In the middle of November, Nicolas Hubert, a 5th year student at the Chinese campus of L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique has organised a workshop with 8 design students from Qingdao University.

The goal of this project was to observe the Chinese way of doing design while asking the students to create a new Mandarin writing machine.

On  Monday the 19th of October, Seb-Supor R&D Center offered a design brief to 20 students of L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique and the School of Industrial Design of Shandong University of Art and Design.

For 5 days, each of the 5 teams will work on a range of 3 different blenders that will be meant for the Chinese market.

Seb-Supor 苏泊尔 is a joint venture that was created in 2006. Founded in 1994, Supor is the leader of the cookware market in China and the third largest cookware company in the world. It is number 5 in China on the cookware small domestic appliances market. Working on these blenders might then be an opportunity for it to go up the national scale in the small domestic appliances market.

Pascal Novis, Marketing director at Seb-Supor and his assistant

Amy Liu (Chinese), Product Supervisor and Lijing Zeng (French), Junior Product Manager at Supor in Hangzhou

Frédéric Bonin, Designer and head of studies at the Chinese Campus of L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique. He leads the workshop with 2 other teachers of the School of Industrial Design of Shandong University of Art and Design

The School of Industrial Design of Shandong University of Art and Design offers a Bachelor degree and a Master degree in Industrial Design. Located in the surroundings of Jinan, it appears to be a wonderful place to study.

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The Chinese campus of L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique is based on Qingdao University campus.

Qingdao University is a comprehensive university in Shandong Province, which was combined with the former Qingdao University, Shandong Textile Engineering Institute, Qingdao Medical College and Qingdao Teachers’ College in 1993. It comprises of 25 colleges and about 50000 students.

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They will leave soon to Shanghai and Beijing where they will do a 5 month-internship in their field. They will then come back to Qingdao for 2 more semesters: one filled with numerous design projects with companies like Haier, SEB-Supor and one dedicated to their personal final project.

We wish them good luck for this new year 2009.

From left to right / up to down:

Jules Charbonnet, Pierre-Emmanuel Obéniche, Benoît Vitoux, Clarisse Simonneau, Michael Denié, Victor Bruzeau, Chen Song, Sylvain Gallard, François Rousseau, Anaëlle Perney, Géraldine Thomas, Agathe Philippe, Nicolas Roux, Alice Drougard, Pauline Guérin, Céline Legrand, Aurélie Moyon, Laure-Anne Caillaud (missing: Lucie Bolzec, Adrien Olczack).

From left to right / up to down:

Nicolas Hubert, Cécile Guillet, Isabelle Majou, Anne-Claire Mahéo, Antoine Persyn, Lise Picard, Quentin Tableau, Sébastien Moreau (missing: Anna-Loeke Nossek).

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On Wednesday the 24th of June, the 4th year students of the Chinese programme of L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique celebrated the end of the semester.
They will be back on the 31st of August to finish their diploma.

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Antoine Persyn, a 4th year student in the China based Master degree programme of L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique, created this beautiful « Iboga » lamp for the Shanghai Ecodesign Fair in April 2009.  Made out of bamboo wood, this lamp is meant to help people feel better at home like a medication.

Lead by Frédéric Bonin, the Head of Studies of L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique / China Campus, he has designed and built this product himself in Qingdao University’s 青岛大学 workshop.

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