Product Reports 2008
Every year, Architectural Record invites a jury of architects, lighting designers, and product specialists to convene for a day to help our editors select the most noteworthy building products launched in the last 12 months. View the 2008 winners in 13 different categories, including Furnishings, Openings, and Thermal & Moisture Protection.

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RECORD Holiday Picks
RECORD presents its first-ever Holiday Gift Guide for those readers looking for well-designed presents for clients, colleagues, friends, relatives, or even themselves. The following collection includes a carefully compiled group of gifts selected by Products editor Rita Catinella Orrell.

Green Materials
During election month, remember sustainable products also need to express their freedoms, to avoid VOCs, PVCs, and harmful chemicals and adhesives, and not to waste our natural resources, even if it’s an invasive species.

Promosedia International Design Competition - November 2008

Since 1997 the Promosedia International Design Competition has celebrated designers under age 40 who devise innovative approaches “the wood chair.” This year’s six finalists gathered in northeastern Italian city of Udine, where their designs—crafted by the best prototype makers in the Chair District—were exhibited and judged by a jury of designers, journalists, and industry notables.

Pictured: www.leescarpets.com/dnf

Each month RECORD reviews building product related web sites and blogs that might be of interest to our readership. We visit each site, kick the tires a bit, and share what it is about and how it functions.

Ingo Mauer and Osram ally for a visionary OLED
Celebrated for his avant-garde approach to illumination, Munich-based lighting designer Ingo Mauer was tapped by Osram Opto Semiconductors to develop an actual fixture using the company’s pioneering OLED (organic light-emitting diode) technology.

Featured Tradeshow Interview: Patrick Jouin
During the 2007 Salone del Mobile in Milan, French-born designer Patrick Jouin sat down in the Kartell booth with RECORD to discuss his new chair design for the Italian plastic furnishings company.

Listen in as Jouin explains the technology that gives his new Thalya chair for Kartell new levels of strength while remaining lightweight, as well as why he became a designer, and what his firm is working on next.

Image courtesy of Patrick Jouin