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	111201 Getinge Quadro out now! Getinge Quadro, the new generation of tabletop sterilizers, is stating a user friendly focus in its design. Through the ergonomic and flexible control unit, reduced number of split lines, flat surfaces and high quality material, the design by LOTS assures a clean user environment and better health, as well as a more efficient production with reduced material and fewer components. Thanks to its low weight, the Getinge Quadro minimizes emissions during transport by more than 40% and with a globally unique chamber design, it allows an extremely high load capacity on a small tabletop area. With an ultra-fast B-cycle programme, the Getinge Quadro offers the highest productivity on the market. More info: www.skarhamn.getinge.com or www.getinge.com
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	111006 Growing old, still young at heart In the coming years, a generation with great expectations from life will retire. This is the first generation that grew up with a “teenage culture,” and who questioned and challenged old values and revolted against society. Staying young at heart while growing old means that they expect a great deal from their retirement. In the LOTS of Expectations collection, LOTS presents new products and services that respond to the wishes, needs and demands of this generation. Check out the new collection to take a sneak peek at what their upcoming lives as retirees may look like!
	110923 Welcome Elin - LOTS new project manager! Elin Eriksson is the lastest addition to LOTS. Elin has a MSc in Business Design and is our new project manager. With her background in communication, Elin will contribute with a branding perspective to LOTS processes and work with project and process management.
	110901 "Göteborg in treatment" at the Röhsska Museum On August 23, Iréne Stewart Claesson from LOTS was one of the panellists in the “Göteborg in treatment” debate at the Röhsska Museum, together with the journalist Mark Isitt who specializes in architecture and Jan Jörnmark, Associate Professor in Economics. They discussed Gothenburg’s future development and the importance of architecture in that context.
	110901 Red Dot Award Ceremony in Essen on July 4 Finally, we went to Essen to receive our Red Dot for Memento, our biodegradable burial urn. We met up with our producers, Darren & Patricia Crouch from Passages International Inc., who came all the way from New Mexico to celebrate together with us at Designers Night. The festivities were held in the Red Dot Design Museum, situated in the former boiler house of shaft 12 in the old Zollverein coal mine complex.
	110502 Welcome Sara, LOTS in-house researcher! Sara Ljungblad, Ph. D. in Human Computer Interaction, has received a three year postdoc research project at LOTS. The project will investigate experiential qualities based on the users perspectives of services and products. Existing experiential qualities in professional environments can be matched with related and desirable qualities that are prominent in everyday life and in hobbies. This is intended to support the design process for professional environments, and give an complementing perspective to design processes that focus on improving usability. Sara will be working on developing methods used at LOTS. Sara Ljungblad finished her dissertation at Stockholm University in 2008, with the thesis: Beyond users: Grounding Technology in Experience. She has previously worked at Mobile Life Centre in Stockholm, at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, and at the Viktoria Institute in Gothenburg.
	110329 LOTS gets the Red Dot Award Red dot award is one of the most renowned international product design awards. In competition of 4433 products from 60 countries, Memento - a water biodegradable urn, designed by LOTS and manufactured by American company Passages International, was awarded the red dot seal for high design quality by the jury with its panel of highly respected experts. Memento is now on the market and ordering information can be obtained directly from your local funeral professional or from Passages International Inc. Visit www.PassagesInternational.com or call +1 505 830-2500 for details.
	110329 Power to the User Getinge Infection Control is a unique company. Since its founding over 100 years ago, the company from the small town Getinge in Sweden has stood for innovation and technological progress in the field of disinfection and sterilization for the healthcare and life science environments. Today they are considered market leaders within the field and are unique in offering a complete system to their customers - from the operating room to the sterilization department and back to the operating room. The link in this system – and what ensures an efficient work flow - is the loading equipment. When Getinge SMART, a new generation loading equipment was to be developed, LOTS was assigned for the user studies, concepts, product design and design control in the project. The core of Getinge SMART is ergonomics, which is about letting people work in harmony with the objects they use and the tasks they perform. Ergonomic solutions for the loading equipment is in other words to create conditions for better health in the everyday life for the user - and an efficient workflow in the system for the customer. With the innovative framework design, ergonomic handles with an integrated control unit and all equipment fitted with quality wheels, LOTS has enabled for the user to easily maneuver the trolley, to move heavy loads and to avoid non-ergonomic working positions. The cost-efficient and flexible modular product architecture, with common components and interfaces, paves the way for customized solutions and creates a unique Getinge design recognition that runs like a red line through the entire range of loading trolleys. LOTS assignment was to coordinate design through the product family and to guarantee the design requirements through the product development process and toll gates, which generated in-house routines and a secured design quality. Recently at Medica fair in Düsseldorf, a number of products creating a family of loading equipment, was presented. The response from the market is unanimous: Getinge SMART is right from the start a total success – Power to the user!
	110218 Welcome Dan! LOTS welcomes our new intern Dan Carlberg. Dan is a first year student at the MA program in design at HDK and is going to spend this semester at LOTS. Besides a BA in industrial design from Malmö University he also have a history as a Swedish junior champion in wrestling, so we keep our heads down!
