Cover Story: Design Innovation

• Putting Singapore on the Design Map
  Lion City steps up activities to make it a hotbed of design creativity.

• Training Design Engineers
  Centre for Design Technology nurtures design-engineering expertise with broad multi-disciplinary industry-based programmes.

• Inculcating Advanced Design Innovation
  Advanced design and modelling focuses on the mechanical and aerospace engineering industry.

• Enabling Innovation in Service Design
  Innovation in systematic-design approach enhances services such as marketing and business analysis.

• Design 101
  Structured hands-on course achieves excellent results.

• Industrial Design in Product Development
  Industrial-design process facilitates product creation and assesses its feasibility.

• Deployable Structures to Fast-Track Construction
  Deployable strut-tensioned structures allow rapid construction of large-span structures and enclosures.

• Stikfas Success Hinges on Design
  A unique figure concept invented in Singapore takes the world by storm.

• Air-Con Cleaning Robot
  Cleaning robot climbs steps and negotiates obstacles.

• Technology Helps Disabled, Aged
  Centre taps technology to assist handicapped and elderly people.

• Simulating Image-Guided Surgery
  Virtual-reality and augmented-reality technologies enable radiological training, pre-planning, and remote operation.

• Reshaping Singapore's Cityscape
  Island state adopts innovative planning and design that adds value to limited space.

• Refreshing Gardens by the Bay
  Three unique parks hugging Marina Bay will inject colour and open space into Singapore's new downtown.

• The Zen of Design
  Toshiyuki Kita believes good design balances features, nature, and lifestyles.

• Red Dot Awards Fresh Ideas
  World-renowned design contest identifies brilliant and fresh concepts that stimulate and inspire.

• iF Design Awards
  Singapore students clinch two concept awards in the prestigious Design Oscar competition.

• SaloneSatellite - Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2006

• SARA NY Design Awards
  NUS students win prestigious architectural awards for architectural design innovation.

• Electrolux Design Lab Award 2006

• Nakamichi Collaboration Brings Windfall

• Experiential Journeying through Sound
  Architectural design and aural phenomena share a relationship.

Features

• Detecting Invisible Pre-Cancer in the Gut
  Near-infrared fluorescence imaging enables doctors to spot cancer risk early.

• Bird Flu Vaccine Promises Protection
  Baxter's cell-based H5N1 pandemic vaccine shows encouraging results.

• Blast-Preventing Anti-Landmine Shoes
  A shoe invented in Singapore prevents detonation of a stepped-on landmine.

Departments

• Editorial
  Adding Value through Design.

• In Brief
  Innovative highlights in various fields.

• Industry Updates
  Significant industry developments.

• Viewpoint
  Design-Inspired Innovation
  A study explores the ways the art, design, and innovation communities interact to create new products.

• Designing a Memory Container
  Intuitive design discovery relies on experience.

• Spotlight
  Designing Success from Failure
  James Dyson, inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, believes in learning from failure.

• Molecular Diagnostics Detects Cancer Early
  Lee Hartwell, 2001 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, extols the virtues of molecular diagnostics and advocates better reimbursement for efforts in the field.

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