IN conjunction with the fifth annual Italian Design Day 2021, the Embassy of Italy in Kuala Lumpur, along with the Malaysia Italy Design Institute (MIDI) of University Kuala Lumpur (UniKL), with the support of the Italian Trade Agency, will hold the webinar on July 8, 2021.
It will be live streamed at 3.30pm on the Italian embassy’s Facebook page.
Established in 2017 as a yearly event to promote Italian design abroad, this year s Italian Design Day theme is Project and Matter: New Challenges for the Sustainable Restart of the Made in Italy.
In line with the theme, the webinar will focus on the connection between design and sustainability to minimise waste, consume non-renewable resources and create healthier, more productive environments.
Winning design: The Infinity bench created by Jaihar and Noor Syahidah.
KUALA LUMPUR: A husband-and-wife team from Johor has clinched the grand prize of an open competition to design the seats for the eight underground stations of the upcoming MRT Putrajaya Line.
Their design, called Infinity, was submitted by Jaihar Jailani Ismail, a freelance industrial designer, and his academician wife, Noor Syahidah Abdullah, for the contest organised to create transit furniture that complemented the architecture of the Putrajaya Line stations.
The contest was organised by Mass Rapid Transit Corporation Sdn Bhd (MRT Corp), project owner of the MRT Line, with the Malaysia Design Council (MDC), with support from the Malaysian Association of Industrial Designers (Pereka).