Primero fue Milán, posteriormente Las Vegas y ahora le toca el turno a Nueva York. La  International Contemporany Furniture Fair ha abierto sus puertas esta semana con 5 #redmembers en cartel.

El FAD (Fomento de las Artes y del Diseño), la institución centenaria dedicada a la promoción y mejora del diseño en todas sus vertientes, y Applus+, una de las empresas líderes mundiales en ensayos, inspección y certificación, presentaron el pasado 8 de mayo la FAD Certification of Design Quality para establecimientos hoteleros.

‘La gente no compra productos, sino las historias que estos productos representan. Así como tampoco compra marcas, sino los mitos y arquetipos que esas marcas simbolizan’.
Ashraf  Ramzy. What’s in a name?, How stories power enduring brands (2006).

El jueves día 23 de mayo RED organiza un WORKSHOP de gestión de marca para empresas de diseño.

Everybody is able to use an iPhone or an iPad to prescribe design. This is one of the new tools that interior designers and architects use during their visits with clients at the project locations. Instead of carrying heavy catalogues, now with the iPad they can easily find and show the products they are specifying on a interior design project and discuss with the client about the different options such as colors, finishings and details.

The swiss company Architonic, founded by 2 architects, is now supporting manufacturers developing their App's so their entire catalogue is 100% adapted to the navigation on iPads and iPhones. Their App system is fully thought to suit the real needs of interior designers when they are out of the office working on a project.

Find the apps at the Apple store of the #redmembers: Sancal, Santa&Cole, LZF-Lamps, Marset and Andreu World.

"Daily" sofa designed by Mario Ruiz for JOQUER

There is a family in Perth, Western Australia, that has deeply fall in love with Spanish design. These are the Fazzari’s, running Mobilia in Perth. They have just launched their new website designed by @YONOH, a creative studio based in Valencia, and there you can find a great bunch of Spanish design firms.

Delica launched two new collections at Ambiente Trade Show in Frankfurt, from 15 to 19 February 2013.

One of them is Phi 60 Shelving System designed by Jordi Canudas, a special modular shelving system that allows irregular and consistently harmonious arrangements, thanks to a proportional measurement system and the easy fitting of its elements.

In between design companies is not strange that many of the #redmembers show their products decorating several stands from other brands.

This is the way you will find Teixidors textiles, all around the booths of Arper, Kettal, Zanotta, Lofren and Kartell.

Music has always been part of LZF’s DNA and has accompanied them from the very beginning. But never before had they brought their lamps together with music in such an explicit, conscious and deliberate manner. At last, the new “High Fidelity” collection has provided them with the opportunity to pay this long overdue tribute.

From 9th to 14th April, Milan will be playing host to the Saloni 2013, as they unveil their panoply of previously unseen home furnishing, lighting and office solutions, along with the biennial Euroluce, International Lighting Exhibition and SaloneUfficio, International Workspace Exhibition. These will be accompanied, as always, by other events linked to the worlds of design, art and culture in the Fairgrounds and in the city, conceived with both the huge number of visitors to the Saloni and the Milanese themselves in mind.