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."

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.

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.

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':"

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...).

Industrial Design Awards | Design Directory

Industrial Design Awards Design Directory

Website directory of design awards.

red dot competition

red dot online

red dot award: product design
Since 1955, the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen has been marking outstanding international product design with is famous dot. In 2000, Design Innovations – as the competition was previously called – was given a new, international name: the red dot award: product design. Manufacturers and designers of a wide variety of industrial products can enter their work all year round in thirteen product groups for the coveted red dot award. And the number of entries grows year by year…

Metropolis Magazine

Next Generation

Call for EntriesWin $10,000FIX OUR ENERGY ADDICTION Rising energy costs present new design problems.Redesign the broken models of the 20th century. Challenge our patterns of living and working in a fuel-hungry world…come up with solutions that connect us, make us more efficient, more humane.Ask yourself…How would I bring work closer to home?Can a product help eliminate long commutes?What can I do to revitalize old ideas such as living above the store? What kind of interiors or furnishings does a telecommuter really need?Or follow your own dreams…what calls out for a major redesign?Focus on one area that needs fixing—products, interiors, buildings and landscape, communication systems, or anything else you can imagine—and develop your idea fully. Open to all designers in practice 10 years or less.

ELECTROLUX DESIGN LAB 2008

ELECTROLUX DESIGN LAB 2008

Deadline: End of May

Should open in January

Last year's competition was for storage, cooking and/or washing and reflected the Internet generation's core interests and concerns like mobility, convenience, time, materials, personalization, entertaining, technology and sustainability.

Furniture Design/Build Competition for students

General Information

Design Emphasis is widely acclaimed as the foremost furniture design competition for students and offers design students a unique opportunity to demonstrate their talent and originality before a judging panel of furniture industry designers, manufacturing and retail executives, and members of the trade press who have design-oriented backgrounds. It also provides a unique chance to experience an international industry trade show, make important career contacts and exchange ideas with other students from around the nation.

Registration Deadline: January 31

myplasticheart :: urban vinyl designer toys & culture

myplasticheart :: urban vinyl designer toys & culture

Design Competition for a plastic wallet.

In our continued efforts to promote the development and appreciation of unique and original art, myplasticheart and Poketo invite you to submit your designs to the "my plastic wallet" Poketo wallet design competition. This is an open-theme competition, so here's your chance to flex your creative muscles and get your design juices flowing. The only requirement is that it must say "myplasticheart" somewhere in the front of the wallet design. The winning entry will have their design produced as a limited edition Poketo wallet and sold exclusively through myplasticheart online and retail stores. The competition ends on October 5th, 2008.

Deadline: October 5

2008 Student Design Award - Association of Rotational Molders International

2008 Student Design Award - Association of Rotational Molders International

The Competition

The Association of Rotational Molders (ARM) International developed the Student Design Competition to encourage the use of rotational molding as a tool for design and engineering students. The competition is intended to promote the use of the rotational molding process through both competition and education. Designs must be for a rotationally molded piece.

Who is eligible?

The competition is open to all undergraduate students, from any recognized university or college, who are pursuing a degree in an industrial design or engineering-related field.How to participateSend your submission, along with a completed entry form to ARM International Headquarters. All submissions must be received by May 31, 2008 to qualify. Your submission must include printed drawings, developed on a three dimensional CAD program, with sufficient views to represent the design. Drawings must not exceed 11x 17 inches each. Color renderings and/or models are optional. All designs must be original and not have been previously entered in any other competition. All materials submitted shall become the property of ARM International except that the design rights remain the property of the student. ARM International reserves the right to publish or show all the works submitted.

Enter to Win Great Prizes and Awards!

• 1st Place $2,000 plus coach airfare, hotel accommodations for up to two nights, and free registration to the Association of Rotational Molders International 2008 Meeting, October 22-23 in Rosemont (Chicago), IL, USA. The winner will be recognized with a plaque during the meeting.


• 2nd Place $1,000 plus coach airfare, hotel accommodations for up to two nights, and free registration to the Association of Rotational Molders International 2008 Meeting, October 22-23 in Rosemont (Chicago), IL, USA. The winner will be recognized with a plaque during the meeting.


