Author: business

Diffus Design receives Red Dot Award

Written on March 24, 2014. Posted in Awards.

SpacEmotion by Diffus Design has been awarded the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2014, one of the world’s largest and most renowned product design competitions. Underlining it’s credentials in design excellence in one of the world’s largest and most renowned product competitions, WSpacEmotion stood out from 4.815 entries and bestowed the distinction ‘Honorable Mention’ for excellent detail solutions from the international Red Dot jury. This coveted top award, places SpacEmotion by Diffus at the...

SpaceEmotion at MIPIM

Written on March 5, 2014. Posted in exhebitions.

SpaceEmotion designed by Diffus Design will be present at MIPIM, the leading real estate event for property professionals, in March 2014. MIPIM, that takes place every year in glamorous Cannes, is celebrating it’s 25th anniversary this year and will be a perfect showcase for our intelligent and modular system that is designed to integrate sound, music and scent into an elegant interior design. About MIPIM MIPIM (Le marché international des professionnels de l’immobilier) is an international property...

Workshop @Material Connexion Milano

Written on February 5, 2014. Posted in Uncategorized.

Our EU-project Light.Touch.Matters continues to develop in new and exiting ways. Last week we participated in another successful workshop held at Material Connexion in Milano. Material Connexion was a perfect frame around Workshop 04, which achieved its main objectives, to present and discuss 20 product design concepts made by the design SME’s. These proposals and discussions are feeding the materials research stream in a way that a true collaboration and exploitation of the diverse competences...

Diffus at Wearable Futures in London

Written on December 8, 2013. Posted in Uncategorized.

Molly Price, Diffus Design’s UK based associate parter, participates as a speaker at Wearable Futures, a two day conference exploring wearables, from smart materials to new technologies. On the10 th and 11 th of December 50 thinkers and creative people from around the world will debate and share their vision for the future of wearables, from smart materials to new technologies. The two days will include a broad programme of talks, interactive and immersive installations, and the chance to experiment...

New SpacEmotion video

Written on November 17, 2013. Posted in Projects.

Finally the video presenting SpaceEmotion is released. SpaceEmotion is a modular system of textile discs that have been embroidered with conductive yarn to generate sensory outputs including light, sound and scent across a custom made surface. The video is the result of a beautiful day in the forest with a fantastic crew. Director and editor: Zack Starr Runners, assistants, scenographers: Kristine Haffgaard, Morten Steensgaard, Michel Guglielmi and Hanne-Louise Johannesen Hair and makeup:...

CREATIF Press release

Written on November 13, 2013. Posted in Uncategorized.

CREATIF collaboration aims to revolutionise ‘smart’ fabric production Imagine that you could print touch sensors and active light directly on fabric – if your fabric could be turned into an interactive surface with different inputs and outputs printed in one go, on one surface. October 1st 2013 the EU-project, CREATIF, was kicked off. CREATIF is a unique project that strives to make this imagination possible. Three creative partners; Base Structures (UK), Diffus Design (DK) and Zaha Hadid Architects...

Diffus did it again! New project funded

Written on September 27, 2013. Posted in Uncategorized.

October 1st our second exciting EU-project – CREATIF – is kicked off where Diffus will be one of three creative partners together with Base Structures (UK) and Zaha Hadid Architects (UK). Technical and research based partners are Grafixoft (BG), Institut für Textiltechnik Aachen (DE), University of Southampton (UK) and Ardeje (FR). The CREATIF project is based in the area of smart textiles and aims to create collaborative tools in the form of intuitive digital software design tools coupled with...

Wonderful Light.Touch.Matters video

Written on September 15, 2013. Posted in Uncategorized.

In june 2013 the members of the Light.Touch.Matters consortium got together in lovely London for a second workshop. The workshop represented the beginning of the so-called first iteration that will bring to the definition of meaningful scenarios connected to new materials properties and experiences. It saw the start of designer-researcher dialogue, exchange of projects progress, handing out material samples, first sketches of scenarios of meaning and good team-building and decision-making. During...

New book by Leah Buechley, creator of “LILYPAD”, showcases The Climate Dress

Written on September 4, 2013. Posted in Uncategorized.

The Climate Dress is featured in the newly published book “Textile Messages: Dispatches From the World of E-Textiles and Education”, Published by Peter Lang Publishing. The Climate Dress is mentioned as ”a statement that, though an aesthetic representation of enviromental data, contributes to the ongoing debate about enviromental issues. (…) The dress does not rely on wiring, soldering, or crimping which is often impair the textile aspect of ”smart textile” products. All functional elements are...

RaumPROBE is blogging about the Climate Dress

Written on August 28, 2013. Posted in Uncategorized.

The Climate Dress is included in a material blog run by one of the largest material databanks in Europe: RaumPROBE – a true paradise for architects, interior decorators, planners, and interior designers: It is a competent contact partner in all matters regarding material. This is not only available online and searchable using common search criteria, but also on-site. raumPROBE makes the fascination of material accessible and wants to promote creative use of various materials. The blog is a huge...