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THE CIRCLE & DESIGNEX AWARDS WINNERS

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I travelled to Sydney in April to attend DesignEX 2010 and saw so many wonderful products and displays that truly inspired me. So today (May 21st) on The Circle Ch 10 I shared with the girls (and the rest of Australia!) a couple of award winners that truly caught my eye.

Caesarstone -Motiva
Winner Category – Internal Surface Finishes
First company to use a quartz surface with laser technology. The design is lasered into the surface then sandblasted in the grooves. It can be used for a walls, furniture, benches and of course kitchens. When using in kitchens it must comply with the Building Code of Australian Standards. At this time it comes in the Black Crocodile design and the White Lace design.

Skape Tub by Karim Rashid for Xflo
Winner Category – Bathrooms
The tub is made of a Liquid Acrylic Resin tub to help create perfectly shaped curves and its unique seamless finish. The Skape Tub is stain resistant, antibacterial and it is designed to look like the base is growing out of the main surface.


Liquid Tiles for Academy Tiles
Winner category – flooring
These tiles are made from non-slip tempered glass and have been created using high tech-Aerospace technology! Like a surface Lava lamp with colour changing LED’s, these tiles are perfect to walk, jump, or bust a move on the dance floor.


Now DesignEX isn’t just about the awards, there are some off-the-wall installations (I will be posting soon a brilliant video and pics of one of the design areas soon) and other products.
Here are just a few of interest.


Real Feather wallpaper and rusted mirror
www.gardenlife.com.au
www.att-rotex.com.tw
Not all serious business! Gnomes with attitude. www.gardenlife.com.au
Catching up with ‘friends’ (I wish!) Jamie Durie
Custom design rugs by Hip Home. Perfect “splat”s to hide the mess in life! Nothing like ‘Designer-splat’!!
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Influences from your magazines

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Inside/Out Magazine and wallpaper breaking all the rules
House and Garden bold moves
I attended a fantastic seminar on Friday May 1st at Designex called Vision & Influence and the speakers talked about what their influences were and questioned on how the media influences the content of each edition of their magazine. Attending was Karen McCartney from Inside/Out magazine, Lisa Green from Aust House and Garden, Sandy de Beyer from Burke’s Backyard, Imogen Naylor from Belle and MC was John Eussen. Each magazine has a completely different demographic and output, but the common thread was listening to the feedback of their readers. Each magazine is driven themselves by what they want to see and their ‘gut’ instinct, what is available from manufacturers to produce this and definitely the economic situation. Not that they are predicting doom and gloom, but are instead going back to basics and looking at ways of not being the disposable society we have become. And that can only be a good thing!
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