• 3rd Place $500 plus coach airfare, hotel accommodations for up to two nights, and free registration to the Association of Rotational Molders International 2008 Meeting, October 22-23 in Rosemont (Chicago), IL, USA. The winner will be recognized with a plaque during the meeting.

** Meeting registration will cover only the meeting and functions associated with it.

Judges will evaluate all of the following factors:

Design: Practicality; creativity; originality; ease of use; and unique features.

Manufacturing: Moldability; ease of assembly/secondary operations; projected cycle time; cost efficiencies.

Technical Merits: What technical challenges were overcome? What design considerations eliminated assembly? Are there any unique features that help make this part technically successful? Choice of polymers; knowledge of the rotomolding process.

Questions?Contact Patrick Dockins at patrickd@cmservices.com or 630-942-6589

Poster competition

Don't Panic > Design Brief > Client >

The principle of street art is about exploring a city, the city as a playground and street art's ability to change peoples' perceptions about the streets they live on - to surprise and delight them. The principle of the dongle and Mobile Broadband is the mobilisation of the internet, of people no longer being restricted by landlines and Wi-Fi hotspots. The dongle is about enabling people, changing their perceptions of the internet, allowing them to become more creative about where they log on

Mattress use competition

Discarded Dreams Open Architecture Network




Architecture for Humanity and Rubicon National Social Innovations invite entrants to create innovative ways of converting used mattresses into useful products. The competition aims to encourage entrants to form groups capable of creating a consumer product, instructions detailing how to make the product, and a plan for production on a larger scale. Entrants must create designs that take into account the volume of mattress waste generated each year. Groups are encouraged to utilize local resources, including existing manufacturing facilities and other waste products.

Make Some Green Upcycling Competition

Make Some Green competition

Keeseh Studio invites students and design enthusiasts to celebrate the pursuit of ecodesign through an international competition to utilize waste material.A given manufacturing facility creates many copies of a product; therefore they create many copies of their waste material as well. Waste material can be used as raw material for other products or processes; this concept is known as upcycling.

The goal of the competition is to promote upcycling by encouraging the use of wasted materials to generate innovative designs and redefine the standards of environmental sustainability by fostering balance between conservation and development.

This competition will provide a stepping stone to help educate viewers of the vast opportunities and future development of environmentally friendly processes, materials, and products.All entries must be received digitally or by mail no later than October 1st.3 entries will win media coverage of their product or process and one will win a cash prize of $1000.

CAT-iq design competition by DECT forum, home, organised by Jakajima

CAT-iq design competition by DECT forum, home, organised by Jakajima: "Invitation
The DECT Forum, the worldwide association of the wireless communication industry, in partnership with Jakajima in the Netherlands, is pleased to announce the first international CAT-iq Design Competition. CAT-iq provides an open platform for pioneering IP service applications as well as new form factors for non-computing communication devices. The DECT Forum invites design students from all over the world to compete for cash prizes by applying their creativity and engineering skills to trend-setting products and services for tomorrow’s IP based home network."

Design Competition - smart textiles

2008 Materials Design Competition


The three THEMES of this year’s competition are:

Industrial/Technical and Sports Materials–
Examples: composites, aircraft or automotive components, industrial and technical fabrics, architectural or geo-synthetic materials, industrial filters and advanced sporting equipment or sports garments.

Medical, Biomedical/Protective, Materials and Devices–
Examples include active and/or reactive materials, such as self-detoxifying materials or reactive barrier membranes, which protect the wearer against chemical agents, biological agents and projectiles/improvised explosive devices. chemical/biological protection garments and protection for first responders or soldiers.

Smart/Electronic/Optoelectronic and Nano-materials–
Structures that incorporate computing, sensing, monitoring, imaging and/or broadcasting electronics directly into the material to attain particular end uses would be appropriate for this category. Examples of projects suitable for submission to this category include imaging technologies, camouflage/ electromagnetic management, optical materials, anti-counterfeit materials, conducting polymers, wearable electronic garments, functional nano-materials and integrated electronic or photonic material devices for multifunctional assemblies.