Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/11/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I as well appreciate the lifetime achievement winners freedom to choose a wardrobe that is personally satisfying. Your Warsaw skyline images are very well done as well. On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 4:25 AM Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > Last one is my favorite too - it is visual evidence that you can be both > a successful designer, and a winner when it comes to finding your matching > clothes by touch, half awake in the dark ? > > The architecture smacks of Gaudi, lovely lines overall. > > And congrats to the Chief Economist! :-) > The XE-2 rules in his hands. > > OTT : Is ? Pol-in ? an echo sent back to Br-exit(eers) ? > > Keep documenting and sharing > > > Amities > > Zubrowka-ly yours, Philippe > > > > > Le 28 nov. 2018 ? 10:12, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> a > > ?crit : > > > > Every two years, our office sponsors an award for the best industrial > design by a European company. There are two categories: one for small > companies, and one for large ones, plus a lifetime achievement award to an > eminent designer. This year we are held the event in Warsaw yesterday, part > of the celebrations of the country?s 100th anniversary of independence and > hence also the 100th anniversary of the Polish Patent Office. The venue was > at first sight a bit curious: POLIN, the magnificent museum of Jewish > history, at the heart of what was Warsaw?s ghetto until 1943. What does > POLIN have to do with designs? Nothing in particular, except that it is a > fantastic building, and also, like many museums, it is always looking for > additional income sources, and making its auditorium available for this > kind of event is one such source. It was a very nice event, and here are > six images from the ceremony. > > > > The lobby of the museum: > > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-RXWh4z2/A > > > > Colours and shapes: > > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-QDCZkjf/A > > > > The event gets under way, moderated by professional moderators: > > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-rcS3LrS/A > > > > To kick things off, a video about the value of industrial design is > played, including a short blurb from yours truly about the importance of > designs to the economy and to individual companies: > > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-k8pVNw8/A > > > > The winner of the small company award, to my great pleasure, was a > Danish company that has designed a new kind of automatic self-service > automatic luggage drop-off for airports: > > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-x9bjVtH/A > > > > And the ceremony ended with a lifetime achievement award to a German > designer who has worked with some of best known companies in the world, > such as Apple, Sony, Microsoft, Lufthance and numerous others: > > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-WgxbzQK/A > > > > This last one is probably my favourite image of the event. > > > > My week in Warsaw continues. > > > > Cheers, > > Nathan > > > > > > > > Nathan Wajsman > > Alicante, Spain > > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws < > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ < > http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator < > http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Don don.dory at gmail.com