He is a breakthrough outcome of Religious New Product Development Process (RNPD)

Basic rules of RNPD

1. Religion do not deal with Technology.
2. In RNPD, human is assumed as hardware.
3. Society simulates manufacturing.
4. Religious leaders perform as software engineers, developers and network administers.

According to outward appearance, each RNPD-deriven product is released every 30 years. As for the technology is not used in production process the product randomly gets shape by means of the society itself every 3o years. The quality of the product ivaries dependently due to the amount and quality of religious beliefs that religious leaders inject into the society. Although the process takes long but the outcome will be a breakthrough product. Dr Mahmood is the best example for this approach.

Dr. Mahmood, is the sixth and current Presidential product of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was released on August 6, 2005. The design of the product provides experience of ugliness, untidiness, dirtiness and laziness for the users. Careful thinly scattered growth of bird and mustache supported by skin wrinkles are considerable. Designers firmly avoid symmetry in the design of the interface, specially in locating eyebrows and eyes. The form and function in such product really fulfills fantasy.

Product specifications

1. Dr Mahmood hardware hardly conflicts with George W. Bush but supports Russia, Venezuela, Syria and the Persian Gulf states.

2. The product is not virus protected. The most detected virus reports an error with this message: Iran's nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. In this case, the software even refuses United Nations Security Council resolutions.

3. Developers of the product do not believe in user friendly interface and did their best to irritate users while working with the product.

4. A very breakthrough feature of the new beta version of Dr Mahmood product is " Reminder ". The software reminds it's involvement in every aspect of users life. You disable voice, the software sends you reports. You close the window, the icon appears in your desktop. Even a user shots the product down, the size and space it takes from your living area is huge enough to unable the user to ignore it's existance.

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Designws-Platform 21 presents an exhibition devoted to Iranian graphic designer Reza Abedini. Through his work one discovers another side of Iran, the one we don’t see on CNN, the Iran of poetry, Persian tradition and modern culture.

Reza Abedini’s style unites the rich calligraphic tradition of Persian culture with ‘modernity’. On 13 December he receives the Principal Prince Claus Award for his way of applying the knowledge and accomplishments of Iran’s artistic heritage, renewing them, and making them exciting again.

This exhibition shows Abedini’s appreciation of Persian tradition, the historic material he uses as inspiration, his contemporary designs and the work of his students at the university of Teheran. The combination of image and typography is the most distinguishing characteristic of his work. Though the pieces look as if they have been painted, in fact they have been made on a computer.

Alongside the commercial aspects of imm cologne, cultural features such as the ideal houses are extremely important because they give visitors the opportunity to reflect on current developments. To date, ideal houses have been designed by Karim Rashid from New York, Konstantin Grcic from Munich, the Campana brothers from São Paolo, the Bouroullec brothers from Paris, Hella Jongerius from Rotterdam and Patricia Urquiola from Milan, all of whom made a tremendous impact with their work.

In 2006, three rising design stars - Joris Laarman, Stefan Diez and Astrid Krogh - juxtaposed their ideas against those of Dieter Rams, the doyen of technical minimalism. And in 2007, the star architect Zaha Hadid will be presenting her creative ideas for tomorrow's home styles alongside those of the design poet Naoto Fukasawa.

At their new location along the central Boulevard, the huge red cubes of the ideal houses 2007 will form an integral part of the heavily frequented north-south axis that runs through the entire exhibition area.

The concept of this car c,mm,n emphasizes car-use instead of possession, by developing a car of which the blueprints are freely available, the first open source car. This means c,mm,n is not a final product. It is continuously being developed and improved. Designing a car in an open source manner also has an impact on the way it is produced and eventually used. Services will be central to the concept, opening many new possibilities. c,mm,n is not just a car, it is a community that allows people to take sustainable mobility into their own hands.

Alessi introduces a pasta pot by the French designer Patrick Jouin. It is a result of a rediscovery by Alain Ducasse of an ancient cooking method used by olive pickers. Ducasse, one of the greatest chefs of our time, has brought to light a unique pot which produces a new and interesting flavor. The starches are not discarded with the cooking water but are totally absorbed by the pasta, and the same holds true for the ingredients of the sauce.

