com

DMY Berlin is an international design network for contemporary product design. At the yearly DMY International Design Festival Berlin both renowned and young, experimental designers launch new products, prototypes and foresighted projects. The exhibition is accompanied by a wide program of symposia, designer-talks and workshops, able to reflect current topics of contemporary design and to reveal necessary future trends of design and its related disciplines.

In collaboration with the Bauhaus Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, DMY yearly assigns the DMY Awards for excellent projects. With international exhibitions and activities in Europe, Asia and South America, DMY gives visibility to unconventional and innovative projects and products that go beyond the mainstream.

www.dmy-berlin.com

Since 2006, AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) San Francisco has organized San Francisco Design Week as a way to reach out to a diverse community of over 20,000 Bay Area design professionals as well as local businesses, non-profits, entrepreneurs, students, the design-savvy public, tourists, and more. AIGA SF will be partnering with the San Francisco chapters of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), the Interaction Design Association(IxDA), the Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD), and Adobe Systems, to sponsor a full week of events highlighting the diversity and professionalism of the design community around the bay. Their goal is to raise public awareness of the impact that all design: graphic, product, interior, fashion, architecture, advertising, etc, has in the San Francisco Bay Area.

San Francisco Design Week will take place from June 14 to June 19, 2010.

www.sfdesignweek.org