Model Airplanes

Tasked with reinvigorating Scandinavian Airlines’ iconic brand, multi-award-winning Swedish architect Thomas Eriksson says his first thought was that the airline’s wet wipe packet should be considered as important as the aircraft lounge design.

“Scandinavian Airlines is a great example of how we combine identity and design around Scandinavian values and materials and traditions,” Eriksson says. “We considered every detail, from the ground vehicles to the airplane livery and graphics. Our philosophy is that we shouldn’t add anything that we don’t have a rationale for.”

Swedish design has long been recognised for an emphasis on minimalist functional beauty along with innovation and sustainable living, values that have translated into worldwide success for companies as varied as HM and Ikea, and making it an obvious choice as the lead “partner” at Hong Kong’s annual Business of Design Week (BODW), which began on Monday.

The week-long series of exhibitions and presentations by designers such as Niklas Malmqvist, one of the creative masterminds behind the popular Candy Crush game, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban and Red Dot Design Award-winner David Jia is expected to draw a crowd of about 100,000, a tenfold increase from when the event last collaborated with Sweden in 2004.

Edmund Lee, an executive director of the organiser, Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC), believes that countries with a strong design culture like Sweden offer useful lessons concerning how to connect effectively within a modern global economy.

“This requires a new mindset, new knowledge and new skills over and beyond our traditional knowledge and proven business competence,” Lee

Article source: http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/interiors-living/article/1654034/swedish-talent-showcased-hong-kongs-business-design-week

Orion’s first flight test is expected to be one for the books: the first mission since Apollo to carry a spacecraft built for humans to deep space, the first time NASA’s next-generation spacecraft is tested against the challenges of space, and the first operational test of a heat shield strong enough to protect against 4,000-degree temperatures.

From the launch on a gigantic United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy on Dec. 4 from Florida to the expected splashdown under billowing parachutes, the mission will test many of the riskiest events Orion will see when it sends astronauts to an asteroid and onward toward Mars in the future.

“Orion is the exploration spacecraft for NASA, and paired with the Space Launch System, or SLS, rocket it will allow us to explore the solar system,” said Mark Geyer, program manager of Orion, which is based at Johnson Space Center in Houston.

While the Delta IV Heavy will send Orion on its flight test, SLS will launch the spacecraft on future missions.

The flight test also is a marker for NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida transformation into a multi-user spaceport. The transformation kicked off in 2010 and has made steady progress. This flight represents the center’s ability to produce a spacecraft and launch configuration that works well using aspects of the new model for processing and launch.

“The team is enthused, it’s good to go flying,” said Bob Cabana, director of Kennedy. “It’s not just Orion and SLS, you

Article source: http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/9089/Orion-Rocket-Poised-for-its-First-Trip-to-Space.aspx

Local News

James Street Road in Bellingham won’t reopen until January

Article source: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2014/11/29/3995734/participants-race-radio-controlled.html

Depending on where you are in the world, Taco Bell can be as many as 2 miles away. Fortunately the chain has started selling make-at-home kits, and today we’re trying the Dessert Nacho Kit. It’s a great chance to make your own cuisine, and you can keep the box around to help you stop spelling “dessert” like “desert” all the time.

Miles: It’s a little disconcerting that the box has two expiration dates, one for the product, and one for the person eating it.

Ian: Yeah, a dessert kit is fun and all, but I’m one unit of motivation away from just eating each of the separate parts straight out of the box.

Eva: This is much better than the model airplane kit I tried to eat last Monday.

Ian: I got an ice cream headache. Usually when I eat Taco Bell this fast, all I get is the respect of my peers.

Eva: Why is there an Allen wrench in my nachos?

Mike: All that’s missing is some Magic Shell salsa.

Robert: It’s tasty. But until it comes with fluorescent yellow ice cream that glorps out of a pump, it won’t be a complete nacho experience.

Kelsie: With winter approaching, make sure you have plenty of emergency dessert nacho kits in your car.

Eva: How is this a kit? Nachos are a food you make because you don’t want to actually assemble anything.

Robert: Oh, the box says it contains 5 servings. Sorry guys, I’ll go get some more

Article source: http://wesm913.org/post/sandwich-monday-taco-bell-dessert-nachos