GK Design International

 

Thursday, February 2nd, 7:00 - 9:30pm

GK DESIGN INTERNATIONAL

PRESENTS:

Symbiosis: 

Design, Emotion and the Customer

In The Duncan Anderson Design Department Gallery

As part of the GK Group of design consultancies, GKDI is constantly generating innovative solutions for powersports customers and has received countless awards for their product designs.  In 2012 GK Group will celebrate their 60th year as an industrial design consultancy; during this period they have maintained a fifty-seven year relationship with the Yamaha Motor Corporation. GK was responsible for designing the very first motorcycle produced by the company, and has continued on to design the wide variety of current product lines including Motorcycles, ATVs, UTV’s, watercraft, snowmobiles and others.

Norman Kerechuk

President, GK Design International Inc.

Norman is a graduate of Art Center College of Design and has been involved with the design of powersport vehicles at GK Design for twenty years. He has contributed to the development of advanced concept vehicles as well as those currently in production. He has presented his thoughts on design and innovation at conferences in Japan, Europe, and the U.S.  As president of GKDI he oversees the Los Angeles and Atlanta branch offices.

Yoshiharu Sugawara

Vice President, GK Design International Inc.

Sugawara-san has been responsible for motorcycle, ATV, snowmobile, golf cart, power generator designs for Yamaha Motor Company since 1991. He has worked with European, American and Asian product lines and was the lead designer for development of the Venture touring motorcycle and Rhino side by side vehicle.

Atsushi Egashira

Senior Designer, Color and Graphics

A graduate of Tama Arts University, Egashira was in charge of color design for YAMAHA products from 1998 to 2008 as part of GK Dynamics in Tokyo, Japan.  In 2009 he moved to LA and now leads the color and graphics team at GKDI.

Adrian Sellers

Senior Designer, Product

As part of GKDI’s product design team, Adrian works closely with Yamaha Motor Corp. to bring US design concepts to market.  He is responsible for the styling concepts behind the V-Star 950, Star Stryker, 2010 YZ450F, and production design for the 2010 Stratoliner Deluxe.  Adrian holds an MA in Automotive Design from Coventry University, (UK), and a BA in Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design, (USA).

Join us before the lecture for a preview! 

Enter IDEA 2012

Welcome to IDEA 2012!

The International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA®) program is the premier international competition honoring design excellence in products, ecodesign, interaction design, packaging, strategy, research and concepts. Entries are invited from designers, students and companies worldwide.

Winning entries receive coverage in hundreds of print and broadcast media around the world. IDSA has been honoring design excellence through the IDEA program since 1980. IDEA was formerly known as the Industrial Design Excellence Awards. The name changed in 2007 to emphasize the international reach and influence of the competition.

IDEA 2012 Timeline & Fees

IDEA 2012 Categories

IDEA 2012 Entry Rules, Criteria & Process

IDEA 2012 Entry Form Templates

Benefits of Winning

Enter IDEA today! (Takes you to the registration site to start the process)

Enter IDEA 2012.

Innovation Consumer Electronics Showcase

Innovation’s spring 2012 showcase will feature innovative and unique consumer electronic designs. This is not a competition; all qualifying submissions will be published. Please designate concepts and student work as such.

The submission deadline is Feb. 10. Submitting is easy—simply email the following to k.designs@cox.net :

• Project name
• Design firm
• Client (if any)
• Web or email address to be published (one only)
• Provocative statement of no more than 15 words related to the concept (not a product description)
• Image: 300 dpi, cmyk, 5×7″ (minimum—larger is better), tiff preferred, white backgrounds preferred (large files can be sent viawww.yousendit.com)
• Credit card information for $450 (card number, expiration date, security code and name of cardholder)
• Contact information for submitter (including full address)

Don’t be left out of what is sure to be a must-read Innovation, guest edited by Tucker Viemeister, FIDSA. Please contact Karen Berube, managing editor, at k.designs@cox.net or 703.860.4411, with any questions or if you need to call in your credit card information.

Innovation Consumer Electronics Showcase.

Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination

Imagine a world with humanoid robots translating languages, landspeeders whizzing down the highway, and X-wing Starfighters protecting the skies. Could these technologies, limited only to the fantasy worlds of Star Wars™, actually become a reality?

Find out as Discovery Science Center hosts an out-of-this-world exhibit, Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination, presented by Bose Corporation.

• Build and test your own speeders and robots
• See real artifacts from all six Star Wars films
• Explore the technology of droids and landspeeders
• And much more!

Discovery Science Center, Santa Ana CA

Now thru April 15, 2012

http://www.discoverycube.org/star-wars/