Philadelphia Museum of Art - Information : Associated Groups : Collab : Student Competition

Philadelphia Museum of Art - Information : Associated Groups : Collab : Student Competition: "The 2009 Competition: Tabletop Luminaire
Competition Brief

Collab will hold its Seventeenth Annual Student Design Competition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Monday, November 16, 2009. This year’s competition will be held in conjunction with the Museum’s exhibition Marcel Wanders: Designer celebrating the innovative design work of the Dutch designer, the recipient of Collab’s 2009 Design Excellence Award.

Marcel Wanders: Designer presents the designer’s own favorite work from among the hundreds of products he has created for various European manufacturers as well as for Droog Design and Moooi, of which he is also art director and co-owner. Trained in The Netherlands and Belgium as an industrial designer, Wanders has consistently challenged the premises of modernism. “We can no longer fall in total awe at a tube being bent. We can no longer tell our audience that a product is better because it is easier to make,” he said in 2007. “We have to challenge industry so they will learn to follow instead of lead.” With wit, humor, formal elegance, and above all, discipline, Wanders has taken up that challenge, advancing technological research into production methods and materials in designs that can be both environmentally friendly and playfully quirky at the same time. A true visionary, Wanders has created a body of work that is innovative and entirely original.
The exhibition will be on view from November 21, 2009, through June 6, 2010, at the Collab Gallery, Perelman Building, Philadelphia Museum of Art."

I.D. - 2010 Call for Entries

I.D. - 2010 Call for Entries: "Since 1954, the Annual Design Review has recognized the best in product, furniture, graphic, and environment design, from the iconic to the obscure. Throughout the years, this annual showcase has chronicled the evolution of design, and highlighted its impact on our material and visual culture. Each year, the featured work is chosen by a jury of leading practitioners, who, along with I.D.'s editorial team, focus the abundance of submissions into a clear survey of the state of design. The resulting overview is published in the July/August issue of I.D. magazine — the Annual Design Review issue."

GreenSleeves

Inhabitat:

"Few would challenge the introduction of a bit of greenery into a city environment. Toronto residents, Eric Cheung and Sean Martindale, are making this basic urban space ideal into a reality with their poster pocket planters. The duo carve their way through existing posters to create little pockets, then fill them with potting soil and plants to create an impromptu green wall system. The result is a bit of greenery that effortlessly blends into the existing urban landscape. Best of all, Eric and Sean want to empower eco- and locally-minded folk by keeping the process open source– and are making their cutting patterns available online."

Inhabitat »

Inhabitat » About: "Inhabitat.com is a weblog devoted to the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and more sustainable future.Inhabitat was started by NYC designer Jill Fehrenbacher as a forum in which to investigate emerging trends in product, interior and architectural design. Mike Chino is the Managing Editor; Emily Pilloton, Olivia Chen, Evelyn Lee, Abigail Doan and Jorge Chapa are Senior Editors. The site was designed by Jill Fehrenbacher and runs off the fabulous blogging platform Wordpress."

urbanSHED International Design Competition

urbanSHED International Design Competition

The urbanSHED International Design Competition challenges the global design community to create a new standard of sidewalk shed design and develop a prototype worthy of today's New York City.

We invite engineers, architects, designers and students from all related fields to compete. Competitors will generate innovative, compelling and environmentally friendly proposals to thoroughly re-imagine temporary sidewalk shed design while improving the pedestrian experience.

The New York City Buildings Department, American Institute of Architects New York Chapter, the Alliance for Downtown New York, the New York Building Congress, the Illuminating Engineering Society New York Chapter, and the ABNY Foundation (Association for a Better New York) with additional support from the Structural Engineers Association of New York, the New York City Department of Planning and the New York City Department of Transportation have partnered to create this open competition.

Design Challenge
urbanSHED International Design Competition challenges designers to conceptualize a cutting-edge sidewalk shed to protect pedestrians, improve the pedestrian experience– and make New York City even more attractive for generations to come.

More than 6,000 sidewalk sheds flank New York City’s buildings and construction sites. They span more than 1,000,000 linear feet and typically remain in place for nearly a year. While these sheds protect pedestrians from construction debris and support other construction structures, they undermine the beauty of New York City’s architecture.

We’re seeking a fresh, new sidewalk shed design that’s sustainable, economical, meets or exceeds current safety requirements and City regulations, improves technical and structural performance – and creates a better environment for the people who live in, work in and visit New York City.

Felt Bowl Construction

Graf and Lantz at the New York International Gift Fair from Core77 on Vimeo.

