Jon joined BarberOsgerby and Universal Design Studio in 2003 and has developed some of BarberOsgerby’s most iconic pieces such as the Hula Stool, De La Warr Pavilion Chair, Tab Lamp and Iris tables. Jon also directs projects for clients such as Levis, Coca Cola, Sony and Panasonic. Ahead of his attendance at this year’s Electrolux Design Lab as a jury member, Jon provides his own perspective on design and offers some advice for the 2010 finalists.

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Henrik Otto, Senior Vice President of Global Design at Electrolux, is guest editor of the design blog ‘Despoke’, throughout the month of September. Henrik will post a series of commentaries about design and in particular provide his views on: Sustainability; Compact Living; Technology and Individualisation.

Read Henrik’s posts and visit Despoke design.

Every year the finalists of the Electrolux Design Lab contest see their creations taken from the drawing board to become physical representations of their imagination. Although not quite the finished article (in that they don’t include the technological features that would make them fly out of the shops if they were on sale), they are 3D manifestations that each designer should rightly be proud of conceiving.

Here are the first images of this year’s concepts in development, back stage at Semcon in Gothenburg, (Sweden). More images showing each concept in a greater degree of completion will be posted next week.

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