	101222 Sven-Olof Bodenfors takes over as chairman of LOTS LOTS new partner and chairman is Mr. Sven-Olof Bodenfors, one of the founders of the advertising group Forsman & Bodenfors, where he today is Senior Advisor. Sven-Olof has together with his colleagues at F&B created a legendary company that is today ranked as the world third best independent advertising agency. -It is an honor for LOTS to have Sven-Olof as chairman. His competence and background is most valuable with LOTS being in an expanding period, and we look forward to continue developing our company together, says Iréne Stewart Claesson, managing director of LOTS. Sven-Olof is managing director of F&B Case working with communication driven business, is chairman in several corporate boards, amongst them the media group Stampen, Swedish Trade Council, Gothenburg International Film Festival, and is chairman of the Council for Cultural and Creative industries, commissioned by the Swedish Government. Sven-Olof Bodenfors is educated as industrial designer originally and has a genuine engagement in pushing the development of education, research and business in design and communication.
	101222 Spreading the word… Memento is an urn for burials at sea. It builds on the humanistic burial ceremony that disregards religious tradition and instead focuses on Man’s role in nature. The urn is made from pressed paper and dissolves in water over time. Messages for the deceased can be written on the surface of the urn and small objects and notes can be placed in a pocket at the top of the urn. After being presented in the “LOTS of Limited” collection, the urn received a great deal of attention from burial businesses worldwide. The urn is now produced and sold by the American company Passages International Inc, world leaders in biodegradable funeral products.
	101222 Considerate Design celebrates its 10-year anniversary Iréne Stewart Claesson has been involved in Design med Omtanke (Considerate Design) since the start. She was responsible for the first environment developed within the project, the Kungshöjd Health Centre in central Gothenburg. Considerate Design celebrated its 10-year anniversary at the Gothenburg Opera House on November 15, with a whole day of seminars on the theme “The Art of managing Creative change processes.” Iréne talked about leading creative people and processes, and held the seminar together with Farida Rasulzada, PhD, whose dissertation dealt with creativity, innovation and well-being. Briefly about Considerate Design: Considerate Design aims at developing and producing public sector environments, products and services with respect for people and the environment, for a long-term sustainable society. Considerate Design has developed working methods to make staff and users active participants in needs assessments, financed environmental development and certifications for producers, educated producers, architects, designers and staff in the public sector, and has created the “Green List” of sustainably developed products and participated in developing products, textiles and furniture for a large number of environments developed within Considerate Design.
	101222 LOTS participates in national investment on everyday IT Together with Koucky & Partners (consultancy in the field of sustainable development and transportation) and the IT University (Chalmers University of Technology), LOTS has been awarded more than one million SEK within the Vinnova programme Everyday IT. The project is a concept development project that follows on the OPENbike concept that was awarded the gold medal in the international competition last year for Copenhagen's next bikeshare system. Vinnova is Swedens innovation agency and their aim is to increase the competitiveness of Swedish researchers and companies. Their task is to promote sustainable growth in Sweden by funding needs-driven research and the development of effective and efficient innovation systems.
	101101 Welcome Marcus Marcus Johansson is our new trainee at LOTS. He is educated at the School of Business, Economics and Law at Gothenburg University. With his background in economics, business development and marketing he will contribute to our business activities in a positive way. We welcome Marcus to LOTS.
	101013 Welcome Victoria, Elin and Natalia! In close cooperation with Business & Design at Gothenburg University, we are happy to welcome master students Elin Eriksson, Victoria Hedman and Natalia Wcislo to our team. With skills in Economics, Engineering and Communication, they will strongly contribute to our activities. Welcome!
	100629 A big step for small houses! Byggnadsvård Nääs is an architectural heritage information centre with a library, advice service, exhibition and shop. The large summer exhibition was opened on May 29 and featured the first mini-house* fair ever held in Sweden, as well as a permanent exhibition hall displaying environmentally friendly building materials and products from local producers. The aim of the exhibition is to stimulate visitors to think and shop locally and to use traditional building materials and techniques, to the benefit both of traditional building culture and local trade and industry. Erik Mattson at LOTS Design is the designer behind the exhibition, in collaboration with Byggnadsvård Nääs, and has been involved in and supported the process through seminars and workshops on sustainable construction during the year preceding the exhibition. *mini-houses is a concept in Sweden for houses that don’t need building permission and has a maximum size of 15m2. They are mainly meant as garden sheds or extra space but has today been developed for multi-purpose function, like small holiday houses etc as well. Link to the BOD 2010 homepage.
	100611 Truly hands-free! through user-driven innovation. LOTS, in partnership with Brusell Dental A / S, HMC and PRO, develops and designs a tongue-controlled interface, called CapMouse, that allows people with difficulties using their hands due to disability or in situations where hands are already occupied, to handle communication technology. CapMouse has attracted attention for its potential to address user needs in many different applications and fields. Initially, CapMouse is developed through support by VINNOVA within the EU-funded program AAL, which aims to improve older people's living situations. The goal is to include older people with disabilities in an active social life through better being able to handle modern communications technology, as mobile phones, computers, etc. The next application area will turn to dentists and surgeons, to allow more freedom in the working situation. In the project, LOTS carry out user studies through workshops, physical tests and interviews, analyzes and identifies market requirements and opportunities, are designing the products and adapting them for industrialization.
