Ormond Contemporary Editions is a Swiss based company with the ambition to offer exceptional and exclusive contemporary design created by established designers and young talents.

Experimentation, high demand in the choices, quality of the key players acting for and around this project are part of our approach as well as a very high quality in the manufacturing of the projects in accordance with Swiss made standards.

Among its lines, one of the interests of the gallery lies in the large freedom offered to the designers in their use of materials as well as in the choice of the themes leading to particularly accomplished projects.

The gallery favours exchanges between designers, customers, specialists and design lovers in order to establish a productive dialog around the discipline.

This year's theme is "where has the future gone?" to try to understand why some predictions fail, and why others end up happening. I couldn't resist posting the recap of 2008's Worst Predictions:

Business Week hosts an article on some of the worst financial predictions from 2008. We know that hindsight is 20/20, but still these are pretty bad. Among the many gems...
• The National Association of Realtors declared that "Existing-Home Sales to Trend Up in 2008." Perhaps their graph was upside down?
• In July, President Bush said he believed the economy was growing. The opposite turned out to be true, as a recession was already well underway.
• A Wall Street analyst proclaimed that AIG "could have huge gains in the second quarter." A few months later, the U.S. government would take over the troubled company.

Link

Yes, with hindsight it's easy, but also so much fun.

Press agency of the digital era, AllTheContent.com brings competitive solutions to the information society with multi-media thematic newswires (text/audio/image/video/rich media) available for all platforms and with very innovative solutions for media convergence. Based in Geneva - Switzerland and relying on world wide network of independent content producers, our company can count on many references of providing content in various languages to famous electronic (mobile, web, ITV, public displays) and traditional broadcasters (press, radio, TV).

One of the things we have been reluctant to organize over the years was live translation. We thought that it would make the audience lose touch with the speaker. But following Eric Favre's talk we learned that a translated speech can still carry subtle emotions and keep everybody involved. He spoke in French and moved the whole audience, with emotions going across the stage despite the language barrier. Seems body language and tone are universal.

So this year we will offer live translation in English and French for all talks, and we hope it will make the conference more accessible for those who are not completely bilingual.

^{Check Eric Favre - inventor of Nespresso - at Lift08.}

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works. At CERN, the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments are used to study the basic constituents of matter — the fundamental particles. By studying what happens when these particles collide, physicists learn about the laws of Nature.

The instruments used at CERN are particle accelerators and detectors. Accelerators boost beams of particles to high energies before they are made to collide with each other or with stationary targets. Detectors observe and record the results of these collisions.

Founded in 1954, the CERN Laboratory sits astride the Franco–Swiss border near Geneva. It was one of Europe’s first joint ventures and now has 20 Member States.

Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is a diversified Health and Well-being company, focused on improving people’s lives through timely innovations. As a world leader in healthcare, lifestyle and lighting, Philips integrates technologies and design into people-centric solutions, based on fundamental customer insights and the brand promise of “sense and simplicity”.

Thank you for your student pass submissions and congratulations to the winners!

Here is the final list of the participants who won the student contest and got a conference pass to Lift09 in Geneva:

Adam Little
Michela Menting Yoell
JeoungHee.Kim
Lorenzo Poglia
Sachin Gaur
Gonzalo Garcia-Perate
Analía Aspis
Mark A.M. Kramer
Raphaël Jubin
Anne-Charlotte Costille
Marcus M. Dapp
Benjamin Mazoin
Justine Andrieu
Angelo Chiacchio
Ankaoua Raphaelle
Imad Riachi
Chiang, Chen-Wei
Chew Yew Choong
Yi-Chen Chiang
Audrey Richard-Laurent

Dear lucky student-pass-winners, please contact us at info@liftconference.com to complete your registration, thank you!

(and thanks a lot for our board members who reviewed the students profile)!

Lift happens thanks to partnerships with local and international organizations who support the conference. We will introduce 5 of them every week. Check the full partners list, and contact us if you want to partner with the conference in Europe or Asia.

Main Partners

1875 FINANCE

1875 Is one of Geneva's major independent financial institutions specialized in private wealth management and multi-family office services.

WATTWATT

wattwatt is an independent community website set up by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), a Geneva-based, non-governmental and not-for-profit organization, leader in electrotechnical standardization. IEC believes that the question of electrical energy efficiency is one that needs to be addressed and that everyone of us, as individuals, has a part to play.

Supporters

LE SHOP

LeShop.ch is Switzerland's number one online supermarket, celebrating ten years of success and serving thousands of customers across the country.

Event Partners

REZONANCE

Rezonance is the leading social network for business, people and knowledge in Switzerland since 1998 and organiser of First Tuesday in the French speaking Switzerland gathering more than 20'000 entrepreneurs.

MIGROS

The Pour-cent culturel is a voluntary engagement by Migros in domains like culture, society, education, leisure and economy. With it's institutions, projects and activities, the Pour-cent culturel allows a large part of the population to access cultural and social activities.

With a new poster come new banners, and here are some of this year's linking material:

Find more on the practical information page.

The wait is over: here is the much anticipated Lift09 poster, hand made by our friends of Bread and Butter.

Here is the concept explained by Bread and Butter themselves:

A city by night, an impressive landscape of anonymous buildings. Could be anywhere.
A luminous meteor carves the darkness, rustling the anarchy of the city, of our memories.
LIFT 09 emerging with new energy, lights and colors.

A feeling of perspective, of vertigo.
An image inspired by the covers of sci-fi novels of the 70-80's.
This is a typical LIFT poster, 1:1 hand-made, with enough feather strokes to confuse the pixels, impactful.

Carving into the past, LIFT lights up the future that never was. The journey starts now…

You can see the archive of Lift posters here, and download highres versions for printing if you wish.