Social Designer — Enter Case Design Competition for 500 Colored Pencils

Social Designer — Enter Case Design Competition for 500 Colored Pencils:

"OVERVIEW
Felissimo is launching an inspirational new product called 500 Colored Pencils, a subscription of 500 different colored pencils. Every month a set of 25 pencils is delivered to the purchaser; like a gift that reveals itself slowly over time, the full set of pencils is acquired over a period of 20 months. Each pencil has its own hue and its own unique name – together they suggest infinite possibilities.

Material Selection and Processing

Material Selection and Processing

A website outlining the materials selection process used at the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering

Prospecting for Business Information

Prospecting for Business Information

Prospecting for Business Information, the new online course developed by The New York Public Library, Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL) and Thirteen/WNET New York. Whether you are searching for a new job, looking for a company to invest in, or trying to find out what the competition is for your small business, this course can help you learn how to find the information you need.

The course is organized into five sections, listed below. Each section will take about 30 minutes to work through, and we suggest that you follow the sections in order. The course introduces various research tools. Most of these resources are available to you at your local public library or are fee based for private use.

Central Green :: Current Events

Central Green :: Current Events: "Central Green Design Competition
'Conscious Design'

The theme for Central Green’s Conscious Design Competition is Modern Primitive. We define “Modern Primitive” as: creating shapes and coordinating them in such a way that they lead their own life, independent of any other reality, and without imitating any specific imagery. Below are examples of 'Modern Primitve':"

Pioneers of Change

Pioneers of Change

Repairing instead of recycling, knitting a carpet with six foot long needles using wool from three kinds of Dutch sheep, elderly people slowly but attentively serving meals with smaller portions of foods from far away places and larger portions of those from nearby gardens, Dutch fashion designers collaborating with New York masters specialized in beads and lace together with students from Parsons The New School for Design, designers digging in local grounds to reveal differences in color and texture, movies about urban farming focused on New York, and left-over building materials collected over a month in New York available for creative re-use.Visitors can listen and debate, watch and participate, relax and think, eat and drink, play their music, be inspired, connect and, simply, enjoy. They can also shop at the pop up store of affordable Dutch design ware, all under $100.

Museum of Arts and Design Collection Database

Museum of Arts and Design Collection Database

Object Factory: The Art of Industrial Ceramics is the first major U.S. museum exhibition to survey contemporary innovation in industrial ceramic production and the renaissance of ceramics in art and design today. The exhibition explores how artists and designers are reviving interest in ceramics through collaborations with industry that enhance and sometimes subvert the industrial process. Object Factory presents works created for leading manufacturers as well as artworks by independent artists and designers. Both non-functional and functional works are highlighted, as are important technological advances in ceramic material that allow for its use in electronic appliances, cutting implements, and other surprising products.Object Factory features more than 200 pieces by fifty artists, designers, and industrial manufacturers, including works by Swedish artist Kjell Rylander, American jeweler and designer Ted Muehling, Dutch designers Hella Jongerius and Jurgen Bey, and Russian-American designer Constantin Boym, among others. Manufacturers represented in the exhibition include Bernardaud, Nymphenburg, Rosenthal, and Royal Tichelaar Makkum.The exhibition is curated by acclaimed ceramic artist and designer Marek Cecula and is accompanied by a 120-page, fully illustrated catalogue published and distributed by the Museum of Arts and Design.

Home — DesignPhiladelphia 2009

Home — DesignPhiladelphia 2009:

"DesignPhiladelphia: October 07 – 13, 2009

Moving into its fifth year, DesignPhiladelphia is the largest national celebration of its kind. This city-wide cultural event spotlights all things design from architecture to interior design, fashion to product design, textile to graphic design. It's a journey exploring exhibitions, workshops, studio tours, lectures, special events and product roll-outs that inspire, engage, excite and delight.

Check the website regularly as the calendar continues to evolve, calls for entry are posted, and news items are shared."

DESIGN TO GO POP UP SHOP

AREAWARE

DNA Home Design Water and Wind

call_for_entries

The subject of this international competition is a bath designing program to complement the antelope collection on the DNA+ web site:Products have to be designed for all, in other words have an easy access, be environmentally safe, compliant for a use in a wet environment for a residential use as well as for a commercial use. Material limitation; wood, Corian, aluminum, stainless steel, glass, acrylic glass.Technology limitation: die making, tubing, extrusion, thermoforming, CNC machining are preferred. DNA+ is looking for new and innovative functional designs. Each submitter is to invent new ways of relating to life in the bath environment.Each submitter will have to be able to transition a vision into real working products for daily life use. Entries are invited for the following categories:- FURNITURE> such as cabinets, Shelves, mirrors, wall mounted boards, seating...- ACCESSORY> such toilet paper holders, hangers, towel bars / holders, tooth brush holders, soap dispensers, soap dishes, cups, magazine holders...- LIGHTING> such as a wall / ceilling lights, sconces or objects with integrated light such as a mirror or a countertop...).