	100602 The first master graduates from Business and Design! As one of the initiators of the new master level course Business and Design, LOTS are happy and proud to congratulate the first students to their degrees. LOTS have participated as tutors, course responsible and lecturers. The Master course Business and Design is a collaboration between HDK (School of Arts and Crafts) and School of Business, Economics and Law at University of Gothenburg, and aims to establish design skills as a strategic resource in business and community organizations. Read more
	100601 LOTS welcomes Jesper Jonsson! With Jespers understanding of complex product development combined with excellent visualization and design skills, he will contribute in the further development of LOTS industrial design operations. Jesper has a BA in Industrial Design from Växjö University and originates from Småland.
	100216 LOTS moves in! Since the beginning of February, LOTS is up and running in a brand new studio. Kastellgatan 1, in the corner of Skanstorget, is our new adress.
	091210 LOTS wins gold! LOTS recieves first prize for the OPENbike concept in The City of Copenhagen open design competition. 127 entries from five continents participated in the competition. The OPENbike concept have been developed in cooperation with Koucky & partners and Green Idea Factory. High resolution images available here!
	091120 Cochlear Baha BP100 sound processor allows hearing impaired back into society Today, a state-of-the-art sound processor, the Cochlear Baha BP100, is using the body’s natural ability to conduct sound via direct bone conduction, making the delivery of refined sound a thing of simplicity. Cochlear Bone Anchored Solutions, Sweden, have been leading the research field in bone conduction hearing solutions for decades. The Baha system is the most advanced implantable bone conduction hearing solution available. The Cochlear Baha BP100, the newest sound processor for the Baha system, offers a substantial increase in quality of life for people suffering conductive hearing loss, mixed hearing loss or single-sided sensorineural deafness. The outcome of our research is a Baha sound processor that delivers more than 25% improvement in speech understanding in noise compared to previous Baha sound processors, says Mark Flynn, PhD., Director of Research and Applications for Cochlear Bone Anchored Solutions. LOTS Design has worked with Cochlear since 2004 on the external design of Baha sound processors, including the Cochlear Baha BP100.
	091120 ÄKTAdesign™ - the most well-reputed platform for purifying proteins in the market. Before the start of product design development of the next generation ÄKTA by GE Healthcare, LOTS was entrusted with the task of analyzing the platform in a future tendency context. In the vision study we present the next generation of user group and their expectations on interface communication, expressions in shape, colour and materials through illustrated core values and reports from future research. The vision study has meant inspiring directions for ÄKTA's future product identity and a substantial material to GE Healthcares Design Management for continued positioning on the market. As a first result of the collaboration is ÄKTA avant, with design of Sven Wounder, newly released, with a leading design identity for the new generation ÄKTA products.
	090912 Algae Power for sustainable living Continously LOTS takes initiatives to develop innovative concepts to highlight opportunities for sustainable future product development and sustainable society as a whole. What will the fuel of the future be? There are many candidates but one of the most promising is the initiative with fast-growing algae to produce hydrogen. Scientific research has come quite far and we at LOTS like to visualize and explore how algae farms can be a part of the urban landscape. Included in urban objects and structures, the algae farms are creating patterns, colors and forms making an attractive meeting between nature and the urban landscape. The issue is in focus when researchers and business developers meet up to explore future possibilities with innovations inspired by nature at Bioinspired Forum at Albanova/KTH in Stockholm on October 15. The aim of this event is to catalyze both design and technology transfer among science, entrepreneurship, design, and architecture. It will allow business developers and investors to identify a vast new field for investments. Article also published on David Report.
	091008 Teaching Design Thinking - Business & Design at Gothenburg University one of the best BusinessWeek has in a recent issue listed thirty educations considered to be the best in the interdisciplinary field of design and business, and the two-year master education Business & Design is one of them. The education is a partnership between HDK School of Design and Crafts and the School of Business, Economics and Law at Gothenburg University. The program, started in 2008, is targeted at professionals interested in using the design process to build smarter businesses. LOTS Iréne Stewart Claesson was leading the project between 2004-2007 to establish contacts between the two education systems and is one of the initiators to the education. As the world's business landscape evolves, an interdisciplinary approach to solving problems is demanded. BusinessWeek means design thinking brings creative techniques and innovation to business, and rises the question; how to best educate the design thinkers and innovators of the future? LOTS has an active part in the education program, being responsible for the course of integrated projects, lecturing about design strategy and coaching in projects.
	090320 Welcome Erik Nohlin! LOTS has busy days and are therefore happy to welcome Erik Nohlin to our team. Erik holds an industrial design degree from HDK and has made a name for himself as a talented bicycle designer for Peak Cycle. He is also a passionate cyclist and competes using his own bikes – often without gears to optimise the challenge!