The Emerson Cup is an annual event celebrating and recognizing some of the outstanding and innovative designs in the HVAC (Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning) industry.  Now on its third consecutive year in India and Southeast Asia, they are now accepting new entries to be nominated for this year's innovative designs.  All are welcome to join including all related fields from engineers, architects, consultants, developers and students.

All entries will be accepted until August 20, 2010.

For more information, you can visit The Emerson Cup on their facebook page or in Digitalscroll.com.

Slide Eat! is what they call this table design by Studio Klass.  It's a combination of a lunch table and a slide.  And yes, it is a table designed for children, ideally for kindergarten schools.  This table can be used as a lunch table and as a slide or a game piece at the same time.

Here's a cool autocad tip that you might find useful.  The command - "time".  I bet most of you don't know this command.  It actually tells you exactly how long in days, minutes, seconds, upto the milliseconds you have been working with a particular autocad file.  This is one of the many Autocad tips you might want to remember as it may come handy someday.

I found another nice free design software that is both interesting and fun to use.  It's called Alchemy.  This design software, unlike the other design software, is used as an initial process in creating ideas, design and artworks.  What you see on the right is an example of what you normally get when you use Alchemy.

Two days ago, I was making an interior perspective of a bedroom for a client.  The bedroom has a queen size bed and some thick curtains for the sliding doors at the side.  I needed a colorful pattern to use as a texture for the beddings and curtains and so I searched online.  I'm no longer happy with some of the patterns I had so I thought of searching for new patterns I could use for the fabrics.  Fortunately I came across a nice Pattern Maker Online and it did the job of creating new patterns for me to use for my 3d renderings.

When I started working in an architectural firm as an architect, I got so intrigued with the concept of waterproofing that I wanted to learn more.

From Basement Waterproofing to Above-grade waterproofing and roofing.  This was not really discussed in detail back in college that is why I'm currently going back to the books to learn more.

With all the information I'm getting, there's more to waterproofing than just patching some holes on the wall.

I'll share some of the information I get as I learn more everyday.

Before anything else I'll first share the basic ideas about waterproofing.

Here's a simple Photoshop tutorial by Lucas Saugen.  This is one of the works he did for a fashion magazine.

Watch how he composites a couple of images to form this final effect.

This video is a good beginner tutorial and a preview of some of the basic functions you can do with Photoshop.

I was one of those many people looking for a good solution to creating realistic grass in 3dsmax and, most likely, you are too.

I want to share this 3dsmax tutorial I found on the net by Peter Guthrie

This is the Wave Table, designed by Kenneth Cobonpue from Cebu, Philippines.

The name suits this piece of furniture as the main body depicts wave-like motion while supporting a large piece of clear glass on top.

The New Concept Car from Renault, the Dezir, unveils at this year's Paris Motor Show.  It is a bright red two-seater electric car which is Renault's vision of the future.