UL’s O’Brien wins design award

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&nbsp; Sarah O’Brien, a senior in industrial design at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, has placed first in the 15th annual Student Design Competition run by the International Housewares Association.

She will receive $2,400 and an all-expense paid trip to the International Home + Housewares Show in Chicago on March 16-18. There, O’Brien will make contacts that may lead to selling her product idea to a manufacturer or securing a job upon graduation.

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O’Brien designed the Elizabowl, a flexible fruit bowl that expands and contracts to store and display various types and sizes of fruit. Separate compartments for each piece of fruit help minimize bruising and significantly reduce the transfer of ethylene gas that causes over-ripening.

This is O’Brien’s second submission to the contest. She won honorable mention in 2006. O’Brien has gone back to school as an adult to become an industrial designer, after having been director of research at the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.




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Congrats to Sarah! She, like so many other students at UL in the College of the Arts, is extremely talented. The public will get a chance to see what the College has to offer April 1 - 5, 2008 during their 2nd Annual Festival of the Arts. It will feature lectures, music and dance performances, a fashion runway show, and much more. Closing the week will be the Festival Gala, which will feature food from local restaurants, music, and a silent auction that will include works from many area artists and students.

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It will feature lectures, music and dance performances, a fashion runway show, and much more. _

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If they need any models, I can make myself available for that week, assuming it's swimwear, of course.

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Sarah O'Brien of the University of Louisiana earned first place and $2,400 for her design of Elizabowl, a flexible fruit bowl that expands and contracts to store and display various types and sizes of fruit.

Separate compartments for each piece of fruit help minimise bruising and significantly reduce the transfer of ethylene gas that causes over-ripening.

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Second place was shared by Noah Balmer and Richard Hagee. Balmer's KitchenSync allows users an efficient way to view recipes they have stored on their home computer, without printing them or bringing a laptop into the kitchen. The stationary dock houses the main components and is plugged into the wall. The book component connects magnetically to the dock and is charged through induction. The book slides off the dock and can be held in the hand or placed on a countertop for viewing.

Hagee's Opus laundry hammock aids in the collection, transportation and handling of laundry. It hangs from clothes racks or in cupboards and allows easy gathering and sorting without bending over.

Two third-place awards went to Faris Elmasu for the BIN, which combines a waste bin with a light vacuum cleaner, and Alexander Brown for Della, a floor lamp/lantern/flashlight that provides room lighting and an emergency light.

The judges awarded a total of 19 prizes to students in 11 design schools.

The product prototypes and their creators will take centre stage at the Housewares Design Center at Chicago's International Home + Housewares Show, March 16 to 18.


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The best designs are the simple ones

I saw a familiar picture on the MSN homepage, it was the fruit basket which won a design award made by a UL senior. Check out the link http://realestate.msn.com/improve/sl...0733&GT1=35000

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If they need any models, I can make myself available for that week, assuming it's swimwear, of course.

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_ If they need any models, I can make myself available for that week, assuming it's swimwear, of course. _

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Dude...

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Don't worry boys...I've been hitting the James almost daily in the event I get the call.

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Don't worry boys...I've been hitting the James almost daily in the event I get the call.

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Is that what they call it in H-town?

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