" Sometimes I start with the material, sometimes the idea. In this case the materials were the inspiration. I began by identifying materials that I had always been interested in but had never used. Often the context of materials strikes me more than the materials themselves. Context is new, not materials"-Marc Newson-

Designws- Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce a major exhibition of new limited edition works by acclaimed international designer Marc Newson. In his first exhibition with the gallery – also his first solo exhibition in the United States – Newson has reached new heights of complexity and sophistication with several bodies of related work. Each work is fashioned in a single, seamless piece from various materials, including marble and nickel.

Newson approaches design as an experimental exercise in extreme structures and advanced technologies, combined with a highly tactile and exacting exploration of materials, processes and skills.

As an industrial designer, Newson has also produced a broad range of highly imaginative products over the last twenty years, from concept jets and cars to watches, footwear, luggage, and aircraft interiors.At a time when the distinctions between art and design are becoming increasingly blurred and hotly debated, Newson is a trail-blazer who has pursued parallel activities in exclusive and mass production for more than twenty years.

Marc Newson was born in Sydney, Australia in 1963 and studied sculpture and jewellery at Sydney College of the Arts. Parallel to his career as an industrial designer, he has exhibited limited edition works and projects in galleries and public institutions since 1986, including Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (1995, 2004); Powerhouse Museum, Sydney (2001); the Groninger Museum, Netherlands (2004); and London Design Museum (2004-5). Currently he is Creative Director of Qantas Airways. He lives in London, with studios in London and Paris.

Parliamentary Election in Iran
Iran's complex and unusual political system combines elements of a modern Islamic theocracy with democracy. A network of unelected institutions controlled by the highly powerful conservative Supreme Leader is countered by a president and parliament elected by the people.

For much of the last decade, Iranian politics has been characterised by continued wrangling between these elected and unelected institutions as a reformist president - and, at times, parliament - struggled against the conservative establishment.

But with hardliners' regaining control of the parliament in 2004 and the presidency in 2005, all the organs of government are now dominated by conservatives.

Iran's hard-liners head into Friday's parliamentary elections by a safety net: Rival reformists are crippled after the clerical leadership threw out their best candidates.

The Guardian Council, a body of hard-line clerics and jurists who check candidates for their loyalty to the revolution, barred more than 1,700 candidates from running, most of them reformers, including their best-known leaders.

It seems that this election is the last one for me to participate as for I will leave the country in September. Leaving in Iran and dealing with social and political issues brings everybody a profound insight about social issues.

Individuals learn how to make decisions from childhood and develop their skills as they grow older, so do societies. The most critical difference between individual and social decision making is the broadness of their impact. A wrong decision by a society will cause enormous disasters.

Iranian society has learned how to make decisions through a false and true process. seemingly, this method loses its validity while people lose their access to information. 1978's election was reinforced initially by a demand toward decreasing distances between social levels.

Today, after three decades, the lowest social level has come to power and does not respect other society members' needs. Their hard religious beliefs, lack of proficiency in managerial levels, traditional economy system are the outcomes of their ruling experience and making harsh situation for the people living in Iran.

The world never relies on a government that does not even respect its own citizens. Religious governments only refer to their tradition and religious beliefs and deny logics, global agreements, scientific improvements and statistical information. As a society, by any means, loses its access to updated information their chance to make wise decisions decreases. Today's social, economical and political situation of Iran is a simple effect caused by such restrictions.

I do not believe in oligarchy but firmly of the belief that members of a society must never give credits to uncultured, non-experienced, religious, low-leveled and inexperts to come to power. The time has come for Iranians to act upon their experiences. As an Iranian, I'll do my part.
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این روزها ، اگه بی پول شدید یا فهمیدید پخی نمی شید یا باید با ماشین توی خیابونا کار کنید یا برید استاد دانشگاه هنر و معماری آزاد بشید! اگه اوضاعتون از این هم بدتر بود و هنوز موهاتون رو آب شونه می کردید و تکلیفتون با ساسونای شلوارتون مشخص نشده بود ، دانشکده هنر رو پیشنهاد می کنم !