Hot on the heels of the highly-energetic, highly-crowded (140+ person) New York City installment of the Creative Employment Confab, Coroflot is bringing the panel + networking event to the City of Roses in its only Pac NW appearance, Thursday, June 11 at the University of Oregon's White Stag Block in Old Town.

As before, the event will run for three hours, feature ample opportunity for networking with local creative professionals and recruiters, and center on an engaging panel discussion with some of Portland's top designers and design recruiters. We'll be spotlighting each of the panelists over the next week, but you can get start getting yourself acquainted right here:

Chelsea Vandiver - Head of the Communications Design Group at Ziba

Beth Sasseen - Senior Design Recruiter at Nike

Nick Oakley - Industrial Design Lead for Mobile Platforms at Intel

Kirk James - Creative Director at Cinco Design

In addition, there will be a limited number of dedicated Recruiter packages available for design-driven companies looking to establish a presence at the event -- check the registration page for details.

Coroflot's Creative Employment Confab
June 11th, 2:30-6 pm
The White Stag Block
70 NW Couch St. in Portland, OR

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Object convergence of a different sort. Nowadays technology is blurring the line between SLR cameras and video cameras, not only in the physical design of the cameras themselves, but the post-processing tech that enables us to do things like create video by piecing together stills.

Last year we showed you a video shot in Tokyo with Canon's 5D; the two videos embedded below are different in that they were rendered out of still frames. The first is more sober and meditative, and the second one is a totally nutty must-see--it was shot tilt-shift style, and viewing it makes us look, well, small as a species.

static : pulse from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo.

Scenes from a rooftop from Paul Johannessen on Vimeo.

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Damien playing around...

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We love the messy, casual, but monumental style of Atelier van Lieshout's Liquor Master bar cabinet, made from foam, fiberglass, and metal. Liquor Master is part of a 2009 collection that uses the human form as a jumping off point for process-based, sculptural furniture. The collection includes his similarly constructed Fossil Chaise, an object reminiscent of a piece of chewed gum, but with the added luxury of a sheepskin.

These two pieces will debut at Vivid Gallery's booth at Design Miami/Basel this June, alongside new Pyrex glassware from Jamie Hayon and the giant Silver Ware sculptures Studio Job constructed for Bisazza in 2007.

Hit the jump for more images!

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Sir Ken Robinson at Creative Company Conference in Amsterdam. In this presentation he talks about his view on creativity, the educational system and his new book "The Element". The video is sometimes a little bit shaky because it was done with a flip HD.

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Next month Asus will launch their Eee Keyboard, which looks like an ultraslim keyboard with an iPhone slapped onto it. Touted as a "nettop," the device actually contains an entire PC, with the idea being that you can carry it around and plug it into any available display.

We were curious about the potential for the Frankensteinian integrated-touchscreen interface, but as Slashgear's hands-on review shows, the device may not be ready for primetime. Skip the first two minutes of the vid, the action doesn't start until about 2:04 (and avoid watching altogether if Failblog-worthy demos pain you to see).

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You can skip the first 40 filler seconds of this "Future Vision of Manufacturing" video by Microsoft, but check out the neat part from roughly 0:40 to 1:45, when they show a design team kicking ideas around using some nifty interface tools; it's Minority Report meets Objectified.

Of course, the notion that the technologies depicted here would all work seamlessly are totally suspect, as this is Microsoft we're talking about, but it's nice to dream....

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What does US $3.7 million worth of industrial design look like? That's the lowest pre-sale estimate for the 101 pieces going on the block at Sotheby's "Important 20th Century Design" auction in June. (The highest estimate is $5.4 million.)

Up for grabs will be pieces by Frank Gehry, Shiro Kuramata, Jean Prouve, Gustav Stickley, Tom Sachs, and Olafur Eliasson, among others. And while objects like a Tiffany "Trumpet Creeper" lamp are expected to pull in as much as a half a mil, it's designer Joris Laarman's recent (2003) "Heatwave" radiator that's being called "one the most acclaimed designs of the decade" by James Zemaitis (Director of Sotheby's 20th Century Design Department).

Says Zemaitis, "When you juxtapose this masterwork with the Trumpet Creeper lamp by Tiffany Studios at the end of the sale, we see how industrial design is cyclical, and that nature is reestablishing itself as a decorative presence in the 21st Century."

To see the full catalogue, click here.

via art daily

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Over the years there have been quite a few maps and illustrations attempting to put New York City in perspective, starting with Daniel K. Wallingford's "A New Yorker's Idea of the United States of America" in 1935 and perhaps most famously, Saul Steinberg's 1976 take on the same subject. But none have done it the way London design firm Schulze & Webb have, by warping it.

"Here and There" is Schulze & Webb's project "exploring speculative projections of dense cities. These maps of Manhattan look uptown from 3rd and 7th, and downtown from 3rd and 35th. They're intended to be seen at those same places, putting the viewer simultaneously above the city and in it where she stands, both looking down and looking forward."

Why do it this way?

"Because the ability to be in a city and to see through it is a superpower, and it's how maps should work."

At first I thought this was just a gimmick, but after looking at it more closely and thinking about it, I realize it's kinda brilliant. If they could make a virtual map like this that scaled in real time and say, put it on your iPhone or a car's GPS, I'd use it continuously. To blend simple nearby perspective with an overhead view of where you'd like to go gives a sense of distance and travel you simply can't get with a regular map. Here's to hoping this becomes a cartographic trend.

via kottke

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"One day, two people, three tools" is what UK-based Stephen Meir's home office concept would need to be put together, once delivered. The idea is that you would order a number of factory-built "office slices," snap them together into your desired configuration, and you're good to go.

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