Electrolux Names Design Lab Finalists
The top three winners will be named at 100% Design London on September 24.
Nicholas Tamarin -- Interior Design, 9/21/2009 12:00:00 AM
Renew by Louis Filosa
In a competition straight out of The Jetsons, Swedish appliance manufacturer Electrolux invited undergraduate and graduate industrial design students to send in their home appliance ideas for the next 90 years in order to celebrate its own 90th anniversary.
But instead of a visit to Mr. Spacely's house for dinner, the eight recently selected finalists of the Design Lab competition are competing for a first prize of approximately $7,000 and a six month paid internship at one of Electrolux's global design centers. The winner, who will have beaten out over 900 other students from more than 50 countries, will be named at A&D fest 100% Design London on September 24, along with second and third prize winners who bag approximately $4,200 and $2,800, respectively.
Moleculaire by Nico Klaber
An international jury of designers and industry insiders including furniture designer Doshi Levien, SeymourPowell design director David Fisher, and Electrolux senior vice president Henrik Otto, will review the finalist entries and select the three winners.
The eight finalists hail from schools from the Czech Republic to China and their ideas are seemingly as diverse. Ranging from the fantastical, like Moléculaire, a 3D molecular food printer by Nico Kläber of the Köln International School of Design in Germany, to the practical, like Renew, a wall that steam cleans clothes by Purdue University's Louis Filosa, all the ideas are—for the time being—out of this world.
Cocoon by Rickard Hederstierna
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